Incan Moon: A Vampire for Hire Story (Latin Moon Book 1) by J.R. Rain & Matthew S. Cox

Author:J.R. Rain & Matthew S. Cox [Rain, J.R. & Cox, Matthew S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rain Press
Published: 2023-08-21T16:00:00+00:00

6.

I grab the stone chip and pull it loose.

Takes a lot of willpower to stifle a gasp of pain. Not that I’m a vengeful sort of person, but I drop the chip and stomp on it until it breaks apart into small fragments. Really, I’m not punishing an inanimate object for hurting me. I don’t want whatever did this to pick it back up and throw it again.

“Ma, you okay?” Tammy bites her lip, staring at my wing.

Thankfully, it’s really hard to see blood on black feathers.

“Yeah. Fine. Just pain. Something’s really getting annoyed with us.”

Tammy gazes around. “I don’t see it, but I feel it. Maybe if we move fast enough, we can break the curse before it gathers the strength to manifest itself and try to rip our heads off.”

“Good plan.” I scan our surroundings. Still nothing but ‘ghost recordings’ running for their lives or laying still on the ground. “Think we’ll make it?”

“Maybe…” Tammy crouches and holds her hands out over a spot of ground.

“What are you doing?”

“Just in case…” She pokes a finger into the dirt. Water begins to well up out of the earth.

“Thirsty?” I ask.

“No, dork.” Tammy smiles up at me. She’s a little bolder in her name-calling now that she’s graduated. “Calling some water to the surface so you can make your sword.”

For a moment, I feel a little dumb. Then again, I’m in pain… and more worried about keeping her safe, perhaps excessively so. After all, she’s not helpless, nor is she a child anymore. Still, she’s my daughter, so I’m always going to be overprotective. However, my kid’s got a damn good point.

I reach toward the bubbling faerie spring and tap into the bit of magic the frost nymph taught me a while back. Ice crystals rapidly form into the shape of a glimmering crystalline longsword. Here, surrounded by all this glowing blue magical light from Tammy’s seeing spell, the sword almost appears ordinary. However, unlike the apparitions and partial buildings, my sword is really here. The light radiating from the ice blade is visible to anyone else who might be close by. It’s not super bright, certainly less than a common flashlight. Still, in the complete darkness of a remote Peruvian mountain, any light is going to stand out. To mortals without paranormal eyes, this place has got to be pretty much pitch black.

At least having the sword in my hand works like a security blanket. It’s a far cry from the Devil Killer—not going to be slaying any house-sized demons in one hit—but it’s still a formidable weapon against the paranormal, especially having trained with the immortal swordmaster, Sebastian.

Tammy dispels this anchor and then heads up the trail to the sacred stone, called Intihuatana.

As expected, there’s another anchor on the stone itself. Nine glowing men, bare-chested, ghostly, and wearing what I can only assume is Incan warrior garb, stand between us and the rock. Grass skirts or something like that hang around their waists. All of them have stylized wooden animal masks on.

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