Night Fae: a demon Fae paranormal romance (Dark Fae Kings Book 3) by Meg Xuemei X

Author:Meg Xuemei X [X, Meg Xuemei]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

I swept my legs up and rammed my boots into the Furies as I flailed in the sandstorm. My kicks, once again, proved to have no effect on the freaks whatsoever.

How could you hurt something that wasn’t even flesh and blood? I summoned my shadow fire and thorny vines. I wanted to gouge out their flaming eyes with my spiky vines and burn them to a crisp with my fire.

“You can’t hurt us, princess,” one of them said, seemingly able to read my intentions. “If anyone briefed you on the rules of the Wild Hunt, you’d know that you’ve been magically bound by the terms, and you won’t be able to deploy magic in the arena. And right now, we’re in the air of the hunting field.”

Just as the Fury had stated, my magic sputtered and went out like a damp squib, but it didn’t stop me from kicking the Furies in the solar plexus. One of them shook its head at me as if chastising me for being childish.

“This game will be most beneficial to us.” A Fury grinned like a faceless clown. “We’ll feed on a portion of her power, as the queen promised.”

As soon as the flying sand ceased to slam into my face, I screamed obscenities at them, which was all I could do since I couldn’t damage their inhuman bodies. I also cursed their birthmothers, hoping that would disturb them.

Then, suddenly, they released me. Or more accurately, they dropped me.

A line of cedars stretched beneath my feet, their fern-colored, needle-like leaves rushing toward my face. I twisted in the air as best I could, Netherbane in my hand, ready to slice off the needles.

I steered clear of the spiky shoots of cedar but tumbled onto a pine tree. Rolling and falling from the top branch, I slid to the edge of the pine tree and hacked at the sharp needles before they could jab into my face and possibly blind me. My other arm wasn’t so lucky and hit a broken branch. Pain bloomed in me through my armor.

I landed in a crouch and suppressed a groan.

The air smelled spicy, earthy, and electric. The place screamed danger and menace, cannibalistic magic pulsing beneath the soil. Lucifer had sent a last message to my mind, warning me of the design of the Wild Hunt. The soil would absorb my power when I was slaughtered in the hunt. The Furies would harvest part of my magic, and the rest would go to Brigantia, according to the pact revealed carelessly by one of the Furies.

I stared up at the bright sunshine spilling from the sky. The Furies had vanished. The air vibrated with tension, promising imminent bloodshed and straining my nerves.

I wondered who my first hunters would be. Would the kings come to hunt me first, compelled by the ancient power?

My heart pounding, my ears prickling, I let my senses spread out to detect threats, but I got nothing. I was indeed in the null zone. But then, it also meant whoever was about to hunt me couldn’t use magic either.

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