Olympus Academy: The Jinxed Journey by Eliza Raine

Author:Eliza Raine [Raine, Eliza]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

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My respect for Arketa couldn’t have been higher, as she maneuvered us around the changing bends and turns, Icarus shouting help from above us when she had to duck the minotaur’s bolts or the griffin’s distracting swoops. Every time the horrible beaked creature got close I launched fireballs at her, but they never connected. We weaved through another slalom of columns, then the course opened out into the wide track again and I saw the white line painted on the ground. We were about to finish our first lap. And Evenus was quite clearly winning.

‘Can we go any faster?’ I called to Arketa. She didn’t answer me, but I felt myself being pushed backwards as the chariot surged forwards. ‘Yes!’ I shouted, as we finally began to gain on Evenus.

‘Dora!’ I looked up as Icarus blasted air in my direction, and I ducked as the griffin went spinning off over my head. I’d not seen her coming at all! I needed to pay more attention.

‘Arketa, reckon you can summon some vines while it’s clear ahead?’ Green vines snaked ahead of us instantly, and I concentrated on my water bracelet, letting the fire build. ‘Grab Evenus’s chariot!’ The vines curled out towards him, and the minotaur began firing bolts uselessly at the snaky vines, frustration building on its face. Evenus turned his head, and for a moment we locked eyes. He slowed sharply as the vines curled fully around his chariot, and with a roar I let the fire burst from my palms. Evenus threw his own hand up at the last minute, and I saw a flash of the most intense aqua blue color I could possibly imagine, and a wall of water flew up in front of my stream of fire, killing it in an instant, and severing Arketa’s vines. We moved forward fast, now that we weren’t trying to drag his chariot backwards, but he was faster, and I heard his bark of laughter as he soared over the finish line a second before we did. Two more laps. We still had two more laps to get him, I thought.

But the next lap we actually lost ground. Between the minotaur guarding the back of his chariot and the griffin keeping Icarus occupied, as long as he was ahead of us it was hopeless.

‘We need to get alongside him,’ I shouted at Arketa the next time we emerged from the maze of columns and into the wider finish line section.

‘You don’t say,’ she shouted back sarcastically, her voice strained. ‘Why can’t you use your water power?’

‘There isn’t any water here!’

‘That’s not stopping him!’ I screwed my face up. She was right, where was he getting the water from?

‘Icarus, cover me a moment!’ I closed my eyes, and sent my senses out, deep this time, leaving my body. I could feel the drops we were passing from the wall of water he’d sent up last time we’d crossed the line, but the water was... wrong somehow. A pulse of blue life called to me, and I concentrated harder.

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