Skeleton Horse by Maya Grace

Author:Maya Grace
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510741409
Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

“Jack, look out!” Ella threw her body over her cousin, tackling him. She felt the vex attack, striking her armor.

But Ella fought back. She leaped to her feet. “Stay down, Jack!” she ordered. Then she grabbed her sword and swung at the vex, swinging again and again until her sword finally made contact. Whack!

The vex squealed and darted away. But another took its place!

Rowan stood beside Ella now, her bow raised upward. Thwack! Her arrow took out the second vex.

Gran was fighting, too. She swung at the third vex with her sword, but the vex disappeared.

“It went through the wall!” cried Jack, who was sitting up now.

Gran nodded. “It did. But it may be back.”

Ella waited, barely breathing, staring at the stone on the wall. But after a minute, which felt like an eternity, the vex hadn’t come back.

“It’s over!” Rowan shouted, pumping her fist in the air. “We did it!”

But Gran wasn’t celebrating. “Those were only the vexes,” she said. “We still have to face the evoker that summoned them.” Instead of explaining, she started down the stairs, sword still drawn.

It’s never over! thought Ella. Mobs keep spawning. We can’t keep up.

Her body felt as heavy as obsidian. She sank down on the step to rest, only for a second. Then she heard it—not the shriek of a vex, but the howl of a wolf. Taiga?

Yes!

Ella shot up so fast, she feared she’d hit her head on the ceiling.

Taiga was alive. Her wolf was alive! And he was calling to her, telling her that it would be okay. That the war against the undead mobs could be won, if only they had enough help.

Then Ella heard more howling. More wolves. Lots more wolves.

Taiga wasn’t alone. He had gathered the help they needed. And he was on his way back to her!

Ella took off down the stairs, swooping like a vex around corner after corner. She stumbled and fell, cracking her knee on the cobblestone. But she shot back up and kept running.

Down the stairs.

Through the room that held the spiral staircase.

Out the door and down the long hall.

Down more stairs.

“Gran! Rowan!” she called. “Where are you?”

She found them in the foyer, on the very bottom level. They stood still as statues, staring.

Another vindicator stood in front of them, blocking the front door. No, this isn’t a vindicator, Ella realized. It had the same pale gray skin and big nose, but instead of a brown jacket, it wore dark robes. And when it raised its arms over its head, it didn’t hold an axe.

For a second, Ella felt relief.

Then she realized what this mob—this evoker—was doing. Casting another spell!

As purple bubbles rose into the air, Rowan raised her bow. Gran grabbed her sword. Ella looked overhead for the vexes, but they never appeared.

Instead, the ground rumbled and growled. Fangs sprouted from the floor, snapping at Ella’s feet. Like a wave passing through the foyer, the fangs shot up and then back down, over and over again.

Jack shrieked. Gran pulled him backward as another row of fangs shot through the floor.

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