The Rubicus Prophecy by Alane Adams

Author:Alane Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SparkPress
Published: 2019-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

“No, you mustn’t hurt him. He … he’s my friend.”

“Friend? You befriend our greatest enemy?” His eyes were burning emeralds. “This Son of Odin would destroy our kind. Perhaps I was wrong in choosing you.” He flung his hand out, and an invisible iron band cut off her airway. She choked, reaching for her throat, as her friends did the same.

“Kill me and your plan fails,” she gasped out. The band around her neck loosened, and she dragged a breath in, but her friends still struggled. “Let my friends go, or I will never do what you want. You will die here today and be a forgotten bag of bones.”

“See?” Vertulious said to Rubicus. “The loyalty spell is powerful. Make her swear it on their lives.”

“Swear you’ll do what I ask when the time comes in exchange for your friends’ lives,” Rubicus said. “Swear it on the spellbook.”

He held it out to her. She didn’t hesitate, laying her palm on the scaly skin of its cover. “I swear I will do as you ask. Now let them go.”

He flung his hand to the side, and the three collapsed in a heap, choking and gasping.

A loud knock sounded on the door. “Father, are you in there? It’s me. Catriona.”

“Time for me to go.” Vertulious snapped his fingers with both hands and dissolved into wisps of fog, which trickled back into the pages of the spellbook.

Rubicus put a finger to his lips, cautioning them to be quiet.

“One moment, Daughter,” he called. “In here,” he whispered to the four of them, ushering them through a small door. It appeared to lead to a servant’s room. A spare uniform hung from a hook, and the narrow cot was neatly made up.

Rubicus knelt and drew a circle on the floor with a glowing finger, muttering an incantation softly. Knee-high flames leaped up around the edges.

“Step into the circle,” he said.

They looked at each other warily, but the sound of the outer door opening made them all freeze.

“Father, where are you?” a voice called. “You must come help. Odin advances.”

“I’m coming,” he shouted. “Wait there.”

“Go now,” he said as the flames danced. “Or perish when my daughter opens that door.”

“Come on.” Hugo stepped over the flames and into the circle. He held his hand out, and Calla took it, hopping inside. Abigail stepped in next and tugged Robert in after her. He held his sword in front of him as if he wanted to take Rubicus’s head off himself.

“So brave.” The he-witch bent over the flames to face him eye to eye. “You took my blood, and now I take yours.” With a quick motion, he disarmed Robert and used the blade to cut a matching slice on Robert’s arm. Then, drawing the blade back, he wiped the blood on his own cut. “Now you will forever be a part of me, as I am a part of you.”

Tossing the sword into the circle, he snapped his fingers, and the world dropped out beneath them.

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