Theonite: Planet Adyn by M. L. Wang

Author:M. L. Wang [Wang, M. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-04-30T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven:

The Thundyils

“Daniel!” A voice boomed from somewhere behind us.

Before I could turn my head to see where the voice had come from, someone appeared on the bar of the swing set between Daniel and me in a wave of warmth that contrasted sharply with the cool raindrops on my skin. The scent of smoke filled my nose as a strong arm encircled my shoulders, and as the sky ignited with lightning, I was jerked forward so fast that my head snapped back.

With my hands and knees crashing into the gravel, I heard—I felt—a string of lightning hook out of the sky and connect with the swing set. My eyes squeezed shut against the violent flash, but I felt the electric charge shoot into me as the lightning connected with the ground under my hands and knees. It stung and, for a strange moment, my body shook with an immortal hunger harder and more agonizing than anything I had ever felt.

Then, in an instant, the lightning was gone, as was the ferocious sense of longing. It wasn’t until the charge left my body that I realized that the feeling hadn’t been mine. It belonged to someone—something—older and hollower than me. It belonged to the lightning.

Shaken, I turned around to find a tall man standing over me in a dark coat. His skin was brown and fiery like Daniel’s, vaporizing any raindrops that hit it, wreathing him in a halo mist and glowing hot energy. He had saved us.

“Dad?” Daniel breathed, slumping back against the ladder to the main play structure. “What—”

But before he could finish, the dark man grabbed him by the front of his shirt and threw him away from the ladder. For a second, I wondered why he would do that. Then, as Daniel sprang off his hands to flip over onto his feet, lightning struck again, this time shooting its skeletal fingers into the jungle gym next to the swing set, lighting it up bright white.

The ravenous electricity didn’t just flow through the metal structure to the ground like lightning was supposed to. It twisted into it, warping the bars until they strained at the screws holding them together. I could hear the steel screaming as it buckled under the electric spasms. And there was that hideous, hollowing hunger again, thrumming through me so hard I felt like it might turn me to dust where I stood. I started to take a step back from the thrashing mess of light and metal, but the force of the lightning blinded me, throwing me off balance. I tripped over my own feet and found myself on the ground as the lightning flickered out, leaving the mangled remains of what had been the jungle gym teetering over me.

I felt that the structure was going to fall before it started its downward topple. I tried to scramble back, but I was disoriented, my hands and heels slid in the gravel and I fell onto my back. The jungle gym was falling too fast now, several tons of metal groaning down toward me.

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