Page 107 of Shadow Bonds

I glance around at the pandemonium and try to call on my glowing sword or draw up that part of me that seems to be able to fight.

But nothing happens.

Metal clashing, grunts, and gasps full of pain sound out around me as the male Shadows quickly get overwhelmed.

My stomach drops when I spot more beasts and terrigons arriving, my gaze immediately searching for my men.

“Knox?”I call into the connection, but he doesn’t reply, only making my stomach drop further.

Shadows start dropping around me as more and more terrigons arrive.

Panic envelops me, completely consuming me. There’s no way out. For me. For them. They’re going to die. They’re all going to die… And there’s nothing I can do to stop it.

As if some deeper part of me hears my broken plea, it rises. An energy like nothing I’ve ever felt before rushes through me, building and building until I feel something almost crack open from the inside, calling out to the chaos around me.

I gasp as the energy doesn’t stop, seeping through every nerve, muscle and bone until my body no longer feels like my own.

My skin lights up, glowing similarly to my sword. Seconds later, my body lifts upward and floats up above the chaos, high up in the sky.

I glance down, watching the destruction and havoc, the death and masses of terrigons, as they viciously kill Shadow after Shadow.

My wings slide out of my back, spanning wide around me while the glowing grows and grows, along with the energy inside me as if building up for something big.

Moments later, the energy becomes electric. It slides up and down my body before bursting out of me in a painful gasp and forming a sphere of light that winds around me, growing and growing.

I can’t stop it as it pulls more and more energy from me. Building and building until power like nothing I’ve ever felt before blasts out of me in a beam of light and slamming directly beneath me straight into the ground. Another slams out in frontof me and another behind. Again, and again until multiple long beams of white glowing light of energy are all formed around me.

Then they start moving. Carving a path through the beasts and terrigons and destroying them instantly to ashes. The huge beams keep moving, spanning out and searching out every terrigon and beast until there’s nothing left.

My eyes flicker to the scene below as the beams of light slowly disappear and I find every Shadow staring up at me in shock and awe. Most are still alive, and relief fills me.

Just as the last beam of light dissolves, the last of my energy rises up and sends out a blast toward the darkness hundreds of miles across from me, shuttering it out in a blink.

Exhaustion sweeps into every bone, making each breath hard and heavy. My wings draw back in as my eyes close on their own. And with one last gasp, I begin to fall.

CHAPTER 32

Time drags by slowly as my body and mind starts to wake. A soft swaying drags me from the edges of sleep, and my eyes finally blink open. I try to move, but my body doesn’t want to cooperate, every part of it aching and heavy.

“I’m sorry,” a familiar voice whispers, and I push my body to sit up, panting when I finally manage to sit up straight to find I’m in a car.

Lush green forests pass by the window as my body starts to grow heavy again.

I try to think back to the last thing I remember, and the war games and the attack flashes across my mind, making my heart race.

My mates. The Shadows. The terrigons.

I glance around trying to figure out how I got here when my gaze lands on the front seat where a man sits behind the wheel. He glances over his shoulder quickly, and my eyes widen in shock.

“Professor Graves?” I ask.

His expression grows sad and fills with nothing but guilt. “I’m sorry. I should have never taken you to the academy, Sena.”

I frown. “You never…” Wait.Hetook me to the academy?

“What… What are you talking about? Where am I?” I try the handle on the door, but it’s locked. Not that I’d want to dive out of a moving vehicle. But I need to get out of here and away from him.

“You’re safe,” he promises but I don’t believe him. How can I?

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