Page 59 of Zeus' Spark
I don’t pull away this time, kissing him like it’s the last moment we have on Earth.
Finally, I break the kiss. “We have to stop them, Jayden.”
He leans in, resting his forehead to mine briefly, then helping me to my feet.
“Stupid girl,” the siren roars. “You ruined everything.”
“Raven, you have to kiss him to break the spell,” I yell as I square off with the siren who looks like me.
Blue balls of lightning form in my palms, and I grin at the siren.
“You’re a daughter of Zeus?” she shrieks and lunges at me.
I dodge easily and throw a ball of lightning that smacks her right in the chest.
She screams in pain, her chest sizzling, but it’s not enough.
“Beth, here,” Jayden yells, tossing my sword across the cave to me.
I snatch it out of the air with one hand and see if I can make the lightning arc up the blade again.
Focusing all my magic into it works, and lightning flares along the blade.
I grin as Jayden says, “Holy shit.”
The siren screeches as I come at her with the blade, the sound ringing in my ears nearly disorienting me.
I swing the glowing sword. Even though she jumps away, dodging the blade, electricity shoots off the tip and burns a hole in the red dress she’s wearing. Her skin sizzles beneath it.
Her grin is malicious and filled with pointed teeth. “I’m going to enjoy killing you, daughter of Zeus.”
“You know, monsters keep telling me they will enjoy killing me, and we keep taking that enjoyment away because look. I’m still here.” I shrug carelessly and circle the siren.
I glance at Raven out of the corner of my eye and see that she broke the spell over Greyson. They’re engaging the other siren.
Jayden is cloaked in shadow about ten feet away, and he winks at me just as the siren charges me with a battle cry.
Jayden releases his shadows. They wrap around the siren’s feet and cause her to slam into the rocky ground face-first with a wail.
“Now, Beth,” Jayden yells.
I arc my blade, aiming for her neck, and slam the blade down.
Her head rolls away from her body, and then she turns to dust.
The other siren shrieks in anger.
Raven uses the distraction to her advantage and runs her blade right into the other siren’s heart. It explodes into dust as well.
She coughs, wiping her face. “Gods, I hate when they do that.”
I chuckle. “Why is it that they always explode all over you?”
“What is that gods-awful smell?” Jayden complains.
“Decaying corpses like the two of you almost were,” I growl back at him, pissed that he took the damn cotton out of his ears and started this whole mess.
“Can we get out of here, please?” Greyson says, his skin tinted slightly green. “My nose is much stronger than yours, and I think I’m gonna be sick.”
