Page 121 of Artemis' Bow
“All right, you get Adrian untied and I’ll work my magic.” He spins the trident in his hands and water shoots from him, spraying Zeke backward until he’s flat on his back, out cold.
I crouch next to Adrian and use my blade to cut the bindings instead of trying to untie them and waste precious time.
Mia screams. “I don’t want to fight you. I want to kill her so Jayden will come back to me.”
I snort and turn my back to the psychotic bitch, focusing on what I can do to help Thad with his distraction. A huge wave crashes over dozens of monsters and an idea forms. I weave my magic through the air, creating a lightning storm in the nowdarkening sky. Thad glances at the clouds and then to me and grins.
He swirls his hand in a circle and the water becomes a cyclone, directly under my lightning storm, and sucks a bunch of monsters into its vortex just as I let the lightning strike the cyclone, electrifying the monsters inside.
The cyclone spins around to several other groups of monsters sitting there watching the display, uncaring that it’s about to spell their demise. I grin as I turn to Thad and let loose my lightning on the bastards.
The tides turn immediately and the monsters’ attention all turn to me. Perfect. Just what we are hoping for.
“Thad, how big can you go?” I ask as I scan the area for Jayden.
“How much more do we need? I can go a little bigger but I’m not sure how long I can hold that for,” he says.
“Jayden is in position. Orion just crossed the threshold of the temple. I don’t think we need it for much longer.” I call the lightning to the ground around the monsters closest to the temple entrance.
Jayden disappears into a cloud of shadows and the next second, there is a wall around us, blocking us from the enemies’ view.
“Did you have any issues?” I ask, scanning him for injuries.
“No, once you and Thad started working together to distract them, it was easy.” Jayden shrugs.
“Good,” I say. “Duck.”
Jayden crouches down and I swing over his head with my sword, decapitating a lizard demon instantly.
“Thanks, baby.” He springs to his feet and kisses me hard.
“Of course. We need to get back-to-back. They are closing in and Mia is completely unhinged.” I point to where she’s struggling to fight against Kira.
“Why did they warn me not to fight a weakling like you?” Kira asks, chuckling.
Mia waves her sword wildly in front of her as Kira dodges and uses a mace type contraption to block the wild blows.
“This is just sad,” I whisper, turning to Jayden just in time to catch a spear aimed for his back.
I push Jayden out of the way at the last second and grasp the spear from midair. It jerks me back and pain shoots through my shoulder, but I react instantly, sending it hurtling back the direction it came from and hitting the lizard demon square in the eye.
“Jayden, fucking pay attention. You almost just died,” I scream.
“Shit, sorry, love.” Jayden’s eyes widen as he shoots shadows at something behind me.
I spin on my heel and find another lizard asshole caught up in his shadows. “Back-to-back. This isn’t working.”
“There are too many of them. We can’t fight them all off. We need Orion to hurry up and get Artemis out of that temple,” Jayden says.
I slash my sword across another demon’s throat and black blood sprays across my clothes. “You think I could send my clothing bill to the gods?”
“What?” Jayden asks, confused.
“Nothing. At this point, I’m not going to have any clothes left,” I mumble.
“Is this what you worry about during a battle?” Jayden dodges a spear and brings his shadow sword up in a wide arc, taking out two enemies at the same time.
“Have you seen what demon blood does to my clothes? Yes, I worry about normal things while killing monsters. I’m going to have to burn these.” I grimace.
