Page 189 of The Tribrid Princess and the Taste of Chaos
Jayce is circling a certain area and now looks up. “I’m going to use my powers.”
“Are you sure this is the spot?” Enrique asks him, taking a swig of water from his bottle. We’ve used our food and water supplies sparingly.
Jayce nods. “Yes.”
“Alright then, I’ll get ready to enforce our barriers,” Enrique says.
“Everyone, be ready,” Uncle Liam orders.
Ahren rolls his neck. “I’m ready.”
“I’ve been ready. Suppressing our auras is annoying,” Carter adds.
“Alright, are we expecting an attack straight away?” Brock asks, his sharp eyes assessing the area.
“We don’t know, we don’t really know the enemy’s power or capacity,” Dante muses as he watches Jayce.
I turn my attention to Jayce, who has gone down on one knee, placing his hand in the sand. His eyes close, a frown creasing his brow as he takes a deep breath.
“Show me the way.” His voice is a whisper; it doesn’t just come from his direction, but from all around us. Power pulsates for a moment, and then there’s silence. We all hold our breaths, and just when I’m about to lose hope, the ground begins to rumble, and from it, something begins to rise. Jayce doesn’t move; the two peaks behind him still stand out, but he is focused on something in front of him.
I see the stone that begins to rise from the ground taking on a form. It’s shaped like a- “Sphinx!” Artemis murmurs in awe.
It rises; it’s not huge, but it towers over us all. Its eyes gleam with jade, causing my heart to pound.
We’ve found it!
The ground stops rumbling, and Jayce stands. The head of the sphinx is slightly turned, his jade eyes fixed to the right. For a moment, all is still once more, and then a wind rises from the sand. The jade eyes of the sphinx almost look alive as they twinkle, and I swear they moved.
“Follow the sands,” Dante murmurs as the sand begins to swirl and flow, leading us through the glaring sun and out of sight.
“On it,” Jayce says as Ahren places his hand on his shoulderand they disappear, reappearing far ahead, following the path the swirling sand is creating.
The rest of us shift as Dante lifts Heaven up, and then we’re all following the two ahead.
The wind whips through my fur as I leap and run as fast as I can. Ahren and Jayce get further and further ahead before I notice they’ve stopped.
I see Jayce slice his palm. His blood falls, deep, dark and vividly red into the parched earth, where the sand drinks it like water in a drought.
And then, blinding, searing light explodes from the ground, spearing into the sky like a beacon. I flinch, my vision flaring white.
If anyone didn’t know where we were before, they sure do now.
The Temple
Jayce
My blood is swallowed by the sand the moment it touches the ground as dazzling light explodes from the ground, tearing through the sky. Claps of thunder follow, and I feel a pull within me, like something tugging me forward. The ground rumbles violently, but it doesn’t affect me as I stand there, staring into the sky as bolts of lightning crackle through it.
Zeus… he is the one who has favoured me, as well as Selene, of course.
Sand swirls like a storm around us as the ground parts, and the wind whips through my hair. The sand begins pouring into the opening, and then it clears, revealing a large entrance that unveils stone steps leading down into another large opening in the ground. A small line of writing, in the same language as the book that gave us the location of this place, glows slightly as I read the words.
“Let none but the blood of Deimos, proven and true, cross this sacred threshold,” I say out loud.
“Then that’s not me,” Ahren replies, folding his arms as theothers reach us. I glance at Sienna. Fuck, but her wolf form is gorgeous, too. Under the blazing sun, her fur is a vibrant red. Her green eyes are also vibrant as her tail swishes around her. My wolf purrs in my head, and I cock a brow.
Really, is he distracted at this time?
