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Terror Twenty-One - Angel
Terror Twenty-One - Angel
The wyvern dives, gaining speed even as it veers away from the road and starts to fly off towards the east, away from the angel.
I glance over my shoulder, eyes squinting as I take in the angel hovering closer and closer, moving slowly, but without any motion. Its like a brick, floating there in a way it shouldnt be able to.Visit for the best novel reading experience
I inspect it.
My hand comes up, slapping me in the forehead even as I let out a cry.
Miss? Felix asks.
I shake my head, hand waving her away. Tried to inspect ithurt.
What? Felix asks. I... I cant see, miss. I cant see, Valeria.
We need to land, I say, both to Felix and to the wyvern.
The angel screams.
I wince, then look up as a shadow falls above me. Its one of the other wyverns, and its moving in close, almost as if its trying to land on us, but that...
The scream hits, and the wyvern bursts apart.
I scream as I feel stinging pinches across my body, and the wyvern beneath me twists around before screeching. Were falling faster, a lot faster.
The angel follows. Slow, and huge, and unstoppable.
All across the forest, monsters are moving, running away, taking flighttrying to escape. The angel screams, and the largest groups are torn apart, and still it follows us.
I turn back so Im not looking at it anymore. Its not like seeing it will help any.
What can I do?
I have magic, but nothing that would bother an angel. I couldnt even scratch it if it was standing still next to me. Even Mom would need to do more than sniff haughtily to kill something like that.
The wyvern starts flapping, and I see the others swooping over us. A few turn around, squawking as they fly towards the angel.
They wont be hurting it, but maybe, just maybe, theyll manage to distract it for a moment.
I-I cant! Felix cries.
Just do it! I shout.
She calms, just a little, her legs swinging this way and that in some ungainly facsimile of swimming, but its enough to keep us afloat.
Okay, okay, stay close, dont dont let go, I say. Water laps at my face, but I think were both light enough that we can float.
I tear my goggles off and toss them aside, then I regret it when water splashes my eyes.
I start dragging us back, one arm swinging in wide arcs. We dont move fast, but we are moving closer to the shore.
Its a beach. Not a nice sandy one, but one covered in jaggedy rocks. But its land.
I hiss as the back of my foot hits something under the water, but I can ignore the pain. Its a rock! Were closer. I start swimming faster, heedless of saving energy, then I find another stone underfoot, and I shove off of it and towards the nearing shore.
Soon, were close enough that I can stand.
Felix and I bob, half in, half out of the water. Were hugging each other. The wind is cold, and my clothes are wet and clingy. I should have tossed off my cloak, and Felix probably doesnt need her scarf.
Felix pulls me closer, quiet, uncertain sobs pushing against my neck. Were okay? she asks.
I swallow when a shadow brings a deeper chill over me.
I look up, and the angel is there, hovering a hundred metres above. Its looking at us with its one, reddened eye.
Yeah, I say as I hug Felix closer. Yeah, were safe, were okay.
She doesnt need to know.
I stare at the angel, waiting.
I hope Mom wont be too sad.
The angel stares for a moment later, then hovers off.
I pull Felix in close and start crying too.
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