Fucking, fuckity, FUCK!
I had to warn Myel.
Saldrea turned to her ladies. “Have that bat shifter arrested and taken into custody this instant!”
Golana took off running.
Neyalim took out her phone and quickly dialed someone.
I took out my phone to text Vyns and warn him, assuming Myel would already be in training, but Saldrea saw me. I expected her to grab my phone, take it from me, so I was completely unprepared when stone spiked up from the marble desktop and skewered my phone, shattering the magical glass.
Saldrea grinned so wide, it didn’t look natural, creepy asfuck. Then she laughed as she turned away and found a seat.
Fuck!
I rose… but there was no way I’d get across campus any faster than a dwarf with enhanced speed.
“I could fly you,” Koar offered.
Would that be quicker? It might work. I nodded and we ran. But a wall of stone erupted up to block the door. From somewhere behind me came Saldrea’s voice.
“Oops, did I do that?” Then laughter.
I used my own earth magic to push the stone back down into the floor, but we lost precious seconds as I did. Once we were out of the room, in the open, Koar didn’t take the time to disrobe, ripping through his clothes as he became a dragon.
Despite the burning urgency to help Myel, I stood there stunned for an instant, marveling at the massive dragon. A dragon I was about to ride. So many of my teen-girl fantasies were coming true in this strange world. I shook myself out of my stupor and climbed onto Koar’s back. He bent his front leg and lowered that shoulder to make getting up easier. Then I held on desperately to the many spikes along his back, seated between two larger ones, as he took off and flew with all haste across campus.
I held on for dear life as wind whipped around me, threatening to tear me off Koar’s back. The campus blurred below us.
But despite our speed and direct route… we were too late.
As we neared the shifter barracks, descending, I saw Golana leap inhumanly high, over the walls surrounding the training yard. She’d get to Myel first.
Vyns, perched on the same wall Golana had vaultedover, was taken by surprise. By the time he realized what was happening and flew down into the yard, Golana already had a hold on Myel and other shifters were coming out of the barracks to take him into custody.
For a heartbeat, I considered fighting them all. I could take Golana, and with Koar and Vyns on my side, the shifters wouldn’t be too much trouble. But even as I thought it, Koar’s head swiveled and I followed his gaze. Three dragons swooped in.
Could Koar take on three dragons?
Could Vyns take all the shifters in the yard?
Fuck!
We’d been out maneuvered.
Still, I hopped off Koar’s back as we landed and went to Myel, even if Golana and a crowd of shifters kept me from getting close.
“I’ll find a way to help you!” I shouted as he was dragged away.
Golana laughed, then she punched Myel in the stomach so hard he doubled over and coughed out blood. I screamed, but that was exactly the reaction the sadistic dwarf had wanted, laughing even more.
I shouted my fury, and with no other outlet, turned to a wall and punched it. I expected pain, broken knuckles… what I got was a one-foot-wide hole in the five-foot-thick stone wall. And my fist wasn’t even bloody.
Vyns and Koar joined me. Vyns had loaned Koar his shirt to help cover the dragon who’d returned to human form, naked.
“We’ll figure this out,” Vyns said, but panic filled his voice.
“Blazing Skies!” Koar swore. “I’ll take them all on if you command it.”
