There was no trace of the others as he shifted into his human form and Matt grabbed him.
“Ambush, twenty-four dragons. He has the princess,” he spoke and then blew out his last breath.
His words woke me, and I didn’t think. I disrobed and darted into the air with a few of Matt’s dragons behind me.
I flew in the direction he came from and climbed higher into the air. My tendrils shook, and every scale shifted into place.
This was a stupid, stupid fucking idea. You could’ve worked on the bond behind Paegeia, not now. Fuck!
A frustrated roar escaped my throat and rumbled like thunder.
There was no sight of anyone, but I knew they were in Maryland. It was about a two-hour flight from here. I darted faster. My scales burned as I climbed higher into the air.
When I reached the right altitude, I darted through the night air.
The dragons were way behind, but I didn’t care. Some of them were trackers themselves. They would find their way.
I hated the next part, but I had no choice. I hit the transformer around my paw and thought about Maryland.
The pull came, and I growled as everything inside of me felt turning into mush. They should’ve come with a carriage. Then we would’ve been home a long time ago.
Everything shifted back into place as a gas station in the distance with fire and lightning bolts flew in the air.
They were still trying to destroy each other.
I darted like a bolt toward the fight and smashed into the first dragon. Bones broke as I connected with a Sun-Blast. I released my fire in a second, and the dragon growled.
“Blake, we need some of them alive!” Tim yelled.
“Where is Emanual?”
“He and Jaco took a severe blow. He’s still out.”
I growled and shrieked my alpha call. It ripped through all of them and their balance faltered. I grabbed two of the other side’s dragons and clamped them in my front claws as I pushed them into the turf. Everything shook with the vibration of my force.
The others regained their balance as I trapped the two traitors with my paws. “Where is Fox?” I growled at the two under my paws.
“We don’t know.”
“That is not good enough. Where is he?”
“He is gone, you are too late.”
I knocked them unconscious and told Tim to take them back to the compound. “Save as many as you can. I need answers.”
Tim and Roger nodded. The others that followed me only landed now, and I tried to sniff the air. Chlorine tingled my nostrils. Underneath it, Elena’s smell lingered. I flew in the direction where it was the strongest. The wind blew too strong and his scent came from everywhere around me.
Fuck.I growled and flew back to the gas station. No one was in sight except for a few dismantled dragon pieces and a few dragons using ancient magic to fix the place back to its original state.
Ben reached me. “The clerk is dead. I was too late.”
“Is my father still alive?”
He nodded. “He left for the compound. There is no trace of Fox.”
I wasn’t giving up. “What happened?”
“Jaco left with Elena to the ladies. We were hovering in the air. We don’t know how he got in to the toilets as Jaco looked. It was clear.
