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“Barbie could be the answer to our—” Louis uttered.
She could be a mate to only one of them.
The princes didn’t finish their discussion as Cami shouted in urgency, “Barbie can’t hold on any longer. We need to get her to the healers!”
“Let’s fight our way out!” Silas growled.
Cami carried Barbie over her shoulder, Jinx, Bea, and me guarding their backs. Cade and Louis led the retreat, Cade deploying spells and fire and Louis using a blade and wind to clear a path. Silas and Rowan brought up the rear. The shifter prince’s strong water shot into the ranks of our pursuers while the fae prince wove the thorned vines as a barricade between us and the enemies.
Fortunately, the students had mostly exited Skyward and crossed the bridge. The warriors from five houses poured into Skyward as our reinforcements.
Just as I was about to zip toward the chaos kingdom’s court to find Killian—I hadn’t visited the kingdom for two centuries—a company of cult brothers, with the druid and two winged dark angels in the lead, blocked the middle of the bridge, cutting off our retreat.
We were boxed in by the Legion of the Brotherhood.
The dark angels took off and dove toward Barbie, who was half-conscious on Cami’s shoulder, blood dripping from her nostrils. Bea begged Barbie to stay with us. While all the geeks stuck with Barbie and fought bravely, I could still feel fear pulsing off them.
All four princes hurled their strong magic at the winged angels, but it wasn’t enough, since our enemies came at us from all directions, overwhelming us with their numbers.
I hovered above Barbie, trying to shield her, as if that would help. The dark angels could pass through me easily, even if I had more juice to go solid.
Rowan sent his vines high into the sky to trap the angels. He got only one of them, and I cheered. But then a third winged being appeared, slashing clean of the fae prince’s thorned vines with a flaming blade.
With a battle cry, Silas charged into the ranks of the legion that pursued us, a lone wolf snapping his teeth. He wheeled, his blade piercing the visor of an enemy solider while he booted away another foe.
Blood dripped from his blade as he yanked it out of the soldier’s face. A female bear shifter appeared by her prince’s side, roaring as she hammered her axe into a cult brother’s chest before he could put his spear into the base of Silas’s spine.
“Go. Go! Bring Barbie to safety. I’ll hold them back!” Silas shouted.
The shifter prince already had three arrows in his flesh. He was determined to sacrifice himself to preserve Barbie.
And just two months ago, he’d backhanded Barbie for her attitude in his house.
Two more shifters in their wolf forms dashed to their prince’s aid. Rock and Archer joined their ranks as well, wielding their swords in a lethal dance. Together, they gave their all to push back the waves of enemy soldiers to give Barbie a chance to escape.
Cade and Louis fought hard in front of the group on the bridge. Both princes were wounded, their royal uniforms tattered and bloody.
Louis leapt up, his longsword cutting down a dark angel before it could snatch Barbie. A female dark angel shot a flaming arrow into Louis’s chest, pinning him to the ground.
“No! No!” Cade roared, sending spells to vanquish the flame on the arrow before it burned the vampire prince to a crisp. He crouched beside Louis, chanting, and yanked the arrow out of Louis’s chest.
Louis bellowed in agony.
“Hang in there, brother!” Cade shouted. “You hear me?”
Three vampire warriors, one of them Barbie’s nemesis—Gunther—took the front position along with two chaos warriors and one fae. One of the vamps was soon cut down by the druid’s spells, which also shot into a chaos warrior’s chest, the impact throwing him off the bridge.
Fuck, we were on the losing side! Soon, Barbie would be taken, and there wasn’t a damn thing we could do.
No! I refused to accept defeat.
I’ll be back! I sent a thought to Barbie, not sure if she could hear me while she was fighting the biggest battle of her life to stay conscious.
I zoomed toward the chaos kingdom in a streak of light, praying I’d find Killian.
Maybe he could save the day if it wasn’t already too late.
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