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So much for not alerting the four-headed beast of our presence.
All hell broke loose.
The monster’s heads turned back while the Sorcerer cried out in both ire and pain, long necks turning fully like they were possessed, and four streams of fire burst towards us. Draco swerved to the left, avoiding the scorching attack, and so did Vyper—before shooting another blaze at the man in the demon mask.
Instantly taking advantage, Evie yanked the staff from him at the same time that she slammed her hips with force against Raithian, pushing him off her. Whirling around, she swung the weapon at him, ramming the top against the back of his head. The Sorcerer fell to his knees, wrenching the demon mask off his face with urgency. The iron was red and sweltering with the heat that engulfed it from Vyper’s attacks.
“Evie!” I yelled while she smacked his chest next, sending him crashing on his back, then slammed the staff against the Dragon’s body. The weapon’s crystal shattered. “Run!” I added while we dove and shot up again, escaping the monster’s attacks as best we could, and flew to her side.
“Braxton?!” Her head snapped up in our direction even though she couldn’t see us, and she began to run away from the Sorcerer—on her way to me.
Another shot left Vyper’s mouth, his fiery breath catching on the man’s clothes, while he crawled along the beast’s back, reaching for the staff. Raithian swung it towards the direction the attack came from, but he couldn’t see anything. My mouth opened to scream at Vyper to move, but nothing happened. Raithian’s staff appeared to have no power without the crystal.
Enraged, two of the heads fired at Vyper while the rest aimed at Draco and me, but they shot right past us. When only the heat reached us, the sharp pain engulfed my left eye again, and my horizon suddenly changed, seeing the scene from a different perspective.
The body of the beast became visible from front to back, and the sea and beach where we had landed became smaller and smaller in the distance. The Sorcerer shouted in ire and pain, dragging himself over the scales, but the sky above the monster was empty.
He spewed his fiery breath at the void space as the scene disappeared, and my eyes widened with the realization. The four-headed Dragon couldn’t see us either. He was shooting blindly.
Why couldn’t he see the others of his own race? There was no time to figure that out.
“Let’s go!” I shouted at Vyper while I pulled Draco towards the direction Evie was headed—wherever the hell that was. She was running towards the edge of the beast’s back, like she was going to jump off him.
No.
She wouldn’t.
She wouldn’t jump.
Right?
Her golden hair whipped all around her as she frantically searched the sky, trying to pinpoint my location, but unable to find us.
“Catch me!” Evie ordered and… Yep, she jumped.
There was something seriously wrong with that woman.
“Go!” I yelled hysterically at Draco, and we dove for her faster than he had flown before.
Closing his wings, he blasted forwards like an arrow, twirling in the air to achieve unimaginable speed. My thighs clamped harshly around his neck, and I gripped the hardness with all my strength, feeling a rush of—what I could only describe as magic—course through the arm shield Evie had placed on me. The feeling intensified, engulfing my arm fully and making it powerful enough to hold on without it ripping from my body.
“There!” I yelled at Draco, when his wings opened again, pointing to where she was falling. He bounced in the sky an instant before swooping under her.
Evie’s body fell harshly on Draco’s back, landing on her side, and a pain-filled scream burst from her throat. Without thinking, I let go of the harness and lunged towards her, pulling her into my arms.
“You came for me?” Evie breathed, blue eyes filled with shock. She reached for me as desperately as I did for her, wrapping her arms and legs around me.
“Of course I did…” I whispered in her ear. “I had to.”
Without another word, she just clung to me.
Hearts thundering in our chests, we held each other fiercely, my hand cradling her head while my face plunged into her hair. I couldn’t believe that had actually worked and she was in my arms again, but I was glad she was safe. Vyper screeched next to us, announcing he had joined us, and I lifted my head to see the four-headed beast turning. It was coming after us even though he couldn’t see us… His other senses had locked onto us.
We needed to get out of there as soon as possible.
For a moment, I thought Evie would crawl off me and climb on Vyper somehow so we could fly to a secure place, but her arms and legs only tightened around me. I suddenly felt the tremors running through her. She seemed frozen in place, anchored to me, and I couldn’t blame her. A part of me had been petrified by horror and fear since she was taken by that man, but the need to save her had been my driving force.
Without letting her go, I crawled my way back to Draco’s neck and secured my legs around him, retaking the harness. Vyper and Draco exchanged a glance, and they whined as though they could feel Evie’s distress. Perhaps they could.
I searched the horizon for a way out, noticing a large formation of connected mountains that spanned across the land. What looked like a vast tunnel appeared to run through them. It was almost as tall as a building, but definitely not enough for the monster to fit through it. He was larger than any of the Dragons I’d seen since I arrived here. I wasn’t sure if it was an actual tunnel with an outlet to a safe place, or a cave where we would be stuck until the beast got tired of waiting and we could come out, but it was the only thing I could see that might help us.
When the left side of my head began to tingle, and a sharp pain went through my eye, I got my answer. I wasn’t sure how, but my surroundings changed. My vision zoomed into the opening as though I had gone through it many times, and I saw myself dive into it. It wasn’t just one tunnel, it was a network of them inside the mountains, running for what seemed like forever. I soared through them, turning, dipping, and rising as I flew, my body that of a Dragon, not a man, until a pin of light appeared in front of me.
There was an exit.
The sight disappeared, replaced by the vast mountains once more, and I turned to look at Vyper beside us. “Fast, to the tunnel!”
Nodding, both Vyper and Draco burst towards it, promptly entering the large cave.
