Alongside me, Remnant surfed her shadows through the carnage. When I spun, she twirled. When I jumped she hit low. When I slid, she arc’d over me like the avenging goddess of death she was. Our bodies pulled and pushed, leveraging each of our attacks in tandem. Every move, every fucking breath, every beat of our thundering hearts was one…we didn’t just kill. We goddess damn danced while we did it.
A wraith lunged and I swung outward, catching its side shoulder while its blue fire spit at me in desperation to get away. Swinging my other arm around, my claws stabbed into the back of his neck. The snap of its spine audible while I flung it to the side where another wraith Remnant was corralling towards me was fleeing. I roared, slashing in fury, shredding its worthless body in a mess of rags, tissue, and bone.
Remnant brushed against my back, covering my loss of sanity during my killing rage, I could hear the silencing of the shrills as she delivered death stroke after death stroke with shadows and steel.
Snapping my head up, I watched a growling white tiger and three leopards pounce over me pinning wraiths to the ground and mauling them savagely until their screams became silent.
Tyr tossed a decapitated hooded head in my direction with a snarl.
“Didn't your mother tell you not to play with your fucking food!” I teased the tiger and then rolled as more blue fire blasted towards me. The heat of it singeing the back of my head.
Tyr reared, slashing the wraith attacking me down with his deadly claws before turning to hiss at me with bloody fangs.
I snickered. “I know. I know. Be careful. I am the king bullshit.” I patted the tiger’s head affectionately. “Good kitty cat.”
Tyr hissed and a bloody paw, encrusted with tattered cloth and tissue, swiped out for my head. Laughing, I sidestepped him, killing a few more wraiths in my way.
Looking across the valley, I grinned, noticing the numbers were thinning.
“Your highness!” I turned to see Xi pointing in the distance, a few other elementals working with her to control the earth. “They are retreating and we cannot reach them that far!”
My eyes searched for the unruly head of green hair. “Dragoon!” I roared across the battlefield.
Chapter 51
Agreenheadpoppedintoview. Riley’s hazel eyes burned bright across the battlefield searching for the source of my call.
When our eyes met, I thrusted a bloody claw outward, roaring against the continued rushing winds. “Slow those fuckers down and destroy them!” I knew his air had a farther reach than earth.
His shrewd eyes locked on the escaping wraiths the same time his sword thrusted behind him, killing an approaching wraith at his back before sheathing it at his side.
The damn elemental fae was veritably savage and I fucking loved him for it.
“Riley!” Remnant called out.
My heart stuttered to a halt when I caught sight of my soulmate running at a quick pace towards the retreating wraiths.
“Remember chasing Nightmares!” She hollered overher shoulder.
Riley’s narrowed eyes widened with understanding and I felt my stomach sink with dread.
Roaring, I lunged forward viciously killing any wraiths in my way as I headed straight for the air elemental. “No! Dragoon, stop now!”
He was about to help her run straight into danger alone.
Riley gave me an apologetic look, watching my advancement with hesitation in his hazel eyes.
“That’s an order, Riley Dragoon!” Remnant commanded, sliding through the heavy blood soaked grasses, using shadows to propel her through the carnage.
I heard his hard grunt and soft murmur as he gathered more air around him. “Apologies, your majesty.”
“Don’t you fucking dare Dragoon!” I bellowed, continuing my race to reach him. “That’s myroyalorder!” I shouted out to both of them.
Riley’s lips pressed together but his focus never left my soulmate even as I charged him with furious rage. A sudden rush of gale forces bursted from him, heading straight into Remnant’s direction and effectively sending me careening sideways through the bloody grasses.
From the ground, I watched as my soulmate leapt into the torrent of air, cocooning herself in the rushing winds. It spun her upwards, her hair whipping around her like a halo of darkness before shooting her across the sky like a deadly black comet—a tail of ominous dark shadows following in her wake.
Growling, I rose and slowly began to circle Dragoon, watching the sheer concentration on his face while he flew my obstinate soulmate across The West Isle sky.
