BLOOD LEGACIES
Chapter 224: The Summoner {2}

Chapter 224: The Summoner {2}

"They want every inch of you, how can I say no?"

"I won’t let you touch her!" Grayson’s words broke me from my thoughts. Her words consumed me to the point I couldn’t move, the mere fear that gripped my body was like a thunderstorm.

"They want Emma... they will have to go through us first," Owen spoke in the same heavy tone.

Grayson pointed his gun at her and I knew without a doubt he would pull the trigger and he did... Immense silence filled the hall when nothing fired out of it... it was empty.

"Fuck!" Grayson cursed and then my greatest fear resurfaced when she mouthed the words with a smirk.

"Kill them,"

At her command, the Manticore hurdled towards me but Grayson acting as fast as always came in front of me and the teeth intended to pierce my body pierced his arm when he used it as a shield to block it away

"GRAYSON" I screamed in horror watching as his blood spilled but he was unfazed as he tried to wave the beast biting aggressively on his arm like an angry dog.

Suddenly a wave of breeze blew past us when the Manticore was thrust away and the ground shifted and broke apart into rubbles and clustered around the Manticore to the point it would shrink to death. I knew it was Owen’s doing and his spell was working but the other Manticore moved at Jean’s command and Owen was slammed off into the door with a loud crash noise.

"OWEN!"

Due to the impact, the Manticore on the verge of shrinking to death broke out of the clustered rubbles and leaped into the air for me again. In spite of his wounded arm, Grayson pulled out a dagger and attacked the Manticore by jumping at it but it pinned him to the floor. Using his dagger as a shield to keep the Manticore from biting his head off.

"EMMA! BOTH OF YOU GET OUT OF HERE NOW!" He barked as he tried to hold the creature now. "NOW!"

It was happening again... they were risking their lives for me. Just like when Dace went after the Manticore and got hurt when Owen told me to run when the vampires attacked and he stayed behind sustaining an injury, why does this have to keep happening to me, why? Why are the people I care about always getting hurt and all I could do was watch?

"OWEN!"

I gasped with a turn when I heard Sarah screaming for Owen as he was getting attacked by the Manticore and trying to hold his ground. They were getting hurt and telling me to run? I can’t move I can’t think and it boiled within me, something boiled within me like unseen helplessness as well as building rage, and that only intensified when I turned and found Jean smirking as she watch my friends fight for their lives, she was fucking smirking like it was some amusement for her... I once pitied this girl but she went too far, she’s taking lives like it was nothing, and none of them deserved it.

I drew on my breath sharply, my chest rising and falling like a panic attack was happening, but no it was my insides wanting to explode, my adrenaline pumping in, something was building within me, I remained still but it was all but ready to explode, I’m going to explode with the screams of horror and the people I care about fighting for their lives.

I blurred my vision when I watched Sarah against the ground drawing backward as the Manticore stalked her, she screamed when it leaped. That was when my vision turned to hue green and before I could process my own movement, my glasses were off... something snapped within me like my brain just rewired and the built-up fear and panic turned into something else... Power.

With a stretch of my hand, the Manticore hung in mid-air. The spell just slipped into my brain, I didn’t chant it, it just flowed through me and all I had to do was wield it without a second thought.

It tried to break free but I didn’t let it. Blood trailed from my nose as I turned my gleaming eyes to the Manticore Grayson was trying to fight off and did the same to it, it hung in mid-air by the pressure of my spell when I stretched out my hand.

My sharp unhinged breath echoed in the hall as I kept my foes at bay with everything I had within me, with every fiber of pain and panic that slipped through me and gave me the power, My body felt like it would get ripped apart... I felt like splitting when the headache jammed me too but I ignored it, I ignored the pain as blood lust unlike anything I have ever felt slipped through me, I was hungry for it and I let it consume me. I yelled as I plunged the two Manticores into the wall with all the force I could muster as well as anger.

Raspy breath escaped me, the only sound that could be heard in the dead silence, I tried to control my breathing but I could, my thoughts too were in a jam.

I heard the rubbles collapsing where I buried one of them and it aimed its snake tail at me. But with a stretch of my hand, it hung in midair before it could reach me, vibrating under my control as it tried to break free from the spell I conjured, I used my two hands now to make the spell more powerful and the more power I gave to hold it still the more blood trail from my nose, I could even taste blood in my tongue but I further push the pain away, I didn’t care if my body broke, I didn’t care if my eyes bleed or my lung fail me, no one was getting hurt because of me again!