Scholomance 9 by Logan Jacobs (inspirational books to read txt) 📗

coming from it?” Circe asked as she peered over my shoulder.

“Something like that,” I said with a long, exasperated sigh. “Something doesn’t feel right… like it’s telling us we need to stop.”

“We can’t just stop,” Vanessa argued. “Didn’t we all agree we should always keep moving whenever possible?”

“I know,” I said, and when I looked up to stare at the professor, her eyes were sharp with determination, “but you have to trust me, Vanessa. I can feel like something is dangerously wrong.”

Once again, you’re right, Cole, the woman from my dreams echoed in my head. I can feel the sky splitting in half.

“Fuck,” I cursed, and the women jumped up in surprise.

“What’s wrong, master?” Penelope frowned. “Is it about the compass again--?”

“Perhaps,” I cut her off. “Something is on the way, and whatever it is has been crafted by Samara and will show us no mercy. Something in my gut tells me she’s used a great deal of strength to bring it to life.”

“But what is it, master?” Akira asked. “And how are we to escape it?”

Before I could answer, the bright blue canvas above us quickly turned dark, and the clouds parted open to reveal a white hole in the sky. There was no light coming through, but it was so bright, it was almost unbearable to look at. Then the sound of thunder penetrated our eardrums and made us cover our ears.

“Fuck!” Circe cried out over the overwhelming sound.

Uh… Cole? Alexander said in a cautious tone in my head. I-I think I see something breaking through the hole.

I shielded my eyes and squinted as I tried to figure out what the hell Samara had coming through this heavenly barrier. For a moment, I feared I might go blind, but as I stared harder, I saw groups of white-winged creatures soaring from the portal in the sky. They weren’t serpens, their bodies were too small, but still, their wings were massive and jagged at the tips. Their eyes were a bold shade of burning blue, and when they cried out in unison, it made a ringing sound in my ears.

Unholy shit, Cole, Alexander breathed in disbelief. I know it’s difficult to see with the light, but look closer… these creatures look exactly like me!

“Fuck, I can’t see shit,” I muttered in impatience, and Morgana whipped around to look at me.

“Oh, how forgetful of me,” she said before she slapped her hand against her forehead. The bookish brunette then waved her wand in the air above her head in four perfect circles. “Claritudo!”

A bright cloud of silver, shimmering smoke spun around us, and when it neared me, I could see transparent wisps that resembled bony fingertips with long nails were about to plunge into my eyes.

“What is this, Morgana?” Beatrix asked in a high-pitched voice.

“Don’t worry,” the bookish brunette reassured everyone. “It will help us see clearer…”

“Well, it better take effect soon,” Vanessa said quickly. “Whatever is coming from the skies, it’s getting even closer.”

Before I had a chance to glance up, the smoke entered my eyes, and for a moment, it stung like needles. I grunted and squeezed my eyes shut before I shook my head, and when I opened them again, everything turned clearer than before.

“Unholy fuck,” I muttered as I looked up at the sky. My vision was impeccable, but there was no time to appreciate it because Alexander was right.

Up, high in the sky, there was a stream of flying wolverine-like creatures soaring toward us and cawing viciously. They had their talons out and were ready to tear us into pieces, and their eyes were filled with bloodlust as they came at us at lightning speed, but Alexander was too quick.

Cover me, Cole! he screamed in my head before he charged at one creature who was at least twice his size.

We pulled our wands out and prepared ourselves to kill these mysterious white beings, but the last thing I heard before all hell broke loose was a faint, cackling noise in the back of my head.

It was Samara, and I knew she was sitting back and preparing herself to enjoy the bloody show.

Chapter 15

“Well, Samara, it would appear you and I are always connected, even when it’s most inconvenient,” I muttered in a bitter tone before I raised my wand higher in the air. “Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t believe I tried to enter your mind… at least not right now. I’m actually in the middle of something, thanks to you.”

Our combined magic works in mysterious ways, Samara’s soft voice replied, and then she began to chuckle like the wild woman she was. You must constantly be thinking about me. It’s the only explanation I can think of. As much as it disgusts me to say, you and I are closer than we’d like to admit.

“Don’t flatter yourself too much,” I growled as the flying beasts drew even closer. “I do have other things to concern myself with, so I’ll worry about our unpredictable bond later.”

If you live to see a later, that is, she cackled in my head.

When I glanced upward, Alexander was already high up in the sky and tackling the greatest beast in the clouds. My relentless familiar let out a wild, war-like scream in my head as he attacked, and soon, blood began to fall like rain. Chaos ensued, and the rest of the women started to cry out multiple spells to kill the creatures one by one.

“Secare!” Morgana yelled before she blasted one of the winged creatures right in its exposed belly.

Red, slick tendrils spilled from the beast’s gut, and the intestines fell like bloody snakes upon the open, grassy field and then splattered at the women’s feet.

“That’s it!” Vanessa screamed with bloodlust. “Keep going!”

“Dissulto!” Akira cried out, and her blast