Jade (23 page)
When it became his turn to move, I pushed instead of blocked, trying to return his spell to it’s source, threefold in strength it would hit him, it was one of the laws of magic even he could not contest. He blocked easier than I had but I saw his lips stiffen with the effort. His problem now was that he was on his own and his focus, instead of being on the match became blocking me.
He made several blunders over the next dozen moves and all of a sudden the room started to notice. People were starting to wonder why he did not concede. He just grew more angry and determined to punch his spell forward. By this time I was starting to shake with the effort and my eyesight was starting to blur. I prayed to God for help, muttering slowly in Latin and felt a renewed sense of purpose and strength.
“Checkmate in three,” Ellen announced looking at him expectantly. Even I could see it. He continued anyway and when she made the last move to win the match, he made a sudden movement, reached over to one of his bodyguards, pulling a gun from under his coat, pointed it towards Ellen’s heart and pulled the trigger. The Devil is a sore loser is the only flash of thought I had as in an even faster flash, Rose had moved. She was the only one of us that reacted instantly. I had seen Jane move, and the Queen’s Blade, and I thought they were fast.
If there was a creature on Earth that could move faster than Rose Red, I had yet to see it.
She knocked Ellen aside, taking the bullet in the side of her chest, continuing her movement to fall to the ground. Jane screamed and attacked. Clive’s bodyguards had guns out and firing at her with Clive running for the exit.
I had been stunned with the relief from the pressure I had maintained with our magical battle of wills but that got me going as well, as I started towards the bodyguards also, moving in a blur of speed. It was not necessary as Jane got to the first bodyguard, moving so fast his shots missed and as the second bodyguard had turned toward Jane, aiming his gun. Rose was up off the floor and screaming in rage and pain, literally ripping his head from his body.
Jane had knocked the second bodyguard to the side, simply breaking the arm that held the gun and Rose was on him as well, fangs buried in his throat. The whole room was full of screams now. Jane took off after Clive and I changed my course and followed. Jane reached the exit first, the door broken in pieces, Clive had not even slowed down to open the thing, simply running through it as if it had been made of paper.
She was just outside looking around trying to spot him or sense where he had gone, what direction he had taken.
“Where, Jade?” she asked.
I let my nose tell me. “This way,” I said as Jade and Jane ran with the wind. We stopped at the clairvoyee, a great circle of stone on the grounds. I could not smell him past it. Rose was past us in a blur, running through the circle then stopping looking around confused, then in a blur back to us standing on the other side.
I had paused, letting my magic do the work now that my sense of smell was not helping. “It is a portal,” I told them. “I don’t know this one or where it leads. It could lead to the very gates of Hell as far as I know.”
Rose looked at her daughter. “Kill him, Jane,” she said.
“Yes, Mom,” she answered. “Come on, Jade,” she added, grabbing my arm and pulling me through the clairvoyee. “Do it, Jade,” she said as we went through.
I did as she asked.
Great time for her to become an obedient daughter,
I thought as we made the transition.
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Rose Montague has always been a big reader and worked at a library and a bookstore. She always wanted to write and had a great time with this one. It is her first book. She lives in Raleigh, SC. She is currently working on the second book in the series, titled
Jane
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Table of Contents
Jade
By
Rose Montague
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Jade
by Rose Montague
Digital ISBN: 978-1-62929-091-1
Print ISBN: 978-1-62929-092-8
Cover art by: Dawné Dominique
Edited by: Alison O’Byrne
Copyright 2013 Rose Montague
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