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One Writer's Way
Category:
Young Adult/Teen
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
ISBN-10: 9781509209972
Type: Fiction
Pages: 202
Copyright: 2016
ISBN-13: 9781509209965
Price: $3.99 (eBook)
Being the seventh Morcant has its perks: Morgan is learning to fly and wield magical blue fire. But when the elusive Chief Okema disappears and the wards protecting the Wapicoli territory falter, Morgan and Jackson are forced into the role of leaders.
Being the seventh Morcant has its perks: Morgan is learning to fly and wield magical blue fire.
But the coyote shifters are growing bolder. Mateo and his panthers seem impossible to defeat. And vampires aren't real – are they?
When the elusive and enigmatic Chief Okema disappears and the wards protecting the Wapicoli territory falter, Morgan and Jackson are forced into the role of leaders. Badly outnumbered and outgunned, do they have time to search for the secret of the Divining Tree, and will it help them in the final battle?
Excerpt
One after the other, coyote shifters took shape around her and Jimmy. A whirl, and there they were—appearing without sound, camouflaged like chameleons. Not a wolf trick she’d mastered. Maybe she should. Fast. The devils slunk closer.
Corn silk hair like Eve’s blew in the stiff breezes, and various shades of red and brown. Males and females sported loose lengths flapping in the wind, dreadlocks, ponytails, and shaved heads. There must have been at least a dozen sinewy forms, dressed in earthen tones or shadowy black.
Cunning eyes fixed on Morgan, barely giving Jimmy a glance. Emboldened men and lean, mean women stalked nearer, their coyote musk obnoxious to her wolf self. They weren’t armed. ‘Go for the throat’ must be their attack mode.
Should she shift? Only partly. A wolf couldn’t use weapons or catch the next vortex. Not that she’d swirl away and leave Jimmy behind. Besides the need to protect him, she was a warrior. Her duty lay in defending Wapicoli territory.
How stupid to let herself get trapped in the first place! Hadn’t Jackson warned her a lone wolf was a dead wolf?
Click. The flame of a lighter caught her notice. Then smoky sizzle. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the ever-ready Jimmy toss a sparkler a short distance from where they stood. He dipped back into his pack amid startled glances. Out came the duct tape. He bound a second sparkler on the side of an arrow in an instant. A rip of the tape with his teeth, flick of the lighter, and he shot it blazing into the sky. The signal for backup. His superpower lay in quick thinking, and he’d caught the trespassers off-guard.
Howls rose from the surrounding ridges. Wapicoli were answering his summons, but it would take minutes not seconds before the first wolves reached them. She and Jimmy had moments. If she distracted the pack, maybe he could get away.
She wasn’t exactly helpless. Not by a long shot.
Opening her balled fists, she flashed her fingers at Eve in a fiery blue current. The alpha leader tumbled to the ground. They’d played this game before. Did Eve want more? Morgan would gladly bring it.
Angry snarls tore from the feral pack. Some were shifting. Coyotes in animal and human form lunged at her.
Time to use the wind. She leapt into a fast forming spout. Drawing on her powers, she blasted fiery energy at them as she wheeled in sizzling revolutions. The air crackled bluish white and smelled like the earth after a lightning strike. Coyotes fell back on each side of her. They were only down temporarily, unless she’d knocked them senseless, but it was satisfying to see them careen in every direction.
The funnel dissipated, and she stopped spinning. “Go!” she cried, waving at Jimmy to run.
“No way!” He shot an arrow at the ripped male scrambling to his feet, dreadlocks bouncing. The would-be attacker jerked the sharp missile from his bloody shoulder with a howl. Batboy had winged him.
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