Page 49 of Unicorn Shifter Academy
I batted his hands away. “Use your other senses like Professor Soleil taught you,” I grumbled back at him before I bolted to the next stone wall.
The Sun House Training Grounds consisted of a series of maze-like structures that normally would work in favor of our gifts. We would practice on moving targets and blast them with Sun House Purity magic.
Now, though, the walls only made it more difficult to see where I was going, even if they did provide shelter.
I didn’t like the tension or the wait.
Professor Soleil would probably have scolded me for my lack of patience, but there was a reason I was in charge of the Purity Artifacts.
I was hot-headed, impatient, and above all, stubborn as fuck.
That made me a powerful adversary.
Ironically, it made me very good at purifying Corruption, as well.
“How do you know we’re going the right way?” Guille asked as stone crunched under his feet in his attempt to follow me. He slammed into the wall at my left and ground out a curse.
I rolled my eyes. “Because it’s darker this way,” I whisper-yelled. “And can you stop being such a Unicorn elephant? This’ll be a lot easier if we take the bastard by surprise.”
Something had intruded on campus and blotted out the power of the Sun House.
Meaning, whatever it was, it had to be intensely powerful.
I probably should have waited for someone higher up in the Legion to find us, but there wasn’t time. Corruption was good at two things.
Killing.
Andspreading.
I knew better than anyone that Corruption had to be stopped at the source or else we’d risk losing the entire Academy. Guille, despite his inexperience, was more powerful than me and Professor Soleil put together.
Plus, I liked it here. Unicorns like Professor Soleil had taught me how to channel my anger into something useful. I had a purpose here, and I cared about students like Guille.
I hadn’t been able to save my bond brother, my family, or the members of the Legion who had tried to save me just three years ago.
A similar experience had befallen Guille. The only difference was that he’d vanquished the monster that had wronged him.
I’d failed in that regard.
“There,” I said as I crouched.
One of the spots at the end of the training yard sank into a deep abyss.
That’s where the Corruption would be waiting.
“What’s it doing?” Guille asked as he leaned uncomfortably close to my ear.
I pushed him away. “It’s feeding.”
This area should have been blazing with light. Instead, the Corruption was sucking it in and devouring it.
I’d never seen Corruption behave this way before. Something was different.
Which meant something was very wrong.
“Maybe we should wait—”
I didn’t allow Guille to stop me from charging forward. Now that I knew where the bastard was waiting, I planned on taking it by surprise.
