Page 25 of Unicorn Shifter Academy
A roar at my back, followed by a blast of heat and my friends’ screams, interrupted my thoughts.
The first Unicorn moved in a blur, slamming against the stream of fire as he used his horn to blast it away with an emerald wall of power.
Everything about the creature was stunning, even his fighting style.
He pranced to the side and wielded his horn at the lion.
A stampede made the ground tremble as an entire row of Unicorns burst through the trees. I screamed and dove over Raze as they rushed around us, kicking up dirt and leaves as they plowed past me and broke through the fiery barrier.
My skin started to tingle and burn where Raze’s infected blood had touched me.
A sinking feeling warned me that I was slowly being poisoned, too, but he’d risked his life for me.
Leaving him unconscious and alone felt wrong.
Not to mention there were underlying feelings for him that I didn’t understand. A need to hold him, comfort him, and kiss him back to health gnawed at me with relentless insistence.
Making out with an unconscious Unicorn Shifter probably wasn’t the best idea right now, so I glanced up to see what was happening.
A majestic scene unfolded as the group of Unicorns faced off the terrifying creature.
The lion snarled and slashed at the Unicorns, but their collective power closed it in a golden veil, trapping Khimaira.
It roared, the intense sound shaking the trees and sending a shockwave of heat blasting out in all directions that broke the golden veil, sending it shattering like glass.
My hair flew back from my face as it landed its eyes on me.
Eyes that burned with fire.
It seemed to want to say something to me, to plead with me, but I didn’t know what it wished to say.
It had just been trying to kill all of us a moment ago.
But maybe the same infection that made my insides burn was making it behave this way.
Something about this felt off. I couldn’t explain it.
I just knew that something wasn’t right.
Then it snorted, as if frustrated, and turned.
And ran.
The first Unicorn I had seen neighed, sending the others running after it.
But he stayed behind.
And approached me as his entire body shimmered with golden power. His horn glowed with threatening heat, making me raise my nose in defiance.
Angel and Ned seemed to share my death wish, because they ran to my side and faced off the glorious creature.
“Stay back,” Angel warned.
“Yeah,” Ned agreed, wiggling his fingers that glimmered with purple power. “I have more bowling balls and I’m not afraid to use them.”
Yep. Ned was absolutely terrifying.
The Unicorn snorted, then shifted.
