Chaol And Celaena Novels & Stories

I screamed internally, hot tears of pain streaming down my face. "I am the part of you that you left behind in this place four hundred years ago... Come to the altar, or they all die." I forced my eyes open through a haze of red. Around me, everything had descended into a nightmare. The Wraiths that had been kneeling were now on the attack, lunging at a shocked Alaric, Simon, and Rose. Kaelith was frantically slashing through chains of black magic that kept wrapping around him, desperate to get back to me.

The dark filled with muzzle flash and the smell of cordite and diesel and blood, and over all of it, closer every second, cutting through the chaos like the one true thing in the world, came a voice I'd know at the bottom of the ocean, roaring my name into the black. "ZARIAH." "Here," I screamed, from under a traitor's body, on a cold floor, alive. "Malik, I'm here, I'm here,"

“Thank you for saving our lives out there,” Chloe mumbled after looking around to see that Calistè was alone. Calistè barely smiled and walked up to them. “You owe me your life, Chloe,” Calistè smiled. “You and your friend over there. But first I want to hear everything. Tell me how you lost to Rhea?” Chloe frowned. “Rhea is stronger than we all give her credit for. Can you imagine the technique she used against me?”

"Owl and Yvonne are getting weaker and weaker every day because of the Sun's influence in their body. When the time strikes, you won't be able to protect her." Chaol raised a brow at her and gave her a compelling, villainous look. "Are you forgetting about someone?" Lana could feel her chest tighten as the air around her because of stagnant suffocation. He lowered her proud head and replied: "O-Of course, not." "Say, there comes a day when all become plunges into chaos, I won't be standing here and allow Asthenosthene to die." "Then what will you do?" "Avoid." Lana's head instantly darts back up to meet his gaze. "T-That's... very odd of you, Lord Chaol..."

At the door, he paused. “You’re bleeding magic,” he said. “You just haven’t noticed yet.” Then he was gone. ______________________________________________________________________________ _Elsewhere… Celina stood in the stone chamber beneath the temple ruins, her arms folded. Celeste stood in shadow, robes drifting like smoke. “She’s nearly there,” Celina said. “Kael’s halfway claimed her. Thorne’s close. Riven’s… unpredictable.” Celeste didn’t speak right away. Finally, she said, “Let the pressure build. Let the bond burn through her.”

I remind Jaxson before he gets too carried away, and I can’t get to them. In the process of Jaxson trussing him up and me applying the thumbscrew to Ken’s fingers, elder Ken wakes up screaming. Thankfully, Callum swiftly put duct tape over his mouth to silence him. When we are done, I look up at Elder Ken. “Welcome to the playground. I’m Alpha, the leader of Chaos. My torture experts with me today are Sidhe and Shadow.” At my words, Elder Ken started flopping around like a fish out of water, which only caused him to swing in the air on the chain connected to the meat hook.

The air was freezing, and the sound of chanting echoed from the walls. I looked up. I was in the heart of the mountain—the First Alpha’s Sanctum. But I wasn't alone. Across the room, Kaelen was chained to a pillar, his chest bare, his skin covered in glowing purple runes. He was conscious, his eyes fixed on me, filled with a desperate, helpless rage. And standing over me, her silver crown gleaming in the torchlight, was Selene. She held a jagged obsidian dagger in one hand and a gold chalice in the other.

Her wish came through when Rexus slipped a ring from the princess’s hand and the sound of metal scraping against metal ran through the air. Tristan and Trix’s hand interlocked and the two backed away quickly from the fight that erupted. A few guards gripped the princess and pulled her away to a hidden chamber. “Those two,” she slurred pointing at Trix and Tristan before the door slammed close. A spark of fire rose to the ceiling as Rexus met the blow of one of the guards. Rexus's partner attacked the other guards, slashing manically at the masked men and women. Screams and shouts consumed the ballroom. Screams of pain, cries of death, blood staining the floor and paintings on the wall. Many