Chapter 158


    Read Taming Darkness By Jessica Hall Book 3 Chapter 33 – “We need them. Aleera sent them back to


    us for a reason. She meant for them to help us. If we can get them to open a portal, and get the recruits


    here.” “We still won’t have enough power,” Lycus grumbles. “We will if we convince her Phoenixes to


    charge us,” I argue. “I can break this veil, but I need magic!” I growl at them, scooping up a rock. I


    tossed it in the air, catching it, looking for the giant f**ker.


    Ryze hissed at me, Tobias and Lycus both backed up simultaneously as Ryze opened her wings.


    Spotting Spark flying into the center, hovering as hemanded his flock, I took aim before throwing


    the rock, sting it with what power I did have, to push it high enough to reach him. However, Spark


    moved, and it missed him. The bird didn’t even notice the sk*pping rock. Secondster, talons tore into


    my back.


    Ryze squ*wked in rage, thinking I was attacking her father. I swatted her, holding my hand out as she


    tumbled off my back, and I am thrown forward as she jolted me. “F***k!” Tobias hissed. He waved his


    arms and rushed at her when she went to pounce on me again. “Bl**dy bird.” I snapped. I point to


    Spark, only to find him peering down at his daughter. Ryze screeched, the sound making me clutch my


    ears.


    Tobias waved his arms, warding her off, trying to calm her down. “Settle girl.” Tobias cooed and she


    huffs while Tobias calms her. Not that it mattered, her screeching drew the attention of her father.


    He stared down at us before tucking his wings to his body and dived straight toward us, using his body


    like a torpedo. Spark was going at a speed faster than lightning, it was hard to focus on him.


    His body pulled up just feet from the ground as hended, impressively, on his feet with his wings


    outstretched. I backed up as he hissed at me, and Tobias turned. Ryze was one thing, but Spark was


    no juvenile Phoenix.


    Spark stalked me and I held my hands up. “We aren’t hurting her, just trying to get your attention!” I


    yelled at the beast of a bird, Ryze hopped away to his side while Spark cawed loudly, and I cursed


    when he dropped his head and charged at me with wide open beak and wings open.


    Yet before he reached me, Kalen tossed himself between me and the bird. His hands were


    outstretched, glowing ck with the shadows. Spark reared back, and he snapped at Kalen’s trembling


    hand, his fear writhed through the bond and I gripped his hips, readying myself to toss him aside if


    needed.


    “Easy, Kalen,” I growled. Kalen took a hesitant step toward Spark, his shadows slivering up his arms


    and dancing between his fingers. ” We don’t want to hurt her.” Kalen tells Spark. Spark snapped his


    beak mere inches from Kalen’s hand again, and he sucked in a desperate breath.”


    Aleera!” Kalen yelled furiously at him. Her name seemed to get his attention. Spark c**ked his head to


    the side and Ryze nipped at her father’s tail feathers, his wing batting her back, telling her to move


    away from us.


    “Aleera!” Tobias repeated Kalen’s words. Spark turned his head as Tobias stepped forward. He held up


    his wrist. “We need magic!” Tobias stressed to him, tapping his wrist. Spark shook out his feathers


    backing up before nudging Ryze, and they took off.


    Kalen snarled, and reached down before I could stop him and smashed Spark in between his shoulder


    des with a rock. His wings opened instantly, and the bird pivoted, rearing up. I yanked Kalen back,


    only for him to turn and shove me.


    “He’ll listen,” Kalen insisted, just as Spark charged at him. Instead of turning away, Kalen ran at him


    too. Tobias screamed, darting after Kalen. Spark tackled Kalen, sending him tumbling to the ground.


    Beside me, Lycus shifted, prepared to take on the massive Phoenix. Spark screeched, scratching at


    Kalen’s face with his razor sharp ws. Kalen rolled away and Spark tried to stab him with his beak.


    Kalen grabbed the bird by the beak, and the Phoenix jolted as the shadows touched him. He tried to


    st Kalen back with his own power, but Kalen gripped the feathers on either side of his head.


    Spark stiffened and stopped his attack entirely. “Aleera!” Kalen screamed in the bird’s face. Spark


    rustled his feathers, his eyes glowing, and the animal backed away.


    Tobias was at Kalen’s side instantly, dragging him up while Lycus’ growled, stalking the Phoenix in his


    wolf form as the creature backed up before he took flight.


    “Well, great, that worked, and I lost another set of pants!” Lycus huffed when he shifts back. “F**king


    d*mn near sh*t my f**king pants too,” he growled.


    I shook my head, trying to think of something else. Tobias was dusting Kalen off with his hand, scolding


    him for being stup*d. The sky darkened as a storm appeared out of nowhere, and the Phoenixes flew


    into the wind.


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    Spark’s mighty roar filled the sky and in unison, the Phoenixes sang to his chorus, power zapped and


    sparked between them when they all suddenly dived and swooped toward us.


    “Hold your ground,” Kalen snapped at me, and my attention darted to him to find his eyes had turned


    TTM white.


    Whatever he did to Spark, Spark was allowing him to manipte them, his eyes returned to normal


    when I was sted with a surge of electricity, and magic by Spark then Ryze. The force making me


    stumble back only to be sted with another jolt.


    The birds took turns hitting us and powering us up. Magic surged through my veins by the time they


    were done. Tobias instantly opened a portal to Astrid, and Lycus shifted and ran through it to alert our


    men.


    “Turns out I can manipte a Phoenix,” Kalen chuckled, as my fingers tingle, power flowed in my veins


    as I feel through the bond an echo of Aleera sharing hers. I flexed, testing its strength as it twisted and


    transformed inside me, bleeding into my essence, before I looked up at the veil with new determination.


    Our men filed out taking their stances moving around the shield ready to fight for their Queen. Rubbing


    my hands together, the tendrils of darkness slipped from my fingertips just as Spark roared above me,


    and once again the Phoenixes sted the shield at the same time I did.


    The moment the veil flickers turning solid briefly veil flickers, turning solid briefly, our men didn’t


    hesitate to touch it, sting it with their own power. ) I unleash some more of the magic and start


    absorbing the shield.


    I took on its energy, recycling it by sending it straight back into the veil.


    It cr*cks under the pressure before shattering like a ss when the pressure became too much and it


    erupts, we are hit with its shockwave, yet my feet remain nted on the ground as the veil between


    realms disintegrated.


    The sky pixted as it burst, revealing something I never thought I wouldv eves on again.


    Aleera’s oldy eyes on again. Aleera’s old house, and hundreds of startled power-hunters. We broke


    the veils between realms and I smirked at their horrified faces, cracking my neck, Lycus shifted, the


    Phoenixes dove. Tobias wandered back over to me. “Now let’s f**k sh*t up!” Heughed.