The Orcus Games: Mistress V (Book 2 in The Orcus Games Trilogy) - COMPLETE

CHAPTER SIX - MOONLIGHT MIRAGE (Part 3)

CHAPTER SIX - MOONLIGHT MIRAGE

(Part Three)

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Ardan dragged her into the shadows and accepted her apology. ‘Don’t worry about it,’ he replied. They both watched Phoenix use an invisibility spell to try and get past the beams. ‘Quickly! They’re coming back!’ Heather warned him. He pushed himself to move faster as his silhouette began to come into the light.

The beams detected him and a bolt was aimed at his back, hitting him in the bottom as he dived into the shadows to join the others.

The others laughed as he jumped around in pain, smoke floating upwards from his backside. ‘Stay still,’ his wife whispered as she held both hands just above the smoking area and chanted a healing spell. The smoke began to disperse into the cold night air and he rubbed the previously injured area to make sure the spell had worked.

Meanwhile, the last of the group was about to set off, with the others looking on, ‘Do you think he’ll be able to do it in his human form?’ Luan asked. Before anyone had time to answer, Caleb’s eyes glowed yellow with determination; he crouched down and ran full force, dancing around the moonbeams with ease and using the sides of rocks to propel himself further forward.

Cheated out of another victim, the moonlight began to circle the zone more viciously as it lengthened the group’s journey by hours. It had also slowed down my journey considerably, too, and lengthened the gap between me and the group. ‘I need to move quicker…’ I pondered as I prayed they were not near the Orpheus Zone yet.

The last zone in the games, before the River of the Mortuus, this zone was the most difficult - it tested the contestant’s senses with a complete absence of light. Pitch black, the audience were only able to see the contestants by virtue of the night-vision cameras.

The trees, rocks, birds and other elements that occupied this zone were alive too and need the contestants as their nourishment to survive.

Should a contestant successfully get to the other side without using their powers, they would not be detected, however, should they use their powers, the elements would be made aware of their existence; that’s when the hunt begins.

Many contestants in the past had been killed in this zone after conjuring a source of light - mainly those of the craft - and, knowing that Heather and Phoenix could have their journey ended in this zone, the smile returned to my face. My plan was beginning to become a reality. The thought of getting two more out of the way got me closer to my goal of having Ardan.

I finally caught up to the group as they reached the dark border and heard Phoenix ask, ‘Right, are we ready?’

They nodded their heads and warily walked into the darkness, holding each others’ hands. I followed behind at a safe distance, hoping that nothing cut me - it would alert Ardan and Luan to my presence.

  

Heading into the black distance, the thought of being in Ardan’s arms helped me negotiate the initial steps, even though plants scraped against my slender legs, animals’ breathing blew my hair in the breezeless atmosphere and things moved around me, throwing me off my bearings and directing me into danger. Suddenly, an alarm sounded, drowning any further sounds around me.

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