To Prevent Warm Welcomes: Magical Mayhem, #5

By Emily Martha Sorensen

If Rhea's sister is a traitor, she knows what she has to do.

She heads to the lair ready to do what's necessary . . . and clueless Tiffany lets her in.  Chronos is not delighted.

One of Kendra's friends finally gets what she's wanted for a long time.  But will it be a dream come true — or will it be a nightmare?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Emily Martha Sorensen
• Release date: May 23, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386806813

Book preview

Chapter 1: The Confession

Ducking to avoid a sharp-toed boot, Florence spun behind the rubber-suited masked man to blast him with a gust of fire.  But she was too slow.

Kazam!  The minion blasted her with a lightning strike that was —

— rather pathetic, actually.  It felt like a static shock from someone rubbing their feet across a carpet.

Florence reached out and grabbed his leg and threw him over her shoulder.  That worked for about two seconds before he flipped back to his feet and tried to lightning-fry her again.

This time Florence avoided it, though she wondered why she’d bothered.  The rubber-suited minion’s mouth fell open in indignation, and he tried a flying leap to tackle her.

Florence flapped her gigantic dragon wings and soared out of his range.  The rubber-suited loser stamped his foot and pouted.

Stupid . . . leftover . . . minions, she muttered.  If you were going to mount a surprise attack to avenge your boss, the least you could do was upgrade your equipment.  She was pretty sure these were the same slackers they had defeated every week for the past year.

Behind you! Felicity shouted.

Okay, one of the loser minions had upgraded his equipment.  Florence spun around to see a rubber-suited man in a jet pack diving downwards, a sharp-looking dagger pointed at her.

Oh, no, you don’t! Florence thought.  She whipped her bracelet in front of her mouth, twisting her wrist so that the green gemstone was on top.  Then she blew.

It turned her breath into a green mist of poison.  The minion choked and gasped, but he shoved a rubber-suited arm in front of his face and kept on diving.

Florence lunged off to the side, flapping her dragon wings, and he kept going towards the spot where she’d been.  Before he could recalibrate, she twisted her wrist so that the blue gemstone was on top.

Whoooooooooosh!

A cloud of freezing air enveloped him, and he thunked to the ground in an enormous block of ice.  The bottom shattered, but there was still more than a foot of it encasing him in all directions.  Even better, his rocket pack had gone out, so there was now no way for him to melt his way out of there.

Ha! Florence thought.

Down below, Felicity was struggling with the other minion, who had grabbed one of the giant vines she’d been shooting at him and was trying to lasso her with it.

Florence twisted her wrist so that the central stone was in front of her mouth, and she blew across it.  It was the largest stone, and the only one she’d had before her power-up last year.  Fire roared down and incinerated the vine through the middle.

The loop of vines that had squeezed around Felicity loosened, and she pulled her left arm loose.  She held up her fist, and the ring on it glowed.

How dare you use my own plants against me! she shouted.