Free Sorcerer: Witch's Woes: Power of Air (Book 3) by D. L. Harrison Page B

jumped behind the fire sorcerer as I felt his fire start eating
into my shields, having the air move me immediately out of danger.  There was
no way the air I’d focused around him could get through his shield, I was like
a toddler fighting a grown man, although a toddler that was much faster. 
    But he made another mistake, by ignoring that air I’d
focused around him, assuming he was invulnerable to my attack, he disregarded
it, instead of using fire to consume it.  The truth was, it was a good
assumption, any attack I made with the power I’d surrounded him with would
fail.
    But I didn’t attack him, it wasn’t part of my plan. 
Instead, I bade the air magic to move him, shield and all… to California.  He
disappeared from the field in a flash, now moving incredibly fast toward the
west.  He was completely out of sight in less than a second.
    I felt the magic I’d surrounded him with die however, as he
burned the travel spell away with ease.  I’d never believed I’d get him all the
way to California.  Yet, those two seconds of travel was enough to move him
several miles west.  As far as I knew, fire couldn’t travel nearly as fast, if
at all.  If there was a way to travel with fire I didn’t know how yet, of
course, there was a lot I didn’t know so I took that with a grain of salt.
    I looked down at Christopher who was still moving around
like a damned jumping bean, and congealed the air around him as I lowered to
the ground, which slowed him significantly.
    Ceara growled and took his head quite easily at that point,
so I released the magic around his body that was holding it up, and let his
body fall to the ground.
    “Good morning ladies,” I said brightly.
    Ceara asked curiously, “You defeated Jaben?”
    “Jaben?” I asked stupidly, the name had completely thrown
me.
    Ceara explained, “The fire sorcerer, the bastard introduced
himself right before you got here.”
    “Oh, no, sorry, I just tricked Jaben.  I moved him about
five miles west.  I’m hoping now that his employer is dead he’ll just move on. 
He could have prevented it, by burning my magic away, but he was too confident
in defeating an attack, so when I didn’t attack him and moved him instead, it
took him a couple of seconds to escape.  Even then, when he burned my magic
away he was moving very fast, over two miles a second fast, so I wouldn’t be
surprised if he got hurt when he landed.”
    I looked around again, “How did you wind up out here?” I
asked curiously.
    Diana replied, “Thanks for the help, we got a tip on their
location, there’s a vampire coven near here.  No doubt it was another trap for
us all, but this time we were ready for it… we’ll deposit your money when we
get back.”
    I could feel her confusion, she wanted to be mad at me, but
she also wanted to jump me, and I hated the invasion of privacy.
    “Should I remove the link?” I asked, perhaps a bit too
hopefully.
    Ceara shook her head and answered, “Let’s wait and see what
happens.  Jaben might just leave, on the other hand he may want revenge on us
for you damaging his pride, and getting the better of him.”
    I sighed, “Very well.  Just let me know when, and if Jaben
comes back I’ll answer Diana’s call again.  I’ll also keep you updated if I run
into him, chances are if he wants revenge it will be against the one that
tricked him.”
    They both nodded at me, and then took off going east towards
the city, fast.  I guess the conversation was finished.  I was worried about
more than Jaben simply coming back, what if he spread word of a new air
sorcerer in Chicago?  Aitheria protected me from my enemies finding me through
arcane means of knowledge, but that wouldn’t do anything against word of
mouth.  But then, sorcerers weren’t the sharing types, so maybe it would be
fine.
    Either way, I was done here and needed to get back to our
other issue.  The dark coven needed to be stopped.
    I wrapped myself in the power of