Free Nightmares & Dreams: A Science Fantasy Space Western: Eydulan Series Book 2 by Mark Brandon Powell

take a few minutes to get configured though. They take both Whisper and I to make them.”
    “Do it, and tell me when they’re ready.”
    Gravan comes through the door and sits at his chair.
    He says, “Jack is still in place, and the chest is secure. So you got a plan?”
    Kat goes through her idea with him about the gravity shells. He agrees, and they lift off the ground. Kat pushes the thrusters to full as a beam melts through the hill they were just on, turning it into a molten blob. The sky had been full of clouds, but now looks like the eye of a hurricane with a clear view to the warship hovering in the space above the planet.
    All of the monitors in the bridge have the warship in view. Red dots start lighting up along the side. Kat doesn’t hesitate, flying the ship away back into the cloud cover. Smaller red beams rain down around the ship. She flies straight, because there was no predicting where the shots would land.
    Fury says, “Gravity bullets are chambered and ready to be fired.”
    Kat says, “Great. Now we need to know where that other warship is, then we can get the hell out of here.”
    Whisper says, “I have them both in pursuit. They both have weapons lock, and my sensors are picking up something weird. Some type of energy flux but I can’t pinpoint it.”
    Kat replies sarcastically, “That’s just prefect. Hold on tight.”
    She whips the ship around, pointing the nose of the ship between where the two warships should be.
    She says, “Gravan take the secondary cannons, and Fury take the primaries. Aim each pair of them at a ship, and we’re going to fly past them.”
    Gravan says, “I hope this works.”
    The Felicity flies between them as large red lights on either side flare up. Kat waits for on a fraction of a second, wanting to get past a certain point before ordering the command.
    Passing that point Kat says, “Fire!”
    Gravan and Fury shoot the two pairs of cannons. Each shell colliding into the rear shields of each ship, exploding.
    Whisper says, “Hits confirmed.”
    Kat grins, “Hit the FTL drives.”
    Felicity clears the two warships as their cannons still follow her. The four gravity balls pull the two warships into each other. These were different from the one she used on Gwen. The size of them alone made Kat shiver with the memory of Gwen’s body snapping and contorting around it. She watches on the screen, as the shields of the ships start to rub against the gravity wells, finally shattering. The outer hulls start to contort around them. Thats when she notices a purple glow surrounding each warship. It was faint at first, but as it grew more intense it flowed to a point between the two.
    Whisper says, “Uhh… Kat, remember that energy flux I was talking about?”
    Kat says, “Yes, why?”
    “Its magic. A powerful incantation magic to be precise, preformed — by my best guess — at least two hundred highly skilled wizards.”
    “I need to know this, why?”
    “Because its aimed at us right now.”
    Before Kat has time to say, what, a large purple beam fires from the sphere of light that grew between the ships. It roars over the Felicity. The ship shakes like in an earthquake. Sparks fly out of all the controls, and the power flickers.
    Whisper says, “Shields down, and engine output down to twenty percent.”
    Kat asks, “Can we still make the FTL jump?”
    “Maybe, but we won’t be able to make it all the way back to Illusion.”
    “That’s fine, just get us out of here so we live through this.”
    “Course plotted, jump in five.”
    Kat flips the cameras to where the two warships are, each still aglow in a purple haze. The light flows between the two again, quicker than she would have believed possible.
    Kat asks, “Whisper… you might want to hurry!”
    Whisper replies full of sarcasm, “Like I’m waiting to get hit by the magical purple death beam until you tell me to hurry. Stupid monkey. FTL jump ready, initiating.”
    Purple light screams toward the