Atomic Mage by Garrett Carter (short books for teens txt) 📕

What he had assumed was a monstrously huge human with a bear headdress looked to be a werebear complete with a short snout and small rounded ears on his head.

The werebear had no weapon but the massive paws both tipped with long claws, entirely too long for Cades liking, would do the job of cutting him to ribbons just fine.

Warily tearing his gaze from Winney the poos roided up cousin he took in the last member of the group facing him.

He looked at the slightly built lizard man, long pointed toothy snout and all with a tail sprouting out behind him that tapered to a point half as long as he was tall.

Added to the lizard man's evident lethality were the two short swords in his clawed grip.

Taking this all in over a few seconds Cade didn't like his odds, he didn't think they could kill him but if they started beating on him it wouldn't be very pleasant, to say the least.

Backing up a few steps which caused all of the men arrayed before him to cautiously crouch down in a battle-ready stance at the action, Cade pulled on his power.

Like his game of catch and release, he attempted to catch them all, grinning as a certain theme song went through his head his telekinesis like ability gripped all five men including the fool still rushing over with the chains.

He felt a bit of glee when the veiled looks of hate he was getting changed to the surprise from before.

He felt a slight give in his grip as the men collectively began to fight against his power.

The effort required spiked as smokey's big brother put his considerable might to fighting his grip.

Doubling down on his grip and opened up the regulator on his skull mounded energy source staggered his focus for a second.

That moment of freedom was enough for the lizard man to throw a small dagger into his chest.

Grunting in pain as the dagger sunk to the hilt in his right pectoral, Cade fought to maintain his grip on the men.

He focused through the pain as his grip on the slavers held.

Using a sliver of power Cade removed the blade from his chest and glared at the lizard man.

"That is going to cost you bud,"

Surprisingly he found himself calm, sort of in the center of a storm the rage felt detached from him, still there close enough reach out and grab.

Looking away from the frozen lizard man he took in the group arrayed before him, the last man he decided to call chain guy until he found out his name drifting over to stop next to the lizard man.

Trying to think over his first contact with the people of this world he remembered the big teddy bear sending chain guy back to the boat and assumed he was the one in charge.

Cade looked at him doing a quick scan of the bear-man finding nothing he hadn't already assumed, he was a big boy.

Smiling down on him the bear-man growled out what Cade assumed were words.

Shaking his head at the grizzly in man's clothes Cade indicated he didn't understand a word from him.

Deciding to try something inspired by his hours-long fishing exhibition, he doubled down on this grip on the slavers.

The insanity of what he was going to attempt gave him a moment of pause with its craziness.

Hoping this either worked or at least didn't fuck up his own mind he scanned the grizzly man's mind, taking a few minutes to identify the paths of the electrical impulses in his brain took.

A calm came over him as the sounds of the jungle became background noises to be ignored, the only thing in this moment was the sparks of electricity that ran through the bear man's mind.

His concentration faltered for a moment as his silent world was shattered by the sounds of a massive storm.

Cade braced against the mass of air and rainwater that threatened to send him tumbling into the darkness that surrounded him.

A flash of lightning illuminated his surroundings for a moment, he saw a rocky hillside covered with grass and trees before he covered his ears as a booming voice sounded as pitch blackness returned.

"How dare you hold me against my will human. I will crush you in my claws and listen to your screams of despair. Maybe after that, I will let you die. RELEASE ME NOW!"

As he listened to what he hoped was the bear man's thoughts Cade recovered from his shock before he interjected with his own, "you have no idea who you are fucking with yogi." To the very very large and very very pissed-off bear man that he had trusted up in his grip back on the beach.

Astonishment bloomed on the bear's face as he proceeded to try and spew his mouth gravel language at Cade.

Sharply increasing the pressure on the bear man's chest in the physical world, he heard a muffled snap as one or more of the bear man's ribs snapped.

The bear-man let out a wounded roar, silencing him after the intelligible tirade.

Seeing that he could enter the mind of the bear-man Cade did the same with the others as a test.

The human was a morass of fear, afraid of Cade's power, that it was strong enough to hold Krub who he assumed was the bear.

"Not getting anything from that one, if I sneeze he might piss himself." Dismissing the fearful human he moved to the dwarf, his next target.

Moving on to the dwarf Cade took a moment to take in the