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

"Gonna make you pay for that my little snake," he said with a lust-filled growl.

"I would very much like to see her punishment, my mate," Mina said with a purr.

"Anytime my Cade, I will always be ready for you," Sabine replied a not so innocent smirk crossing her features as a long forked tongue licked her soft lips.

"You two go downstairs and take a look at our home, I was almost ready to show it off until these dumb asses interrupted.

Let me know if you would like anything changed or added girls." Cade said as he adjusted himself making a promise to thoroughly enjoy his little snake's new sinful curves at his leisure at their next opportunity.

As he watched his two gorgeous mates make their way down to the living room hips swaying and small giggles making their way to his ears at his unconscious lustful growls, he looked down to the idiot that was keeping him from his mates.

He growled a few incoherent curses at the dumbass to keep himself from just snapping the idiot's neck and decided against his plan to just tear the knowledge from Drake's mind.

This wolfman and his friends had attacked him and his mates, Drake wasn't getting the easy way out of this life today.

"Let's get this over with, got better things to do," he said to Drake's unconscious body as he slipped into the man's mind.

Half baked

A dark narrow ravine, barely wide enough for him to walk down greeted Cade as he appeared inside Drakes's mind.

He warily looked up at the tops of the ravine walls fifty to sixty feet above his head, finding no one about to drop boulders on him, he began to make his way forward.

After a few minutes of walking down the rubble-strewn corridor, he noticed a brightening of the rocky passage ahead of him.

Speeding up his steps he made it to the end of the ravine and was surprised to see a wide pebble-strewn plateau open before him.

Snow topped mountains covered in what he assumed were evergreen trees abutted up to the wide plateau in the distance.

Wary of a trap Cade took a tentative step onto the rubble-strewn plateau.

Reacting more on instinct than any forethought he jerked his right foot back a moment before a thin spike of rock drove up from the ground, barely missing his booted feet.

"Well know we know what defenses we are gonna be dealing with," he said into the cold breeze as it blew towards him. "Let's just locate our host real quick and get this interrogation over with."

Expanding his power to encompass the whole of the wide plateau, he was surprised to find no trace of the mage.

Cocking his head in concern Cade made a quick trip back to his physical body to find the mage still lying face down on the deck, alive but unconscious.

"Maybe we need him awake for this." He wondered aloud.

Cade raised one finger on his right hand and gathered a small metal spike that had just recently been located in his thigh.

Using his power he cleaned the spike of his blood and with a tiny amount of power provided a small electrical charge to the spike.

With a small grin, he placed the spike against the unconscious Drake's chest. A small zap had the metal mage's eyes open with a snap.

Cade's expression changed to a frown as the spike in his grip shivered as Drake tried to take it from him. As quickly as he could he collected all the small spikes he could reach and surrounded Drake with them.

He stopped short of plunging the spikes into the metal mage as one spike he had missed almost impaled his right eye.

He just barely managed to grip the spike with his power before it drove into said eye.

"Ok, this isn't gonna work," he said as his irritation at being in the same position as earlier, playing tug of war with the metal mage made its way into his voice.

Unwilling to give the mage a chance to regain his footing, Cade threw a burst of power into Drake's left knee causing the joint to fold in the opposite direction.

He took control of the spike in front of his eye as the slaver fell with a scream into the spikes that surrounded him.

He drove the spikes in deep as Drake continued his shrieking, making sure to keep the slaver alive by intentionally missing major veins and arteries.

He reformed the ends of the spikes into broadheads, that would cause more damage when pulled out.

He waited a few moments to ensure the spikes were doing their job of keeping his prisoner from using them on him.

Determining to cover every contingency, he forced the slaver's skin to grow around the spikes, leaving the front of Drake's body looking like a furry pin cushion.

Resolving that the slaver was awake enough to answer his questions and distracted enough to keep him from using his powers, he used the spike that had been hovering in front of his eye to pin the slaver to the deck.

As Cade thinned and lengthened the spike to a foot long he used the ones embedded in Drake to lay the slaver face up on the deck.

Ignoring the pained screams and healing the tears in Drake's skin from the rough handling he drove his extended spike into the slaver's left arm, pinning him to the deck.

With a small usage of power, Cade grew a few sharp barbs on the spike to keep the slaver from just