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

"Ok that should be enough, I don't think you will be going anywhere before we finish our chat," he told the wolfman before dropping back into the slaver's mind amid Drake's pained moans.

Cade created a flat shield below him a split second after he reappeared in Drake's mind.

A smile grew on his face as several of the rocky spikes drove into the shield and shattered in a spray of stone bits, not making a dent in his magical foot protection.

Taking a step forward his foot was almost impaled as he almost walked right of his shield.

Windmilling his arms in terror he fell back onto the safety of the mental shield and landed flat on his backside.

As his heart rate slowed Cade imagined the sight of his big ass comically waving his arms around and landing flat on his ass would have pulled a chuckle out of him, if not for the fresh memory of spikes just like the ones that had sprung from the ground having been in his flesh not a half-hour ago.

Doing some mental acrobatics as he maintained his seat on the shield Cade tried to move his little oasis of safety.

A scream left his mouth as he found out that trying to force the platform to float forward led to him almost dropped to the ground as the shield shifted quickly in his direction of choice, just without taking him along for the ride.

Cade hastily formed another shield a few inches above the dangerous ground just his first zoomed off towards the mountains in the distance.

As another round of spikes shattered against his hastily built shield, his heart raced in his chest once more at the close call.

Blowing out a shaky breath he took a few minutes to collect himself before trying to move the finicky shield again.

After he couldn't taste his heart in his throat Cade tried and failed several times to get his new mode of transportation to not shoot off into the distance without him.

Frustration ate at him as the last failed experiment flew off.

His position had improved though, he had gotten pretty good at jumping at just the right time to keep from losing altitude during his little trial by fire.

Still, he found as hard as he tried, even with a small bit of power, the shield at best inched along without taking him along with it, and at worst shot off as all the others had.

"Wouldn't make a bad projectile," he said before he tried another tactic.

Visualizing a disk that would float with him on it, not trying to fix the platform as just protection in his mind he again formed the frustrating implement.

As his intent for an armored mode of transportation settled in his mind, he felt what he could only explain as a rubber band snap as the shield anchored itself to him instead of the ground.

Cade felt a little seasick as the small shifts in motion that the shields had been making during his attempts to make his floating platform work suddenly included him in their little dance.

He was thankful for his years at sea as the motion sickness passed in a few moments.

An anxious grimace made its way to his face as he widened his stance and visualized the shield floating forward.

With a child-like expression of glee, he was almost pitched backward off the thing as it shot forward.

"Oh, this is going to change everything."

As he recovered his balance visions of his new floating home flying through the air exploded in his mind with him at the helm.

Bringing himself back to the task at hand, Cade threw a worried glance around the plateau looking for Drake or any attacks the mage might throw his way.

He barked a laugh when he found the mage writhing on the ground a few hundred feet away.

"Let us go have that chat shall we."

Turning his mobile shield towards his target, Cade flew over to the prone mage his grin growing as the mage's defensive spikes kept smashing into the shield with no effect.

He was almost disappointed at the lack of effect the spikes were having, almost, the idea of the stone that kept smashing against the bottom of his floating platform making contact with his body caused him to shiver involuntarily.

Increasing the speed of his transport and protection, Cade ate up the distance between him and Drake in a few seconds.

Arriving beside the mage he gripped the now still Drake and brought him to eye level a few feet away.

Looking into his eyes Cade realized the reason Drake had gone still with a glassy-eyed stare.

"Idiot went into shock on me."

An aggrieved sigh left him before he drove the slavers mind to flood his physical body with pain-blocking hormones.

He smiled at the mage as Drake's eyes came back into focus slowly as the chemicals did their work.

"How did you resist my power, answer and I will kill you quick, don't and my treatment of your body will seem like a vacation next to what I will do to get it out of you by force."

His irritation at the mage grew as the barley cognizant Drake's eyes tried and failed a few times to focus on him.

Repeating his question a few times Cade was almost ready to break the figurative and literal screws before Drake's eyes focused on him.

"Sure, whatever you need."

Cade gave the slaver a curious look as his glassy-eyed stare shifted into a goofy expression after his response.

"He's fucking high as a kite," he thought to himself