Ascendant Saga Collection: Sci-Fi Fantasy Techno Thriller Brandon Ellis (ebook reader for comics txt) 📖

to her, its engines idling and purring, its ramp open and ready for Jaxx and his friends to board.

Jaxx reached Liberty, laying his hands on her shoulder. “We need to get you to a doctor.”

She shook her head. “None are near Flood of Dawn, Jaxx.” Tears ran down her cheeks, her lips quivering. “I’ve failed my people.”

“We can save you,” said Jaxx. He glanced at Zara, hoping she could do some type of healing magic. His eyes fell on one of the items hanging from the chains that crisscrossed her torso. “That liquid. Would that work?” It was the same liquid he drank before teleporting to Callisto. It gave him vital energy, almost too much energy. He wasn’t going to tell Liberty that the mighty Golgath beast roamed Zara’s planet, only to have their piss collected for medicinal purposes.

Zara stepped forward, unclipping a round vial full of red fluid. “It would do well for her, but it may be too late to heal her.”

Liberty closed her eyes. “Let me move to the next transition in life. Take my ship. Find Rivkah. Save what you can of Callisto…what you can of the galaxy.”

A thunderous roar vibrated the palace.

“More are coming, Jaxx,” said Zara. “We need to move before they find you and surround this building.”

Liberty took Jaxx’s hand and squeezed. “Go, Jaxx.”

Jaxx dug under his rage. “Come with us, Liberty. We’ll take you to safety and find someone who can help you.”

Liberty looked away, gazing at the ceiling. “I’m on my last heartbeats, Jaxx. I wouldn’t make it and I don’t know if I want to make it.” She coughed. Blood coated her mouth. She wiped it with her hands. “Go, Jaxx.”

Screw it. He bent down and slipped one arm under her knees, the other on her back. He stood, holding her like a bride. “We’re getting you to safety. You’re going to live.” He knew what he was saying was probably bullcrap. She didn’t look like she had much life left in her.

Liberty coughed, then managed a smile. “Cool your fire, Jaxx. Let your heart lead, not your anger. It will do you well.” She continued to gaze at the ceiling. “Open.” The ceiling split in two, opening like an elevator door, the gray, smoky sky displaying before them and casting light into the large room.

Zara pushed Jaxx forward. “Move.”

They ran up the ship’s ramp, Liberty in Jaxx’s arms. He placed her on the floor and took another look at her. Her skin was pallid, her eyes clouded, her chest still. She was already dead.

He punched the transport ship’s hull. “Dammit!”

He wanted to kill every Kelhoon, every Agadon, to rid the Galaxy of all evil, to exterminate it forever.

Kiyo-zan went to one knee and touched Liberty’s third eye, whispering words Jaxx couldn’t hear.

Zara crossed her arms and stood in a wide stance. “She died a noble and honorable death.” She eyed Jaxx. “Energy never ceases, Jaxx. It moves from one vehicle to the next. You’ll cross her path again one day.”

Jaxx turned. “What the hell does that mean?” He slammed his fist against a button at the top of the ramp. The ramp hissed, steam rising from the hydraulics that lifted the ramp to a close. Right now, he couldn’t care less what it meant. In reality, the Queen of Callisto, the Queen of all the Atlanteans on this Jupiter moon, was dead.

Jaxx spun around and hurried to the pilot’s seat and sat next to his two friends who had already taken their places. They were waiting on Jaxx to get this transport up and into the sky.

He pressed several holographic buttons, brought up the display screen online, and revved the engines to a louder purr. The craft lifted and he maneuvered it so the ship’s bow pointed toward the open ceiling and to the dark gray sky beyond.

He thrust the throttle forward. The transport shot out of the palace as if propelled by cannon fire. He leveled the craft and banked right, heading for the hills separating East Rise from Flood of Dawn.

He bared his teeth and narrowed his eyes. The last thing the Kelhoon wanted was a pissed-off Jaxx. He was coming for them. He was coming for Rivkah.

Beyond Atlantis

Ascendant Chronicles #4

Beyond Atlantis

Ascendant Chronicles #4

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Beyond Atlantis/Brandon Ellis - 4th ed

ISBN-13 - 978-1-913769-65-9

1 J-Quadrant, Solar System - Nearing East Rise, Callisto

Jaxx pressed the control stick forward, rocketing past the fifteen-story statue named Lady of Atlantis, aka “Princess Leia” on account of the hair buns on the side of the statue’s head. Jaxx was reminded of the first time he’d seen her. Towering above the Atlantis skyline, the statue was a replica of the Lady of Elche stone, found in the 1890’s on a private estate in Spain. Even back in his days as an archeologist—long before his claims that Atlanteans had once lived on that pale blue dot called “Earth” had been corroborated—he’d maintained that the Lady of Elche stone was an Atlantean relic. All his colleagues insisted she had been created by some primitive culture thousands of years