The Purification: Book 3 of the Evaran Chronicles by Adair Hart Read Free Book Online Page A

pushed forward with glowing swords. Evaran dodged the first slash and turned sideways to kick the guard against the wall. He ducked as another sword swept across above him. He spun around doing a leg sweep, knocking the second guard down. He then tapped the guard’s chest with his baton. The guard stopped moving.
    The third guard lunged forward and struck out at Evaran’s midsection. Evaran stepped back and placed his foot on the blade. With a downward motion of his leg, the blade was pulled out of the surprised guard’s hand. Evaran stepped forward and tapped the guard on the head with his baton. The guard crumpled to the ground. The remaining two attacked him simultaneously, one from each side. Evaran placed his hand on the right guard’s shoulder and somersaulted over him. Upon landing, he tapped the back of the guard’s head with his baton, then he kicked him in the back. The guard went flying forward and crashed into the last guard. The last guard struggled to get up as Evaran approached him.
    “Leave,” said Evaran.
    The guard nodded and got to his feet. He ran out of the room.
    “Holy shit,” said Miles.
    “Thankfully, they weren’t as strong as Seeros,” said Dr. Snowden.
    John snapped his head toward Dr. Snowden. “You know Seeros?”
    Before Dr. Snowden could reply, Evaran ran over to the group.
    “We can go. Brills and Shandra would be better served in my medical lab,” said Evaran.
    “No … no temporal shielding effect for us. Hermes said there are more on the way, and ships are beginning to close in. We need to get the hell out of here!” said John.
    The Earth Guard boarded their ship while Evaran, Dr. Snowden, Emily, and V rushed into the Torvatta.
    Evaran ran into the command area. He punched around his ARI. “V, take us out and open a portal to the coordinates I am relaying.”
    “Acknowledged,” said V as he rushed to the front console.
    Dr. Snowden and Emily sat in the U-shaped seating area to the right of the front console as Evaran sat in his command chair. The Torvatta pulled away from the station. After flying a bit, it held position and shot out a gold beam, opening a silver-ringed portal with a light-blue rippled surface. John’s ship appeared in front of them and flew through the portal. The Torvatta followed them in.
    Dr. Snowden’s heartbeat was flying all over the place. These strangers had risked their lives for this rescue. What was so important that they needed to do that? It was apparent to Dr. Snowden now that Evaran could have taken the guards during their capture. Dr. Snowden figured Evaran did not because of the possible collateral damage. Sometimes he felt like he and Emily were a liability. Then again, they had saved Evaran once before. Maybe it was that balance that Evaran was okay with. Dr. Snowden shook his head as the Torvatta emerged through the portal and outside a large ship.

    The Torvatta landed inside a hangar bay with John’s ship parked off to the side.
    Dr. Snowden looked around outside through the transparent front screen. The hangar bay was large, and several other ships were nearby. Various people ran around in brown one-piece suits with gadgets in their hands. He could tell they were all nonhumans. It made sense that if the Purifiers were exterminating all nonhumans, then the nonhumans would band together and try to survive.
    “Come, let us find out what is going on,” said Evaran, waving toward the Torvatta entrance.
    Dr. Snowden nodded. “This new timeline has been … interesting to say the least.”
    “Yeah … sucks so far,” said Emily.
    They exited the Torvatta. Miles ran out of John’s ship with Shandra in his arms followed by Dizz and Cantol carrying Brills on a stretcher of some type. They disappeared into a large hallway. John and Hermes approached Evaran.
    Dr. Snowden noted that Hermes looked a lot different than what he had imagined. A part of him expected to see some type of ancient Greek clothing and armor. Instead, Hermes wore