“Jordan!” I screamed. I tried to run to her, but Chris held me back.
A roar split the air, unlike anything I had ever heard. From out of nowhere, a large winged shape dived from the air, dipping so close to our heads that the downdraft from its leathery wings made my hair fly around my face. The crocotta stumbled away from Jordan, and I saw terror in its eyes before it turned to flee. It didn’t get far before it was swallowed by flames so hot I felt them from twenty feet away.
“Alex?” I whispered, too awed by his appearance to be terrified he would come after me next.
Engulfed by flames, the crocotta screamed and thrashed violently on the ground. The wyvern circled the dying creature once before taking off toward the vampires that had stopped their advance on us to stare in shock. Flame
