Finch Merlin and the Fount of Youth

Finch Merlin and the Fount of Youth is the 10th book in the Harley Merlin Series by author Bella Forrest. What must a guy do to appease an evil spirit? Katherine wants to take over the world, Finch Merlin wants to do something other than errands, Shadow God Erebus. Merlin will be freed after helping Erebus.

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Chapter one
Finch
Well wearing black was a bad choice
I’ve been going for Ninja vibes
And now I was saying the price
Baking and the Cuban son
My t-shirt sticking to me like a slug on a window
Searing my sweat even further across my face with the back of my forearm
Ipaws beside the edge of a nearby wall
And peered around it
This is my version of incognito sneaking
Although I did have some cloaking magic at my disposal to make it easier
Morro Castle was beautiful
All sandstone and cannons and fortifications that look like they come right out of a George RR Martin novel
No dragons though unfortunately
Even though I’d seen an impressive array of creatures in told The Beastmaster is massive best Jerry I still hadn’t seen it
Dragon
Disappointing didn’t even cover it
Catching my breath I looked over the nearest wall
The ocean crashed against The Rock Promontory below
I’m which this whole Fortress have been built
Taking a dip in the chilly water would have been a mercy right about now
I didn’t understand how there could be any sweat left in my body
Morrow sounded so very mystical and exotic to dumb foreigners like me
But the funny thing was it just meant
Rock
Rockcastle
Very inventive really
Still it was crazy beautiful
Standing alone on this outcrop where had defended Havana against the British
Not that it had done a very good job
Those sneaky Brits and slept in anyway
I know of another slippery bread I could mention
Davin Doncaster
The Necromancer and slimeball extraordinary been a major pain in our asses during the Catherine campaign
He was still off the radar
But that wasn’t why I was here
This place was just a tourist destination now
Diminish to nothing more than an opportunity for vacation photos in front of a cannon
Why did I never get to just enjoy these exotic places
Why didn’t I ever get to pause and take selfies
Nope
This was no vacation
And sneaking through the narrow boiling hot pads of his Fortress
Wasn’t exactly my idea of a lazy Sunday
I’ve been the past year doing insane errands for Erebus
The Prince of Darkness
My constant irritating shadow
It was the price I paid for killing Catherine
But the debt was starting to wear thin
I mean how many more errands could Erebus possibly have left
Sometimes I got the feeling he was just messing with me
Asking me to fetch the Easter Bunny had definitely been a joke at my expense
As it turned out when I reached Easter Island
What did I actually meant was a sacred Jade Rabbit that had been hidden there by Chinese magical way back when
What’s next the tooth fairy
Santa Claus
Meryl Streep
I had to keep telling myself that it was actually a pretty small price to pay
You could have asked for my life or my sister’s life
Or one of my friends lives
He likes death deals more than anything
And he had a weird fetish for making exchanges
So I suppose I should have been thanking my lucky stars
But there was only so much thinking a guy can do when he was hightailing it around the globe in search of a million Bazaar
List items
At least the magical world had recovered pretty well after my mother’s demise
So I couldn’t complain there
We had good leaders
And a decent new setup
Which seem to be lasting
Our world was definitely in a better State than it had been free Catherine
That was how we defined time now
Post Katherine and free Catherine
Magicals were still a secret to humans
Which meant the biggest danger had been averted
If the humans had found out it would have just caused more unrest
And nobody wanted that
In their eyes we would have become a powerful threat that would need to be stopped
And they would have come up with some military tool to detect us all
Like in the X-Men comics
Newk’s Advanced Weaponry special sells the whole shebang
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again
Folks could learn a lot from comic books
Seeing that the coast was clear
I hurried along the Narrow Path leading for the lighthouse
The tip of the Fortress so to speak
Since I was armed with my cloaking magic and a bunch of knockout powders
This was finally going to go my way
After a Year’s worth of in-depth research and a whole bunch of antihistamines to stop my allergies from going cray
Crazy while digging through all those Dusty tones
I found out that this Fortress was the resting place of Ponte de Leones
Spirit
Not most people body had been buried in San Juan Bautista cathedral in San Juan Puerto Rico
But those people hadn’t endured sneezing fits and watery eyes after devouring book after book on the subject
They also have an indoor going to San Juan and finding out they were wrong the hard way
It was just one of many lies surrounding the Conquistadors life-and-death
Conquistador is a great word
Finch the conquistador
Maybe one day when I Conquistador in my way out of my deal with Erebus
It wasn’t the first time I broken into a famous monument
San Juan Bautista Cathedral hadn’t even been my first
And this wasn’t the first time I’d broken into Morro Castle either
I tried it five times
That’s right
But it only gotten myself arrested once
So I was going to chalk that up as a win
Those previous attempts hadn’t been failures though
They giving me the opportunity to fully understand the layout of this Labyrinth
How the British have done it on their first try I wished I’d known
I supposed to give them props for that
After my last attempt
Nao broke thanks for paying my bill
I’d realized there was one place I hadn’t checked out
The very Lighthouse I was edging toward
Slow and steady
Like the proverbial tortoise
It was the only place left to search through
Which meant it had to be hiding what I was looking for
Mr Conquistador himself
Around another corner where the path opened out
Fan cover the ground
Leading to a wall on my left and a Spanish style chunk of the Castle to my right
The lighthouse rose up ahead
Like a proud
Well lighthouse
Now why wasn’t I doing this in the dark
A good question
I tried that
And it hadn’t worked
This way if anyone caught me creeping around I could just pretend I was an idiotic tourist had somehow gone somewhere they
They weren’t supposed to
But I hoped the cloaking magic would spare me that embarrassment
I needed to get past the security guards to reach the lighthouse
The cloaking magic covered me visually but if I touched anyone
They would feel it
Heading back the way I’d come I almost barreled into a pair of guards doing their rounds
Depressed against the wall again and waited for them to pass
They were almost clear
When one breast a hand right across my abdomen
I froze
Kipas 2
Looking around
Did you hear something
She asked
Crap
I darted along the wall behind them until I reached an open expansive path with no tourist or guards inside
Turning
Augusta doorway on the wall and whispered
How do you say Asia
The edges of the door Fizz and cracked
Cutting way too much of a scene
However I started the process now and no guards are caught up with me yet
As soon as the lines sank into the wall forming a three-dimensional indent
I pushed it open and rushed through
Slamming the door shut behind me
Unfortunately I’ve misjudged the location of the far side of the lighthouse
I stepped through the doorway
Into air
The ocean crashed below
Waves frothing up like Jaws ready to devour me
Dammit
I went into freefall
Plummeting to a water landing
Could I have been cool about it
Sure
Was I
No
I flailed frantically as the water rushed up to meet me
Fortunately I hadn’t just spent the past year traipsing around completing Erebus his whims and fancies
Oh no
I’d also spend it sprucing up my newfound Elemental abilities
Which had been in full force in Sarah beside snapped my Dempsey suppressor to smithereens
So I guess he had some uses
Sending out a wave of air with my hands I created a cushion beneath me
It caught me like a pillow ecloud when I was just shy of hitting the water
This is what it must feel like to be an angel
I recovered quickly
Forging another pillow of air that I could jump to in order to get myself back to the edge of the promontory
There
I ducked behind the fortification
I was crouched on the roof of what it once been part of the fort
A little house like building that had now been reduced to a toilet for seagulls
Animals for me after that little shocker
As my pulse return to normal
I peered over the lip of the wall
The guards were standing right in front of the lighthouse tour

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