Kasadya (Hellhound Awakened) (28 page)

I saw the moment he got the message, and he smiled, looking over at his friends
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“Leave the humans, we have a duty to perform,” he said, standing up and taking me with him. I expected him to put me down, but no he held me tight against him; oh suck man! “Where do you need our service?” he asked, looking at me. I looked back at Kali and she quickly stepped in
.

“We saw an abandoned factory across the street, make a good place to have some real fun,” she replied, and dug her nails into the male holding her. Pain shot into his face, followed by one hell of a wicked smile. If Amon and the guys are not there, I’ll kick them back to Russia.

“Come on,” I instructed, pushing myself away from him and grabbing Kali’s hand. We moved to the exit. I looked back to make sure they were following us. Yip, sure as hell all five demon males were walking behind us all smiles.

We reached the bouncers and I stopped to address them. “These will be our first, but we’re coming back for way more,” I told them, giggling like a schoolgirl and walking off with Kali. I kept looking back to make sure they all still followed us, and was delighted to see they were. One guy was even taking off his jacket; oh so gross.

Kali and I pushed open the door and walked in, the guys following us. When the last one was inside and closed the door behind him, Max stepped out of the darkness, taking his head. The head fell to the floor, the body following a second later. The other males looked on as the head rolled to stop at my boot. Looking up, they caught the sight of Kali and I fully transformed. “Let’s play,” I said and we all attacked at once.

I took the head of the one who was still grossing me out, and Kali took the one that she scratched. In seconds all of them were dead. Amon walked over to each fallen demon, and opened a small bottle, dropping liquid followed by the Latin prayer to make them go poof. He then turned around and looked at us
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“Good job,” he acknowledged, and looked around to make sure everyone was still standing.

“We have a problem,” I said to him and at that his eyes grew dark
.

“What’s the problem?” he asked, ready for action
.

“You’re hundred is more like two hundred. With this plan, Kali and I will be at it for a day. We need to think out another one,” I replied, looking at Max to see the delight he took in it. Yeah so my plan would have worked if it was just fifty or so.

“Max?” Amon asked, looking at him.

Max kept his eyes on me and smiled
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“Just like always, we go in and kill,” he finished, still smiling at me. I rolled my eyes, oh for heaven sake why do I always get the ass in the pack?

“Then let’s go, locked-in I will shift us inside,” Amon commanded and the guys started to move to him.

“Wait,” I said, they stopped and looked at me. “Kali and I can help with the shifting, that way we can get them from more than one angle,” I explained, looking at Max to see his smile gone and replaced with a frown, then looked back to Amon
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“Yes, that will work. I’ll take the bar. Kas you take the floor and Kali you take the exit. Make sure that we get as many as possible,” he said, and the guys started grabbing us. For some insane reason Max decided to grab my arm; I looked at him and saw that he was looking at me real funny. Shrugging it off I looked at Amon
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“On the count of three. One. Two. Three,” he finished and we all shifted to our locations. The moment we landed all hell broke loose. Still in fallen form, I went into action, using every bit of skill I gained in my life so far.

Moving and slicing my way through the crowd, I almost ended up slicing off a human’s head, a demon using her as a shield
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“Coward!” I yelled, and grabbed the girl from him, she went flying and I took his head, blood spraying all over me. Ready for the next one, I moved forward when all of a sudden Max was in front of me
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“What are you doing?” I yelled at him.

“Hel-,” he stopped dead and looked down; I followed and saw that a blade’s point was sticking out of his stomach. Fear grabbed me and I moved, pulling him forward and out of the blade, and taking the human girl’s head behind him. Shocked that I just killed a human, I stood there until Max’s voice came to me
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“You had no choice,” he struggled to say.

Two demons came at us, so I went in overkill mode, taking their heads in two swift moves. Crouching down next to Max I peeled away his hand, his was covered in his own blood. Oh hell this is not good
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“Leave… me, get t...hem,” he struggled to say, blood now flowing out of his mouth. I have seen many deaths, most caused by me, but at that moment I wasn’t ready to see this death. I grabbed him and shifted to the compound
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“Melissa!” I yelled as loud as I could to get some help for him. He was semi-awake, there but almost not
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“Hold on,” I told him. Melissa came running into the room and stopped dead
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“Oh no, not Max,” she wailed, her hand covering her mouth and tears beginning to form in her eyes
.

“Help him!” I yelled at her, to keep her cool and save his life.

She snapped out of it and walked over to look at the wound, her head fell and I could see the answer; he wasn’t going to make it. She burst into tears, turned around and looked at me
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“Please, Kas, help him,” she begged. Startled I looked at her.

“I can’t, I don’t know how,” I replied to her my eyes on him. My heart was breaking for her, and him
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“Can’t you give him your blood or something, like in the movies?” she asked. Shocked I moved away from her.

“No, my blood is poisoned, a demon drank from me and something bad happened,” I told her, backing away slowly.

She looked at me, her tears running over her cheeks
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“Kas, he’s not a demon. He’s a good man. I can’t lose him; I’ve known him from birth. Please I beg you,” she went on. Images of Draco on his knees grabbing for air ran through me. Then one interesting thing came to me, the one where Lada and I talked about our blood, our tainted blood. But is my blood tainted in a good way or in a bad way? Is that why Draco was affected, because he was evil, and would it do the opposite to Max? There was only one way to find out.

I moved to him, pushing her out of the way and grabbing my dagger I kept on my thigh
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“Max, I can try and help, but you’ll be half fallen or maybe full fallen. But the worst is that you’ll carry our curse and would need to serve to reach heaven. Do you understand?” I asked him, holding his face in my hand.

“Yes,” he replied, very weak
.

“You need to drink my blood,” I finished, his eyes were so glassy from the blood loss; he won’t last much longer
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“Fine,” he whispered. I almost couldn’t make out what he said. Laying back his head I cut my wrist and held it to his mouth.

God please let this work, we are not enough to stop them, and we need him. I said a prayer hoping to hell this worked. My blood ran down his mouth and he swallowed heavy, a minute later my wound closed by itself, and I took a step back to watch. Nothing happened, and I saw him stop breathing. Feeling defeated, I turned around and looked at Melissa, who still had hope. She was looking at him intensely.

I was about to take her outside when I heard a deep breath inhale from behind me. Shocked, I turned around. Max was looking at me with no glassy eyes, and then he grabbed his stomach starting to scream and go crazy.
OMG I poisoned him, damn stupid girl!
I told myself, and tried to subdue him. It went on for a long while, and then he stopped screaming and went still. Amon shifted in behind me. “Max?” he said, and came to stand at his other side. He looked dead, it didn’t work. I’ve only killed him faster. I turned around and walked out of the room. Kali was standing there looking at me, and without a word I kept on walking to our rooms.

I need to learn to keep myself under control, stupid ideas like these will cost me dearly one day. Looking up, I noticed the hall was filling up with the other guys. One look at me and they knew Max didn’t make it. Feeling my throat closing up, I knew I wasn’t far away from tears, so I doubled up on my walk, trying to escape my latest failure. Why on earth would I have thought that it would work? Amon’s right, I’m going insane, just look at what I did tonight. First flirting with freaking demons to get them out just to kill them, and then thinking my blood was only deadly to demons, stupid, stupid girl!

I walked all the way to my room, went to the closet and grabbed some clothes. My leathers weren’t covered in blood anymore, but I felt it on me, I could still smell it. I walked to the lockers and undressed, then opened up the shower with only cold water. I got in and the second the first cold spray hit me, I took in my breath biting down on the cold
. “I need this,”
I told myself, and branched my hands on the wall, letting the water run down my back.

I was standing there for awhile, just letting the water run over me and trying to forget everything. Yeah, Kali was right; I’m one hell of a piece of work. Where ever I go disaster follows. It would be better if I go insane and they destroy me. At least I wouldn’t have to take any more of this.

“Kas, you need to come see this,” Kali said from behind me. I turned to look at her and saw her face in total shock. Ah hell what now?

“Kali, I’m not in the mood,” I replied, and turned my back to her again.

“Didn’t think you’d be the boring type that didn’t take an interest in something,” a voice said from the locker’s entrance. Now, I’ve seen and heard pretty much everything to shock any normal person to death in my short life, so I was used to almost everything. But hearing that voice my entire body went into lockdown and I froze. It can’t be.

“Max?” I said shakily, still bracing against the wall for support.

Chapter 21

After getting my nerves back and slowing down my heartbeat I turned around to face the entrance; luckily the showers had stall doors on them or I would have kicked myself later. There I saw him leaning against the doorframe, smiling at me.

“Yes?” he replied, still grinning.

He looked normal, like nothing had happened. But then again, I also looked pretty normal until Maia gave me a spark and then my life pretty much went haywire from there.

“Are you okay?” I asked shakily, still trying to get a grip from the shock.

“Except for my favorite shirt being ruined… yes, I feel fine thank you,” he went on. That’s so not cool, moaning about a freaking shirt when he almost died. Anger took over the fear part in me.

“If you ever do that again, I’ll kill you myself!” I yelled at him, pissed off. But I think it was more a reaction in fear than anger.

He laughed at my outburst. “Yes, of course, Kasadya,” he replied and turned around to walk off, leaving me there still staring.

“Kas, what the hell did you do?” Kali asked me, her face still in shock. Oh damn, if I think I was in trouble before, I just did a super nova on trouble.

“I had no choice, I couldn’t let him die,” I pleaded with her.

“Answer me!” she yelled at me, her shocked expression was changing to anger like a light switch; I cringed and looked down to the stall floor.

“He was dying, so I made a choice. I remember Lada and me talking about our blood, and how it was tainted, so I took a gamble.”

“What gamble?”

“I made him swallow my blood, like they do in the movies.”

Silence followed so I looked up to see if she was still there. Yip, standing there covering her mouth with her hand, she looked at me totally shocked. “Kali?” I asked, scared she’d start running or something.

Her hand dropped away and she stood there looking at me. “I understand, given the circumstances, you had a valid reason. But I fear you just gave Amon the ammo he needed to create his ultimate army,” she finished and walked out, leaving me with that thought.

Oh damn, I am so in trouble. If any fallen are still out there, I just became their number one target. Thinking on a plan of action, I quickly got out and dried off to get dressed. I walked outside to see if I could find Kali or someone, but no one was there. I started running at super speed looking for them, especially Amon. I found Kali and the other guys in the command room, but no Max, Melissa, or Amon. Oh damn. Kali gave me a scary look and I cringed. Damn, I need to move fast and try to defuse this. I turned into the hallway and started running again.

I found them in Amon’s office; the moment I entered they stopped the conversation. Taking slow steps towards them I looked at Max. He looked okay, his hair was wet from a shower, but he looked really okay. Then I turned my eyes on Amon and saw the excitement on his face. “No!” I said to him, making sure he got the message.

“Kas, you’re a genius,” he replied.

“I said no, Amon.” I pushed out the words, to bring down power on them. He looked at Melissa, so my eyes followed. Her face was shining and I knew they already decided to do it.

“Amon, we don’t know what my blood really did to him; we need to take this slowly and see what’s up,” I pleaded, returning my eyes to him.

“I don’t care; I want to stay with him,” Melissa said, so I looked back to her.

“Melissa…”

“No, it’s my life, I will decide. And I say he will give me his blood so that we can see what happens. When you find your love Kas, you’ll understand why I made this choice,” she said and took Amon’s hand into hers. “We do it now,” she finished and pulled him out of the room.

“Wait!” But they just ignored me and walked off. I was about to follow them when Max grabbed my arm
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“Kasadya, you won’t change their minds,” he said turning me around to face him, his hand holding me in place
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“I’ve been trying since I walked in here,” he finished.

“This is dangerous; the fallen will have my head for this,” I replied. His eyes went soft for the first time since I met him.