Kasadya (Hellhound Awakened) (30 page)

“No, this is the first time in my life I’ve felt this. Whatever it is, it’s big,” he replied. So I prepared myself for one hell of a big demon shifting in. We found two along the way, standing over three stories tall, and as a group we took them down. But their shift didn’t feel like this.

I looked around the group and saw that Kali was AWOL. My heart went into overdrive, so I scanned the club to find her, only for my view to be blocked by a huge group shifting in.  Everything slowed down, and I was frozen on the spot. In front of me fallen were fully transformed and going after demons. Chax came into view, then Caim, a flying Nanini throwing light bombs in the air, Lada with her wings, Lotan behind her, Don and Dagon. They were here right in front of me, after all this time.

“Kasadya!” Max yelled at me, snapping me out of my starstruck moment to take on the demon heading right for me. With one slice his head fell away, and behind him a sword was heading for me, Chax guiding it. I saw the moment he recognized me, shock all over his face. Then he was punched away and went flying through the air, and Max came to stand in front of me, protecting me. “Move into the circle,” he said to me, but I just stood there, confused and happy at the same time. Seeing I was not reacting, he pushed me back into the group with his body shielding me from the fight
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“Why did you freeze?” he asked, still fighting
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“It’s them, the fallen,” I replied, slowly trying to fit in the whole thing, and to get my brains back to function mode.

“Fallen or not, they try to attack you again, they’re dead,” he went on, guiding my body to stay in the middle
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“I agree,” Ryan said on my left. “Did anyone see Kali?” he asked. That name had me back in action again, crap Kali. Looking around I tried to find her, but nothing
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“I can’t find her,” I said. Max turned his head slightly to look at me
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“Don’t worry, she’s good,” he replied, trying to calm me down.

I tried looking for her, my eyes falling on one fallen after the other. There were about thirty I guessed, taking down the demons. After a long while the noise started to calm down, and when the last four demons fell, silence followed. I looked at the door still trying to find Kali. Then turned back to find my group surrounded by fallen. Oh crap.

“Kasadya Levourne, what in heaven’s name have you done?!” Chax yelled at me. I cringed, taking in his anger. Yip big freaking trouble.

“You yell at her like that again fallen, and you’re dead!” Max threw back at him, stepping in front of me to shield me in. Chax looked at him, his face in a frown; I peered around and looked at Max to see his face also in a frown. Wow, they look alike
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“Chax, my old friend, it’s been a longtime,” Amon said, walking out of the group to stand in front of Chax.

“Amon?” Chax asked in confusion.

“Ah, at least you still know my name, and I see you found Caim. Salve Caim,” Amon said, nodding to Caim who stood next to Chax.

“Salve Amon, nice to see you’re alive,” Caim replied, and then looked back at me. Seeing him, I felt a little better. He looked good, real good. The last time I saw him, he looked tired and old, now he looked young and full of life. “Hellhound,” he greeted, making a graceful bow.

I smiled at that, still a gentleman. “What have you done Amon?” Chax went on, looking at the half- breeds and then at me. I felt my heart turn to ice at that, man Kali warned me.

“Evolution,” Amon replied back, and at that Chax head snapped to him, anger all over his face. Wow, glad to see he lost that cool thing he had going, now at least you knew what’s up with him.

“How?” Chax went on, turning his sword in his hand, still ready for the kill. Silence followed for a while.

“With our blood,” Amon answered, and all the other fallen took in a deep, shocked breath and looked at us. Chax stood there looking at him, his face said it all. I then saw a young female harpy behind him, and my last problem flashed back into action
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“Kali!” I yelled, and stormed out of the group. All the fallen went on alert, taking a stand, and that made me and my team counter it. Now we faced off against each other, weapons ready
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“Where’s Kali?” I asked looking at Chax. He looked around and then back at me
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“She was taken more than two years ago,” he answered.

“Yeah, I know that. I ended up in hell with her. But as you can see we made it out, she’s here, she went after Ballen,” I replied, pissed off with him. I kept my eyes on the rest of the fallen, ready for the first move.

“We saw only our harpy,” Caim replied. I looked at him.

“What?” I asked confused. OMG Kali! I moved forward and the first fallen went for me, the stupid young harpy. I sent her flying with a wing, and marched around the club towards the couch Ballen was sitting on but I found nothing. Angered and scared I looked around, ignoring all of them
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“He took her,” I said, my eyes landing on Max of all people
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“He took Kali,” I sneered, and I could feel my throat close up with fear. Max saw that I was about to break and moved to stand in front of me, cutting off the rest.

“We’ll find her, I promise,” he replied as fear pounded through me
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“I should have gone with her,” I whispered, and the image of Kali being released from her trance hit me.

“She’s not a little girl anymore; she will be okay until we find her,” he said, trying to comfort me, but all I could see was Kali on the floor totally broken.

“That will have to wait I’m afraid,” Chax said. I wasn’t ready to look at him, but Max moved his head to look at him
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“Really, why would that be the case?” Max asked him.

“Because all of you will report to the council, to discuss the situation of your nature, and find a solution for it,” Chax went on. I saw Max go tense, and knew the real fight was about to start
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“Chax, I have to go find her,” I pleaded. He looked at me, but anger was all that I got back.

“You broke the law, Kasadya,” he replied, no mercy written all over his face.

“I know, but I have to help her. I’m sorry,” I said, taking a fighting stance in front of him, my team following and taking a stand next to me. Chax frowned.

“Kasadya, if you do this it will end badly. Stand down and take responsibility for your actions,” he went on.

“I take responsibility for them every day Chax. But I will not let her be sucked back into their world. You stand in my way, and I will take the necessary action to get you out of my way,” I said, gathering strength from my Hellhound place inside me. I knew it was dangerous but I also knew that a fight with Chax was definitively going to be bad.

“Chax, brother don’t do this,” Caim said next to him. I didn’t look at him, taking my eyes off of Chax will cost me my life
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“Caim, you know as a council member I can’t let this go,” Chax replied, keeping his eyes on me too
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“Brother please, I owe her my life,” Caim continued, and I could see his words reaching Chax. Come on Chax back down, times wasting.

A guy’s laughter broke out somewhere to our left. Chax looked away from me to see who was making such a daring move. I kept my eyes on him; I remember my days as his
Apprendo
. I saw his eyes go wide and his face go into shock. Surprised I turned to look at what’s got his rockets up, and found my mute guy standing there smiling at us. With huge golden wings sticking out from his back, and where his hair was blonde, it was now black.

“What the … now you can suddenly speak?” I said confused at what I was seeing. Last time I checked this guy was a demon and worked for Draco, now he’s got golden wings sticking out from his back, and they looked like Kali’s bird like wings.

“Ah, Kas, nice to see you again. Glad to see you found your friends,” the mute guy said, smiling at me.

“Who the hell are you?” I went on, looking over at Chax to see if he knew what’s up with the wings, and found him looking at me with shock
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“Kasadya, show some respect,” he said to me, and at that I frowned
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“Why?” I asked him and saw his face go into even more shock, his eyes going wide.

“Because, Kasadya, I’m Raphael the archangel,” the mute guy said, and I whipped my head around to look at him.

“Okay, what would an archangel be doing in hell, playing errand boy for a demon?” I asked, confused with his role in hell.

“Ah yes of course, when word came of a hellhound taken, we thought it best to observe the strength of a hellhound in such a predicament. But I must say, you really made us proud,” Raphael replied, smiling at me.

Now I know there’s a time for fun and all that, but that was just sick. Standing by and watching me and Kali go through that without even trying to help us. So the first logical thing that came to me as I was walking up to him slowly was giving him one hell of a fist in the face and sending him flying backwards.

“Kasayda!” Chax yelled behind me. I heard him take a step to me but apparently Max felt that I was in my right mind and stopped him, the two of them going at each other. I walked up to where Raphael laid on the floor and looked down to him. “You watched, but did nothing to help? Some archangel you are. You’re nothing but a coward,” I sneered out at him.

He started laughing again. “Ah hellhound, again you do us proud. The first of the fallen to successfully put a hit on an archangel, remarkable,” he finished. At that I turned around to see Caim and Dagon holding Chax, and Amon and Ryan holding Max. Ignoring them I walked over to Amon.

“Let’s get the hell out of here, I’ve had enough of weakling fallen and angels,” I spat out, pissed beyond the point of trying to go on with this conversation.

“Don’t you want to save Kali?” Raphael asked from behind me.

“You didn’t mean much in hell archangel, I don’t think you mean anything now,” I threw back at him, and turned to face him.

“True, in hell I have my limitations, but on earth and
Exsilium
I have none. I could not help you in hell Kasadya because I did not have the power to. But seeing that Kali is in London at this moment, I can help you,” he replied, wiping a small blood trail from his lip.

“Really, and what would you be able to do for us?” I sneered out. It doesn’t take power to get a weapon and free us, and two humans showed me that, he had no excuse.

“Well, I can tell you they have her nailed to the London bridge, and have set a trap for you and your half-breed friends. But what they don’t know is that you’ll have more fallen and an Archangel on your team,” he said, smiling at me.

“You missed the part where Chax didn’t give a damn about anything but his council seat,” I said to him. I could feel Chax’s eyes boring into my back, but didn’t care.

He looked at Chax. “Old friend, there is a time for formalities, and then there is a time for new ones. You’re young harpy showed you that with time, new things can bring better results. Don’t look at this as an abnormality or broken law, look at this as a beginning of something new,” he finished. I turned to look at Chax.

He looked at Raphael for a while then looked at Caim and Dagon to release him, straightening up he looked at me
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“If this is your wish Raphael, I will comply. But hear my words, if they betray us, they will die,” he stated, his eyes boring into mine. Oh please, like you have a chance.

“Wonderful, now let’s get this party on the move,” Raphael said, and walked over to Ballen’s couch and planted himself there, looking at all of us.

Well then, this will be an interesting chapter in my life. A crazy archangel, a gang of pure fallen who hate me, and then me and my half-breed human gang. Yip, this is going to be fun.

About the Author

Karen Swart lives in a small town in the North West province, South Africa. She shares her life with her husband, two sons, and daughter. If she isn’t writing she is her free time reading. Her preferred genres are paranormal and urban fantasy. Kasayda: Hellhound Awakened is her debut novel.

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