Page 84 of Whispered Warnings: Part One

I have no time to celebrate the win as the scavenger’s immediately try to overwhelm me. A kelpie, not Mael, comes to my rescue wrapping its massive jaws around the neck of an attacker and biting through it like its butter.

Smiling in thanks at the new kelpie, I glance around me, and I’m shocked to see Doc riding one of the kelpies as they work together to neutralize the threat that is almost dealt with. He’s not the only one either, the kelpies are fighting side by side and working together with all of my men. I smile, this is a good thing.

I can feel it.

Mael, I need to check if he is okay. The Scavengers numbers have dropped drastically, and we will win in no time at all. The guys have it handled, but I need to check on Mael. I have no idea how badly he is injured. I duck and dive through the scavengers that are left as I make my way to where I can see Mael fighting a Scavenger.

He’s up, that’s a good thing.

The scavenger is so focused on Mael and trying to kill him, that he completely misses me coming up behind him. My sword drives into his heart, and I pull it out watching him crumple to the floor. I step over the dead body and start checking Mael over only to realize that he of course has supernatural healing, so his wound is already healed.

He nuzzles me gently, and I’m pretty sure that it’s because he can sense that I was worried for him, I think he might also be checking that I am okay. I stroke him, and then turn around ready to get back into the fight and realize that it’s done. All of the scavengers lay dead, scattered around us, and the guys are all talking to or stroking the kelpies.

I think it’s probably safe to say that we aren’t likely to get eaten by kelpie’s any time soon. Not this herd anyway.

“Is everyone okay?” Evander asks, and everyone sounds off that they are.

“That was fun,” River grins, “and I made a friend. He’s called Reath, he had my back a couple of times.”

I frown, “How do you know his name?”

River shrugs, “I’m assuming the same way that you know Mael’s name. It just sort of blazed through my mind.”

“Same,” Reed says with a confused frown and points to the one standing next to him, “Thoreah.”

My eyes widen, “Wait, do all of you have one that gave you its name?”

All of them nod.

“Guys, I know that’s a big deal and something that we need to ask questions about, but right now, we have a bigger issue,” Raiden starts.

Evander nods, “He’s right, we need to work out how they got in here.”

“Presumably the same way that the kelpie’s got in?” I ask, as I stroke Mael’s nose.

Ransom shakes his head, “No, I checked when we found the kelpie’s and there were no breaches. I did a really thorough check too.”

“Can you check again?” Evander asks.

Ransom frowns, “I don’t know how a breach could have occurred in the last day, without me knowing.”

“True, but something is going on. Something bigger than we are, it has to be because of the imps behaving badly and the kelpies either appearing out of nowhere or being here the whole time and only now suddenly deciding to let us see them. I think we have to question what we thought we knew,” Reed replies.

Ransom nods, “Yeah, you’re right. Give me a few minutes, I will do a really thorough check so it’s going to take me longer than it usually does.”

“Okay, take your time,” Van replies.

While Ransom is busy doing his thing, his magic growing around us, Doc looks around at all the bodies scattered on the ground and mutters, “The clean up is going to take a while, even with the help of magic.”

Mael snorts and gains our attention, the other kelpies stomping their feet, he looks at me and snaps his teeth.

“I think he’s trying to tell us not to worry about it because he and the other kelpie’s will take care of it,” I say, a questioning note to my voice.

Mael nods enthusiastically.

“Well at least that’s something that we don’t need to worry about,” Van says.

“We have a problem,” Ransom says, his eyes opening and an urgent tension in his body, “we have a breach.”