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If he charged alone ahead, he’d be slaughtered. It wasn’t his time to die yet, no matter how eagerly he wanted to defend me.
“Now!” Rai roared.
Both he and Blaze released their arrows toward the three flying demons that were in range. The mutant demons were well trained. They either ducked or swiped away the arrows, but Rai’s third arrow pierced through the one in the center. The demon plunged to the ground, his black blood tainting the snow.
The other two mutant demons breached our defense with their great speed, swatting at us with their claws and spiked tails, their mouths open with long, jagged teeth.
We thrust our swords, daggers, and spears up, hacking and slashing at the monsters in the air. Too bad we couldn’t shift. We really had picked a bad time to seek the goddess’s blessing. But then, the enemies from all directions would be upon us any day, and Lysandra was going to take over my dynasty if we didn’t act sooner.
Chiron spat out a curse as a flying demon’s horns rammed into his shoulder. Henry shot toward the demon and slammed into him before the enemy could bite down on Chiron’s head. My hound’s two jaws locked onto the mutant demon’s massive muzzle.
I lunged. While my hound held the demon firmly despite its claws slashing onto his side, I buried a dagger into the demon’s heart and the other into his gut with my Fae strength.
The mutant demon dropped in a heap, and I pulled my daggers free from the corpse.
Blaze and Iokul fought together against a giant mutant overhead. Rai focused on releasing arrows toward the foot soldiers at the vanguard. A few dropped while the rest charged us. Those things didn’t understand fear.
Chiron, Henry, and I rejoined my mates’ rank just as the first wave of the demon horde bore down on us.
We formed a circle, facing the enemies that surrounded us. Rai had abandoned his bows and flashed his broadsword.
In the distance, a horse’s bray sounded, joined by an uproar of another warhorse.
Two stallions crashed into the demons’ rank, their riders bellowing a battle cry.
Elvey and Rosalinda had come!
My thundering heart warmed as I watched Elvey’s lavender hair and Rosalinda’s long blonde hair flying wildly in the wind and snow. They were both a sight to behold. The horses were no ordinary horses. They were fearless, and they maneuvered swiftly, even though they were completely surrounded by the brutal enemy force.
The demons hadn’t expected two Fae to cut into their rank. In their outrage and disorientation, Elvey effectively beheaded two demons. I’d never seen anyone move that fast.The day he fought Blaze, I’d seen his formidable side. Now, he redefined the word. As he fought against a dozen demons at once, he taught the brutes what brutal and lethal really meant. I was only glad he was on my side.
If I didn’t have to fight my share, I could watch him in action all day long. Rosalinda, unsurprisingly, fought well beside Elvey. Envy pierced into me. Their coordination was seamless, as if they fought shoulder to shoulder all the time.
With renewed strength, I closed my daggers in on the neck of a demon, who tried to jam his horns into me.
Rai thrust his blade into a giant demon’s chest from the side while Iokul and Blaze wounded the flying demon and forced him to flee.
My three mates were equally magnificent. Their fast swords never missed. While they fought, they pivoted around me, determined not to allow more demons to break through their defenses to reach me, but we were still gravely outnumbered, even with Elvey and Rosalinda’s aid.
The two fought toward us. They were covered in red and black blood. The black blood was the demons’, and the red must be their own.
My mates and I had cuts here and there as well.
I lost track of time. I wasn’t sure how long we had been fighting. It could be seconds, yet it felt like a century as my arms grew heavier and my legs were full of lead.
I refused to give in to my exhausted body. I held my daggers tightly, cutting and thrusting into any foes in my way.
Blaze cursed and roared in pain and rage. Four demons surrounded him. One of them must have gotten him. It broke my heart that I couldn’t go aid him, as I was fighting a giant demon myself. I wielded my daggers aggressively toward the demon’s middle section, anxious to finish him to reach Blaze. The demon brought up his two hammers and crashed onto my daggers.
He was double my size. The impact made my palms bleed.
I didn’t let go of my blades but broke their contact with the demon’s hammers with a furious roar.
Snarling, Henry leapt onto my opponent and bit deep into his leg. Sybil shot out from nowhere, screaming in fury, and poked her beak into our foe’s eyeball.
While the bulky demon swatted Sybil away and hammered down toward Henry, I leapt, my blade sweeping across his thick neck.
His head tumbled down and sank into the snow.
