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My blood runs cold as ice as Michael slashes the sword forward and the angels behind him form a perimeter. Kai throws his own sword up to block it in the nick of time and the clang of metal against metal splits the air. Our army pours out from the fields, as creatures storm forward. Asmo materializes with Finn next to Kai, and Lucifer blows a horn from the hill above the cave.
The sound I can only describe as being similar to a jet engine spinning up next to you causes me to slam my hands over my ears. Glancing up, I watch in horror as lights rain from the sky. Only, they’re not shooting stars. They’re angels here to start a war. The ground trembles as they land, exploding dust and rock into the air as the hell flame breaks the day.
There are far more of them than we anticipated, as if somehow they managed to make more.
“Where the fuck are you?”a feminine–slightly bratty–voice echoes in my head as a familiar bond takes hold, causing me to suck in a breath. I stagger backward, turning in a tight circle to see where she might be. Humans and creatures-alike spring toward the cave, covering the hills
“I can’t fucking believe you,”Luri shouts inside my head.“Here I thought you were dead, that I’d have to go about life on my lonesome, only to find out you’re going to war without me. I had to eat two whole villagers to find out where this shit was going down. You better bless your soul before I find you.”
Her white body clears the top of one of the surrounding hills and a smile pulls at my lips. I could fucking cry right now, but she’d kill me for it. “I missed you too,” I say, and her head lowers. Luri’s yellow eyes land on me and she bounds down the hill, knocking soldiers to the ground that get in her way until she skids to a stop in front of me. My hair floats in the disturbed air. Slowly, she steps forward, wrapping her head around my shoulder and my arms circle around her neck.
“I thought you were dead, you fool.”
“I know,” I whisper, pushing down the tears that surface. “I know you did.”
“Why didn’t you come find me?”
“I planned to. Kai said you left to start over somewhere, and this war happened so quickly. I didn’t want to drag you back to this.” Letting go of her smooth white fur, I step back, knowing she’s no one for large shows of affection.
“You thought I wouldn’t want to tear people and creatures apart? Do you know me at all?”
“I thought you might get hurt…”
Her tongue slashes out to curl around her lips.“Hurt smurt. I have my share of scars, but momma’s hungry.”
My eyes round at her phrasing. “Momma?”
“It’s a figure of speech.”
“Now you understand those? Really? It took me nearly kicking the bucket for you to get that concept?”
“Not important. Who is eatable?”
“The ones with the silver daggers and the different clothes.”
“Got it,”she says, barreling toward the cave. She snatches one of the angels up by his middle and shakes her head violently. His body tears into two parts before she drops what’s left of him, laying down for a moment to have a mid-war snack.
The ground shakes beneath my feet and I turn to see one of the angels has touched down behind me a few feet away. His dagger catches the morning light as he stands to his full height. I pull my sword from my sheath, summoning magic to me and feeling Kai yank a portion of it away.
The man’s large dagger swipes through the air as his power radiates out, almost knocking me off balance. I spin and slash on the rebound, channeling power through the blade as he presses his might into it. Gritting my teeth, I push him back, catching fire and cracking my neck.
Hell flame dances around me as I stalk forward, landing another blocked blow.
“I should’ve known…” he says, his voice deep and low. “Azazel’s daughter was nowhere to be found on Earth… Of course she’d be inHell.” He says it as if our world is a dirty word, not this magical, whimsical land full of magic, and now love.
“Well, you found me,” I say, feeling the collision of my sword with his dagger ripple up my arm.
“And here you’ll rest in peace,” he says, pushing out his lower lip to taunt me.
The next time our swords collide, I summon a dagger, mimicking the one he carries and slash it below our conjoined blades, stabbing it to his heart. His pupils blow as pain sears through him and I retract the dagger. He crumbles as blood spills from his lips.
“One asshole down, only two thousand more to go,” I say out loud, surprised by how true the statement rings.
Spinning around, adrenaline courses through my veins and I spy the cave opening. Lucifer, Michael and his men, Kai, and Asmo remain near it. Finn is nowhere to be found, likely having turned to a different area of the war.
The sound of a male screaming in a pitch that could give a soprano high-note in a choir a run for its money comes from above, and I look up in time to see a fury–Eva’s sister–spiraling through the air. A man clutched between her jaws. A small parade of dragons takes flight off the moons and follows her, snagging incoming angels out of the sky.
I fight angel after angel, making my way toward the cave, severing head from shoulders or stabbing like a feign, occasionally kicking and knocking men around with my boots. I might not be nearly as graceful as Asmo and Kai, but I’m certainly wild and unruly, and in a way, it works for me.
