Kasadya Hellhound Twisted (3 page)

“Is Kali going to be okay?” I asked her, walking over to the bed while staring at Kali.

“Her wounds are very bad. I need another fae to help me stop the worst of the damage, and then we can work together on healing her. And finding one is not possible at the moment,” Maia replied and came to stand next to me, her hands on Kali again. Confused, I looked at her; what did she mean by that?

“Don’t you have a lot of fae with the healing ability?” I asked her.

“No, only Lily and I are left after the attacks. We lost too many,” she said without glancing at me, her concentration on Kali. Attacks? What the hell?

“What do you mean attacks?” I asked, confused at her words.

“We will get to that momentarily. Does one of your half-breeds not have the ability?” Chax said from behind me, so I turned to look at him. Funny, I was just thinking about that, but also knew the problems surrounding that thought.

“Yes, Amon’s mate has the ability to heal, and she is also a qualified surgeon. But Amon is very protective of her; he won’t bring her to Exsilium and place her in such danger.”

“What do you mean half-breeds?” Maia asked. I looked at her and tried to think of a way of explaining this, but luckily Chax saved me.

“You’ll see soon enough. I will ask Amon to assist us,” he finished and shifted out.

“Kas, what on earth is going on?” Maia asked, returning her hands to Kali and focusing on healing her.

“Right back at you. What attacks where you talking about?” I asked her, grabbing a cloth and trying to wipe away the blood on Kali’s face, my heart sinking to see her in such a state. All that practicing and perfecting meant nothing when it came to Ballen. What on earth was I thinking that he could be dealt with by just one fallen?
That’s just the thing, I didn’t think because once again, I messed up.

“About a year ago, the demons started to attack our fallen families on the outside; we lost many before we knew what was happening. Many fallen children are now orphans. ‘The Hellhouse’ has now become an orphanage instead of a training facility. It was a very bad time for all of us, even I went out in the field and tried to save as many as I could,” Maia said, tears starting to fall down her cheeks again. I could see the weight she carried with that. Memories have a way of holding you captive; forgetting is sometimes impossible.
 

So the demons attacked our Earth bound families, and from what I could see did some very heavy damage. “How is that possible?” I asked her, unsure of how such a thing could happen. How would they know where to find them? The answer whispered inside my head, yeah I just knew how they would know. Traitorous fallen scum. But to voice it now would probably not be a good idea. Seeing her tears, I just couldn’t bring myself to tell her what I knew.

“We don’t know. Chax and Vulcan suspect that the demons gathered Intel all over the world. Then, knowing where all the families were, they attacked simultaneously. I can’t even begin to describe what we saw, Kas.”

I  just can’t imagine the chaos that took place. Parents trying to fight off demons and keep their children safe at the same time. It was unimaginable. As a team we stand a better chance of winning, but just two against a pack of demons—and with their children a concern while they fought—it would be a death sentence.

“Is that why we could not shift into Exsilium when we escaped?”

“Yes, the council thought it better to seal Exsilium. We didn’t know what other Intel the demons had gathered, and sealing it was the best solution.” True, with such chaos one would go the extra mile when it comes to protecting your people. But at what cost?

“Yeah, I understand, but how many like us are still trapped out there?”

She looked at me, and I could see the questions running through her mind. They didn’t think about the survivors, what would the children who escaped do? I felt the air move and watched as Chax shifted in with Amon and Melissa at his side. Amon didn’t look happy at all, but knowing Melissa, he didn’t have much of a say over the situation.

“Oh dear heaven, what happened to her?” Melissa said the moment her eyes landed on Kali. She moved at lightning speed, shoving me out of the way, her hands on Kali and transforming to her purple colour. About three months after her spark she discovered that she could heal with her hands. From there she experimented a lot with human healing and fae, the results phenomenal. On one occasion, she actually saved one of the human’s hands that almost got bitten off by a demon. If not for her healing ability and medical knowledge, he would have had one hand missing today.

“What in the world?” Maia asked, her eyes huge with the sight of Melissa, whose transformation was just half fae. Her hair purple, but the rest still human. Clearly someone would need to explain now.

“Sister, this is my mate, Melissa. She is a half-breed fae,” Amon said, moving to stand next to Melissa while looking at Maia. His eyes carried a mixture of happiness but remained frightened for Melissa. I was glad to be in Exsilium again, but worried about what was going to happen to us.

“Amon? What on earth is going on?” Maia asked, her eyes roaming over Melissa, and then moving towards him. She was about to freak out totally. I stepped forward with my hands raised, about to try to calm her, but I was too late.

“That is what I want to know, too,” a female voice said from behind us. We all turned to look at a female fallen, and oh crap, the Dominus Custos fallen from the council. Chax moved to block her view of Melissa and I followed, transforming on the first step, weapons drawn. If she even thought about hurting her, she would be dead.

“Jules,” Chax said, nodding with his head to greet her.

“Chax, what is that creature standing next to the bed?” she asked, her hand pointing at Melissa.

“I will explain later, we first need to heal the harpy,” Chax replied. He was readying himself on the balls of his feet, and that made me even more edgy. If he was preparing for a fight, then this was really not a good situation.

“You will explain now! As a council member, you know that such things should be reported immediately,” she threw back at him, her eyes resting on me. “The rogue hellhound? You bring our enemy to our only place of safety? I would have never expected you of such a betrayal,” she said, looking at him with a mixture of anger and hurt.

“I have explained to you and the council that my brother reported her to be a prisoner. She is no rogue,” Chax said, moving to take her on. His face close to hers, he stopped.

“You have no proof of that, she left Exsilium because of her punishment. She became a rogue. Was it not your own words that she preferred to walk away with the demons?” Jules replied, pushing her face into Chax’s. Oh great, so Chax totally messed up my life in Exsilium. Nice going, idiot!

“Glad to see some things are still the same. I would really suggest you don’t try anything, Jules. Except for Kas, I will not hesitate when it comes to the safety of my mate,” Amon said next to me, moving forward to stand next to Chax.

Jules looked at him, and her eyes went even wider. Stepping back, she looked at all of us and shifted out. Oh crap, here we go. Time to get the hell out of here!

“We need to get Kali and Melissa out of here now,” I said turning around, and transforming back to normal. I marched over to the bed and started to place my hands under Kali, but Maia grabbed my arms.

“Kas, we are immortal to a certain point. If we don’t heal her fast enough, she will die. You can’t move her.”

“We have no choice, Maia. As you can see, we are not welcome in Exsilium,” I sneered. Damn them all.

“We will take that step when the time comes, Kasadya. Now step away and let the fae heal Kali. I won’t let her die because you are afraid,” Chax said from behind me. At the word afraid I released Kali and turned to look at him. Oh, he didn’t just call me a coward!

“Afraid? Chax, do you even know what Kali and I had to face down there? Do you really think that I am afraid of you or your friends? Let’s get one thing straight. If I have to eliminate a few fallen to ensure my friends—whom have stuck with me through everything—are safe, then I will. I will not hesitate, and I will not back down for you or anyone else. So you better get that very quickly. If your friend is about to make a wrong move, she and everyone that tries with her, will die.” When I finished, I was looking down at him. Somewhere in all that I transformed and didn’t even know I was doing it. The look on his face said he got the message.

“I understand.” His eyes were fixed on mine.

“Kas, it’s okay. I will not let anything happen to Kali; she is as much my friend as yours. If we need to fight our way out of this we will,” Melissa said from behind me. I turned around and looked at her. Smiling, Amon walked over to her and kissed her on the cheek.

“My little fireball, always ready for a fight. Kas, we do this as a team,” he said, grinning at me, but I didn’t feel like returning it. I had a really bad feeling about this. Suddenly, a huge fight came from the lounge and all three of us moved to see what was going on. Halfway there we found Max, Ben, and Ryan trying to push past Caim, Lotan, and Don.

“You need to relax. Nothing will happen to them,” Don said to Max, but he just pushed him away, and stormed forward with Ryan on his heels.

“Yes, because we will be there to protect them,” Max threw back at Don, who was trying to get a hold on him.

“Okay, you can chill. We are still alive and kicking,” I said and they all turned to look at us. Max’s face went from pissed off to relieved. He marched forward and stopped in front of me.

“You guys okay?” he asked, and knowing the look on his face he was ready to tear down this place and take some heads in the process.

Rolling my eyes at him, I turned around to get back to Kali. “Yes, of course. You name one day that someone wasn’t trying to kill us. We should be used to it by now,” I replied, catching Chax’s eyes as I walked past him to the room.

“How is she?” Ryan asked from behind us, but stopped dead in his tracks when he saw Kali. Yeah, she looked bad. Her skin colour was a blue grey, which indicated that she had lost a lot of blood, and the black under her closed eyes didn’t help much.

“Is ... is she going to be okay?” he asked, walking slowly to stand at her feet. Maia and Melissa were holding her and concentrating like hell to heal her.

“She will be fine, Ryan. You know her, always a fighter,” I replied, walking to stand next to him, both of our eyes on her. I really hope that fighter part is true; she looked really bad from where I stood.

“Come, we will wait in the lounge and let the fae have their space to attend to her,” Chax said and walked out. The rest followed him, but Ryan and I were still standing there looking at her.

“Come you two. Let’s give them the space they need,” Amon instructed, pulling Ryan out of the room. I took a last look at her and hoped to hell she was going to be okay, then followed them to the lounge where I found everyone crammed into the space. The whole gang, from ours to Chax’s, was waiting. Chax was leaning against the wall, looking down at the floor with a frown.

“Is she going to be okay?” Nanini asked, walking up to me.

“Yes, she is a tough cookie, remember?” I replied, trying to boost my own doubt; she has to be. I need her; she is my sanity when I go all “world disaster”.

I walked over to an open spot and planted myself on the couch, my head leaning back on the cushions. Closing my eyes, I went through
the night’s events, first the club, then the bridge, and what the hell did Ballen mean by “We still need her service,” he is so dreaming on that. I’ll service him all right, by helping his head off his body.

“Okay, so since we are waiting, why don’t you guys fill us in on what the hell is going on?” Nanini said from next to me. I lifted my head to look at her, and then looked at the rest. Yes, it would seem that we had some time to talk. Well, until someone did something stupid like shift in and try to attack us.

“The first day of my punishment, I left Chax’s house early and wanted to go see Maia about the nightmares I was having about a demon.” My eyes stayed on Chax, remembering what happened that day between us. “So, on my way outside I ran into Kali, who was in a trance. She didn’t register who I was or anything. She walked out the front door of the Hellhouse, so I did the noble thing and followed her outside to try and stop her.