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“Not exactly.A demon of my stature can jump bodies easily and quickly.I don’t get caught.However, you know how much of a pain in the ass the Order can be.They’re already on alert due to an increase in magical activity caused by the both of us,” she say, making a face as she looks at me.“Whatever happened that night…before I got here…we all felt it.And we’re going to feel it again when I open the portal.”
“What about in Hell?Won’t they feel it too?”I ask.
“It’s not quite the same, though yes.But like I said, demons have been coming in and out for the last few weeks, with more activity just lately.Now is a good of time as any to get in there.”
Lucas and I meet each other’s eyes.I don’t feel mentally prepared to face Paimon, but will I ever?My heart skips a beat, and anxiety breaks out throughout my entire body.Deep inside, I had hoped that my dad and Lucifer would be by my side as I faced off Paimon.If they were, I knew I had good of a chance as possible to defeat him and get out of Hell in one piece.And if both my dad and Lucifer showed up in Hell along with me, it might not have been much of a fight at all.
But that can’t happen, not now, at least, and I don’t think we can take the risk of waiting until they can join us to face him.Paimon can attack at a moment’s notice just like how he did a few days ago.And this time I know I can’t count on any archangels to come save me.Plus, if the others find out my that dad, Lucifer, and I are responsible for the disappearances of Uriel and Remiel, all hell will break loose on earth.Technicallyheavenwill break loose on earth, and it will be even worse.For as powerful as Paimon is, the archangels possess even greater power.When the bad guys are scared of them, you know shit is real.
“Okay,” I say, looking Lucas in the eyes.My head slowly moves up and down, and I taking a deep breath trying to calm myself.“The blood bond is off,” I say to Drea.“I’m trusting you not to lead me into a trap.You have to trust me too.”
She bites her lower lip, thinking it over, and actually looks scared.“Okay, that’s fair,” she finally says.
I nod and turn my attention back to Lucas.“Good.We should go.”
Lucas holds my gaze, unwavering.“Are you sure about this?”he questions.
“We can’t delay the inevitable,” I start, taking a small step closer to him.“Paimon killed Julian and almost killed Juliet.He’s hurt us enough.This has to end now.Waiting just gives him another chance to hurt us and those we care about.”
Lucas takes my hand and gives it a squeeze.He knows I’m right.As much as he doesn’t want to put me at risk, he can’t deny what I’m saying.“Okay.Let’s go.”
“The scarab,” I say.“I need it.”
“Scarab?”Drea questions, and I just shake my head, wanting to keep Osiris a secret for now.I still haven’t decided to trust her yet, and the best case scenario as she opens the rift, and then just dips out, protecting herself and leaving me to fight her enemy for her.
I close my eyes, mentally calling out to my familiars.Binx relays a message to Scarlet, and I can sense them all coming out of the house to join me.Scarlet carries the scarab in her mouth and I take it from her, slipping it into my bra.It’s a bit uncomfortable, but it’s the next best thing since my leggings and a T-shirt don’t have pockets .
“What do you need to open the portal?”I ask.
“If I can tap into the Ley line, I don’t need much.I came prepared, of course”, Drea tells us as she takes a pink purse off her shoulder and dumps the contents onto the ground.She has a small Mason jar full of herbs, and I recognize the smell as soon as she opens the lid.It smells like herbs needed for astral projection, which isn’t that far from creating a portal.I take off Scarlet‘s collar, letting her shift into hell hound form.Drea looks up, smile on her face.
“It’s been a while since I’ve seen one,” she says, not phased by the terrifying side of my hell hound.“Don’t know if I recognize this one or not,” she says.“Where I was kept, we weren’t allowed to have pets.”She’s acting as if a hell hound is a perfectly normal animal to have.But I guess if he grow up and hell, it is.
She pours the herbs in a circle on the ground and plants her hand in the middle of the circle, closing her eyes.She chants in a language I don’t recognize.Judging by the look on Lucas his face, he doesn’t recognize it either.It’s not Enochian, the language of the angels.Demons must have their own language and the next time I see Lucifer, I’ll ask him about it.
The energy thrums around us, and I reach up, putting two fingers on the scarab, able to feel it through the fabric of my T-shirt.
Osiris,I mentally call out.Can you hear me?
Yes,he replies, voice echoing in my head.
Meet me in hell.Soon,I tell him as the energy starts to swirl around us.Drea closes her eyes and opens her mouth, allowing a tiny bit of her demonic energy to come out.A tendril of dark smoke swirls down, landing on the herbs and igniting them.Instead of burning upwards like most flames, the fire burns down into the ground, searing a hole into the Earth.
“This is it,” she says, standing back up and motion him down to the ground at a fiery hole no bigger than a sewer cover.“You’ve traveled by portal before, right?”
“Once, or twice,” I reply.
“You’ve at least flown via angel-air?So you know what to expect?”
“Yes,” I say, knowing how nauseous and dizzy you can get from traveling this way.It affects Lucas as well, but he recovers in just seconds.I haven’t traveled like this, since all of my powers have been unlocked, so I’m hoping it doesn’t make me sick.Because if we’re stepping directly into the halls of Hell, I definitely don’t have a second to waste.
I turn looking at my familiars, telling Pandora and Freya to stay here and protect Juliet.Binx and Scarlet come with us, and I grab Lucas’s hand, holding on tight as we step into the portal.
ChapterTwenty-Five
Everything swirls around us at a dizzying rate.I keep a tight hold of Lucas‘s hand and close my eyes, waiting for the spinning sensation to stop.It’s over, almost as quickly as it started, and when I open my eyes, I’m standing in a dark corridor of hell.I recognize it almost at once.We’re standing outside of one of Lucifer‘s moonlight arboretums where he grows herbs necessary for dark spells.It makes sense to have come back to this exact spot because we were in one of the green houses when we created the original portal.
It’s strange being back in Hell.It’s familiar not just because I’ve been here before but because of the way it feels.Lucifer had pointed out that Juliet and I could be safe here from the other archangels.He was half saying it because he wanted me to take over and sit on the throne so he wouldn’t have to.But he also had a point.Iwouldbe safe here.Whether or not the other archangels will leave me alone forever is another question, but they would at least feel safer knowing I was locked up in the pits of Hell along with Lucifer.
