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If his mother wasn’t with us, I would have kissed him, but I offered a warm bright smile instead.
“Love is a powerful beast,” Elinor said. “It consumes your heart and sometimes makes you do things you would never do. Sometimes love fills that empty space in your soul. And when it does, it’s the greatest feeling. When the demons broke through the Guarded Sea, I went to the human world with the hierarchy angels. I fell in love with Victus’s father and his love changed me. So I renounced my title. Not all fallen are evil.”
Victus held my hand. “And you never stop fighting for the ones you love.”
She continued, “When my husband died, I begged for a second chance so I could redeem my soul. During my execution, I burst into a light and was sent to Mount Skulls where a portal was made to the Netherworld. Not only did I become the gatekeeper, but I acquired the ability to transform into a drakon so I could guard the veil. Then you two came along. I knew then it was time to get rid of evil once and for all.”
“Can’t you find a way to stay?” Victus placed a hand on his mother’s shoulder.
She caressed Victus’s face. “If there was a way I would, my son. I will miss you.”
I swallowed, fearing for her life. “What will happen to you?”
Elinor offered a small somber smile. “I don’t know, but I will have fulfilled my duty. Perhaps I’ll go home and be with my husband.”
Victus glanced between me and Elinor. “We promise to keep the children safe.”
The former queen looked proud as she smiled. As if Victus’s words were a declaration, the light dimmed as she began to fade, and perhaps we were too. I blinked from the brightness and …
“Watch out!” Gorgo’s voice projected loud and clear as he yanked Victus and me to the side. “Are you two crazy? Why are you just standing there?”
The beast thumped hard on the ground. His feet would have crushed us had Gorgo not come to our rescue. Victus’s mom had taken on the form of a giant drakon and pounced on the beast.
The drakon let out a mighty roar as she bit into the beast’s neck from the side. Inky blood spread like leaked water and sealed the bubbling lava nearby.
The beast howled in pain as its body thrashed and pushed himself off the ground. Then he grabbed the drakon’s tail and spun her in the air. She tore across space, but flapped her wings and landed short of the largest lava spot. The beast pounced on the drakon, but the drakon coiled around the beast’s body faster than a blink.
Two creatures, one from light, the other from dark, tumbled as they wrestled over molten lava, causing explosions of hot liquid to rip through the air and scorch their bodies.
“Watch out!” Snow hollered as she beat her wings in midair.
We scrambled away for safety, but the demon spirits nearby were crushed.
When the two creatures split apart, the drakon shook her head and rose, towering to the dark clouds. The beast roared, its cry fainter than the last as he pushed up with his hands, but one of the drakon’s feet slammed on his thigh when she came down. Letting out a thunderous growl that rent the air and beyond, the drakon’s other foot continuously stomped on the beast’s back.
While the beast on fire began to shrink and transform back to his human form, the drakon charged toward the heart of the battle, the flames on various places of her body vanished. The earth trembled with each of her pounding steps.
My team gathered near me. It was then I assumed they had killed Rafael since he was nowhere in sight. I would ask them about his execution later. My heart didn’t ache for Rafael, and though he deserved pain and death, I felt sorry for him.
One of you will die. One of you will betray your friends. And one of you will know torture beyond imagining. Perhaps the fortune teller wasn’t reading our team’s future but Rafael’s instead.
From now on, Rafael shall be called The Angel with No Name. I pushed away the thought of him and concentrated on winning the war.
“I love that drakon!” Tank shouted in midflight.
“The myth is real!” Otis flapped his wings by Snow and Dawn on the ground as the demon spirits fled, jumping into the lava.
The drakon raised her head to the sky and opened her powerful jaws. Her roar echoed with the thunder in the night air. A torrent of hot orange flames surged from between her sharp teeth, turning the ground beneath us to ash. The fire burned brightly, illuminating her golden scaled skin and glowing dark eyes.
Then she was no longer breathing out fire—she was breathing in the demon spirits from every direction, even the ones beyond the castle. The faint wispy outlines of spirit demons floated up into her mouth, their cries of terror becoming fainter and fainter until there was nothing left but the sound of the drakon’s satisfied purr.
When the drakon had her fill, Elinor shrank and transformed into a ball of light that remained afloat over us.
Nina, riding a furry beast’s shoulder, and another creature with a long tongue past his waist appeared out of the dark shadows. I had seen these brave souls killing the demons as I soared over them so I wasn’t surprised to see them here, but I was stunned to see one less friend.
No greetings were exchanged. We would talk later. They came to witness Asmodeus’s execution. But Nina whispered something in Victus’s ear and he nodded.
Michael picked up Asmodeus by his arm, no longer in beast form. His naked limp body, defeated and spent, was coated with ashes.
