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Michael dragged Asmodeus forward and dropped him where Victus and I stood with Tank, Otis, Dawn, Gorgo, Nina and her two creature friends, and Snow and her two mice whipping their tails.
“You’ve done enough damage for a lifetime.” The drakon’s guttural voice projected from the ball of light above him. “It’s time you go back home.”
Asmodeus pushed up but fell back down, then raised his head. “You can’t blame me for trying. We all want a piece of this world. Who are you? Beast or an angel?”
Asmodeus had no idea the drakon was the resurrected Queen Elinor.
The drakon’s light thumped like a heartbeat as she said, “I am the moon and the sun, night and day. I am the beginning and the end, life and death. And you shall be judged by those you have wronged.”
Tank walked up to Asmodeus and pointed a sword to his neck. “Give me the word and I’ll chop off his head.”
“You have to give me a fair trial,” Asmodeus ground out, breathless. “It’s the law. I demand it.”
Otis scoffed. “And yet you didn’t apply this law to all the angels you murdered.”
“What are we going to do with him?” Dawn spat, her crimson hair the hue of lava blowing in the wind.
Snow tightened her grip on her sword, the two mice squeaking and saying their piece.
“Give me the word, King Victus.” Tank swung back his sword, ready.
“What are we waiting for?” Michael picked up Asmodeus’s limp body. “For every man, woman, and child you have wronged. This is for them.”
“And for Willa,” Nina choked out, tears streaming down her face.
I didn’t know who this Willa was, but she must be the missing friend.
“For Willa, too,” Michael said and tossed him in the air. Then he smacked Asmodeus with one mighty punch from one of his wings.
As Asmodeus soared across the dark horizon, the ball of light flew beside him and swallowed him whole. The drakon, the former Queen Elinor, Victus’s mother, and once a fallen hierarchy angel, would take him to the Netherworld where he belonged, and she would seal the gate.
Though I didn’t know Elinor well, I would miss her.
As soon as the drakon was out of sight, the gloomy and eerie clouds parted to reveal twinkling stars and a bright moon.
Tank, Otis, Dawn, Michael, Gorgo, Nina and her creature friends, and Snow, and even the mice, kneeled with their heads low and a fist to their hearts.
Victus’s gaze held mine. “We did it, Little Dove.” Then he met everyone’s eyes. “We all did it together.”
I gathered these amazing beings up for a group hug and we stayed there for many heartbeats.
Chapter Fifty-One
After the War
Joleen
The ground began to close, taking the lava away, and with it the evil and the darkness. As the drakon had promised, the earth was healing piece by piece, as if the land was never scorched in suffering and sorrow, as if no demon spirits tore through the land, as if Asmodeus never existed. Just nothing but a nightmare and we all woke up.
Nina and her two friends flew home, and I assumed the royal vampire court went back to their lairs. Victus and I, and the rest of our team, rushed to the castle.
Nerves churned in my stomach. What if something happened to Nadira? What if she wouldn’t accept me as her mother when we told her?
The dining room was in one piece, even the wall that Asmodeus punched through, and the glass ceiling was intact. Victus and I walked through the front door, our friends behind us.
Markane and Abacus curled into a ball by the corner and Nadira stood between them, her back to us, patting their shoulders as if she was comforting them. Their long shadows danced with the flicker of the burning torch lights above them.
“First you’re afraid of mice,” Gorgo said, sauntering ahead of us. “Then the tremors, and the little princess had to console two full grown adults?”
