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Soldiers poured in from the tunnels and from all directions, leaving their posts guarding the prisoners. Which was my main goal. Otis and I became their main targets. But some scaled the walls and attacked the humans climbing up.
Screams rent the air from all directions.
We had to distract our enemies until every man, woman, and child was out and safe.
Otis and I flanked back-to-back.
“When I count to three, duck.” I cracked a whip again and again.
“I have no apples left. So it’s all on you, Michael.”
“Ready. One. Two. Three.”
I spun as I released feather after feather, targeting demons climbing upward and those surrounding Otis and me. Otis remained hunched as my silent weapon whizzed through the air like a deadly assassin in the night, slicing across the demons’ necks or chests. Black blood soon painted the dirt.
“Go,” I said to Otis when the prisoners made it up to the top level.
I was just about to soar upward when from the corner of my eyes, I caught sight of the little blond boy who had helped the elder earlier, hunched over a body in the dark shadow, sobbing.
“Mother, please get up.” As he grabbed her shoulders, feathers poked out from his back, but his wings didn’t expand to their fullest. He seemed to have no control of them so they must have sprouted recently.
I closed my wings and rushed to him. “Kyle!”
His stunned blue eyes landed on me. Any evidence of his feathers disappeared.
He wiped his tears. “My mom is injured. I won’t leave her.”
Blood soaked his mother’s chest.
“Go, my son,” the mother murmured, her shaky hands cupping her son’s face. “Please take him with you.”
My mother was dead. Pain seared in my chest like daggers piercing my skin of missing her. More soldiers dashed across from the other side of the cavern growling.
“I can take you both.” I picked up the lady and cradled her in my arms, then I flashed my wings so fast, air whooshed around us.
“You have wings,” she sounded relieved.
“Kyle, jump on my back and hang on tight. Can you do it? I lowered for him on one knee. “Also, don’t ever show anyone your wings, do you hear me? Do not trust anyone. Or you’ll end up back as a slave.”
I might have sounded a bit harsh, but I needed him to understand. If word got out a young boy had wings, either the OA or Asmodeus would come for him, or he would be hunted for his blood.
“Yes, sir,” he said and jumped on my back.
I launched into the air just as spears landed where we had been. When I reached the top, I passed the mother to Tank, and Otis grabbed Kyle and ran.
“Do you have your special potion with you?” I asked Gorgo.
Below us, the demons swarmed like an army of ants, skittering over rocks up the steep hill, and their fingers clutching and clawing for purchase. Fear chilled my body as their angry cries filled the air.
Gorgo took out four sacks the size of his fist and opened the contents to show me black powder.
“Will that be enough?”
“We shall see. The explosion won’t bring the mountain down, but at least we will destroy the production and will have saved the humans.”
After he left, leaving me alone with the demons growling and frantically climbing up, I nose-dived toward the center of the first level and landed near the river of lava. All the demons’ eyes went to me, curious, then rounded in fear when I positioned the sacks over the stream.
They knew then that I was up to something suspicious. They hissed and snarled. Countless of them even dropped to the first level, and some even fell into the flame in their eagerness to get to me.
