“I wasn’t going to let you fight all by yourself.” The girl winked, her voice was sing-songed and rhythmic.
“How did you even know it was going to be today?”
“Besides the fact that the King was going crazy and ordered everyone to stay in their homes, even though we all saw the mass herds of humans he had surrounding the castle, Rainer tipped me off.”
“I’m going to kill him,” Kallon spat.
“I’m not. At least he had the decency to let me know. I told you I wanted to fight, Kal.”
“And I told you it was too dangerous, Raeya. You aren’t used to fighting.”
“Then it’s a good thing my girlfriend is a badass who can protect me.”
Kallon looked pissed and worried and relieved all in one single look. “Stay by my side, Rae. I mean it.” Kallon scanned her girlfriend up and down before cursing. “Are you even armed?”
“I have my ability.”
“That’s not good enough.” Kallon ripped off her mask and forcefully shoved it over her girlfriend’s face so only her eyes were exposed. “Don’t take this off. They have vapor Alluse that will leave you without your powers.” She shoved a knife into her palm. “And take this too just in case.”
Savannah took off her mask next.
“What do you think you’re doing?” Sie snapped.
She handed her mask out to Kallon. “We might need her portals later. We can’t risk her not having access to them, and I don’t have any abilities, so it doesn’t really matter if I wear one or not.”
“You’re wearing it so you don’t run into the mass compulsion serum. Do you want to be manipulated like the other humans outside?”
Savannah shuddered but held her ground. “Then Kallon can portal me to the hut if that happens. We need her more than me.”
I couldn’t argue with the girl, and if I wasn’t so worried about Tezya, I would have offered Kallon my mask too.
“You have a fucking death wish,” Sie spat at her. “You’re going to get yourself killed.”
“I don’t know why you care.”
“I don’t,” he ground out at the same time he saved the girl from an oncoming blow.
Kallon smirked, noting Sie’s frustration, before turning toward Savannah. “Thanks, Sav. I promise I’ll make sure nothing happens to you.”
I wasn’tsure how much time had passed before Rainer and Brock finally showed up, but I could see the sun shifting through the open windows of the castle. We finally cleared the first floor, and I tried not to think about how many bodies were left down below.
“It’s about time you boys joined us,” Kallon grinned as she hovered over her girlfriend. She never let Raeya out of her sight.
“We would have made it much sooner if it weren’t for the mass amounts of humans surrounding the castle,” Brock said as he went right into the thick of fighting.
“Did you kill—”
“No, Sav,” he cut her off. “We just fought through enough to knock them out or leave them wounded. I ordered the group not to kill any of them. It’s what took so long, because I had to convince the Tennebrisians the humans were being compelled.”
The group from the monorail was meant to spread out between all the waves, and I prayed the extra help was enough.
Rainer smirked as he wielded his lightning into boxing gloves he donned. “Besides, we couldn’t let you have all the glory,” he teased with a smile, and the gesture and words reminded me of Raeya for some reason.
“Don’t pretend you actually like fighting.” Savannah laughed. “You’d be the first to run away from here if you could.”
“I never said Ilikedit. I just want to make sure my name goes down as a hero fromThe Battle of Good and Evil.” He punched a Luxian soldier in the face with his glove, sending his lightning out in pulsating waves from the contact. I shuddered as I glanced down at the unconscious soldier. He was still convulsing on the ground, foam seeping out of his mouth, as his eyes rolled in the back of his head.
“You made up a name for this?” Raeya balked. “You’re so lame.”
