“You’re gonna tell me exactly what the hell just happened?” Kenzo fumed. “Why is know-it-all suddenly working with you lot, and where the hell did she take Caleb?”
“Breakhim apart,” Lena declared, following her own advice by unleashing a bombardment of bubbles.
Name: Lena Novak
Branch: Arcane (Bubble Burst)
Grim swatted a few away with his scythe but ignored the vast majority. A big mistake on his part. They went to immediate work, popping against his bones. The sizzle caught Grim’s attention, and the sharpened edge of his blade dulled some, facing the brunt of Lena’s attack.
“Hey, ugly,” Kenzo shouted, hurling a bolt of gray static. “I asked you a goddamn question.”
Name: Kenzo Ito
Branch: Hex (Disruption)
“Don’t know, don’t care, don’t squeal.” Grim’s teeth chattered, biting back laughter.
Kenzo’s hex broke off Grim’s arm.
“Seriously?” Grim controlled his arm and reattached it.
Name: Grim
Branch: Augmentation (Skeletal Manipulation)
I didn’t need to disclose Grim’s abilities to them, as every guild member at Cerberus had a full debrief on the pillars of the Celestial Coven. Though we didn’t think they’d break free from detainment so easily.
“Let’s see how you hold up when we rip all of your bones apart.” Lena threw more bubbles at Grim.
“Oh, you mean like this?” Grim shattered his body into a hundred different pieces, using one hand to carry his scythe and another to carry his robe, while all his bones split apart and slipped between Lena’s attack. “Cool trick, huh?”
Grim reformed his bones beside Ellie and Hayden’s unconscious bodies.
Lena hesitated.
“Do these two mean something to you?” Grim raised his scythe.
“Don’t you dare touch them,” Lena snapped.
“Hmmm.” Grim’s head spun around. “I do so love a good dare.”
“Gotcha.” Kenzo flew out from the side of Grim’s direction, hitting the scythe with a massive bolt of hex magic. “Have fun piecing that back together.”
Grim stared at his scythe; everything seemed in order.
“Ah, I see what you’ve done.” Grim swung the scythe aimlessly. “You broke my connection to these bones. So be it.”
Grim discarded his weapon.
Lena lunged forward, forcing Grim back with a massive bubble larger than his body. Grim flew away, distancing himself from Ellie and Hayden.
“Get them out of here,” Lena demanded, popping her big bubble and sending a thousand surging toward Grim.
“You need backup,” Kenzo insisted, hurling more hexing static between the openings of Lena’s bubbles.
It prevented Grim from breaking apart to evade, and started boxing him into the corner.
“Now, dammit.” Lena scowled.
