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I headed into the training area, the concrete blocks and wooden barricades that fenced off some of the area offering shelter for anyone out here.
I peered through the darkness, pushing forward when the dread washed over me again from behind.
I spun back, facing towards the gardens I’d just exited, my eyes flicking wildly around the shadows.
“What are you doing out at this time of night?”
I stiffened at the dark chuckle.
Charlie.
“Taking a walk,” I said, trying to refrain from growling.
But every hair stood on end right now, and warning bells were going off in my head.
This wasn’t his usual harassing or annoyance.
Charlie stepped out of the shadows, the moonlight bouncing off his golden pocket-watch as he swung it carelessly.
“No hellhounds,” he mused.
The statement made me prickle, and I bristled as I planted my feet.
“What are you doing out here?” I hissed.
“Hoping to catch you alone.” He shrugged.
I clenched my jaw as a shiver crept down my spine.
“Why?” I asked, forcing out the question that wanted to catch in my throat. My blood was pumping in my ears now, and I knew my body was on high alert.
Something wasn’t right here.
“I need to give you a message from Baal, a Prince of Hell,” he said with a sneer, his teeth glinting in the moonlight.
My blood ran cold as my breath caught.
I needed to find my hellhounds. I was in danger.
“What’s the message,” I found myself saying. Time. I needed to buy time. Maybe someone else was awake and would sense this dread.
Surely my hellhounds could feel it too. They knew something was off about Charlie.
“They’re coming for you, and they won’t stop until you’re dead,” he chuckled as he caught his pocket-watch mid-air.
I flinched as he crushed it in his hand, a strange black ooze trickling down from his fist.
It dripped onto the ground, and I could only watch in stunned silence as a black pool began to form quickly, moving as it grew and took on a shape.
A black creature came together before me, seeming to manifest from the pool and the shadows all at once, its red eyes gleaming in the darkness as black leathery skin formed.
Charlie’s terrifyingly wicked laughter echoed around as the creature rumbled, its thick limbs reaching out.
Panic and fear coursed through me as I cried out, willing my own power forth.
Hellfire exploded from me, and I hurled it with everything I had, beyond grateful that my training was paying off as the fireballs smashed into the creature.
But nothing happened. It simply shook them off, snarling and revealing thin, razor-like teeth as its mouth cracked open abnormally wide.
