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My heart hammered as I stumbled, unable to pull my gaze away from where my hellhounds were being attacked, struggling to fend off the others.
The three of them stood with their backs together, snarling and slashing at the others.
I couldn’t leave them. They’d come to rescue me, to protect me and take me home.
They couldn’t die here.
I flicked my gaze to my father, gasping as I realized he was being overpowered now. Gorzaden was pinning him down triumphantly, his face split into a wide, ghastly grin as he raised his clawed hand.
The rip was only a few more strides away now, but I faltered, making Jack curse as he tried to drag me after him.
I was going to lose them all here.
“No!” I screamed out, yanking my hand free from Jack’s as I spun around, calling forth my hellfire to defend us all.
The golden-white fire burned forth from me, exploding out across the area and igniting the hellhounds attacking mine. Gorzaden was knocked off my father, and I focused on my hellfire, guiding it to fend off the hellhounds.
I couldn’t destroy them, I wasn’t recovered enough to use it all at full strength, but at least they were shrieking in pain and distracted from my men.
Gorzaden cursed me as I struck down the demons that shot forth, but I was struggling. Despite my father healing me, I hadn’t recovered quite enough. My fire was dwindling quickly and dying down, and I gritted my teeth as I struggled to maintain it, the pain flaring up within me again as I collapsed to one knee.
“Angelic power,” Gorzaden growled as he stalked towards me. “So that’s why…”
I gasped, flicking my gaze back to where I was using the last of my hellfire to hold the other hellhounds at bay. My three were rushing my way now that they had the chance, while Jack was beside me in a protective stance.
He was staring Gorzaden down, waiting to see what he’d do.
“Asmodeus, you’ve betrayed your own kind. Having an abomination is one thing, but with an angel, that’s too far. You’re an abomination yourself. A foul thing. Even our father would destroy you if he knew the treachery. You are not my brother,” Gorzaden snarled as my father stood before him, bloody and battered. Gorzaden looked just as bad at least.
My hellhounds reached us, and Jack gave me a desperate look as he helped me to my feet.
“Now’s our chance,” he hissed as Bug, Chum, and Creeper all stood around me, waiting for my command.
I looked to my father, knowing if we left him, he’d die here.
Was I ready to give him up?
He gazed at me, giving me a soft smile. “Save the world, Lily. Make your mother and I proud,” he called out.
Gorzaden whipped back around, letting out an earth-shattering shriek as he took to the air, intent to strike me down.
The rage and fire that surrounded him terrified me, and I knew he could drive himself through my hellhounds with the power he possessed.
But before he could make it much further, my father caught his ankle, yanking him down and holding him firm.
“Go, Lily, now!” he shouted as Gorzaden snarled.
I let Jack tug me towards the rip, watching in despair as Gorzaden held out his hand, the whole thing engulfing in flames and forming a fiery blade.
I was utterly helpless as he drove it through my father’s chest, and I screamed as I reached out for him.
A faint smile marred his lips as those blue eyes dulled, his legs giving way as he lost his grip on his brother.
Rage, despair, heartbreak, pain. It tore through me, the same power from earlier with Baal surging to the surface and exploding forth from me.
The beam of incredible energy struck Gorzaden as he let out a blood-curdling shriek that rang through my eardrums.
I would kill him for taking my father from me.
Jack jerked me after him, and I cried out as my father fell to the ground, the ashy earth clouding up around him as Gorzaden exploded into ash.
My last glimpse of my father was him smiling with soft contentment before I was dragged through the rip.
