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“Get her out of here,” Shade snapped to Cronus and Xerxes.
“Master.” Xerxes looked between her and Shade.
“You protect her first.” Shade scowled at him.
“Fuck. That.” Eddie lunged for Wrath.
Wrath moved faster than she could track. He fastened his fist into the front of her shirt and tossed her across the room, as if she weighed nothing. “My fight is with Shade. Not you.”
Steel clashed, booming through the room as sword met axe. Sparks showered the hell princes as their weapons locked in the bind. Muscles straining, they glared at each other with pure hatred.
Shade shifted his weight and kicked Wrath’s knee. Bone cracked, and Eddie wanted more. She wanted to break bones herself.
Barely stumbling, Wrath righted himself and swung his axe on a low arc for Shade’s middle. The blade whistled through the air where moments ago Shade’s midriff had been.
The fight started in earnest. It was like a silent signal had gone off in both their heads and released the beast inside them.
Every blow of steel, every strike against flesh echoed through Eddie, feeding her blood lust. They moved so quickly, strike, parry, thrust, deflect, that she had trouble following them. Blood trickled from a gash on Shade’s shoulder. A deep wound to Wrath’s thigh pumped blood down his leg, yet neither hell prince seemed to notice.
Shade ducked and sent Wrath careening into a pillar.
Plaster dust and pebbles rained down.
The building shook around them. The force of their blows reverberated through stones and mortar and shook the floor beneath her feet.
“They will end us all.” Cronus whimpered. “The seal is driving their blood lust.”
Large cracks opened in the floor. Chunks of marble crashed to the ground around the fighting hell princes.
“Get it together, Eddie,” she whispered. Someone had to get control of this situation or Cronus was right, they’d all end up destroyed. She didn’t know what that meant in the cosmic or universal sense of hell princes, archangels, and people sandwiched between them, but the way they were tearing the palace apart didn’t auger well.
The fight had increased in ferocity, and there was no way to get between them. Not if she wanted to keep her limbs attached, and she rather did.
Eddie circled the fighters, looking for a way through.
The ceiling groaned and cracked. Ash and stone chips rained down around them, thudding to the ground.
Xerxes and Cronus flanked her, silently urging her to get on with it.
Wrath lurched closer to her, his back to her.
Swooping down, Eddie hauled a massive piece of fallen mortar off the floor. Raising it as high as she could, she crashed it down on the back of Wrath’s head. A massive boom of power shuddered through the room.
Everything went still.
Even Shade gaped at her, chest heaving.
Wrath half turned, stumbled, and dropped to his knees. “Edme,” he rasped before crashing face first on the floor.
Eddie wasn’t going to wait around for him to recover. Given the fight she’d witnessed, she didn’t give him longer than a few seconds.
“Let’s go.” She grabbed Shade’s arm.
Shade pulled away from her. “The seal,” he gasped. “You must repair the seal.”
“Not today,” Eddie yelled. And not with Shade leaking blood all over the floor.
As if on cue, the doors to the chamber flew open and demons boiled through the gap.
