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I was the cause.
I was the one that had brought them here. I didn’t know how or why but I knew that I was the only one with the power to stop it. And running away wasn’t the key. Not like Jared wanted me to.
So just as Jared was close to being overwhelmed by the sheer number of them, all tearing through the cabin and making it look like Swiss cheese, I searched for the feeling I had that day.
The day that I had first touched the book. The one I had spent this last week ignoring. It was a power I could feel lying dormant inside me until the time was right. Well, now I knew that time was right and that time… was now.
It had to be to save the man I loved.
Which is why I called forth the book and with it, felt my entire body start to change. A green mist rose around me, before it became something fluid. Something tangible. It wrapped around my body like Demonic ribbons made from the essence of each and every soul I had at the ready, just waiting eagerly for my command.
So, without a single thought, I twisted my hand around slowly and brought forth the book, making it appear in front of me. Just like it had been begging me to do so since that day. Because this was one thing I had chosen not to tell Jared. I convinced myself that he had enough to worry about. That he’d had enough on his plate. Too much for me to add to it and tell him how, in my dreams, I could hear it speaking with me, asking me…
To come home.
I never understood it then, but as I looked down at the glowing portal I had made, I knew now what it meant. Because this hadn’t been my first life. No, that one had been stolen from me. Taken from me by none other than…
Jared’s wife… Lerna.
I could see her now. Telling me goodbye. Telling me that she would see me again. That she would be ready. But then…
So would I.
But first I needed to save my HellBeast King!
Meaning I let my anger burn as I suddenly screamed, opening my arms wide and telling my souls,
“KILL THEM ALL, SAVE THE HELLBEAST!” This was enough and all it took for them to escape, flying out as one. The souls seeped from the book in one long cloud of green smoke, filling the cabin with all of them, until they each started to take form. Each of them were quick to protect the man they had not long ago fought against. Each one taking hold of a HellHound and ripping it to pieces, dragging them away from Jared, who was still fighting, but was now in his HellBeast form. But it hadn’t been enough, because too many of them had been tearing at him as one, and he had been forced to try and take them all on in the fight.
I knew that he would have fought to the death to save me. Which was when I realized the truth.
I placed a hand at my stomach and that thought quickly changed, coming back to me as the realization hit me from earlier. Knowing now that…
He wouldn’t have just fought to save me.
He would have died saving us both.
Like this, I now felt it.
I felt his baby growing inside of me.
I was pregnant.
That Hellish portal wouldn’t ever close with me here, no matter how many souls I had to fight them.
Meaning there was only one thing left for me to do.
I had to save us all.
I took one last look at Jared, screaming as he took a bite to the neck, hoping I still had chance to save him. I lashed out a hand, causing one of my souls to act quickly, killing the HellHound before it could tear his throat out.
“Jared,” I whispered his name at the pain I felt, seeing him now lying bloody on the floor, the fight drained out of him as his body turned back into that of a man.
One that I could see, thank the Gods, was still breathing!
So, I told my souls,
“Protect him and do not return to me until none remain, and he awakens.” I knew they had heard, despite them continuing to fight, something they would have had to do infinitely, unless I ended this.
