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“Together united. Together strong. From our ancestors and beyond. Our power amplifies twelve by twelve, plus one.”
“Eli!” I yelled at him. I didn’t see where he’d gone, but he needed to get his ass back here.
I felt the wind and looked up to see him hovering over us. He opened his mouth to speak, and it was too much. The magic felt like hot pokers in my ears. I cried out as the ground slammed into my knees. I rolled onto my back and looked up at him.
He was glowing with the most pure white light I’d ever seen. His shirt was gone and his wings spread wide.
I knew he said he wasn’t an angel, but as I looked up at him, I wasn’t sure what else he could be.
My ears were ringing and I couldn’t hear anything, but I could see his lips moving. The bonds that connected all of us together started to grow hot.
The heat intensified. And then it felt like someone was burning me. My soul was on fire and I writhed on the ground, screaming for it to stop. It was too much. The magic was too much. It was going to turn me to ash.
Just when I thought I couldn’t take anymore, there was a cool breeze. A balm on my soul, taking away every last bit of pain
.
For a second, all I could hear was my breath. My heart was beating crazy, too. I laid there, staring up at Eli. His wings flowed back and forth, and I couldn’t look away.
I put my hand over my chest. My heartbeat wasn’t slowing. I was going to have a heart attack if this kept up. But after a second, I realized it was too many beats. I wasn’t hearing just my heart beating. It was everyone’s. All thirteen of us.
I rose, and so did the others.
I thought it was over. But then Astaroth appeared in front of me.
I stumbled back a step. And another. “Why?” I looked up at Eli. We’d done the spell. We’d sealed the plane. Why was Astaroth still here? This should’ve worked. And I knew we couldn’t win in a fight.
Eli swooped down in front of me. His light was so bright I could barely see around it. He tsked at Astaroth. “You’ve broken the rules again.” He punched his fist into Astaroth’s body, ripped something out. A glowing ball of white energy.
Eli turned to me, and shoved it at me.
I gasped as all the air was gone from me. And then it was back. Everything seemed a little brighter. A little better. It was like a missing piece of my soul was back and I didn’t even know it’d been gone.
What? When… I didn’t understand.
“When he took your powers, he kept a piece.” My mouth dropped open, but I didn’t have time to process it before Eli was moving again. “It was allowing him to stay on this side, but now it’s time for you to go.” A spear appeared in Eli’s hands. He slammed it into the ground and a portal opened in the ground under Astaroth’s feet.
“You’re mine.” Astaroth’s voice beat into my head. His words etched fear into my soul as he hovered over the portal.
Eli wrapped an arm around me. His wings whisked the air around us, lifting us from the ground, and the next instant, Astaroth was sucked down, falling back to Hell.
Eli lowered us and slammed the spear into the ground again. The portal slammed closed.
I looked up at Eli. I wasn’t sure what he could or couldn’t do, but in that moment, he seemed all powerful. “Is there anything you can’t do?”
“There’s a lot I can’t do.” He said, his tone the most serious I’d heard from him. “There are some very good reasons for the rules I live by, and I won’t break them. I will not play God. But I will bend them, because they will not destroy what we’ve spent a millennia building. With my tie to you, there will be more than I’m allowed to take part in.” He gave me a small smile. “Let’s just say the next little bit is going to be fun.”
“Fun?” Why did he think all of this shit was fun? He was messed up in the head.
We did it, Dastien said.
We did? “Is that it? Is it over?” It felt like it was too easy.
“I know. It’s always sad when the fight’s done,” Eli said.
I wasn’t sure if I wanted to laugh or cry. “You’re out of your mind.”
He laughed and let me go.
