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I have no idea what it means, but it has to mean something.
I pull it out of my pocket, lifting it into the air.
“What the hell is that?” Atticus snaps.
I glance over at him, the blood turning warm in my grip. “It’s our family’s blood,” I say, before my arm swings out, and I toss it into the fire. I can hear the glass break, the flames cracking before the ground goes wild, menacing, a roar of flames burning in front of us.
My insides twist into a knot so painful my knees nearly buckle. The girls beside me start screaming, letting out a howl as the ground rocks so forcefully it’s hard to stay upright.
The sky opens up, pouring rain shooting from the black clouds that whirl past the red sky.
My eyes slide open to see Hazel’s back arching against the cross, a horrid scream tearing from her throat as the rain hits her skin, steam lifting off her flesh as if it’s burning her.
She’s going to die.
The dark, cloaked figure in the distance lifts his hand, and she flings up into the air, spinning around as her body arches, the twisting of her limbs making my eyes burn.
He’s going to tear her in half.
My mouth opens, as if it has a mind of its own. A scream, so tortured, filled with so much pain, rips from my vocal cords and roars through the flames.
Electric energy zaps between my fingers, each of us in the line becoming electrocuted. The upside down cross on the ground snaps into shards, like giant knives now pointing directly below Hazel.
I hold my breath as the sky turns tumultuous up above, darkening and angry, as the energy between us causes a storm unlike anything I’ve ever seen. The clouds swirl in a circle, moving at a pace that has my limbs tightening.
Then, screaming.
So much screaming ensues from every which direction. Shadows lift into the sky, so many different entities forming around us that I’m set on edge, unable to move. The screaming becomes too much, my ears ringing, feeling like they’re being ripped from my body.
“Dude, your nose is bleeding,” Atticus shouts at me through the wind and rain. I lift my free hand to my nose, seeing the swipe of dark red slipping to my lips.
The ground rocks, before all the shadows in the sky shoot toward the ground, creating a wave of dust to fly up, knocking us onto our backs. Our hands disconnect, and my black slams against the grass.
I roll over quickly, my eyes slipping to the entity on the other side of the rubble, seeing him no longer there. Then my gaze finds Hazel, and I see her falling.
Falling.
“No,” I shout, leaping to my feet and racing into the dying flames. I trip over bricks and broken doors, and piles of glass that feel like knives against my legs, shredding my pants to strips of fabric.
Her body is lifeless as she falls, her hair blowing in the wind as she tumbles straight toward the broken cross.
Crash.
I leap through the air, but it’s too late.
Hazel slams against the broken wood, a large shard slicing right through the middle of her leg, the other going straight into her hand. The rest of her body lies sideways between the pieces of wood, lifeless, motionless.
Dead.
“No,” I gasp, shoving to my feet, my hands scraping against pieces of wood. I stumble to Hazel, my hands hovering over her, seeing her arm contorted, her body bleeding, everywhere I look, coming from the corners of her eyes, her nose, and her ears.
A scream sounds behind me, then stomping of feet making their way through the debris as everyone walks up to me.
“Please,” I whisper, feeling my heart shatter, my fingers wrapping around the wood that’s embedded in her thigh.
“Dude,” Levi gasps next to me. “Holy shit.”
I glance around every part of her body, scared to touch anywhere. “I don’t… I don’t know what to do,” I whisper, my hand going to her face.
