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Chapter 19
AVA
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THE SECOND I HIT THEfloor with the staff, a barrier shot up and enclosed D. K. and me within, shielding the others from what was about to happen to him.
“What the fuck is this?” He yelled, pushing against the dome shaped bubble. “Gary! Get me outta here,” he screamed.
“They can’t hear or see you.”
He whirled around to face me. “What the hell is this, what the hell are you?”
I withdrew the sword from under my cloak and pointed the tip at the floor. Slowly I began to walk around the perimeter of the bubble, dragging the sword behind me as I did.
“This is your judgement day D. K. Stirling.”
He laughed, a sardonic, mechanical laugh. “Yeah right! Do you have any clue who I am?”
“Oh yes! You’re the man that I had to clean up after.” The sword started vibrating in my hand as it started to trace over the path it had already made. “You know. The sick and dying over at the tented city? The ones you forced out of their homes for greed. Those ones.”
“Pfft, they had ample opportunity to move. I gave them a week!”
“Hmm, a week. Do you want to know what I’ve done in a week’s time?” The sword started glowing its ominous reddish hue.
He pointed to it. “What the hell is that doing? Is that... glowing?”
“Oh yes, it’s glowing alright and soon it will be trailing flames too! It’s a glorious thing really. Too bad you won’t feel it’s cutting edge.” Just like I said the flames started, creating a flow of lava on the floor.
I watched as his Adam’s apple bobbed up and down before he asked, “What do you mean it’s cutting edge?”
I raised it eye level then kissed the blade, then directly looked into his horror filled eyes. “I really should introduce you to her at least. This is Damnations Kiss. Usually, she’s reserved for those to feel the kiss of death, but she’s too good for the likes of you. Instead, you have won yourself a one-way ticket to hell.”
D. K. started screaming like a little girl as he watched in terror when with one fell swoop, I brought the tip down onto the flaming circle and the floor gave way, sending us down into the depths of hell.
Satan came running up the hall like a marathon runner ten feet from the finish line. “Oh, my dear, you brought me a live one!!” he boomed excitedly as D.K. swung his gaze around to the new voice.
“Jesus Christ, what the hell are you?” D.K. slurred, squinting his eyes as if he couldn’t focus them and was trying to figure out if the horns on his head were real or not.
Satan grinned. “Oh, he won’t help you!” Satan then looked at me. “Belladonna?”
I nodded. “Yes. You’re welcome.”
Satan snapped his fingers, and a collar appeared around D. K.’s throat attached to a leash.
Snagging the end of it, Satan slipped the end over his hand like it was a bracelet. “Come along my pet. It’s time to have myself some fun! Oh, and Ava. In thirty hours, the relic needs to back here in my hands, it’s the night of the full blood moon, remember?”
I didn’t say a word as I stood there watching as Satan began to skip off like a kid on a playground, dragging its toy behind them. Only this toy was losing its voice from screaming.
D.K. Stirling was no more. It would show in all the newspapers and across the internet that his company had gone belly up and he simply... disappeared. And Noah and I needed to hit the road if we were going to make it back in time.
