Kasadya (Hellhound Awakened) (27 page)

I went into mine and discovered bags full of stuff on the bed. Opening one up I found clothes, another one contained shoes. Wow Melissa doesn’t take shopping as a joke, yeah the woman can move. I took out the clothes and spotted a pair of yoga pants and a tank top. Pink and gray of course; wow looking at them I almost had a déjà vu moment. Yeah, I used to wear colors like these, until I found my black leathers more comfortable. I stood there for a moment arguing to myself about the clothes. “
Come on Kas, and just put it on
,” I kept telling myself over and over. But I just couldn’t get myself to put it on.

“Kas, I know you like your clothes, but it’s time to leave hell behind us, or at least when we’re off. Put them on and let’s get our butts to dinner, I’m starving,” Kali said from behind me. At the first words I had turned to look at her, now she smiled and walked back to her room.

She’s right, I need to let go and get my life back, well what’s left of it. So I grabbed the clothes and went to the bathroom in the middle of the hall. Unlike
The Hellhouse
we didn’t have our own; we now have one that looks like the same as school lockers and showers. Walking inside I found Kali getting undressed.

“Melissa brought a bunch of products, I can see she likes her shopping. My kind of girl,” Kali said smiling. Yeah I never liked shopping, but I did like hanging out at the mall.

“Good, then you won’t bug me about it. Now you go get her if you want to waste your time in a mall,” I played with her, sitting down on a bench to get my boots off.

“Oh no way in this world would I take you into a mall, you’d trash the place,” she went on, getting into a shower. Laughing, I got all my clothes off and joined her in the second stall. I grabbed a bottle of shampoo and held it to my nose, wow smells like apricot. Out of nowhere the image of Chax kissing me slammed into me. Shaking my head I tried to get it out, but no I had to go all the freaking way right up to the point where he turned away and left me there on the ground. Why on earth would this stupid brain of mine go back to that? Then it kicked in full force; because Chax smelled like apricot. I made a mental note of it. Now it’s freaking stuck in my head! Damn, I really hope that doesn’t happen every time I smell apricots.

I continued washing my head. Kali was talking about some of the guys in the training, but all I could think about was that kiss. Was I that bad that he had to run away? A feeling started to grow inside me, new and strange. I had a hard time to name it; I felt sad, yet angry. Was this grief? Na, can’t be, didn’t know him that well. Maybe it was because they’re all gone. At that thought Kali ripped me back to reality, by hammering me about not listening to her.

We finished off and went to dinner, where everyone was talking, even Kali. But I still had that strange feeling and my head smelling like apricot didn’t help at all. We finished dinner and called it a night, Amon ending it by telling us to get some rest. We hit New Orleans first thing in the morning, which according to the time difference was night time there.

I said good night to Kali and went to bed; laying there I had to run a few things through my head. Okay first thing; I need a “charm” or I go insane and start killing people and in return have to be put down. Second; we can’t reach
Exsilium
and most likely everyone’s gone, there goes my “charm”. Last of course; I just joined up with a team of insane humans, led by an even more insane fae. Yip, like always my life was pretty much totally messed up. It took my mind a long time to shut down and give my body some rest. Only to come back to the version of a dream, one of my childhood. One filled with some sort of happiness.

Chapter 20

I woke up shocked to death by a freaking siren going off. I was up and ready for battle, only to find myself in my room, all alone. It sounded like one of those sirens they used in the war, and man did it do the job.

Kali came marching into my room. “That’s so not funny!” she screamed over the noise, and I could see she was also near the point of a heart attack when it caught us off guard. The siren went dead, and finally we could clear our ears from the buzz. I looked at Kali.

“Yeah, makes your scream sound like a tweet,” I teased. I could see the plans turning in her eyes. Oh yeah come tomorrow morning these guys are in for one hell of a wakeup call; damn she’s as evil as I was. Smiling I went back to sit on the bed. “Guess we need to get ready for New Orleans,” I said to her, and looked up to make sure that this was still okay with her.

Smiling she said, “Yeah, those guys need to see us in real action,” and strolled out to her room. It’s official, I created a monster. Shaking off Kali’s newfound spirit I got up and walked to the chair that my black leathers were hanging over. Look, I’ll do the normal clothes when I’m off duty, but when it comes to fighting I know my leathers are my best asset. I got them and walked out to the lockers, to find Kali putting on her pair as well.

I went to sit on the bench. “I thought you said we need to put it behind us?” I mocked her with a smile
.

“Yeah, but when it comes to things like fighting I agree with you. But that’s all I agree with,” she threw back. I started to laugh, man I’m really enjoying this girl. Wouldn’t guess it was the same old diva giving me hell back at
The Hellhouse
.

We got dressed and then brushed our teeth and did our hair; finishing off we went back to our rooms to get our swords. Now fully ready for action, we marched down the hallways to the command room we saw yesterday. Inside everyone was ready and waiting. Max gave me a once over look and smiled. I gave him a finger to say thanks, and he burst out laughing. Oh he is such a pain in the butt.

“Okay guys, here’s the scoop. According to our informants in New Orleans we have a club on the outskirts of the city. We can expect about a hundred demons in it. The plan is simple; get in, kill, and get out alive,” Amon said, looking at all of us. Okay he so doesn’t have a clue when it comes to things like this.

“May I suggest something?” I asked, a better plan already forming in my head.

“Of course,” Amon replied, and leaned against the table looking at me.

“If we all storm in like a police squad, most of them will just shift out to escape the attack, which will result in us seeing them in a few days. But what if we can take them out, without them knowing about it to alarm the others?” I said looking at them. Amon and Max looked at each other and I could feel the other guys eyes on me too, but I didn’t care. I just kept my eyes on Amon and Max. 

“Okay, you have our attention, how will we be able to do that?” Amon asked, clearly intrigued by my idea.

I gave him my wicked smile. “By using a little feminine touch,” I replied. He looked at me all puzzled, but the look in Max’s eyes told me he already knew what I meant by those words; and he didn’t like it, which was too bad. I looked back at Amon and saw the moment it sank in with him too
.

“No, it’s too dangerous,” he said, looking back at the table and dismissing me; time to change his mind.

I walked over to Max and the closer I got to him, the more he took small steps back. I smiled at him, but he didn’t return it, instead he regarded me carefully. He reached the wall and was trapped. So I moved in slowly. He kept his eyes on mine, and didn’t notice that I had my dagger in my hand. I walked up and lined my body with his; I could hear him take in a breath. Only inches away from him, I looked at him and smiled. His focus was only on my eyes; I leaned in as if to kiss him, and brought up my dagger hand.

His eyes grew heavy, and I could see the battle in his eyes; should he trust me or not? I answered it for him, by placing the blade against his throat. The moment he felt the blade his eyes turned to anger. Now I was so close to his mouth I could feel his breath on my lips, but kept my eyes on his
.
“As you can see, a female is more than capable of using her feminine side to get what she wants,” I whispered softly to him. He frowned and looked at Amon for help.

“Okay, Kas, that’s enough. You made your point,” Amon said behind me. Still smiling I looked at Max, his eyes were back on me and we were looking at each other. I looked down to his lips and my teenage hormones spiked back in place. Licking my lips to get myself under control, I quickly pulled away and turned around to go stand next to Kali. Who was looking at me totally shocked, yeah I know. I have no clue where the hell that all just came from, but damn it worked. I returned my eyes to Amon, ignoring Max, who was still stuck to the wall.

“Alright, tell us your great plan, Kas,” Amon said, and I grinned like a schoolgirl. Yip fae you made one hell of a mistake taking on two girls for the job.

After laying out the plan, we all walked outside to some sort of helicopter pad. Max kept his distance from me; he was totally pissed at me. But hey a girl has got to do what a girl has got to do, right? Standing on the pad I looked back up at Amon. “Please don’t tell me you’re going to fly us to New Orleans in a helicopter. I need to know that at least you are about ten percent still sane,” I mocked him.

He smiled and walked to the middle of the pad, stretching out his hands and looking at me
.
“No that will be a waste of time and money,” He said smiling. One by one the guys locked arms, then Max and another took hold of his arms, he gestured for me and Kali to take the last two open spots in the circle. Oh My Soul, he’s going to shift us all to the location. He is insane, but hey let’s see how this works. I took the guy’s arm, and locked-in with Kali who also locked-in with the other guy.

Smiling Amon shifted us all at once. The air shift was huge, compared to the air shift when a single shift takes place. We landed in a dark alley, and he looked at me like he wanted to gloat about it. Yeah, yeah okay, so the guy’s got talent, big deal. I ignored him and looked around. A street came into view but no cars moved on it. It was quiet except for a soft beat I could pick up.

“Okay, the clubs around the corner. Kas show us where you need us, and let’s get this over with,” Amon said, so I took lead.

Following the music I could pick up, we rounded the corner. I held my hand up for them to stop and give me time to assess the place. It was an old factory or something; various colors of light hit the widows over and over again. Yip, a club. I looked around to see that one alley was next to it, but most likely would be used for dark stuff.

I looked at the building across from it, an old abandoned factory, great that’s perfect. I turned around and walked to stand close to them
.
“Okay, we have an abandoned factory across from it, take your positions there. Kali and I will lead them there, and then we take them out,” I finished and looked at Kali, who now had her game face on.

We parted from the guys and walked up to the club, two huge bouncers were guarding the entrance. When they saw us they went into a defensive stand, okay demons good, very good. I walked up to them like nothing was wrong
.
“Hey guys, tell me there are a lot of men inside,” I said to them, giving them a cute smile, or hoping so. The two looked at each other then back at us.

“Fallen, leave now,” the biggest of the two said. I moved up to him and played with my cross necklace in my hands.

“Oh come on guys. Ballen said we could get some action here. Was he wrong?” I asked, still playing nice. At the mention of Ballen’s name they looked at each other, then back at us.

“You are Ballen’s fallen?” he asked
.

“Duh, I just said that,” I replied, trying to throw a BF but failing very bad at it. Kali came to the rescue.

“Come on Kas, Ballen will hear about this,” she said in an angry voice and turned around; fear shot to their eyes
.

“No wait, you can enter,” the big one said and moved out of the way. Smiling we walked up pass them, when I reached the big guy I leaned forward to him and placed my hand on his chest
.

“Now big guy, we’re going to have a huge party across the street, you’re not going to spoil our fun are you?” I finished, licking my lips; I saw it on a movie once. Here’s hoping it works.

He smiled and was about to touch me, luckily Kali moved in. “I’m hungry let’s get a move on,” she demanded and pushed me inside. Laughing like two drunken girls, we entered the building to find a hell lot of demons and humans inside; a hundred was an understatement. More like two hundred would do, but I just need the demons. Human’s meant nothing to me. I looked at Kali and we started our plan. We walked around looking for the meanest of the bunch, the others would follow shortly.

We found a group of demons dressed like bikers, holding two human females and drinking. I gestured to Kali, and we moved in. I walked over to the first guy I got to, and planted myself on his lap
.
“Well here’s a delightful change, don’t you think Kali?” I said looking at him; the moment I landed, he grabbed me around the hips locking me down.

“Oh yeah, but the question is can they actually do something?” Kali went on, sitting on the table looking at another guy. Confused, they looked at each other and the one whose lap was my newfound seat looked back at me.

“Fallen, you play with fire,” he warned me.

“Oh yeah, now you’re talking. Ballen was so right, the guys here are intriguing,” I said, looking him in his eyes; again Ballen’s name spread fear into them. Okay, so Ballen’s a pretty big guy in this demon world, too bad.

“You’re Ballen’s fallen?” he asked me. Smiling, I nodded my head and rubbed my hand over his chest
.

“He said we could find suitable guys here to quench our thirst.” I went on smiling all the way. Gross, I was getting sick from all of this. He smiled ad looked at me.

“What do you need?” he asked. I continued the playful rubbing
.

“
About five guys at a time,” I said looking shy. His eyebrows shot up and he looked startled
.
“Ballen has a wicked way of keeping us in shape,” I went on and rubbed my cross again, trying to tell him that I had a lust charm on that made me do it. Hopefully he’d fall for it.