Kasadya Hellhound Twisted (14 page)

We finished off, and made our way down the stairs. Max was waiting at the bottom with my swords in his hands. Oh my babies! I almost ran him out of the way to get my hands on them. Grabbing them I first gave them a hug then placed them in their sleuths. “I thought you might be missing them.” Max laughed and I smiled back at him. He knows me so well, maybe Kali is right. We know each other pretty well, and we are at ease around each other. Then I remembered that funny small print that came with the hellhound DNA. I looked at him and couldn’t help feeling sad; he might not be my charm.

Max must have seen my sadness because he grabbed my arm and pushed me towards the others. “Not today, Kas,” he said, walking me to the living room. When we walked in, Chax lifted his head to look at us, a frown darkening his face. Sitting on the couch in front of him was my favourite angel boy.

“Raphael, nice of you to make an appearance,” I goaded him. He smiled and leaned back into the couch, regarding me.

“Now, hellhound, I found your presence too entertaining to miss. I haven’t had this much fun in years,” he threw back and I rolled my eyes at him.

“Well, if you two are done we have work to do,” Chax pitched in and for some reason he was more pissed off than usual. “We will be doing some spotting tonight, our mission is to locate and update the news on demon clubs.” I rolled my eyes at him and laughed quietly, which he apparently heard because his head snapped over to me. “Something wrong, Kasadya?” he asked. Oh boy, this bad boy routine he had going wasn’t really working for him anymore.

“Yes, I think your reconnaissance methods suck big time,” I replied, looking at my nails and smiling.

I swear I could hear him suck in his breath, with two or three others in the room. “Well then, do tell why you think it, how did you put it, sucks,” Chax said, walking over to me and taking a stand.

“Oh, that’s easy. Because it does. You go out check for a hot spot, come back and feed it into Corra. Meanhile, Amon has a facility that already has all the data on it. Now I know according to you I have a lack of intelligence, but don’t you think we are wasting precious time?” I said to him smiling all the way. This was comical, I could see in his eyes he was waging my suggestion, and yes of course it made logic sense to do it my way.

“Indeed, we will go to this facility of Amon’s and you can explain to us how your methods are better than ours,” Chax finally said and Raphael burst out laughing, making me join him. Chax was not freaking happy, he was giving both of us a death glare. Oh this is so freaking funny.

“Enough, we need to start moving,” he burst out when Raphael wouldn’t stop laughing. I quickly damped my laughter and tried to be serious again. “Kasadya, you will shift us to Amon’s facility,” Chax declared. Shoving it off, I walked to the centre and held out my hands for the rest to lock in. Chax looked down at them, then looked up at me. “Use your necklace,” he growled out and had me looking at him confused.

“Um, how do I use my necklace?” I asked when he was just looking back at me.

“You hold it, visualize the landing spot, and that’s it,” he explained, his eyes burning into mine. Okay, it would seem that I have pissed him off for the night
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Hey, nothing new there.

Not wanting to show him that he had caught me off guard, I grabbed my necklace and closed my eyes. I pictured the helicopter pad outside the facility we used to shift out and I felt the air being sucked out of the room. With an awkward sensation I force shifted everyone to the landing pad. Opening up my eyes, I gave Chax a victory smile and started to walk to the door. Oh yeah, Kas one, Chax zero! Max was next to me in a flash. “Home sweet home,” he stated, pushing open the doors and I had to smile at him. He was right, this felt more like home than Exsilium.

We marched down the hallway and found some of the humans that were left behind in the dining hall. As we passed, we greeted the guys, and they shot out of their chairs to join us. They came bursting out of the dining room in seconds, walking behind us. Leo made his way in front, next to me and Max. “Hey guys, so what are you doing here?” he asked. “Amon said that you guys won’t be coming back.”

I smiled at him and gestured with my head to the fallen behind me. “Showing them some tricks of the trade,” I stated, smiling at him.

“Nice,” he replied, smiling at Max who was pretty much enjoying this as much as me.

We made a turn and reached the doors to the Intel room. Amon was busy looking at the huge globe with dots on it, so when we burst through the door we surprised him. “Hello, mind if we join you?” I asked, smiling at him. He looked at me and then the rest, confused and a little lost, but turned back to me.

“Sure, be my guest,” he answered with a small smile on his face. I stomped off to the globe and turned to the others.

“This is our Intel room. On this globe, Amon and his team have been gathering Intel for many years and with the assistance of our contacts around the world, we are updated with new Intel almost every hour. Looking at the red dots, this will be the demon clubs or spots that still need to be closed down. The green dots indicate the places that were already cleared out, orange are places staring up again. And the purple ones are fallen activity,” I explained, indicating one as I moved on. The fallen made their way around the globe, looking at all of them. Chax was standing on the other side of the glass globe, staring at them, and I kept my eyes on him. Come on, admit it, our method is better, I thought to myself waiting for him to show it. He looked down and caught me looking at him with a smile of course, and nodded his approval. I almost went ballistic with a victory dance but kept myself under control. Sweet!

I turned and saw that Max was over at one of the stations already talking to a Russian contact and doing his thing. Kali was at another station, checking up on a few of her own. Ben and Ryan were at their old spots doing the same.

“Amon, this is good work. I am impressed,” Chax finally said, still looking at the globe.

“Gracias,” Amon replied and smiled at me. Yeah, we might be beneath their abilities, but we sure can pack a punch.

“Would you be able to feed this Intel from here into Corra?” Chax asked Abby, who was looking like she was about to burst out of her skin.

“Oh yes, this is perfect just what we needed. I can create a direct uplink with her and presto, we are in business,” she confirmed, looking around the room.

Amon turned to me with a questionable look, but I just held up my hand and shook my head. Explaining to him that the young harpy was Exsilium’s Einstein was going to take too long. “Caim, get Astin and Don over here, they need to see this,” Chax said after a while of checking out the Intel room. Caim nodded and shifted out, and Chax turned his eyes back to me. “How many rooms do you have, Amon?” Chax asked, his eyes not moving from mine. I almost jumped out of my own skin; oh please say we are moving in!
Amon looked at him for a while then asked one of the guys to fetch Melissa. Chax’s eyes didn’t move from mine, and I was starting to feel a bit out of place.

His stare can have a really bad effect on someone, and in my case the worst. I dropped my eyes and started to play with a device lying on the table next to me. Oh that’s still so creepy
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Melissa came strolling in a minute or two later and stopped dead in her tracks, seeing all the fallen in our Intel room. She looked at Amon, confused as to why everyone was there. “Melissa, honey. How many rooms do we still have open?” Amon asked, giving her a wink. Immediately Melissa’s smile was so big on her face, I was worried it would be going past her ears.

“About twenty five I think,” she confirmed and gave me a wink, too. I was so excited I had a hard time containing myself.

“Will it suffice, if we were to use this facility for a while? I believe Don and Astin would have a lot of work here,” Chax asked Amon. My heart dropped down to my stomach so fast I couldn’t take a breath. Oh come on!
Amon looked at me, and then at Chax.

“That would be fine, Chax. However we can assist in the cause against evil,” Amon replied and was, by the look of it, just as disappointed at Chax’s question. Why did I get stuck with Chax! Could I not have had a normal functioning Custos? Just then, Caim shifted in with Astin and Don next to him, jerking me back to my lunatic reality.

“Chax, you called for us?” Don asked, looking around the room. Chax quickly explained the Intel room and what it had to offer. Within minutes more fallen shifted in and were getting training on how the setup worked. “I can’t believe we got duped out of our own compound,” I moaned when I went to stand next to Kali. She looked up and around the room.

“We basically lost our own Intel room within minutes. I am not going to say it, Kas,” she said, looking down at the keyboard and ignoring me.

“Hey, come on I was trying to help, not give our compound away,” I replied, giving her a pout of my own.

“Kas, I said I won’t say it. Just … just keep in mind what just happened the next time you’re brain kicks in,” she finished and moved to Ryan’s station.

I slumped down in the chair she had beem sitting in. She’s right again. I suck so bad with this whole save the world gig. I looked at the monitor and played with the mouse, the rest of the room buzzing with activity. “Kas, are you all right?” Max asked, coming to sit next to me.

I looked up at him and smiled. “Yeah, just bummed out that we can’t move back,” I replied.

Max gave me that sneaky smile of his. “It doesn’t matter whether we stay here or in Exsilium. What is important, Kas, is that you are helping not only the humans but the fallen as well. We are starting to combine our resources to fight back,” he said, moving to pick up my face by placing his hand under my chin.

“Yeah, but is still sucks,” I complained again. He leaned forward and gave me a small kiss.

“You did good, Kas, because of you tomorrow will be easier,” he finished with a smile. He got up and walked back to Ben and Leo, who were now grinning at me, throwing me a wink. I was left in denial and shock about his open kiss. Quickly looking around to see who else saw us, I only found Chax looking, but he turned around and continued on with his conversation, leaving me feeling like I had just been caught with my hand in the cookie jar. Nanini was running around the room, checking out this switch and asking about that button, and I could see the guys had a hard time keeping up with her questions.

Lada came to sit next to me. “Well this is definitely going to be new. Fallen using human technology to gain Intel. You keep surprising me,” she said, smiling at me.

“Yeah, too bad Kali doesn’t think so,” I said, nodding in Kali’s direction.

Lada looked at her then back at me. “Don’t stress about it, I remember Kali to be very territorial. She will relax in a short while,” Lada replied. Yeah that must be it.

“All right team, we are moving out and leaving this to Astin and Don,” Chax suddenly said and walked out of the doors. The whole gang was up and moving in super speed. I, of course, sighed got up and slumped after them. At the helicopter pad Chax and the rest were waiting just for me. “Can we get this over with tonight, Kasadya!” Chax yelled, having me picking up the pace and joining them.

“Remember, we hit ground and start moving in unison, no Braveheart stuff. Got it, Kasadya?” Chax said, looking at me. I just nodded; I didn’t have the energy for a fight right now. Chax shifted us straight into a night club packed with demons. The moment the demons registered what just joined the party all hell broke loose. Chax moved in front, leading the pack. Moving in unison like he had emphasized, Ben and Nanini blasted the light bombs. Ryan, Lada, and Lotan were giving them hell on the west side. Max, Caim, and I were fighting
at the east side of the pack. Finally Kali took up the rear, hacking away at the ones at the back.

As they came at us we moved fast, Max grabbing the first one and slicing off his head. Ducking low, I swiped my left sword at the one coming from his back taking his head, my right hand taking the one coming from in front. The air changed again, and next Don and his team joined us. For once the demons weren’t shifting out, they stayed for the fight. With the more fallen to cover each others backs, we moved out of formation and got our game on.

“Up!” Max yelled and I ran to step into his hand, jumping over the group of demons in front of Caim and Chax. I landed in the back starting to take them down from there; Max joined me by jumping over. We were having the time of our lives, and I was enjoying every moment of it. Using my wings, I flipped a few away from me and straight into the others swords watching as their heads got taken in the process. I jumped on one’s head, swinging over and bringing him to the ground. The moment I was off him, Max took his head. Oh this is the life! Light bombs were flying all over the place, followed by Don’s fire fae’s bombs. Demons caught fire and were running hopelessly right into the others’ swords.