Faith sighed. “If we’re lucky we have ten minutes to get everyone out of here.”
Sandra grinned and wandered off. A second later the fire alarm rang and sprinklers turned on.
Stacy, who was clutching her knife so hard her knuckles were white, muttered, “They won’t come when the sprinklers are going like this. Can’t we just sneak away now? Everyone else is out, they’ll be safe now.”
Ava sighed. God, she wished they could do that. Ava looked to Faith and groaned as she said to Stacy, “Stay if you want or leave. You’re welcome to do either, but we can’t leave those monsters out there alive to kill and take people. You’re welcome to go, really. I actually advise you to. But I’ll be staying.”
Ava sighed. She hated fighting, but she wouldn’t let the fucking demons win. “You can go, Stacy. I’m staying with Faith, so pass me one of your ice knives, but keep your other ones. If you follow the crowd now you can get out.”
“I’m going to go with Stacy,” Amie added.
Stacy looked at Lexie, who shook her head. “You two go. I’m staying. I need to help.”
Stacy nodded and handed one of her ice knives to Ava, then she and Amie ran, joining all the people rushing out. Crap, that only left them with six including her, and Lexie was a pure human not mated to a werewolf. At least Kirby was mated to Rane and could help control the minions. Erin was slowly learning to fight, and she was surprisingly good fighting with the knives. Faith was frigging four months pregnant. On the plus side, she’d trained with them all since she was six. Sandra and she were the only werewolves.
Ava shrugged out of her jacket, which she gave to Lexie as she wasn’t mated to a werewolf so she wouldn’t have the extra abilities and would need as much coverage as she could get if demons came, because their blood was acid.
The sprinklers turned off, and Faith took a stance and started to count down. She made it to three before the minions came flying in. Kirby stepped forward, focusing on as many as she could. Ava watched in amazement as the minions started killing each other.
Eight massive, hulking, ugly demons came in behind the minions, they laughed when they saw the pitiful group the girls made. Ava half-changed along with Sandra and the demons laughed again. The biggest in the group huffed out, “Oh, this is going to be too easy. Look, there isn’t even one each!”
The smallest of the group, who was about eleven and half feet tall, had massive horns sticking out of his head. The black thorns that covered his body were thick, and his tail was double arrowed. “Let me take them on, all by myself. They’re a pitiful looking bunch.” He smiled, his white and black teeth sticking out more against his bright red skin.
The largest of the group, easily sixteen feet tall, whacked the smallest one on the back. “Sure, you can have a go. They might even just come with us if we leave the wolves alive.” All eight demons laughed.
Ava shuddered and noticed the other girls reacting the same way. It cost Kirby as she momentarily lost control of the last couple of minions. Surprisingly, she gained it back quickly. The problem was that when this happened the demons zeroed in on Kirby, and the largest spoke again. “Well, well, look who we have here.”
The small demon took several steps toward Kirby. Ava stepped in front of Kirby in her half-changed mode. The demon came at her slashing. Ava fought him, turning and spinning. Now she wished she practiced more.
The demon cackled. “Here we have been just focusing on Faith. We thought once we had her we would then focus on Kirby. This is priceless. Tonight we’ll leave with both.”
All eight demons attacked. Ava turned her attention on the largest one who was coming for Kirby. She knew Kirby was focusing on the minions, trying to distract them and get them to inflict as much damage as they could on the demons.
Ava focused on the sharp tail, it was a nasty, agile thing with its arrow ends slashing into her. The demon grinned as she fought it. She dodged his thorn covered, meaty arms and hands that keep trying to grab her and squeeze the life out of her.
She made the mistake of looking for Kirby and the others. Faith was being super woman, Sandra was struggling, but just as she was grabbed around the waist Ava noticed Sara bend down to the still wet floor and all around Sara the floor turned to ice. The demons coming to her did an instant stop, their tails still trying to grab at Sara.
Ava slashed and fought as the demon held his thick, heavy arm around her. The thorns pressed hard against her tough, fur coated skin. Snarling, she cut off his arm, thanking God for her protective fur as the acid blood went everywhere. Backflipping, Ava slashed a demon tail and ran to help Kirby.