Kane's Mate(33)

Faith swore as zombies came after her and the major. She swore again as she looked at the frozen look on the major’s face, knowing that Rane had failed to tell him about zombies. As zombies were about to kill the major, Faith yelled, “Fuck, look out, major!”

He turned as she chopped a zombie’s head off.

“They’re not humans anymore. Look how white they are, their eyes are black, they only listen to their demon master, and they have inhuman strength. Focus, major!” she yelled as a minion and zombie attacked her. That seemed to get through to him as he attacked them with renewed strength.

Faith spun, slicing minions, only to smell smoky sulphur and be grabbed by a demon.

“You are the one we really want. I will get my reward for bringing you in.”

Faith could feel his long talon nails sticking into her head as he lifted her off the ground by her hair. She guessed him to be about twelve feet, so before he turned her to face him she calculated the distance to the ground. Praying, she screamed and turned, lifting her arm and slashing it behind her. He roared and it sounded like scratching nails on a chalkboard. Faith cut his hand off, flipping and landing hard on her feet to stand in front of the demon. She managed to avoid its spiked tail as he swung it at her, but his foot kicked her and she fell back, landing against the wall. She silently thanked Jamie for the specially made clothes and Rane for the shit-kickers.

Her hands burned from the demon’s acid blood and her body ached. She looked up at the massive demon. His red skin glistened, his horns were long and sharp. He smiled down at her, showing his sharp, long, pointed teeth. Faith calmed herself, knowing she had to stall as she knew more minions and demons had arrived, keeping the four werewolves busy. Faith felt the major come slowly up beside her. She signaled for him to get behind the demon and mouthed head. The demon laughed, the grating noise making her shudder.

“Ahhh, I see you are getting desperate now, using ordinary humans.” He laughed again. “They are nothing but food, slaves, and playthings, but don’t worry, there won’t be many left when we take over this planet. Our army will destroy most of them, pitiful things. The ones we do keep alive will become slaves, breeders, and cattle to us for food.”

She ignored the horrible images flashing through her head, knowing the demon was telling her this in the hope that it would distract her. He cackled and lunged for Faith, batting the major with his tail. She danced out of his way, slashing his arms, which gave her a chance to get close to his back.

She yelled to the major as she cut his tail off. “Go to the front and try to stab the heart, but whatever you do don’t look into his eyes, that’s how they lure you in so they can bite you and drain your blood which turns you into a zombie under their control.”

The demon roared in pain as Major Black gave her a nod to show he understood. She climbed up his back as quick as possible, slashing his hand as he tried to reach her. He bucked and shook, trying to get her off, but she clung on for life. She knew she only had a small amount of time to get out of the way before he died and dropped to the ground, crushing her. Brushing up against the alley wall, reaching his massive shoulders, she held her special knives and wrapped her arm around the demon’s neck. He grabbed her arms, and just as she felt her body start to get squished up against the wall she used all her strength to bring her knife hand toward her.

“Heart, now,” Faith screamed at the major.

She knew he complied as the head rolled forward and the body fell against her. Using the wall, she leaned back and kicked her feet out, jumping off before he fell back again.

Finally running over to the three crying and terrified women huddled together, she looked down at them. She really needed them to cooperate before more demons or minions arrived. Looking into each of their eyes Faith told them, “Stop now! No more crying. Pull yourselves together or you will die. I need your cooperation to get out of here.” She made sure she looked at each of them. “Get up now, follow me, do not run away, do not touch anything. Got it? All you have to do is follow me.” She turned to one of the women and asked for her car keys. “I know you have a large car that we will all fit in.”

The woman passed over her keys as they all got up nodding at her. They moved past Jamie and Devlin fighting two demons and four minions. Faith could see four demons’ bodies near them.

One of the women behind her yelled out “Stacy” then broke away, trying to reach her friend.

“Fuck,” Faith swore. “You have to be joking. Now you decide you want to save your friend? Fucking idiot.”

She turned, nodding to the major to take over, and grabbed the woman as one of the demon’s tails slashed the side of her face.