“Don’t even think that I’m not helping,” Kirby said. “For once my power will have some use.”
Sara added, “Think of all those people. That could be me in there, Tray. I’m a nurse, I’m going to help.”
They took Faith’s hands, pulled out their iced knives, smiled at each other, and were about to go inside when Rane grabbed her arm.
“Little red, I really think you need to go back. You haven’t had enough training. Two days of training is nothing. Come on, not tonight, you’re already coming on Wednesday.” He kissed her hand.
Her brother piped up. “I agree with the dog.”
Rane growled, and she turned to them both. “I’m going.”
Faith smiled. “Kirby, minions will be the first things that come at us, so you’ll need to be in the front line.” Kirby straightened her shoulders and took several calming breathes while Faith continued. “Logan, I’ll need you at the back to shut and lock the doors. I don’t want anyone coming in.” Faith then raised her eyebrow at Logan, saying two words, “Use it.”
Kirby shook her head at the odd comment, while she felt Rane’s arms come around her as he leaned down and whispered, “I’m really not happy right now. Promise me that you will try not to be a hero, because back up is a good half hour away, and I will personally tan your butt if I find out you didn’t hide from the demons.” He turned her and kissed her forehead. “Don’t let anything happen to you. I need you, little red.”
They walked into the empty emergency room. The smell of blood was so strong not even the disinfectant smell drowned it out. Kirby could hear faint screaming and moaning. Everyone started to spread out.
Faith shook her head and said, “Not here. Up.”
They took the stairs. As they reached the second floor, Kirby turned back to all of them and whispered, “I feel hundreds of minions.”
As they got closer to the door, the crying, screaming, and moaning got louder. Kirby was terrified, but she knew that she had to do this. Wiping her hands on the leather pants that she had been given, she stared at the door that would lead them all into chaos and ordered herself to focus on the minions. She nodded as the door opened and she zoned in on the first forty minions that came for them.
Focusing on as many as she could, she screamed, “Stop!”
Over half froze, but the rest kept coming. Never giving up, she kept trying to contact as many as she could. Faith moved, crouching down in front of her, getting everything that came at her head on. Jamie and Rane were on either side of her, with Logan at her back.
* * * *
Rane was amazed at his mate as she held twenty something minions back. Knowing they had to act fast, he, Jamie, and David, who he had to admit he was impressed with, backflipped in the air, taking out as many minions as they could. Moving forward, they searched out demons.
Rane dared not look back as Jamie, Faith, and Kane took care of a massive demon coming for Kirby. He ran down one of the halls where the screaming was the loudest.
A demon held two people, one was a woman in her late thirties, the other a man who seemed to be in his forties. The demon was looking into the man’s eyes, and then he drank his blood. The woman screamed and the air around them swirled, moving things, making things fly through the air at the demon; the woman was an air element. The demon shook the woman and growled. “Stop or I will kill him.”
The demon shook the woman again before his head came up and he stared at Rane. He wasn’t the largest demon, only about eleven feet, although he had two tails, which was something Rane had rarely seen. It added to the problem, as the tails were like extra sharp hands with pointed arrows at the end.
Rane nodded to David, telling him to hurry as they needed to get up to the tenth floor and help Wrath. “David, you deal with the front. I will do the back.”
Nodding, David attacked the front, cutting off one of the demon’s hands with his long knives, which released the dead man, and the woman slowly tried to crawl away. Rane went for the tails, getting rid of them first, as they had the best movement and did a lot of damage.
Blocking as one tail came at him, Rane sliced the other off. The other tail tried to wrap around his waist, succeeding when minions came at him, slicing his skin and obscuring his vision with their body and wings. With the demon’s sharp tail wrapped around his waist, its arrow head digging into his stomach, Rane killed the minions. He sliced off the tail around his waist, pulled out the arrow head that had embedded in his skin, and jumped on the demon’s back. The demon bucked, growled, and threw his huge body around, trying to get him off.