Rane’s Mate(50)
“Do you want me to show you how good I have become, again?” she said through clenched teeth. He went to put his hands around her, when she yelled, “Change now.”
He and all the werewolves in the room changed
She looked down at him in wolf form. “How’s that?”
She walked toward the exit only to be stopped by Arden, as he looked around the room, then at Kirby. “Holy shit! Faith and Rane weren’t kidding.”
Eve came in beside Arden and burst out laughing. He watched in wolf form as Eve pulled Kirby in for a hug, saying, “I’m going to love you. You are so perfect for Rane. Welcome to the family.”
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Kirby stood at one of the five entrances they had made for the tunnels. Rane was behind her, still furious. Jack and Della were in front of her, Logan was on one side, Faith on the other with Kane, Cullen, David, and forty-five other werewolves, and her youngest brother Hayden was at the back.
She took one last deep breath as they walked into the start of the tunnels. They were the group heading to the large room with eight rooms off it. Lexie had told them that they would walk down for about ten to fifteen minutes without coming onto anything else, and then three tunnels would come into view. They were told to go straight if they were going to the large room. Ten werewolves broke off, five for each of the other tunnels.
Jack kicked down the door and before her were easily over one hundred demons of all shapes and sizes. The thing that had her even more terrified was there were over one thousand, she thought, minions. The minions charged them, and Kirby prayed that Logan and everyone could kill a lot before they got to her.
She yelled, using everything she had. “Stop, freeze.”
The minions closest to them froze, which gave the werewolves a chance to move forward, killing as many as they could to get to the demons, who were now joining the werewolves.
The second wave of minions came and Kirby screamed again and again repeating, “Stop, freeze, stop.” She didn’t even stop as she put her hands to her head as it started to ache. It got harder to concentrate on freezing the minions and not the werewolves.
Kirby then heard the command that had her fighting for her life. A large demon yelled, “Kill the small redhead, kill her, kill her.”
Eight smaller demons came for her. Rane and Faith swore. Logan grabbed her hand, and she felt a jolt as he started yelling with her. “Stop, freeze. Stop, freeze.”
Her headache eased and it became easier to focus, especially when she felt Hayden grab her other hand and join in the yelling, and almost all the minions froze. The demons roared as the minions were now easy pickings. More demons came after her, and Rane yelled at her brothers not to let go of her hands until all of the demons were dead and to guard Kirby with their lives.
Kane, David, and Rane stepped in front of them as the first eight demons attacked. Zombies came up behind them and grabbed her as a demon came at her. Hayden jumped in front of her only to get a horn in his shoulder. She screamed, lifting her long blades and bringing them down, trying not to cringe at the sound of her slicing the horn off.
Hayden amazingly kept going, even using the arm that had the horn sticking out of it. Logan was killing zombies, and Hayden was fighting with the demon. She knew Rane was going to be pissed already, so she might as well help. Feeling the demon tail come around her waist, she screamed as she chopped the tail off, and another scratched her face.
Kirby knew from watching Faith the head had to be cut off, and their heart had to be pulled out and stabbed with the ice knife. With another yell for courage, she climbed the demon’s back, which wasn’t easy as another demon was trying to rip her off. The demon got distracted by a furious Rane, and slowly she reached his shoulders, and without thinking it through, she cut the head off.
Blood was everywhere, it hurt her fingers and anything not covered. She thanked Faith for the leather outfit and the cut off finger gloves. Falling to the floor, sharp claws grabbed her by the throat as another tail came around to slash her legs. As she flailed and struggled to get away, the demon tried to reach for her knife, but his hand was chopped off by the scariest sight she had ever seen. Rane was roaring, flipping, spinning, slashing, and got the heart of the demon, which caused the demon to drop her.
She crawled slowly, and stood only to be pulled the rest of the way by her hair as a smaller demon threw her against the wall. Getting up, she slipped in blood and kicked a dead minion. Looking up, she saw a small seven and a half foot demon, the smallest she had ever seen. She gripped the long knife tighter, and the demon grinned, showing long, sharp teeth. Kirby took a hesitant step forward just as it lunged. She dodged and screamed as the horn ripped down her arm. The demon’s head came up and his hand came out, she screamed as she cut it off and tripped over a dead demon. The demon she was fighting laughed then wrapped his tail around her waist, pulling her up. She clenched her teeth, determined not to scream again and satisfy him with her pain. Using what strength she had, she chopped off the tail around her waist and backed into a wolf fighting.