Kirby almost fell over when Faith elbowed her, which helped her get out of her frozen, terrified stare. “Focus, Kirby. We don’t have time for you to be scared now. You need to give your powers a try. But whatever happens, stay away from the demons and don’t look into their eyes. Pull out the knife I gave you just in case.” Faith pulled out two long knives, almost like machetes. “Go, Kirby. I need you to guard the backstage door so they don’t get these kids.” Faith ran to the stage door with her and placed one of the huge machete knives across the doors, jamming them shut. Faith turned to Kirby. “Get ready, because here they come.”
Kirby glanced up to see twelve minions coming at her and Faith. Looking at as many as she could, she sought their thought pattern and came up against violence, death, and pain. She strained to push further into their minds, searching for any commands. Eventually she found the command she was looking for. They had been ordered to Hurt, kill as many as you can, but don’t kill this group–just corner them. A picture flashed in her mind of a group of teenage boys. This command repeated over and over in the minions’ minds. Focusing as much as possible, Kirby changed the command just as she felt the minions starting to bite her legs and their wings cutting into her face.
She could hear Faith yelling, “Now, do it now.”
Screaming in the minions’ head, she said. “Freeze, stop, freeze.”
Ten minions froze in their spot, turning their ugly heads from side to side with a look of confusion.
Kirby turned to Faith, yelling over the screaming. “Hurry I don’t know long I’ll be able to hold them off.”
“Brilliant!” Faith yelled.
As Faith continued to run and almost dance about, chopping and cutting wings and heads off the minions, she yelled over her shoulder, “Guard the stage doors, Kirby. Zombies are coming. Don’t be fooled by their human appearance. Kill them if you can.”
Kirby’s back hit the stage door as a hand reached out and grabbed her hair. Screaming and kicking, she tried to get out of the hold. She heard Faith yelling at her again to use her knife and kill. Pulling her knife around, Kirby slashed at the hand holding her hair and turned to see something that was once human. Shutting her eyes, she stabbed its chest.
Turning to find Faith finishing up on three zombie creatures, she said, “Wow, you’re a modern day Buffy.”
Faith smiled then screamed in pain as a sixteen foot, hulking demon grabbed her from behind. Kirby stared, transfixed, never having seen anything like it. Faith used her knifed hands above her head, slicing backward. She spun, moving her hands down, then pushed both her knives up and into the demon’s chest. The demon’s scream was deafening.
Faith never seemed to stop as she yelled to Kane, “Get your arse over here now.”
The demon was trying to pull the knife out with one hand and reach for Faith with his other hand, his tail snaking toward her. Afraid to blink because she might miss something, Kirby watched as Faith quickly maneuvered out of the way. Kane ran over, jumped on the demon’s back, climbing to his head, which he then cut off. Staring opened-mouthed, Kirby looked at the chaos around her. Eight dead demons, four zombies, and about forty minions lay scattered on the ground. Injured people were lying everywhere.
Faith and Kane came over to her, smiling. “Kirby was amazing, Kane. I really think we could help train her on a larger scale to freeze the minions, or command them to do other things. Even with no practice and never doing anything like this before, she got them to freeze for a couple of minutes, which gave me time to kill them. I feel, no, I know she could do it for a lot longer.”
Kane smiled at her, nodding as he said, “You did real good, Kirby. Thanks for the help. I now need to know how badly you were hurt?”
“I’m fine,” she assured Kane. “Look after Faith first.”
Kane ran his fingers through his hair, sighing. He looked his mate up and down. “Faith has hardly got a scratch on her, and the scratches she does have will be healed in five to ten minutes tops. Trust me, if she was hurt I would tend to her before I did anything else.” He leaned down and brushed his lips against Faith’s, whispering, “I love you, princess.”
Kirby grinned as she glanced at Faith. “Yeah, she is super-fast.”
Faith laughed. “I was Kane’s shadow when I was little. I went to all their fighting lessons until they finally caved and taught me to fight properly.”
Kane leaned down again and kissed Faith’s forehead. “The army has called in reinforcements to help clean up. I thought since I’m a doctor I would help out too, but only if that’s okay, princess?” Faith nodded her head. “I only stayed over here because Rane would kill me if I didn’t check Kirby out first.”