Bloody hell! Private demon? Could Kassie have somehow created it?
The thing opened its mouth and shrieked, again tearing through Lyght's brain. Like it was a part of him. "Kassie. Sweetheart. I think that is an Ozeliblis. I think you may have created him."
"Me!?"
"Us. What we are together. You will need to give me all of my power to fight it. Can you do that?"
She looked at him with wide terrified eyes and shook her head. "I don't know how. Tell me. Tell me how!" She shrieked the words, watching it approach, its jagged mouth and matching eyes billowing with dread and darkness like erupting volcanos.
Shit. "The last time, what happened that you gave me the power, what happened to you?"
Tears streamed as she clung fast to his cloak, hiding behind him. "I was scared. I'm scared now! Take the power! Take it! I'm fucking scared of it! Lyght! I'm scared!"
Fear? Was fear its power? It resonated from within Kassie, acting like a hot air balloon for the beast. And was it growing? With every step toward them? "I still don't have it. Try giving it again, sweetheart." He fought to remain calm.
"Take it! Take the power, I don't want it!"
A miniscule portion of his energy hit him and he flew at the beast. The thing swiped him out of the air like a bug and Lyght struggled in its cold clutches, suddenly able to feel its intentions. The monster was using both of them as a portal into the realm. It would devour the two of them and feed on the world's fears and miseries until all were consumed with it.
Bloody fucking hell.
How did it get such a strong hold in them?
The thing threw him to the ground and Kassie's fear surged enough for him to feel it. He hit with the force of a meteor, pavement and earth shattering like thin glass beneath him. Unable to move, he watched the thing approach.
Dear God.
He fought to stay conscious as it pulled him by his head from the crater. The beast's abysmal mouth opened and Lyght struggled to get free, the darkness approaching like the ground rushing up to him. It tried to pull him apart, half his body in its mouth. Lyght screamed from the pain.
The supernatural diamond armor embedded in his tissues held him together and Lyght was sorry Uriel had reinforced his body with it all those millennia ago. Kassie's screams raked him to pieces until he wished for death.
The creature howled like an angry child and slammed him into the Earth again. This time his diamond shattered like fine crystal. He felt himself fading. He couldn't fade.
Yes…he could. Fade. Just fade.
Don't die. Please don't die.
Lyght heard Kassie's plea. If only he could help it.
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Sam watched on in horror as the monster slammed Lyght to the earth with diabolical force. Kassie jerked around to face the point of impact and screamed. Blinding white light blasted from her body to send the beast hurling through the air with a torturous howl.
Kassie raced toward Lyght and the beast returned like a torpedo loosed from hell.
Kassie spun to meet it, both palms up. A wall of clear thick diamond exploded out of the ground at her feet and the beast crashed into it. The creature shrieked and slumped, momentarily dazed before throwing its head back for a pissed off roar.
The thing scurried up the shiny surface and Kassie shook her head, looking terrified. It reached the top and poised to spring over, but the wall grew taller. The thing roared and hurried in hot pursuit of the barrier's edge.
The monster changed course and raced sideways along the barricade like a grotesque demon crab. It reached the edge only for the wall to lengthen.
It barked several roars then jumped to the ground and gave another ear splitting screech. Black smoke began to swirl around its lumpy head until a cyclone of darkness sat on its shoulders.
With a mournful wail, it slammed its strange head into the diamond. Every blow sounded like a giant saw blade on rock, the zzzzzzzzzzaaawwww rattling Sam's bones.
The fourth strike cracked the barrier and shot a brilliant web of cracks along the diamond surface. Another blow and part of the barricade exploded, huge shards shooting into the cavernous hole of the thing's head.
Good God.
On the sixth attack, the wall fell.
No, it didn't fall. The massive chunks swirled in the air as if they were caught in a white cyclone. Sam's jaw dropped as the diamond re-formed. Holy shit. A giant diamond scorpion the size of a building slammed its massive tail at the beast.
"That's Robert!"
Sam spun at the voice. "Tyler?"
He pointed, excited, like he'd been there watching. "He's Lyght's spirit being!"
"How are you…"
Without taking his eyes from the fight he shook his head. "I'm not in my body."
What? But how? Her and Lyght’s bodies were at the compound as far as she knew. Only Kassie was physically present. The odd note in Tyler's voice sent dread through Sam. Something was wrong with him. She wanted to ask how he was there but the earth shook under her feet and distracted her. The scorpion slammed its giant tail again and severed one of the creature's limbs. It grew back bigger!