intruding a fallen gathering, please leave,” Thonyn said. He is such a douchebag.
Astin looked at Thonyn and smiled. “Yes, I know. As a fallen it is my right, and to see your faces brings me much delight. Now, hellhound, why don’t you show us our new future.” He looked at me. I glanced at Max and the others, not sure if that would be a good thing.
“It’s okay, Kasadya,” Chax encouraged and nodded to me. These were my friends, my family, by exposing them like this I could bring down the wrath of the fallen. What if they attacked us? We’re good, but we would need a miracle to survive all of them. Could I place them in such danger? How was I going to protect them? From what I have seen, the fallen don’t do well with new things. I stood there looking at my friends, my heart broken and displaced. I knew what was going to happen if we did this, I couldn’t take that chance with them.
“Kasadya, I will not let harm come to them. I promise you,” Chax whispered in my ear. He was standing at my side. I turned to look at him; his eyes showed confidence, confidence I did not have in my fellow fallen. For some strange reason I believed him. I returned my eyes to Max, Ben and Ryan, and nodded to them. Max was the first to transform, spreading his wings wide and high. Then Ryan joined him, followed by Ben. Again the freaking gasping and stuff broke out in the crowd, the loudest coming from Jules and Thonyn.
“It’s a miracle,” Annabelle said next to me, and shocked me into silence. What the?
“It is no miracle!” Jules yelled again, kicking me back into pissed off mode. Annabelle lifted her head, and looked up at Jules. Her green eyes sparkled with the fury she was containing, but there was sadness, too.
“To you, Jules, it would appear to be a problem. But to me, the last of my kind, it is a miracle. If only we found this before the dragons were extinct, before …” she trailed off, tears running down her face. OMG she was the last one, and dragons? I’d never heard anyone speak of dragons before, but they wouldn’t because they don’t exist anymore. And I also know why she called it a miracle. Maybe we can’t have pure griffon fallen, but we can have half-breed ones. Astin came to soothe her, kissing her on the cheek.
“You will let our kin be destroyed by a demon lover?” Jules asked again, and at that I turned to look at her.
“What the hell are you taking about now?” I threw at her. She turned her poisonous eyes on me, and I could see the delight in them. This was her counter attack; she is going to use me to win this debate.
“I am talking about you, Kasadya Levourne. You deserted Exsilium because of your punishment and joined the demons against us. Chax reported this himself, when you turned away and walked off with a demon.” When she finished, her face was full of triumph. At that, I looked at Chax. Oh you’re gonna hear it when we get out of this buster.
“I did not choose demons above fallen. Kali Caponito and myself were shifted into Hell against our will. A nightmare demon used a charm placed in the Hellhouse by traitorous fallen to trance her and make her shift into Hell. I shifted with her, trying to get her out of it. We ended up in Hell, where I had to fight demon after demon to save both our lives. I couldn’t ask Chax for help in the club, because they kept Kali as prisoner.”
“It is true, I found her in Hell fighting against others. She was supposed to fight me, but in return freed me from my captivity. She is no traitor,” Caim said, moving to stand next to me.
“She just fooled you, Caim. Making you think she was a captive like you. A demon cannot enter Exsilium to place a charm in our houses. And there is no such thing as a traitor fallen working with demons, except for her,” Jules went on, and yip I did the stupid thing again.
I moved with super speed and transformed in the middle of it. Reaching her, I