No one spoke, as I expected.
“You guys want a fight?” I looked at Phillip and waited for the puppet master to make his move. We’d both been playing the same game, and both of us had chosen a path to follow. The outcomes were dwindling as we stood here staring at each other.
Seeing all the heroes here at once made my blood boil. Maybe I was a sucker for pain, but I wanted the fight right now.
The more I looked at them, the more I saw her face, and the more I wanted pain. The desire to destroy everything that made her pop into my head was overwhelming.
They all looked at me with a mixture of hate and pity in their eyes.
“Let’s dance, heroes.”
And just like that, the city was a battle ground, and only one side could win.
Everyone matched up with someone they figured were their equal in a fight: Leon and Ajax, Lilith and Monica, Phillip and Ron Presley, the kid from the hospital who could read minds.
Jesse and Echo had taken forms of animals and were battling like ones. Asher had caught the eye of Trix, a magician whose power was over shadows. He could become them and manipulate them. I wished I had time to watch that fight, but Draco was coming my way. He and I were the only true warriors in this battle. He was mine to finish.
Rose was fighting with a newcomer of their team that could play with water and the humans who stayed.
The rest of my army would handle them.
