Tiller shrugged. “I needed to make sure we’re not blamed for the destruction.”
“I hate you,” Castian shouted as he lifted his cane in time to deflect a corner of a building that was tossed in their direction. “So, what’s the plan, we obviously can't injure them until we have the weapons from Alek’s kids.”
“We’ll help.”
The four men, including Roni, all looked up to find The Unseelie standing in front of them.
Jion glanced over his shoulder with a dangerous grin. “The Witch demanded we do something.”
“You don’t have to tell them everything,” Lyon said as he moved forward, his grey-colored ponytail swinging.
Jion pouted. “But it’s fun, they would be dead without us.” He pulled something from his back as he whined. He spun it in his hands; it was a pure thin spiked Staff. Only the tip was purple. “I’ve been dying to try this since I stole it from that Vampire’s home.”
He stopped in front of Slo, and grinned, flashing his iron teeth. “Promise me a good time.”
Slo laughed hearing this, his orange eyes bright. “I promise you death,” he said, punctuating this by cracking his fingers as he moved forward.
With a low crouch, he launched himself at The Unseelie with a roar. “Die!”
Jion spun his staff turning counterclockwise to where Slo ran at him. He tossed the staff up, and he jumped, rising above the staff, and as he came back down, he kicked out. His foot landed on the back of the staff.
Slo’s eyes widened as he felt the staff piercing through his heart; his body hit the ground hard. Jion stood with one foot atop the staff end, and his other leg was bent at the knee while he lifted his hands in the Kung-fu stance of a crane. He looked down at Slo who didn’t move an inch. “That’s it?”
The four men who’d watched were shocked, their silence only broken by the siren that sounded all around them. They watched as Jion leaped off and jerked the staff out of Slo’s back. He clicked his tongue, “Well that was boring.”
Lyon traded places with him, his Kamas in hand, the curved blades looking dangerous in his hands. He turned to face Lrik who’d watched from a distance, he pointed at him. “Are you coming?”
Lrik looked at Slo’s dead body, looking up he frowned. “The wind has changed.”
Lyon followed his gaze, noticed the color of the sky shift. He squinted. “Then we will postpone this fight.” He turned away from Lrik and made his way toward Raijin and the others.
“Y-you’re not going to kill him?” Castian demanded.
Lyon hooked his Kamas on his hip. “Something worse is occurring, the Veil is shattering.”
Tiller and the others exchanged a look before they looked up. All their expressions became alarmed when they saw the trace of shattering. “Someone has opened a gate, but it’s not stable, and something is tainting the wind. It would be prudent to go and see what it is.”
With that, the Unseelie disappeared as well as the Surrem.
Raijin, and the others looked around the area where they’d been. The pure destruction they’d created in a few seconds was mind boggling. The first to recover was Roni.
“I’m guessing that is where we should go.” He pointed at where there was a spiraling cyclone overhead.
Tiller nodded. “Let’s go.”
The four of them quickly found a transport circle inside of The Council building and left.
OYE
“Oye, back up,” Sabina shouted just as she grabbed a pipe from the ground and threw it at three slime creatures who’d come up behind her.
Oye twirled her Scythe on the edge of her fingers. Turning, she cut across her body. Cutting the slime in half, they hissed as they disappeared. She whistled as her scythe changed to a ring sword spinning it around her wrist as she slid across the ground she tossed it, guiding it so it ran through the crowd cutting any slime it encountered before it circled back. Catching it midair, she snapped it down, so it turned into a rapier.
She glared at the ever-growing numbers of slime creatures. “This is starting to get annoying.”
“Tell me about it,” Sabina shouted, running up the body of one. Wrapping her legs around its neck. she threw herself back, using her body to sling the creature away. She landed. Rising, she walked to Oye’s side. “Where is our back up?”
“Cousin, have you not noticed the other chaos going on?” Oye said. exasperated. When Sabina went into berserk mode, she paid little attention to anything else but the battle.
