“No,” she said, pushing him away as she wiped her mouth. She glared at Alek’s back, “I’m not running away.” She stoodstraight, pulling her arm from his hold. “I can’t leave him here alone.”
“What are you talking about, you’re injured,” Malcolm insisted, trying to grab her again.
“If you take one more step. I’ll bury you here.”
The hand he’d reached out paused right above her arm.
“Damn you! Damn you!” Zaharis screamed at Alek, holding his bleeding hand.
Baring his black teeth at the Vampire, he growled out. “I should have killed you.”
Alek slashed his sword in a crisscross motion in front of him. “ Today you’ll pay for that mistake.”
Zaharis’ angry look turned into one of amusement.
“Will I?” Zaharis took a step back.
Seeing where he was going, Lanias ran forward yelling. “Alek, stop him.”
It was too late as the magic circle lit up beneath his feet.
Zaharis released malevolent laughter in the center. “You will regret going against me.” The black on his skin spread, and the light at the center of his eyes grew brighter.
Lanias, feeling the ground begin to shake, quickly spun around and clapped her hands together.
Gritting her teeth, she dropped to one knee and slammed her hands onto the ground. Just in time as the world exploded around her. Her vines shot up wrapping around her, Malcolm and Alek. Yanking them up and breaking through the ceiling into the air above. The vines drew back and threw them into the air.
The sensation of being shot into the sky at a ridiculous speed had her screaming. Her body hung for a second in the air, the blue sky overhead turned black. What appeared to be a cyclone began to circle above. She yelled out as she was caught in it, her body yanked and spun to the right.
She squeezed her eyes shut as she saw what looked like a car flying toward her.
Strong arms caught her and held her tightly causing the car to speed past barely touching her.
Opening her eyes she met familiar silver ones.
“I’ve got you.” Alek tightened his hold on her.
Lanias hugged him. “I know.”
Together they fell back to earth.
Alek landed lightly atop a building that overlooked the sight where Zaharis had been standing.
“Place looks like a warzone,” Malcolm said as he landed next to them.
The ground of the city was pulsing like a wave, a scary demonic magic escaping the center. The cyclone overhead released white lightning in intervals hitting the ground below and shattering the asphalt. The streets were destroyed and some of the buildings appeared to have imploded from within.
“That’s a good amount of power there,” he said, turning to watch as Alek set Lanias down. “I don’t think our original plan is going to work.”
Lanias, who forced herself not to collapse, the remnants of poison still stalling her recovery. She nodded, giving the buildings a once over. “I wasted a good death on him. I should have made sure he’d died.”
“You can’t blame yourself for this,” Alek said as his jacket whipped up from the force of the wind. His brow lowered in thought. “Right now, we should focus on destroying him.”
The sound of sirens filled the rushing wind as all three turned their gazes upwards in time to see the Veil surrounding the city showing weakness and forming cracks.
“No.” Lanias said in shock.
The Veil had stood against stronger magic, to see it cracking under the pressure of Surrem magic caused her heart to tighten.The destruction of the Veil would cause untold chaos around the world.
