Damn, another abandoned.
Yellow eyes glowed, lighting up the path in the direction it skulked. It looked just like the one I’d hit, the one that stole my human life from me.
Anger swelled within my veins, pumping an energy of anger into my hands. Letting out the breath, I launched myself at it with a battle cry of my own without thinking.
My hands smacked into its leathery surface hard. As I made contact, the anger transferred from me to it. The smell of the abandoned up close made my stomach churn. It smelled of rotten flesh.
It crashed into trees, causing them to creak and groan as they broke in half until the abandoned dropped into a heap on the ground.
My mouth dropped open. “I got one!”
Suck on that, Thaddeus.
My celebration ended as quickly as it started. The cloud of blackness perked up into a sharp form and burst at me like a tornado of shadows. It didn’t bother to screech—thank the Heavens for that—but its movements were chaotic, sloppy,angry.
I instinctively stepped back and felt like I was folding under my own weight. My ankle rolled as my foot came down wrong on a root. Pain ricocheted up my leg, but the warm healing sensation followed quickly behind.
Oh, shit.
The abandoned was barreling toward me and I was frozen like a deer in fucking headlights.
A white ball bolted in from the side, and the next thing I heard was an echoing crack as the abandoned was knocked from its war path.
Thank goodness for Blaise.
“Anytime, Poppy.”
I exhaled a breath, reaching up and gripping my pendant. Fuck. I thought I had this. If I couldn’t hold my own against an abandoned, I wouldn’t have a chance with impressing the Order of the Void.
The black blur was up and charging at Blaise a second later.
Cocking his head to the side, Blaise extended his arm in front of him. As the abandoned reached him, he plunged a hand into its chest, crushing a yellow orb. The yellow light that combusted was smaller than the green had been, but it disappeared nonetheless.
Blaise blinked, staggering back from where he’d obliterated it.
I ran over to him and placed a hand on his forearm. “You okay?”
He blinked a few more times and shook his head. “Bloody hell, this thing was...angry? What was that?”
I gave him a sheepish grin. “Imayhave blasted it with my anger.”
“That’s my girl,” he rasped, and my heart thumped hard against my ribcage. “Don’t freeze up. If you can’t fight it, leg it.”
Blaise disappeared in a blur, and I was left on my own again.
I was all for the wholestick together because in horror movies, if you split up you diespiel, but the guys insisted it was better to separate and pick them off one by one. The abandoned that lingered in the forest stuck close by each other, so having us split up made itmore efficientto take them out.
Fucking wimps.
I started hunting once again.I couldn’t let myself freeze up.That was the second time I had to be rescued.
Maneuvering around a huge pine tree, I spotted a green-eyed abandoned charging toward Kai. A chill shot down my spine as I noticed Kai had his hand inside a yellow-eyed one, obliterating it, unaware of the green-eyed one closing in.
Fucking move, Lilith.
Now.
It was getting closer.
