When she threw another water ball at Cass, I snapped back into motion.
Instead of freaking out, like the siren no doubt expected me to, and like I really wanted to, I charged forward with my father’s sword, so much rage coursing through my veins I thought it might consume me.
The next water ball came right for me … but I was ready. It disintegrated as it hit my shield and splashed across my face. A purplish blast of magic shot from the tip of my sword and wrapped around her throat like a rope. The panic in her eyes brought me the satisfaction I had been searching for since these sirens started wreaking havoc on Earth.
I needed to end her quickly so I could help Brock and Cass. While my purple magic choked her, she threw water around the room wildly. In an expert maneuver that would have made Haru and Reo happy, I cut across her abdomen with one slash.
Blood, mixed with water, gushed from her stomach, and I wasted no time in bringing my elbow up to clip her in the chin. She threw her head backward and exposed her throat.
Kill shot.
Bringing my katana up, I cut into her neck with every ounce of strength I had. I wasn’t prepared for what happened next. Hissing steam erupted from her body as her head fell to the ground. Then murky red water gushed from her neck like a waterfall, pooling around her body.
What. The. Fuck?
‘Evie!’My gaze flicked over to see Cass was drowning. The water ball that the siren had thrown had consumed his entire head. Brock seemed to have used his alpha magic to expel his water bubble and was chewing at Cass’ cuffs, to no avail. They had to be magically protected or Brock’s canines should have caused some damage.
‘The seal skin saved me,’Brock told me hurriedly. Ahh, so that was it.
Without thinking, I burst forward and built up purple magic in my palms. I tried to shape it, intending to somehow counteract the water ball, but it just sort of built into a flat pancake. Fuck, it would have to be good enough. When I reached my bestie, I threw it over his mouth and waited. Red-tinged water was rising rapidly in the small cavern, already at my ankles, and I wondered what kind of shit I’d just unleashed by killing one of the famous siren sisters. The hissing releasing from her neck got louder. I worried she was going to blow like some water bomb.
Cass coughed, spitting the water out and gasping for air, my purple magic finally helping him breathe.
Thank God.
“Cass!” I whimpered, clinging awkwardly to him as he was still pinned to the wall.
“You shouldn’t have come for me,” he whimpered.
Nonsense. “You know that’s impossible.”
Brock urged me to stay on task:‘The gate. We gotta get out of here. I can’t break his chains.’
Right. The demon army was marching for the gate, and I was pretty sure the other two sirens would have felt the death of their sister. The water was up to my knees. Being underground in a cave filling with water had my lungs hiccupping with panic. I grabbed the chain pinning Cass to the wall and flooded it with my purple-hued magic.
Nothing happened.
Cass yanked in vain against the chains that bound him. “Just go! I’ll figure it out.”
“Nobody is going anywhere!” I shouted.
‘Evie, you promised,’Brock said in my head. ‘The baby.’
I growled.‘I fucking lied, okay?’
Cass was my family. I had to figure this out. Like hell I was going to leave Brock behind to deal with who knew what might pop up next.
I rubbed my face in anxiety.
Think.
How do I break magical cuffs when I’m a shit magic user?Think, think, think.
Then it hit me. I didn’t have to break the cuffs. I could let Tianna or Cho do that. I just needed to disconnect them from the wall.
Leveraging my foot against the wall, I slid my katana into the opening between the chains of the cuffs and the ring that held them in place.
Please don’t fucking break my sword.That was literally the last thing I needed right then.
