instead of on Nyx. She is calm, no sign of anxiety about her. I hold my hand out and start to form a fireball the same size that knocked Lucifer off his feet.
“I told you, your magick doesn’t affect me,” he says, waving his hand in my direction and making the fireball dissipate before my eyes.
“What the fuck?” I mutter. “Who – what – are you? You aren’t one of mine.”
His glowing red eyes flick back to Nyx, still hovering in between us. “It is December 5th,” he says. “I am drawn to this one. She is rotten to the core, like a fallen apple decaying on the cold, icy ground.”
“Fuck you!” I snarl and launch myself at him, only to slam straight into Killian, who appears later than I expected him to.
“Oof,” I groan as he grabs me and then shoves me aside as he sees the beast.
His furious eyes rake over the beast and then pin me with a laser like focus. “Is this him?” he roars at me. “This is your Monster fucker?”
“Killian,” I snap at him. “He wants Nyx!”
His gaze goes back to the beast. “You take another step near my daughter and you will wish that you had never set foot in this residence.”
“Pah,” the beast scoffs, as Killian launches at him.
I put all of my energy into building a fireball so huge and so powerful it has to break through this immunity.
I hear Killian roar and know that he is facing the same problem as I did. He can’t get near enough to this asshole to take him out.
“Bored now,” the beast says. “I’ll take what I came for.”
“NOOOOOOO!” I scream as his hands close around Phoenyx and plucks her out of the air.
“Such a bad little child,” he murmurs to her. “You are perfect.”
“Killian!” I shriek as I’m locked in place, completely frozen to the spot by whatever force the beast has.
He lets out a loud rumble and struggles against the magick that is also holding him in place. With his face a mask of sheer terror, he breaks free just as the beast vanishes with our daughter to who knows where, to do who knows what with her.
“GO!” I thunder at him. “Find them!”
He doesn’t need to be told. He is already cracking out with a bolt of lightning so fierce it leaves a pungent smell of brimstone in the air.
I take a step towards Shax, ready to beat him to death for letting this beast near my daughter when I falter. A black cloak of desolation drops over me and I fall to my knees. My mind goes completely blank as I sink into an oblivion that takes away the pain and fear and just leaves…nothing.
31
Gregory
“What the fuck happened in here?” Devlin asks as the rest of us land in the Dining Hall.
“Good question,” I mumble as I see Anna knelt on the floor, staring into space. “Anna!” I drop to my knees in front of her as the rest of the men see to the three beings just rousing after whatever took them out. “Anna! What happened?”
Nothing.
No response whatsoever.
I snap my fingers in front of her eyes, but she doesn’t blink or flinch, she just stares into space.
“Not on Earth!” Killian roars, striking in on his lightning bolt. “Not on Earth! Where the fuck are they?”
“What happened?” I ask calmly, standing up.
“A fucking beast that I have never seen before attacked us,” Shax groans, rubbing his head. “Well, he didn’t even really attack us. His magick was like the opposite of magick. Anti-magick? I don’t know. As soon as it arrived, a wave of whatever blasted through the room and knocked us all flying. Phoenyx? Is she okay? I tried to protect her…”
“She’s fucking GONE!” Kilian roars. “That fucker took her. Plucked her out of the air and vanished with her!” He runs his hand over his head, frantically pacing. “Anna, we need to send out a search party, we need to… Anna!”
“She’s unresponsive,” I say quietly. “She has fallen into a catatonic state caused by trauma. I need quiet and time to talk to her.”
“We don’t have the fucking time for that!” Killian bellows in my face. “That fuck has my daughter.”
“Who was it?” Drescal asks. “Legion?”
“Anna didn’t say. I asked her, she deflected.”
“Legion wouldn’t take Phoenyx, he can’t even get into Hell,” Sid says, showing up last.
“Wait. Weren’t you supposed to be down there…” Devlin points to the ground.
“Leviathan is firmly in her loop. I could feel it.