I had no sense of minutes. Hours. It was as if the world had stopped, in order for us to have our moment together.
“I will love you.” His voice shook. “Forever.” Cassius pressed his lips to mine and then cupped my neck as a shot of pure ice went from his
palm into my veins. “Mine.”
Every thought he’d ever had was mine.
Every moment of darkness too.
I wanted to scream as I held Eva in my arms, as I watched her age, the sheer agony of that moment nearly destroyed my will to exist.
The scenes of people dying.
Screaming for justice.
The stench of death was all around.
The darkness was impossible to escape.
I wanted to run, but something wrapped around my feet, thick large black tentacles tightened around my ankles as a raspy voice whispered. “Watch.”
Thousands of stars in the sky suddenly went dark.
And then the earth followed as an ominous darkness crept across the planet slowly inching its way into every single available space.
“No!” I cried. “No!”
And then, as if someone heard my call. A piercing light broke through the dark cloud, feathers followed, so many purple feathers.
More blood was spilled as I tried to move, to join the fight.
Cassius led the armies against humans, against Darkness itself. Against the Demon who refused to be ruled by an immortal king.
Ethan was at his side, slicing his way through Demon after Demon.
Timber led the Demon forces.
I shouldn’t have been surprised.
He was an ancient type of evil.
“Eva!” Cassius yelled. “Take cover!”
She sped out of the way then sliced the back of the Demon’s knees, he fell to the ground as black blood spewed out of his mouth.
And just like that, I watched Cassius and Eva lead an army of five, including them.
Against ten thousand.
The darkness of the Demon constantly called to Cassius, and as the war raged on, clearly it was wearing on him, as light left his face. But every time it did, Eva pulled him back telling him how good he was, what he was capable of, and the shadows on his face would recede.
The Demon, all destroyed but a few hundred.
Sariel fell from the sky, landing on his feet so hard that an earthquake took out another hundred Demon. “Do you concede victory?”
They put down their swords, while Cassius clenched his. He wanted to kill the remaining.
“What good are they?” he spat, arguing with Sariel. “They are the very evil you wish us to exterminate. Yet, you let them live?”