Page 199 of Blood and Ruin: The Complete Series

Seeing her today has slightly eased the rage inside me. That all-consuming rage that’s been slowly eating me up and making me want to give in to the madness and burn everything around me.

Draven better pull through and find her. We don’t need to be wasting our time covering his ass when we can be out there looking for her.

The fucking pansies can’t handle a couple of their own, a few times removed, that is.

The old creatures that come from the pits of the Underworld are still just demons at the heart of it. Why Draven and his army of demons, warlocks, and witches, can’t just handle it, makes no sense.

After we leave the link, Draven’s guards are waiting outside our room. All jumpy as fuck. Apparently, Draven told them to get to us as soon as the old demons arrived.

Five of them have shown up and spread out across the island, causing havoc and destruction. A couple have shown up near the club where Rion had come across one, and he and Kai were heading down to deal with them now.

I head for the bridge that sits between Staten Island and Manhattan. One of the guards spotted an old demon near it.

The fucker probably thought he’d take his shit into our territory. Well, not today, asshole.

The shift slides over me. Scales trail down my arms and up my body as it expands and grows. Flames engulf me just before my dragon pushes through.

Towering over the buildings beside me, I take to the sky. Soaring upward, I glide through the clouds and come up over them.

Pulling the energy in the air to me, I let it wrap around

me to camouflage my dragon. If anyone was to look up, they’d see nothing but the bright blue sky.

Speeding up, I glide through the clouds, the wind and energy around me keeping the dark thoughts at bay.

I hear the screams and explosions before I see it. Swooping down, I chase the line of abandoned cars and follow it to the carnage. Coming up to the long bridge, another explosion rings out as a car lands into a pit of flames that runs along its entrance. People are everywhere. Some trying to escape the destruction and others try to head toward it. I fly closer, getting a better look at this old demon.

Damn.

Jax was fucking right. They are ugly, or at least this colossal thing is. Its whole body looks like one big dirty gray rock with multiple heads and arms. Its many eyes look hollow, as if something had carved them out.

The giant of a mutant demon is smack in the middle of the bridge, and there are a dozen small beasts around it, adding to the chaos.

The beasts look like a mix between a hyena and lion, with long pointed tails that whip out at anyone stupid enough to get too close.

The hideous giant is attacking from every angle, tearing apart anything within its proximity. Cars, trucks, and chunks of concrete lay scattered and broken at its giant ass feet.

Supes are trying to get away, some fight back, but most of their attacks are not doing much.

The smaller beasts start herding the supes towards the old demon while it smashes its massive hands onto the ground, cracking it wide open and dragging anyone close enough into it.

Still in camouflage, I glide up and over the bridge. Once I’m far enough out above it, I begin to circle back and swiftly soar down, revealing my dragon and raining my flames down on them.

The giant demon notices me, pausing its destruction. Turning around, it lifts a truck like it weighs nothing and throws it at me.

I drop down, twisting into a spin to avoid colliding with it or any of the beasts that attempt an attack. I take a couple of the little fuckers terrorizing a group of witches out with my flames and make my way back towards the giant.

Circling back around, I draw in my energy and camouflage myself. Just as I get close to the giant, a small beast jumps out of nowhere, trying to hitch a fucking ride. Its thick claws catch the end of my wing, scraping down it.

It heals within seconds, leaving me and my dragon more pissed off than anything.

Hovering for a moment, I get an idea. A crazy ass idea Jax would approve of, though the rest might think I’d lost the plot.

I could destroy the bridge, and cut off its exit, sinking the demon in the process, but it was going to be one hell of a re-build for Draven.

Fuck it.

I wasn’t going to let that demon or any of those beasts get any closer to our territory. And if it ended up pissing off Draven in the meantime, well, that was just an added bonus.

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