Fallen Academy: Year Four (Fallen Academy #4)(56)
I shot a burst of healing light into my abdomen, hoping it would stop the bleeding, and then popped to my feet with Sera in my hand. There was no time to think, no time to fully heal, no time for anything but killing the Prince of Darkness, before he pulled on more of his power.
‘Sorry I’m late,’ she apologized.
‘No problem. Let’s end this scumbag.’
‘With pleasure.’
Lincoln had gone into rage-kill mode, landing blow after blow into Lucifer’s face. The Dark Prince’s demons turned their attention from the outer crumbled gates of the courtyard, to the fight before me and started to advance, forming a circle around Lincoln, Lucifer and me, and shutting out Raksha and the baby so I couldn’t see them anymore.
This is going to be a lot harder if they’re about to jump us…
The sound of flapping wings drew my attention upward, and I grinned. The four archangels descended into the yard and each took a corner, fighting the demons backward and out of the circle, giving us a level playing field.
My gaze flicked back just in time to see Lincoln sail up into the air and land hard on the ground.
‘Vaporize this asshole!’ I screamed at Sera.
Her blinding white light shot from the tip of her blade, in a concentrated beam, and cut right into the Devil’s left thigh.
A loud screech ripped from him and he kicked off the ground, but I used my free hand to lash out with a whip of golden energy, and coiled it around his arm, yanking him down again. Pulling up my shield, I made it stronger than ever before. Tugging on energy from places I didn’t know existed within me, I thickened the walls, to make sure it could stop whatever he threw at me. I kept Sera’s beam of light directly over his leg, hoping to saw the limb right off. Lucifer would be a pile of body parts if I had it my way.
Lightning started to snap at the outer edges of our circle, directly in the path of the four archangels, and the ground shook again.
“How dare you!” the Prince of Darkness screamed just as black oil-like droplets began to fall from the sky. Hissing and screaming sounded all around me, and it took me a moment to realize the black rain was acidic. My shield was covering me from it, but Lincoln and the others were getting drenched. I had to end this now, or everyone I cared about would be gone.
Anger flared up within me, and I yanked with everything I had, pulling him closer to me.
“Goodbye, Lucy,” I gritted out, feeding my healing golden magic into Sera, just as she let loose a cannon-sized ball of fiery orange light straight into Lucifer’s stomach. One second the ball was coming at him, and I was pinning him there with my golden whip, and the next it was going right through him, taking out his guts with it. I could see clear through his stomach from the big hole Sera had left there. The demons around us went crazy, hissing and shrieking and cutting into the archangels like they were possessed. Lucifer was just staring at me, mouth agape, open and closing like a fish out of water.
I glanced sideways to the base of a dying tree to see Raksha still had the baby cradled to her chest. Grinning, I stepped forward until I was right in Lucifer’s face, shooting more energy whips out of my hand to coil around him. “I’m going to make sure that baby is raised with so much unconditional love, there’s no way in hell she’ll be anything like you. Pun intended.”
He reached out, placing his hands on my shield as black flames erupted from his palms in a last-ditch effort to fight me off him.
I shook my head and with one powerful lunge, I stabbed Sera into his chest. He jerked against me, and the ground shook with tremendous force. How he had so much energy after losing his insides, I had no idea, but he fought me hard, with everything he had left in him.
‘Give him all you got,’ I told my infinity weapon.
‘I’m part of you,’ she reminded me. ‘I’ll give him all we’ve got. As you’ve grown in your training, I’ve grown in mine.’
With that, an explosion of light entered his chest, pearlescent, golden, blue, and black, and a mixture of everything within me. It was all of the magic I possessed in one entity. His body started to convulse as the light entered him.
“Nooooooo!” His roar was so hollow and void of human emotion, it gave me chills, but I held on to him.
I pumped that bastard full of everything I had. His skin started to turn ashy and black as the earth shook harder, the rain fell faster, and the lightning intensified. My arm trembled with the force of trying to hold on to his thrashing body, and I felt weakness pulling at the edges of my mind.
‘No. Stay strong!’ Sera ordered.
Suddenly, two hands landed on my back and golden healing energy raced through my shield and into me. That final burst was what Sera and I needed to land the lethal blow. As light coursed through me and into Sera, she fed it into Lucifer’s chest. He screamed one final time, before his body erupted in black flames and fell to the ground, which had ceased its shaking.
Yet, I wasn’t taking any chances. Pulling Sera out, I brought her down across his neck, severing his head like it was made of butter. The moment his head separated from his body, a shock wave burst outward with a great force.
I stumbled backward, looking at the charred corpse before me. The rain had stopped, as had the lightning; even the demons had slowed their frenzy.
Spinning on my heel, I expected to find Raphael or Noah, but instead Lincoln was standing there, hands outstretched.