Winter's War (Her Guardians series Book 4)(42)
“Family treasures. Seems you don’t know everything, demon,” I respond drily.
“Well, well . . . my princess isn’t stupid after all,” he says, looking at my crown and then he turns and walks back into the throne room. I run after him, surprised that no demons try to attack me as they seem to let me pass. The demon king is standing in the middle of the throne room when I run in, the portal is still open and takes up the entire side wall now. It’s getting bigger, and it’s hard to take my eyes off it. It almost calls to me, as I can feel its power from here.
“Let me guess, you came to put me back in the demon realm forever?” he laughs as he speaks, “Your dead great-aunt tricked me once, but I am done being tricked.”
“Yes, but it will be no trick. You will die in that realm, in hell, where you belong,” I respond. I don’t need to look down as I feel my crown’s power stretch though my body.
“You’re not strong enough.” He laughs, and the castle shakes hard, knocking us both to the floor with a bang. I look up as I roll across the floor, seeing the large cracks going up the ceiling, and the ground keeps shaking. I call my power, using the crown’s power to make it stronger and stand up on the shaky ground. The demon king is just standing up, an annoyed look on his face.
“Stupid wolf,” he says with anger, walking away from me and towards the door to my mates. I won’t let that happen.
“Then, fight me and see who wins. See who deserves to rule and who truly has the blood of a Goddess,” I shout, knowing from my dreams that he believes he is truly one when he is not. He turns to face me with a slow smirk.
“Don’t cry when I kill you, at least die like a real demon princess,” he says, and I don’t waste time listening to him as I shoot a wave of my blue power at him as the ground shakes harder, and the room seems to almost tilt to the side. I look up to see him walking over to me as he avoids pieces of stone that fall from the cracked ceiling He sends his own wave of red power towards my wave as he walks, and when the waves meet, it sends a shock wave that sends me flying across the room. I manage to land on my side and quickly get up, calling my power again, and he does the same, shooting a long stream of power at me. I copy what he does, trying to hold my power against his, but it doesn’t work for long. Another shockwave fills the room, and I scream as pieces of stone fall from the ceiling and one hits my shoulder. This time, I fly into the wall and my head bangs against it. I pick the fray-touched dagger out of my belt, but the demon king leans down, taking it out of my hand before I can throw it. He looks at the dagger and laughs, before sliding it into his pocket as I try to get up, and everything goes blurry.
“Silly princess to think you could kill me. You know, I never wanted to kill you, I wanted you to rule at my side. My only family left, and you betray me. I’m four times more powerful than you are, and all I have to do is get that silly crown off you and then order you to go and kill your mates,” he says and leans down to touch the crown.
“Winter!” I hear Wyatt shout.
22
Atticus
“Watch out!” I shout as three demons run at an angel who is picking a woman up off the floor. I call my fire, but I’m too late to stop one of the demons running a silver sword through the back of the angel. He screams out in pain, the scream mixing with everyone else’s on the battlefield outside the castle, and I kill the demons with my fire. The angel I recognise as Chesca flies down from the sky and stands in front of the woman on the floor, and nods at me. She is going to protect the Angel I turn and look around the battlefield outside the castle, which is littered with supernaturals bodies, demons running around with silver weapons, and angels are flying in the skies overhead.
“No!” I scream as a demon rips the head off a wolf with his bare hands, and another, smaller, female wolf runs towards the demon. I pull my air power and hold the demon in place as the female wolf jumps and rips the head off the demon and lands on the ground. I don’t have long to see if she is okay as a ball of fire flies past me, and I jump out of the way.
“Atti!” I hear shouted behind me, but when I turn around in a circle, I can’t see who shouted at me. I turn just in time to see a fray lift his hands in the air, and, to my shock, a tornado appears in his hand. The fray, with green hair, throws the tornado towards the demons running towards us, and it gets bigger as they run straight into it. Another fray woman runs up next to me and puts her hands into the air. Rain pours down on us as dark clouds fill the skies. I watch as she redirects some of the rain, turning it into sharp icicles and shoots them into five demons necks in one go.
“Weather magic, that’s what you can do?” I ask her, and she nods. A loud roar fills the night as I feel a big intrusion to the ward. The demons can just walk straight through it. It must be something to do with the Winter solstice. But, I doubt we will ever know. A loud roar fills the night, and a lot of people stop, but not for long as the demons don’t seem to notice. The tornado is pulling the air from the ground, and it feels like I’m being suffocated as I look up into the dark skies.
“Demon,” the woman screams next to me and points up to the sky. The dragon that Winter set free flies across the woods and shoots blue fire into the tornados. It suddenly comes back to me what Milo said about dragons. He must have called the Dragon here.