Gabriel watches as the Forest Fairies gather and follows them with his swords. He watches the woods behind them and takes to the air following them from above.
Duncan has a plan to trap as many vampire Fae inside the Black Mountain as he can. He has made it his job to know this mountain and all of its secrets. He shows Sam the image he has in mind and her eyes glow white as she uses her second sight to guide their every move. The Forest Fairies are the bait as they run straight inside the tunnels followed by the vampire creatures.
As they enter the caves, beasts from beneath the earth break through the ground grabbing at their paws as they run by. One fairy is caught by its leg and bitten deeply. Her scream of pain causes the beasts to writhe in pain from the cry. The rest of the pack gather around her ripping, snarling and fighting back the dark creatures.
Gabriel drops down with his swords and chops the heads off of those threatening the fairies. He rushes to the injured fairy and slices his palm open dripping his angelic blood onto her paw. The wound begins to glow, and she shifts back to fairy form. He holds his hand over her ripped open leg, and it begins to glow white hot. When he removes his hand, her wound is healed. His black eyes meet her white ones.
“Maybe you do have a use, Angel.” She says and shifts back to a white wolf. He strokes her fur and leaps straight into the air with a smile. Duncan urges them to move further into the tunnels.
Sam joins her gift of sight with the Fairies as they run through the mountain tunnels. She guides them to a secret location.
Duncan looks to Gabriel, “Get back behind the vampires and block their exit. Then drive them to us, forcing them to go where we want them too. The only option for them is to move deeper unless they can move through the rock!”
Deep inside the tunnels, the fairies find themselves pursued into an icy cavern. Puffs of frosty air explode as they pant, out of breath from running. As the cavern fills with vampires and they spread out to attack the pack of enchanted wolves, the fairies gather at the back wall as if preparing to fight. The leader commands, “Now Fae cousins!” With that, the wolves shift back to their fairy form linking their hands and leap straight through the wall of rock behind them.
One of the vampire leaps at the closest fairy, seizing her by her leg, jerking her from her sister’s embrace. They fall on her hungry for blood as her sister’s scream in anguish from another cavern. They are too late to save her.
Sam hears the call of her cousins. Reaching out with her mind she finds Gabriel fighting at the cave entrance. “Quickly, Gabriel cast a shield around the caverns, we don’t want these Fae getting out!” Gabriel closes his eyes and creates a wall of Holy light around the hybrid Fae. As Gabriel rejoins Duncan and Samantha, five demons leap through the shield thinking only of the angel’s blood. They scream in agony as the wall of light burns the skin from their bodies, falling directly in front of Samantha. The pulsing bloody creatures are hungry for blood. They drag themselves towards her grabbing at her feet, she falls screaming as they snarl, scratching at her legs. Duncan leaps forward swinging the sword empowered by the King at the closest one cleaving it from shoulder to hip. He turns quickly severing the heads of the four remaining demons. He looks around for any others trying to escape. The smell of sizzling flesh fills the air as Sam climbs up Duncan into his arms.
Gabriel lands next to Sam and Duncan as he casts a spell filling the cavern with arctic air. The vampire Fae laughs, “I’m sooo cold… We are immortal, fools. Even frozen we will not die!” The leader of the Forest Fairy shifts through the rock to the ice cavern. She stands on the outside of a thick icy wall and stares with hatred at the creature who used to be Fae. “Colder!” She tells Duncan.
The vampires throw themselves at the wall of ice that now lines the inside of the cavern. They scrape and kick, break off rocks in an attempt to escape, to no avail. She stares with her white eyes unblinking and waits until the moment they realize they are freezing.
She steps through the ice wall turning her head in the direction of the first vampire to freeze and screams! He explodes from the power of her voice, showering his brothers in crystalized dust. Smiling larger, she passes back to the outside of the wall and waits. She repeats the process until all within are dead. Then she slips inside the cavern and lifts the remains of her sister’s body and returns with her people to mourn.
“Now let’s block as many tunnels as we can!” Duncan says.
Samantha turns to Duncan, “More are coming!”
“Good we will kill as many as we can and drive them deeper inside to trap them!” Gabriel snarls.
Chapter 22
Reese looks at these beings, the multiple races joining together to fight a common enemy and continues building his power. He will not fail them! He feeds the power to Ariana. She gathers the power and multiplies it. Adding all she can. The power hums as she passes it back to him. His very being vibrates with its intensity. His eyes begin to glow, matching that of his Queens. The first wave of demons attack all at once. They explode from the ground beneath their feet, the woods, the very air
