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Dervish starts to question me, to find out why I&039;m here, how I know Beranabus But Shark cuts in "The attack could come at any minute We need to prepare for it"

He pulls the doors open and gestures me inside It&039;s dark and incredibly noisy The roouys, Dervish&039;s age or a bit older A band is playing on a suitars and druh the world is about to end and they&039;re deterer screa hisat the like crazy, leaping up and down or holding on to each other and spinning wildly Soood natured They&039;re drawing blood, but they don&039;t care - that just adds colour

There are s and tattoos than I&039;ve ever seen That reminds me of Shark&039;s knuckles and I look down at his hands His naer, with a black and white shark&039;s head filling the flesh between both thu

"It sounds like a dentist&039;s drill," Shark yells at Dervish, scowling at the noise "You really like this crap?"

"It&039;s the neave," Dervish grins "The e An-ar-cheeeeeee!" He punches the air with his fist

"Grow up," Shark snorts, then looks down atlike it," I tell hihs "The kid&039;s gotends and the band takes a short break so that one of the guitarists can replace the guitar which he&039;s just broken Dervish uses the lull to filla de to stop him for the last couple of weeks We don&039;t knoho the su to happen here, tonight If we can&039;t stop it, we plan to kill the demon or push it back"

"We won&039;t be able to kill it," Shark says "We&039;re not strong enough to destroy a de it back is the best we can hope for here"

"Have you done this a lot?" I ask

"I have This is Grady&039;s first taste of action" He punches Dervish&039;s arm "I&039;m not sure he&039;s up to it"

"Don&039;t worry about rowls "I&039;ll do what I have to"

"I know you will," Shark chuckles "Now, let&039;s try and find the deuess on&039;t knoho it is until - "

"He&039;s over there," I interrupt, pointing at a e He&039;s dressed like a punk, but doesn&039;t really fit the part Lean andsteadily He&039;s the focus for the patches of light They&039;re pulsing round him in an almost fully formed

"How do you know?" Shark asks suspiciously

"Never mind That&039;s him He&039;s almost done Another few minutes and the ill open"

Shark curses, then starts towards the man with the Mohican Dervish pushes after Shark, and I head after Dervish As we&039;re nudging through the crowd, the band howls into a new, faster song and the place goes wild Suddenly, punks are leaping all aroundand punching everyone in sight

I&039;ht hand I yell with pain Try to get up, but I&039;oing to be crushed to death by a sea of punks

Then Shark is besidethe punks away Dervish picks er than he looks "Hold on tight," he says, and we push forward again, Shark clearing a path

I hit out at a few of the punks, taking advantage of e Then I remember I&039;ve a e I have a better view of the demon summoner from here I see hihts in thepulse at the sa to open"

"No!" Shark roars, shouldering an especially large punk out of his way "We canto - "

An explosion Part of the stage erupts, showering the people closest to it with splinters and nails Agonised screauitarists falls to his knees, face a pulped, bloody ht up in his song, he doesn&039;t hear anything except his own voice

There&039;s a violet colouredof light next to the Mohicanby it proudly, unharers between his lips and whistles shrilly

A dee chicken Three pig-like heads It looks ridiculous, alhable, until it opens a mouth and spits at a nearby punk The spit hits him squarely in the face, then bubbles and burns his flesh away He falls, trying to scream, but unable to

Dervish called for anarchy a few , writhing and fighting before this, but when the punks see the deo coe for the exit doors The hs and steps up next to the demon

"Noe&039;ll see who has power!" he shouts over the chaotic screa to lick somebody else&039;s boots and bon No more! Now you&039;ll learn to fear ets no further The deratitude, spits at thebackwards, the acidic spit already setting to work on his face, dissolving his flesh and cartilage, eating through to sizzle his brain Who said there was no justice in the world?

We&039;re pushed back and hae and surprise He tries fighting theainst the tide of panicked punks I go down again and feel the room close around me This time I&039;m certain I&039;ll be crushed

But Dervish keeps his cool There&039;s h theHe draws on it, barks a feords and suddenly the space around us is clear, punks wedged aside by an invisible force The three of us are alone, protected by a bubble of y, like the one Nadia and the others fashioned on top of the needle of rock

"Shark!" Dervish yells, nodding at the demon, which has spat at a third punk and is now bent over the re up the spit, along with the gooey mush which is all that&039;s left of theforward He taps into thebeside the derabs one of its heads and twists savagely left, then right, ripping it loose