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"Either that or he used a gate spell Reated Stacia over here At least with him out of the picture, we can probably take on Van and Jaycee Are you ready to ruiven me While it wasn’t silver, it had a wicked serrated blade "Well, now, this will do soe"

Ca around her Holding out her hands, she began to suearing up for a spell "Yeah I owe Van a nasty fucking roll in soo in?"

They nodded

"Then…let’s go And this ti the for Shade and Smoky to follow me Camille and Trillianfrom behind the trees

Van and Jaycee looked just about like we re jeans and polo shirts--and co steel toes on the out and barked an order

Two arts--they looked like lackeys--stepped in front of the pair But standing between the four dehouls Or zohouls, so we’d find out the hard way

Camille y directly at Van She had a score to settle with hi any time I moved in to help her, but one of the zo off my viehat Van was up to I tried to dart around the fiend, but even though it was slow, it was quick enough to cut off ht

Zoht till they were torn apart They were merely reanimated bodies They had no souls, they felt no pain Ghouls had soence, warped as it was, but zoy, while zo alive that they came across

As the creature shuffled toward ood, solid blades, and it wouldn’t take much to carve up the creature if I planned my attack I was faster and quicker than the zo and hard to stop, but they normally weren’t speedy

A spin kick knocked the creature back As it reeled away, I took the opportunity to slice through the zoans dropped out Darunted but ignored the rain of organs pouring out of its stoth with the dagger As I glanced over toone of the zombies to shreds Shade had taken care of one of them, too That left four

A shout echoed from behind the zombies and a flash lit up the air The next leam in its eye Hell! What spell had Van cast now?

I didn’t have ti lu down on ed to evade my knife as a fist slammed into my side I stumbled back frogled to catch my breath another flash lit up the sky as a woman shrieked

"Camille!" I tried to dart past the zo"

She sounded fine, so I turnedin fast with another blow, but this tiain, this ti the blade out, I dragged it over the top, pressing to break the joint and slice the arain

Before he could turn, I er across the base of its neck, cutting through the vertebrae As its head flopped forward, severed except for a thin line of flesh, gravity took over and the skin ripped, the head falling to the ground Still grunting, theThe body lurched blindly, and it was an easyout the rest

A slice here, a slice there, and the other arers and thurubs, unable to pull therass Within minutes, the zombie was an assortment of body parts Soto move, but the spell would wear off and this tiround once we reburied it

Another shriek--this tiart thugs ju stance as the dearts seelint in his eye

"Coed forward, his chain whistling towardup with knife at the ready, turningas he had that chain, he could keep th unless I could dart in too close for hiht He turned to follow me, and I quickly darted back to the left before he realized what I was doing and drove h for the chain to be a liability He dropped it as he screa the hilt for leverage

He let go of the knife, flailing to keep his balance, and we both went tuer back as he reached for rappled for ht the hilt of the blade down on his forehead A crack on his skull and he let go of the knife Another good crack and his head fell to the side

I juoon was already dead, and by the looks of the rake o at him As I frantically tried to assess the situation, Ca her side, doubled over Sround around her

As I frantically looked for Jaycee, a body on the ground caught ed to drop her--or…Shade stepped out of a shadow cast by the tree and I realized he’d been the one who took Jaycee out He and S down on Van, whose sneer quickly vanished

"Dragons!" He let out one shout and turned to run As Save chase, there was a flash, and Van disappeared Ca her side Trillian was trying to keep her still In three quick strides, I was by Jaycee’s side She was still alive but stunned So around and the er<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>