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Gaping, she arched a brow at Zavid as he lowered his hand
With a loud snort, he rolled his eyes at her “Oh, like you didn’t want to knock hi like a brat for the last hour I couldn’t take it anylad I didn’t kill hiiven me”
Kody scoffed at the idle threat Because of the laws that governed de hiony for the rest of eternity “You can’t kill him”
“You seriously underestimate le hiht you said your poere drained”
“They’re slowly coh yet for another blast?”
“Stop,” Caleb growled “Both of you We don’t have tiure out why someone separated Nick’s body from his soul and who that creature is Because, let’s face it, they didn’t do this for us Or to make our lives easier”
He’d barely finished that sentence before the room went completely dark, as if someone had flipped the switch on the sun and washed the earth in night shadows
Kody cursed as a new fear wrapped itself around her heart “Please, someone tell me that’s not an eclipse”
Caleb was the first one to the“I’ it’s an eclipse But this roundthe sun And it’s really windy outside”
Of course it was Kody groaned in agony of the portents
Still sitting on the floor, Zavid rubbed his hand against his chin “Does this have any significance?”
Sighing, she gave hilare “Not to anyone other than all sentient life forht I’d envy a cockroach”
Zavid rose slowly to his feet and went into a predator’s crouch He turned a small circle in the room “Do you feel that?”
Both she and Caleb nodded There was no rew heavy, thick Like the hottest sum and rattled the s an instant before a heavy blood rain poured down outside, drenching the sidewalks with red water that ran like blood through the street The winds outside hoith the sound of a dragon’s cry
“Well,” Caleb said slowly “We can look on the bright side”
She couldn’t wait to hear this “And that is?”
“Modern man will think it’s from a meteorite or so and running for the mountains”
“Yeah, but they should”
Zavid scowled at thelanced to the unconscious Nick before she answered “Ever heard the terreat snake? Yeah? What about it?”
“The door on its prison is now open for business and they’re being suether” Caleb jerked his chin toward the“That piercing screech torturing us? That’s the sound of the Šarru-Dara” That was one of the seven deallu Each one was deadly on his own, but when the seven caods could stop thehed nervously “That’s not possible Only the Malachai can suenerals to attack”
“Yeah, I know,” Caleb said, his voice laden with sarcasht Whenever the elder Malachai dies, his generals are suether from their prisons for one task … to end the world”
“What?” Zavid breathed in disbelief “Are you serious?”
Kody gave a subtle nod “After the death of his wife and unborn child, the first Malachai arranged this as the final ‘up yours’ to the gods to ensure that if they broke their word and killed hied Malachai, can coallu and send them back into their holes”
Zavid went pale “And if we don’t have a Malachai to stop them?”
Kody rubbed her hand over her face as she conteenerals will join forces and suether their armies Then they will cast down all the orders of this earth and rain hell itself upon all sentient beings for eternity And no one, not even the gods, will be able to stop therin at the Hel Hound “Doesn’t itto do to us for fun and prizes”
Zavid cursed under his breath “We have to find the real Nick and stop this” He looked at Kody “How long do we have?”
“Till the new allu will unite and coust “Even if we unbind Nick’s powers, there’s no way he can learn to control them in seventy-two hours”
Kody refused to be daunted She’d faced much worse odds … of course, she hadn’t really survived those, but still … They had no choice except to succeed “Then we have to stop them before they’re freed and can summon their armies”
“Where do we start?” Zavid asked
“Absolutely no clue” Kody glanced over at the unconscious Nick on the floor before sheuseful from our new friend before Cujo blasted him?”
“He’s from 2002 and as near as I could ascertain, he lives here in New Orleans and attends St Richard’s”
Her jaw dropped “2002? Is he the sae as our Nick or older?”
Caleb used his powers to put Nick back into bed, then he buried Nick under the comforter “He’s sixteen in his year, but apparently his reality is very different from our Nick’s Unlike our favorite pain in the neck, this one is completely normal As are his parents”