FALLEN STAR | OLD VERSION | BL ✔

CHAPTER 35 | the dendrum ship

TIMELINE: IN LINE WITH CURRENT EVENTS OF KILO AND CASTYR

DENZYL'S POV

"Denzyl, baby, are you in there?"

I let out a sigh as I see my mother's face on the screen.

"Your mom?" Devyn asks quietly.

I nod in confirmation. "It'll be okay."

Devyn looks at me with big eyes before slowly nodding. I let out a breath before opening the door.

"Thank goodness you're still here. I thought I was too late," my mother sighs as she sees me. She hugs me shortly before poking her head around me. "Are you alright, dear?" She asks as she looks at Devyn who nods. The demoness lets out a breath of relief as she walks over to the weary human. Devyn shrinks away as my mother reaches him. "He hasn't hurt you, has he?" My mother gestures to me as she inquires of Devyn.

Devyn silently shakes his head.

"That's good. If he had, I would have killed him. I didn't raise him that way."

"Mom...why are you here?"

She turns to me before answering, "To get you two out. The clan is going crazy trying to find the human. Someone from Hades is coming in a few days to collect."

"What? Hades is coming here?" The news startles me.

My mother nods. "Ah!" She exclaims as she takes the bag around her shoulders off. "Here," she hands me a bag.

I open the bag to see several high-quality lorne.

"Use this to get to Morthram. It has a space station that can get you to a place that's safe."

"Thanks, Mom," I say before hugging her.

"Stay safe, okay?" She responds as she pats my back.

She walks with us to the garage where I keep my hovercycle. I set the bags and our caps in the cycle's container before slipping on one of my sleek, black helmets. I hug my mother one more time and give her a small peck on the cheek.

Devyn dons the other helmet as I swing my leg over the seat. The touch of Devyn's hands on my shoulders startles me. I feel him push down on me and hoist himself to sit behind me. His hands fall from my shoulders and grab onto the tiny hand-rails running alongside the seat.

"Be swift," my mother says as I turn on the hovercycle.

Devyn bows his head in respect as a 'goodbye' as the door to the underground garage opens. The hovercycle hums as we exit the garage and enter the tunnel. I increase the speed as we exit the mouth of the tunnel and whiz across the dark surface of Sendrum. Clouds darken the sky as we speed past the town.

I feel Devyn look behind us suddenly as we leave the town. Feeling Devyn tense up, I quickly glance behind to see three hovercycles racing towards us.

Fuck! They must have been keeping watch at the edge of town.

Devyn wraps his arms around my waist as I increase the speed. I feel one arm leave my waist as the human pulls out a gun. He aims carefully and takes out the cycle on the left with one shot to the rider's chest. Wow, that was kind of hot. Devyn manages to take out another cycle before I drastically slow down.

A red hovercycle races towards us from the front. I hear Devyn curse under his breath as he whips his head around. Only one person owns a bright red hovercycle...Ryiak.

I steer us to our right. The red cycle adjusts to his left and continues advancing. Devyn returns to aiming at the cycle behind us while I rack my brain for a way to evade Ryiak. After two shots, Devyn takes out the last cycle behind us as we near Ryiak. The human gunman readies his hand as he watches the red hovercycle grow nearer.