The Devil's Daughter

Chapter 26 ~ Anger

A/N Hey guys! I know its been ages. I've been having a bit of trouble with the story but I think I have it now! :) So updates should be more regular again.

Chapter 26 ~ Razakiel

The sound rips from my throat, from her throat, joining with the tormented echoes of every other tortured soul within these halls forming a violent cacophony of pain. A waterfall of agonising thunder drowning the tunnels in an ever growing rumble, rising inexorably toward a crescendo. Screams swallowed by screams swallowed by screams until nothing is left but...Silence. Terrifying, inexplicable silence where anything and everything could be waiting in the shadows to fill it. And in so many ways the silence is worse.

I can still feel the echoes of her pain searing my skin and yet the feeling or her mind brushing mine is gone. Vanished. As if she's...I shut that thought down before it can reach the conclusion I refuse to even contemplate. An yet I know for Abby it might be better if it were true. Lucifer wouldn't be able to torture her anymore. He wouldn't be able to use her against everything she loves.

And yet as I stride from one side of the small space to the other again and again all I know is that she needs to be alive. I need to find her. I need to save her. But most of all I need to make that scene I saw in her mind a reality. I have to get us both out of this alive and make sure she is safe so no one can ever hurt her again. The image of Abby safe within my arms has burned itself deep into my mind mere moments after it played out in Abby's mind and I can only hope that it remains there forever even after I get her back.

"Zak, stop pacing. We'll get her back but you're not helping her right now. And you're making more noise than we can afford down here." Isa's whispered words drift through the dark space almost inaudible beneath the ever present torrent of agony rumbling like a huge beast stirring from slumber. And yet, somehow, they seem too loud, too gentle. Out of place in this pit of evil.

"You shouldn't have spoken aloud," Milli's whisp of a voice is barely a vibration on the air and yet it holds an edge of dread that sets me instantly on edge, "It's too late now they'll be here soon."

"Who?"

"What are you talking about?" Our words tumble over one another as we all try to understand what Milli is trying to say; hoping without hope that that she doesn't mean what I think she does.

"I told you we had to be silent. There have been demons and Fallen searching for us since we escaped them and lost Abbegael. A little while longer and they may not have been searching and listening so intently but they know we are here now."

"So we find somewhere else to hide until they stop looking." Isa murmurs worry marring her features.

"They know we're still down here now; they won't stop looking. We have to leave."

"No. If we can't remain hidden then we fight them. We find Abby and we kill Lucifer. We do not just leave her down here!" I growl,a burning building in my chest at the thought of giving up on her.

"Zak..."

"I will not leave her here with him," The fire spreads as the thought worms its way deeper into my mind, burning through my body and into my limbs; a raging inferno that leaves nothing in its path but ashes,"If you want to leave then leave but I need to find her and protect her from him. I won't fail her again."

"You won't be leaving for long. You just need to fly the others back to the surface and wait until I can find a safe place for us to stay while figure things out."

"How is that going to help? They'll just find us again."

"No, you wait till they get here. As soon as they see you, you take off. I'll hide they won't even know I'm here. Lucifer will think we have all gone and that we have no way back in unless we come through Stagnum Ignis again. But as soon as I find a safe place I'll call you and all you have to do is fly to where my thoughts are located. They won't be looking for us and we'll have time to find a way to get Abby back."