The Moment to Fight

Chapter 12

Kiera

With one last look at Trev, I climbed to my feet and faced the demon. I was having a hard time concentrating on anything except Trev. He's protected me ever since I met him and we're just leaving him to suffer.

While I wasn't paying attention, the demon charged right at us. An arm swept across my stomach and shoved me backwards behind a solid body. Declan.

Jeez for all the times he's saved me and came to my aid you would think that he didn't hate me.

Pushing that thought aside, I peaked under Declan's raised arm in time to see the demon struggling against an invisible wall. Declan's body began to shake under the effort of keeping the wall up.

Sweat dripped down the sides of his face and he began to tremble even harder. I had to do something, quick.

I moved out from behind his lean body and stood next to him, copying his stance. I concentrated on the wall and blocked everything else out. I don't know how Declan made the wall, I just knew that I needed to help keep it intact so he could go banish the demon.

Declan stopped shaking and an infinite amount of force was placed on my body. I strained against the weight of holding up the wall that I took out of Declan's hands. I don't know how I did it, but that's not important right now.

When Declan saw that I was the one holding up the wall, he looked as surprised as I felt. Faster than my eyes could track, he sprinted to the wall and with Quinn's black goo, he poured the slime all over the tiger demon. It roared and clawed at the wall, putting cracks through the structure and threatening to collapse it.

I knew I wouldn't be able to hold this up much longer. I had dropped to me knees a while ago and felt like I was on the verge of passing out.

One look at Trev made me realize that I had to stay strong and keep the wall up long enough for Declan to kill the demon.

By now, the black goo had covered the entire demon's body and it was writhing on the floor, the stench of burning flesh made my nostrils flare. Still using the black goo, Declan formed a spear and plunged it directly into the demon's heart where it laid still for a moment before disappearing.

I dropped the wall and crumbled in a ball on the floor, breathing heavy. My tank top had been soaked with my sweat and stuck to my body. I saw Trev's labor breathing and his ashen skin color. He was on the edge of death.

Picking my head up, I started to crawl over to him. I never made it. Someone plucked me off the ground and I heard a different voice.

"Shit. I need a Medic!" A panicky Coordinator Vlad yelled.

"I'm taking Kiera to the infirmary right now," the voice holding me said.

"Go right away, Declan, and please get yourself checked up, too," Coordinator Vlad said.

"No! Take Trev, he needs help right now!" I tried to reason.

"Help is coming faster than I can bring him," Declan said gruffly.

"Then let me stay here with him. Go to the infirmary without me," I said.

Declan spun around and left Trev on the floor with me in his arms.

For what felt like the millionth time, I banged my fists repeatedly on his chest even though I knew it was useless. He probably couldn't even feel me doing it.