Chronicles- A Devil's Daughters Crossover- Book Two(Published Feb 2017)

Sticky Situations

     "You are all here, because this is a mission that requires each of your skills." Lord Eroch started, standing before them in his rose gold armor.
     "Whoa, wait just a bloody minute..." Nyx started, "Where the hell is Madrina? Shouldn't she be here?"
     "I'm more interested in why he's wearing battle gear!" Euphamia chuckled beside him, her fingers playing with her bottom lip as her other arm crossed over her chest.
      "Yeah, like, what the hell is going on?" The Demon added, and he too, now stood glaring at the Lord of Darkness; and oh did he look scary.
    Over six feet of battle hardened, rose colored armor, covered his massive arms, legs and chest; flashes of red and orange flames covering his breast plate like the fires had swallowed his soul. On his back he wore a quiver, filled to the brim with arrows, and at his feet lay the bow. Long black hair tied back from his face, his brow furrowed as if his mind and heart were filled with concern.
    "You said we were here for a reason, Father, what is that reason? Where are we going?" Zahara let out, standing real close to her Vampire.
     "To Vash!" Her Mother's voice echoed throughout the room, and then the light, and then the female herself.
     Lord Eroch took to her side, kissing her cheek and whispering something into her ear as they all waited to hear more. Vash, was a forbidden zone. She had made it so, after she had caused the Vashian's to leave their home world and seek out another. 'They have ruined the paradise I gave them! Their greed so strong, their anger towards each other, too great! They have traveled far from the path that was set out for this world, and it shall have to be corrected if we are to maintain balance! '
   The Lady of Light had done a lot of things, 'To maintain the balance!'  but had she known then, that in trying to prevent war from breaking out before, she had most certainly caused the Kalvashian uprising that was happening now, and only enhanced their progression into the enemy's clutches?
    Kember spoke of such an uprising, Tanin and Kion had told them as much, before they were shipped off into the dungeons below. Most of the Kalvashian people had been rescued or had been killed; but those who they had captured, now believed what the enemy had told them. Ellaria was now their enemy, and they would try and turn as many of their people as they could... 'She sent us away so she could start again! She took our homes from us, murdered those who refused to leave, and for what? Balance? No, my friends, she did it because she is a God, and Gods think that they rule it all!  We worshiped her, and she took from us, everything. We adored her, and she ravaged our lands and brought death to thousands... No, I will never worship another false God! I, will never allow another to abandon my people, and I have help!'
     Help? Brain washing and war, were help?
     "Malice?" Lord Eroch's voice caught her attention, and brought her mind back to reality. "Are we boring you?"
     "Point, slash, dodge the blood! I hear you!" She sighed, and slinked towards a chair. "I may be ass backwards tired, but I'm with ya!" 
      "Ass backwards in better than no ass at all!" Nyx chuckled, and Malice shot his grin.
     "I could still lay you out flat!" She added with a soft chuckle.
      Lay him out flat and climb on.... Whoa now! This was the war room, not some sleaze hut, but Nyx's giggle from across the room had her shaking her head. Fucking Demons!
    "Are we done?" Mia rolled her eyes at them, and then turned back to her Mother. "The IceFields are dangerous, there are Werewolves in Rhodan..."
     "There are Shadows in Seldan..." Nyx added in.
     "And you will avoid both cities, at all costs!" Lady Ellaria glared at them both. "There will be no little peeks, no innocent glances... You will both, keeps yourselves far away from Roselle and her so called, Mother!"
     Wow! That was one pretty intense emotional outburst, and then the glare she gave Lord Eroch, before Mia continued in her reply; ouch! Malice couldn't help but wonder just how much trouble he had gotten into for that little stunt.
    "Fine!" Nyx growled back.
    "The Ice Fields are still dangerous!" Mia argued, "No one goes that far North!"
     "Precisely! But I am confident, that you will be able to navigate them!" Her Mother smiled at her.
      "Thanks! I think?" Mia grumbled.
     "Malice, you will go with her..." Lady Ellaria called out, and Malice nodded her head as she sat in her chair. "As will Nyx..." She paused again as he nodded his head with a sly grin on his face.
    "There will be dancing this night, my Lady!" He replied.
    "I am sure there will be!" She smiled back at him, and turned to Zahara. "You will go, as they will need you vision! There are too many questions on Vash, too many, hidden images." And Zahara smiled in return.
    "Of course!"
    "I too, will go with them!" Markus cut in, "I fight best in the cold!" He added with a grin.
    "As I thought you would!" She smiled at them both as his arm went around Zahara's shoulder.
    "What about the Angel?" Malice let out, "Where's Nissa? And Madrina?"
    "Madrina will be staying to watch over Kember, and Nissa will be staying with her." Lord Eroch cut in, before anyone could say anything else.
    "And Kalin?" Navina inquired, "When Kember wakes, will she remember what, they, wanted her to remember? She will freak if Kalin is here!"
    "Kalin will be leaving shortly!" Ellaria replied with a sigh, "There is a place for her among the Isles, she will be safe and waiting for Kember to come to her!"
    "Thank you!" Malice replied with a nod. "If she doesn't know the truth, it is best that we keep them apart for the time being!"
    "So, who else is going?" Nyx asked, eyeing Lync up and down. "We bringing the, what do we even call you, my brother?" He cocked a brow at the male who stood quietly behind Navina.
    "I don't know, but when I find out, I'll let you know!" Lync chuckled, and put his arms around Navina. "But I go, where she goes, no questions, no arguments!"
    "As any true mate would!" Lady Ellaria smiled.
    "Yeah, we'll figure you out soon enough! And we'd be stupid to leave you behind! We'll need that bad ass in you to hold back and fuzzies we find along the way!" Lord Eroch bellowed, but no one else was laughing.
     "What do you mean, we?" The Demon choked out.
     "Lord Eroch will be joining you all!" Lady Ellaria told them with a smile, "No questions, no arguments!" She added, when Mia began to protest. "Too long we have sat back in the council chambers, it is time our kind truly stepped out there, and put our faces on the front lines!"
   "Our Faces?" Zahara cut in, "You too?"
    "There is another matter I must deal to, but trust in the fact that I will not be alone! There are 'others' who accompany me, for what was once a way to glance at time, has become nothing more than a guild of mind numbing traitors."
    "You're going after the Order!" Malice cut in, and Ellaria smiled.
    "You always were smart, but even you, Malice, will need some help! Which is why I have arranged for someone to meet you there! She will guide you through the Ice Fields!"
    Well, wasn't this just peachy. With everyone in a uproar, the room echoing with Why's and You Can'ts, it was beginning to dull her senses. Who, was out there? Who, was she?
    "Enough!" Malice let out, unable to concentrate with all that racket. "The Lord and lady have said their peace, and their words are unbreakable...." She sighed, "So let's get this show on the road! I'm itching for a snowball fight!"
     "Thank you!" Lady Ellaria smiled, as the light filled the room and she disappeared, the others following close behind her, shaking their heads.
   Oh, this was going to be such fun, Malice thought to herself as she readied in her room, they would be bringing Kember back here soon, and she would be waiting for Malice to return from Vash, a forbidden world. She had changed her armor to the variegated colors of white, gray and silver, looking quite sharp with her blonde and silver hair very much like the Queen of Winter as her husband's people had named her. "Perhaps turquoise accents?" She grinned to herself, adding a hint of color to her look, so she wouldn't look like a walking snowdrift.
   "Wow Mal, you look all regal." Came Nyx's soft voice and she deployed her wings in the same color pattern.
  "The other day, when you said I should get down off of Eroch's throne, something about not being the Queen of Darkness?" She eyed him up and down, "Well I've had many names in many lands, but My favorite comes from Reh's people, the Isrealites, they call me in Hebrew, Malka Juoref, the Queen of Winter."