ColorBlind (Book #2 of S.H.A.D.E.) ✔

The Taste of Blood

24.

Copper and Onyx drop the cases and ready their guns.

They can't have much bullets left.

I try to work the heat up again, but I am spent, and I am dangerously close to losing my sight.

"Copper," I say anxiously, moving towards him.

He immediately catches onto my problem, reaching a hand out to steady me. "You can't see?!"

"Barely," I try to keep the panic out of my voice this time. "It will pass."

The marching grows closer.

"We need to get out of here!" Onyx urges, backing up and gathering the cases. "Is there a vent or something in that room?"

Copper grabs my hand and leads me into the room with him. "We need to barricade the door."

"I just pushed everything to the back," I groan, feeling helpless.

And now the March is only around the corner.

"Get behind me," Copper says low, pushing me behind him and aiming his gun.

Onyx aims again as well, and although I can't see him, I can hear his ragged breathing. He isn't ready to die yet. He's scared.

And that's when I remember Jade.

"Copper, I may have a plan," I say, running around him and back out into the hall.

Jade's body is a blur, but I have to act quick. Copper is right behind me, trying to pull me back. "Ebony! What are you--?"

"The chip in her head. It's connected to Gray. I was able to do it before... transcend."

About five Demons whirr around the corner, running with unfathomable speed directly at us. Copper shoots round after round, and three of them drop.

Onyx has our back and takes the other two down, but then another batch comes around the corner again. The boys shoot, and I place my hands on Jade's mangled head, trying to focus.

It's not working. It just won't work.

I let out a cry of frustration. It was a long shot, but it was our only shot.

"Running out of bullets!" Onyx yells to us, and by Copper's tense jaw, I can tell that he is too.

I try again as another wave of Demons soars from around the corner, jostling each other as they tear down the hall towards us, teeth and eyes flashing.

Copper's gun clangs, the chamber empty. He throws the weapon at an oncoming Demon, the gun moving end over end through the air until it strikes his target in the forehead, knocking the monster off balance. He picks up Jade's gun and begins firing again. I stop trying to transcend long enough to skid one of my guns across the floor to Onyx who immediately begins firing shot after shot.

FOCUS! I internally scream at myself. I was electrocuted the last time I was able to transcend to everyone, would I have to be in pain again?

Fine. I concentrate harder, my nose starting to gush out black blood again. My head starts to tremor, my teeth bashing together.

Where are you, you piece of shit? 

Click.

I am in my Blank Room, the images still floating around.

But instead of Copper to greet me in the center of the room, there stands a confused Gray.

He is disheveled, no longer as suave as when I first met him. His hair is sticking out like his hands have been in it too much and his Valentino suit is all wrinkled.  His eyes are darting every which way, turning to get a better sense of where he is at.