Retaliation: the beginning

Chapter 30 : "What happens underground, stays underground."

By the time he woke up, Isaac noticed the seer first, standing by the stairs and examining them, her face filled with joy when she saw him open his eyes.

Somehow, that angered Isaac even more than being held captive.

"You're one filthy liar," He yelled, the knowledge of not being able to reach for Clay fueling his anger beyond everything else. "You betrayed the contract."

"And you killed my guard." She replied calmly.

Isaac laughed at that."What are you getting from this? Your sugar daddy must be really loaded." Angry demons are easier to handle than the creepy quiet ones, he thought.

The seer walked, more like floated, towards Isaac, she seemed to move in slow motion but she reached him before he even realizes it.

"You know, a wise woman one told me that a man only tells the truth when under threat."

Isaac didn't notice the knife until it was well rested against his bare chest.

"Harper?" Clay called out.

"You're up. Finally." The seer breathed out, cutting a line into Isaac's chest.

"Looks like we've got ourselves a kinky one Clay." The huntsman hissed and gritted his teeth.

"Oh shut up Harper." Said Clay, voice a dull sound in the background.

"Why go through all that trouble while I could finish you right here." She said barely audible, cutting what appears to be a symbol into his chest.

"I see, so you're acting on your own." Isaac said and his entire body tensed up, refusing to let any sound out.

"You're changing the future!" Clay yelled from across the room.

The seer straightened up and slowly turned to face Clay. "I'm only taking a shortcut." There was no tone to her voice, no questions in her phrasing, just statements. "He's destined to die, and he knows it."

"What?"

"Tell him huntsman," The seer glided over to Clay, eerily calm, and rested the bloody knife against his chest. "Tell him why you came back."

Isaac stood still, blood rushing through his veins, making his head feel strangely empty.

"Tell him,"

He closed his eyes and heard Clay breathe out in pain. When he opened his eyes again, Clay was his only vision.

"Tell. Him." The seer insisted.

Clay heard some shuffling and cursing before Isaac spitted out, "Okay okay!"

The seer smiled, now satisfied. She walked over to the pond in the centre of the cave, stirring its contents. "Oh" she pondered for a moment "Seems like I have some guests."

"Hope you're not considering tying them up here as well, it's already crowded." Isaac mocked.

"Don't worry darling when I come back, I'm sure there will only be one of you alive." she said before closing the door.

Isaac sighed, he was about to say something, probably a lie, when he heard Clay say "You sick fuck."

He blinked, trying to replay what he just heard. Did he just say 'sick fuck'?

Oh Clay was pissed as hell.

The other huntsman never heard him curse before. He recalled the time when Clay tried to insult him; he said something like moron but more in a classy way. Clay was always sophisticated, not like him.

The look on Clay's face broke his heart. But right now he had to pull it together and find a way out of this situation, he looked around taking in his surroundings; the cave was pretty much empty.

"Can't you teleport?" he asked desperately.

Clay shook his head, unlike Isaac he was cuffed with enchanted metal.

There was no out of this.

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The car pulled down in an open space, two feet away from an abandoned vehicle.

Emily was stuck in the car again, trying to be inconspicuous while Brian stuffed his face with a piece of pie.

"What are we waiting for?" She asked getting more and more weary. She didn't sleep much last night, and she had to get up for school early, sitting still for hours and hours made her head feel kind of heavy.

"I'm looking for a way in." Derek responded "there must be a guard here somewhere."

Emily thought about it, Aaron mentioned that , he said that the guard would take them to the seer when they bring up his name.

"How long is it going to take?" Brian rested his head against the window, chewing. "I'm bored."

"As long as it takes."

Brian could feel Emily's eyes on him and the window didn't help any longer. He was officially uncomfortable. "Is it me, or is it really hot in here?" he said, rolling the window down, clearing the air literally, "Just kidding, it's always me." He chuckled, not helping at all.

"This is strange." Derek observed before getting out of the car. As he walked around the abandoned car, inspecting the inside through the open door, he noticed the blood.

Something was very wrong.

"Demon blood." he said motioning for everyone to follow him. "Somebody took down the guard."

"Probably the car owner," Emily began as she and Derek started to follow the blood droplets.

"Do you think they came for the same reason?" She asked and Derek nodded than stopped in front of the green house. "The blood stops here."

"Where's the body?" Brian and Emily exchanged a concerned glance when Derek fell silent.

He kneeled down brushing the grass with his long fingers.

"Underground."