The Haven High Book Series (Wattys2017)

Chapter 18

Donnie arrived in style at the school in the back of Xander's stretch hummer. Xan's Domovoi, Dom was at the wheel and most of his friends filled the many seats in the back. Lauren could have ported him tonight but he'd spent almost every day doing that since the first attack and frankly he was sick to his back teeth of it.

He just wanted one normal night were he wasn't treated like a colossal burden.

The ride over was boisterous and fun. Xander had a leggy blonde by his side who hung on his every word. Donnie thought she might be a sixth year. He didn't know for sure what magic she wielded, but what he did know for sure was that Xander most assuredly had a type; she looked remarkable like Kelly, just not as beautiful.

As far as he was concerned, Xander could hunt for a thousand years -- and he might just live that long -- but he would never find another that would even come close to that perfect flower. Donnie had to chuckle at that thought: if he dared to speak those words aloud to her she would be more likely to knock all his teeth out than to be flattered. And didn't that just make him like her all the more. Donnie wasn't like other guys, he thought the scariest strongest girls were the super sexiest ones.

When they pulled in to the back parking lot everyone started piling out. Of course Xander and his date went first then everyone else went in turn after them. Finally he laid his patent leather Italian shoes on the dark asphalt and when he did all hell broke loose.

There was a blinding flash of red light in the midnight sky like an emergency flare had been shot into the air and out of nowhere Liam and his crew walked out of a port door of his own making.

He was dressed in a tux too -- like he had every intention of joining the party --which was crazy to the extreme. Ever since he bombed the Samhain Ball last year he was on the councils most wanted list and if he dared to show his face in front of all the teachers. Well Donnie had no clue what would happen, but he had to imagine given the collective power of his instructors that Liam wouldn't like the outcome.

Liam waved his hand in a circle above his head like he was giving a royal wave and a whirlwind picked up out of nowhere. It created an eerie blue mist that rocketed to the sky and floated down to the ground around them – like a heavy fog.

Donnie and his friends looked around in shock and awe when they realized that Liam had just shrouded himself and his fellow combatants in Les Mis. Not to be mistaken with the musical, this mist is a magical cloaking mechanism that allows the Fae to hide in plain sight. It was the legendary mist that shrouded Avalon from the human world. Enlightened and unenlightened alike could walk right through this scene and not see or feel a thing. It took a wizard of extraordinary power to construct this spell and he had done it with a wave of his hand.

Brenna, the Inuit Shaman seeing this stepped forward to protect Connor her Gancanagh companion, CJ, Ray the Japanese demigod and dragon shifter, and Ryan the Egyptian Jin all stepped in front of him, Xander stepped in front of his petrified date, as Marley the dhampir, took up a menacing stance in front of her girlfriend Olivia as if to say lay one finger on her and you'll lose it.

The wielder's had naturally taken point in front of the non wielders to protect them from whatever magic might be thrown their way. But all of them fell into a comfortable fighting stance beside each other in front of Liam's crew. Luckily no one had come unprepared. Nope they would never come to a school event again without their full arsenal of weapons, not after what had transpired last year.

Bash the Nubian Dogir jackal shifter was growling menacingly in his jackal form, while Lily the Filipina Aswang stood in her giant Bat shape next to Liam the maniacal Fae, Fury the red headed Xaphan demon juggled fire balls, her and Frost the white haired Icelandic Ice Elemental were exchanging ice for fire and laughing their sick little heads off.