Fallen

Chapter 29

Eliza

I won't lie, actually seeing giant wings sprout of the brothers' backs had freaked me out a little. I mean, I'd known that they hadn't been human since meeting them. Still, seeing them with wings, that was a totally unexpected thing. I'd almost not noticed Nathan pulling a golden rod from his habits and focusing his power until he'd shot that blue light into the air.

"What the hell?" I asked in confusion. The blue light of Nathan's power began to encase everything in the city like a layer of cling wrap. It was so thin it was almost invisible, but I could feel its strength vibrating in the air around me, and it was massive. The golden rod glow with intricate characters so brightly that the blue had almost become white. Nathan was completely focused, and sweat had begun to form on his brow. I instantly concluded the power filling the city was his, but how the hell had he come up with so much of it? "How are you doing that?"

"Can't explain," Nathan gasped out, and it was then that I saw that he was struggling to pull it off. His legs were locked, and he muscles rigid. It was taking everything he had to put that barrier into place, and if he got distracted, it would drop. A giant roar of thunder cracked above us, making me duck and look up. What I saw were to blinding lights. One made of fire and the other a bolt of white and black light colliding over and over again in different places. The thunder was caused when the two clashed together, and the blue light around the city flared every time, as if it was being tested by an unseen force. After a minute or so, I could feel it. The fight above was sending down shock waves, and they were growing in intensity. If I was right, and the brothers got any closer, the power they released just by fighting would probably topple a skyscraper in no time. Nathan's barrier would be the only thing that kept that from happening. Which meant that any demon around would be gunning for him. I tore my eyes away from the sky just in time to see fiery shapes charging through the streets to where we stood. I raised my gun and Toby did the same.

"Can you move at all," I asked Nathan. The priest shook his head. "Damn, Toby, stay close to him. We can't let those things get too close."

"Right," Toby said fiercely. I noticed his gun was different than before. It was bigger, much bigger. It was a .50 caliber handgun! If that didn't put a demon on its ass I didn't think anything would. I nodded my approval and waited for the first blaze to come into range. The sidewalk under its feet had begun to melt as it charged, I guess the ground wasn't covered by the barrier, and the grass began to burn as it approached. I aimed for the ugly things heart and fired, using a small, infused shot on this one, and firing two more times after that, each one hitting it hard in the chest before it could react. The blaze went down, its deformed corpse busting into a cloud of ash as it died. I heard the boom of Toby's firearm and heard a howl of pain and death as he defeated another of the demons. I didn't have time to celebrate. I took down two more of the smaller ones and reloaded as fast as I could. There was not time to fumble. The air was filled with the sound of gunfire and thunder as the battle for the city and our lives had begun in full.

"There isn't much to these guys," I said, finishing off another demon. Toby nodded his agreement as he reloaded and fired on another, taking this one down in two shots. These guys were way too weak to be all there was. That was when the bigger ones, as big as the ones I'd fought in the subway began to appear. These guys took a whole magazine of my infused bullets to go down, and Toby had to take almost two. Each one got closer than the last, and their heat was getting way too close for comfort. I didn't have a choice.

"Get down, Toby," I warned my partner. Toby pulled Nathan to the ground as I reached down deep like Gavin had shown me and pulled out my soul's true power. Blue flames exploded to life around my body and rushed down into the .45. I raised the weapon and fired, a massive ball of blue fire blasting apart a demon's torso in a second and flying into a second! I smiled as the two of them burst into clouds of dust, but quickly swung around to take down a third, then a fourth, then a fifth, and then another two in a line up shot. That was five shots, and I was beginning to feel the toll of my efforts. The fires around me had begun to dim, but I pushed further, bringing them back to full power to shoot once again.