Hunted

Chapter Twenty Four

Getting into the castle was a lot easier with Marina on our side. We didn't really need to fight as much as we would have if we didn't. The guards posted on the outer perimeter and in most of the house weren't given the protective collars that the inner most security was given.

Once they were out of the way Zale and Xander went to retrieve the knot and the rest of us went to barge into the Vlassopoulos' panic room and put an end to Hector. Kenji was in front with Marina in the middle and me covering the back. This was the first time I got to watch Kenji fight. Bullets bounced off his bare chest with ease and using the weapon I had conjured for Xander he sliced through them.

I ignored the scales that now looked all too real and not simply makeup the same way I had ignored what happened with Xander in the dressing room. I had seen his eyes change when he caught the blade I had thrown to him right before I fell into a magical trance. What had scared me wasn't the unfamiliarity of the red. It was the fact that it was familiar. And that for a split second I thought I had seen tiny baby horns wanting to pop out of his head.

We reached the door of the panic room unscathed and I was snapped out of my thoughts. I would talk to him later. First we needed to deal with this issue.

"The door is made so no supernatural creature they've ever encountered can get through. It's made of every deadly substance to shifters, vampires, merfolk and every other thing they've ever killed. No magic can weaken it." Marina sighed eyeing the door.

"How do you know all this?" I asked.

"Hector and his family always spoke freely in my presence. They were so sure I wouldn't get away so they didn't care what information I heard."

"Lucky for us they've never encountered any of my kind." Kenji smiled stepping towards the door.

He punched one end of the metal door and it bent inwards giving him room to slip his fingers through. Grabbing a hold of it I watched in awe as he peeled open the door like he was opening a sardine can. Once it was off its hinges he threw aside. He turned to face us with an excited smiled on his face. Yellow reptilian eyes I had never seen on him until today.

"Shall we." He said blinking, his eyes going back to normal.

"Of course." Marina said quietly walking forward avoiding him as she stepped into the room. He followed behind and they both disappeared around a corner.

I took one step inside and an arrow was immediately fired at me lodging itself in my shoulder. I groaned sinking onto my knees and watched Iliana step out with a crossbow in her hand.

"Two days ago I was asked to assist a family friend in a hunt in New York. You could imagine my surprise when I saw a portrait of my family's newest employee in the Wilson household."

"Good for you." I groaned pulling out the arrow and whispering a quick healing spell to speed up the process.

"Were you sent here to steal our Siren? Your family couldn't stomach our rise to being the most powerful family huh?"

"I'm not here on behalf of my family to steal anything. And I'm not interested in your hunter politics." I told her standing up. The wound had closed and healed but my shoulder was still sore.

"When I was told you never trained as a hunter I thought they were lying." She smirked dropping her crossbow and walking towards me. "This should be easy."

"Bring it." I said.

She moved to attack me but I step aside dodging her punch and sending one of my own into her stomach. She staggered back anger radiating off her. We continued to move across the room both of us trying to look for an opening getting in as many hits as we could.