Jinxed (Completed)

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We spend the day hanging out and talking about life and how crazy everything has become. Then, when it gets closer to night, there's a sudden knock on the door. I glance out the window, but it's still daylight. It can't be Dylan yet.

"Weird," says Cassie.

She gets up and answers the door. A woman stands there, wearing all black, and her blonde hair is tied up in a neat bun. Cassie gives her a confused look.

"I'm sorry to barge in like this," the woman says with a thick British accent. "But I think it's imperative that we converse right now. Especially when so much is at stake."

"Wait, what's at stake?" I ask.

She looks around. "Can I come in?"

Right as I say yes, Cassie says "No" and slams the door. She looks at me.

"That was a demon. We have to get out of here."

"Not without him," I say. "Dylan will just end up walking into a trap without us telling him or something. We can't just up and leave him when it's convenient."

"We know, we aren't going to leave him," Maya assures me. She looks at Cassie. "What are our options besides running?"

"Staying and fighting I guess, but I don't know," she says. "It could be a bad idea for us to try and fight."

"Well its also a bad idea to leave," Maya says.

The demon woman starts to knock on the door again. Cassie sighs and her shoulders slump forward, and she looks at the door  again and frowns. "Maybe we could ... " Her voice trails off. She then opens the door and the demon woman stumbles back, looking startled.

"Can I come in?" she asks again.

"Yes."

"Cassie, what?" I ask.

The woman comes in the room and looks at us. Then she starts to shapeshift right in front of us, taking on the form of a lion. She snarls at us, and her face opens up in four different segments, like someone drew lines across her face, and then cut her face apart or something.

She lowers herself down so her stomach is close to the floor and she jumps at us. Cassie swings a powerful roundhouse kick to the side of the demon's head. Cassie then grabs the demon woman's head and smacks her against the wall.

The force of the woman's head hitting the wall is enough to make her morph back into human form.

"Jesus, Cassie," Maya mutters. "What the hell you've been drinking? Chuck Norris juice?"

Cassie snorts. "No, I've just been fighting these assholes for a long damn time."

Kaia, get to Dylan as fast as you can.

I run for the door, and Maya comes after me.

"What's wrong, Kaia?"

"Dylan. He needs help."

We run outside, and Cassie follows us. And then we make a beeline for the woods. And then we see it. Dylan is still in his hawk form, but he's fighting a large panther-like creature.

And as the sun sets, Dylan starts morphing back into his human form. Soon, the pain of his transformation will be too much for him to fight with, so he won't be able to fight back.

I pick up a fallen hunk of wood, and smack the panther in the face. It roars at me, and Dylan dives at the panther. I think time freezes. The monster is leaping at me and Dylan, and then Maya and Cassie are running, and they grab the monster, yanking it off balance.

Dylan cries out in pain as he starts to change back, and the beast drags its claws down his arm. I pick up the fallen log, and whack the monster in the head, once, then twice. It staggers back, and I strike it again and again.  I then get ready to bring the wood down on the monster's head.

It swats at me and the claws rake down my leg  and cuts open my leg. I scream and stumble, falling on my butt, and the monster lunges at me. Dylan has stopped morphing and he hits the thing in the face, and this time, it is knocked out.

"Kaia?" Dylan asks.

"Are you okay?" I ask.

"Yeah, you?"

"I will be," I say.

Maya and Cassie come over to us, and Dylan sweeps me into his arms, and carries me towards the car. We pile inside and then get the hell out of there.