The god complex (Book one of The Devil's Daughter trilogy)

Chapter eighteen.

"What the actual hell is going on?" Daye looks at me hovering over the ashes of Ares wrapping himself in the sheet he had slept in.

"YOU!" Night springs on Daye with his hands outstretched toward Daye's neck. Daye seeing Night coming toward him quickly springs up and runs toward the hole in the room.

"NIGHT DAYE! COME ON WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!" Night runs out chasing after Daye the hints that Ares were dropping finally connecting themselves in Night's mind. "GUYS!" Everything is quiet, I don't hear Daye yelling for Night to stop chasing him, I don't hear Night screaming at Daye that he's gonna kill him, I don't hear anything.

"Help me. Help us. Help us help you." The voice is sweet, but then the voice becomes voices, it sounds like two girls singing a song, one better than the other. I cover my ears to stop the song, but it seems to drown me and drag me to the bottom of myself.

"Please stop."

"Help us help you."

"Fire." Someone shakes my shoulder and breaks me from the song. Night looks down at my cowering self, fear clouds his eyes he smiles through it. "What's wrong?"

" Someone needs my help." Night helps me stand to my feet, I see Daye hovering behind us near the hole just in case if Night feels the urge to spring on him again.

"Who needs our help?" The way he looks makes my heart ache, all he does is bring himself into danger, but isn't that his job, to protect me and not the other way around?

"Its just me. You guys need to go and help with Vegas, my dad needs the help." The guys turn to each other and make a face then look back at me. "Why did you do that?"

"Your dad told us to help you, he can worry about himself." It sounds like something he would say, he's so hard headed, he wants no one's help. Sometimes not even mine.

"Alright then lets find a way out of this place." I walk toward the hole and head out of this maze, Night trails behind me as I start in a jog to find a way out.

"Why did you say that?" Fire is a far enough for Daye to grab my shoulder spin me to face him. I shove his hand off my shoulder, I can't forgive him for his actions. He sees the look in my eyes and looks down at his hands.

"She doesn't need to know the truth, I'm here to protect her and that's what I plan on doing."

"She needs to know that her father could die, the poison that Luna gave him is stronger than any of us thought. You have to tell her."

"I have to do nothing." I turn from Daye and run after Fire, I can figure a way to save the Devil and if I can't I'll still have Fire. Or will you. I brush the thought from my thoughts and find and opening with Fire standing outside. The way the sun falls on her features makes her look like a goddess, if only she knew the truth, she turns and sees me there, her eyes darken and the sun casts her eyes in shadow and they look black, it reminds me of the time at her home. A monster she called herself, she was far from that.

"Come on we have to help someone." She turns in circles looking for something that I can't see, I close the distance between us and grab her hand in mine. She looks up at me this time her eyes are silver, she smiles at me, I pull my hand away and her eyes are their dark brown again. "What are you looking at?" She stands with her hands on her hips with a pout on her pink lips, I smile and try to hide my fear, something isn't right but then again it never is.

"Just looking at you and your beauty."

"Well stop it." She smiles when she speaks and slightly blushes. "Where's Daye?" Saying his name makes him magicaly appear from the opening, adding tention to the group. Fire nods and heads off into one of the directions of nowhere.