Dogs of War Episode 5 (8 page)

“We’ve got – “ he started to yell as he lunged toward Demon, but a knife appeared from nowhere out of his throat. Demon pulled the knife out and let him fall to the floor, a gurgle of blood bubbling out of his mouth as he still tried to speak.

An alarm sounded and Demon cursed as men in black suits seemed to materialize from no where, coming down the hall at a dead run.

“Back up,” Demon shouted, “Take them down as they come out the door.” He pulled back from the door, giving the men plenty of room to exit, dragging Sidney with him, and planted himself directly in front of her.

The black suits came running out at speeds she’d never seen before, one after another colliding with the men and women she’d come with. Demon had a knife in each hand and went to work, sweeping out in elegant arches, dodging blows and landing one after another on the man he was fighting. His movements were almost memorizing, even though some of them were too fast to actually see. It was like a complicated dance and he was the dancing master. She watched him take down one after another in a graceful spray of blood and flashing silver.

But when she finally tore her gaze away from Demon and the destruction he was leaving behind, what she saw filled her with fear and horror. All around her men were falling, but it wasn’t the suits, it was the Dogs. The suits bashed and kicked with inhuman strength sending women flying with broken bones and men smashed beneath their feet. Even the ones who had shifted weren’t faring any better. All around her lay men who had come with her to help save Red, some badly wounded, some already dead.

Sidney’s hands covered her mouth. She couldn’t believe that even with so many people they were losing. And that’s what was happening, they were going to lose. The men would take whoever they didn’t kill and do to them whatever they were doing to Red, or they’d kill them.

She couldn’t let that happen. Her brain scrambled to think of something, anything, she could do to stop the slaughter that was happening before her and it came back blank, and the panic rose within.

She closed her eyes and raised her hands, and tried to recreate what she’d done in the clubhouse parking lot. She thought of her need. Her need to help these people, to keep them alive, to rescue Red. A ball of white hot energy formed in the center of her mind and she fed those needs to it, she fed her fear to it, she fed her panic to it, she fed all of her love and uncertainty to it. She felt it grow and expand beyond her felt it encompass all of her and expand beyond. She felt it reach out and touch the earth and the sky and everything in between. She felt it grow so big she couldn’t hold it anymore. So she let it go, exploding forth from her like a nuclear bomb hitting the ground.

She opened her eyes to see what she’d wrought but instead of carnage and destruction she saw nothing. The world was completely still and silent. Nothing before her or behind, above or below, she was alone. Nothing existed except for her and the purest white light. And she smiled.

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