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Chapter Fourteen

Dakata

It took but a blink for Dakata to take them to the demon realm. To his home to get reinforcements. He could clearly hear Silas in his mind and feel his determination, but his demon was both impressed and worried for their blissful one.

Dakata hadn’t had time to process everything… his feelings, his apparent commitment, or anything else before some asshole rear-ended his life in spectacular style.

The air shimmied, and there was Christa, with his brothers Luka and Benra. He had but a moment to acknowledge them when Merihem appeared.

“What happened?” asked Merihem, his gaze was on Silas as he spoke.

“Who did Kisha fucking tell about the blissful bond?” Dakata demanded, knowing there was no way Merihem would share something so personal about him without his direct permission. Something he should have thought of last night when he’d agreed to spill his guts to Kisha. The man had no filter!

“How would I know?” Merihem’s expression grew dark. “Has he done something?”

“Who’s this pretty?” Luka questioned talking over Merihem, his gaze directly on Silas, looking at him in a way Dakata had to resist punching him, which would waylay the conversation. They needed help, and fighting would not make a good impression on his blissful one, he was pretty sure.

“My blissful one, that’s not why I summoned you.”

“Well, that’s sad, he seems like he’d be fun to get to know,” replied Benra, adding a purr to his voice that worked to wind up Dakata like it always did. His brother was pretty. Even his demon looked prettier than most.

Christa slapped him around the back of his enormous head. “Give over. A blissful one, if I got my demon school teaching right, is a sacred gift and I won’t intervene if Daks decides to rip out your intestines and tie them in a bow for being a dick.”

“You’re all making a great fucking impression,” Dakata snapped, angry at how badly his family was behaving. “Shall we get to the damn reason I need your help? We don’t have the time to sit around and fucking chat about Silas. Silas’s sister, Wanda, was taken by two demons. Dougal said—”

“Dougal? Who’s Dougal?” Luka asked, frowning at everyone.

“It doesn’t matter who Dougal is,” Dakata growled. “We need to find who took Wanda and fast because she’ll not survive away from her tree.”

“From the forest,” Silas added quietly, his concern making Dakata do something he’d never have believed himself capable of. He draped his arm over his blissful one’s shoulders and gave Silas a big hug. Then, because it was so out of character for him, and his family knew it, he patted Silas’s back awkwardly, pretending he didn’t hear the gasps of surprise or Luka saying, “Who are you and what did you do with my non-touchy, cynical asshole, brother?”

He raised his free hand and made a rude gesture behind Silas’s back. Who could blame him?

There was the sound of another slap as he released Silas, who sniffed and gave him a watery smile that touched Dakata’s heart.

“I’m just worried about Wanda. Please?”

“I’ll do all the proper formal introductions later, for now. Christa, my sister,” Dakata pointed at Luka, “Loud mouth Luka, and big gob Benra next to him.”

“Hello,” Silas murmured, looking at the last man in the room.

“And that’s Merihem, my childhood friend.”

“Yo.” Merihem jerked his chin. “So, shall we get back to the matter at hand if it’s so urgent?”

“It is,” Silas said, lifting the bow he had as if to make his point. “We have to find her. She’ll be so stressed it will use her energy up quickly.”

“Do we know why they took her?” Merihem asked, looking at Dakata.

“They took her thinking she was my blissful one…” Dakata had heard the words back in the forest, but as he repeated them to his family, it was as if the implications of the words he was saying finally penetrated his brain and his demon emerged and roared his fury.

Silas laid a hand on his arm. That was all it took. The comparison between them was huge, and his demon cared and, with iron will, reigned back his fury that Silas had to be in their realm at all, and that someone might’ve been stupid enough to want to take him.

War… he was ready to go on a rampage the likes the realm had never seen before. Rip the numbskulls a new asshole so they’d be shitting out of their mouths.

Nice!

We need to find the threat and eliminate it, now!

“How lovely,” Christa murmured, pissing off Dakata’s human side while he tried to find a happy medium, when Silas was watching him with keen interest and shimmery eyes.

“Merihem, can you feel any new soul down here?” That would be the quickest way to find Wanda, rather than running round, letting Silas track her energy, or whatever it was he could do to find her. The less time Silas spent roaming around Dakata’s home realm, the better.

Merihem’s hands came together, palms flat against each other as his eyes shut, his lips moving as he used his demon half.

“What’s he doing?” Silas whispered.

“He’s a ‘controller’ of souls in this realm and yours. He’ll find her, I promise, and everything will be fine.”

The half of Dakata that was human wasn’t sure he was hearing correctly. You can’t say that.

Dakata’s demon snubbed his nose at him. Of course I can. We trust Merihem.

They did.

Merihem’s eyes opened. They were black and sat in his deep red skinned face, they were as scary as the black pit of hell. “She’s in the Dusken part of the realm.”

“Fuck!” Luka moaned in complaint.

Berna shook his head. “That’s not good, man.”

“Shut up,” Christa snapped, her demon emerging. She was as tall as her brothers, only more slender in the body, and her hair reached her ass, flowing over her breasts. “Can you pinpoint her?”

“Yes. There are about twenty others with her.” Merihem’s eyes became unfathomable pools. “Guards, I suspect by the formation of them.”

“Battle stance?” Dakata asked when Silas made a sound of distress.

“Yes.” Merihem closed his eyes once more, and his hands parted, there in the space between them sat what he could see. It was as impressive no matter how many times Dakata witnessed it.

His ability to use his vision to project what he could see between the force of his hands was a talent only two other demons, as far as Dakata was aware, had.

Silas stepped closer, his hand reaching out. “No,” Dakata murmured. “It’s harmful to touch.

Luka, Christa, and Berna came closer, looking at the image.

“Isn’t that Rainar?” Christa spat, pointing at the vision of the biggest demon closest to Wanda, her own eyes darkening in fury.

“It appears so,” Dakata had several run-ins with the other demon in their realm and the human one. Rainar was nowhere near as successful as Dakata. Something the other demon always blamed Dakata for, when it was him who was the lazy one who always took the easy way out.

Attempting to take Dakata’s blissful one appeared to be the easy way. Little did Rainar know his actions this time were going to end him.

Which meant a tweak in Dakata’s plans. “Silas, you stay here—”

“I don’t think so.” Silas gave Dakata a look that suggested he’d be spending precious hours wasting his time and energy if he argued. “She’ll need me, so I’m coming.” He looked so angelic, yet the steel-will was what Dakata and his demon could feel.

“That told you,” laughed Berna.

“Fuck off.” He scowled at Berna, at the same time reaching to take Silas’s hand. “Do not leave my side.” One look at Merihem and his friend nodded, a look of understanding flowing between them as they held eye contact.

With his back covered, Dakata breathed a little easier. “We need to do a four point attack. I’ll take out Rainar while Silas grabs his sister. Merihem, once Silas has Wanda, would you send them straight back to the forest? You know the location.”

At the collective agreement, his demon focused on where they needed to go. The worst part of the realm. It was a place no decent demon went.

There in the shady darkness, the stench of sulfur, blood, lust, and death permeated the dank air. Silas made a noise in the back of his throat that was pure distress, although he swallowed it quickly. Dakata’s rage increased at their blissful one having to be subjected to a scene so far removed from the cleanliness of the forest. He searched the darkness, ignoring the laughter and comments of the unsuspecting.

Once he clocked where everyone was, Dakata’s demon took full charge. He didn’t roar like he wanted to, instead he crept silently with Silas clutching his hand. There was regret at what their blissful one was going to witness, but there was nothing else for it. Dakata’s demon would never settle for anything less than death .

Within inches of the first guard, Dakata let go of Silas’s hand and tucked it into his pant’s pocket. Hold on.

Ohhh.

Fingers clutched at his pocket, and a millisecond later Dakata broke the neck of the first guard. He wanted to drop him like the sack of shit he was, but he didn’t, lowering him silently to the floor instead.

He did this three more times before they got close to the door of the rundown building with black painted windows that attempted to hide what went on inside. Blood and scat play by the smells of it. The cries that came through the cracks in the wood didn’t sound like enjoyment.

Dakata’s demon was wild with his rage when he scented blood that smelled similar to Silas’s. His blissful one must have smelled it, too, because before he could bust through the door, Silas had. His bow and arrow aimed true, the arrow sailed through the air, hitting its target directly in the eye.

His demon applauded even when he felt Silas’s sadness at killing a living creature. You have ridden the world of evil, my blissful one.

There was no response as Silas fired two more arrows before running and leaping over furniture to reach the bleeding dryad slumped and tied to a chair in the center of the filthy room.

Merihem stormed into the room, blood running down his torso, quickly followed by Christa and his brothers. They formed a battle formation around Merihem, Silas, and Wanda as more demons poured into the room with Rainar right behind them.

“Get them out of here,” Dakata’s demon hissed.

The moment they disappeared, he spun, his furious gaze locked on Rainar. “You are dead.”

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