Kasadya Hellhound Defined (Kasadya Hellhound Series) Read online

  "You really know how to pick a freaking fight!" I sneered at him, my fist hitting his face.

  "You’re mine to kill!" he replied and I ducked in time to miss a fist.

  Unfortunately, I didn’t miss the second one, and pain shot up from my jaw towards my eyes. Ooh, this demon is so dead! I grabbed hold of his head and slammed my own into him, horns piercing skin and tissue as he shrieked in pain. I pulled back, covered by blood. Why do I always have to be covered in blood? I got up and moved back. He was holding his face and screaming like a girl. Ignoring his fit, I turned around and found a few fallen on Mr. Demon's ass. He was, of course, winning. Dammit! If I stay and kill Ballen, I'll be no use to the fight. If I leave him, I bet my ass he will keep coming back for more. If I go for Mr. Demon, what about the two remaining dragons? Yeah, this was my life, freaking hectic.

  I stormed forward towards Mr. Demon and ended up face first on the ground. I swallowed a good amount of dust and was left trying to cough it back out again. Something hit my back and I sucked in a breath. Flinging out my wings, I sent whoever into the air. Coughing and sucking air, I rolled over and got up. Ballen was just getting back up again. His face was covered in blood, and I managed to take another eye, again. Smiling with satisfaction, I sucked it in and moved forward. About two steps from him, I registered that I had no sword at all. Okay, so we’re doing this hellhound style. Fine with me. His fist came down towards me, fire shooting up from it. Ah, damn. I blocked it and got singed by the fire. With a few quick jabs of my own, I ended by clawing open his chest.

  He stumbled backwards and held his chest. "Can we do this in an hour or so? I am really kind of busy," I teased him. He looked at me, the only remaining eye bulging in its socket in his fury. "No, you die now!" he roared and I was slammed backwards.

  I really hate demon lords. They had these hidden talents that just seem to piss me off. I flew up again and braced myself for the next attack. This one was in the form of a dark cloud, jumping up from the ground. As it advanced towards me, those it touched were screaming with pain and ended up on the ground. Well, time to test my wings again. I closed myself up in them the moment the cloud was at me. Pain shot into my wings and traveled down towards my spine. I held on, not daring to scream my agony. I waited until I received the first sign that the black cloud was inside with me. Alright, show time. Using my wings, I started to play with the cloud, molding it, turning it around and manipulating it into what I wanted it to be. Its color changed from black to red. With that, I opened up my wings and pushed forward. The red cloud didn’t travel like the black one. It went straight for everything in front of me. Ballen and three other demons were struck by it, and lay on the ground, withering in pain. A dragon's roar sounded around me and I looked up to see the most beautiful thing in my life.

  Chax was descending down from the sky, golden white wings spread out around him, his majestic swords angled and ready. He slammed down with them and took the dragon's head in one swift motion. I need a pair of swords like that. He landed effortlessly and stood up. I was gawking at my own mate, and then smiled to complete it. Well, until Ballen hit me again. Damn. Concentrate, Kas. I flew backwards, and this time avoided another crash by shifting in midair. I landed face to face with the bloody demon and thrust my claws into his chest. Bones broke under the impact. Tissue and organs burst open as my hands plowed into his chest. Inside, I grabbed hold of whatever I could and pulled back with all my force. He gave an ear-piercing scream, and an awful sucking noise followed my hands out. In shock, he looked at me. I was holding a lung in one hand, and his heart in the other. It was still freaking beating! I threw the black disgusting things away from me, and went total girl. "Eeeuw! That was just disgusting!" Ballen ended up on the ground before me, still alive. I wasn’t going to kill him like this, but he was pretty banged up. Our eyes held each other. He knew that I was able to kill him now. Fear was in his eyes. It would be so quick, effortless really. But then came that part of the divinity that was going to leave me in a really bad shape. "Chax, should I leave him?" My eyes never left Ballen's as I waited for Chax to reply. "Do it. Michael and Uriel will protect you," Chax replied.

  With a relieved breath, I stepped forward. Ballen's eye went huge and he tried to scramble away. I grabbed hold of his head and started to twist and turn at the same time. He screamed and fought as hard as his battered body would allow, but there was nothing he could do. The sound of something ripping reached my ears first, then the twist became effortless. Finally, with a yank, his head was completely off his neck and in my hands. The body slumped back, and I took a step back from it, dropping the head. Closing my eyes, I waited for the divinity to come and take me down.

  I wasn’t disappointed. It slammed into me with fury. My body didn’t drop to the ground. Instead it elevated up towards the sky. More power slammed into me, a deafening scream ripping out from my throat. My body was shaking uncontrollably as the bolt traveled through it. It felt like every inch of me was being fried alive. Before this bolt was complete, another slammed into me. I roared from the double impact, silencing all other noise around me. Again and again it was repeated. Oh dear heavens. I was dying! Another bolt send me into seizures, my body convulsing. My roar never made it out of my throat. It was caught in there and I was suffocating. Please, please make it stop! I prayed. It didn’t help at all. More power was thrust into me, and blissfully I was knocked out completely, as I joined the darkness and void.

  ***

  Chax

  Kasadya's roar traveled over the battlefield and slammed into me. I could feel her agony. "Hold on, my love." I wanted to help her, but one dragon still remained. "Michael?" I was going to go insane from the pain she was enduring. My memories of my own divinity was long forgotten but refreshed instantly.

  "We'll take care of her. You just kill those things!" Michael replied.

  "Take her to earth. Get everyone out now!" I instructed him

  I ducked and rolled, taking out the last dragon's left hind leg. Moving forward, I sliced off the front one. Its head came down between his front legs as he tried to grab me, but with the left side going down, it ended up trapped beneath his own body. I shifted and took out the remaining legs. The dragon struggled and roared, and its head emerged from underneath his body. Taking to the air, I gained distance, and then stopped, closed my wings, and dropped down. I kept my eyes on the mark as the dragon thrashed and tried to grab hold of more bodies around him. A demon trying to flee from it wasn’t as lucky and ended up between teeth about two meters long. This one was big, the biggest of all of them. The hellhounds couldn’t even penetrate its scales. Finally, just as I was a few meters from the neck, the dragon turned its head and the target was exposed. The sound of glass breaking and bones snapping engulfed me and I sliced through the neck. The ground greeted me and I braced my legs for the impact. It would have shattered the bones of even a fallen, but not mine. I stood up and looked at the beast, its body thrashing with the last remaining sign of life. I surveyed the area and found the fallen and angels that were still standing moving towards the gate. He was on their heels. I shifted to block him off. I landed directly in front of me, and he stopped to survey me.

  "So, this is it. We're finally ending it." Jagged teeth were exposed in what have been an effort to smile.

  "Indeed," I replied, adjusting my swords to meet the attack.

  "Not yet, brother," he sneered and disappeared.

  Whirling around, I saw him shifting into the gate. Fallen and angels were shuffled out of the way. With this, a new horde of demons shifted into view around the remaining fallen and angels and a battle broke out. I shifted as well, intending to stop him. I landed just a step behind him and brought my swords down on his leg. He roared and fell to the ground. The leg was still attached, but wasn’t going to be functioning. I moved again, intent on taking his head at last. His claw stopped me and sent me flying backwards, out of the gate. I watched in horror as the gate closed around him and completely shut down.


  "No!" I roared and was back up, my hands rising up over the wall to open it. Concentrating, I heard the first sign of infinite doom behind me. I turned to look at the threat coming towards me. Three more dragons had appeared out of nowhere and were descending upon us.

  If I open the gate, they could burst straight into earth, but if I stop and destroy them, he will be loose on earth to wreak havoc.

  A cracking sound had me looking up at the wall. I watched as a huge crack burst open in the wall and traveled downward. A second followed, and then a third. The wall was breaking.

  I looked back at the remaining fallen and angels fighting for their lives. The time had finally come. The wall was being destroyed. The barrier between this world and earth was crumbling down, which would allow the demon hordes to infiltrate the human realm.

  Chapter 16

  "The wall is collapsing! Brothers, sisters, now we fight with all our might. They cannot be victorious!" I sent the message to all angels and fallen. I turned around to prepare for the dragons descending upon us.

  For the first time in my existence, fear took a place in my heart. Not fear of the battle or even dying, but fear that not only my love but all my brethren, fallen and angel alike, would meet their end in this world. Even if the fallen descend to heaven, it would take weeks before their angelic bodies would be able to fight. If we fail, earth will be destroyed today, and every soul on it too. We cannot fail.

  Behind me, the wall finally shattered. Just as it did, the dragon was on top of us. From my back I was shoved forward from the wall's force, and from the front, I was thrown back into the direction of the wall. I tumbled between bodies and scales and turned my head to see the brown color of dirt moving rapidly towards me. I kicked out against the dragon and lifted myself away from him before we crashed into the ground. Closing my wings, I ducked to try and break the impact of the fall. I rolled away from the crashing dragon, its huge body hitting the ground with such force that it shook like an earthquake. I braced myself and shot up back into the air. The dragon was struggling to get back up. I had seconds to take the opportunity to try and take its head. Gliding through the air, I picked up the chaos around me from the corner of my eyes. I brought my blades up and formed a single sword. The dragon’s head thrashed about as it tried to realign its huge body to get back up. Still it snapped at everything that it could get hold of. An angel wasn’t fast enough and was grabbed between teeth. His final moments were horrible.

  With a roar, I brought the sword down and used all the power I could muster. The sword glided through the scales, then flesh, and finally, the ground was in view. The dragon's agonizing cry sounded above me. I landed gracefully and moved away from it, making sure that its head was indeed separated from the body. Content that another one had been dealt with, I moved to the second one. As I ran, screams of horror rang around me. The humans were awake and in the middle of all of this. I reached the second dragon, smashing buildings around him. The silhouettes of flying bodies were now mixed with humans as well. With immense speed, I was under its belly and slicing off the first leg. I moved fast towards the second leg, jumping over a fallen’s body. The dragon's body came down towards the earth and I bent back, sliding towards the other leg on my knees. The moment my sword was through it, I moved as fast as possible to prevent being trapped beneath the giant body. The dragon collapsed and roared with pain. I didn’t even need to go for the other legs. Its neck was stretched out for the taking. Jumping into the air I brought the sword down. It was over in a second, the dragon withering with final spasms. I turned to search for the third dragon and found him on the ground. The hellhounds were taking its head with such force that even from here I saw the blood spraying into the air. Their method was effective, but messy. Content that the dragon was in good hands, or claws, I searched for my once brother. I found him fighting the archangels a few hundred yards from me. Shifting, I landed next to Michael and separated the sword to make two swords again.

  "Nice... of you... to stop by," Uriel grunted as she struck at the beast.

  "I had other things to deal with," I replied, watching him move in front of me.

  The dragons’ movements were slow and awkward, their huge bodies giving them the disadvantage. But he had no such problem. Even with his huge body, he was still swift and deadly. His claw struck Camael, the archangel flying back into the battle surrounding us.

  "He's fast," Uriel grunted again.

  "Indeed." I moved forward, ducked for a claw and brought my sword down at his leg. I noticed that the one I struck just a few moments ago was already healed. This was not good. He was regenerating too fast, which should not have been possible on earth. It should have taken longer for him to heal. With his roar of pain, I reached the other side of the circle and joined Gabriel, his face drawn tight with concentration. "He's regenerating too fast," I said, looking back at the leg already mending from the slice.

  Gabriel nodded but didn’t voice anything.

  Zadkiel landed a blow to his side and was merely punched away.

  Realization sunk in. He had no limits here. On earth, his powers had quadrupled. He was being fed with sin directly now. "We have a problem," I voiced to the others.

  "Really? No, we didn’t notice at all," Jophiel muttered.

  "He is being fed directly now. He will regenerate instantly." I ignored his sarcasm.

  "What.... should... we do?" Michael asked, ducking to prevent being ripped open from a claw.

  "You insolent creatures, your time has come. Now I will destroy all of you!" He roared and sent Jophiel and Uriel flying as he hit them with an invisible force.

  Another force hit me and Gabriel and we joined them, flying the opposite direction. We crashed into a few bodies as fallen and demon joined us in the crash.

  "He's getting stronger by the second," Gabriel voiced, a thousand voices sounding it.

  "We need to get him back into hell and get a wall back up again. Gabriel, you must go to our Sire. We need Him." Gabriel nodded and disappeared.

  I got back up again, taking a demon’s head with little effort. He was moving forward towards a building. Frowning, I looked at him. "Where are you going?" I asked myself.

  I looked around to find the archangels. They were also trying to reach him, but had many demons to fight to get to him. It was then that something hit me. Michael and Uriel were fighting. If they were fighting, where was.... oh, dear heavens.

  "Michael, where is Kasadya?!"

  "In the building he is moving towards. I left her with a fae and a harpy."

  I didn’t even hesitate. I shifted instantly. His intent was clear now: revenge. I landed next to him and slashed at his leg. Not stopping, I moved to the other and repeated the action. His roar was deafening, but still he kept moving.

  "I'll make you suffer. Today I will take what is most precious to you and I will let you live with that pain for centuries. Oh yes, Chax, you will not die like the others. You will suffer like I had to suffer!" He kept moving.

  I jumped into the air and brought my swords down at his back, slicing it open. He turned swiftly and hit me before I could find the ground. Again I was flying backwards. Concentrating, I never made it into another fight. I shifted midair and landed on him again. I raised my sword and stuck it into his neck, this time not removing it. He grabbed hold of me and swung me to the ground before him. I landed hard and raised my sword to stop his claw from getting to me.

  "I am going to break each of your wings, slowly," he sneered at me while trying to reach the sword. I remained as calm as possible and, while holding his claw back, kept an eyes on the sword. His body wasn’t able to regenerate around it, the sword interfering. That's it. I sent out g-force push and he let go of me. I rolled away and jumped into the air again. This time I aimed for his heart. If I could get a sword into his heart, I could stop a lot of blood flow, and with that, a lot of regenerating.

  I never made it and was grabbed in midair. He drew back with his hand and threw me. As I glided through t
he air, my body turned so my back was to whatever I was heading to. I crashed into a hard surface and heard the sound of bones breaking. My breath froze in my throat. Oh dear God in heaven, I just broke my back and wings.

  Chapter 17

  I fell towards the ground, my body limp and unable to respond to my will. With dread I looked up as he advanced towards the building, ripping the door and part of the wall into pieces. "Kasadya! Kasadya, move! He is coming for you! You have to move now!" My heart was racing at a dangerous pace, fear taking hold of it. There was no response.

  "Nanini. Abby. Get Kasadya out of there!"

  I had never felt so distraught and desperate. I tried to will my body to move but it hadn’t healed yet. Again there was no response.

  No, please no. "Anyone, help Kasadya. The devil is advancing on her!" I sent out the call. My eyes scanned the battlefield to see if anyone heard my call as I prayed for a miracle.

  There was a huge ruckus towards my left and I watched as demons flew up into the air, their roars sounding the action. Max, Zurita, Lada and another hellhound were storming through the crowd, their faces masked with fury. Max shifted and landed next to the devil, his claws going down at his leg. Zurita joined Max and slashed at him wildly. Lada and the hellhound were there a second later, joining the frenzy. They were magnificent to behold. Pure hatred and fury were pounding into the beast. They were relentless. Even as the beast struck them, they merely stood back up and continued on. Hope finally sprung back into my heart, the miracle I was praying for.