Chapter 56 He Tore The Sky
SERAPHINA
The sudden compliment took me off guard.
It was not the first time someone had called me beautiful. But right now I was disguised as a man. So, another man calling me beautiful at this moment was nothing but a threat to my disguise.
What an unexpected thing to say in this kind of situation,” I let out a small casual laugh, never tearing my eyes away from him.
Asher finally blinked, realizing what he’d just said. I was not sure if it was due to awkwardness or regret, his ears had turned red and he squeezed himself out of the narrow space, “I must have lost my mind,” he murmured embarrassed. “Sorry, that came out wrong.” he refused to meet my gaze.
I also came out, sighing deep in my heart. “It’s okay. I get it alot because I look like my mother. Not my father, I inherited her beauty,” I casually stated.
Asher finally lifted his gaze to meet mine and this time his expression was not shy or embarrassed but there was something else. What was it?
I casually looked away and glanced around. “They are gone. But they might return once they realize we are hiding.”
Asher murmured, “They are already returning.”
My eyes widened. “Then now what? Is there no way to get out of here?”
“No,” he admitted through gritted teeth. “There isn’t. Not unless ”
“Unless?”
He crouched low, fingers sweeping across the slick cave floor. This stuff… It’s bat guano.”
“Bat guano?”
“Bat shit,” he said simply, smearing some on his palm. “This entire damn cave is covered in it. It’s full of ammonium nitrate.
That means.
My eyes glinted realizing what information he has been hedging at. “It burns!”
He smirked, “Yeah.”
Smirking cooly when the vampires charged our way was so like Asher. But we needed to be quick and he already was on his feet, “We just need a spark.”
My mind raced. There are stones that we can use,” I rushed to grab the stones from the ground.
Asher ripped the iron pendant from around his neck, the edges sharp. Then, dragging a jagged piece of stone from the floor, I put it in front of him as he slammed the two together.
Spark
Nothing
Spark Spark.
I held my breath, my eyes going to the darkness where Phina sensed the vampires. “Asher they are o
coming!
Asher gritted his teeth giving his everything as the next a small flame tickered.
Weak, but alive. Yes, fually I glanced at the darkness again. “They are close!”
Les back, he instructed me I quickly took a few steps back as a pair of red eyes rushed from the darkness towards us.
Ashhurled the la guano toward the dampest, filthiest part of the cave. The fire didn’t just catch–it exploded in a sudden
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burst of orange and black, racing across the walls with a hiss like boiling oil. The ammonia–infused floor lit up in a wave of fire, snaking toward the cave’s entrance.
The shrieks of the vampires turned to wails. Even better, the vampires could not come to our side. They could not cross the bridge of fire.
1 flinched as the smoke hit my eyes, choking and blinding me. But the fire burned hot. Too hot. The air shimmered. The guano acted like oil, feeding the flame in waves. The vampires, already sensitive to heat and light, violently recoiled. screeching in agony as the fire reached them.
This scene alone was shocking. But it was our chancel “Asher, let’s go back to the tunnel and get out of here.”
Since it was the only exit and the vampires would not be able to chase after us thanks to the fire we would have a chance to remove the stones blocking the tunnel and escape.
“Great plan but I don’t think I can accompany you!
“Why?”
Just as I asked, one of the bats tried to crawl past the flames.
Asher snarled and hurled a sharp stone at its throat, silencing it. I gasped. “Can they..”
“Not all of them are afraid of fire or death. Some are brave,” he glanced my way in meaning. “So now, I am afraid that you have to go down the tunnel alone and open it.”
“What? I can’t leave you
alonel
“One of us has to be here to stop them,” he groaned, killing another bat. “You have to be the one to op
open the tunnel and give me a signal. I promise I will meet you there alive,” he glanced at me, saying that with a long look deep in my eyes. “Now both of our lives are in your hands.”
I clenched my fists. I still did not wish to leave Asher alone here to die but it was not the time to be emotional. We both could die. I immediately turned around and started running down the tunnel.
I glanced back once, just once, to see the vampires hissing behind the firewall, their fangs glinting like knives. But they didn’t cross it However, it did not mean they were not trying to break through. “They could not be kept at bay forever!”
I ran faster.
Heart pounding, lungs on fire, I tore through the cave toward the tunnel where we’d once seen sunlight. If I could just remove some stones–just one–then Asher and I could escape before the fire died, before the bats descended again.
But as soon as I rounded the bend, I froze.
A pair of red eyes and large fangs greeted, “So I was not wrong,” the vampire from the earlier grinned. “It’s really a she–wolf in disguise”
My heart dropped in my stomach. He had been waiting.
He knew we would come back.
And he had no intention of letting us leave.
His claws gleamed like obsidian blades. Blood red eyes watched me with chilling stillness.
I took a slow, capnous step back.
He mirrored it with one forward.
“Let us go. We are not here to disturb you. We will leave quietly. I decided to take a peaceful path with him even though 1
Is this some kind of joke?” He chuckled, his eyes glowing red. The silence between us was brutal. I could hear the crackling ut le far behind me. I could feel Asher fighting to keep the flames alive
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I didn’t have time.
But this vampire, he had all the time in the world.
“After all these years, I am going to taste delicious female blood and you want to leave quietly?” he hungrily licked his lips before smiling so evilly that it sent chills down my spine, “You are never leaving here.”
My fists clenched and I took a few more steps back realizing his ill intentions. I had never fought a vampire before. I didn’t know if I would survive. But I had no choice.
If I didn’t kill him, he’d kill me. Even worse, he’d go for Asher next.
I took my stance all ready to shift if need be and set my sights on him. “Stop
He smiled. A slow, sinister curl of lips that promised pain.
Then he lunged.
I met him head–on.
me if yo
you can.”
Claws racked against knuckles. Fang against will. The cave echoed with the force of our impending collision, I knew this was
- it.
One of us would not walk away. I gave control over to Phina and just as I was about to shift the world rumbled.
An explosion took place leaving me deaf. A blast of air and dust so powerful it knocked both of us off our feet
BOOM!
The roof above us erupted in a deafening storm of stone and sunlight.
A violent shaft of golden light crashed through the ceiling–blinding, searing, divine.
As it happened the vampire screamed. I froze, my eyes widening at the sight of the vampire screaming as if his life was being stuck our of his mouth.
It was the first and last sound he made. Sunlight devoured him like fire meeting dry leaves. His skin blistered and blackened. His body crumpled and curled as smoke poured from his shrieking form. Within seconds, there was nothing left but ash swirling in the hot light.”
I was frozen in place, gasping, unable to believe what I had just seen.
And then…I felt it..
A presence.
I slowly lifted my gaze to the gaping large hole in the cave ceiling.
And saw him.
Ronan. My heart skipped a beat.
Standing at the edge of the newly tom rool, violet eyes locked on mine like I was the only thing left in the world. His chest rose with the force of his breathing. His shirt was torn. His hands were bloodied from clawing through stone.
“He did this,” Plina whispered in my mind as I watched him jump down without blinking.
He landed like a storm before me
ut a word, he strode closer to me and then pulled me into his arm
Strong Warm. Desperate
I gasped as my chest bumped into his hard yet warm one as he whispered into my ear. “Did they touch you?”
My heart skipped a be He sure the sky for me
