Chapter Twenty-Five #2
Ghost launches himself off of Levi’s shoulder and down the hallway ghosting through doors and walls as he goes. Which causes murmurs from the crowd.
I grasp hold of Kai’s arm as Ghost shows me the way that the woman described and the exit.
“It’s all clear.” I tell Levi as soon as I can see again.
He nods and we quickly usher everyone down the hallway and through the deserted kitchen.
“Everyone who can ride grab a horse, we don’t need to leave them with any means to follow us, at least not easily.” Kysen says as soon as we are in sight of the stables.
It turns out that the vast majority of them can ride and we’ve cleared out the Orders entire stables which is damn helpful. It also means that’s there is only a small cart of supernaturals instead of several which should make travelling a lot easier.
“Follow me to the safe location, from there we will portal you all back to the Blood Moon academy. Stick together, this is no time to be splitting up. We’re going to go slowly around the perimeter and stick to the shadows.” Levi says to everyone who listen avidly.
“Knot and Ghost could you find us a path that we can get the cart and all of the horses down that leads back to the village please, looking at the cart now I don’t think it will fit down the one we came in on.
” I ask my two familiars once I’m up on my horse.
It feels weird not to be riding Dave but I know they’re safe at the meeting point.
“Follow us we will show you the way.” Knot replies and my mouth drops open in shock.
“What the fuck!?” Cole exclaims, “She spoke!” He adds stating the obvious.
“As the bond between familiar and Centre grows she will do that more and more.” The Elderly Centre answers amusement twinkling in her eyes.
“When this is all over I have so many questions for you.” I say to her.
“And I have many answers to give you, some to question that you haven’t even thought to ask yet.” She says cryptically before winking at me sassily.
I grin in response.
Knot shakes her head and they both take off we follow them, trusting that they will alert us to any danger and that they will lead us to a safe track to get everyone to the village, we are so damn close now.
I put one of my Nyx blades away pulling out a dagger instead, we’re only moving slowly and with the amount of practice that I’ve gotten over the last few days riding I’m more than confident that I can stay on the horse without holding on.
I turn my head when a glint catches my eye near the perimeter of the cities walls the guard atop the wall starts to turn in our direction his sword glinting in the moonlight, I launch my dagger and he falls silently to the ground.
I really hope that we aren’t too far from the track that Knot and Ghost are leading us to.
I feel far too exposed out here. I would ask Erin if she could somehow shield us from view but judging from her slumped shoulders and giant yawns, even though she had a power boost from the guys to help her keep that shield up its obviously still taken a lot out of her.
I know if I asked her to shield us though she would still try and I don’t want her to burn out, so we’re just going to hope that we can take out any guards that spot us before they can raise the alarm.
There shouldn’t be many left alive in the castle that will come to their aid but that doesn’t mean that there won’t be some patrolling the village or even some of the criminals that live here that won’t want to take a crack at controlling Centre’s and their Bonded mates.
Two more guards land on this side of the wall as Jax forces water down their throats drowning them and pulling them this side of the wall so no one gets curious and decides to investigate on the other one.
Kai launches himself off of his horse with his wings and flies straight for a guard getting to him just as he opens his mouth to sound the alarm, we carry on riding starting to move a bit quicker as Ghost and Knot do but I glance over my shoulder watching Kai toy with guard taking out some more of that rage he feels at the treatment of the Centre’s and all those who have lost their lives.
“Feel better?” I ask grinning as he lands back on his horse and Jax sends him a heated look, having watched what I did.
“Oh yeah. That will tide me over until I find some more Order fuckers.” He grins at us both.
“You guys are slightly nuts, you get that right?” A girl a few years younger than us say from the cart that we are riding next to.
“Oh yeah.” I agree and she smirks. “It’s boring to be normal anyway. Who wants to be like all the rest?”
She seems to ponder it for a second mulling it over before a wide grin over takes her delicate features.
“I like that.” She says finally and I smile.
“It shouldn’t be too much further now.” Kai tells the people on the cart and everyone else who is in hearing distance.
I hear the start of a yell before its abruptly cut off as Harry launches magic at the guard who spotted us and somehow even from this distance snaps his neck.
“We need to move faster.” Levi says urging his horse into a trot.
Finally we get to a path just wide enough for the cart to go down and Knot flies ahead as Ghost moves to the back keeping an eye on everyone. We urge the horses to move faster.
“Hold on guys this is going to get bumpy.” Ty says to the people on the cart they all grab hold and soon we are charging through the woods at a fast pace.
Dave and the other horses soon join us spreading themselves out through the herd of horses and keeping pace perfectly. They either found us on their own or Hunter called them. Either way it’s amazing and I dare anyone to try to take Dave off of me now.
A sense of urgency chases at my heels and I send the feeling to everyone who has the Bond link with us.
Levi urges his horse faster. It’s a two hour ride back to the village and we are pushing the horses hard but I have every faith that can make it.
There’s just something different about Demon realm horses.