Chapter 25 #4
“That doesn’t really happen, not the way your mother is trying to create,” Camden said. Just then a cloud came across the sky above them. He looked up and felt the shiver cross his soul. He looked over at the kids and pointed out, “Whatever you put into place, it’s about to start.”
He turned to Devon, watching her do an absolutely intricate dance on the ground in front of them.
He wanted to ask what she was doing, but he didn’t want to disturb her.
The kids seemed completely entranced by her movements, and then suddenly a storm erupted with lightning crashing overhead, and yet no rain came.
It was a dry storm, something he’d heard about but had never yet experienced.
He stood here in front of it, holding the kids close, as more thunder clapped and jolted and even more crashed over and above their heads. He tried to see through the blowing wind to see exactly what was going on.
Tabby cried out, “Is that her?”
And there in front of him was another energy, something glowing but darker.
Then suddenly something even darker appeared right beside it, something malevolent.
The kids started to scream as it came toward them.
It was hard to tell who it was. Camden couldn’t even tell if it was male or female, but it was definitely coming toward them.
The thing was, it headed toward the kids, not Devon, who even now crossed more people over through that doorway, and he realized that she had expected this.
She had thought there would be more openings, more chances to get people over, so she had to do as much of this work as she could right now while these portals were here. She wasn’t concerned about her safety; she was only concerned about all these souls so desperate to get to the light.
The noise raged as the kids screamed.
As if hearing the kids, Devon turned toward the deck and then raised her arm and cried out, “No!”
Such power filled her tone that the entity stopped, then slowly turned toward her.
“You want it? You come get it,” Devon taunted, and the malevolent darkness dove toward her.
Both of the kids were now screaming at the entity. “No, no, no!”
The whole scene was all too much, but suddenly the entity was there in front of Devon. It laughed with a surge of power and amazement.
Camden watched as everything around them went black, except for the glowing light that was Devon, as she opened her arms, as if to let it attack her.
The dark entity charged Devon, flashing through her with a shock.
Camden watched Devon’s body jolt, but then the entity flew right through Devon and onto the other side of her.
While the entity froze in stunned amazement, Devon grabbed it.
How did she do that? Camden shook his head.
That wasn’t a world that he understood. Connected to the dark entity, Devon flung it somewhere.
He didn’t see it go to any of the portals of light, but it went somewhere that he had no idea of.
Honest to God, he didn’t want to know any more than that.
Just as it seemed the battle was over, another entity, then another, yet another came, as Devon fought everybody trying to come through those damn portals. Camden realized that he needed to help her. He said to the kids, “They’ll kill her. There’s too many of them.”
The twins screamed, “What can we do? What can we do?”
“We have to call in Stefan, and we have to call in the light.” He pulled them into a circle and called out to Stefan for help. “We have to see Tabitha whole, healed, one with God, and safe,” he cried out.
Stefan’s voice came in his head and added, More than that, they have to relinquish all attempts at what they were trying to do.
Camden told the kids that. “You have to let it all go. Your mother cannot come back this way. It’s not her right.”
Tabby cried out, “Mom, go! Go back! You can’t do this. It’s not right. You cannot do this!” Then Toby picked up those words as well, and they both screamed at their mother to go home.
Inside his head, Camden swore he heard Stefan saying, More, more, and louder. We’re building up the energy.
He yelled louder, encouraging the twins to add more volume too.
Stefan added, Unfortunately Tabitha will go someplace that they don’t want to know about.
And with that remark came a massive boom, and suddenly it all went quiet around them.
With the kids burrowed tightly against his chest, Camden looked out to see Devon standing there, her hands raised to the sky, completely soaked now as the rain poured down. But she was calm, and she was whole.
As she turned, she smiled at him. “So much for that attempt,” she said, with a laugh.
The kids broke free from his arms, then barreled down the backyard and threw themselves at her.
She caught them up, swinging them around and around, until the three of them tumbled to the ground, all of them laughing.
Toby leaned over her and whispered, “I don’t know what that was but please don’t do it again. ”
“No, I won’t,” she agreed, “at least not like that.”
After a moment, she helped them back up, and they slowly walked toward the deck. She called out to Camden, “You could come down here.” But he’d gone quiet.
She turned and froze.