Kasadya (Hellhound Awakened) (26 page)

“Here you go; all the rooms in this hall are open. You can choose any that suits you. I’ll arrange for some girl stuff to be delivered today, the rest you would need to give me list. I have some extra clothes I can get if you wanted to change,” Melissa offered as she walked and pointed to rooms, then finally stopped to look at us.

“It’s okay. The ones we have are charmed so they don’t go bad like human’s clothes do, but if you could bump us a pair of pj’s that will be great,” I replied walking into a room. Well it wasn’t
The Hellhouse
, but at least it wasn’t a cell. All the rooms had one bed in them, a small table and chair. Some had books, TV’s and other things in them too. I chose the first one, no reason to be picky. Kali chose the one next to me. Yeah, we don’t trust that easily, lesson well learned in hell.  With our rooms picked out, we returned with Melissa to Amon’s office where he was waiting.

“Alright, they picked a room, and I have some shopping to do. I’m leaving them in your hands, don’t mess up,” Melissa told Amon and walked out, eager to go shopping. Man I miss those days
.

“Let’s get your swords,” Amon said, walking to a wall and punching in a code on a pad mounted on it. A small section of the wall parted to reveal a safe, and he then started up on another pad. Finally my swords came into view, and I felt a little better knowing at least I was armed and ready for whatever came my way.

“I removed the demon’s charms when I took them, if you leave them on its easier for them to find you again. Only
Exsilium
could block their range,” he explained, handing them over to me, and then Kali’s swords were next. I took them and glided my hand over the blade. Yeah this is better, no charm to stop me from taking a few heads this time. I can’t wait to run into Draco or Ballen.

“Okay, now for the fun part. Let’s go introduce you to the team.” Amon smiled, gesturing for us to follow him. Yeah, let’s go meet this insane bunch of mortals.

Chapter 19

We walked behind him while he led the way, down two more hallways and finally stopping at two big double doors. He opened them and stepped in. We followed, but stopped dead in our tracks to take in the picture. Oh my soul.

It was a huge room, more like a basketball court, filled with fighting equipment. From punch bags to weapons, and even a freaking shooting range, wow Amon didn’t hold back. I looked around and guessed about twenty guys were doing some sort of training or practice to keep up the skill. Six pairs were sparring against each other and my eyes caught Mad Max. He was moving at an incredible speed, jabbing, kicking and dodging his opponent. Yeah the guy was actually good, for a human. He won’t be able to take on a fallen, but at least he will give a demon a go or two.

“Come on,” Amon said, gesturing for us to follow him to the sparring pairs, where he stopped and then whistled for everyone to stop. Just like trained dogs, they all stopped dead and turned to face him.

“Okay guys, I would like you to meet our newest team members. Kas and Kali will be joining the fun, so make sure they get a good reception,” he finished then turned to us, nodded and started to walk back to the doors to exit. Okay so here we are. I looked at the guys standing there, looking at us with confusion. Silence followed.

“Um, I don’t want to sound like a feminist or something, but you girls won’t be able to handle this jo…” a guy said, but stopped the moment Kali and I shifted to fallen form. In unison they all stepped back, taking in their new teammates, all except Max of course
.

“Do we make the team now?” I asked sarcastically.

Another short silence followed until Max stepped in and took over
.
“Ryan take Kali as a sparring partner, and Kasadya you’re with Ben,” he instructed, turning around and nodding to the guy he was sparring with, and they started up again. I turned my eyes from them to try and find out who’s freaking Ben, to find two guys standing in front of us, still awe struck. Oh this is going to be fun, never got to beat up a human guy before. I looked at Kali and found her with the same wicked smile, then turned my head back to the two guys.

“So who’s Ben?” I asked still grinning.

The brown haired guy shook himself out of it, and looked at me. “That would be me,” he replied, but didn’t go any further than that; he just stood there. Oh right, I forgot we were still in fallen form. So I changed back to cut them some slack, Kali followed but kept her wicked grin
.

“Okay guys, were all yours,” I said smiling.

“Um Ryan, you and Kali take number five and Kas and I will take number seven,” Ben said and gestured for me to follow him. Taking a last look at Kali we both smiled at each other and walked off with our new sparring partners. Ben walked to an open spot next to Max and his partner then turned to look at me, now with a confused look
.
“Okay, I’ll show you some basic moves, then we can practice them one at a time,” he said, looking at me with pity. Oh yeah this is going to be real fun
.

“Ben, trust me when I say you’re so screwed,” I threw back at him with my evil smile.

He took in the message, and when I was sure that he got it to his

brain I moved with super speed, kicking his legs out from under him. He landed with an “oomph” on the ground and stared up at me, surprise all over his face. I looked at him and smiled. “Now that the introduction is done, let’s play,” I said and stepped back for him to get up.

Slowly he got up and looked at me, then shaking his head he got the message, game on. He lunged for me, but I just swiped away his punch and pushed him to the other side. I know what my punch did to a demon, and I think giving him that will most likely end in death; so I had to take it slow and gentle. He is human. I looked over to Kali and found her standing over Ryan, smiling like a little girl, then gesturing with her finger for him to get up. Yip, this is fun.

Ben was back up and went at me again; again I just blocked him and pushed him to the ground. After a while he stood there dripping with sweat and blowing like a fish, I was staring at my nails. Fun moved to boredom and I wanted more fun. This totally sucked.

I looked over to Kali and found her looking at me with the same thought, we need more of a challenge, and these guys are just pissing us off. I turned to look at Ben. “Would you and Ryan mind if Kali and I sparred together?” I asked him.

He was bracing his hands on his knees and leaning forward totally wasted, but nodded in agreement
.
“Thanks,” I said and walked over to Kali to find Ryan also totally wasted; nope, human guys are so not going to do it for us
.
“So, shall we spar?” I asked Kali and her bored looked turned to excitement
.

“Totally,” she replied and we both walked to a huge open spot in the court, and then faced off against each other.

We transformed in unison and were on each other; kicking, punching, and you name it. Adrenalin surged through me, and I felt myself light up like a firecracker. Kali reached the same hype so our sparring went into over-drive. About an hour later we were getting bored with each other and stopped. Breathing a little hard but still in good shape we turned to each other and smiled
.
“Weapons?” Kali asked, getting excited again. I was about to say yes, when I took in the crowd gathered around us. All the guys, even Max, were standing there looking at us. Okay, what now?

“Man, I love my life!” the feminist guy said, guessing that he must be the youngest by his baby face features
.
“You girls are awesome!” he continued. I looked at Kali and found her also confused.

“Gentlemen, I think we just found our next stage of training,” Max said, so I locked eyes with him
.

“What?” I asked, wondering what the hell he’s doing
.

“In here we can only spar against each other, which means that when we reach demons we are not fully trained to take them on with the necessary skills. But seeing that we have two fallen here to assist in this problem, we can fix that,” he went on.

I took in his words and was shocked to the core. “Are you crazy? We’ll kill them!” I threw back at him.

“What do you think will happen if we fight against a demon? Do you think they will go easy on us because where human?”

Damn, he’s got a point. “No,” I replied but kept the rest for myself.

“If we train with you, and learn how to work around a stronger body, we’ll be more capable of getting out alive.”

I just kept my mouth shut and stared at him. What a freaking idiot. So now he wants us to help them train, and then what? The first bone that breaks, the rest will be on us in a flash, no way in hell. Shaking my head, I walked off to the wall covered in weapons, to get me and Kali some toys to play with.

“Are you not part of this team then?” he asked from behind me. I kept walking, thinking over the question. Yeah sure we are going to go out with these guys and kill some demons, but I can’t be responsible for hurting any one of them. Taking a stand, I was looking over the weapons, which were by my standard boring. He walked over to stand beside me.

“I’m waiting,” he said folding his arms across his chest. I looked at him then and squared off on the same stand
.

“I’m not doing it. One punch and someone can end up dead,” I replied, making my stand on this subject
.

“One punch out there and they are dead, but you have an opportunity to teach them how to deflect such a punch and walk out alive,” Max threw back.

He almost sounded like Chax, and for a moment I was taken back to the time I was in training. Chax also had a way of making me see the importance of survival inside
Exsilium
to be able to survive outside it. Too bad I ended up in hell, and had one hell of a crash course in survival. I turned around and looked at Kali who was standing there looking at us.

“We’ll work out something,” she said, understanding what I was asking her without a word.

I looked back at Max. “Anyone dies it’s on your head, not mine,” I finished and fury poured over me when he smiled at me. Oh I’m going to kick his ass big time
.

“Okay then, let’s begin,” he said and walked over to where Kali and the rest stood, turning to look at me. I took in a deep breath and walked over to them; man I hate my job. When I reached them, Kali and I looked at each other, trying to find a suitable way to get this over with
.

“Maybe you should start the way you did with me?” Kali suggested. Thank the Lord I had her with me. I turned around and faced the crowd.

“Okay guys, let’s get started. Pair up and make sure you have enough space to move. This is going to be rough.”

Intrigued, they all went off to get spar partners and made sure there was enough space. I took the opportunity to get back at Max. Walking to him, I shooed his partner over to Kali and took a stand against him
.
“The first thing about demons is that they’re beyond dumb. You give them something to think about, and they will stand still long enough for a deathblow,” I finished, snapping open my wings, almost sending the two guys on my side flying. Luckily they reacted fast and ducked.

I used my huge wings to create a distraction, giving Kali what she needed. Moving faster than human eyes could see, she had three guys down on their backs and was facing her partner again, as if it never happened. Dumbstruck they all looked at us.

Closing my wings and keeping my eyes on Max I continued, “Never make the same mistake, regardless of what a demons is or shows you, you never fall for it. Always keep a clean mind, focus and stay on top of the game.” Then I moved fast sending the guy on my left flying through the air into a few guys. Shaking my head I looked at them. “Okay this is the part where you guys snap into what I am saying, and start focusing,” I demanded, not pleased that they were just standing there unprepared.

Next Kali moved straight for Max; he dodged her and pushed her away from him, preparing to fight. She stopped and slowly walked back to her partner. Good, someone listened. I moved next but he was prepared and side stepped me. Without stopping I continued on and the guy next to him was on his back
.
“Focus!” I yelled at them. Damn, Kali was way easier to train than these guys.

Turning around I walked back to Max, but wouldn’t you believe it, they finally got a spark of life and attack me and Kali; well they gave it their best shot. Moving fast we dodged their punches and kicks, every time one of us swiped away another’s leg or hand, we would lash out at them telling them what they did wrong.

Bend it more in, move in more and use this and use that. We continued for what seemed like hours; the humans started getting tired so we stopped and called it a day. Some were limping out of the court and others were carried out. I warned Max that our punch packed a whole new level of pain, but no, he had to carry on. Speaking of Max, I turned to look at him.

Unlike the others he was still standing without any mayor injuries, he only had a black eye popping out from a blow Kali gave him
.
“So are you happy?” I asked him, sarcasm all the way.

“Yes, I am,” he responded with a smile and started to walk over to a water fountain at the door.

“So you enjoyed seeing your team get beaten up and hurt bad?” I asked. Kali came to stand next to me, watching the two of us.

He took a sip of water then came back up again and turned to look at us
.
“No, but I’d rather see them hurt like this, before I have to carry their bodies here,” he finished then turned around and walked out. Damn, another freaking Chax! Fury slammed through me and I folded my hands into fists, piercing my skin
.

“Well, he’s got a point,” Kali said next to me.

“Yeah,” I replied and started for the door. Man I felt really dirty by now and need a bath so bad
.
“Let’s go see if we can get cleaned up in time for supper,” I said to Kali, and she nodded. So we strolled through the compound and luckily made it back to the two rooms Melissa showed us earlier.