SIRENS BLARED from outside the museum. The police were almost here.
Celeste was the first to jump from hiding. "Hey dummies," she shouted and the hellhounds turned to her and then charged forward.
They were three hellhounds, so all three were heading in our direction.
The largest hellhound lunged forward, but Celeste used her powers to throw it into the water fountain.
All the water started to evaporate from the monster's heat.
She then attacked a smaller one with her Katana. It shot out tentacles that she immediately sliced the moment they were close to her. She moved swiftly enough to dodge the ones she wasn't able to cut through.
Celeste moved till she was close enough to swing her sword at it. A second one suddenly appeared behind her and I couldn't just stay behind and watch.
"Look out!" I shouted. "Behind you!"
I ran forward, and cast a spell that made me shoot out lightning bolts from my hand. The spell hit the flaming hound, pushed it a distance then slammed it into the wall.
How did I just do that? I didn't know I was that strong even without Atreigon. I didn't have time to figure out what had just happened. A millisecond later, the hound in front of Celeste released a wave of flames at me.
I made a force field, but the flames were too strong for me to hold. The force field melted and I had to jump sideways out of the flames' way.
With its eyes still fixed on me. The hound grabbed Celeste by the arm and then burned her. She screamed from the pain, then it threw her away like a piece of paper once it was satisfied.
She hit the floor horribly. But I was confident she was still alive, she is a vampire after all.
The hound then roared, more like calling the other two. I sensed one behind me. I turned and tentacles appeared from behind, all heading towards me.
I was surrounded.
My legs tensed. I couldn't jump sideways, so I cleared my mind and the entire world felt like it was moving in slow motion. I remembered the last time I felt like this was when I was fighting the skeleton knight.
I then felt something warm grow inside me, and I chose to let it out.
BOOM!!
Another blast happened but this time it was from unleashing a fire twister from my body. The flames destroyed the hound's tentacles and then sent all of them flying in different directions.
That was new. I never knew I could control fire. I was still trying to figure out what has just happened when I heard Celeste croaking from nearby.
"Celeste," I called as I ran to help her up. Her hand had been burned to black, that's where the hellhound hit when it slapped her. Her hand was healing but slowly.
"We…need to get away from here," she said softly, she stood up using her sword as support. "We can't fight those things. They can only be defeated by hellfire." she croaked.
The largest hound jumped out of the debris.
GRRRRRRAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!! it turned towards me, shaking its flaming claws.
I had an idea-a stupid idea, but it would work if focused and used pyrokinesis.
"Fire," I thought, hoping it triggers the effect.
I placed Celeste down and braced myself. Then cast a lightning spell in my left hand, and fire in the right without casting.
The huge hound absorbed the other two and it became even bigger, with even brighter flames.
The monster charged,
Without thinking, I leaped straight up, kicking off from the creature's head like a springboard, turning in mid-air and firing a combination of fire and lightning that stuck its back and threw it to the ground.
My landing wasn't perfect, because I fell into a glass display that contained weapons. My back slammed into the wall and then I fell to the carpet floor.
Surprisingly that didn't hurt because of the adrenaline that was currently flowing through my body.
I managed to push myself back up and stood straight to see if I had defeated the hellhound. My attack had destroyed the museum floor. And there was a huge hole where the monster had crashed. Good enough no one will remember there was even a hellhound.
I saw it stand up and slowly turn towards me once again. Its body had stopped burning and now looked like a real werewolf-jackal monster that reminded me of Anubis, the dog-looking Egyptian god. The monster tensed and gave an angry growl.
Then fell on its fours and screamed,
I rushed to pick up a javelin which was one of the tools that were in the display I had fallen into. I was still moving backward to prepare to throw when I tripped and fell on my back, but still holing the javelin with the pointed edge first.
The hound flung itself to me.
And javelin's tip drove straight into the hound's chest.
The hound roared in agony. It then growled at me as if it was trying to speak. "I guess your harder to kill than I thought," I recognized the voice, it was the demon lord.
"You and I are the same, Ralph Tally. We are forces that worlds should fear. Why don't you join me?"
"After killing me the last time. I am going with no thank you," I answered trying to avoid the fact that looking at a huge wolf is terrifying.
The demon lord chuckled softly. "Then I guess we will meet again, progenitor…" he said. The hound's eyes stopped glowing and it immediately turned to stone and crumbled into sand.
The monster was gone. And then the adrenaline rush stopped,
There was silence, but I could hear the sirens outside. I smelled like I was burning and my knees were shaking. My head felt like it was splitting open. I was scared, but Celeste was needing my help, I had to get her out of here before the police stormed through the museum door and find out that she was not human, so I managed to carry her. She was unconscious and the burn was still rejecting her healing abilities.
I picked up the katana and we managed to run out of the building through the fire escape before the police stormed in…
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Later that evening the only thing that was on the news was the bombing of the national museum. Eight guards had been murdered by the use of fire magic, they said. But I knew the truth, and I wish I could forget that horrifying incident of men disintegrating, they had families. And I was hurting over the fact that I could have done something to help.
But I didn't.
When we first arrived home. Atreigon was able to heal me, but he couldn't do the same for Celeste. She was still unconscious and the burn was still there, she wasn't healing from the hellhounds attacks at all. He said that hellhound attacks are way above his caliber when it comes to healing since their attacks are literally from another dimension, that isn't ours and that when I stabbed the hellhound, it didn't die. It simply returned to its dimension.
I hadn't left the side of her bed ever since we returned home, and neither had she even flinched a bit to show that she was to wake up at any time.
The door opened.
"This is bad," I heard Ned's voice,
I turned, he was in his original fairy form, but in the school's uniform. He walked towards us and then examined her arm. "This is demon type magic, only a witch or a demon can heal this type of burn," he exclaimed,
"Well, do you know that can help us?" I sounded desperate.
'Yeah," he answered then produced his phone. He dialed a number. "Hey babe,' he said over the phone.
"Yes, and I need your help over something,"--he paused listening to the voice over the phone call-- " it concerns Celeste, and it's urgent," he said then hung up,
"She's coming,"
"Who?"
"You'll see," he said then we turned our attention back on Celeste.
We kept silent for about three minutes before Ned tried to start a conversation. "Atreigon said you were attacked by hellhounds," he said,
I said nothing.
"And that you activated pyrokinesis, congratulations," he added. At this point, I knew he wasn't going to get off my back unless I tell him the entire story of what happened. That meant telling him about Charles and the fact that I was in the dark dimension when I allegedly died, the strange voice in my head, and the fact that I spoke to the demon lord.
"What do you know about the oracle?" I asked,
We faced each other. "What do you want to know about the oracle?" he answered with a question, a smart move.
"I want to know what it told Sandra, and the main reason she came to the human world,"
Ned sighed softly after seeing the serious look in my eyes. "Trust me, what the oracle told her, you don't want to know. It's for your good," Ned responded with a frown covering his face.
"Then what was her mission? Why did she come here in the first place?" I demanded,
Ned stared at me with a sympathetic look. "To destroy magic," he replied….