Kasadya (Hellhound Awakened) (7 page)

I just stood there, still pissed at him and myself. Why on earth do I do this to myself? I have a really hot guy kissing me into obviation, and then I can’t keep my eyes of the prick teaching me. Fury pounding through me; I shifted back to my room without even a thanks or good-bye. Lada and Nanini jumped from my shift, totally taken by surprise.

“God, Kas, you’ll give me a heart attack!” Lada yelled and grabbed her chest.

“Sorry,” I replied, and went straight for my closet, grabbed some clothes and stormed into the bathroom. I undressed and went into the shower. Standing there I let the water run down my face. The whole time I had a conflict of thoughts. From the great kiss Seth and I shared, to the great sparring session I just completed with Chax. Frustrated, I finished off in the shower and got dressed. I stood in front of the mirror looking at myself. Why would I feel so good about my session with Chax? Is it because we finally shared something without any bad after effects?

I needed to clear my thoughts and get my head straight on again. So I decided to break a house rule and shifted out, landing in the middle of the busy main street of
Exsilium
. I walked down the street still thinking about everything; and when I had my bearings back again, saw that I was far away from the main street and in a street filled with houses and apartment buildings
.
“Stuff it,” I said, and just kept on walking.

After an hour or so, I stopped and took in my surroundings. I was in some park, no one in site. Oh yeah, I forgot they are all out in the field serving, or in the normal world raising their children. I went over to sit on a bench near a fountain, and looked at the water splashing in the moonlight. After a while I forgot about my whole world of chaotic thoughts.

The air around me stirred and I knew someone was shifting in close by, closing my eyes I just hoped it wasn’t someone looking for me. “Vulcan notified me that you shifted out the house without permission,” Chax said from behind me. Oh, just great.

“Yeah, I needed some space,” I replied, still looking at the water moving in the moonlight.

“You are not allowed to shift out of the house without permission.”

“Yeah, got that part the first time, so sue me,” I threw back, and he just remained silent for a while. Go pick on someone else! But, like always, he just has to go on.

“Come, you need to return,” he continued, and walked to block my view of the water.

“I am capable of shifting on my own, as you can see. I don’t need your help; I’ll go back on my own,” I sneered out, my eyes going to the ground. I don’t need another relapse of this afternoon.

“Now Kasadya,” he demanded, and moved so quickly I didn’t even have a chance of dogging him. The moment he touched me he shifted us to the lobby in
The Hellhouse
. Enraged with him, I ripped my arm out of his grip and turned around and started walking. I hit the stairs and the next moment I was pushed into the wall, Chax blocking me in again.

“Let go of me! I’m back, aren’t I?”

“You need to get your attitude adjusted. You think this world will be gracious with you? No it won’t, obey the rules, understand?”

“Yeah, now let me go,” I said pissed off, looking him straight in his eyes. He looked back at me with the same pissed off face and then released me. Stepping back, he shifted out. I can’t even go somewhere on my own without this prick showing up and spoiling everything. I continued up the stairs into the hall. Walking to our room I noticed that everyone had already retired for the night. So I silently walked in our room, got my PJ’s on, and got in the bed. Sleep only came about two hours later, but at least it did.

My dream started so good. Seth and I were lying on grass, talking and enjoying each other. Then the sky turned dark and I could feel the grass below me go hard. I turned my head to see that the beautiful grass was dead now, and looked around to see all the other plants were also dead.

“What’s happening?” I asked Seth, and turned my head to look into a demon’s face smiling down at me.

“You will be joining us soon hellhound, the underworld awaits you,” he said, and leaned in to kiss me. He had red eyes, grayish rough skin and long black hair.

Now, in the normal world, I would have pushed him off me and made like a cheetah to get away from him. But in this weird dream, I kissed him back enjoying every moment of it. I could feel it’s rough skin on my cheek, and I freaking moaned when its tongue touched mine.

His hands moved over my stomach, and I lifted myself into them, wanting to feel them on me more. Okay it’s officially not a dream anymore, it’s a freaking nightmare!

“Good my hellhound, soon you will enjoy my touch,” he said, and kissed me again. I tried to scream but my dream body just kissed him back. OMG! Someone please wake me up!

“Kas, wake up man!” I heard Nanini, grabbed the lifeline and flew awake. I was breathing like a fish out of water, and she and Lada were sitting on my bed looking at me with concern.

“You okay Kas?” Lada asked, looking me up and down, trying to find the problem.

“Yeah just had a really bad nightmare,” I replied, and placed my head in my hands trying to get the freaking picture out of it.

“Man you were screaming and moaning and stuff,” Nanini pitched in, sitting still for a change.

Embarrassed, I just put my head back into my hands. No way in hell was I going to tell them about me making out with a demon.

“You want to talk about it?” Lada asked, and I felt her hand on my shoulder.

“
Pull it together Kas,
” I said to myself, lifting my head to look at the two of them. “Na, don’t worry, it was just a dream,” I soothed, with a forced on smile.

“Well at least it’s morning, so no worries about sleep,” Nanini said, gesturing to our window where the first sunbeams peeked in.

“Yeah, I’ll take on Chax any day before another nightmare like that,” I replied, and lifted the covers off me to start a new day of my freaking cursed life.

Chapter 5

With the dream still bugging me, I was sitting in Vulcan’s class trying to listen to the latest demon’s strength. But I had a really hard time concentrating. Why would a demon be in my dream? What did it mean by soon? I played his words over and over in my mind.

After an impossibly long morning, we had lunch and were walking to the zone; or at least the girls where, I had to go straight to Chax again.

“You are very quiet today Kas, everything okay?” Lada asked, stopping me with her hand. I looked up at her, and saw that I was starting to bug them out with my internal war.

“Yip, just thinking that’s all, but I’ll stop now promise,” I replied, smiling at her to stop her concern.

“Okay, but if you need to talk, we’re here. Okay?” she said, patting my arm.

“Yeah I know, don’t worry I’m okay. I just have a problem shutting my brain down today. Trust me in a few minutes Chax will kick it back into place for me,” I reassured them and they both laughed, and that took the mood back to normal. We continued walking to the zone only to find Seth and Chax having a talk at the zone’s door. The moment they spotted us, they stopped and turned to look at us.

“Afternoon girls,” Seth said. Chax only stood there with his arms crossed over his chest. Couldn’t even greet like a normal person.

“Hi.” The girls greeted them, and went straight into the zone. Yeah, don’t blame them. This looked like a situation I didn’t even want to be in.

“Hi Seth, Chax,” I murmured, smiling at Seth, and nodding at Chax.

“I’ll leave you to your
Apprendo
Chax, see you later Kas,” Seth said and went in, leaving me with Chax.

“Today we are going to train with the others in the arena. Come, you’ll have a chance to warm up before the others get there,” he said, and gestured for me to follow him. I walked behind him the whole way looking at his back.

We made it to the arena and he stopped at the first circle and turned to look at me.
“We start with some sparring,” he explained and took a stand; I sighed and moved to stand in front of him.

“Transform,” he instructed, and then transformed himself. I closed my eyes and opened them with my fallen body ready for action. He looked at me and then took the first step, going for me with a kick. I blocked his leg with my arm, and moved forward to punch him. But he just swiped my hand away and turned to bring up his other leg. I brought up my arms, blocking his kick again, pain shooting through them with the impact.

He moved so fast, and the next moment was at my back, grabbing my wings. The moment he had them, I froze on the spot. Instinct told me that this was my weakness, and trying to rip out of his hold would only leave me bleeding and in pain.

“You must protect your wings at all times, the moment someone gets their hands on them you’ll end up in a really bad situation. And usually that ends with your head landing on the ground. Concentrate and you’ll find that your wings have built in sensors. You will feel someone near them; close them to your back and step aside to avoid them getting their hands on them,” he explained, while releasing them and going to stand in front of me again.

Okay, they have sensors; let’s see if this works. We started again and after a few punches and kicks later he was at my back again. But this time I felt the moment he was moving at my side and closed my wings, keeping them tight to my back, and turned to continue the sparring
.
“Good, now try and use them to help you fight, just make sure I don’t get my hands on them,” he said, still punching and trying to take me to the ground.

He bent down, leaning on his hand, and swept his leg to mine, trying to kick them out from under me. But I lifted myself up with my wings at the last moment and then spread them, hitting him in the face the moment he got up. Rubbing the spot where my wing’s tip hit him he smiled and moved again, this time sliding between the gap in my legs. Before I could turn to face him he had my wings where they came out between my shoulders. I froze for a second, then opened them and flung them closed, hitting his face in the process. He released them and I continued the fight. We stopped when we heard the first voice coming from inside the door leading to the arena.

“Good, don’t forget what I said. Today you take on a werewolf,” he told me, and went to stand outside the circle. Crossing his arms in front of his chest, he looked at the others approaching us. Okay, so I get a werewolf today; that can’t be that bad. I turned to look at the others, Seth’s face making me smile and he smiled back in return. Then I saw Nina and her
Custos
heading for my circle and my smile dropped. Oh no, not one of the divas!

Nina walked up to me, her face full of absolute hatred; not a very happy person is she? She turned and took a stand in front of me, transforming into one hell of a big wolf. Crap! I’m so dead! Still in hellhound form, I braced myself, preparing for anything from this girl. She doesn’t look like the type to announce her attack.

She had a snout like a wolf, her eyes also turned yellow with big black pupils. Man and she had a set of teeth only seen in movies. I’ve got a feeling this is going to hurt like hell. Her entire body was covered with brown fur. Basically, she looked like all the werewolves I have seen in the movies, just way bigger.

Then she leaned back on her feet and burst forward. The moment she was a step from me, I side stepped her, sending her strait into Chax and her own
Custos
. They all landed on the ground, but she was up like that, charging at me again. This time I was too slow and she rammed into me like a bull. Lifting me up and then bringing me down to the ground hard. I felt my breath leave me. At the moment of impact a small scream escaped without my permission, and then I saw her teeth heading my way. Oh hell no, not this again. Do I have a bite me sign on my forehead?

I grabbed her throat and squeezed as hard as I could, her eyes staying on me while she snapped her snout open and shut in an attempt to bite me. I just hung on for dear life; no way is she sinking that set of teeth into me. She started to wheeze and I knew that she was running out of air. The moment I felt her body starting to go limp I slammed her with my head, sending her off me and landing on the ground.

Jumping up, I moved back creating space between us. Okay lesson one, never give a werewolf enough room to build up speed, ends very bad. She got up and started to growl like a wolf. Okay, now she is really pissed, nice going Kas. She stormed again, but this time she couldn’t build enough momentum to give her a boost. Just a step before me, I stepped forward and brought my arm with a folded fist straight into her face. She went left with the impact and grabbed her face.

Okay, I think I’ve got the hang of it now, game on. I didn’t give her the opportunity to regroup. Stepping forward, I brought up my knee, smashing her in the face again. Her head went backwards with the impact, but I was not done. I grabbed her fur in front of her chest and brought her to her feet. Dazed, and with her head still hung back, I used my wings to lift both of us up in the air, and then slammed down with her below me. Her breath slamming out of her this time, she screamed and laid there motionless.

Nice, I think I made my point so I got up and started to walk to Chax a grin on my face. I really expected him to at least show some sort of emotion, he just stood there looking at me. The next thing I picked up movement behind me with my wing’s sensors. I turned just in time to see a huge wolf slam into me once again.

Crap, what do I need to do to keep her down? Again, I used my hands to keep her mouth away from me. Her snout snapping like a rabies infested dog in my face, drool dropping on my cheek; oh this is so gross. I tried to move my arms in to get her off but couldn’t
.

“Concentration,” Chax said, and then my brain clicked in. Okay the cave thing, I need to concentrate. I closed my eyes and focused on the space behind her, and wouldn’t you believe it, I shifted out from under her.