Summon Lyght (32 page)

"
You were supposed to stay with him!" Francis grabbed his head.

"
Maxwell 911'd me!" She glared at Dare.

Clearly she considered the whole thing Dare
's fault. "I had no clue they were going to do that!"

"
She had no clue." Francis repeated in a firm voice.

The girl stretched out her hand and her fingernail grew into a long metal spike.

Dare's eyes felt like they were going to fall out of her head. "What the fuck?"

Francis held her wrist.
"Peggy what are you doing?"

"
Probing. She will have links I need."

"
You could hurt her."

"
Oh she's a big girl." She bent her head as though searching for an entry. "What's a little pain?"

Dare leaned away.
"Don't you fucking touch me with that thing. What the fuck are you?"

The metal on her finger suddenly raced up the girl
's arm and swallowed her entire body until she stood like some fucking freak from a nightmare sci-fi movie.

"
Oh my God, oh my God." Dare whimpered and cringed back.

"
Peggy. Don't. Do this."

"
Then make her tell me! Where! Is! Tyler!"

Dare covered her ears and screamed as the sound of those words seemed to tear at the molecules in her brain.

"You're hurting her! Please stop!"

The girl aimed her hand at Dare and a flash of red filled the room. Dare blinked, staring at the woman encased in a red casket looking box. She looked at Francis. No. Not Francis. Some red statue. A red man statue that moved and seemed to be made of…ruby. Oh dear God, dear God. She was dreaming.
"The Ruby Prince," she barely whispered. The room spun and she fell into darkness with the words
I got you Abigail
floating softly in her spirit like a long forgotten lullaby.

Chapter Thirty Five

The second Lyght touched down at the compound, he knew she wasn
't there. Where the bloody hell was she? He grabbed Sam who appeared to be looking for Toren and spun her around, following Kassie's cord.

The city.
"Take us to the city. Your mother is in the city."

Sam looked at him like he
'd lost his mind. "My mother?"

Lyght fought panic.
"Sam, please, she needs me."

"
Sorry, you freaked me out calling her my mother. Are you okay?"

Lyght paused, confused.
"She is your mother. What do you mean?"

"
No." Sam shook her head. "She's just a close friend. Like a mother."

"
She never told you?" Lyght couldn't believe it.

"
Told me what?"

"
Never mind, later."

"
No not later!" She grabbed his arm. "Told me what?"

Lyght grabbed her shoulders.
"Sam, she's your mother. She was blackmailed by your father into silence. Sweetheart, I'm sorry. I thought you knew."

Lyght prayed Sam didn
't break down on him. Not now. "How do you know for sure?"

"
Love, it's why I can find her through you. Your biological tie."

Sam
's mouth dropped. "I thought…I thought it was just because I was close to her or something."

Lyght nodded.
"You are. Just closer than you realized." He held his hand out to her. "I don't mean to be insensitive," he said softly," but can we please go find her. She's in trouble. I can feel it."

A few moments of awe sat on Sam
's face before a light switch of panic seemed to flip in her. She snatched Lyght's hand and shut her eyes, flashing them to the city.

Lyght had wished to listen to conversation and find something out while at the compound, but something inside of Kassie had him tied in knots. Whatever forced her out of hiding was bad. At least to her. And the shit he felt in her call had him burning with a righteous justice. Fuck!

The second Sam got them in the city, Lyght was ran over by a locomotive of his own power travelling at the speed of light.

"
What was that!" Sam staggered.

****

  Kassie fought on the bed as they wrestled her legs apart. Her throat was raw, her eyes had no more tears. "Lyght," she rasped, breathing shallow around the pain in her abdomen.

An explosion rocked the air and she screamed. Light filled the room, blinding her. She gasped, trying to see through her swollen eyes, her jaw shaking uncontrollably. Then she heard deep words, foreign, followed by agonizing screams. One, then another. The voice drew closer, louder.

"What the fuck is that? Is that God? Fuck!"

"
She been calling for light, dude, look at him!"

She was suddenly cut loose by one of the guys and they covered her with a blanket. And there he was, standing in the doorway, so bright and beautiful, his eyes like brilliant white stars,
fine shards of diamond hair lay across his forehead. White robe glistening like a sea of sparkles.

"
We're sorry man, here, she's yours."

He hung his head and spoke those words and the two men in the room began to scream in agony. He knelt next to the bed and bowed his head, reaching his violently trembling hand out to her.
"Kassie! You are so beautiful and merciful. Please. I beg you. I beg you with all my being. Let me judge them with
wrath.
"

****

Lyght had never felt anything like it. Though his power had returned to him, he wasn't able to use it the way he wanted. Torture and devastate, utterly annihilate. He'd wanted to torture the men but instead he was judging them with righteousness and mercy. A cruel hard death would have been just, but merciful was far more just. And the fact that it was Kassie doing it, was mind blowing. The one who had been so defiled and hurt was still able to retain her sense of mercy and compassion. Even on her enemies.

It was almost as if she were the Archangel and he were…the human.

Lyght froze.

Holy. Nine. Universes.

"Lyght." Fresh tears rolled over her bruised and swollen cheeks. "You came."

Even though he was only a few feet from her, he flashed to her side and scooped her into his arms, burying his face in her shoulder.
"You called me sweetheart." He let out a sob. "You finally called me."

She hugged him tight and nothing had ever felt so good.

"Oh God, Lyght, I don't feel…so good." She groaned weakly.

Lyght grabbed his head as the sound of the universe ripped like rusty sheet metal in his skull.

"What is that? Lyght, I'm scared."

The air before them trembled like rippling water then it split like a festering wound. What the bloody hell? The
thing
that climbed out of the ripped air wasn't like anything Lyght had ever seen. At first glance, it looked almost like a daddy long legs spider, but with a lumpy human head and two bulbous abdomens. And the size of a bloody building.

Bloody hell! Private demon? Could Kassie have somehow created it?

The thing opened its mouth and shrieked, again tearing through Lyght's brain. Like it was a part of him. "Kassie. Sweetheart. I think that is an Ozeliblis. I think you may have created him."

"
Me!?"

"
Us. What we are together. You will need to give me all of my power to fight it. Can you do that?"

She looked at him with wide terrified eyes and shook her head.
"I don't know how. Tell me. Tell me how!" She shrieked the words, watching it approach, its jagged mouth and matching eyes billowing with dread and darkness like erupting volcanos.

Shit.
"The last time, what happened that you gave me the power, what happened to you?"

Tears streamed as she clung fast to his cloak, hiding behind him.
"I was scared. I'm scared now! Take the power! Take it! I'm fucking scared of it! Lyght! I'm scared!"

Fear? Was fear its power? It resonated from within Kassie, acting like a hot air balloon for the beast. And was it growing? With every step toward them?
"I still don't have it. Try giving it again, sweetheart." He fought to remain calm.

"
Take it! Take the power, I don't want it!"

A miniscule portion of his energy hit him and he flew at the beast. The thing swiped him out of the air like a bug and Lyght struggled in its cold clutches, suddenly able to feel its
intentions. The monster was using both of them as a portal into the realm. It would devour the two of them and feed on the world's fears and miseries until all were consumed with it.

Bloody fucking hell.

How did it get such a strong hold in them?

The thing threw him to the ground and Kassie
's fear surged enough for him to feel it. He hit with the force of a meteor, pavement and earth shattering like thin glass beneath him. Unable to move, he watched the thing approach.

Dear God.

He fought to stay conscious as it pulled him by his head from the crater. The beast's abysmal mouth opened and Lyght struggled to get free, the darkness approaching like the ground rushing up to him. It tried to pull him apart, half his body in its mouth. Lyght screamed from the pain.

The supernatural diamond armor embedded in his tissues held him together and Lyght was sorry Uriel had reinforced his body with it all those millennia ago. Kassie
's screams raked him to pieces until he wished for death.

The creature howled like an angry child and slammed him into the Earth again. This time his diamond shattered like fine crystal. He felt himself fading. He couldn
't fade.

Yes…he could. Fade. Just fade.

Don't die. Please don't die
.

Lyght heard Kassie
's plea. If only he could help it.

****

Sam watched on in horror as the monster slammed Lyght to the earth with diabolical force. Kassie jerked around to face the point of impact and screamed. Blinding white light blasted from her body to send the beast hurling through the air with a torturous howl.

Kassie raced toward Lyght and the beast returned like a torpedo loosed from hell.

Kassie spun to meet it, both palms up. A wall of clear thick diamond exploded out of the ground at her feet and the beast crashed into it. The creature shrieked and slumped, momentarily dazed before throwing its head back for a pissed off roar.

The thing scurried up the shiny surface and Kassie shook her head, looking terrified. It reached the top and poised to spring over, but the wall grew taller. The thing roared and hurried in hot pursuit of the barrier
's edge.

The monster changed course and raced sideways along the barricade like a grotesque demon crab. It reached the edge only for the wall to lengthen.

It barked several roars then jumped to the ground and gave another ear splitting screech. Black smoke began to swirl around its lumpy head until a cyclone of darkness sat on its shoulders.

With a mournful wail, it slammed its strange head into the diamond. Every blow sounded like a giant saw blade on rock, the
zzzzzzzzzzaaawwww
rattling Sam's bones.

The fourth strike cracked the barrier
and shot a brilliant web of cracks along the diamond surface. Another blow and part of the barricade exploded, huge shards shooting into the cavernous hole of the thing's head.

Good God.

On the sixth attack, the wall fell.

No, it didn
't fall. The massive chunks swirled in the air as if they were caught in a white cyclone. Sam's jaw dropped as the diamond re-formed. Holy shit. A giant diamond scorpion the size of a building slammed its massive tail at the beast.

"
That's Robert!"

Sam spun at the voice.
"Tyler?"

He pointed, excited, like he
'd been there watching. "He's Lyght's spirit being!"

"
How are you…"

Without taking his eyes from the fight he shook his head.
"I'm not in my body."

What? But how?
Her and Lyght’s bodies were at the compound as far as she knew. Only Kassie was physically present. The odd note in Tyler's voice sent dread through Sam. Something was wrong with him. She wanted to ask how he was there but the earth shook under her feet and distracted her. The scorpion slammed its giant tail again and severed one of the creature's limbs. It grew back bigger!

Oh shit.

The diamond scorpion battled, leaving Sam in awe of its beauty, speed, and
strength
. It drove the nasty beast further away. 

Kassie used the scorpion
's distraction and knelt by the crater where Lyght remained and peered in, immediately covering her mouth with both hands as if attempting to contain terrible screams.

A shriek tore through the air and Sam wheeled toward the sound. The diamond Scorpion writhed and arched in the beast
's clutches. "Oh no." Sam barely breathed the words.

"
Lyght's dying!"

Sam whirled to Tyler. She must have heard wrong.

"Robert's getting weak!" He turned to her, horrified. "He's part of Lyght! Lyght's dying!" Tyler seemed to fade in and out like bad reception. "Tell her she gained all his powers." Tyler shook his head as though interpreting some invisible signals. He turned to her, desperate. "He's dying! Hurry! Tell her she gained everything in their binding. She is the one who put him in the coma. She just has to want things and it happens because Lyght loves her." He looked at the crater in the earth, his breaths shallow, then turned back to her with wide eyes. "He loves her so much that anything she wants, his power gives it. She doesn't realize how powerful she is." His words rushed out in a panic. "You have to tell her to stop being guilty for loving him. Tell her now! Tell her she created this monster! She has to kill it! She has all the
power!
"

The boy
's words echoed through the entire universe. Kassie heard. Kassie heard every word.

Tears streamed down his face and he let out a wail.
"It's too late! She's too late! He's gone, I can't feel him." His voice trailed to a whisper. "He's gone!"

Kassie
's eyes grew wide and she screamed as the beast snatched her up.

A cry of horror burst from Sam as the thing shoved her mother into its mouth.
"It ate her!" she sobbed. "Oh my God, it fucking ate her!

The thing threw its head back and let out a screech, holding four arms at its sides, fists balled tight. Then it jerked its head down and peered at her and Tyler like they were next on the fucking menu.