down to be born again as humans. Andausians. They are your spirit guardians, and
soon they will find you as you have found them. I know it may seem meaningless
to have guardians, especially with Lord Demetri by your side, but once the anarchy
begins, you"ll see they are very much needed. Keep in mind, although they will
protect you and give their very lives to do so, you are to stay close to them and
protect them also. As powerful as they are, they are still mortal.”
Rayne nodded, taking in every word with intent.
Katsumi waved her hand over the puddles, drawing them together to form
one again. Then his face appeared—eerie green eyes, long fangs and platinum
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blonde hair. Her eyes burned, her limbs twitched. All the faces of the people he
killed shuffled through her mind.
There were infuriated growls echoing throughout the dim room. It took a
second for her to realize the growls were coming from her. She almost shot to her
feet, but the girls at her sides kept her grounded.
“Lucius,” she heard Katsumi hiss. “Third spawn of Satan. When the time
comes, you will claim his head.”
“What do you mean when the time comes?” Fangs jutted from her gums and
her nerves jolted. Hot tears rolled down her face and sizzled against her skin.
Tremors shot through her in explosive bursts, heightening her rage. “He has to die
now!”
An almost baleful smile graced the priestess"s face. “You must destroy his
minion first, Doshar.” The horrific features of another man appeared. “Do not
forget this face. Your blades, which are in the Andausian"s possession, will be
strengthened with his death. The spirits of your swords will draw strength from
his power and make you stronger. Once he is demolished, close the portals and
destroy the chingi who wreak havoc in your home domain. With every demon
head you claim, the stronger you will become,” she informed, eagerness rushing her
tone.
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She heard every word Katsumi said, but she couldn"t get the name Lucius out
her mind. Her hands curled into fist and her nails bit into her palms. The need to
kill him made her core walls clutched and her nipples ached. It was a delirious,
sick mixture of lust and fury and she couldn"t shake it to save her life.
“Your spiritual battle weapons prosper with you, destroy with you, and
grow with you!” Katsumi raised her hands and the flames shot to the ceiling. “Tahi,
Goma, show your highness your true forms!”
Both girls spread their arms then brought their hands together, fists to
palms. Swiftly, they shed their forms and morphed into two large dragons.
Shocked out of her mind, Rayne stumbled to her feet and jumped back.
Lovely from their enormous heads to their razor sharp talons, they towered
at least twenty feet tall. The gorgeous creatures had elongated scaly necks, pointed
horns, and long snouts with two thick whiskers hanging out. Curved spikes
dotted the length of their backs down to the stretch of their huge tails. Even in the
dragon form, they still held onto the colors which differentiated them.
“Oh my God, I can"t believe this. You didn"t tell me they were dragons!”
Rayne whipped her head back and forth from one to the other. The
mythological creature she"d dreamed about as a little girl was actually real and two
stood at her sides!
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“This is straight up like, wow,” she murmured, unable to take her eyes off of
one long enough to look at the other. “Tahi and Goma.” They kneeled and nuzzled
her with the call of their names.
The flames lowered to flickers and Katsumi stood on the other side of the
boiling puddle with a sheathed sword at her side. “Separated, they are your
weapons. Together, they are your force. All you have to do is utter their names and
they will come to you. My job is done for now, but before I release you to rest in
your lover"s arms, you must answer a question for me.” She flipped her wrist and
brought the sword up parallel with her nose. With an unseen movement, she
removed the cover from the blade then leveled the sword at her. “Now that you
know who you are, Queen of the Dragons, what are you set out to do?”
determination and will. A deep pride filled her heart.
“Bring balance to God"s earth,” Rayne answered in the mystical tongue.
Katsumi rounded the pool and stood before her. She kneeled elegantly and
raised her sword with both hands. “Then take my handle, your majesty.”
With emotion enfolding her heart, Rayne curled her hand around the
handle. Raw power spooled through her arm and ignited within her core. The
weapon pulsated in her grasp, matching the thump of her rapid heartbeat.
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She squeezed her eyes shut and cried out. Tahi and Goma roared with her,
shattering the walls around them.
It wasn"t pain. It wasn"t torture. It was enlightenment, meaning to her life,
what she was born to do.
“This is who I am!”
Standing, Katsumi grazed her fingers along the blade. “Evil now has a face.”
The body of liquid splashed violently then rose to form a man. Lucius.
Katsumi walked around behind her and hugged her waist. “If evil should
approach you…”
As Katsumi"s sweet whisper brushed her ear, the liquid version of Lucius
flashed a sinister smile. Then without thought, Rayne stepped forward and sliced
the blade through his neck with a movement so swift, she had to catch herself. His
head toppled off his shoulders and splashed to the ground with the rest of the
silvery liquid.
“If evil should approach me, I"ll take his fucking head.”
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Epilogue
Awakening
Demetri jerked back to look into Sharayna"s face. Low growls escaped from
her crimson lips. Her body trembled in his embrace, her heart rate increased. Her
intent to kill oozed from her skin in pure silver. She now knew.
He held her tightly, trying to control his own need to drain the life out
of… anybody. She aroused him and taunted his beast.
“Calm down, my love. Please.”
A familiar face came to his mind, an image plucked from her psyche. Bright
green eyes, so similar to those of the chingi demons— Lucius. Her target, her focus,
the face of evil.
Before he could wipe the image from her thoughts, her lids flew open.
Metallic grey melted over her eyes.
“My Lord, your Queen will need rest,” she urged in a voice not her own. “Do
not allow her to go after him. Not yet. She is not ready.”
“Well thank you for riling her up, Katsumi. Send her to me.”
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Rich chocolate pools bled through the argent gleam in her eyes, but was
quickly replaced with red rimmed in silver. Burning anger.
She bristled. Her pearlescent incisors peeked from beneath her lips. He
clasped her waist. She shot up and her hand sought out Katsumi"s handle.
In an attempt to stop her, he grabbed her hand, but she broke out of his
grasp. So strong, so swift, yet her energy steadily waned. The sharp rasp of the
blade leavi
ng its sheath sliced through the silence.
With finesse, she spun out of his reach, and leveled the sword at him. Her
breasts heaved and her body wavered on unstable legs. The sight of her wielding
Katsumi with her fangs out almost sent him right over the edge. He had to have
her now…but no, she needed more strength.
He pushed up from his kneeling position. “The trip to the spirit realm has
added to your weakened state, Angel. Come rest in my arms.”
Her lids fluttered as she stepped back. “You stay right there,” she growled.
“Don"t try to stop me.”
Loosening his tie, he walked toward her. “Now why would I want to do
that?”
She shook her head and staggered backward until her backside met the edge
of the sink. “Demetri, I, I have to do this. He has to die,” she stammered. “Do you
feel the people, all of the people he"s killed?”
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“Yes, I do.”
“I"m gonna lop off that big head of his. I"m gonna do it.”
He unbuttoned his jacket, then his vest and pushed them both from over his
shoulders to fall to the bloody floor. “Indeed.” The last of the fabric covering his
torso left him and he positioned his chest right at Katsumi"s edge. The sharp blade
pierced his skin.
Her widened eyes ran over his form, then slowly but surely, the rage left her
beautiful face. “Demetri, stop it,” she slurred. “I can"t stay mad when you"re—God,
boy—why do you do this to me? Why are you so ridiculously sexy?”
“Have me, my love. Cast the anger aside if only for tonight and have me.”
“But…”
“He will perish beneath the sting of your blade, but not while you"re like
this.”
“Oh baby…” Katsumi fell from her hand and clanked loudly against the tiles.
“I wanna kill him so bad, it hurts, but damn, D…you know how to break a chick
down.”
She began to slide to the floor. He caught her and hoisted her up on the edge
of the sink. Shivering limply against him, her weak hands touched his chest where
the blade pricked him.
“I hurt you,” she murmured.
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“You can never hurt me.” With the wave of his hand, he discarded her
sweatpants, if only to feel the smoldering heat from her core.
“Bite me,” she purred with need, cupping his backside to pull him deeper
between her thighs. “Why won"t you bite me?”
He nuzzled her neck and lapped at her quivering vein. She writhed against
him, palmed the back of his head and mewled. He fought the urge to meet her
request. The scent of her blood taunted him as she enticed him with her cooing
plea.
“Demetri, I know you want my blood. I can feel your desire for it.”
No. He couldn"t. He wouldn"t. Not while she"s in this condition. “You"re not
ready for my bite.”
“But I"m ready to give to you.”
She cradled his face and claimed his lips with hunger. Her powerful legs
hugged him. Even enervated, she dominated his mouth. Thrusting, tasting, and
caressing, the power of her velvety desire jarred his beast. Something was
happening. The sudden burn in his throat made him stiffen.
A drop.
She fed him a drop of her forbidden essence. Just a drop exhilarated and
battered his insides at the same time. His mind raced, his knees weakened, but her
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warm thighs kept him bound in place. Blinding light sparked behind his closed
lids.
Caught in a moment of rapture and crazed insanity, he growled and tried to
push away, but she held him firm. His fingers dug into the steel sink and cracked
the granite surrounding it. He tried his damndest to hold back the beast, but it
steadily clawed its way to the surface, needing to take her just as badly as he did.
Bite her!
“No!” he growled.
“If you don"t let me see him, then how can we move forward, baby?”
“Don"t, Sharayna…”
“Please, show him to me. I"ll show you mine, if you show me yours.” The
raspy coo of her inner demon tantalized his with promise of a mind shattering
blood sex.
She reached down ripped his pants open and took hold of his stiff cock.
Seduced under her spell, she rubbed the engorged head of his length along her
dewy love nest. Her opening kissed and caressed his tip. They both sighed with
pleasure.
This was not right. Their first time making love was supposed to be on a bed
of rose petals, candles highlighting their coupling; the breath-taking image he"d
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perceived in her mind. He had to get her away from here, but her powerful lure
hindered his ability to transport. She wanted to be taken right here, right now.
“I can"t control it, sweetheart. Don"t do this. That part of me is not tamable.”
The crown of his cock slid beneath her snug passage. “Who said I wanted
him to be?” she moaned.
His body no longer belonged to him.
He snatched her hand away, palmed her perfectly round behind and shoved
his rod to the hilt of her core, hard and fast.
She shrieked as her nails bit into his shoulders.
His eyes crossed at the searing sweetness clutching his pride. Prickles of
delight rapidly cascaded through his body, leaving a trail of fire in its wake. His
blood boiled with desire.
The sensation was mind blowing.
Shuddering, he branded her thighs with his grip. He surged back, his
member saturated in her liquid lust, then he thrust into her again, snuggling
deeply into her channel. Her head fell back and a husky wail ripped from her
throat to blow a hole through the roof. The sweet wine of her release melted over
him as tears leaked from the corners of her eyes.
“Ohh yeeessss, oh my God, Demetri,” she whimpered. “Feels so good.”
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Savoring her desire, he clenched his teeth then speared in and out of her as
steadily as he could manage. His harsh breaths and growls danced with her
vociferous cries of ecstasy. Her snug cavern clutched him repeatedly, milking him
toward climax. The delicious wet symphony of her core engulfing his lance added
to the incredible sensation spooling within him. Then before he could ready
himself, a powerful nerve-jolting storm slammed into him.
As a monstrous wail jumped out of him, his hips heaved forward in jerking
movements and he poured every bit of his passion into her.
The red glare of the moon streamed through the opening in the roof,
accompanied with the howls of the demons afar. Their coupling was a call to the
darkness.
“You may have her now, vampire, but she will come to me,” a malevolent voice
threatened through the airwaves. “And there"s not a fucking thing you can do about it!”
A half smile curved his lips. “We"ll just see about that.”
Hair was brushed from his shoulders. Soft lips kissed his neck and then the
tip of her tongue traced his throbbing blood vessel to heighten the pulse. Up
above, he watched the black cloud swallow the scarlet orb as her heated fangs
sunk into his jugular.
Willingly pulled into the unrestrained passion of her bite, he inhaled the
rancid scent of the wicked
ness that swiftly infused the air.
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The Chingi were coming .
The End
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