Chapter XIX

"Pick your battles. You don't have to show up to every argument you're invited to."

-Mandy Hale

Estal panted as he watched Darrin, Garroth, and Caleb vault over the side of the tower. He was certain they were going to break something, but the sickening crack. He leaned over and saw them running perfectly fine over to where Timothy, Troy, and Leyna were.

It was all so confusing. Sure, he probably should have seen the signs. How could he not tell they were faking? He usually was good at pointing out spies within his midst, but he failed this time.

Without thinking, he put one hand on the edge of the tower and jumped. He heard Fai and the others screaming at him, but he ignored them completely. Before he could hit the ground, he pulled out one of his guns and shot at the arch hanging over the fight. A grappling hook and rope shot out, latching onto the bricks. He hung over them for a bit, attempting to hear their conversations.

"You get Netflix down here, Xezal?"

"And Crunchyroll, but that isn't the point of the battle, Sanosuke."

Estal was confused o the nickname, because it sounded foreign, and certainly didn't belong to Timothy.

"Tim!"

"I assume you know who this guy is, Garroth?"

"Xezal, one of Lucifer's servants. He was imprisoned when he was an angel due to bad behavior. The cuffs around his wrists are indestructible, and cannot be taken off."

Estal frowned. Great, we have one of these guys he thought glumly.

"This just got even more complicated."

"Why in the Hell did you hurt Timothy and Megan?"

Xezal smirked. "Oh, you didn't know?"

"Know what?"

Laughter. "This is too rich!"

"I suggest you get ready, the others are coming, and they won't go easy on you."

Xezal vanished, and in his place was Lilith with a new Demon, who Estal assumed was powerful, judging by the aura of power flowing off of him. He had darker skin with eyebrows that seemed to be set in a permanent furrow. His eyes were dark and he had a larger nose. His lips were a pink color, and were pressed into a thin line as he surveyed his opponents. He had dark hair that was spiked up, and he ran a hand through it, smirking. "This shouldn't be too hard, eh, Lilith?"

Lilith nodded as she surveyed the group. Estal looked up at the attack team and saw them getting prepared to move in, so he did the same. Michal looked up at him and mouthed 'Wait for my signal'. Estal nodded, and watched.

Michal moved his hand, signalling for them to go, and they all jumped in. Estal pulled out his main pistol and cocked it, prepared to fight. He landed easily on the ground next to Timothy, who didn't even flinch. Estal looked up. "Who are you?"

The man smirked, again. "Names Ezekiel, what's yours, Elf?"

"Estal."

"Wait, like the Elf Prince, Estal?"

"That'd be the one." Estal said, shuffling the pistol around in his hand.

Ezekiel frowned. "We can't kill him, Lilith. We need the elves to trust us."

"You can't kill quite a lot of us, actually." Troy said. "I'm the Vampire Prince, and Leyna here is my girlfriend, and Michal's her Alpha. Fai is related to Estal, Zoe is related to the king and queen of the Sea Serpents because her sister married the Prince, and Charlotte is the child of the Head of Division One of the Witch world."

"And the Monster Hunters?"

"We'll protect them with our lives." Estal said, waling towards Ezekiel. "And, if any harm comes to us, then we will tell our family, and they will retaliate."

Lilith smirked. "If you're all already dead, than how could you tell them?"

Estal sighed. "They know we are here, so I suggest you not mess with us and give us back our friend." He spat.

"What, the human girl? She's already revived all of us, and she is being prepped to revive Lucifer. We found a little loophole in the predicament we ran into." Ezekiel said, smirking devilishly.

"What did you do to her!" Caleb cried out, clenching his fists.

Lilith burst into a maniacal laugh. "We simply extracted a bit of blood from her...but it may be a bit more than she can handle for the revival of out king..." Ezekiel murmured as he watched for our reactions.

Caleb clearly was going to go off the reserves, but Zoe quickly ran over and clamped her hands onto his shoulders. She leaned up to his ear and whispered something in it, calming him down. Estal lifted his gun and pointed it at Ezekiel's forehead. "Let us through or face the consequences."

Ezekiel sighed. "I really didn't want to have to do this..." He said, sadness gracing his tone.

Everyone glanced at each other. Ezekiel cracked his neck and then his knuckles. "Looks like we'll have to do this the dirty way, huh?"

Estal was about to retort when he felt a hand slam into his chest as Ezekiel rocketed forward. He flew back, and hit the wall. Black dots filled his vision, and he could hear the sound of swords on swords, metal on metal, gunshots, flesh on flesh, practically everything. Estal felt his eyes shutting, and welcomed it. He was in no shape to fight these demons.

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Sorry about the short chapter, but it will get better.

Next chapter we see Group three as they make their way to Andrea, and then the last chapter will be them all together! With that in mind, let's get to some announcements, yeah?

First...I have a new story coming out! It's officially making its way into the public part of Wattpad on the same day that this story ends, and the sequel to this story should be up on week after this one finishes, so you'll have to wait for it a bit.

Anyways, the new story is meant to replace my failed attempt of a romance story, *cough cough* Cliché *cough cough*. Sorry. Had something in my throat.

So it's called Posh, Private, and Perfect

I know, it's a bad name, but bear with me here!

Here's the cover and summary:

The three P's.

Posh. Private. And Perfect.

Leona is an ordinary girl who lives an ordinary life in an ordinary town. She thinks her life is simple, and nothing will ever change that.

That is, unless she gets a scholarship to the school of everyone's dreams.

Jefferson Academy. It's one of the richest schools in America, and it only accepts the richer families children. That is, until they so desperately need a smarter student due to the failing grades of many of its students.

The Dean of the academy is hoping getting a lesser citizen into the school who gets good grades will encourage the others to do better.

Of course, when someone who hasn't tasted the good things in life runs into those who live and breathe it, you are bound to find a Rollercoaster of craziness.

What do you think? It was something I really wanted to do, and I'm really excited to show you guys it! I have a cast list as well, but I won't disclose it, so you'll have to wait for the book to come out!

Oh right, song of the chapter...

It's World So Cold by Three Days Grace!

https://youtu.be/0DQimvlEpjY

One of my favorite bands and one of the many songs I love by them! Seriously, it's a good song.

If you didn't notice, I took one of my books titled Spirit off because I did not like what direction it went in, and I am going to be rewriting it soon, so don't worry if you were fond of it. Why, I don't know.

Here's the cover in case you never saw it.

That's all I uave to say, so might as well cut it here!

Adios!

-Paige

P.S.

Hey there, everyone! I made a mistake this week by uploading the last chapter on Thursday. I woke up that day and thought it was Wednsday, and uploaded a chapter as per usual. However, I soon realized it was actually Thursday, but I didn't have the heart to unpublish it, and so I decided to upload another chapter today while skiing Fridays usual upload.

As I'm typing this, I'm on the plane to Puerto Vallarta, the city in Mexico that I'm going vacationing to, so sorry about any grammatical mistakes as I'm not going to proofread it.

Anyways, adios, mi amigos!

-Paige