HeartBreak Warfare

Chapter 16

I opened my eyes to a shaft of light streaming through my bedroom window. The dust was floating around in my vision, and even though the light was supposed to be painful, I couldn't feel and lick of pain, not with an Angel from God in my arms. Or I guess and Angel from Hell would be a better way of putting it. I looked down at her, smiling like a fool. Here was the love of my life lying on my chest, sleeping with a smile on her face. In that face was the Blake I knew, the Blake she was before all of this happened, but I guess she never really went away. She was here the whole time.

Blake yawned, moving slightly. I pushed some hair from her face as she opened her eyes. She laughed softly, putting her arms around my waist. She kissed the hollow base of my neck, then up to my chin and finally my lips. I pulled her close, not wanting to move one centimeter apart.

She pulled away breathlessly. "Someone is in a good mood this morning." She noted. She leaned up next to me while I put my arm around her shoulder.

"Can't imagine why." I kissed her nose, sending her into a fit of giggles. God, the sound of her laugh just made my heart soar. I felt like flying hundreds of miles to nowhere or taking on an entire army, which, I remembered suddenly, I would be doing tomorrow.

There was a soft knock on the door. Before I answered, Christoffles walked in, leaving Lily still standing in the entrance. I stiffened, barring my teeth in a quick snarl. I was about to lunge until Blake looked at me.

"Don't be mad at them anymore, love." Blake whispered. "It's not their fault you think they betrayed you."

I was about to make a witty remark when I processed her words. "You mean that they were in this the whole time?"

Blake nodded. "Every single moment of it. Of course I was the one who rounded this whole thing up, you know." she beamed at me, showing me her white teeth.

Christoffles grinned sheepishly at me. "It was hard not telling you the truth, Logan. You're my best friend. I would never hurt you like that." His words were so pure and sincere that I felt my heart clench. I shouldn't have even felt these emotions, but I was sorry for treating him like that when he was the one trying to help me.

And there was Lily…who was still in the door. Then I remembered. She was a vampire and since I've returned, I haven't once asked her to come in. Chris was just a Demon, he didn't need it.

"Come in, Lils." I said, picking up on the nickname I used to have for her. She hated it which was the main reason I still remembered it. She pinched her nose, but came in with a sour look on her face. She folded her arms and tapped her foot. I rolled my eyes. "Lily, I'm sorry I thought you betrayed me." Even though it wasn't my fault. I almost added that part but I was too happy to ruin it. Here was my real family whom I thought left me, but who really had been here the whole time.

Lily looked at me, smiled and laughed. She grabbed Christoffles hand, her face flushed with joy.

"Look, I'm glad we've got this reunion thing, but I'm kind of busy right now…" I trailed off looking at Blake. She blushed quickly and smiled.

"Oh! Right. Well come on, Chris. We've got stuff to do. I wanna go shopping and then go…" her voice went out of my hearing range as she got farther down the hall.

Blake peered over at me before swinging her leg over my body and wrapping it around my waist. "Busy are you?"

Quicker than a snake I twisted around, pinned Blake to the bed and kissed her mouth hard. I moved down to her neck, feeling the pulse beneath her skin. "Very busy."

"Do you really have to put your clothes back on?" Blake purred, giving me a quick wink.

I buttoned up my shirt and pulled on my pants. "Big day. Got to keep the charade up. Can't let my roles slip now that I know I'm in the play."

She rolled her eyes at me. "Whatever, Romeo."

"Did you say something, Juliet?" I laughed. We were two forbidden lovers, though Romeo was always a little too fickle for my taste. I love Rosaline-oh wait I love Juliet! He never could focus on one girl. Impatience was always his tragic flaw. He wanted a girl and he wanted her now. I on the other hand was perfectly happy with the girl I am with and it took me a while to even get the nerve to date her. Now before I get agitated with Romeo (I honestly dislike him) and get off on this whole rabbit trail, I'll gladly move on.

She launched a pillow at me as I shut the door. I made my way down the hallway in haste, cursing myself for letting myself get carried away with her. Now I was late for the meeting and no doubt they would notice that it was us two who were gone. Then Darius would get pissed-

That's when I realized I didn't care. Blake didn't like him, she's in love with me and that's the end of the story. Screw my brother. Blake was mine.

Ours. Logan chimed in, clearly in a good mood. It seemed like he was trying to say 'I told you so', but seeing as he said nothing about this, I quickly proved him wrong and opened the door to the marble room.

Everyone was seated around the map on the floor. Darius was speaking quietly to Scott and Terry while Lily was talking to my mother and father. All eyes glanced up at me as I walked in, but I saw no suspicion and no reason to be worried so I strolled in casually. I took a seat with my brothers and picked up with the conversation.

Through the day I worked hard to keep my poker face (Even harder not to break into song like Lady Gaga whenever I thought of that word. Don't judge.) Because I found myself wanting to smile every time Scott spoke of an ally. Of course I played along perfectly, never giving any sign to any one that I was betraying each and every one of them. I kept getting smiles from my father, pats on the back from Terry and grins from Scott. Even Darius-Darius!-was in a good mood with me. Of course it would take murder for my family to like me.

"Did anyone ever get a hold of the Pegasi?" Scott asked two hours later.

My father shifted on his feet, leaning over my shoulder to see the map. "I don't believe I have. I doubt we would need them. Our plan is flawless already." There was a smile towards me and then he walked back to my mother.

I felt a tiny twinge of regret as I sat with my family. In twenty-four hours they were all going to be dead. I was going to help betray them. Did they all have to die? Couldn't we save Scott or Terry? Whenever I thought of this though, I got a small shake from Lily. The risk was too great. No one could live if our own plan was going to work. At least I would have my sister.

Going to bed that night, I still had the creepy feeling that I had forever ago. I had the feeling that something was going to go wrong. But as soon as Blake entered the room in only her underwear, I forgot my own name. Trust me, if you could see her like I can, you wouldn't have forgotten too.

Blake woke me up just before dawn. There was a quick nod from her pointing to the table beside the bed. She had laid my clothes for the day on it and a short note:

I love you (:

-Blake

I smiled at the note and slipped it into my pocket. Blake had already left when I stepped out of the shower. I tugged on my shirt and pants, scanning my room for anything that I had missed. I went back into the bathroom one last time, looking at my reflection. I still had the same hair that you could lose money in, the same angular face, the same nose, and the same skin tone and ebony eyes. Nothing about my appearance had changed but I knew that I was different. I didn't have a soul and yet I still felt like me.

You're welcome. Logan said smugly.

I didn't say it was your doing.

You never said that it wasn't.

I rolled my eyes, slung my jacket over my shoulder and opened the door.

I had no idea that when I stepped out of that door, I was never going to see my room again.

I followed the smell of food after I left my room, feeling my stomach rumble. Now let me warn you-our breakfast is not a typical one, but if you haven't that out yet that were not typical, go play dodge car.

In the kitchen there was all sorts of food on the table-eggs, pancakes, cookies, broccoli, carrots, you name it. Surrounding the table were various humans tied up to the table. They were wiggling, trying to get free. Two girls were already dead on the floor. The others didn't want to be next. So instead of ramping my guilt up, I grabbed a cup and filled it was O-positive and chugged it down. I got a few looks of disappointment from my family but some grateful glances from the humans. One of them was going to live if I got my math right.

When breakfast was over there were no humans left alive, which made me feel sad, but I got over as soon as Terry and Scott exchanged high fives and did a chest bump. They looked like two football players getting for a game. Too bad they didn't realize it was going to kill them. Shaking off the dark thought I joined in my brothers' rowdiness and roughed around a bit until my mother calmed us down. We set up and went over a few things that we thought we might have missed, but we were completely ready by six o'clock. Then we set out for my victory and their loss.

And I realized as soon as Blake walked out the door and in the opposite direction from me that I didn't tell her I loved her this morning.

The events that followed weren't too complicated. At six-thirty exactly a trumpet sounded through the air, sending my family and the Winged Demons into the air towards Rome. It only took ten minutes for my father, who was at my right, to figure out that everyone was out of position. When he tried to voice his knowledge, Alex, whom I realized had been on my side this whole time, dropped kicked in the back, sending him falling like a rock.

"Father!" Terry called. He dived for him when another flock grabbed him and Scott. He looked frantically to me. "Brother! Help us!"

The hardest thing for me to do is to look into his eyes and turn away from him as I heard him scream, then nothing. I closed my eyes, trying to keep my focus. That was three. Two to go.

It wasn't really a fight. In fact I saw some of my father's "allies" watching from the ground or laughing as they trampled his dead body. I winced every time I heard a crunch from his bones.

I heard the news six minutes later that my mother was also dead. Four down. My whole family besides Darius and Lily was dead. I knew he would be the last one. He was too cunning to fall for something, but he was also too fast to be caught by arrogant fools. I knew it would probably have to be me who killed him. Now that I didn't have a problem with.

Alex banked left to come to my side.

"Any news about Darius?" I asked him, keeping my eyes peeled in the clouds and mountains. His best weapon was a sneak attack.

"Nope. He fled after we took your mom down. Haven't seen him since."

"He's out there. Just be on your watch alright? He won't go down without a fight." I told Alex.

"Strange isn't it?" he said a few minutes later as we curved around a mountain.

"Very." I said. "Not too long ago I was beating you up over the ocean." I smirked. "Now were allies to kill my family. Who knew?"

"Blake's one of a kind with her planning. I was surprised when she told me." Did I hear a sound of sadness in his voice?

"She sure is."

"Hey," Alex pointed over to a ridge to my right, "Isn't that Blake? What's she doing up there? I thought she had the ground by your house?"

"She does." I told him with confidence, peering over at the cliff he was referring to. I squinted my eyes, trying to get a better look when I made out two figures on the edge of that cliff. The one silhouette I knew anywhere. The curve of Blake's body was unmistakable, but so was the other person's.

As we flew closer there was no doubt in my mind that it was Blake and Darius on that cliff. Damn. At first I thought Darius would threaten me, we would fight and one of us would die. Obviously, Darius had other plans. When I was a hundred feet from the cliff, Darius flipped me off and shoved Blake off the edge of the ridge. Blake was now falling to the ground.

He pushed her.

Putting my legs on Alex's shoulders, I used his momentum to shove off of him, gaining extra speed. I curved downwards, and made my descent towards Blake. She was falling at a fast rate, faster than I was flying so I tucked my wings in and went into a free fall. I sliced through the air resistance like it was butter, closing the distance between Blake and I.

But Darius wasn't finished.

I was so focused on gaining my speed that I had no idea that Darius had jumped off the cliff after me. I was just inches from Blake's out stretched hand. I went for it, reaching farther until our fingers touched. She smiled at me in relief…until I saw her eyes go big. I now felt Darius's hands grasp my jacket, jerking me backwards towards him. He wrapped his arms around my waist then slid his hands behind my neck, making every movement painful and useless. I threw my leg back until it connected with his thigh and did some sort of flip in the air to gain the upper ground.

Blake is still falling.

I did a round house kick on the back of his neck, shoving him away, but I was too late.

I tucked in my wings again, but I had lost the ground covered and then some. Blake was farther away than ever. I tried my best to get to her. Here I was, a Demon literally built for speed, and I still wasn't fast enough to save her. I reached again, but she was still meters from me. She threw he hand out as well, as if to say goodbye.

"No!" I yelled, my voice caught in the wind. Blake wasn't going to die on me. Not like this. We were going to grow old together. We were going to have a family. We were in love and going to spend eternity together. Not all those dreams seemed so far away, just like Blake. "BLAKE!"

I saw her mouth my name, but I heard no voice. She was so close to the ground. I couldn't watch, but I watched her body hit the ground.

A massive could of dust flew up as her body hit the dirt. There was a crater surrounding her I was sure, but there was still too much dust to see. I landed lightly on my feet, jumping into the whole. There I saw Blake-or what was left of her. Her whole body was caved in. there was blood everywhere and her body was in all sorts of odd shapes and angles. No-it wasn't her body anymore. It was just a body. This wasn't Blake anymore. Just a hollow shell of who she used to be.

Tearing my eyes from the body I turned to see Darius hovering just a few meters away. With a cry of vengeance I launched myself at his, not satisfied until his neck cracked and his skull was shattered in pieces.