Two weeks later I was on a bus towards Deliverance City, sitting smushed between Anubis' muscular bulk and Shadow's lanky mass.
"Are we there yet?" the twins whined in harmony.
"No." Jason replied, curtly "Shut up."
"I bet the bus would go faster if we threw Fallyn out." Anna-Marie muttered.
"Because it's not like I'm a pixie and smaller than you by six inches and about fifty piunds." I shot back. She scowled and glared out the window. Anubis shifted in his seat. I checked my watch, impatiently. I was claustropic, and another five minutes squished between the two males was gonna kill me.
We hadn't been supposed to take off yet, but an increase in the demon attacks had pushed our date up, not to mention the murders of three children and two adults.
"A family," Shadow had told us, sullenly "An entire mortal family."
It was go time. We had to shut this outbreak down before the mundane authorities got involvled and more people died. That was the last thing we needed.
You'd be surprised how often our world mixes with yours. Over half the murders commited are commited by one of out people, no lie. The other half are rouge demons. Demon outbreaks are rare, but when they do happen it's bad. Really, really bad. The worst part is, we have no way to know if it was planned or not.
'And who woud want to hurt humans?' Youask, oh-so innocently.
Anubis' father, that's who.
Before I couldloose myself in a pai ful reverie, the bus came to a very sudden halt. I flew forward, slamming embarassingly into the seat ahead of us.
"Real gracefull, Fal." Anubis snorted.
"Shut up." I growled. I turned to Shadow, rubbing my nose.
"What gives?" I asked. He openedhis mouth, but at thatminute the glass of the window beside us exploded in a rain of flying glass. Shards of glass made deep grooves in my skin, one shard cutting a little to close to my eye, despite my hands raised to cover my face.
I just can't catch a break, can I?