| “I can’t believe we’re in school when we don’t even have to” Maria muttered and leaned back into the chair with a pout. “Relax, it’s not like we’re gonna be here all night” Kyle reassured her. “But I don’t like it any better than you and there’s a game on TV right now” The whole group was still in school because they had some school work to do to their History class. “We’re almost done” Liz said as she flipped through her history book. Maria glanced around the library with a bad feeling crawling up her spine. They were the only ones left in the school except for the janitor but she couldn’t shake the feeling that something was about to happen. “You okay?” Michael asked. She snapped back to reality and looked at him. “Yeah, I was just…thinking” “God, who cares about this stuff?” Isabel groaned and threw away her pencil. “Our history teacher” Alex reminded her. “Trust me, I wouldn’t be here otherwise” Isabel crossed her arms across her chest and muttered something under her breath. Suddenly there was a large crash from behind one of the bookshelves and all eight teens spun around. Maria was just about to reach for her hidden knife when the janitor came up. “Sorry kids didn’t mean to scare you. I just dropped some books, that’s all. When you’re through here I want you to come by my office so I know you’ve left, okay?” Liz let out a thankful sigh. “Sure Mr. Johansen” “I was expecting the worst” Kyle admitted when the old man left. “Another demon or something” Then there was another crash coming from outside the library, louder than the first one. “What did he drop this time?” Isabel wondered. “It’s not your janitor” Maria answered quietly and pulled out a long knife from her boots. Alex stared wide eyed at her. “Where the hell did you hide that thing?” Maria signed for them to be quiet as she made her way towards the big entrance doors to the library. Michael immediately followed her and the others followed closely behind. The hallways were dark and silent except for the sound of their shoes hitting the stone floor. Before anyone could react Maria was somersaulting backwards in the air and a sharp tail hitting the wall underneath her. She jumped up against the wall and then landed on the demons back where she drove her knife through his thick skin. Max, Michael, Isabel, Tess, Liz, Alex and Kyle had to cover their ears from the painfully loud scream the demon pressed out. After a couple of minutes Maria managed to slice its throat open and the demon disappeared in the same red light as the first one had disappeared into. “Remind me to let you carry as many weapons as you’d like to school. Hell, I’ll even help you carry them” Alex said in a shaky voice. “I’ll never complain about you being weapon crazy again, that’s for sure” “What’s a demon doing here?” Maria asked herself out loud as she wiped away the demon blood from her knife. “I have a feeling something’s up” Tess gently touched her shoulder. “Are you okay?” “I’m fine” Maria answered and offered a small smile. “Is something wrong?” Michael asked. “What did you mean with a feeling that something’s up?” “Demons shouldn’t be here, the fact that I ended up killing one here is almost impossible. If that electrical storm is bringing more demons to earth someone here has to be behind it and it can’t be good” she explained. “You mean someone on earth is bringing demons over here?” Liz asked. Maria nodded and Michael groaned out loud. “Great, just what we need more problems to worry about” “Well, at least I haven’t dreamt about skins for a while” Isabel said, trying to look on the bright side. “What if the skins are behind this whole demon business?” Alex asked and looked at the others. “They’re pretty good candidates for trying to destroy the world” Kyle groaned and nodded. “I really do hate the skins” “If they do anything to mess up the prom I swear to God I will hunt them down and make them wish they were never born” Isabel stated. Everyone turned around and stared in silence at the tall blond. “Uh…okay” Max said slowly. “You’re REALLY scary when you get like that Isabel” Kyle added. TBC |
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