Page 33 of Chaos Demons

And the worse thing about that insane rant is the truth in it.

“You leave me no choice,” Anubis says, striding forward.

“As if you ever had a chance,” Melinoe says, casually raising a hand.

Anubis’s mind explodes in chaos and living nightmares. He falls to his knees, then all fours then writhes on the ground with screams which tear at the night.

And all the while, Melinoe and Nari cackle with glee.

“There’s no power on this earth that can stop us!” Nari cries as the day breaks on a city filled with walking nightmares.

ANAIS

Harmonia let outa long sigh as she surveyed the scene before her. She softly closed the door behind her and pursed her lips.

“Normally…this—” She swirled her hand around to indicate all of us. “—wouldn’t be any of my business, but given what I felt earlier, and what I’m still feeling from across town… I get the feeling there is more going on here and that my harmonymight be needed.” She took a single step into the room but stopped there. “So… if someone wouldn’t mind explaining… things… leaving out all the… ah… messy details, that would be great.”

“There’s something you all need to know, though, perhaps, like Harmonia, you’ve already felt it,” Ramsey said, completely unashamed at his nudity, although I sensed shame and disgust with himself for something else. This was not the proud and resolute Ramsey I knew. Something had happened to him. “There’s an army of the dead swarming into Manhattan.”

“The fuck?” The words were out of my mouth before I could stop them.

My mind reeled. An army of the dead? What was happening with the world?

I could handle being a daemon — okay, admittedly, I hadn’t handled it well at first — but now there were walking dead?

“Like zombies?” I blurted.

At least I wasn’t the only one who seemed stunned. Harmonia and Fen both looked horrified. Good. So, this wasn’t something that happened every day for them.

“They’re mindless like zombies, but they don’t eat brains, they drink blood,” Ramsey added.

“Like vampires?” I couldn’t help myself. I was just going to keep barfing forth inane questions.

“I call them zompires,” Ramsey said evenly. And only then did I notice the many bite marks all over his huge frame. He’d faced them and — unbelievable as it may be — he’d lost. It explained the shame and self-loathing I felt from him. He’d rarely lost a fight in his life.

“Are you going to become one too?” I said with a gasp. One bite was all it took in the shows and movies.

“What? No. Do I look dead?” He didn’t. He looked very alive, and very manly, and his cock was so very thick and…

Wow, apparently Icouldthink about sex at a time like this.

“If they kill you, you rise again, controlled by whatever force is controlling them,” Ramsey explained. “But they have to kill you first. I may not have done as well as I hoped against them, but it would take much more than that to kill me.”

“I think I know what — or rather who — is controlling them,” Fen said with a heavy sigh. “It’s my brother, well… half-brother, Nari.”

“That lame daemon of corpses huddled in Calvary Cemetery?” Ramsey scoffed. Then he seemed to hear what he’d just said. “Oh… yeah, I guess that makes sense.” Then more seemed to click into place for him as he nodded to himself. “And… it’s Samhain today. That’s why he’s so powerful.”

“That would be what I felt on the other side of the city,” Harmonia said, voice hushed with horrified awe. “So much disharmony and destruction and—”

“That’s what got my wolf going!” Fen broke in, eyes going wide. It seemed this was as much a surprise to him as it was to the rest of us.

Perhaps it was the post-mind-blowing sex-brain haze or just my lack of understanding of all-things-daemon, but I was still mostly clueless.

“Can someone explain it to me?” I asked, sheepishly.

If we were going to continue this conversation, we’d all want to be dressed. So, I tried to rise, but my legs were still watery and weak, making me chuckle. Thathadbeen an amazing dual fuck-fest. I regretted nothing.

“Yes, I think I need catching up too,” Grey said, suddenly at my side, helping me to stand.

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