Page 35 of Infiltrated

“Like what?” He looks at me curiously.

“Like if I kill a shifter…” I trailed off. It took a moment but then it hit me.HOLY FUCK. I have wings. Yes! I can fucking fly! Well maybe, but I will be training with them for the next few days until I can actually fly. Can you imagine the benefits in combat? Man! Wait, do they make wing shields?

The men look at me. “Baby, your thoughts are moving fast as fuck, what do you mean you have wings and you can fly, are you okay?” Luca looked at me curiously, and even the vampire looked concerned.

“All I heard was penetration and I’m happy to oblige,” Dante said excitedly. Pixie and Etienne rolled their eyes.

Instead of responding, I stepped to the middle of the sparring floor and concentrated on the feeling of the wings from that night that seemed so long ago; before everything changed. After a few moments, the gray and blue gargoyle wings appeared from between my shoulder blades. They were bigger than I remembered, and in the light, they seemed almost shimmery; and as I flexed my back, they moved with me. Woah, they were heavy as fuck and I had no idea where to even start with trying to fly with these. I sighed, adding another thing to my ever growing list of shit I need to do.

“Fuck!” Both Luca and Etienne looked shocked.

“She calls me vampire but she turns into a fucking bat,” Dimitri glowered.

“So hot, I wonder if she can fuck and fly.” Dante looked deep in thought.

“Holy shit bat girl, I know we spoke about it but I have yet to see them, that’s so fucking cool.”

I pulled them back in, and smiled at Pix. ”I honestly forgot I even had them. And fuck you, vampire, I’m not a bat. I killed a gargoyle shifter.”

“Wow, I can imagine it will make you very sore to learn how to control them. May not be best to start now when you’ll be at the academy training non-stop in a few weeks.”

My French man was so sensible, I blew him a kiss. “Yup, Pix and I will be too busy kicking ass and smacking fiancés around to focus on these.” He stepped closer to me and wrapped his arms around me.

“Okay, so back to the power of the sword.” Luca stepped in, his voice filling with authority.

“Yes, well.” I grinned, and turned to explain. “The sword takes the power of whichever creature I kill and fills the spelled blade, transferring those powers to me like an extension. It also makes the blade stronger in battle.”

“Sick, does it give powers to anyone else?” Dante asked, staring at the blade with a critical eye.

“I had it spelled directly for me.” I paused, considering. “But I do wonder since we are now all connected whether it would work in the same way if you were to kill someone with it.”

“Well, that just means we take it with us to the Academy, just in case…” Dimitri grinned wickedly.

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We steppedup to the mat and split up, Dante and Luca faced off with me, while Etienne and Dimitri faced off with Pixie.

“Okay, so, um…weapons are being used. Do you gentlemen want a body shield to prevent being stabbed in the heart?” I asked as I palmed my knife.

The men nodded and I threw up a shield for everyone and it shimmered, then went invisible. I nodded. “We will be practicing shields this week as well, it is a handy skill to always have on the go.”

Gotta make sure I keep those abs safe from harm, I thought to myself lustily.

“You are shielded from blades but I held back enough to make sure you nick. This is till first blood. Loser steps out, the other remaining two will disarm and go into grappling instead,” I said firmly, everyone nodded and we got to fucking work.

Pixie and I launched at the exact same time, throwing our short knives in quick succession as we got closer to our targets. Dante walked around to my back while Luca took my front. Wrong move, so predictable. I threw up a wall of water in front of Dante and had it circle him while I pressed my advantage with only one of my men. As Luca used his short sword to come closer, I quickly brought up the same sword I had strapped to my leg to parry. He quirked up his lip, and used his knife to stab my gut while I was distracted by the sword. Smart. At the last moment I manipulated the air and the knife flew from his hand. He raised his eyebrows in surprise, but countered quickly using air to bring him back the knife quickly slicing upwards drawing blood up my arm.

I growled, “Keep going,” ignoring my previous rule. The rush from the pain filled me with a need to push myself. Training with someone who knows you and someone who knows there shit is going to be good for us. We needed it.

I let the water around Dante dissolve and felt just a brush of wind as Dante attacked my back. I launched my body back into a light flip. This caused Dante to almost cut Luca and Luca to cut Dante as my sword knocked his to the side during my flip. With Dante out, we paused. I heard Dante muttering about liking me first and wanting to grapple with me.

Baby, how about you and I grapple after.I sent him a mental picture of us on the bed and his pupils dilated as he licked his lips.

“Fuck yes, deal. You win, Luca.”

I laughed and we focused on the battle next to us.

A light sheen of sweat covered the other trio, their battle getting intense. I saw Pixie throw herself on the floor between Etienne’s legs to avoid what would have been a killing blow to her stomach. At that moment, Dimitri side-stepped and brought his sword down to her head, but she used her mind manipulation at the right time as he tossed the sword and started dancing instead. He was actually pretty good. Etienne smacked him upside the head while performing a series of kicks and punches that Pixie blocked right at the last moment, while she smirked. Dimitri shook off the manipulation which was impressive in and of itself, and while Etienne pressed her back toward the wall, Dimitri used his speed to stab her sides as she focused on Etienne. Only Pixie ‘heard’ him coming and side-stepped another one of Etienne’s punches while rotating her body to the right, effectively making Etienne stabbed by Dimitri’s instead.

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