Angel Academy

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

Aurora's POV:

I looked down at Shade's lifeless body and screamed out for help, my lungs burned as I pleaded for anyone to come and save him, but nobody came, how could they? everyone was shouting for help.

Heartbreaking screams, thunderous roars and deadly growls ripped through the air to reveal the horrors before me.

Bodies of both students and demons were littered everywhere. The survivors had blood covered faces and were fighting for their lives as well as their friends' lives, but this wasn't like our countless training sessions, if we died out here then it was real, we were not coming back.

Demons began to surround the arena, I couldn't stay here, not if I wanted to live. I wiped my tear stained face and looked down at Shades peaceful form in determination.

"Shade!" I shouted shaking his shoulders slightly. "Come on, you have to wake up"

I continued to shake his torso but there was no response, I cried out in frustration and sorrow just as the demons began closing in, one of them sensed my moment of weakness and fear, it began to walk away from the crowd and stalk towards me slowly, but they didn't understand, it wasn't them I was scared of. I averted my attention back towards Shade.

"Wake up!" I screamed desperately, slapping his face gently.

The lone demon lunged forward recklessly, I pulled my dagger from the ground and got to my feet while swinging it to my left side, successfully decapitating the beast. I sighed heavily and fell back to the floor, leaning over Shade. All of the demons had now begun to close in, there was no way that I could kill them all by myself.

Another tear trickled down my cheek and I slumped over Shade in defeat.

"Please..." I begged, leaning my head on his chest.

There was no point trying to hide my emotions, the demons would kill me either way, My heart ached painfully as I allowed small tears to stream slowly down my cheeks.

"Don't leave me" I whispered quietly before closing my eyes.

I began to zone out when I felt Obsidian enter my mind, he was on his way with the other dragons... but they were too late.

My heart stopped when I felt myself instantly rise from Shade's chest, a loud gasp filled the surrounding air making everything else fade out of existence, I grasped onto a small glimmer of hope and opened my eyes, I looked up to see Shade's red eyes staring softly back at me, we looked into each other's eyes in silence for a couple of seconds before his eyes widened and he shot into a sitting positing, pulling me up with him. I looked back to see that his dagger was embedded in the skull of a demon.

"Princess?" he asked in confusion.

I smiled widely and wrapped my arms around him, we embraced each other for a minute before I pulled away and cleared my throat when a demon growled reminding me of their existence.

"Let's get out of here" I smiled, getting to my feet.

He smiled back and accepted my outstretched hand, I pulled him to his feet and picked my daggers up from the floor.

"Are you healed?" I asked, turning so we were back to back.

" I think so" he replied instantly "I feel fine"

Even though he wasn't facing me I nodded my head. As if through some telepathic connection, we both ran forward and began attacking the demons, We worked along the rows and met in the middle, occasionally helping each other out. Asher was right, we do work well together.