Angel Academy

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

Max's POV: 

I watched in horror as Shade's body went limp and fell to the floor.

"Max!" gasped Orpheus, pulling my attention away from the arena.

I glanced over at him quickly to see that he was pointing down towards my belt, following his finger, I saw that there was a soft blue light shining around my sword, I drew it in front of me to see that all the engravings were lit up brightly, exactly how Asher said that they would be.

I looked at Orpheus in confusion, deafening shrieks sounded above us breaking our confused stares, I snapped my head upwards to see demons of all shapes and sizes flying straight for us.

"Aurora is still in the arena" I shouted as I began to run towards it.

I grasped on to the arenas wooden barrier and began to climb, my foot slipped through the grating and I felt myself being dragged backwards, I hit the floor with a painful thud and looked up to see Orpheus with a demon's heart in his hand.

He threw it to the floor and pulled me to my feet, pulling my arm harshly backwards.

"Well that was stupid," he said releasing my arm.

I shrugged at him and glanced around the area, the majority of demons were surrounding the arena, making it completely impenetrable, but there were others attacking students spontaneously.

"Come on, we have to help them," I said forcing myself to turn away from the arena.

"Wait... what about Aurora?" Asked Orpheus.

"We can't get to her" I reasoned, spinning around just in time to kill an approaching demon.

His face paled and he scanned the surrounding demons frantically.

"We have to try" he pleaded.

He began to walk towards the demons with his blade drawn. I pulled my sword from my belt and grabbed his arm spinning him around.

"Look, I don't like it either but Aurora can take care of herself. If we attempt to get in there, we die, they don't want us alive but they need her" I shouted, holding my blade to his throat.

He pushed me away and calmed down slightly.

"We can't just leave her," he said quietly.

"She is the most powerful girl that I know, if anyone can get out of there it's her. Come on, we need to help the others" I finished tapping his shoulder.

He nodded his head in defeat and looked at the sky in concentration.

"What are you doing?" I asked curiously.

"Calling the dragons" he replied with a smile.

I returned the smile and took off towards the medical wing, Orpheus stayed close behind me as we fought our way across the field.

"Chase!" I called out, heading towards the wing.

A heartbreaking scream pierced the air making my vision blur uncontrollably, it was Chase.

Anger bottled up inside me, my wolf form pushed against my humanity, begging me to let it out.

"Orpheus! come on" I shouted over my shoulder after noticing he stopped to kill a group of demons.

"Max! Just go" he screamed, fighting four of them at once.

Even though he wasn't watching, I nodded my head and began to run, I jumped into the air and landed in my wolf form letting out a ground shaking howl. A few of the demons guarding the medical turned my way and growled threateningly, I snarled back and then and bared my teeth accepting their challenge.