Alright I got yelled at like CRAZY about this so here you go with MORE words.
We made our way through the pathways of Hell, Melinda gasping from dehydration.
"What was your gift from Hephaestus again?" I asked glancing back at the parched siren.
"Heat resistance," she gasped.
"Then PLEASE USE IT!" I yelled, catching Jessica nodding vehemently in agreement. Melinda raised an eyebrow in confusion.
"I thought that was what the Blood Ruby was for." I slapped my hand to my forehead.
"It will divert heat. But Heat Resistance will keep you cool when mixed with the Blood Ruby's power and you will feel like you are in your environment, Smart Tart," I growled.
"Really?" she asked surprised.
"Has Lindsey ever been wrong yet?" Jessica asked meaning well but still peeved that the demons had DARED to take her fiancé. A smirk danced on my lips. I felt sorry for those demons when we got to them. Jessica was gonna have a massacre field day that would leave them begging for death.
I thought to myself how lucky they were, both the guys and the girls. They had someone who loved them unconditionally. Someone who would go to Hell and back, literally, for one another and who would give their lives to protect each other. I sighed and thought how unlikely it would be for me to have that bond with anyone. I was only half magical. It was only half-way possible for me to find a protectorate and then only a quarter of a chance that we would fall in love.
I shook my head at the thoughts. Now wasn't the time for this. I had plenty of time to drone when I got home. I had to help my clan-mates right now. Besides there is no use focusing on things that I can't change.
"Right ladies," I started, "Who is looking forward to the Pit again?" I asked. I noticed Melinda look at Jessica. She was confused. Neither one of them knew ALL of my past. But they were the only ones I trusted with enough of it to call close… and family.
"Lindsey used to meditate herself through the paths of Hell. One day she got drug to the Pit and it took her almost a month to return. Before that time she was a happy mikokai learning her powers and everything was all butterflies and flowers. After she got back from the Pit she was never the same. She had more demonic qualities. She was darker more violent…more like she is today. The Pit changed her…" Jessica explained. I could feel Melinda's fear growing.
"Don't worry, sisters," I said, "I'm the only one going into the Pit. I can handle it. Mindy you are to innocent-" at this Jessica scoffed, "I am not risking your sanity over this-" more laughter, "Jess you are a demon yes but you aren't used to the horrors of the Pit. You were a rare demon who was born on earth. You don't know the terrors of the Pit like I do and I am going in to save them. I can't risk you two…I am NOT risking my sisters."
"What the Hell are we here for then?" Jessica demanded, "We aren't letting you go in alone. We are all together and none can beat us when we are together as a clan."
"Yeah," Melinda said, confidently, "Screw innocence. This is war."
I raised an eyebrow in skepticism. "Really? Mindy, you still blush when we go to art museums and look at the ancient Grecian art!" As predicted she turned red at the mere thought. "And Jess you have to stay and look after her. If you don't who knows what these demons could do to her!" Jessica narrowed her snake eyes in anger but the knowledge she had lost this fight.
"I-I don't care," Melinda said balling her fists up, trying to be brave.
"Mindy," I said with a dead straight face.
"Yeah?"
"Specter," I said tilting my head behind them. She turned and squealed at the gruesome beast.
"Hey! Ugly! Touch her and I swear I will be wearing your teeth as a trophy," I shouted, causing him start and drift on. "And THAT just proves my point. You won't be able to handle the Seven Realms of Hell AND the pit. I have been through them and been tortured by them. I can make it out unscathed."
"You didn't last time," Jess said, resting back on her snakes tail. "Last time you were still being tortured and were tortured visibly for three months. I still think you are being tortured you have just gotten good at hiding it."
I looked away. How could she possibly know I was still reliving some of those moments. Clan members have telepathy and Empathy (A/N: with the capital E in empathy it means they feel some of the pain as if they had gone through it) but generally over something that the other clan members were feeling strongly. I could see it in those first three months but not now. I was able to block them to well.
"Lindsey, you aren't going without us. You may not make it out if it does that to you again. We are strongest when we are together," Jessica said.
"But I have my ancestrial magic…Deep magic now, and I have been these roads before. You are proposing to take Mindy, our shy little Mindy THROUGH the seven deadly sins and into the Pit just to get two boys. I can do this!"
"You forget," Melinda said, suddenly stronger, "Those "two boys" are OUR protectorates and we love them. We would DIE for them!"
"AND THAT WOULD LEAVE THEM WHERE! IN THE PIT! BROKENHEARTED BUT ON EARTH IF THEY ARE LUCKY! OR IF THEY AREN'T IN THE PIT AND BROKENHEARTED! MELINDA I CAN'T DO THAT!" I shouted tears leaking from my eyes, "They don't deserve it. They don't deserve to be in that much pain."
I stood there a minute breath heaving, my fists clenched, back hunched, and tears leaking from the corners of my eyes.
"You seem to forget something, Lindsey. This is our instinct. We came here knowing we may not make it back. You aren't going alone. We CAN'T just sit here," Jessica said.
"Yeah, if our protectorates are in danger, fear doesn't stop us, just a need to keep them safe," Melinda said. "Wait until you find yours." I felt my heart pang. I didn't know if I even had one. Mikokai. Half-demon. Half-breed. Demons called me worthless. Well every demon but my cousin, Jessica. Humans even feared me. Half-breeds were a ridiculed thing and very rare. I had never heard of one with a protectorate. And I was even rarer than a half-breed. I was a Mikokai. A warrior priestess destined to fight eternally with her darker side and against the darkness of the world.
I shook my head suddenly too weak to fight against my own family.
"Alright," I sighed, "but follow my lead."
"Always sister."
BAM! My newest chapter. Hope you guys like it next we go through Hell… literally.
The Tuneless Siren: Hope you like this chapter too!
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