Soooo mad right now... Wrote a really awesome chapter for this but it was erased! now you guys get some thing totally different because I can't remember what I wrot before.. It took me an hour and a half to write the other one. So upset/mad
Zoey
Desdemona flings out her palm. The demons! I fall to the floor and my group follows my lead. They drop to the floor before any demons come hurling out of her palm. A hundred or so demons come flying out, I should add. Stevie Rae and I let put a small scream. Stark gets to his feet, quickly followed by Darius. They get rid of the rest of the demons hanging around up. The rest of us get up slowly. I call the elements to me, but they're being shared by my nerd herd.
"What do we do?" I ask.
"Throw everything we've got at her?" Damien suggests.
"Nothing can go wrong!" I force a laugh.
Venus gives me a look, but I stay focused on Desdemona. Desdemona jumps down from her pile of dead bodies and strides toward me. Stark gets in her way and she pushes him to her left. He falls and she holds out her hand to me.
"I can give you your greatest desires, Zoey. I can bring back your Consort if you join me."
She can not bring him back. He's gone for good now, Nyx's words float across my mind.
I fight the tears that are threatening to spill. "No," I say firmly.
"Yes, I can. I can bring back your lost love."
"No," I repeat. "He's been through too much by knowing me. I can't put him through anything like that again. Besides, you can't bring him back. He's gone for good. He'll never have to go through the pain of knowing me again. Dying twice is enough."
A ghostly form of Heath appears in front of me. "Hey, Zo." He smiles.
I can't help smiling back. He's not real. He's dead. I know that, but it's so nice to see him again. I thrash my arm through his form and it disappears.
"Now!" I shout.
My circle and I throw everything we've got into killing her. Aphrodite stabs her at the same time that Stark plunges his Claymore into her back, right where her heart is. She shrieks so loud I have to cover my ears. Desdemona disappears. Hopefully forever. Everyone else cheers, but I fall to my knees. I could faintly hear their voices. Stark runs and grabs me before my face hits the ground. What's going on? Why is this happening to me? Images appear before my eyes. How am I getting visions? Aphrodite's the one that gets visions! The images are of the last battle I won. Reminding me what happened. Neferet's body lying still. Darkness leaving Earth once again. Kalona and Thanatos going back to the High Council. Heath dying again because Neferet found out. Now Nyx is there. This isn't over. Desdemona may be gone, but you still have demons to get rid of. Good luck, Zoeybird, Nyx disappears and I can see Stark again. I'm lying with my head on Stark's lap while everyone is standing over me. I rub my temples. Goddess, I have such a headache. Now I know how Aphrodite feels. Well, somewhat.
"Zoey?" Stark asks.
Everyone looks worried.
I blink a couple of times before I answer. "It's not over."
"What the fuck do you mean it's not over? Desdemona's gone!" Aphrodite looks angry.
"She may be gone, but the demons are all over. We have to get rid of them too." I try to sit up, but Stark holds me down.
"Obviously she would forget that." Venus snickers.
"Fuck you, bitch." Aphrodite replies.
"Seriously?" Stevie Rae tries to break up the fight that's going to start in about two seconds.
Darius walks over and helps her calm them down. Venus needs to get a personality check.
"We have better things to worry about, my love." Darius tells her.
She nods tightly and walks back to me. "Are you OK? What happened?"
"At first I thought it was a vision, but then images of the battle where we defeated Neferet started to pop up. Then Nyx showed up and told me it wasn't over. Now, let me up."
Aphrodite helps me up, while Stark holding my waist in case I fall over or something.
"Are you OK?" A sweet little voice asks?
I turn and see Rosemary looking a little worried. "I'm OK." I smile reassuringly at her.
"Zoey look out!" Rosemary screams.
I turn quickly to see Melantha with a floating purple orb standing there. "Just because I hated my mom doesn't mean I wanted her dead."
"We didn't know!" I call the elements to me again just in case.
Melantha hurls the orb at me, but Stark jumps in the way. I fling my hands out and make the elements protect Stark, before it hits him.
"Stark!" I scream.
No, no, no, no! Not again! This cannot be happening. I'm so tired of this. Aphrodite and I step forward and kill Melantha with the power of Nyx. How, I do not know. Looking back, Aphrodite and I couldn't figure out how we did it. All I know is that we joined hands and flung them out. A tunnel of blue came out and killed Melantha. See? No one knows. I don't care about her body, so I rush over to Stark. He's fried to a crisp just like the first time I did that.
"What did I say about never doing that again?" I ask when he wakes.
He gives me that cocky half grin that I love so much.
"Just doing my job." He replies coolly.