Chapter 26

"Where do you keep running off to?" Aya demanded as Devi slipped back in through another portal. The demon was doing it more frequently than before.

"I've been making sure that anyone watching the Revlis Towers see just a glimpse of me so that they won't plot as much against me." Devi grinned at him.

"Don't glare at me, I've got food in the works! Yuki is working the kitchen today, so I asked her to bring a big ass pot of her homemade soup!"

"She's used to be one of Devi's generals, she bumped herself down to being an on-call follower instead," Silver explained.

Torian crawled over to Devi and tugged lightly on the hem of Devi's pants.

"Is Yuki going to visit with us?" he asked with hopeful eyes.

"I don't think so, she's in the middle of something with some other hunters, she just stopped in to quickly get the soup made up. Its gotta be hard for her to take not just her own responsibilities, but Rem's too."

"Yeah, I guess," Torian crawled a little ways away.

"How long do you think all of this demon hunting is going to last? I mean this is too much for us to keep going on forever, and they seem to be endless," Ken pointed out.

"I don't think there's that many left. I mean they don't seem to be able to cut portals, and we've killed a lot of them already," Devi explained. "It all depends on their strategy. I mean they could attack one at a time for all we know, or they could all attack at once. I don't know the clan, so I don't know how their minds work, but at this point they're grasping at straws," Devi explained.

"Why don't you boys tell us about your work? Seems only fair since you know about ours," Sevron said as he crouched down for Torian to climb up his back.

"We hunt down and kill those that have hurt others, we infiltrate and destroy bad people," Omi explained.

"So kinda like us, only against other humans? I can see why, humans are assholes," Silver snorted.

"So, I get that Aya here is the leader and Omi glues the team together, Yohji infiltrates because he fit's the part of just about anything, and Ken is damned fast to know when to attack and just beat the person to a pulp whether he has weapons or not, but there's always someone pulling the strings," Devi looked from one to the next. He'd been curious about this all along.

"there is a man that gives us our missions, we don't see his face, but we do know that he works for a company naked Kritiker," Omi put in.

"And I'm guessing that you're the one pulling the strings with them," Aya mused while looking at Silver.

"Sort of, but not exactly. I keep them focused and help them figure out what the course of action is to be, but each one of us has a group of people that we can call in for situations. Well, except for Torian, but he's a one man gang bang," Silver explained.

Omi blushed bright red when his stomach gurgled at him. Ever since Devi had mentioned food he'd been starving.

"So, this man, you've never seen him before? Then how do you know he's not evil himself?" Kyriel asked.

"We just have to have faith that we're going to hell for a reason, I guess," Ken answered. He quickly caught the back of Devi's shirt when the demon made to climb the walls again. Maybe they can have a soccer match with us before they go!

"You're only allowed to do that in the shop or when someone's in heat," Yohji chided.

"You've been told, dumb ass," Rem snorted as he walked by. "You're giving us guys a bad name."

"You men don't need any help giving yourself a bad name. Trust me, even if Devi weren't being a dork men would still look like morons." Silver grinned from ear to ear at them.

A loud thumping startled them. They raced to the door, their hearts beating a mile a minute.

The person knocking on the door was a short teenage girl. Her hands were shaking and there was blood on her school uniform.

"What happened? Come in, let us get you stitched up," Silver took her by the arm.

"There's no time for that! They took Aridan!" the girl cried.

"Did you see which way they went?" Torian demanded.

"I can't give you an exact location, but I can take you to where he was grabbed and then show you the direction that it flew him away," the girl sobbed.

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