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Chapter 23

Note: Religion does not save you.

~Kahlan's POV

My pale green eyes narrow at my bedroom door that Leader slammed shut. No one is allowed to slam doors here. Plus, I don't know what happen or why he seems to have a 10 foot pole shoved up his ass (please excuse my language), but he needs to get over himself. Argh, I shouldn't be talking. I can get very pissed where I want to hurt someone so badly, but usually I keep my anger under check and I walk away before something like that can happen. The only time I'll get violent towards someone is if they hurt me first or I'm protecting someone, because then it's self-defense.

"Laura," I say calmly as I walk over to her. I can tell she's scared, I can see it in her eyes. "Are you okay? Did you get hurt in any way? Should I call the priest to perform an exorcism? Or should I call a Shaman? Can Shaman's even do anything? Ignore the Shaman questions those were meant for me."

Laura is looking at me a bit confused now. I smile and let out a chuckle. Sometime, when I'm really worried, I start asking a bunch of questions then talk about nonsense stuff. Though, I will call a priest if Leader did hurt Laura. No way am I allowing these demons to stay here and do anything. Thank goodness they haven't killed us yet or tried to make us sell our soul to Lucifer also known as Satan or the Devil.

I got to sneak a call to the priest. When the priest gets here I'll take Laura with me and leave the priest here to do his holy magic stuff. He's got God on his side so the ninja demons shouldn't be able to harm him. Though Konan does seem nice, she's still part of the ninja demon Akatsuki group. I didn't even know demons had ninjas, but now that I think about it, it's kind of cool. Still they're demons so I refuse to let anything happen, definitely to Laura.

"Did he hurt you," I ask more calmly but still worried.

"Not r-really," she slightly stutters.

"Not really translates into he did," I say wrapping my arm around her shoulder. It's final I'm going to call the priest. "Want to tell me what happen?"

She shakes her head and I nod tapping her on the shoulder letting her know it is okay. We walk over to my bedroom door. I keep her close to me that way I can do my best to protect her.

Taking a deep breath, I slightly turn the knob just to open it a crack. Since they want to be jerks, I'll act disrespectful to them. They want my respect they have to earn it, which won't ever happen. Anyways, with the door open just a sliver of a crack, I kick it open causing it to swing wide and hitting against the wall.

Leader looks up…more like his head snaps up, and he glares at us. This whole thing is stupid. Why couldn't they be with someone else? No they had to stay here. We really can't do anything because they hold our life in the palm in our hands. Hopefully not for long, the priest should banish them back to Hell.

"What was that for," he asks in a low, kind of scary voice. Okay, it's extremely scary because it means soon he'll explode and there's no way of knowing what he will do. However, he doesn't need to know I'm scared.

I open my mouth to speak, but then quickly close it biting on my lower lip. Sure, these people aren't really human, but alien demons (-shrugs- don't ask which one because I haven't figured it out but I'm sticking to the demon theory). They could be humans that are possessed. Then yet again they might not be. Or I just watch too much horror/thriller/sci-fi movies and I'm just over thinking this entire situation of what they are. In the end, most of them seem to be older than us, though with how some of them act, their age is questionable. That brings me to my internal dilemma.

I said I would never show them respect, however; now that I'm standing in front of Leader almost scared out of my mind, the lessons my parents taught me are coming back to me. Stand up straight in the presence of someone who demands respect, my parents told me. And you are to always speak respectfully and in a polite manner whether you like them or not; as the saying goes respect your elders.

Already, I can feel myself straightening up. Sighing, I straighten up, but keep my arm around Laura. I hate all those lessons my parents taught me, but I guess in some situations they could come in handy. Now, I just have to make sure I don't get us killed.

"I deeply apologize," I reply in a polite tone. "However, you did slam the door shut and for a split second I had let my anger get the best of me," I lie, sort of.

Leader's glare becomes just slightly less scary as he says, "you can get out. Laura stays."

"I can't allow that to happen," I reply.

Leader gets up from the bed standing at his full height. He's back to using his scary glare. I take a step back pulling Laura back with me. He needs to seriously remove the pole from his behind, but there's no way I'm going to tell him that.

"You've got three seconds to leave," he says in a dangerously low tone.

"No," I shout my voice slightly cracking from fear.

I slightly wince hearing my own fear. Somehow that's going to be used against me. After all they are…well whatever they are there is no doubt they'll use what information they can about us and use it against us. I'll be glad when they're gone.

Leader takes a step forward. A very dark aura surrounds him and it takes all of my will power not to shake in fear. Laura is slightly shaking and I pull her back with me. We stop when our back hit someone. Immediately my body becomes stiff as I try to think of what is about to happen. Maybe Leader had somehow called one of his group members to come and now we're going to die. Screw that, they'll have to kill me first to get to Laura and by the time I allow something like that to happen Laura will be somewhere safe.

I go kick the person behind me but stop when they speak. "Leader-sama may I have a word with you in private," Konan asks.

Laura lets out a sigh of relief. I move forward pulling Laura with me, so I can look back and forth between Leader and Konan. For the most part Konan seems to be calm, but she does have a slight glare on her face. After a moment Leader nods, and I take that opportunity to leave my room.

Konan closes the door as she walks in. Letting out a small sigh, I take Laura to her room. Inside I let her go and grab my phone and laptop. Since I don't know the number of the priest in town I'll just look online.

"Are you okay," I ask looking up from the screen.

Laura is sitting on her bed holding two dolls very close to her. She nods slowly and I bite down on my lower lip. She was scared and I have to say that's the first time I have ever seen her scared. Glaring back at the screen, I find Johann Gottschalk's number (he's the priest of our town).

"Stupid evil Leader," I mumble as I punch the number into my phone.

"What are you doing," Laura asks as I place the phone next to my ear.

Grabbing a pen and some paper, I write 'calling for help.' I'm not sure how good the ninjas hearing is, so I got to be careful. Laura walks over, holding her dolls close in one hand and writes 'you sure that's a good idea?' I nod in reply as I hear Johann say hello. After all police are no match for demons.

"Mr. Johann," I whisper. "We need you to do whatever it is your priests do because there are a bunch of demons in our house."

"Is this some sort of joke," he asks.

"No sir," I reply. "One of them resembles a shark; there is one that is in a flytrap and one of them has red eyes."

"Funny joke," Johann says not sounding amused at all. "If you call back, I'll call the police to track your number and arrest you. The matter of demons is not a joke."

I look at the phone in disbelief as the phone goes dead. Glaring, I slam my phone shut and throw it across the room. I watch as it hits the wall and falls to the floor. Dumb priest, I hope he feels guilty when the news comes on about our dead bodies are found.

"Laura pack some of your stuff," I whisper. "When they're asleep we're leaving. It's too dangerous to stay here."

Evil ninjas and stupid priest have gotten on my nerves. None of this was in my plans of living. This sucks but it can't get any worse. Never mind I take that back, usually when someone says that they get proven wrong about how worse it can really get. Now all I need to do is figure out where we're going to go.

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