Chapter 21: The Attack
"What?" Sophie asked. "Who?" But Tiergan had light leaped away.
"Wait!" Sophie cried. "You have to tell me more! Please!" She was on her knees now, her eyes stinging from the cold wind whipping her face.
Tam put a arm on her shoulder. She looked up at him and he looked at her pleadingly.
She sighed and stood up.
She mentally decided not to tell anyone about being an Anamalay. She didn't really know why, but it felt good to have a secret. Plus, it was safer that way.
She told Linh and Tam not to tell anyone about it, and they all light leaped their separate ways.
When Sophie got to Havenfield, she went straight up to her room to tell the others about Graeme Rhys.
She called Dex first.
"SOPHIE!" He screamed. "SOPHIE, NOW!"
"Now what? She replied, panicked.
"MOM! DAD! NOW!" It sounded like Dex was crying.
"Okay," Sophie breathed. "I'll be over in a sec."
She raced down stairs with some extra goblin throwing stars and a jacket. She froze seeing Grady and Edaline, who had been cooing at Coco.
They were looking at her with confusion. She realized she couldn't just leave them behind, even if she wanted to.
She grabbed both their hands and stepped up to the leapmaster.
"RIMESHIRE!" She yelled.
They appeared at Dex's house, and things were a disaster.
Black cloaked figures ran everywhere. Dex was outside, but Juline and Kesler were nowhere to be found. Edaline immediately raced off, and Grady followed behind her.
Sophie ran up to Dex just as the Vacker's showed up.
"Mom and Dad are in the house. I shoved them in there. We need to get these guys out of here." Dex told them. Keefe showed up. Dex told him what was happening and they each raced off.
The adults were guarding the house. The teens were fighting off Neverseen members.
Sophie ran up to one and sent a silent thanks to Dex. She was still wearing her sucker punch.
She punched the man in the mouth and his hood fell. She didn't recognize him, but it didn't matter. She punched him again and he lunged at her. She backed up and he laughed. But a goblin throwing star in his leg shut him up.
She ran by, throwing stars and sucker punches. Dex was fighting quite hard, he kept pulling things from his jacket.
Fitz was fighting harder with Alvar. He was slapping and punching and kicking and Alvar kept disappearing, but Fitz still knew exactly where he was.
But then Biana showed up.
She screamed when she saw Alvar and Fitz took a step back and smirked at Alvar. They both knew what was coming.
She hissed and scratched and slapped and shoved.
"How-" slap.
"Dare-" screech.
"You-" shove.
"Hurt-" kick.
"Us!" She jumped on top of him, knocking him backwards.
He disappeared and she did too. When they reappeared, he was holding her by the shoulders and telling her something. Then he ran off.
Sophie turned to Keefe who was fighting well too. She handed him two goblin throwing stars and ran off.
In the end, a couple of Neverseen and ran, and the ones left where unconscious. Keefe called Tiergan and he came to pick them up.
The injured were carried inside.
Biana was unconscious, Dex had some bad scratches. Lex was beat up pretty bad, and Kesler was almost dead.
But there was worse.
Juline was missing.
Edaline was holding on to Rex, but Grady was searching for Bex and Juline. Della and Fitz were sitting by Biana, Alden was helping Grady search. Keefe and Sophie stood together.
Just then, Grady came back, holding a body. But it didn't look like it was breathing.
He set it down on the table and wiped grimy, snotty tears from his face.
Kesler couldn't move, but Dex, Lex, and Rex could. Lex clutched Dex and Rex ran up to the body.
That was it.
Bex was dead.