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“No one,”Malakai seethed, “tells me what to do.”

Travis brushed his fingers across the blood on his lips.

And with an animalistic roar, he charged Malakai head-on, plowing him into a row of lockers by the wall. They rattled and fell like trees, metal crashing around them.

Travis swung. His knuckles bit into Malakai’s brow. Blood sprayed.

The Reaper swung back.

Travis ducked. But when he came back up, Malakai was already moving.

He landed a blow to Travis’s temple, sending him crashing into Alfie’s work station.

“Hey!”the warlock barked.“Take this outside!”

Travis shoved off the table and whirled?—

Just in time for Malakai to smash a beaker against his face.

He shouted out in pain. Blinded by glass, he fell back against the table?—

It tipped over. Glassware shattered on the floor, chemicals hissing as they ate through the concrete.

“Look what you did to my face!” Travis thundered. He was livid, blood streaming down his forehead, his cheeks. There were bits of glass stuck in his flesh.

Malakai lunged.

Travis ducked to the side, then charged straight for his gut with a furious scream, pushing the Reaper all the way to the farthest wall. They smacked into it with jarring force, Travis’s fingers getting pinched between Malakai’s back and the wall.

Malakai kicked him in the gut. Still dazed by the beaker incident, Travis staggered backward and nearly fell.

Malakai punched him in the cheek with his right hand.Thwack.

The left—the other cheek this time.Thwack.

Stars exploded across Travis’s vision. He crashed to the floor, landing on shards of glass?—

Frost crackled beneath him, spreading over the floor.

Malakai froze, brow creasing. Alfie did the same, the warlock backing up, eyes wide with confusion and fear.

The floor began to shake. The lights began to flicker.

Travis pushed to his feet. He braced a hand against the vibrating wall as the shaking intensified. As more glassware fell off the shelves and shattered.

As the portal spread, more shadows pouring out of it.

The power went out. The room went dark.

Down the hallway, there was a largecrash.

“Oh my gods,” Alfie breathed, his voice choked with fear.

“Wh—” Travis didn’t have time to finish his sentence.

Because the Harpy burst through the wall and started attacking them.

“It’s been an hour,”Dallas said. “Where the hell are they?”