Page 243 of The Lost Ones

One of the guards manage’s to get an shout of warning out before Hunt rips his throat out making blood arc through the hallway as he makes a gurgling noise, clutches his throat and falls to the floor. At the same time Jax takes out the other two guards using his water to drown them where they stand.

It’s effective and damn terrifying. Once again we move them out of plain sight hiding them behind one of the large tapestry’s hanging from the wall.

“Hmm well they’re handy.” I muse and Kai snorts.

“I’ll put up the barrier before anyone else walks out. I’m going to need help though.” Erin says quietly.

“Alright, Hunter, Cole, Kysen and Jett you all stay here and help Erin. The rest of you with me.” Levi orders.

It speaks a lot about Levi’s character that although individually our Soulmate Bonded Groups have their own leaders. Jett being Erin’s and Harry being Cole’s they are all happy to defer to Levi as the leader when we’re all together.

“Ghost lead the way,” I say turning towards him before I look at Knot. “Can you stay with Erin and the others, watch their backs.”

She nods and flies over to land on Hunter’s shoulder.

“Thank you.” I reply gratefully, hating that we’re splitting up. That’s like horror movie one-oh-one never split up. It is necessary and we get that though.

I draw my Nyx swords from the sheathes on my back instead of keeping my hands free for my daggers. Despite how lax they have been with their security so far I am not naïve enough to think that they will still be lax with guards when it comes to guarding the Centre’s and their Bonded. I’m not entirely sure how they have managed to keep them here in the first place. That’s a lot of powerful people all in one place.

Ghost leads us down several corridors and down a few flights of stairs. Our journey takes longer than it took him for the simple reason that we can’t ghost through the floor in order to make it there quicker. We don’t run into any one else though which is a blessing and I send a quick thank you up to Nyx.

Finally we make to the corridor right at the bottom of the castle.

“This is the corridor that Ghost showed us. The door to the Centre’s should be just around this corner everyone stay alert.” Levi once again orders.

We move as silently as possible and though they seem slightly surprised that we’re there the six guards are clearly better trained than everyone else in this damned place because there is no hesitation as theycharge us. One of them pulls out a small disk and presses a button on the top grinning at us like he’s won already. There’s no obvious effect though so we carry on dodging and striking with out weapons.

“They’ve blocked our gifts.” Harry yells to the rest of us.

The warning doesn’t worry me at all. The guys are well trained and its not like I’m a slouch at fighting without my gifts. I’m actually far more comfortable fighting without them since that’s all I’ve known from such a young age.

I’m so close to finally finding my parents.

I push away the thought as soon as it appears I need to stay focused. It’s a fucking good job too because there’s a giant fucking broad sword coming for my face. I bring my sword up just in time to deflect it and instead of it hitting my head and no doubt splitting my skull straight down the middle it skims my shoulder instead. It’s so damn sharp that it literally peels the skin off of my shoulder and makes me grunt in pain as it leaves a patch of exposed muscle a couple of inches wide and four or five inches long.

I just about manage to hold in the scream knowing that if my guys hear me yell it could distract them which could cost them their lives.

The good thing about a broad sword is that its really fucking heavy so whilst it’s still on its downward swing I lift my other arm, the cut one needing a bit longer for me to block out the pain and aim for the guards side. He’s a big mother fucker hence how he’s able to lift the big ass broad sword in the first place so it’s pretty much the only place I can reach from this fucking angle.

I expect it slice into his side and prepare myself to yank it back out quickly so that I can defend myself from the inevitable anger filled attack that’s going to follow. I momentarily forgot that I was using Nyx’s swords though, and it slices straight through the big ass mother fucker like butter, severing his spine and completely detaching his torso from the lower part of his body.

He’s very much human and dies instantly.

“Whoa.” Kai exclaims from somewhere near me and I glance up from the body that’s in pieces to realise that all of the other guards have been taken care of and everyone’s staring at me and the swords. They are all starting to look worse for wear with several injuries although nothing too serious or debilitating.

“Er yeah.” I say eloquently.

“So the swords are super sharp then.” Jax says smirking.

“Something like that.” I agree. “Pretty damn cool.”

“Fuck are you ok?” Harry suddenly exclaims and the guys all pause in moving the bodies away from the large, ornately carved wooden door inlaid with different gemstones. Asher steps closer to it and starts to examine it.

“What’s wrong?” Levi asks me hisvoice firm.

“I got caught with the guys sword before I cut him in half, I’ll be fine though.” I reply.

“We can heal it through the bond or I can?” Maverick asks.