Retribution

“Marcus, Unya has returned. She has returned to Earth, but something is wrong. Her spirit is growing weak, I do not know how long she has left.”

“No, please tell me you are mistaken. How could the Gods have got a hold of her so easily?”

“It’s not the Gods who have her in their possession Marcus, it’s Kat. She has Unya and she is releasing the Erinyes upon her.”

It took us ten minutes to get everything we would require together, myself, Ishira, Janelle and Marcelle were going to go after Unya. And we would not return until we had her.

David and Nora wanted to accompany us, but I needed to have at least two people I could trust standing guard over our base.

Ishira was using her flame to focus in on Unya’s location and once she locked on, I would be transporting all of us straight to her. It took another twenty minutes, until we had a destination in mind, and it was not at Kat’s place. What surprised us though, was the fact they had gone to Lawson’s cabin, it was ironic, but we didn’t have time to think about why she would choose there.

With a few words we were all inside a swirl of multi-coloured lights as they spiralled around us, until they took us from the compound, and we ended up inside Lawson’s bedroom.

“What do we do now?” Asked Janelle, using her wolf senses to smell the air, and discover what room she was being held in.

“Now we get her,” I replied, not letting myself think about the fact I was about to come face to face with my greatest love but also my greatest weakness.

Much to my chagrin Janelle led the way, with Nora taking up the rear. She led us to a room I never entered before and my eyes opened wider once we went inside.

There were at least twenty oil paintings leaning against the smallest wall, with pictures of myself, Kat, Malachi, Lilianna but most of all Unya.

I had almost forgotten why we were even there, until Ishira let out a roar. We all turned to look at whatever had caught her eye and we came face to face with Kat, who was standing over Unya pulling off her fingernails one by one.

“What are you doing?” I shouted, which made her spin around to face me.

“What I was hired to do, Jackie approached my bosses and put a price on her head. She wanted Unya to suffer the same way she made her suffer, she is creative with her torture method.”

“Kat please, you need to stop this,” I stated, trying to reason with her, but all it produced was a belly laugh from her.

“I don’t need to do anything Marcus dear, except from what I was ordered to. Unya must die, and I’m the lucky girl who gets to exact the vengeance upon her.”

“You know Hades would never stand for this,” stated Ishira, but Kat just shook her head mockingly.

“I do not answer to Hades, I only answer to those who created me. And this is so much more than just a simple job. The perfect Unya slipped up, in my opinion it doesn’t seem like she deserves to survive.”

With that said, she placed her hands upon Unya’s forehead, making black lines snake across her face. They began to turn red as they travelled down her neck and turned a purple as they snaked under her top. They even covered her stomach in a garish yellow colour, I had no idea what Kat was doing but Unya didn’t seem to be faring well.

Her mouth was wide open in a silent cry, with her eyes rolling so far back you could only see the whites of them.

“Marcus, we need to do something,” pleaded Janelle, unable to witness her suffering any longer.

“No, if we break the contact too suddenly, it may destroy Unya’s mind altogether. Trust me, there is no safe way to force Kat to release her right now,” stated Marcelle.

“Cowards, your affections for this little creature do not run deep. I wonder if you would have allowed me to suffer like this,” Kat said, as she broke contact and sent Unya hurtling forward.

She fell to the floor, the chair breaking under the impact. Instead of crying out, she started to laugh hysterically, as she clutched onto her head and writhed across the floor.

I went to grab her, but Kat appeared before me. She had a shit eating grin on her face as she stroked my face, before scoring me with her talon style nails.

I pulled away from her, before releasing a shockwave from my body which sent her flying into the wall. I manipulated the air to keep her pressed up against it, Ishira then approached it and summoned her flaming chain.

She lassoed it around Kat’s neck and began to pull it tight, I knew I no longer had to protect Kat, but I couldn’t let her die like that. I didn’t even contemplate my actions, as I pulled Ishira away from her, with more force than I’d expected.

She glowered at me as she came closer and whipped her chain across my chest, I cried out under the heat before sending her, Janelle and Marcelle flying through the door and making it slam shut. I could hear them pounding against the wood, and I knew I wouldn’t have long before they made their way back in.

Turning back around to the spot where I’d left Kat, I saw had escaped and was leaning over Unya. I tried to get to them, but Kat did something to prevent me from moving from my spot.

I could see the wicked glint in her eye as she ran Unya through with a sword, before placing a knife into Unya’s hand. Unya gripped hold of the knife, as she bought it up to her face, carving words into her flesh.