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Night Vengeance
Chapter Eighteen
He awoke in a dank, dark room. Devon tried to bring his hands up to touch his throbbing head, only to discover he was chained to a wall. Raising his head, he looked around; there was nothing but a skeleton sitting in a corner of the room and an iron door.
Too weak to transform, he pulled vainly on the chains, but they refused to move. He looked down when he felt a warm substance running down his left side, his blood was trickling from several minor cuts.
Suddenly, the heavy, iron door opened, and a man glided in. Instantly, Devon's eyes were drawn to him, he exuded power, and satisfaction. He was of average height, and he wore a hooded robe that hid his face. All Devon could see were twin red eyes.
"Ah, you're awake," said the man.
"You must be Salazar. Can't say it's nice to meet you. So what do you want with me?" growled Devon.
"Such insolence," chuckled Salazar. "I want nothing with you my young friend."
"You're no friend of mine," Devon spat out. "So if you want nothing with me, then why am I here, chained to this wall no less?" he asked, rattling the chains as evidence.
"I guess there's no harm in your knowing. Since you decided to invade my territory, I decided to use you as bait," explained Salazar.
"Bait? What are you talking about? Bait for what" asked Devon as a sinking feeling came over him.
"Your friends of course. They will come for you and that is exactly what I want," Salazar informed him.
"Friends? Ha! I have no friends," Devon scoffed, trying to bluff.
Salazar smiled, "No use trying to pretend you have no friends, Devon," he said and cackled cruelly when Devon's eyebrows rose in surprise at hearing his name.
"That's right, I know who you are, and I know who will come to rescue you," he said gleefully. "Your boss, Justin and his new lady, Raelynn Yakomura."
That said, Salazar turned and glided out of the room, the iron door clanging shut, and locking behind him.
Devon sighed and dropped his head. He regretted having come on his own, for not waiting for his friends, now a trap had been set for those same friends, and he was the bait.
Raelynn and Justin flew over the house, their eyes peeled for any surprises.
"Is that a machete down there?" asked Rae when she spotted it amidst the hacked up roots, as they flew over the field.
"It has to be," replied Justin. "He's the only one I know who sometimes uses a machete."
"So where is he?" she asked as she continued scanning.
"I don't know. But don't worry, we'll find him," said Justin.
The clang of the iron door opening had Devon swiftly raising his head and stiffening his spine in an attempt to appear strong before his enemy. Salazar glided in and stopped in front of him.
"So, what do you want now?" Devon asked, glad there was no weakness in his voice. He was hanging on by a thread; the blood that still trickled from his minor cuts had weakened him considerably.
He would have called out to Justin, and warned him of the trap, but he couldn't, every time he tried to reach his friend's mind, his head felt like it was going to explode. Even just thinking made his head ache. So he just continued staring at Salazar, waiting for him to speak.
"She is here, after all this time I will finally have her in my grasp! Her power will be mine!" exclaimed Salazar gleefully. He looked at Devon, "And it's all thanks to you. You and that insignificant human," he said.
Devon frowned, "What human?" he asked, trying to get as much information as possible.
"Why Mr. Parks of course," Salazar obligingly replied.
Devon's frown deepened. Parks? He didn't know any Parks.
"Trying to place the name are you?" asked Salazar.
Devon remained silent. He'd known someone at the company had stolen Rae's file, what he hadn't known was that the person had also stolen files on Justin and the company too.
"Don't bother taxing your mind trying to remember, you'll only hurt yourself," he said. "You see, after Mr. Leeds bought this house, he sprayed this room with a chemical I developed many years ago. It's preventing you from using your mind to communicate with others, you can't even shapeshift to escape," he explained.
"What human are you talking about?" Devon asked.
"Ah yes, the human," mused Salazar. "I guess it won't hurt to tell you, you'll be dead soon anyway. It was your own Mr. Stanley Parks who told me all about you and all about Knight Industries too. I now know who owns it and killing him will be a pleasure. Not only because of who he is, but because he dared to take what was supposed to be mine!" he growled, possessive anger clouding his mind.
"Damnit Devon! Answer me!" Justin's voice sounded in Devon's mind and his eyebrows rose in surprise. He quickly glanced at Salazar who'd turned away from him and concentrated.
Justin growled when he saw Salazar's back through Devon's eyes, but Rae's presence in his mind tempered his anger. "Can you talk?" he asked Devon.
Devon didn't want to risk mentally speaking in case Salazar was in his mind, too, so he kept his gaze glued to their enemy and when he shook his head, the image in Justin's mind went side to side. Devon realized that Salazar had lied to him. It was he who had somehow blocked his mental abilities, and not some special chemical sprayed on the walls. And Salazar's anger had temporarily let Justin breach through that block.
Justin understood instantly that Devon could only respond with head movements. So his question had to be yes or no ones.
"Are you in the house?" the image went up and down. "Are you upstairs?" the image went side to side. "Basement?" the image went up and down. "Does Salazar know we're here?" again the image went up and down. "He's waiting for us isn't he?" up and down went the image, then suddenly the image winked out and Justin cursed.
Salazar turned back and his eyes narrowed at the intense way his prisoner was staring at him, he scanned Devon's mind and chuckled when he found it blank, every thought wiped out.
“You were communicating with him, weren’t you?” he asked in a menacing tone, then waved his hand in a dismissive gesture as if to say it meant nothing to him. “No matter. My plans are already working. A few minutes advanced warning is of no consequence to me. Now I must go, but don't worry, I'll be back later," he said and left the room.
As Salazar left Devon alone, black clouds rolled in to obscure Justin and Rae's vision. Lighting struck, and the intensity of the raising storm forced them to land. The wind picked up, pushing them back as they tried to move forward toward the house. Then four strange creatures with clubs in their fists, flew out of the black clouds, they looked like humans with wings.
Rae recognized them. "Harpies!" she shouted to Justin over the howling wind. She grabbed his arm to make him stop with her and began chanting.
"Manu Foray Danakaru Solokareek!" she pointed her palms forward and a stream of red light like from a science fiction ray gun poured out from them. The lights hit the first Harpy and like the game connect the dots; transferred from one creature to the other until all four Harpies were encased in the red light.
The Harpies shrieked in pain as their bodies contorted, folded into themselves, then a thin white light streamed in the middle of the red, igniting their evil cores, and they exploded, leaving nothing but tiny bits to fall to the earth.
©2006 Romance at Heart Magazine.
©2000 Angel Young.
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