A War Worth Fighting For

Raynes POV

I open my mind link to Jinxx. “I can see about 20 of them, maybe more. Even Masked, they can see us in the air.”
“I saw them turn to you my love. I don’t think they see the demons though.”
“Don’t let that stop you guys. Play, keep the humans focus on you.”
Next I open mind to Troian. “They see us; I don’t think they see you. I actually don’t think they are expecting the hellion army to be coming after the damage they did.”
“Then keep their focus, Angel. It’ll give us the advantage of surprise.”
I glide down to get a better look. I look over to Jinxx, watching my every move. Although he can’t see me, our bond lets him know exactly where I am. He can feel me as if I were an extension of his own body.
As I skim over the head of one of the new demons, he reaches out to try and grab me. The wind catches my wings lifting me up just out of reach. My search is for the leader of this ‘pack’.
It didn’t take me long to find him. He sat on the top of some stacked straw bales that were holding up the barricade fence, waiting for me. I land behind him, making sure the barricade stayed between us.
He looks up casually from picking his nail. “Well, it’s about time, Rayne. You’ve kept me waiting long enough.”
“Leave this place, demon. We want no innocents hurt. Your war is with us, not the humans.”
“See Rayne, that’s where you’re wrong. It is just as much with the humans as it is with you, Lucifer, and God himself. Unmask yourself; let the humans see you for what you really are.”
“If it needs to be done then I will, but for now, the humans do not need to know of our existence. It would cause more chaos that what you could ever create. Even you, ‘demon’, could not control that chaos and your cause would be lost as well.”
“MY NAME IS NOT DEMON!!”
The creature spit as he yelled. But it thankfully fell on deaf ears. “So you do have a name?”
“Of course I do, Rayne. I was the first created. Balan saw it fit to give me a name. The others were not so lucky. I am Roskun.”
His voice returned to it calm, icy, nature. Obviously calling him demon gets under his skin. He wants to be an entity on his own, something that wasn’t created and used. This will be useful in the future, if there is one.
“Ah, the Icelandic word for disorder, clever.”
“I think so, yes.”
“What is it that you want? Why here?”
“We want to continue what we were fashioned for. Here, because so many young souls, so much youth. They are stronger but yet easier to posses and obtain.”
“Last chance Roskun, leave or fight.”
“Oh there will be a fight Rayne. There will be a fight.”
A shrill roar comes from his throat startling me. From the trees comes dozens of these new demons. Our armies outnumber them, but their strength and our lack of knowledge on what they are capable of gives them an edge.
The demon turns to me one last time before I’m able to take to flight, “Oh and Rayne? Tell Troian that he isn’t that sneaky.”
I take off, linking to Troian, letting him know that these creatures are on to him. I hear pained screams coming from the crowd below. “Warriors, it is time.”
A few hundred of the angel warriors unmask themselves, I link to the boys.”Keep the humans focus on you, if you can’t, tell them to fight back. Tell them to be proud and stand for themselves. It’s the only way to keep from being possessed. And be careful. Protect yourselves, but do not show your true selves unless absolutely necessary!”

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So many lives lost, so many humans possessed and taken. I look over the venue grounds looking for any more life. I find none.
News reports of Demons and Angels are all over the world, already. Riots taking over the streets, places of worship being overrun for people to pray. Everything we worked so hard on, lost. Now the world knows we exist. But they see us fighting humans, not aware that the ‘humans’ we are fighting are a new breed of demon.
I feel Andy link to me, he is panicked. “Rayne, we have a serious problem. Jinxx is gone.”

Notes

Short and another cliffhanger. i did not hash out the battle. i want you to picture what the chaos would look like. An outside venue, demons and angels fighting a demon that only looks to be human. Actual people trying to stave of possession....
And now, Jinxx is gone, how will Rayne react?
Where did he go?
what will this mean for the war to come?