NOVEL NEXT Chapter 52: [51]
'Ah, What's going on? He seems so much freere now!' I shout in my mind though I quickly get ready for a fight as my hair rises and goosebumps form on my arm.
"Izzy it smells like rotting death here, be careful!" Vidar says to me as he removes his hand from around my waist and draws his sword.
Suddenly the ground shifts and dozens of Forsaken explode from the earth towards us.
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"They're Forsaken! Don't worry about their bites but smash their brains or cut off their heads!" Izzy yells as her snake bracelet turns into a staff.
"I'm glad I changed my mind on wearing a dress before you got to the Institute to pick me up!" Izzy says to me as she smashes one of the Forsaken's heads in.
"I'm glad I was able to ask you…I haven't had to do anything like that in my last thousand years of life, Lagertha and I were betrothed to each other by our father's…Tatia threw herself at me and many more just spreaded their legs for me because of my strength and battle prowess…" 'Or because of compulsion or Lagertha getting them ready for me…' I mentally tack on.
"But you Izzy…you are a challenge and it feels so much more real…than anything I have experienced before…" I continue to say not sure what I'm saying as I struggle to figure my own emotions that are a complicated storm right now.
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'He-hem…I have totally been ready to spread my legs for you since that night in the old textile factory…' I cough in my mind while I blush at the fact that Vidar, a man of vast experience and knowledge…is also a little innocent when it comes to relationships that don't immediately start off with sex.
"I'm not sure how I feel about being called a challenge!" I reply to Vidar as he saves me from a Forsaken attack I couldn't see coming.
'Actually I do know how I feel and I like it…with men like Vidar they need a bit of challenge, to keep their interests…though I doubt I'd ever lose Vidar's interest…'
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Izzy and I push our way through the forest slaughtering these non-infectious zombies the whole way until we come to a roadway and a bridge that leads to the island.
"Vidar I feel…like I know this place…th-this is where it happened…" Izzy's voice develops a tremble to it, making me turn my head to see her hugging herself and rubbing her arms.
'Is this where Valentine experimented on both her and Marsie Lightwood and made Izzy a pure angel blooded Shadow Hunter?' I ask in my mind as it wasn't too hard to put together after both scenting Clary and tasting her blood that Izzy was also a subject in Valentine's experiments.
"Where what happened Isebelle?" I ask her in a gentle, soothing but firm voice.
"T-the place in my dreams…where a man I don't recognize and my mother injected me with different things over and over again…I remember my mother calling him Vale…and the experiments only stopped after they made me fight against Downworlders as a little girl." Izzy replies back to me and I hug her tightly.
"We'll make them pay, we'll make them all pay…we'll make them suffer…in agony." I say to Izzy as I cup her cheek and I know the change has fully overtaken my face but Izzy looks up at me with pure unadulterated love in her eyes and extends herself, her soft pillowy lips press against mine in a soft kiss.
"Come on, we have an angel to save. I can feel the divine energy now." Izzy says to me as she breaks the soft slow kiss and looks at me with a mischievous light in her eyes, as she slips from my arms and starts to run along the bridge, making me smile as I take off after her and overtake her by a few feet.
"Gotta catch up Izzy!" I snicker playfully and love the mock glare she gives me in return.
It didn't take us long to traverse the surprisingly lacking in traps bridge and come to the entrance of a gated complex that is overgrown with weeds and vines.
'If this was my compound I would have had the bridge rigged with explosives...and had a helicopter or boat...shit a portal on standby to escape with...' I mutter in my mind.
The once grand wrought iron fence is bent inwards and left wide open allowing anyone inside…but I feel like this is all an illusion because magical energy is thick in the air.
"Iz, stay behind me. I think what we see in front of us right now is an illusion." I whisper to Izzy who reluctantly nods and moves to take up cover behind me.
Using my abilities I start absorbing the magic and feel it fight against my all consuming grip but to no avail, as it shatters before me revealing a fully functional military esqued compound with patrols of men, women and Shax Demons alike.
"Vidar…this might be a bit much for just the two of us." Izzy whispers from behind me but I can tell that there isn't an ounce of fear in her and she's ready to charge into battle.
"If we don't do this now…Valentine will relocate the angel and it will have to suffer further torment…as someone who prays to the All-Father still that is fine with me…but this angel may have a way to stop me from imploding due to the waring energies inside of me." I reply to Izzy absentmindedly, my eyes widening as I realize what I just revealed to her.
"Y-you're dying! How, how can I help?!" Izzy expresses almost in pain from the knowledge I just accidentally and totally avoidably gave her before asking how she can help me.
"You already are." I whisper back to her my reply.
"You already are." I whisper back to her my reply, as I look at the closed gate of the complex and blast it open with a concussive explosion of telekinetic force.