Fighting by Anaya Phoenix (sci fi books to read .TXT) 📖

on their little ape feet.” Filly said condescendingly, cocking her head at him and smiling.

“You’ve all bought this on yourself. Walking around and destroying things before you could speak, not caring or caring to notice how much damage you were doing to the Earth. We’ve met her, turns out she doesn’t like being used. Think of us as soldiers for the Earth. She’s tired of your bull and, quite frankly, so are we.” Filly hissed at him, gearing herself up. I knew she wanted to use her power, to break free from the cuffs and serve some very well deserved justice. We couldn’t. Any act of violence that ended in the, direct, death of any human that was done by us would be considered an act of war. We knew that Leo and the others would continue training, he would push them all harder because when we were to return it would mean war would be started. We had to buy them as much time as we could, even if it meant staying here and being very careful with our tempers. I watched as she calmed right back down, the fire slowly dying in her eyes. He watched too and he glared slightly before looking into her eyes particularly.

“Don’t worry, darlin’. We’ll break you soon enough. That is admirable courage you got there, and I do have to give you some sort of credit. Tell ya what, how ‘bout we don’t start the torturing and stuff today. We’ll give you guys a nice rest before we get the answers out of you…. Because we do. We always get the answers out.” He smiled and winked at us and stood.

“You can’t bait us, ya know.” I said through clenched teeth, wanting nothing better than to knock his out. He turned on his heel and moved to walk out.

“Do you know why you can’t bait us, Agent Brown?” He stilled with his hand on the handle to open the door.

“Because we’re not dumb. As soon as I cut off communication, as soon as I closed that portal and I wasn’t on the other side of it, they went into war mode. You know what happens in war mode? Ever put a wild animal in a corner? It’s that times a billion. Face it, you and the rest of your little monkey family are weak compared to us. You’ve been scanning for us for two months, with your fancy technology that you made to make yourself safe. Now that we haven’t painted a giant fucking bullseye on our chests it’s harder for you to see us, and you don’t like that. So you spend billions upon billions of dollars to find us, countries and nations grouped together that haven’t ever given the other one the time of day. You’ve spent so much time and devotion to find us, the filthy little moles of the earth, and the fact that you can’t just gives you performance anxiety; doesn’t it? We’re not so easily herded, dick head. So if you’re trying to use me and her to get everybody up here and have your grand spectacle of your power over us… sorry to disappoint. We won’t give you the satisfaction of gaining another trophy, so you can go back to your boss and tell him you’ve subdued us. You can tell him that we’re going to give you everything, even though we’re not going to give you anything. You can do whatever will make you feel good about what you’re doing, but at the end of the day… you’re not. Have a nice day, tell Lucy and Robert I say hi.” I smiled creepily at him and he quickly opened the door before leaving.

“He’s gonna magick up now, you know that.”

“Yeah, I know that. But we’ve got to have him on the edge and that’s the best way to actually survive this.”

 

 

 

     We’d been here a week, they hadn’t given us food and daily they’d come in deliver some sort of punishment that they thought would crack us. It was cute, honestly. The other day they tried to water board Filly, it wasn’t a good time for them. We still had access to our elements, because that wasn’t really magick; that was power. Filly was great at using the water element, it was her best gift, so when they tried to make her feel like she was drowning she just made them choke on the water that was meant for her. It took about five guards before they realized what was wrong, and then it took one of them passing out for them to stop trying. They took the rag off of her face to see her smiling. She got her nose broken for that, but that healed in a couple of minutes. They tried using fire on me, one of the sikc bastards actually dared to come in with a flame thrower; needless to say I nipped that in the bud. The hair on the back of my neck stood up as the door opened today though and I saw why. Alizar, one of the most infamous dark fey walked in with the sickest of smiles on his face.

“Good morning ladies.” His voice was sly and I felt my blood run cold, for some reason I felt like our luck was up. Agent Brown sidled in behind him and promptly closed the door.

“Is it morning? Couldn’t tell. How come you didn’t burn up on the way here?” His skin was pasty and his eyes were beady little black things. His hair that was normally long and thin was pulled up into a half way decent man bun. Most guys could pull that off, but he wasn’t a guy and he just wasn’t working it. He was one of the oldest fey, so old he’d stopped using glamour to hide how he looked. He let his power show and, often, whenever a fey did that it was because they had plenty of power; too much to be focusing on small things like appearance.

“Always the pleasure, Luna.” I rolled my eyes and looked to Agent Brown, he stood in his typical stance: leaned against the wall, legs and arms crossed and cocky look on his face.

“Good morning Agent Brown, how was your coffee?” I could smell it on his breath and his clothes, he mut’ve went to one of those really overly expensive shops where the smell of coffee served to burn the hair from your nose. Brown looked Alizar who merely waved his hand.

“She can smell it on you, it’s not magick.” I felt the anger pulsate from Filly and knew that today would be a bad day, one of the days where we both ended up getting hurt.

“You bought a doggie to tell whether or not we’re using magick? That’s a little too close to being cowardly for an FBI agent.” Brown just chuckled and shook his head.

“This whole building is officially a magick free zone, the spell forbidding magick from it is being produced by Mister Alizar here. He’s just making sure there isn’t a loophole in it that you can break.”

“Oh Gods, don’t you get it Brown? You’re human, you always make mistakes. And you know you, you had to add the term human error to all of your mathematical and scientific procedures BECAUSE you fuck up so much. If you made the contract with him, I can guarantee you there’s a loophole somewhere in there.” I said exasperatedly, almost feeling bad. But, that was almost and it wasn’t quite the whole feeling. Just a little niggle of empathy.

“Plus you went to the wrong side for a good contract. Dark Fey are notorious for their shitty contracts, you basically just got robbed whatever he wanted from you. I hope you’re proud of yourself, after all, you’re going through all this trouble for two teenage girls.” Filly said, her body tensing up and I knew she would slip. The link required magick, I could feel the lack of it and knew I wouldn’t be able to tell her to cool down. I looked to Alizar only to find him staring directly at me. He was offering me magick, which could only mean he wanted to talk.

“We have no quarrel with you, we haven’t violated the Shadow Proclamation or the Treaty of the Fey. Don’t do this.” I begged, keeping my tone strictly neutral.

“I have no personal quarrel with you, child of the moon. Your magick is light, mine is dark; inherently I have to hate you. Also he’s paid me handsomely.”

“You have no need for their human money, and they hold nothing that could be of value to a high fey like you. Do not bring the dark fey into this.”

“My dear, whenever there’s a fight against the light fey we have to fight. It’s like the scots and the brits. Automatic, basic hatred for each other.” I sighed, working my lip and watching Filly bicker at Agent Brown while he stood in his dumb position.

“Just… don’t include us. We are creatures of the night, the lowest of the low on the magical scale. Let us behave like the children the supernatural world views us as.”

“I simply cannot do that, you know that Luna. The contract has been signed by both parties. I have gotten my payment, I have to pay them back.”

“You weren’t bad at the beginning.” His features turned dark slightly before he continued to walk around the room.

“None of us, there wasn’t a divide. We were all together, as one. Then they wanted power and had different ways of getting it and there was a huge divide. I was born from dark fey, all of that initial power soaked into me but it didn’t change me. I didn’t have to be evil, I didn’t want to be evil. But… when it’s the title they give you…”

“A rose by another name-“

“Is still as dark. The building does not have magick, but you still have power. Don’t get me wrong, I still do want that war to happen. But it can’t happen with the help of us. You know how it has to start, I suggest you get moving.” With that he closed the small inkling of magick and I felt the supreme void of magick and knew it was wrong but I couldn’t do anything about that.

“Are you two done having your lovers quarrel? I’ve sealed the magick off in this room and all the others. If there’s ever a hiccup, you know what to do.” He gave me one last parting look before opening the door and walking away.

“Good luck playing your little tricks now girls.” He walked after him and as soon as the door closed behind him we proceeded to laugh our asses off.

Chapter 26

 

I had kinda accepted that we would die here, ever since the magick was sucked from the building our strength had been deteriorating slowly day by day. They started using things that had high energy to hurt us. The higher the energy, the more it took for our bodies to heal and the more energy it took from us. All the torturing the hunters had done, had only made it easier for them to find effective ways. They would