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"We can't run. If we do, we'll lose a lot of good people and give Daelissa the perfect backdoor to attack Pjurna."
    Shelton wrinkled his forehead. "We sure as hell can't fight."
    I gripped him by the shoulders. "Nightliss and I will distract them and try to get into the way station. I need you and Bella to escape so you can have someone open a portal for you. You have to warn Thomas about this new army so they can reinforce our positions."
    "I don't gotta run back to base." Shelton gave me a strange look and pointed at his arcphone. "I already sent a video of the invasion back to headquarters. It's the twenty-first century, man."
    "Oh, um, yeah." Something about fighting sword-bearing angels sometimes made me forget we had magical cell phones. "I still want you and Bella to escape while Nightliss and I try to make it inside."
    "They're coming," Nightliss said before Shelton could answer.
    Sure enough, I looked up to see the small surprise attack force walking toward our hiding spot. I counted four of them. I unrolled our two flying carpets and stood on one. I felt the carpet's enchantment bind my feet to it. Nightliss got on behind me and wrapped her arms around my waist while Shelton and Bella boarded the other one.
    "We're not leaving you," Shelton said. "Lead the—"
    A bolt of lightning speared from the sword of the enemy leader and exploded against the tree. Two of the Seraphim in red armor blurred to our right. Shelton's carpet rose and zipped back away from us to escape the attack. The two Seraphim extended their huge ethereal wings. Their eyes glowed bright white and their misty, vaporous wings seemed to solidify into brilliant flames as they leapt from the ground and flew in pursuit
    I directed our carpet to the left to avoid attacks from the other two Seraphim. The angel in blue wore a confident smile on his face as he angled his sword toward me. I wasn't feeling a hundred percent, but I wasn't helpless either. I shot a tendril of Murk and latched onto the decorative wing on the side of his helmet and gave it a hard jerk. His helmet twisted sideways and he lurched forward as my tug pulled him off balance. The sword speared into the dirt and his companion tripped over it.
    I was actually surprised my trick worked. "The armor didn't repel the attack."
    Nightliss lanced an ultraviolet beam at the Seraphim in red armor. Her attack crystallized a spot on the breastplate before punching through. The man—the seraph—gurgled and went down.
    "Foul Darkling magic!" the seraph in blue armor cried out at us.
    I shot him with a beam of Brilliance and knocked him back a few feet. "Here's a whiff of foul Brightling magic, jackass!"
    I wanted to finish him off, but saw the rest of the army quickly closing the gap. "Where's Shelton?"
    "I don't see him or Bella anywhere," Nightliss said.
    A huge explosion erupted in the jungle behind us. I craned my neck and saw flaming boulders rolling through the trees. "That's one of his spells!"
    Someone roared. The blue seraph lunged at us with his huge lightning sword. Swinging the carpet like a surfboard on a huge wave, I narrowly avoided the deathblow and sent a wave of Murk at him. He leapt into the air with one beat of his huge wings and avoided my attack.
    I wanted desperately to go back for Shelton and Bella, but the enemy forces were almost on top of us. I had a choice to make. Should I go after my friends, or should I go to the aid of the Templars in the Three Sisters way station? More explosions rocked the jungle in the direction Shelton had fled. Please forgive me. I had to help the Templars and hope Shelton could escape.
    "In the name of the Divinity, I, Primarion Arturo, commander of the First Battalion of the Seraphim Empire, will end you!" The blue seraph dove toward us, sword extended.
    "In the name of me, Justin Slade, commander of the butt monkey legions," I shouted, "tell Daelissa she can shove it up her fat ass!"
    "Yes, into her stinky bottom!" Nightliss said and launched a