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head, she said. “Freeze, stop,
freeze.”
    Ten minions froze in their spot, turning their ugly heads
from side to side with a look of confusion.
    Kirby turned to Faith, yelling over the screaming. “Hurry I
don’t know long I’ll be able to hold them off.”
    “Brilliant!” Faith yelled.
    As Faith continued to run and almost dance about, chopping
and cutting wings and heads off the minions, she yelled over her shoulder,
“Guard the stage doors, Kirby. Zombies are coming. Don’t be fooled by their
human appearance. Kill them if you can.”
    Kirby’s back hit the stage door as a hand reached out and
grabbed her hair. Screaming and kicking, she tried to get out of the hold. She
heard Faith yelling at her again to use her knife and kill. Pulling her knife
around, Kirby slashed at the hand holding her hair and turned to see something
that was once human. Shutting her eyes, she stabbed its chest.
    Turning to find Faith finishing up on three zombie creatures,
she said, “Wow, you’re a modern day Buffy.”
    Faith smiled then screamed in pain as a sixteen foot,
hulking demon grabbed her from behind. Kirby stared, transfixed, never having
seen anything like it. Faith used her knifed hands above her head, slicing
backward. She spun, moving her hands down, then pushed both her knives up and
into the demon’s chest. The demon’s scream was deafening.
    Faith never seemed to stop as she yelled to Kane, “Get your
arse over here now.”
    The demon was trying to pull the knife out with one hand and
reach for Faith with his other hand, his tail snaking toward her. Afraid to
blink because she might miss something, Kirby watched as Faith quickly maneuvered
out of the way. Kane ran over, jumped on the demon’s back, climbing to his
head, which he then cut off. Staring opened-mouthed, Kirby looked at the chaos
around her. Eight dead demons, four zombies, and about forty minions lay
scattered on the ground. Injured people were lying everywhere.
    Faith and Kane came over to her, smiling. “Kirby was amazing,
Kane. I really think we could help train her on a larger scale to freeze the
minions, or command them to do other things. Even with no practice and never
doing anything like this before, she got them to freeze for a couple of
minutes, which gave me time to kill them. I feel, no, I know she could
do it for a lot longer.”
    Kane smiled at her, nodding as he said, “You did real good,
Kirby. Thanks for the help. I now need to know how badly you were hurt?”
    “I’m fine,” she assured Kane. “Look after Faith first.”
    Kane ran his fingers through his hair, sighing. He looked
his mate up and down. “Faith has hardly got a scratch on her, and the scratches
she does have will be healed in five to ten minutes tops. Trust me, if she was
hurt I would tend to her before I did anything else.” He leaned down and
brushed his lips against Faith’s, whispering, “I love you, princess.”
    Kirby grinned as she glanced at Faith. “Yeah, she is
super-fast.”
    Faith laughed. “I was Kane’s shadow when I was little. I
went to all their fighting lessons until they finally caved and taught me to
fight properly.”
    Kane leaned down again and kissed Faith’s forehead. “The
army has called in reinforcements to help clean up. I thought since I’m a
doctor I would help out too, but only if that’s okay, princess?” Faith nodded
her head. “I only stayed over here because Rane would kill me if I didn’t check
Kirby out first.”
    Shaking her head, Kirby moaned. “He is so overbearing. I
really pity the poor woman—” Kane’s chuckle cut her off. Kirby sighed. “I
really am fine, Kane, just some cuts and scratches. I don’t think it’s anything
serious.”
    Kane walked closer to her. “Let me just have a quick look.”
Carefully, he checked her over, stopping at the deep cut on her arm. “I don’t
like the look of a couple of bites and cuts, but this cut on your arm will
definitely need some stitches.”
    She winced