387: I DON'T TRUST HIM

I DON'T TRUST HIM

Serefina just rolled her eyes upon hearing Raine's exclaim, "Of course not, he just passed out." She waved her hand nonchalantly as she focused on the matter at hand. "So, what have we got here? Where is the book?"1

"We don't need the book." Aeon's statement made Serefina raise her eyebrows and later her voice if the shadow warrior didn't explain it quickly. "I have already read it."

"And?" this time, it was Raphael who asked him.

Meanwhile Raine looked at her surroundings, some of the beasts had turned into their human form and the others remained in their beast form while the five Alphas, apparently, were not in good condition as they were attended by their respective pack members.

The situation around the construction site of the library building was so quiet as it was in progress to be rebuild again.

"Torak is indeed in tartarus." Aeon confirmed that after the fire that he watched when he made the sacrifice.

This made Raphael frown while Calleb was sitting on the ground, seemingly still in shock from whatever he saw earlier.

"To open the gates to Tartarus, there is one more risk that you have to take." Aeon directed his words at Raine. "However, this time it is too big."

Raine stared at Aeon directly, his gaze laced with worry and reluctance, yet Raine didn't want to think about anything else other than how to get Torak back.

She wanted to be selfish this time.

"What kind of risk?" Raine asked slowly.

"I am not sure what exactly it would be, but…" Aeon halted and stared deeply into Raine's eyes as if he was going to dig a hole into her soul. "…we will have to open the gates to hell, what do you think will happen?"

A spell of silence ensued Aeon's question, until Serefina broke it with her careless comment like always.

"Just open it and get Torak out of there." Serefina shrugged as if that was the most obvious answer and no one seemed to notice that.

"What do you say?" Aeon ignored Serefina's opinion, all he needed was a word from Raine and he would do whatever she wished.

"Do it." Raine said softly, but the determination in her tender voice was rather palpable, glancing over at Raphael and Serefina, but both of them apparently didn't mind with whatever the risk that they should take as long as they could get Torak back.

It wasn't a good thing, but Raine was relieved because they agreed. She just wanted to justify her decision.

Because whatever chaos that would ensue after this, Raine would be the one to take responsible for it, but if it meant she could get Torak back, then everything would be worth it.

It sounded selfish indeed, but Raine knew this was the right thing to do, though this wasn't a good one.

"Understood." Aeon nodded his head as he looked at his surroundings and stopped at Raine's obsidian eyes again. "I only hope you will never regret this decision."

"Even if I will regret it later, I know I will choose the same decision all over again." Raine was sure about this.

"Alright." Aeon nodded as he understood what Raine was feeling right now, he stretched out his hand toward Raine. "I need the bird now."

"The bird?" Raine took offense at Aeon's outstretched hand since she was being protective. She didn't want to give the weak bird to Aeon.

Truth to be told, Raine didn't trust the shadow warrior enough to give Torak's soul to him.

"I need it." Aeon demanded.

Raine's frown deepened as she stared at Aeon. "What are you going to do with the bird?"

"I need that to get to Torak." Aeon explained to Raine. "We have come this far and I will not do a silly thing to hurt the bird."

"Like how you will not hurt Raine when the devil managed to get her blood before?" Serefina chimed in sarcastically while rolling her eyes.

"I would have never done that if I knew what he intended to do then." Aeon countered the witch's words through gritted teeth.

It wasn't only Raine who was being deceived at that time by Lucifer, he had also suffered the same thing.

"Sure, sure… your words are very believable." Serefina wouldn't stop throwing her sarcastic remarks at all.

Yet, before they could decide what they should do or Aeon was able to convince Raine, all of a sudden, a weird feeling filled the air.

All of them looked at each other in uncertainty.

What was happening?

They were in the park within the construction site of the library building, this place was supposed to be windy as a lot of trees surrounded them coupled with with the gloomy sky, indicating rain would fall.

Not long after that, a group of men emerged from behind the shadows of the trees, they were wearing long black coats that swept the ground.

Raine watched in horror as their number didn't decrease as if there was no end to them.

How many were they? A thousand? Two thousand?

"Who are they?" Raine was being pulled back and  protected by Aeon and Raphael just as Calleb started to regain his awareness about their predicament, and he stood next to Raine immediately after the realization hit him.

"The devil's legion." Aeon replied to Raine.

This was the same thing that they had seen before Aeon and Serefina brought them all here. They managed to catch up to them in the matter of a few minutes.

Aeon felt the shadows rose from the depths of his heart. They swirled around his body.

"Hello my dear."

The sweetness of Lucifer's voice almost made everyone by Raine's side feel the urge to puke, they snarled and growled at the threat that the devil brought.

"So, you decided to betray me in the end." Lucifer talked to Aeon. "Why am I not surprised?"

"You are the one who didn't keep your promise!" Aeon was livid. "You promised me, you will never hurt her."

Lucifer widened his eyes. "But, she is still alive." His golden eyes directed at Raine. "Though it will not be for long." He smirked devilishly.

With that being said, the calmness in the air broke and the situation devolved to chaos.

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