Chapter 51: Sizzle

~ Brax ~ Every nerve in my body was screaming danger. The air was electrified, and the smell of something burning was thick, making it hard to breathe. “Fucking demons!” I hissed. “No!” Willow cried. “We aren’t ready!” I stood to my feet pulling Willow up with me. I looked out over the valley and noticed a horde of Demons stomping toward the castle. “Oh, god! There’s so many!” Willow screamed. Then an earth-shattering explosion erupted from the north side of the castle near the main entrance. It was so big that we could feel the tremors from here. I held Willow as the aftershock blew us both back and slammed us into the cave wall. My back hit the wall with a thud, the air was knocked from my lungs. I held Willow so tight, nothing could pry her from my hands. Rage didn’t begin to describe the feeling I was experiencing at this moment. An enormous mushroom cloud concealed the moon, and the rolling landscape was now pitch black. Decades of pint up aggression has boiled over, and I was rea