Kiera
With one last look at Trev, I climbed to my feet and faced the demon. I was having a hard time concentrating on anything except Trev. He's protected me ever since I met him and we're just leaving him to suffer.
While I wasn't paying attention, the demon charged right at us. An arm swept across my stomach and shoved me backwards behind a solid body. Declan.
Jeez for all the times he's saved me and came to my aid you would think that he didn't hate me.
Pushing that thought aside, I peaked under Declan's raised arm in time to see the demon struggling against an invisible wall. Declan's body began to shake under the effort of keeping the wall up.
Sweat dripped down the sides of his face and he began to tremble even harder. I had to do something, quick.
I moved out from behind his lean body and stood next to him, copying his stance. I concentrated on the wall and blocked everything else out. I don't know how Declan made the wall, I just knew that I needed to help keep it intact so he could go banish the demon.
Declan stopped shaking and an infinite amount of force was placed on my body. I strained against the weight of holding up the wall that I took out of Declan's hands. I don't know how I did it, but that's not important right now.
When Declan saw that I was the one holding up the wall, he looked as surprised as I felt. Faster than my eyes could track, he sprinted to the wall and with Quinn's black goo, he poured the slime all over the tiger demon. It roared and clawed at the wall, putting cracks through the structure and threatening to collapse it.
I knew I wouldn't be able to hold this up much longer. I had dropped to me knees a while ago and felt like I was on the verge of passing out.
One look at Trev made me realize that I had to stay strong and keep the wall up long enough for Declan to kill the demon.
By now, the black goo had covered the entire demon's body and it was writhing on the floor, the stench of burning flesh made my nostrils flare. Still using the black goo, Declan formed a spear and plunged it directly into the demon's heart where it laid still for a moment before disappearing.
I dropped the wall and crumbled in a ball on the floor, breathing heavy. My tank top had been soaked with my sweat and stuck to my body. I saw Trev's labor breathing and his ashen skin color. He was on the edge of death.
Picking my head up, I started to crawl over to him. I never made it. Someone plucked me off the ground and I heard a different voice.
"Shit. I need a Medic!" A panicky Coordinator Vlad yelled.
"I'm taking Kiera to the infirmary right now," the voice holding me said.
"Go right away, Declan, and please get yourself checked up, too," Coordinator Vlad said.
"No! Take Trev, he needs help right now!" I tried to reason.
"Help is coming faster than I can bring him," Declan said gruffly.
"Then let me stay here with him. Go to the infirmary without me," I said.
Declan spun around and left Trev on the floor with me in his arms.
For what felt like the millionth time, I banged my fists repeatedly on his chest even though I knew it was useless. He probably couldn't even feel me doing it.
"Let me stay with him, asshole!"
"No."
Declan shoved open a door I hadn't noticed and gently put me down on a cot. The room was small with only a cot and a sink that had a cabinet above it that was overflowing with medical supplies.
"Why the hell did you come back!" Declan yelled in my face. His eyebrows were pressed together and he looked thoroughly pissed off.
"To help you!" I yelled back.
"And look where that got you. Trev is dying and you could have easily been killed. You're reckless, Kiera. I told you something like this would happen-"
Before he could finish scolding me, I leaped off the small cot and wrapped my hand around the doorknob.
Declan grabbed my arms and shoved me back down on the cot.
"You can't help him now," he said.
"But it's my fault he's hurt! I need to go see him."
"No. I'm going to check you for injuries and then we need to talk," he shut me down.
~
Declan
After making sure Kiera was not injured, I began to talk.
"Listen. I don't know if you noticed or not, but you tapped into my power source again. This time, we weren't in a stimulation. That shouldn't have happened, and as far as anyone else is concerned, it didn't happen. You aren't to tell anyone that you were part of the demon attack. Only Coordinator Vlad saw you and I had to get you away before anyone else did. You need to tell him that you were heading to your room when the demon sprung out at you. Then you tell him that Trev and I killed the demon while you hid. Got it?"
She nodded and asked, "Why can't anyone know what I did and that I can use your power or whatever? You can use other Nephilim's powers."
"That's the problem. You shouldn't be able to do that, too. If you haven't noticed, you have bright green flecks in your gray eyes and you have the power to see what your attacker is going to do before they do it. Kiera, you are less human than you think you are. If this gets out that a Neph has been living in the Gray Sector for this long, it could spark something drastic. We do not need that right now. There has never been this many demon attacks in this span of time before." I said.
Kiera gawked and then shook her head.
"No, you're wrong. I'm not a Nephilim. I don't have wings. Sure I can see what will happen before it does, but there have been psychics before," she refuted.
"Then explain how you used my power," I retorted.
At that, she remained silent. I needed to tell her about what happened before that has been haunting my dreams. So I did.
I told her about how we were sparring when we were children and I accidentally stole her power. I explained how I didn't know what had happened to her after that, but found out that Trev had been the one to make her believe she had been a human all along when I sparred with him during the First Trial and he made me see what he had done.
Kiera stared down at the floor, her dirty blond hair framing her face and hanging loose all around her. She picked up her head and said, "Liar. Both of you. You and Trev have kept all of this a secret for your own good. I can't believe it. This better be the truth, Declan, or I swear I'll... I don't know. I knew it. All of you Nephilim are the same. I thought Trev was my friend. I knew you were a jerk, but come on. I didn't know you were this much of a jerk. Lying to me to save your own skin."
I shook my head and said, "You think this would have been better if we had told you earlier? Everything would still be the same. You would have still used those powers no matter what. We need to move forward now, but keep everyone in the dark about how you're Nephilim. You know why?"
I continued when she didn't answer.
"Your mother is the Third Descendant, also known as the ruler of the Blue Sector. When she finds out that you are still alive, she will want revenge on who put you in the Gray Sector and why. An all out war between the sectors will rise when they found out Trev, from the Black Sector, and myself from the White Sector, were a part of your banishment. Tensions are extremely high right now from all the demon attacks recently, and when a secret like this is out, all the sectors will be put over the edge. You should have stayed in the Gray Sector. I'm afraid that my power fully awakened yours and somehow you're able to also use mine. It might be because I stole your power years ago, but I don't know. Keep on going through The Trials, but do not draw attention to yourself."
"M-my mom?" She whispered and clenched her fists. "Wait are you just telling me this to prevent a war? Just have Trev erase my mind again or whatever he did and put me back in the Gray Sector."
"I knew who you were right when you got here. The first thing I did was tell Trev to do that, but he refused. Now, I'm glad he refused."
~
Kiera
"Why?" I asked. I was so angry when I found out what Trev and Declan had done to me. But after hearing that Trev didn't want to do it again, I felt better. I remembered all the times the both of them came to rescue me when they didn't have to. It would have been easier if they hadn't, now that I think about it.
He ran a hand through his hair and said, "Never mind that. I didn't trust Trev at first when he refused to erase your mind because I thought he wanted to initiate the war. I'm still a little weary of him, but for now just pretend to be human for now and we will figure something out."
I guess I could understand where all of this was coming now. I just wished Trev had trusted me earlier to tell me. Now, he may never get the chance to.
"The demon has been eradicated. Please stay in your dorm rooms for the night until further notice," the intercom said.
With a million thoughts running through my head, I didn't notice Declan take his shirt off until it was on me. The black t-shirt completely engulfed my much smaller frame and I raised my eyebrows at him.
"You're practically naked," he pointed out bluntly.
"Oh, right," I blushed when I remembered taking off my shirt to stop Trev's wound from bleeding. I actually freaking blushed in front of Declan of all people.
~
Declan left me alone in the small room to get himself checked up. Apparently he had to be the one to check me so that the Medics wouldn't know I had been there during the fight.
Some time later, I went back to my room and let my thoughts wander until I fell asleep.
~
I stirred when the side of my bed dipped under some weight. I rolled over and looked right into a set of bright purple eyes.
"Trev!" I yelled. I wrapped my arms around his neck and hugged him tightly. Then all the events of the day poured into my head and so did everything Declan had told me.
He laughed and hugged me back. When he noticed my expression he asked, "What's wrong?"
"Declan told me everything," I said. His brows furrowed and then realization dawned upon him and his eyes grew wide.
I held up my hand to stop him from talking so that I could continue.
"I've been thinking a lot about it, and I understand why you did it. I'm just disappointed you didn't tell me I was Nephilim sooner. But, it is what it is. I forgive you," I shrugged.
"I'm so sorry, Kiera. I didn't mean for you to find out this way. If I had had a choice, I wouldn't have gone through with making you believe you were a human," he said and squeezed my hand.
After that, he got up and left for the rest of the night.
I fell back asleep until the bright rays of the sun woke me up again the next morning. I so did not want to get up.
~
Declan
"I can't believe you took out that demon all by yourself," Justine said as she latched onto my arm on the way to breakfast.
I shrugged and said, "Nothing I haven't done before." She beamed up at me and I smiled back down at her.
Of course I wasn't going to tell her the part Kiera played in it all. Trev was injured before he could do anything.
Justine and I walked in to the cafe and sat down at the White Sector table. For some reason I felt my gaze wonder to the Gray Sector table and was surprised to see Trev already sitting there. With Jack and Aaron gone, Kiera should have been the only one sitting there, not Trev. The fact that he was sitting there ticked me off and before I realized what I was doing, I had removed myself from Justine's grasp while she stared at me with her mouth open and I was walking over to Trev. His back was to me and he began to speak, "Hey Kiera, I was thinking that after The Trials today we could-"
"You guys could do what?" I interrupted.
Trev's body jolted up in surprise and he banged his knee on the table. All eyes turned toward us.
Trev turned around in his seat and frowned.
"Why do you care?"
"Answer the question, Trev," I growled. He knew better than to test me.
"I was going to say that we could train."
"Not happening," I said.
"Dec-" He started to say when I cut him off.
"Enough. You are not to train her, at all," I forced.
I should probably tell him that I don't want them to train because that would just make Kiera stand out even more and that was the last thing we needed. There was another reason I didn't want them training together, but I wasn't ready to admit it to myself so there was no way I was going to admit it to Trev.