Revelations (The Revelations Series Book 1) (30 page)

DYLAN
groaned as he regained consciousness. His head throbbed as he slowly opened his eyes letting them come into focus before opening them all the way.

He tried to remember how he got here. The last thing he could remember was being in the barn looking for Jenna.
Oh God, Jenna
, he thought as he franticly tried to free his wrists from the ropes that bound him to a wooden chair while he searched around him looking for her. He prayed that whoever had taken him didn’t have her too.

He stopped struggling when he caught a glimpse of someone in the corner of the building. They were too far away to make out who it was, but it was definitely a person.

“What do you want?” he yelled.

The figure remained where it was, only letting out a heckling laugh that was nothing less than disturbing. What was even more frightening was that Dylan recognized that laugh. Chills ran up his spin as he realized he had heard it before. He froze and prayed he was wrong. He couldn’t imagine why that person would want to hurt him. They were friends, weren’t they? He winced as the ropes dug into his skin as he began to struggle again.

As the figure emerged from the corner and started towards him, he stopped fighting his binds. He lowered his head and moaned as the person came into view and he realized he was right. It was Alex. But, there was something different about him this time. Maybe it was the way he walked, or the way he held himself, but there was definitely something different, and it chilled Dylan to the bone.

“Why are you doing this Alex?” Dylan demanded.

“You mean you still don’t know?” Alex stopped in front of Dylan. “Boy, you really are ignorant, aren’t you?”

“What are you talking about? I’ve never been anything but nice to you.”

“It’s not what you’ve done to me, but
who
you took from me. Everything was falling into place until she met you. Then it fell apart. You put some kind of spell on her; she can’t seem to stay away from you. Even after I warned her it wasn’t safe.”

Dylan struggled against the ropes tearing his flesh as he fought against the bonds. “I don’t know who you’re talking about. The only girl I have any interest in is Jenna, you know that!”

Dylan shivered as Alex’s eyes blazed with sudden outrage making him realize it was Jenna Alex was referring to. Strange thoughts began to race through Dylan’s mind. That was crazy though, she was his sister. How could he be talking about her like this? It was nothing less than sick.

“Exactly!”
Alex snapped as he paced the floor in front of Dylan.

Dylan couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Alex had feelings for Jenna that went beyond normal brother, sister type of love. “But… she’s your sister,” he yelled at Alex, cringing at the thought of it.

Alex stopped in front of Dylan, a sly grin forming on his lips. “I see she hasn’t told you the truth about who she really is.” A slow evil smile spread across Alex’s face. “Well then, you’re in for one hell of a shock. You see, Dylan; she’s not really my sister. And, she has a destiny far greater then you can imagine. She’s the key to our side wining this war, and I was so close to turning her.” Hatred blazed in Alex’s eyes as he stopped and glared at Dylan. “That is, until she met you.”

“She’s not a pawn in some kind of sick twisted game. She’s a human who deserves to live life the way she wants.”

“Human,”
Alex chuckled. “Boy, you really are in the dark, aren’t you?”

“What are you talking about?” Dylan snapped.

“You know, for someone she claims to love, she sure has kept a lot from you.”

Dylan’s wrists were raw from the ropes digging into his skin, but he could feel the ropes beginning to loosen so he struggled through the pain. He needed to get out of here and warn Jenna about Alex.

“You’re crazy, you know that? You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Alex circled Dylan. “You know, I think it’s about time I told you a little story.”

“I don’t want to hear a story. Why don’t you let me go and we’ll see who the bigger man is.”

Alex braced his hands on the chair. “Shut up and listen when I’m talking to you,” he spat in Dylan’s face. “This is a story you definitely want to hear. It’s a tale about an angel named Thomas who fell in love with a human woman named Erin. It was a forbidden love that led to the conception of a child, a child that God deemed to be an abomination. You see this child wasn’t the only half-breed conceived between an angel and a human, there were others. God gave these children the name of Nephilim and decreed they not be allowed to live.”

Dylan stopped struggling. He heard his father talk of these kids before, but he thought it was something the church had made up. He never really considered they could actually exist. He listened to the rest of what Alex had to say.

“God feared these children for one reason. At the age of seventeen, they would develop abilities that almost mirrored those of their fathers. The vast majority of Nephilim children born were males that God would put through what he called trials. If the male passed, God would let him live, but only if he agreed to fight as one of Heavens warriors on earth when God called upon him. The children were trained by angels to control their powers and learn how to use them. The ones that failed these trials were deemed untrustworthy and killed.” Alex’s eyes caught and held Dylan’s. “Now, here’s the part you’re going to want to pay close attention to,” he told him, and then broke eye contact. “In all of the history of Nephilim children there have only been two females born. When the first one turned seventeen and her abilities surfaced, she was almost three times as powerful as any male. She was so powerful that her abilities exactly mirrored those of real Angels. God decided it was too dangerous to allow her to live because if she ever turned against him and sided with Lucifer the results would be catastrophic. When they came to kill her, she escaped into the forest. The angels tracked and soon found her and took her life, but not before she destroyed half the forest in mere seconds with a flick of her wrist.

Alex turned and stared at Dylan. “Can you guess who the second female is?” he asked.

“Jenna?” Dylan whispered hoping he was wrong.

“That’s right, it’s Jenna. And, whatever side she chooses to fight on will surely win the war that is inevitable against heaven and hell. I already located her and fooled her into believing I was a Nephilim just like her and cast a cloaking spell on her and her mom so the angels couldn’t locate her.”

Dylan couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Could it be true? Could Jenna really be one of these Nephilim children? He shook the thought from his head, none of that mattered now. She was still the girl he’d fallen in love with and he had to get to her and warn her about what was happening. He needed to hear the truth from Jenna about who she really was.

Alex continued to pace back and forth with a smirk on his face that Dylan wanted nothing more than to smack off him. He couldn’t see how Alex thought any of this was funny. They were playing with an innocent girl’s life. He suddenly felt the urge to protect her at all costs, even if it meant giving his own life in the process.

“I’ll never understand how she could pick you… a mere human, over me, one of her own kind,” Alex mumbled. “I mean just think about it. Together we could be unstoppable.” Alex grabbed a handful of Dylan’s hair and yanked his head back. “But no, she had to go and fall in love with you, a mere mortal. I still can’t figure that one out. Just what is it about you she can’t resist?”

“Is that what this is all about?” Dylan snapped as Alex released his hair. “That she chose me over you? Get over it man, she’s made her choice.” Dylan struggled to free himself once again as Alex circled the chair taunting him.

“Don’t you get it?” Alex snarled. “It’s what it’s
always
been about. That’s why I was sent to rescue her from that compound. She was supposed to fall in love with me. That way I could convince her to do whatever we wanted.”

“We? Who else is involved in this?”

“Yes, we. You see, when I rescued Jenna from the compound she assumed I was just like her, half human and half angel. Truth is, I’m not. My mother was a human, but my father was a demon, not an angel, which makes me a Cambion. I let her and her mother believe what they wanted because it meant they trusted me. I found it easier to manipulate them that way. That is, until her mother realized what I was. She was going to tell Jenna, so I had no choice but to kill her. I couldn’t take the chance of Jenna finding out who I really was. I was too far along in the plan to let her get away.”

Dylan was stunned. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing. He didn’t care that she’d lied to him about her parents being in China. He was sure she had her reasons for that, but when she found out it was Alex who had killed her mother she would be devastated. He needed to find a way out of his bindings to make sure Alex never got near Jenna again. The ropes dug deeper into his already torn flesh as he struggled, but he didn’t care. As Alex turned his back to him, he scooted his chair up against a pole and started to rub the ropes up and down hoping they would break.

“Oh, no you don’t!” Alex growled as he grabbed the chair and pushed it away from the pole with such force it slid into the middle of the room nearly tipping over. “I’m not done with you yet.” Alex backhanded Dylan hard slicing his cheek open.

Dylan cringed as blood oozed from his cut onto his shirt. He could feel the hole in his cheek, but he couldn’t let it affect him. This wasn’t about him. It was about keeping this monster away from Jenna. He used all his strength and pulled hard on the ropes finally breaking free from them. He jumped out of the chair and charged at Alex catching him off guard and throwing him into a cement wall.

“I won’t let you hurt her!” Dylan screamed as they collided with the wall. “How could you do that to her? You claim to love her, but then you kill her mother. I hate to tell you; that’s not love, that’s betrayal!”

Alex shoved Dylan off him and threw him across the room. “You might want to clean your ears out. I never said I loved her. My kind doesn’t have emotions. That’s why it’s so easy to kill. All I said was I needed to get her to trust me so I could turn her when the time came. But, I can see now that with you in the picture that’s not going to be possible.”

Dylan pushed the pain out of his head and stood up. “No matter what you do to me she’ll never trust you.”

Alex smirked. “You see, that’s where you’re wrong. After I kill you, I’ll convince her it’s her fault. I’ll tell her I warned her not to get involved with you, that your blood is on her hands. She’ll fall for it, just like she did when I told her the person who killed her mother was after her. She was devastated. This will be the finale blow and she’ll realize I’m the only one she can trust. She’ll do whatever I ask of her after your death.”

Dylan lunged at Alex again, sending them smashing into a beam. “I won’t let you do that to her.” Dylan slammed his fist into Alex’s face.

Alex laughed and shoved Dylan backwards with so much force that he flew across the room and landed so hard on a wooden desk that it buckled under his weight.

“So, you want to play hard ball do you?” Alex snarled then charged at Dylan.

Dylan tried to roll out of Alex’s reach but Alex was on him before he could move. Alex’s fist felt as though they were made of stone as they pounded his face time and time again. Warm blood oozed down his face as he reached for the broken leg of the desk that had broken his fall. His fingers wrapped around it gripping it tight as if it was his last chance of survival. A loud cracking sound echoed throughout the warehouse as it made contact with the side of Alex’s head and cracked in two.

Alex laughed as he stood up as if nothing had even happened and looked down at Dylan. “Did you really think that would hurt me?” he questioned as he circled Dylan. “It takes a lot more than that to hurt my kind.”

Dylan screamed as Alex’s foot slammed down on his arm breaking the bone through his flesh. The last thing Dylan remembered before the darkness took over was Alex’s hideous laugh, and the pain that exploded at the base of his skull as Alex’s foot made contact with his head.

JENNA
let go of Arlene’s leg and stumbled backwards. She pulled her legs up, wrapped her arms around them and laid her head on her knees. As she rocked back and forth she tried to not think of what just happened. She had just killed someone, and even though it was only a demon it still felt like she was dying herself. Not to mention the pain she was sure Arlene had felt even though the demon possessed her.