Free The Reaper's Apprentices #1: Awakened by CS Patra

creatures. We have to put them where all animals go: in cages. We’ll stuff them in cages!”
     
    “Cages? What the hell does he want? To send us to a zoo?” Kaska asked.
     
    The leader continued, “But even cages can’t hold these menaces. So we’re going to have to take it one step further.”
     
    “What does he mean by that?” Tessa asked angrily. .
     
    They heard something being rolled down but continued to listen to the leader. “Now we know where a lot of them like to hide. Some are getting a little bold by coming out into the daylight, but demons love their shadows; they crave the darkness. They will do whatever they can to get away from light.”
     
    “But what about the ones running around in the airport? They’re doing it in broad daylight,” someone countered. “How can we stop them while they’re running around in crowds? We don’t want to hurt innocent people.”
     
    “Of course not,” the leader agreed. “Our job is to protect our own. But we have to get them out of the airport and back into the darkness where they belong. If they don’t want to come quietly, we’ll force them out, using whatever means necessary.”
     
    “These guys mean business,” Yuka whispered. “I don’t think we should hang around here anymore. We know too much. Plus there’s nothing we can do to stop them now.”
     
    “I want to see!” Tessa hissed, leaning against Yuka to peek through the hole. Yuka tried to push her away, but it was hard. Kaska and Avani were also trying to look through the hole and their combined weight was too much for the wooden wall. It quickly cracked and the four of them fell forward with the wall, screaming as they landed in a pile right in front of the demon slayers.
     
    “What the hell?!” someone exclaimed, looking down at the pile of the four girls. A cloud of dust hung in the air, and they coughed as they sat up. Staring back at them were demon slayers, confused and annoyed that their meeting had been interrupted in such a manner.
     
    “Oh crud,” Kaska muttered, looking up at the group of demon slayers — none of them happy to see the girls on the floor. . Kaska’s eyes darted toward the door, wondering how they could get out of this one alive.
     
    “Well, this is very awkward,” Tessa said. “I’m sure you’re wondering what we’re doing here. Rest assured that…I was…I was looking for…the bathroom, and I stumbled in here! The one in McDonald’s was dirty and broken. Yeah, I know, how can a fast food restaurant have a dirty and broken bathroom? But…_”
     
    “Shut up!” someone yelled at her and she stopped talking.
     
    “Thank you, random demon slayer,” Yuka whispered out loud. She tried to calm everyone down. “Look, we don’t know what you’re planning. We barely understood anything, so it’s not like we can spill it to anyone. We don’t want to hurt you. All we want is to get out of here.” Her words weren’t convincing them as she saw no changes in their facial expressions . “Well, I can see you’re a very serious bunch. So are we! Now can we go? We won’t reveal anything. Pinkie swear and all that good stuff.”
     
    “I don’t think this is working,” Kaska whispered to her. “We’ve got to get out of here!”
     
    The demon slayers just stared at the girls.
     
    “Hi!” Avani greeted them, trying to play it cool. As they advanced closer, she started to move back. “I’m not going to loop around and give you some bullshit reason. You deserve the truth. We are just…in the wrong place at the wrong time. But we didn’t hear anything, and we don’t know anything so…we’re just gonna go home!”
     
    “She’s right! Ciao!” Kaska threw in, inching toward the door. She felt the door knob under her palm and slowly turned it. “It’s been fun, but we gotta run! We’ve got a curfew!”
     
    “We just wandered in here by mistake. It’s no big deal,” Tessa sang, slowly walking backwards as the demon slayers got