Free Demontouched: The Demontouched Saga (Book 1) by Douglas Wayne

to look at that later.
    I walk out the door and start to run down the hall. I have to get to the parking lot before it is too late.

 
     
     
     
     
     
    -13-
     
     
     
     
     
     
    I kick open the door to the rear parking lot and throw my knife. I Focus on the blade directing it into the front tire of the SUV. It pulls to the left, hitting a concrete light post in the middle of the parking lot causing steam to billow from the front of the vehicle.
    The driver opens his door and falls to the ground, holding his head. Speaking from experience, airbags are a bitch. The other three doors open and the passengers start to exit.
    “Stop right there or the girl dies.” Duncan grabs Sara by the back of her neck.
    “What kind of demon hides behind a girl? Something tells me you aren’t as powerful as I thought.”
    Duncan smiles and raises his arms, placing Sara on top of the light post above using some power that seems like my Magneto shit, but not as restrictive. “It’s time you find out.”
    I rush forward, holding the sword in two hands. I’m nearly to the car when he pushes his hands out. I drop to my knees and clutch my stomach, dropping the sword on the ground.
    “You have no idea the type of power I have.” He raises his hands and lifts me up in the air. “If you are insistent on becoming a martyr,” He spreads his fingers causing my limbs to go to the sides, “a martyr you will become.”
    I feel a deep stretching in my arms and legs. Popping noises fill the air as my bones try to separate from the sockets as my limbs get pulled further and further from my body.
    My head begins to go cloudy. I can feel that I am on the verge of unconsciousness. I open my eyes, trying to keep it together for one more minute.
    I feel the darkness flowing through my veins. I would smile if the pain wasn’t so bad.
    “Now it is time to learn your place, demontouched.” He raises his other hand, sending bolts of lighting at me through his outstretched fingers.
    I scream, expecting a pain that never comes. The bolts close in and hit a barrier a few feet in front of my body. I look around the lightning being deflected throughout the sky and laugh.
    “Impossible! You are not as powerful as me!” He thrusts his opened hand further, but my limbs do not respond.
    “I’m not, but my friend is.” I push my hands forward and send a blast into Duncan, sending him to his knees. Released from his power, I drop to the ground and walk towards him.
    He looks up and raises his hand towards Sara, a moaning sound comes from the top of the light. I reach my hand up, trying to push the post back into place.
    “You are not willing to sacrifice others to reach your goals. That makes you weak.” He reaches up with his other hand causing the pole to lean. I put everything I have into keeping the light upright. He is right, I’m not as powerful as he is.
    I hear a car door close. I look over in time to take Beard’s fist to my face, instantly breaking my focus. The sound of metal scraping the ground fills the air, followed by Sara’s screams. I take in a deep breath and hold my hand out, stopping Beard’s next jab.
    I close my palm and watch as his fist starts to turn white as bone, tears streaming down his face. “Let me go!”
    “Gladly.” I focus on the sword at my feet and pull it to my free hand. I release my grip on his fist and thrust the sword into his stomach. I watch the darkness leave his eyes and fly towards my pack. Fucker is lucky I didn’t have time for the slow route.
    “Enough,” Duncan says.
    I turn around and see Duncan holding my knife to Sara’s throat.
    “Throw me the orb or I gut her, right here.” He holds the knife up closer to her throat. She begins to shake her head at me. She may be willing to sacrifice her life for me, but I’m not willing to let her. Not today.
    I pull off my pack and pull out the orb. “At the same time.”
    He nods and I throw the orb. I notice Duncan let go of Sara in order to