An Eternity of Dead Sun (An Eternity of Eclipse Novel Book 2) by Con Template

screams from the Demons amplified.
    Eclipse was killing them slowly, painfully, and ruthlessly.
    As the grand finale of his rage, the blood-curdling screams rose to the highest of decibels. And when I felt more blood pour from me, I knew it was all over for them.
    “Ahhhhhh!”
    All at once, the streak of blue fire completely burned out their eye sockets. With hollowed eyes that were on the verge of death, their bodies were burned in a ball of blue fire before being ripped apart as if they were fabric. Before I knew it, all of the Demons were gone. They became nothing but ashes as their remains fell back down.
    Peacefulness returned to the world when Eclipse brought his hand down and closed his eyes. I had stopped bleeding and Phix and Demon Girl had stopped screaming. We had survived his wrath. When he lifted his eyelids, the aquamarine hue that once saturated his eyes was gone. All that was left were his chocolate brown eyes. His gaze ran over the storm-ravaged room before locking eyes with mine. Worry struck him when he saw my bloodied state.
    Relinquishing the last of his fury, Eclipse rushed over to me.
    “Gracie.”
    A flurry of air rolled over me before I was pulled against him. His concerned eyes raked over me. He carefully used the towel he was holding and began to clean my bloodied face.
    “Hey,” he said gently, placing a hand over my cheek. Though his own arm was bleeding profusely, his only concern was for me. “You okay, Teacup?”
    All I could manage to do was nod as my response. I could still taste the blood in my mouth. I was so tired.
    Eclipse took a second to pull me closer to him before his focus maneuvered onto the two remaining Demons behind me. Darkness dripped into his eyes when he noted they were still alive.
    Well aware that their lives were on borrowed time, the two Demons crawled out from the side and immediately kneeled before him.
    “Your Dark Majesty!” the two cried out before Phix continued by himself. “Forgive us! We did not know it was you. If we had known it was you when we first met, then we would’ve prevented all of this from happening!”
    “Who are you?!” Eclipse roared at them. “Why are you immune to my powers?!”
    “We’ve been waiting for you, your Dark Majesty!” Phix fearfully answered. “We’ve been sent here for you.”
    “ Who sent you?”
    “We’re a gift!” Phix answered again without catching his breath. “A gift from your Elder—Sloth. His Dark Majesty sent us to aid you in your journey to convert the Source.”
    Eclipse blinked at them in stupefaction.
    He took in my bloodied state and the demolished room around us. After a weighted second of silence, he judgmentally gazed back at them.
    “Some fucking gift the two of you are,” he remarked, voicing what I was thinking.
    How could a gift sent to aid us screw up this much?
    With an authoritative tone that rippled with impatience, Eclipse commandingly said, “Clean up this mess, go find us another room, and then start explaining yourselves.”

 
     
     
     
     
    “And let it all fall to ashes.”

05 : A Tree Falls
     
    “Ow! That hurts, you jerk!”
    I was on the verge of tears, whimpering just like OinkOink would whenever I ruthlessly threw him into the tub for a shower. We were sitting on the bathroom floor, my arms hung over the bathtub while Demon Girl applied some rubbing alcohol over the open wounds on my back.
    “Mmm! Mmm!”
    “Stop being such a crybaby!” Demon Girl chastised, chiding me into a mortifying silence. “I’m almost done.”
    Quivering, I had to gnaw on a towel to keep from screaming.
    Demon Girl applied a bit more pressure onto the final cuts before bandaging the last wound.
    “Done,” she announced.
    I sighed in relief and used the bathtub as a prop to stand up. I turned to Demon Girl after she tossed the alcohol swabs into the trash. She turned on the faucet and began to wash her hands.  
    “Th – thank you,” I said meekly, genuinely meaning it.
    She