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given
eternal life to continue our fight against the evil that roams the earth.   The Illuminati were an order started to
undermine the truth and control the world.”
    When he stopped talking, the words ran around in
her head for a few moments and she felt like she’d just tumbled down the rabbit
hole.
    “You believe all of that, don’t you?”   She looked them both over, knowing they were
either telling the truth or completely mad.   “You seriously believe you are over seven hundred years old.”
    Gabriel picked up his sword.   Her heart began to beat hard, but as he
passed her by, she let out a small breath.   He lowered his body to one of the men on the floor.   “If we don’t take their heads, they will come
back to life, just as I did.   They aren’t
as strong, so it takes longer for them to revive, but it still needs to be
done, and quickly.   Watch closely and
then tell me you don’t believe me.”
    Kadence brought her hands to her mouth to stifle the scream as he sliced
the head of the man completely off, light glinting from his silver sword as it
arched across the space.   He lifted the
mass by the hairs on the head to show her.   Her stomach turned but before she could do anything about it, lightning
shot from the head, piercing Gabriel in the chest.   His whole body illuminated.   She saw the bones inside him light from within
and small sparks of electrical power skimmed the edges of his skin.   Michel rose, lifting his sword as well.   He took another head, the power rushing into
his body as the deed was done.
    The man that had held her, the one with a long
blade through his forehead began to stir, lifting onto his knees.   She screamed in response to the man rising
from the dead.   Gabriel stepped close and
lopped his head off, the lightning striking him again.
    “You can believe what you want to, Kadence , but you are now in possession of a great secret,
one the Illuminati would be willing to kill for.”
    She sat there, looking as the bodies of the
fallen began to turn to dust, which began to twist and turn, exploding into a
grayish haze.   The haze moved to her as
if pulled by a magnetic force, settling on her skin.   It then seemed to absorb into her body,
glistening and sparkling on her.   She
rose, trying to dust it off, but it didn’t stop, slowly going in.   Looking to the two men, their eyes were large
and rounded.
    “What just happened here, Michel?”   Gabriel’s eyes didn’t leave her as he spoke.
    “I don’t know.   I’ve never seen that happen.”
    Her gut tightened and she pitched forward on her
hands and knees.   Pure power seemed to
swell inside her, and she felt stronger.   Standing again, she looked into her reflection in the windows
overlooking
Manhattan
.
    She glowed.
    “What have you two done to me?”   Before the words left her mouth, the glowing
began to lessen.
    Gabriel moved to face her.   “I don’t know, querida ,
but I think it was your destiny to find us.”
    “Where do I go from here?”   Kadence’s head was
spinning.
    “We.   Where do we go from here?   We will not leave your side, querida .”   Gabriel
pulled her into his strong arms.   Michel
stepped into embrace her as well.   And
she suddenly felt safe.   Complete.   She was where she belonged.   That was her last thought when the blackness
took her.
     
     

Chapter Six
     
    Kadence awoke the next morning on a train.   She was exhausted, sore, and her mind was clouded.   Her forehead rested on the glass as she watched
the speeding landscape swirl past her.   Stomach clenching, she closed her eyes to the rapid visions.   Turning her head, she saw the two men that
had suddenly became her lifelines.  
    Michel rested across from her, perusing a
newspaper that appeared to be in French from the headlines she noted.   Gabriel was beside her, focused on a small
tablet computer, reading something with interest.
    “Where are we going?”
    “Somewhere safe.”