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them had any skill and he’s stopped firing now. I guess he doesn’t want to give away his position. In other words, you’re screwed and I’ll be taking your place when the Dragon finds out that Murmur, Jess, and Aim are all traitors.”
    Murmur held up his scythe.
    “I have enough in me to at least take you down before I die. Go ahead and give the command. You won’t become a major demon but maybe one of your demons will.”
    “I really don’t believe that. Either way, you’re about to die. You can’t talk your way out of this. Jealousy will be the downfall of the major demon of jealousy. That’s hilarious.”
    The commander raised his hand and dropped it. The demons started firing on Murmur but Murmur didn’t hear hundreds of clinks as bullets hit his armor and shield. Murmur looked around and saw Jess standing next to him, holding her arms in the air. A dark, semi-circle covered both of them and was deflecting the incoming bullets.
    “Hey, Murmur. So… my brother is a dumbass. All of his ‘snipers’ are dead. I would use air quotes for snipers, but my hands are kind of busy right now.”
    “How long can you hold that for?”
    “Long enough to implement Aim’s modified plan. In other words, Aim is a dumbass and it’s my turn to put a better plan in play.”
    “What do you have in mind?”
    “Don’t stress the details; just be ready to kill in swarms.”
    A few seconds later and Jess was beginning to sweat. Murmur could tell that holding the dark shield up was taking its toll.
    “Come on… you can do it.”
    Murmur grinned.
    “I didn’t know you liked to give yourself pep talks.”
    “Not me.”
    A dozen demons from Jess’s army transported in outside the circle of cowboy demons and started attacking. They caught the cowboy demons by surprise and quickly killed off dozens. A few seconds later, another wave transported in and started attacking. By the time the third wave transported in, Jess was about to lose control of her spell.
    “How did you…?”
    “I had a backup plan for Aim’s plan. I trained two other demons to cast transportation spells in case I needed to get in here and help. They’re the ones who transported me in here. I can’t cast it on myself… unless you want to hand over your scythe.”
    Murmur laughed.
    “I think you’re doing fine without it. I’m ready to resume killing. Let me know when…”
    “3… 2… 1…”
    Jess dropped the shield spell and waved her staff. Dark, shadowy hands started to appear from the ground, pulling the cowboy demons under the sand. Murmur resumed killing several demons with each swing of his scythe. When the cowboy demons fell to under 100 in number, their commander surrendered.
    Aim walked down into the canyon, grinning at Murmur and Jess.
    “See? My plan worked great!”
    “What the fuck are you talking about? Your plan was idiotic. I’m going to refer to it from now on as the ‘Aim Clusterfuck Campaign.’ Murmur, I think my brother needs a performance review after this shit. This was embarrassing.”
    Murmur nodded.
    “Jess is right. This was fucking terrible. I’m tempted to give the sniper rifle to her. She’s the one who pulled this off tonight.”
    Aim’s jaw dropped.
    “But she doesn’t even need a sniper rifle.”
    “That’s enough. I don’t want to hear from you for the next few days.”
    “But…”
    “Days, Aim. Shut the fuck up.”
    Aim bowed his head and finally looked defeated. Murmur leaned over to Jess and whispered in her ear.
    “Go get Aim his damn gun. Kill the prisoners and have your demons take inventory… what weapons we gained and how many we lost.”
    Jess nodded and ran off.

CHAPTER 10
     
    “So Shadow really told the angels to get lost?”
    “That’s what our scouts report, Lily. They’re returning to Heaven. Fine by me. I don’t think the angels were really all that helpful or committed to dealing with this problem anyways.”
    Lilith pouted.
    “I don’t like it. I wanted Shadow to