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evil smile on her face.
    “You know that I will try to kill you when I am done with them,” I retorted.
    Her head whipped around, her eyes narrowing as she focused on me. I could already hear Chax laying it on me after this was done.
    “I would expect nothing less Hellhound. When that time comes, we will meet in battle,” she agreed.
      Good, don’t want her to think we will be like friends or something.
     
    “But first, how will you keep them grounded? You know they shift out when attacked. Call it their survival plan?” Her eyes traveled to Chax.
    “We don’t know yet. But we will find a way,” he replied, his eyes never leaving hers.
    With a quick scan, I saw that he was on the balls of his feet, ready to attack at any moment. I refocused my attention on her. She regarded him and nodded.
    “Then find the solution and I will bring them to you,” she finished and shifted out.
    He looked around as if she was going to shift back at any moment. When nothing happened he relaxed, regaining his footing. I just shook my head. Demons love their elements of surprise. It’s not like she would look at you and then try to attack then.
     
    “Any suggestions on keeping the demons grounded?” Chax asked, not looking directly at anyone as he watched our surroundings.
    Silence greeted him. We stood there for a while, thinking, before Chax shifted us back to his house. Once there, we all started thinking about a solution.
    “I have nothing,” Lada said, spread out on the couch.
    “Ditto,” Nanini said from behind the couch.
    She had crawled to that spot earlier, looking for a spot in the sun.
    “It’s not like we can stop a shift,” Max said, treading holes in the carpet.
    Unless you’re Chax, my mind drifted off. With that I was up and moving around.
     
    That’s right! He had blocked my shift and froze me in place when we met his brother.
    “Chax, when we met your brother in the ice-lands, you did something that prevented me from shifting. What did you do?” I asked, turning to look at him.
    He was leaning against the wall and staring outside through the window. With my question he turned and looked at me, his eyes narrowed.
    “I used our link with Corra and blocked you. It’s like a charm.”  He replied.
    I watched the light bulb go off inside his head, his face lightning up with comprehension.
    “If we are able to do the same charm to them, we might be able to stop them,” he finished and looked at Abby.
     
    With ridiculously fast sentences, he quickly explained to her what he did with me. Then POW! Ben and Max had a brainwave and the four of them were heading down to Abby's lab.
    “Wow Kas. You know how to get attention,” Nanini remarked after the four stormed out of the lounge, talking like nerds about cells, chemical reactions and more science things I haven’t heard before.
    “Clearly,” I replied.
    Raven came into the room and looked like someone tried to barbecue her.
    “What happened to you?” Nanini asked, clamping her fingers over her nose when Raven’s smell hit her.
     
    Raven turned and looked at her, “I ended up in some sort of sick training arena. Was fried more today, then like... Well, I haven’t been fried before today.”
    I laughed at that, because Nanini eyes grew wide and then all proud.
    “So they took you to my arena?” Nanini sparked.
    “Your arena?” Raven’s eyes were zeroing in on Nanini and I could see she was calculating.
    “Smoking hey?” Nanini ask, smiling at her.
    Raven moved pretty fast. The sound of Raven's fist against Nanini's cheek echoed through the room, just before Nanini landed on the floor.
    “There is something really wrong with you!” Raven pointed at a surprised Nanini, who was still on the floor.
     
    “I was almost killed today!” she yelled.
    Nanini smiled up at her, “Awesome, right?”
    Raven's fury fell when she realized that with Nanini there was just no hope. Raven turned to look at me.
     “Yeah, I was fried too, so don’t