I nodded. I need to send my waves out. I flinched. Where’d that come from? Even as I wondered it, my body turned to face the fight. My arms flew up and magic spilled from my palms. Then I spotted Deacon and Libby standing in the middle of the fight. I grinned. Wicked. My neon-blue and pink magic rolled like a tsunami into the demons and Unseelie. The Unseelie shrieked and all leapt into the air to get out of it, but the demons were trapped. Not drowned, trapped. My magic worked like cement to pin them in place. Their bodies convulsed as they tried to fight my hold. Tenn shouted orders to the Knights who split up and went for the demons in my web.

Tenn pushed off the ground, his white wings flapping, but Saber reached out and grabbed him by the ankle, then yanked him back down. He gasped and spun on her with wide eyes.

Saber growled. “I SAID STAY! Our enemy has just been betrayed and is furious! They’re emotional⁠—-”

“And revenge leads to mistakes.” Tenn groaned, then threw his magic into the battle.

Saber pointed to him. “You stay right here. We have the upper hand. Let them make the mistakes. Frankie, keep those waves going.”

I cursed and looked back to my waves, which had lightened in my distraction. With a twirl of my wrist, I pushed my magic out more. I couldn’t believe how useless I felt in this fight.

“TEGAN!” Willow screamed from somewhere. I couldn’t see her, but I saw flashes of her blue magic in the air.

A massive tornado formed directly above Central Park and it was moving toward us, debris flying all around it. Wind kicked up. Lightning cracked across the sky. Humans screamed as they fled the border of the park, glancing over their shoulders to the tornado. I wondered if they saw the Unseelies chasing after them.

“I can’t see them, but I can feel them chasing the humans. Why?” Emersyn whimpered. “What do they want? Why go after humans? For what?”

“Blood,” I heard myself answer. “In Seelie, when they consumed Seelie blood, they got their own coloring back⁠—-”

“Because they are Seelie, technically.” Saber sliced her daggers expertly through a demon that got near. “Evolution and Lilith have created their new forms and needs but consuming Seelie blood will strengthen them.”

A thought occurred to me. “Wait a second. In Avolire Sweyn kept kidnapping humans. Human blood makes vampires stronger.”

Saber nodded. “Yes.”

Tenn kept lifting off the ground, then forcing himself back down. He looked like a panicked dog on a leash trying to chase a cat.