Stay close to me. I won’t leave you again.
I nod, needing no explanations as I know she wouldn’t have left me had she been able to control it. I saw what the battlefield was like, how chaotic it was and how badly we were struggling against them. How easy it was to separate us and lose one another. I’m hoping she sees it, feels that I’m okay and now she’s here, I’m fine.
Sierra presses to my other side, so her and Carmen flank me fully. My hands skimming the fur and feeling a sense of security despite my vulnerable state as human. At least I have my gifts back, even if they are powering on less than fifty percent of my abilities because of my babies. It’s better than nothing. And now I also have my femmes, and my small entourage of pack wolves going to meet our most ruthless ahead of us. Nothing can happen to me this time. I know that I need to stay safe and that now Colton is here, I won’t be in the danger I was before. I can relinquish the reigns and let my mate be everything I know he can be.
We shuffle along left, the narrow walkway away from the sheer drop and find the winding way down where all hell seems to be breaking loose. This mountain is almost hollow right in the center and all tunnels and walkways seem to wind into this one walking space which twists down to the depths below. The echoes and cries I heard all over, they are concentrated inside this cavern and flowing out in all directions.
The battle below is vicious and loud, and the flying fury of fur and pale creatures makes for an almost stormy sea like movement across the depths. I can’t see who is who, but my attention is drawn up as something flies past me and crashes into the overhanging rocky ceiling above before plummeting back down at speed. It’s scares the shit out of me. My heart lurching to my throat and the three of us jump back against those behind us and inhale swiftly in perfect sync. Freezing as we stare at whatever that was and eyeing it warily.
“What the hell?” I recoil in horror as another makes a break for it and for the first time ever, I see, some of the vampires have wings. Like huge, oversized leathery bat wings and my jaw drops open.
“Why the hell have we never seen this before, and what in the actual…….” My mind turns blank, and I blink, trying to adjust to this sight and believe what I’m seeing.
They’re trying to get out, escape, but the suns up….. They don’t seem to care that getting out will be death. They know they’re losing and they’re frantic to die any other way than by our claws.
It’s a wolf coming up towards me, meeting us on our path. A familiar voice of one of our experienced sub pack sentinels, one of our warriors. One of the fog enchanted, as he follows up after another flying creature and happened to come upon us gawping upwards. He bows to me, makes it clear he’s not staying, and then proceeds past me at speed to take off towards the ceiling to catch any that go up. His smile and enjoyment at finally getting to rip these creatures apart gives me shivers, but I know most of our warriors have been waiting for this day. Ever since we moved into the shadow of these beings and had to watch our every move. Our fiercest have longed to invade this place and eliminate the threat. Even Colton, but his need to see our people safe always overrode the urge to scourge the mountain clean.
We should break through up there, let the light in. Change the game.
Carmen cuts into my shocked thoughts and grabs my hand gently with her mouth, hauling me back instead of down, to follow the sentinel. It takes me a second to catch up with what she said but it’s a smart idea and I follow at speed, not caring if she once again decided for me. Turning on our heel to trace out the steps moving skywards and Sierra and some of our pack follow me. The rest head down to help with the fight.
“Up there.” I point to the way the narrow walkway cuts off at the other side, to one going up into rock, and gesture we should get as high as we can if we’re going to break some kind of vent to let the sun fry these freaks. From this angle, with all of them down below, we can kill so many with such a simple act and help our fighters below. They may be winning, but this mountain is full of these creatures, and this may take hours yet to defeat them all. I know Colton, he’s come into their lair, and he won’t leave until every last one is dead. He’s had too long staying away and keeping us safe, now is his opportunity to rid this place for a while and he’ll take it.
Carmen grabs two wolves on the passing, both strong sentinels from our pack, pushing them with me. Seeing as they are heading up anyway in chase of more flapping creatures and they see me and obey.
“Come with us.” I command, knowing they recognize me right away and get instant head bows as they do. I lead the way at speed as we climb higher and look for weak points with thinner rock formations around us. Look for ways to break to the outside…. Thinner patches, crevices. Tiny cracks or even tunnels formed by nature which are small. There has to be areas we can break through… I mean strength is our gift and our claws were built for this. A wolf can rip through most terrain and our ability to do it with ease and speed is incomparable to most in nature.
I point out a patch where the rocks indent away from us, and slight cracks of faint light seem to permeate on areas almost undetectable if you were not looking for them, and know we found it. A weak point where the hollow is close to the outer edge and with some effort, we can dig through.
Even though I can’t use any of my wolf gifts, Carmen takes the lead and starts digging, scraping, and hauling rubble out of a nearby crack as she turns and gets to work. Other wolves piling in see what we are doing and immediately understanding the plan, so help.
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