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I rush to my sisters, breaking their connection and grabbing one of their hands in each of mine. I’m the focal point of our strength, I need to be in the center, pulling from both of them. They have been giving Rik’s pack as much protection as they can since they were at the front of the battle with no cover.
As soon as I join, we throw out our joined aura. We obliterate hundreds of hunters at a time, but they continue to come. Their bullets are flying faster than we can kill them, and every time one of our wolves dies, we feel it.
I’m not used to Angel’s aura, having only felt it once before. It takes me a few precious minutes to tap into her strength and feel her aura. I have to separate her blue strength from the yellow of her healing. Having worked with Ailduin, I pull on her healing power too. I’m not sure that it can do anything, but I’m keeping hold of it, just in case.
I pull our auras together, creating the purple color that I used at the tournament. This time when I push our combined auras, we take out even more hunters. As we focus our attention on the hunters, the protection that Angel and Cara were giving to Cara’s pack lessens and she begins to feel her pack tethers breaking. Angel already has tears running down her face for her lost pack members.
I don’t have time for tears. I have to save our mates, save our packs and save my child.
I throw out another combined aura taking out hundreds more hunters. There are so many of them that it feels like we’re barely making a dent. We’ve taken out nearly a thousand and it feels like the wolves have taken out nearly as many, but it also looks like we’ve lost close to half of our warriors. They are either dead or dying on the ground around us, the sounds of their pain agony to our ears.
I’m not paying attention to the surroundings as I start to pull on Cara and Angel’s power again. But it’s at that moment, that a hunter takes aim at Cara. As the bullet is about to hit her, Kai jumps in front of her and takes the bullet meant for her.
“Nooooooo!” She screams, pulling away from our group as Kai shifts back to Rik. I can see the silver slivering to his heart. He takes her face in his hands, but I don’t hear what he says before I feel his tether break. Cara’s grief pushes out, her aura strong and providing a buffer for Angel and I from the hunters as she holds Rik in her arms, begging him to come back to her.
As I throw out another aura this one weaker with the loss of Cara’s strength, I look up and see Louis. Our eyes meet on the battlefield and I can see that he’s injured. I his tether to me fading.
Pull on my bond and feel
No! No, no, no! This can’t be happening! I was supposed to save everyone. I am the key. I am the one that can pull the power and strength. But there are too many of them. Too many for us to take out and the death of our pack members is weakening us all.
As I watch, I see a bullet hit Louis in his chest. I feel like my heart stops when I hear Eli’s soft voice telling me he loves me before Louis collapses and begins shifting back to Eli’s human form.
Almost at the same time, Angel drops beside me, clutching her chest. “LIAM!” She screams.
I look out over the battlefield. We have lost. Our packs are dying. Our mates are dead. I feel numb and everything seems to be happening in slow motion as I take in the horrific scene around me.
My hand goes to my stomach. My child. The child I wanted so desperately will never get live. And it is this thought that makes my anger spike. These people, these hunters will not win. They will not take everything from us.
I close my eyes, pulling on Cara and Angel’s auras. I reach beyond and feel rather than see the candles lighting in my mind as each member of their packs lights up in my head. I know when I pull on their power, it will weaken them. I take Angels healing power, the yellow in my mind and separating our strength power, I add yellow to half of it.
“Maia, you know what I want to do?’
“Yes.”
“Protect our child. I’ll do the rest.” I tell her, before pulling on the strength of every member of all three packs.
I take a deep breath, drawing all of their strength, their power, their grief. I pull it all into two large balls of force – one to kill and one to save.
As I release the power, I feel Maia tuck around our baby, protecting them from what I’m about to do. I scream as I release the power and it feels like my body is tearing apart from the inside out.
My dark purple force blasts through the hunters, killing them on contact, exploding them where they stand. It rolls like a wave, taking them out.
My yellow/purple power stretches out to every wolf, even the ones whose lights have gone out. I can feel the healing encircling the silver in their bodies, pulling it from their systems. I continue to push my power, and the strength that I have left into the bodies of every werewolf in the packs, those that have died, those that are injured and those that are suffering in their grief.
I drop to my knees as I push the healing strength as long as I can, knowing that the only way to save everyone is to continue healing them. I know it’s working when I hear Cara’s exhausted gasp beside me, Angel calling softly to Liam, and I feel Eli’s tether reconnect between us.
I push, until I feel every light ignite, one by one.
When I know Eli can hear me, I reach out in the mind link. ‘I love you too, Eli.’ I tell him, a moment before I collapse.
What do you think of Grace’s power? She saved everyone. Hopefully you don’t feel murderous towards me now. One more day of regular updates and one day of epilogues. Just a warning, my home is in the path of a hurricane and it’s possible that I will lose power. I will do my best to make sure you get the last two days of updates on time.
I gasp, and air fills my starving lungs.
I’m alive. How am I alive?
‘Louis?”
He doesn’t respond. My body feels heavy, and I try to remember the last thing that happened. I was on the battlefield. I was looking at Grace, telling her I loved her, before the silver from the last bullet got to my heart.
Wait? Am I dead? I don’t hear any sounds of fighting. I hear moaning all around me, but nothing that sounds like death and dying.
‘I love you too, Eli.’ I hear Grace say. Her voice is soft, exhausted, like she’s burned herself out.
“Grace!” I yell in my mind. But as I reach out, I feel her consciousness going dark.
I push myself up. “Grace!” I call out, looking around for my mate.
I see her, slumped on the ground. Angel and Cara have just turned to her. They are calling her name, shaking her shoulders. “Grace!” I hear them yelling at her.
I try to stand, but I can’t, so I begin to crawl over to where Grace is lying on the ground.
“What happened?” I ask when I get there. I see Rik is conscious and also trying to sit up.
“I don’t know. We had lost. Everyone was dead or dying. You, Rik, Liam, you were all.” Angel chokes on a sob.
I pull Grace’s body into my lap, rocking her. She’s not dead, her tether is there, but it’s very faint.
Liam stumbles over, falling down beside us and pulling Angel into his lap, burying his face in her hair. She wraps her arms around him, telling him to never leave her again.
He lifts his head, looking at Grace. “What happened?” He repeats my question.
“I think…” Cara starts, looking at Rik. “I think she pulled mine and Angel’s strength to kill the hunters, but she must have also pulled Angel’s healing power to heal the packs. It’s not just us, I think she healed everyone. I can feel all the tethers that broke during the battle.” As she says it, I realize she’s right. I can feel every member of my pack as well.
Thomas stumbles over, having heard the conversation. When last I checked, he was injured, but not dead. “It wasn’t just your powers, Lunas, she pulled from all of us. We all felt it. She drained. us all of whatever strength we had left. I’m glad she killed the hunters first because none of us could fight after what she did.”
“Everyone?” Rik asks, as shocked as the rest of us.
“Did you know she could do that?” He asks Cara and Angel.
“No. We knew she had connected briefly, but we didn’t know she could pull from everyone in the packs.” Angel replies.