GAVRAEL~“You must not be in the nether realm before it is time or there is no salvation for the destruction you will wreak on this realm.” Theia said to me when I told her that Adaira would not go anywhere without me.“That’s fucking bullshit! This could be another one of your fucking traps. I’m not putting my mate in danger because of you.”I bellowed and Adaira reassured me that the girl was right.“She will not be in any danger, only her spirit is crossing realms, her body will remain here with you.” Theia said.Her statement was meant to make me feel better but it didn’t. Only Adaira’s please kept me from objecting.“No. Don’t let her do this, I beg you. She’s just a child, she’s my only child.” Theia’s mother began to sob.“Why is it such a big deal? You heard your daughter, this was meant to happen.” Adaira said.“You don’t know, do you?” The father asked her.“Know what?”“In order to guide you on your journey, Theia has to be a conduit for the power you both possess. It’s the
ADAIRA~I hated it when things like this happened. Why couldn’t she have told me who the so-called dead ones were before vanishing. I get that she was weak and she was barely holding on and needed time to recuperate, but it still irked me that I had no clue what she was talking about. What or who are dead ones? And how would they rise? How do we even fight and kill something that’s already dead? Once again, I had more questions than answers, it was irritating. I felt the glow around me subside, and my normal vision was restored. Then Gavrael stumbled backwards with a hand on his chest and a frown on his face.“What is it?” I asked him with a perplexed look.“Something’s wrong with the pack. We need to return.” He said and my heart skipped a beat.The look on his face made me panic. If Gavrael was worried then something was very wrong. Theia was still unconscious in my arms and Gavrael teleported us back to her parents. They both looked the worse for wear, and the mother seemed weak,
ADAIRA ~ We both moved in that direction when another scream came from a different direction. “Keep going, I’ll check that one out.” Gavrael said to me and turned in that direction. I kept going forward and I caught the scent of blood, I began to run. There was another scent on the wind, it smelled like a rotting corpse. At least the so-called dead ones won’t be hard to identify if they had such a putrefying stench. But when I got close to the pack boundary, I only saw one of the border sentinels on the floor writhing in pain, I didn’t see any attacker. I rushed over to him and got on the floor beside him. He was dying, I could see his soul slowly being unbound from his body. It was a bit unsettling to have a power like this where I could literally see the process of death. “What happened? What did this to you?” I asked as I tried to stop the blood flow even though I knew that it was useless. His gut had been torn out by whatever had attacked him and he wasn’t healing fast enough
ADAIRA~I could feel Gavrael’s anger as I kept moving forward instead of paying attention to his warning for me to return back. I considered blocking him out of my mind so I wouldn’t feel the extent of his rage at my stubbornness, but I knew that keeping him out of my head would make it worse. If he still had a link to me, he would not have a reason to race over here to tear me a new one.“I’m already coming over, mind link or not.” He growled at me.“Handle things over there and I’ll take care of things from this end, I’ll be careful, I promise.” I said to him.“I’m coming, and that’s final.” He said and I sighed.I really wasn’t in the mood for an argument, and this wasn’t the right time for one either, but it was inevitable at this point. It was almost dawn, my internal clock told me that. That meant we’ve been out for most of the night. I was tired, especially after crossing realms, but I couldn’t rest yet when there were important things to be done. “Fine, but at least check f
GAVRAEL~“We need to return to our pack, something is happening but we don’t know what yet.” Adaira said to the grateful parents of the girl.I was restless, whatever was making me feel like this was definitely bad and it irked me not to know what the cause was. I just had a feeling I needed to return to the pack now. While Adaira talked to Theia’s parents, I tried to mind link one of my warriors to find out if everything was okay on their end, but I couldn't, which was surprising. My mind link didn’t have a limit like normal shifters. We were far from the pack but it usually wouldn’t matter on a normal day. I could keep in touch with all the rogues I kept in charge of other packs I took over that were far from the pack I resided in so this should not be a problem. Yet nothing I tried worked. That made my bad feeling even worse.I never knew I could actually use a power to the point that it’s depleted. Holding on to a link between Adaira and me while she crossed realms must have tak
ADAIRA~It was too late for back up, we were badly outnumbered here and these creatures had taken out every shifter they’ve encountered so far so they must be strong and fast. There was no time to restrategize, no time to make a plan of attack, and no one would get here on time from our side no matter how fast they ran. I should have turned back when I had the chance but it was too late for regrets. I dropped lower and got into a defensive stance, it was better to die fighting than to run away like a coward. The creatures let out a collective shriek and attacked at once.They were fast, like crazy fast. I could barely follow their movements with my eyes even though the sky was rapidly getting brighter as daylight approached. And even without daylight, shifters had night vision and enhanced speed too but theirs was on another level. What saved me from being ripped apart is my other senses, like getting a prickly feeling when any of the creatures was close to me and the intense stench
GAVRAEL~As I stood beside Adaira, I had to get a grip on my anger because if I unleashed my fire while raging, I may destroy the pack along with the creatures. I reminded myself that Adaira was safe now that I was here, but it had been a close call. She thought I was pissed off, but pissed off is an understatement. Angry does not even begin to qualify the amount of rage I was feeling, at the creatures that dared to attack my pack, and her that dared to put herself in danger. I’ve already told her how much she means to me, and she even knows that I care nothing for the world if she’s not in it, yet she was selfish enough to put herself in harm’s way.“You’re right mate, a world without you in it does not deserve to exist.” I told her this and I meant every word.If she had actually died, I would have burnt it all to the ground, humans and shifters included. Even thinking about her being dead made me want to do it anyway, but if I destroyed everything, she wouldn’t have a place to li
ADAIRA~“You are mine, Adaira. Mine to command, mine to own, mine to fuck, mine to protect, mine to love. Thinking otherwise will end badly for you.”Why can’t he just let this go? Nothing happened to me, the pack was safe, and now we had more information on the creatures that attacked us. Does he think I don’t know how much I fucked up? The team he sent to fight with me died because I made a bad call, and I will forever live with their deaths on my conscience, even Midi whom I didn’t like so much. I don’t need him giving me a hard time, I can do that to myself. I was already overcome with guilt already, I didn’t need his bullshit.“Fuck you, Gavrael. I didn’t ask you to worry about me, I didn’t ask you to care. I didn’t even ask for you, you just showed up one day from nowhere to disrupt my life and fix yourself in it. I don’t need you judging my every action and trying to undermine my worth.”“You are everything to me, you insufferable female. Nothing you do will ever make me see y
EPILOGUE ~ Using up so much power drained both me and Gavrael, and we both passed out almost immediately after. We didn’t wake up till after two whole days because our bodies shut down to heal and recuperate. When we finally woke up, we discovered that using so much power had broken the hold of the third souls we each had. I no longer possessed Selene’s soul and Gavrael no longer possessed the soul of the demon king. Their essence had returned to the volcano realm after their souls split from ours. They couldn’t be killed, she was a goddess and he was a god, but it would take a long time for them to recreate a physical form. For now, I was just happy that we would no longer be the victims of an age long war. Then came another problem, the issue of Gavrael’s possessiveness. He was no longer under the control of the demon king, but now that he knew I was pregnant, his wolf was just as easily pissed off as he was before. It was usual for the mates of pregnant females to become very ter
GAVRAEL ~ He calls himself Zephyr, and seeing him manhandle my mate made me angry. But my anger wasn’t enough to break myself from his hold and regain control of my body. “Kill them all, I’ll deal with her. I could only watch as he took Adaira away from the battlefield, knowing that she was their only hope to win the battle against his beasts. “How does it feel having so much power but being unable to use it? You trapped me for centuries, took my memories, took my powers, kept me in this mortal body. This is just a slight taste of that. So tell me how it feels to hate what’s happening but not be able to do anything about it?” I could feel his amusement as she tried in vain to free herself from his grip. He was enjoying her struggles and her helplessness. I couldn’t even reach out to her to at least let her know that despite everything, I was still in here even if I’ve been pushed so far deep in my subconscious that I didn’t know the way out. But he had put an impenetrable barrie
ADAIRA ~ Gavrael is gone and there is no way for me to get to him. I wanted to use my powers to get across to the nether realm but Theia warned me not to do so because I would never be able to defeat him in his realm, he was stronger there. Our best chance of winning this battle is here in this realm, which means we have to wait for Gavrael’s return. By the looks of things, he would not be returning as my mate but as the demon king, with an army meant to obliterate us all. “There has to be something else we can do.” I said to Theia after waiting for an hour with no sign of Gavrael or any danger. My wolf was restless because my bond to Gavrael was so faint now that I had to search deep before I could feel it. I was terrified. What if the demon king somehow finds a way to sever our bond, how would I be able to reach my mate and bring him back? “You need to calm down. Your restlessness is affecting your pack. They’re already dreading the fight we all have coming, and they only stayed
GAVRAEL ~Heat, rage and pain. Those were the only emotions flowing through me at this moment. It was like my blood had been exchanged with lava and my head was being drilled open by a thousand nails. I felt the power of the full blood moon before it even rose and cast its reddish hue over the earth. This past week, I had to stay away from everyone except Adaira because I was losing my temper at the slightest provocation. I knew it was just because of what was coming that my restraint was shitty but at the same time, I couldn’t control myself which led to my isolation in order to protect everyone from me. Adaira was the only one whose presence I could tolerate even in those moments. And the second those rays of light from the full blood moon touched the earth, everything became worse.Heat, rage, pain. Nothing else mattered but these, and the demon whose soul was bound to me feasted on them delightfully. He was much stronger now and he was actively fighting me for control of my body.
ADAIRA~I was eating more than normal out of anxiety. It was still better than worrying myself to death and overthinking everything though. My sleeping schedule was also wack but that was understandable. The full blood moon would rise tomorrow night and I just couldn’t bring myself to sleep even if it still was hours away. My wolf on the other hand was calm and mostly silent. After the night of the pack bonding ceremony where we all shifted to wolf form and ran as one pack to strengthen the pack bonds, she hadn’t made a push to be set free which was unusual. Usually, if I stayed for more than two days without shifting, she would be angsty and restless, whining to be set free, and I would have to shift and run even if for a few minutes. But it’s been days without shifting and she was still calm, I had no idea why and I was too preoccupied with everything else happening to try and figure it out. Maybe she understood the complexity of the situation we were in and was just trying to help
ADAIRA ~ It took two days of mating almost all round the clock for my heat to die down and for the both of us to regain our senses. And as this problem was solved, another problem presented itself, our lives were just a myriad of problems nowadays but who’s counting. When we returned to the pack after my heat passed, almost all the other packs had come to join us, just two were left and they were expected to arrive in a few hours. But as I passed through the crowd, all the males were still attuned to my scent even though I was no longer in heat. Females were also drawn to my scent but it didn’t make them lust after me like it was confusing the males. It was a big problem because it was causing chaos and it was making everyone restless, and I had no idea why it was happening. In fact, it seemed to be even worse now than when I was actually in heat. Sage wolves had also been arriving from the human towns close by. They were wary but they were all put together in one house to await my
ADAIRA ~ Just as expected, the rest of the pack took the news of Sage wolves with varying degrees of disgust, shock and wariness. When we announced the merger into one mega pack, they were even more shocked and awed. There were obviously protests especially when we let them know that we planned to get messages across to Sage wolves in hiding and have them come here to join the pack. But we also explained the great danger that would be coming against us and that we would only be able to defeat them if we work together. Next we let anyone with ideas step forward and speak. There was so much to be done; clearing the surrounding forest for instance, so those that would come to join us would have room to build their own houses, plans to build another general pack house where meals can be taken by a larger group because eating together was a shifter custom meant to ensure the pack bonds remain strong, same as hunting in a group and running as a pack on some full moons. There would also be
ADAIRA~I moved closer and held Theia’s mother by the hand. I forced myself to relax and put every doubt out of my mind. If I could protect the whole pack with the barrier, this was nothing compared to that. I didn’t really know what to envision, last night, it had been easier to see a barrier forming in my mind just like Gavrael directed. But now, do I imagine her using powers? Or imagine me giving her powers?It turned out that I didn’t need to do all that. While holding her hands, I felt some sort of vacuum, a hole in her essence. A missing piece. I didn’t need anyone to tell me that that must be the part of her where her powers used to reside, all I needed to do was to fill it up. I reached out to her with my own essence and I vaguely heard her gasp as she was zapped with it. Her hands were released from mine as she crumpled to the floor and her husband rushed to make sure she was okay.I opened my eyes to see that she was faintly glowing for a few seconds before the glow died do
ADAIRA~I was getting weird looks from everyone that saw me today. After eating by midnight and talking for a while, Gavrael and I had gone back to bed to sleep and woke up after dawn but later than usual, we were entitled to sleeping in after everything that happened after all. But as we left the room to join the others for breakfast, everyone was either looking at me with awe or fear or both. I figured out why when Gaby walked closer to us to speak to me.”Ady, did you really… you know, do that stuff?” She asked.She seemed unsure of how to ask her question and if she should even ask it. I also didn’t understand what exactly she was talking about, so I asked.“What stuff?”“The warriors that fought with you, they showed all of us what you did. We weren’t there but we could see it from their minds. It still seems a bit hard to believe. You were flying or floating, I don’t know, and you were glowing, and there was so much light. And you burned the dead ones, none of the creatures cou