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The one with the straight hair paused and looked back at us. “We will try not to kill as we can but we make no promises,” he said.
I nodded. “Thank you. Are the others coming?” I asked.
He smirked then. “No, just us. The vampires are having rogue troubles but have it handled. Lucien sent us as a token of his loyalty so you knew he was not going back on his word.”
“I appreciate it but there are a lot of rogues. Six vampires might not be enough–“
The vampire laughed, his perfect teeth looking extra sharp. “We just cleared out your city on our own. You’re welcome,” he said then took off towards the fight.
That made me feel marginally better.
But it wasn’t the rogues I was worried about.
I felt the witches as they made their way down the mountain, and they were brimming with power.
All six of them left a different taste in my mouth, a poisonous one that had my heart racing.
My magic danced on my fingertips, my shadows swirling around us. I was ready.
I just wasn’t sure if that was enough.
39. The Power
Lorelai
The witches were here.
In their gold cloaks, beautiful faces, flawless skin.
Their gold magic floated around them as they stood on the top of the hill watching the carnage they had enticed.
The pack knocked out the rogues, but they kept waking up before they could move through them all.
The vampires were slaughtering them instead.
My stomach turned, and I looked up at the witches.
They were expressionless as usual, but their eyes were gray instead of white, and that made their entire demeanor darker somehow.
I shivered and rolled my shadows back. I was ready for them and their magic.
Mine hovered in a glowing ball in my hand. My shadows on the other.
This was what we had been working towards.
It had all come down to this fight.
The vampires, the humans. Nothing compared to what we were about to go through. I knew that with every fiber of my being.
The realm required balance, and if we wanted peace, we had to earn it.
I couldn’t entertain any other possibility because the idea that my children could grow up in a world run by corrupt witches was not something I could handle.
I stared them down, making sure they knew how hard I was willing to fight.
Their faces gave nothing away. Their gold cloaks shone around them, no wind in the air.
The realm was still just as it had been before.
I wasn’t sure if that was a good sign or not, but I couldn’t keep waiting to know.
So I smirked at the witches and walked forward.
Cain flanked me, swinging his gold sword, ready to use it. Their eyes widened slightly at that.
Brax’s shadows swirled around us, their color darker than mine.
But now I knew that was because his control on them was something I didn’t have yet.
My shadows were a part of me, and they had fused with my magic in a way. When I used them individually, they could get the job done, but when I used them together, they were unstoppable.
Well, they had been. I wasn’t sure if that was the case with the witches, but I was going to find out.
The fight slowed as we approached, the rogues moved back to flank the witches.
Our wolves moved behind us. Derik and Kai, covered in blood, stood in front of us, their wolves the biggest of them all.
‘You think this will save you? That a few blasts of magic and some misplaced vampires will stop us?’ The witch sneered in the air around us.
Well, the voice sneered with that dark echo. But its face didn’t move.
“This might,” Cain grinned maliciously, making sure they saw the pointy end of the sword.
None of them paid him any mind.
“We shouldn’t have to stop you. This is against everything the realm stands for. Everything you are meant to stand for,” I said, moving to stand between Derik and Kai.
‘The realm turned its back on winterborns a long time ago and yet here you stand. And you dare to put two more in our future? How is that not against the realm?’ The echo voice answered.
Before I could defend myself, there was a blur next to the witch. Evelyn was there, her teeth already sunk into the witch on the right.
A screech so loud it pierced my eardrums ripped through the air.
I clutched my head as Evelyn sucked the witch dry within the seconds it took the others to react. She blurred away, standing back on our side with blood dripping down her chin.
The witch she had fed from crumpled, her gold ash floating.
“Do you always monologue? Or do you get a kick out of boring people to death?” Evelyn teased.
The five witches left standing turned to her.
Then they opened their mouths.
The gold ash floated over to them and they consumed the flakes.
The witches glowed gold as they did before they closed their mouths and their echoing laugh made me shudder.
The ripple of power rolled through us all and I winced at the blow it gave me.
Evelyn growled, the blood spitting out between her teeth before she licked her lips.
If I wasn’t intimidated before, I was now.
So we killed them and they got stronger? Which meant we had to kill every single one of them. It wouldn’t be enough to just weaken them.
Not that I think any of us were really considering only weakening them.
“Five of you left then, one for each of my warriors,” Evelyn said, her eyes narrowed, her warriors coming to flank her.
‘You got lucky. We will not let it happen again. But please try, we are so looking forward to it,’ the witches echoed.
Evelyn didn’t get a chance to respond; none of us did because the witches ordered our death before we could.
‘Attack!’ They screeched, and then the rogues were on us.
They launched forward with a synchronized move that caught us all off guard.
Kai was fast, using his teeth to yank anything that came near me, Derik on my other side doing the same.
Brax’s shadows were on another rogue.
They came from everywhere, attacking with gnashing teeth and angry intent.
But I eyed the witches.
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