Malone and Anna went towards the left and Nat and I took the right side.
We developed a system to speed things up. I jogged over the graves, making sure to bleed on each and every one of them and Nat jogged after me, lighting up the graves I bled on with the torch.
We were much faster and efficient like this. And whenever Anna used up the blood, she came for a refill before going back on her way.
We had covered half of the cemetery when Natalia’s speed started slowing down.
“You okay?” I asked in worry.
“Yes,” she gritted, “let’s keep going and finish this.”
I nodded and we got to work. But not even five minutes later, her speed started decreasing and her breaths became laboured. And then her smell hit my nose. I could smell it in spite of the rain water and the mud’s smell and fast winds, which meant it was bad. She was in pain.
Fucking hell, her hour’s up.
“You need to leave.” I stopped, looking away from her.
“It’s starting again.” Her voice trembled, like she was in terrible pain.
She always engaged in the habit of downplaying her sufferings so look just as strong as the males. She usually was, but now was not the time to be strong.
“What the fuck Nat, do you want a repeat of what happened?” I hissed. “Go find Malone and tell him to send you home.”
“I can do-”
“Fucking hell. Don’t make it worse for both of us!” I whirled around to face the stubborn woman. “I know you can do anything you want and that you’re strong. But for fucks sake, right now you need to be with your mate instead of a mate-less male.”
She gritted her teeth before she turned around and jogged away. I decided to keep an eye on her just in case. She liked pain but I’m sure it’s not this kind. And I know she has a big capacity for it but I also know that she must be hurting a lot for her to show even this much in front of me. She wasn’t even a kilometre away when she stumbled before falling on the ground.
I waited for her to pick herself up. Which she did but she was walking at a snail’s pace.
Fucking hell. I wasn’t going near her.
I shifted into my wolf, ran at full speed to Malone and simply motioned him to get on. He seemed to realise what had happened and he promptly climbed on. I ran back towards Natalia until her smell hit my nose. I stopped and getting my message, Malone got off and walked towards her.
She stumbled on her feet and Malone quickly opened up a portal in front of her and she fell into it.
He looked at me, “I sent her to Queen Avalyn. She is safe and at the palace now.”
A breath of relief left me and I let out a small bark, showing him gratitude for doing this for us and for giving me the news. He nodded, “let’s get to work now.”
I shifted back to my human form and worked on my own while the witches worked together. Our speed had decreased but it was better like this.
It took us another two hours before we finished burning the entire cemetery.
I was still reeling from the loss of blood. I was healing, sure, but the loss was still felt. I was tired and a little dizzy now. Thank Goddess we’re done now. My wound kept healing so I had to scratch open a larger wound which caused me to lose more than just a new drops. If I had to gone longer than this, at the same speed, I would’ve been at a risk of fainting. I had easily lost over two to three litres in the span of three hours.
“We’re finally done. We saved all the witches.” Anna let out a breath of relief when we met at the end.
I smiled. “We still need to go back. The war isn’t over.”
“We are not done, children.” Malone shook his head grimly.
“We’re not?” Anna and I echoed.
He shook his head. “The main witch cemetery is on an island near Bellehaven. It is four times the size of this and we need to burn it too if we want to make a real difference.”
I’m a dead man.
Avalyn
Imporia
“Oh my god.” I heard a distant voice that broke me out of my sleep. My eyes fluttered open and I saw Max staring at me, wide eyed.
Eliyah was standing behind him, he too was shell shocked, looking at me with wide eyes.
My eyes snapped to Nat and I saw that she covered in something white and was sleeping peacefully. I rubbed my eyes to clear my vision and saw that the white thing were feathers. Beautiful, long feathers that were attached to wing.
Wing.
I turned my head, looking to the source and realised that the wing was attached to me. Correction, two wings were attached to me. Magnificent, long white wings with a golden undertone.
How is this possible?
Was this what caused the pain? It has to be.
The wings were huge. They moved like I could move my hands. I stretched them and they hit the wall on one side and the other side expanded up to over seven feet. The part connected to my back was golden and then it slowly shaded into a pure white colour. They looked… heavenly.
My hands reached out to touch them. Soft. So soft. They were the softest thing I had touched in my entire life.
A whimper broke me out of my awe. It was Natalia, she looked like her pain was growing again. The clamps were still on and so was the vibrating dildo. But she slept peacefully through it, almost like nothing was bothering her.
My wings were covering her, I realised. I covered her with my wing again and she quietened down again. I let out a soft sigh.
“Avalyn.” Max called, still staring at me and my wings, not able to take his eyes off. “What the fuck?”
“I don’t know,” I whispered, “I was in a lot of pain one second and then I passed out. I woke up in front of you.”
“You’re not a werewolf anymore.”
I nodded. “I’m a faye now.” I looked at my wings. They must be a faye thing. Like werewolves had wolves, fayes had wings. “And a vampire.”
“What? How?”
My heart ached in pain at the thought of Papa. But I didn’t have time to mourn right now. My energy was back and I felt better than I have ever felt. And Nik needed me. I needed to go help him win the war. I couldn’t hear what was going on because the rooms were sound proof but I knew it was bad.
Max was cut up in multiple places and he looked worn out. He had streaks of blood all over his body and his t-shirt as missing, he was wearing only a pair of shorts. “Long story,” I simply replied. “How bad is it outside, Max?”
A dark shadow crossed his eye, “pretty bad.” Which means it is extremely terrible. “I barely made it back.”
“I must go.” Nat was in trusted hands now and since I was a hundred percent healthy, I could go.
“Avalyn,” Nat called out weakly. I turned to look at her in worry.
“They-they’ve got a cure for the witches. Hold off killing them for as long as possible.” I knew they would come through.
“Thank you,” I breathed. Thousands of life will be saved now. She smiled through her blurry eyes when I kissed her forehead.
I walked towards the balcony and stretched my wings, ready to fly.
“Do you even know how to fly?” Max was right behind me.
“I’ll learn,” I replied. I’ve seen birds do it, it can’t be that hard.
I flapped my wings and the air around me started moving. I continued flapping and slowly, I began rising higher and higher. I looked at Max once I was a couple of feet off the floor, “take care of Nat and don’t worry about the war. I will take care of everything.”
And then I turned around and took off.