Tyson POV
Amanda snarls down at Ryker before moving from the room, Avery quickly chasing her and on her heels before gripping her arm.
“I know where she is,” Avery says, gripping her arms and making her stop, Aamon chasing after Avery.
“Then what are we waiting for? Take me to them,” Amanda snarls, gripping Avery’s arms tightly.
“Nothing,” Avery says, gripping my arm, and I hear Aamon scream out to Avery when I feel the room fizzles and Zap as we misted, the vacuum suction spitting us into the new surroundings, and we were suddenly in a vineyard. I look around, and Avery clutches her knees, and I grab her arm, but Amanda is already stalking off down the rows.
“You alright?” I ask Avery, and she nods, trying to catch her breath before standing upright, blood gushed down from her nose, and she wipes it with the back of her hand.
Avery staggers on her feet as she takes a step, and worry smashes me when I feel a strange sensation rush through me, making my hair stand on end, and I glance out at the vast fields. Amanda walks off with pure determination toward the massive mansion in the distance before she suddenly starts running, and a vicious snarl rips out her. A growl slips out of me when I see men start charging at her, and Tyrant shoves forward, forcing the shift.
“She is alive,” Tyrant growls as I feel the bond coming back to life. Tyrant takes over and starts running down the rows where Amanda was taking down Jamie’s men like it was child’s play. Her hands tear them apart when she sinks her teeth into one’s neck, tearing it out and spraying blood everywhere before turning on another as I pounce on the one closest to me. Ripping out the back of his neck as Tyrant tore through his spinal cord, paralyzing him instantly.
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Avery POV
Years I have hunted down this woman and now was my chance. Aamon would be furious, but I was the high priestess, and nothing was getting in my way. I knew the moment I woke up to the vision of the ground opening up that if she wasn’t stopped, she would destroy the world. Her power astounded me, making me wonder how many lives she has taken to gain the power she has. I grip the grapevines wrapped around the mesh, trying to find my feet while Tyson and Amanda take down Jamie’s small army. Tearing them apart, I could feel myself growing weaker with each step, but this was my job, Beryl was my responsibility, and no more of my people were dying because of my stuff up.
I felt her power the moment she stepped outside with a small girl, dragging the girl who was resisting when she suddenly turned and slapped the child when her head suddenly snapped in my direction.
She snarls, her evil eyes glint maliciously, finding me instantly sensing my magic. This ends today one way or another. I created that monster. Now it was time to put it down. Straightening up, she tosses the girl aside before storm clouds move, rushing above and blocking out the rising sun and turning the sky black as thunder boomed overhead. Her magic rippled, the darkness enticing; something I have fought all my life against, not to give in to it and the madness that came with it.
“One more round, Amy,” I whisper, rubbing my bump. Aamon knew this could be my end, but so be it, it had to be done, but I was determined to make sure if it was, I was taking Beryl with me this time. Making up for the mistake of showing this Vile woman mercy when I should have only shown her death like the rest of my coven.
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Tyson POV
The earth turned to mud under our feet as rain poured down, a storm coming out of nowhere, and the ground became drenched in blood as Amanda, and I took them down one by one. Time seemed to slow when light blasted past me. I only just managed to duck in time. Tyrant follows the light seeing it head straight toward Avery.
Avery puts her arms up, crossing them over her face before moving quickly, and green light meets the silver as it bursts from her. The bang when her magic smashes Beryl’s make the loudest bang pushing Avery back when I hear an angry snarl making me glance in the other direction to see Beryl stalking into the fields hands forward when I am punched.
Another explosion booms behind me, but I am preoccupied trying to get the bastard off my back as he tears into our side. Tyrant drops his front leg tossing him over his shoulder before pouncing on him and ripping his neck out.
Amanda screams when a black wolf bites into her shoulder, and we tackle it just in time to see Josie run out of the barn in the distance heading for the forest. The doors bang open again, momentarily distracting me when Melana runs out carrying a bloody Rayan, and Amanda suddenly shifts, tearing through everything that gets in her way as she runs toward the barn just as Jamie rushes out and she attacks him.
I slip in the bloody mud, blood drenching our coat, and Tyrant shakes himself before taking down the last Alpha Jamies men while Amanda viciously rips into Jamie. His daughter’s voice seems to echo as she screams, watching her father get torn apart.
I see Ace rush out, his entire body covered in burns, and he is drenched in blood. He looks over at the sound of the screaming girl before taking off in her direction. Glancing at the barn, my eyes go to my mate, and relief floods me that she was indeed alive. Lucy looks around before darting off in the direction Melana and Josie went.
Turning back to Avery, I see Beryl getting the better of Avery. Avery tosses her arm out, trying to deflect Beryl’s magic when she is launched backward. The blow makes her skid across the ground on her feet. When she drops and punches the ground, a crack splits up the aisle, and I jump out of the way just in time before the earth swallows me. Beryl laughs manically.
“You’re no match for me anymore,” Beryl cackles before throwing a fireball at her, which she only just manages to block when a forcefield flits up around her. She staggers, gripping her knees before lifting her head and glaring at the woman, her emerald green eyes glowing like a beacon in the darkness before they turn black as night. I could hear her breathing from here as she grew weaker. The smell of electricity in the air made my fur stand on end when lightning cracked loudly above before spearing down at Avery and hitting her.
The sky glowed a crimson red as lightning smashed the ground around us and lit up the sky. Turning toward Beryl, the divide in the earth was huge. We back up, hitting the fence covered in grapes behind us before charging forward and jumping across. Tyrant runs toward Beryl, and Aamon is right. Witches were in a league of their own.
Beryl didn’t even look in my direction. Instead, flicking her wrist out and tossing me into the barn. I hit the ground and was forced to shift back when a piece of splintered wood pierced through my side just as I heard Aamon’s voice scream out for Avery over the winds. My vision blurred as I got to my hands and knees just as Amanda ripped out Jamie’s heart, and Aamon rushed toward Avery when a blast of power exploded out of her.
The blast knocked me back against the barn again and flattened the trees surrounding the place, the grapes exploding with the force as everything in its path is obliterated, the barn turning to splinters and bursting, raining down chunks of wood and debris.
The house explodes in fiery rubble when Aamon suddenly drops where he stood. Collapsing on the ground while I was caught between a magical tornado as Avery and Beryl battled it out. Avery’s eyes began bleeding, and her nose as she tried to conjure up more power to overthrow Beryl, the winds so strong branches were flying off trees, and the noise was deafening when I saw a flaming branch coming straight at me, and then all I saw was darkness when I am knocked out.