Chapter Hundred and Sixty-Three – Reinforcement.
Jaden’s POV
Rihanna would have easily sensed past this. And I bet Logan knew she wasn’t around.
Why had she gone out without telling me?
“Since when where you entitled to know about her movements?” my wolf asked me.
I frowned. It wasn’t about me but the Kingdom she was entitled to. “Just stop!” I told him.
He has been very irritable since he heard Logan had Ralph. So irritable that our environment suffered as he emitted a gloom aura.
Chris strolled towards the biggest molten rock and hit it down. “Maybe if we are noisy, we can get Logan coming to us instead.” He joked.
I appreciated his little jokes that kept my mood better but they no longer helped.
I steadied myself again and tried to reach past the silver no matter how energy draining it was.
A sudden surge of energy hit me, giving me strength and I lost concentration. What’s that?
Looking around me, there was no one but Chris and he wasn’t looking at me. But when I met his gaze, he looked like he experienced something.
“Did you feel it too?” I asked.
He confirmed with a nod. “A sudden rush of weakness. Could it be what Logan was making?”
Sudden rush of weakness? It was the opposite for me. I clenched my fists. “Whatever he was making, he wouldn’t finish.”
But that’d only be an empty threat if I can’t locate the pack house due to the silver around it.
I was losing hope. What use was knowing where the hostages were if we couldn’t reach them?
Just then, I felt the energies of some wolfs coming to us. It was a Delta and a Warrior rank.
Chris noticed and stared at their direction. “Are you expecting reinforcement of some sort?”
I shook my head. But all reinforcements were welcomed. I sensed Dara’s energy and smiled.
“It’s Silver Pack!” I declared, excited. “I forgot I sent a letter to them earlier, they must have heard from Liam to meet us here.”
Dara dashed to me, and slapped my arm before getting to Chris. I turned to her, frowning for hitting my injured arm.
“Who would have thought that the Alpha King would come down to this place? Aren’t you scared or something?” She taunted Chris.
“I thought we are good?” Chris raised a brow.
“Nope, we are not but I have a duty to my Alpha and I know this place better than anyone.” she remarked, confidently.
Camilla appeared later on, holding a medical kit. “Oh, Alpha Chris and Alpha Jaden. I’m here by orders of my Beta, for the hostages only.”
Did she have to explain? I was glad she came.
“In other words, she wouldn’t be active in the fight.” Dara smirked, then snapped her fingers. “So boys, follow me.”
“Boys?” Chris frowned.
“Follow you?” I asked.
Camilla chuckled. “Don’t mind her. Just that Liam, the annoying messenger boy, told her the address and it’s actually where she grew up in.”
I looked around the environment. Dara grew up below a volcano besides Blue Fire?
“That’s before Red Moon killed and turned us to slaves. We believed in Silver Wolfs so the homes were made with it.” Dara further explained.
“No wonder you were the first warrior to be resistant to silver hence our Alpha made you the lead warrior.” Camilla noted.
Dara flipped her hair and marched deeper into the land. “Let’s go! I can sense the hostages are alive, at least three are.”
She can sense? Of course, she’s resistant to silver. And only three hostages were alive? Logan should four hostages.
Chris followed behind her while Camilla stayed back, sitting on a rock. “Take care Alpha Jaden.”
I smiled at her before running to catch up with Dara and Chris. The place grew hotter as we ventured deeper.
A small pack house came into view, surrounded by molten rocks that resembled trees.
Dara squeezed her face, seeing the place. “It is looking worse than I remembered.”
I sensed Logan’s energy inside the pack house and was sure he sensed ours. “Three hostages are inside. Dara, lead them out to Camilla.”
She bowed and ran off.
Chris turned to me. “I’d try to bring down the Lycan, you’d be careful with your energy!”
I nodded, then we began walking to the house.
The door of the house was kicked open. An eight foot Lycan stomped out, he sighted us and snarled loudly.
I knew it wasn’t his full height but it was already demoralizing. We’d be doing more of jumping that scratching.
“We caught you at your little hideout! Your prank the other day was a solid.” Chris seethed.
What prank? I noticed Logan had a cut on his thighs and wondered if it was by Ralph or Liam.
The Lycan taunted. “The four of you came to be part of my little experiment, didn’t you?”
Experiment? I tried to connect to Ralph’s mind link inside the house but I couldn’t. He wasn’t even close to me.
“Where’s Ralph!” I barked at Logan.
His lips curled up. “That’s the main rat of my experiment so I had to keep him secluded.”
My Beta was his rat? My wolf got enraged. “You deserve to be thrown inside a volcano!”
He laughed heartily. “Oh, that’s a good one!”
The earth below us suddenly began rumbling. What is it the Volcano?
“Ray said the volcano would be active, maybe today. We should hurry and leave.” Chris noted.
I wasn’t leaving without Ralph, I hoped he knew.
To reserve my energy, I backed away while Chris charged at Logan and engaged him in arm wrestle.
Dara creeped behind the pack house and I knew she’d need help to successfully take all hostages out.
Just then Chris grunted as he sustained an injury. So fast? Logan had gotten stronger.
My eyes dimmed on Chris and I became torn between helping Dara or him.
Using a bit of my energy, I flung a boulder on the Lycan which he dodged but fell down.
Dara broke into the house but ran out again when snakes attacked her. The Lycan had trapped the place.
An intimidating growl left Logan, it temporarily froze Chris but he broke out and dodged the Lycan’s attack.
Why was it that the Lycan’s growl got him and Rihanna all the time but it did nothing to me?
“Jaden, look out!” it was Dara. She pushed me out of the way as Logan sent a boulder to me.
She fell down, unconscious and bleeding from her head as the rock broke on her. “Dara!” I called for her but she had passed out.
Saving my energy for my injury won’t happen today, or everyone around me would die. My eyes’ color changed to red. It was now or never.