Filed To Story: The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert
“Do we really, though?” Savannah chewed on her lower l!p, and they all looked at her. “Kai, if you are right about Bjorn and he wants me alive, then maybe it’s best for us not to go back up there for now? This will give a chance for everyone else to escape safely. It really looks like he is exploding the city borders for now.”
“Staying here isn’t an option.” The King furrowed his brows. “We don’t know if the bears wouldn’t arrive, and there are just four of us here.”
“I think I have a better idea!” Savvy smiled for the first time as she pointed to the wall behind them with a huge map carved on it. A map of the labyrinth of the catacombs, “How accurate is this?”
“It’s hard to tell,” Kai rubbed his chin. “It’s ancient, we haven’t done any adjustments to the catacombs since the city was sealed, but it’s pretty clear now that Bjorn and his people were using those. And who knows if they managed to make some changes.”
“But overall, it’s, correct?” Savannah insisted. “It matches the city labyrinth.”
“I guess so,” her chosen mate nodded.
“Then how much do you trust me?” She looked him in the eye.
“With my life,” he did not hesitate with his answer, and she felt warmth spreading over her chest. They may have been chosen mates, but this was how mates were supposed to be.
“Then you will follow my lead, and we will leave the city through the catacombs, giving everyone else a chance to escape more or less safely while we do.”
“Fine with me,” Zara agreed.
“I’m just a passenger tonight,” Lachlan chuckled weakly.
“So be it,” Kai smiled at her. “Lead us, my Queen.”
“Fine,” she squeezed his hand quickly while she could. “Just so that you know, we will be making a little detour.”
They didn’t have time for further discussion or to question the decision. Kai and Savannah shifted into their wolves, while Zara helped Lachlan to get on his king’s back and then turned into her black hawk.
The group ran fast through the dark underground labyrinth, only their night vision helping them to see their surroundings. Their worst suspicions were confirmed when they saw a few glowing lights of the detonators attached to the walls. Bjorn was indeed using the catacombs for his plan. It explained how he was moving unnoticed for so long.
Savannah stopped in front of one of the ladders that led her to the top and shifted into her human form, motioning for everyone else to stay behind and wait for her. She climbed up quickly and moved the cover of the manhole that was disguised as one of the empty tiles in the tricky part of the city’s labyrinth.
From there, she moved firmly, using the safe tiles to a silver pit, where she had left Mikaela not so long ago. Although now it felt as if it was weeks ago.
“You d*mn lycan!” the werecat hissed when she saw her. “You’ve returned to finish your job, haven’t you? As if explosions weren’t enough to K*ll me!”
“Seriously?” Savannah chuckled as she stretched her hand down. “You’re lucky you are a cat and have nine lives. With your att*itude and people sK*lls, you are going to need them all. Come on! Grab my hand, and let’s go! We don’t have much time!”
“Is this some kind of a trick?” Mikaela stared at her warily.
This was when they heard another explosion, and Savannah realized Kai was right. Because it was the part of the city close to the shrine in the center that got blown up. Another explosion sounded, deafening her sensitive ears temporarily. He was getting rid of the part of the city where she was not in, sending a message.
“Fine!” The werecat jumped and grabbed her hand. Savvy pulled her out in less than a few seconds. “What now?”
“You can either follow me underground or stay here alone and try your own luck.” the Princess told her as she was already taking a leap to a safe tile. When she was back on the ladder leading down the manhole into the catacombs, she saw Mikaela doing the same.
Savvy shifted back into her wolf, while the werecat turned into a lioness.
Now wasting any time, they ran, ran, ran, following Savannah’s lead. The map didn’t fail them, and soon they reached the last exit. Surprisingly, this one, an old stone door, was sealed like it was supposed to be. However, Kai knocked it out with ease, turning into his third form again. He got out first, then helped Lachlan, Savvy and Mikaela, all of them panting and not knowing what to expect next.
Nothing went as it was supposed to be.
They found themselves on a hill close to the Forbidden Forest with a full view of the Forgotten City, which was now in flames. New parts of it were exploding as they watched the show unfolding before their eyes. Zara lew around and signaled to them when she saw other survivors.
Savvy let out a sigh of relief when she saw her brother and sister-in-law unharmed. Naya, Petra, and Astrid were there as well, along with Inga, Cella and a few wolves who managed to get out of the deadly trap.
Cars with northern warriors were arriving each minute at the scene, and so were reporters, Chloe and Claude were already with their microphones, working for the cameras.
“Bjorn.”
“Bjorn.”
“Bjorn.”
“Darius Bjorn.” The white bear’s name was everywhere. Somehow everyone already knew who caused all this.
“We thought we were choosing a Luna!” one of the journalists said with a serious face. “But if this is not a challenge for the title of the King of the North, then I don’t know what is!”
Just as she said that the ancient temple in the center of the city, the one that everyone could see from here, burst into flames.
Brigit ran through the maze using the path she had already tried before. She knew she couldn’t trust anyone very well, and her own path was the safest.
The buildings of the Forgotten City started collapsing one by one way too fast, way too close …
To the point of her thinking that she wouldn’t make it.
She finally reached the hardest part of the maze with the secret tiles and tried to hop from one to another, looking for the empty ones or the northern stars.
She was already so close to the wall that she could almost taste the safety.
However, at the last moment, a small hut not far from her exploded, pieces of stone flying in all directions, one of the heavy ones landing on one of the crescent tiles right next to her foot.
She had just a second to react before the poisoned arrows flew at her, and she ducked down, sliding over several tiles.
She knew it was bad before she stopped, and the ground started falling through under her as she activated one of the silver pits.
The flower one. The one that had sharp spikes at the bottom.
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