Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
***”Love, let us in, don’t fight her alone…”
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***”Sweetness, we’re ready to fight this to the end with you…”***
Behind Adrielle, just beyond the border of the barrier, my mates stand tall and strong. Ready to back me in this. Then my brother and Sam flank them followed by Osiston, Nikolas, Lil, Wyatt, Nathaniel and all of the warriors who are still able to fight.
Adrielle doesn’t see them, I hope. I think she is so locked on me and she keeps telling me to give her the magic. I don’t understand what she’s even asking for though. I can’t just hand it over and I really don’t want to. The magic feels like just as big a part of me as my wolf, I wouldn’t give it up any more than I would give her up.
Now I have to figure out how to get rid of this stupid barrier that she’s put up. I need to get them in here, and figure out how to break these rogue wolves from her control. Maybe some of them will be like the ones that helped rescue Gentry and just surrender. Or better yet, help us defeat the ones who are determined to help her.
***”Gentry, Elena, can you move? I need to do something with this barrier. I need to let the guys in. They will make me strong enough to battle her right? But they have to be closer, or at least on the inside of this barrier.”***
***”She has us pinned in place. As her coven leader, I can break the spell, but it will take some energy. She has not behaved like a member in quite some time, but she has not ever renounced our coven, I do have some control. Like your pack members, we have an innate desire to belong to a group. Depending on what you need from us, I might be able to do something from here.”***
***”Yes, they will make you stronger, our partners always do.”*** Elena answers my question looking out at our family. I’m sure she’s looking at my dad and as much as the mere thought of him hurts me, she is completely in love with him.
I take a deep breath. ***”The storm is mine, the magic in the air is mine. Can I use it to take out this barrier?”***
***”Let’s try something. I know we are kind of out of your sight, but can you see us enough to mimic moves? It will be easier than trying to talk you through a spell. We will just continue your trial by fire training.”***
I nod my head. The conversation was so quick. I feel like everything I am watching is in slow motion, or I am just moving really fast. Adrielle is still standing there like I am going to walk up to her and place my magic in her hands. I take another deep breath, look past her to my mates, making eye contact with each one, letting them know to be ready. Then I start to move. I start to copy Gentry’s movements and I see Elena is too. Maybe they can bolster my magic if we do it all together.
A blue mist starts to form around me and Adrielle’s eyes go wide. “What are you doing you stupid brat? You don’t even know how to command your magic, it will never do anything properly for you. You will never learn to harness it. Don’t embarrass yourself trying.”
She is still solely focused on me and
I will use her weakness to our advantage. She chose the wrong words if she was trying to get me to stop. Maybe if she had paid more attention to the things that really motivated and influenced me she would know telling me I can’t do something is not the best route net go. Mymates have caught on to what we are doing and are mimicking the movements outside the barrier. The blue mistis forming around them too, creeping its way along the ground just outside her barrier. It makes me think of the twins’ eyes and the argument I had with everyone forever ago about them having different colored eyes. Even when they themselves thought they had teal eyes, I saw them separately as individuals. Now though, all three of my mates share the mixed hazel eyes. I imagine our blue mist mixing with Adrielle’s green and consuming it.
And like it always does the magic listens to my thoughts, swirling in and out of the dense green fog saturating the color turning it that beautiful teal color. I smile at Adrielle, more proud of myself than anything, but I’m sure it came off as taunting based on the red flashing in her eyes.
***”I have never seen that before!”*** I link to everyone. Then Adrielle screeches. The banshee sound sends a shock wave through me, but it has no effect on me. The barriers break and wolves come charging from all directions.
My senses are on overload and yet I l.n can sense each and every wolf in my vicinity, pack and rogues alike. We start moving and every motion makes contact with someone trying to hurt us. My wolf has all her hackles up, but doesn’t want to shift yet, just in case Adrielle is waiting for the brief second of distraction. Two wolves try to attack from each side, I have my fire magic ready to blast them, but it isn’t needed. Oliver and Dakota intercept and break their necks before they get within five feet of me.
All my guys shift one at a time around me, moving faster with the strength and speed of their wolves. No one is getting anywhere near me with the three of them standing guard so I start working through my magic. Adrielle has been a step or several ahead of us for far too long. I know the grimoire was planted in the Alpha suite, I wonder what else was there? I wonder if she was able to make some other kind of connection to me or the guys or even Ava.
***”Bitty, Babe. Whatever you’re thinking, you need to do it now. These wolves are not staying down. Even the dead ones. We need to do some kind of magic to break the spell keeping them animated, even when their heads have been broken a hundred and eighty degrees.”
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I need to know if she has some kind of connection or spell tying us to her somehow. We can’t risk killing her if it will also kill us too. I need to get closer to her, make contact. I have no idea how I know this, it’s just a gut feeling, but my mates will never allow that, unless we are fighting. I just move, no thoughts, explanations or second guessing. She wasn’t prepared for me, but she is faster than she appears. I jump up aiming to get a hit in, backed by my wolf’s strength. She places her hands up in a shield-like posture and I hit an invisible forcefield. Then she takes a wild swing at me. So we are at least evenly matched. She’s not great with hand to hand and I’m not great with casting. She thrusts her hands forward and I go flying back only to be caught by two strong hands.
“End this, Skylar. For all of us.”
My eyes flick up. My dad has me cradled in his arms. He’s looking down at me with no more emotion than he has ever shown me. But, he spoke to me, used my name and asked me to help the pack. My chest is heaving with shallow breaths. It’s the first time he’s spoken to me without hate or disgust in my life. He sets me down gently, looks at me for a brief second and then returns to the fight, staying close to Elena.
I turn my head back to Adrielle, only to see a green ball of light flying at me. I put up both my hands to block it. I watch the blast explode in front of me hitting my own invisible shield. I thank both of the goddesses for allowing my magic to be intuitive.
There is still so much chaos going on around us, I keep throwing whatever my magic thinks is right at Adrielle only for her to block and throw it away like the spells are annoying little gnats. Nothing I am doing is working. What if she’s right and I can’t do this?
***”She’s not right and you damn well know it. What she and you both need to get is that your mates are the lunch pin. You need them to be strong enough. That’s why you magic was shared amongst the four of you.”***
***”They don’t know any more than I do. They are just going to get hurt being in the line of fire. I can’t let that happen. I can’t lose them.”***
***” And they can’t lose you and that is exactly what is going to happen if you try to stay separate from them. Adrielle was never going to be strong enough for this magic, because it’s about trust and using it together. She never trusted mate. Hell, she didn’t even her own kid. Let them help you or we are all going to die.”***
***”Gentry, Elena. Can you cover us?”***
They both shout yes, not even questioning what I am asking for.
***”Guys, I need you with me. It’s time, we need to take her out together.”***
I know they aren’t far from me and I can feel then all make contact before I have even finished my sentence I can feel the magic radiating through us like we are a connected vein. None of us are sure about anything, but if this is the last thing we do, it will be together.
I take a deep breath in and I can feel the blue magic swirl around us, bolstering my confidence. Everything feels so much better with the three of them close like this. The flow of magic is less muddy. It’s a fine wisp swirling between the four of us, playful and happy even in this situation. Their fur is crackling with the magic they possess.
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