Chapter Twenty-Nine Dylan #2
Another death in the bonds and I felt myself wanting to crumble.
This was becoming too much. My parents still fought, but again, they outnumbered us.
What the hell could I do here to make a difference other than killing Lupe?
So far, she has fought enough to just drain me of energy.
I doubted the Great Moon would give me another wave of power.
Not even just to me, but my entire pack.
So many of them were becoming too overwhelmed by their foes.
My mates were the same way.
Don’t give up, Dylan! You are the key to saving us all. Hunter yelled in my mind.
How? Lupe hasn’t slowed down at all, but I needed a damn boost from the Great Moon to fight her?
Because she hasn’t had to fight everyone like us! She has just had to fight you. Silas replied to my thoughts.
You got this, Dylan. Show her what you are fucking made of and end this bitch! Jackson added.
It was hard to feel like this would end up the way we want it when I could feel the pack falling left and right.
The odds were against us, and it felt like Lupe had an infinite amount of energy.
Even if I wanted to win, I would need to catch her off guard.
She has just spent weeks learning my every move and combo.
In our last fight, she taught me how to use my magic.
Lupe was the boss battle of my life, and I had no idea how to even defeat her.
She had to have some kind of weakness. my first guess would be her mate, but Lupe had rejected Teowulf. She didn’t give two shits about her mate now. Even when he joined us in the fight, she didn’t pay him no mind. Her focus had been on me.
Howls and snarls filled my ears. The battle still ensued and here I was, staring down the bitch who caused it.
With my being in my wolf form, I couldn’t talk to her.
That’s how I preferred it, anyway. I lunged at her and she moved.
I tried again, and she disappeared and popped up behind me to kick me across the field.
I rolled after I landed, but I had to shake off the kick that had gone to my ribs.
For someone who wanted to keep me alive to drain my magic to fuse with the rest of the werewolves, Lupe wasn’t going easy on me.
“You petulant child. Don’t you understand how I will make the world better?
Our animals are the reason we have the power that we do!
There is so much untapped potential in their souls.
Our human halves are stopping them from being full power!
” Lupe glared down at me and I just stared up at her.
Even in wolf form, I knew I had to look bored from the way she snarled at me.
“You won’t ever understand my intent. I thought you were smarter than this, but I was wrong.
You were supposed to be the one who unlocked us all from the cage we were put in by the Great Moon! ”
She rushed at me, and I went astral so she couldn’t do a damn thing to me.
The knife was suddenly in her hands again, and I evaded before it cut me.
No way to tell that thing could cut through me even in astral form, but I wasn’t taking that chance.
My luck wasn’t the best right now, and I couldn’t risk being sick from wolfsbane or something from that blade.
Lupe furiously swiped at me and it became hard to evade.
She had come close to cutting me a few times, and I drew on my magic to send me a few feet away from where she stood.
Teleporting wasn’t something I was used to wielding, but I did it.
It was a way to keep her moving and charging at me while I came up with a plan to get her on the ground and my teeth in her neck.
She roared as she tried harder to gain the upper hand.
It amused me to see that my teleportation was angering her.
To see her annoyed and angry about her losing the edge that she had.
Another pang in the bonds of yet another death in my pack. I shook from the fury I felt of someone else dying because of this, and I wanted nothing more than to rip Lupe apart.
My pack was growing tired again. An endless sea of enemies surrounded me, and some were trained in unimaginable ways to kill. My power and energy still rang at full, and I bled it into the bonds to give them an advantage. My mates did the same to me, and I growled at them to stop.
No. We are fine. You need to end this and soon . Hunter snapped back.
There was no use in arguing, I knew that. Lupe must have noticed the energy shift I sent out because she was staring off at the battle on the other side of the house. A roar escaped her lips, and she turned back toward me.
“You are going to regret that.”
There was a flicker of something in her hand, and I didn’t have time to see what it was before he charged at me.
Pulling on my power again, I bounced over across from where she was to get out of the way.
She changed directions and came at me again.
There was so much anger in her I could feel it rolling off her every time she came close.
A moment of clarity hit me, and I swiped at her face with my claws as I passed through her, only making my paw corporeal to land the swipe.
Lupe did something. Astral should mean no one could hit me.
But the bitch punched my body mid trajectory and sent me flying.
She shouldn’t have been able to do it. I looked at her fist as I scrambled to my feet and there wasn’t anything different about her.
There were shadows flaring around her body, but the moon’s light shined brighter, as if to cancel them out.
“You will bow to me one way or another, Dylan Pierce. You think this fight is hard now? Just wait until your family has to fight you, too.”
What?
Lupe charged at me and whatever was in her hand was still there. I wanted to kick myself for not trying to bite her damn hand to make her drop it. It looked like it had a point, and it had to be the knife she had before. But this was smaller.
What the fuck was it?
I moved away from her, teleporting to a different side so I could try to find my way into ripping her hand off. I was tired of having to evade blades and even more tired of having to fight this titbag. Why the hell won’t she die?
She got close to me again, and I teleported behind her and jumped on her back.
Despite falling forward, she managed to keep whatever was in her hand.
She spun under me and I snapped at her hand.
My pack’s energy felt low again, and I poured more into them to keep them in fighting shape.
My energy depleted from me letting them borrow it, but I had Lupe where I wanted her.
As long as she didn’t get whatever was in her hand into me, and I went for the throat, this would all be over.
But her fist hit the side of my neck and then something sharp pierced my neck. Fire spread through me as I felt whatever she shoved me into mixed with my system. I yelped and howled, and then it hit me.
She said my family would fight me.
Lupe just stuck me with a damn needle.
And my wolf snarled and fought for control.