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Austin und Alex worked together, their elemental abilities flaring to fe. Alex sent a massive blast of fire toward one of the wolves, but it only seemed to absorb the flames, growing hotter and more flour.
Alex groaned. “Okay, fire doesn’t work!”
Isaiah was already moving. Itis shadows swirled like a storm, wrapping around one of the wolves‘ legs and hardening the molten rock beneath it. The creature snarled, struggling as Isaiah’s darkness solidified parts of its body.
“I can slow them down, Isalah gritted out, sweat brading on his for ead. “But not for long!”
The second wolf lunged at Austin, its molten teeth snapping inches from his face. He dodged just in time, rolling away before launching a sharp gust of icy wind at it.
Austin’s eyes lit up. “Wait–that’s it!”
He turned and sent a powerful blast of cold air at another one of the wolves. The sudden force scattered its ash–covered body, causing it to lose form for a moment.
“It’s working!” Austin yelled.
Alex caught on quickly. “If we cool them down, they’ll be easier to break!”
Isaiah gritted his teeth, his shadows surging. “Then we need to strike now!”
While we fought, Elijah sprinted across the burning stone, leaping over cracks filled with bubbling lava. Since the firstlevel he was no longer limping a sign that the silver had left his body and he was healing properly as a werewolf should.
The altar was close now, the shard glowing just a few feet away.
One of
e of the
wolves turned toward him, its glowing red eyes locking onto its true target.
I saw it a split second too late.
“Elijah, MOVE!” I howled telepathicly.
Elijah barely managed to dodge, rolling across the heated stone just as the wolf lunged. It crashed down where he had just been, its molten claws raking across the ground.
Too close.
With a sharp breath, Elijah pushed forward. The shard was encased in a thin layer of black volcanic glass, its surface smooth and polished With a quick strike of his dagger, he shattered the glass and grabbed the shard.
The moment his fingers closed around it, the entire volcanic region began to collapse.
rage as the earth shook violently. Cracks split open, rivers of lava spilling out and swallowing the ground.
The wolves howled in rage
A glowing doorway appeared in the distance, shimmering like liquid silver.
“There!” I shouted. “GO!”
The wolves, now furious, charged at us from all directions.
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The ground cracked apart beneath our feet, entire sections of the volcanic wasteland falling away. Lava burst into the air, burning embers raining down like deadly sparks.
I leapt over a crumbling ledge, iny paws barely touching solid grong before I surged forward again.
Elijah was in the lead, clutching the shard tightly. Austin and Alex in side by side, Isaiah’s shadows lashing out to push back ang wolves that got too close.
The doorway was getting closer–hut so were the wolves.
One of them lunged, its fiery laws snapping at Austin’s back.
Isaiah’s shadows whipped forward, yanking Austin out of trach just Line,
“That was too close!” Austin panted.
The glowing doorway loomed ahead, pulsing brighter and brighter.
1 risked a glance back.
One of the wolves was leaping straight for us.
“MOVE!” I roared.
We dove through the glowing door just as the wolf’s molten jaws snapped shut behind us-
And then, in the blink of an eye, the volcanic wasteland vanished.
The heat disappeared.
The ground beneath us was cool, solid.
I gasped for breath, my heart still hammering.
We had made it.
I turned to look around–and my breath caught.
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