And Mother–she was unstoppable.
She moved like a phantom, her power consuming everything in its pih.
She sliced through our tanks effortlessly, her magic swallowing our tacks. I lunged at her, claws aiming for her throat, but she caught me mid–air, hurling me aside like I was nothing,
Pain splintered through my ribs as I crashed into stone. But I got back up. I bite in shoulder and thrashed her to ground crashing her with my paw. My fangs aimed for her throat but managed to hit me with an energy blast that sent me flying into on of the pillars. I struggled to get up and the pillar fell on me.
I barely had time to recover before she ripped the key from my neck
“No!” 1 roared, leaping to stop her. Elijah and Alex rushed to me and lifted the pillar off of me
But it was too late. I pushed to my feet and was about to attack heren two witches attacked me blocking me.
Mother strode to the monolith, the key fitting perfectly into the ancient keyhole.
A deep rumbling shook the mountain as the summit split apart.
sound unlike any other–a deep, unnatural laughter–echoed through the mountain.
The Shadow Weaver was free.
The moment the
heavens.
monolith shattered, a wave of black mist erupted into the sky. The moon turned crimson, bleeding across the
From the broken stone, something crawled out.
A woll.
But not a woll
A monstrosity of decay and darkness, its rotting fur falling in patches. Its bones protruding, its eyes black voids that devoured the light.
But then-
She shifted.
The monstrous wolf form melted away, reshaping Itself into a woman
She was tall, her skin like polished stone, her hair a shimmering silver river that moved unnaturally, as if caught in a constant lunar glow. Jewels like frozen stars adorned her linen dress, and yet–her es…
Her eyes were nothing.
Black holes. Abysses.
The Shadow Weaver.
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She breathed in deeply, as fisting the air for the first time in centuries.
She smiled.
“It is good to be free.”
Mother fell to her knees, bowing so low her forehead touched the ground.
“Welcome back, Master” she whispered.
The rest of the witches followed suit.
I couldn’t
move.
I had fought countless battles. But this was different
This was something else.
But I wasn’t ready to give up.
My body moved before my mind caught up, and before I knew it, I was channeling everything I had.
A spear of pure moonlight formed above my head.
With all my strength, I hurled it at the Shadow Weaver.
I never reached her.
It
The spear disintegrated midair.
She turned to me, her face passive, almost bored.
“Enough of you.”
She flicked her wrist,
And my world shattered.
My bones snapped all at once.
A scream tore from
n my throat, but it was cut off as an invisible force lifted ma
I saw my mates charging toward her, but she merely raised a hand, and they collapsed beneath her power, unable to move.
Then-
She threw me from the summit.
For a moment, time stopped.
The wind screamed past me.
The world spun, a blur of red sky and blackened clouds.
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1 heard my mates screaming My name-
That there was nothing I could do.
1 had never felt this much pain.
But as 1 fell, a whisper echoed in my mind.
The prophecy.
“A heart of flame, a soul et dust–by their hamil, the world shall live, yet they shall fade as dawn consumes the night.”
Was this it?
Was this how I died?
The last thing I saw was
the blood–red sky.
And then-
Darkness.
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