From Here to Ecstasy
Chapter 136 - Gasps Of Pain

Dedicated to oddball, PenumbraMINE, and N.Y.O.B. Y’all are the best.

Recap

I took a deep breath, steadying myself even more. I knew this was going to be a fight of our lifetime, but we needed to stop this evil from being around anymore. I knew Kat sent the witches, who helped the Bruja, to the cells and spelled them from ever leaving again. I wanted to be there when they learned their fates. They helped to make this dust that made the skinwalkers. They killed our pack members and others, aligning themselves with the Bruja. I don’t know any coven that would take them back or stand for their defense. I heard a noise from the Bruja. It was a clicking sound, one I had heard before.

Well, shit!

Sonny’s POV

I watched everything happen as if it were in slow motion. When Kat went down and I could feel her pain as my own, I wanted to tear the Brujas head off and spit down her throat, but I kept my anger on a slow slimmer, comforting Kat and healing her body. I made sure to calm her down more.

It was crazy ridiculous what my mate could do. She withstood pain better than I did myself. But, it didn’t mean it was easy for her. I could hear everyone through the mind-link as they checked on Kat and told me where they were on this fuckers, used to be, territory. It was good to hear from my brothers, a sense of relief trickling in my body.

I looked back up to my brother and noticed Ander struggling with the Bruja. I wasn’t sure what was going on. Was Ander trying to get away to kill us or was he fighting against her control of him? I wasn’t sure what to do but I had to do something quickly.

I teleported over to the Bruja, shoving her backward hard. Very hard. I grabbed Ander and teleported back to my mate, but Ander started struggling and growling. I wanted to scream and cry. My heart hurt. My breath caught in my throat and I was holding back tears.

“Don’t believe what you see, Sonny,” I heard in my mind.

“Don’t forget, not everything is as it seems,” I mind-linked everyone before I fell to the ground on my back. I heard a scream from Kat as I fell. I wasn’t sure why she was screaming. I was only laying on the ground, right?

Right?

All of a sudden I felt as if I was ripped into and I started screaming as I heard the Bruja laugh evilly. My baby brother was killing me and I’m letting it happen. I couldn’t believe he was now an evil skinwalker. Kat was beside herself as I bled out. I didn’t want her to see me die. I tried telling her to run but my mouth wouldn’t work. My mind was fuzzy. I hurt not only in my body but my heart too. How was Ander going to live with himself? I never wanted this for him.

I watched, eyes wide, as Ander tore apart Kat. It was gruesome. I couldn’t look at her without shaking. My heart hurt. I screamed with her, not wanting her to die with me. It was a debilitating feeling, making me dizzy and sick. Her screams died out but I could see her looking my way as tears ran down her cheeks. I reached out my hand to her, making sure I touched her one more time before my breath ceased.

I opened my eyes wondering why I was still alive and standing. I looked over toward where Kat was last seen and noticed her body still on the ground along with mine. What the hell? How was I still alive but my mate was nowhere to be seen until I felt someone beside me. My heart was beating out of control and I was on the verge of totally losing it until I noticed Kat standing beside me with her fingers to her lips. I pulled her toward me and held onto her as if I would lose her again. I breathed in her scent and thanked the Goddess that she was with me. I finally figured out why I was in so much pain. Ander had forcibly doubled our bodies and that shit hurt.

I looked back to where our bodies were laying and noticed Windy backing up, Ander following her. Ander turned his body and took out Ares next, Windy screaming at him to stop, but Ander turned on Windy next. I watched as Windy fought, never causing injury to Ander. Windy went down and stayed down as Ander finished her. The next thing I knew we were all standing together and looking at our bodies.

“Your Royal King, Queen, and the Beta couple are gone. Come out, little Momma wolf,” the Bruja bragged, her voice showing her pleasure at what Ander did.

“Mom, act with everything in you. We are all okay. Go to her but the warriors need to stay behind the skinwalkers,” I mind-linked her and everyone else. We needed to be ready for whatever happens next. Did I know we would lose warriors? Yes, no doubt. This fight was about to get very messy, a fight I didn’t want to happen but would happen no matter what.

“Royal Alpha King?” I heard Alpha Black mind-link, his voice was nervous and sad.

“I’m fine. What’s going on in your end of the woods?” I asked as I kept watch on Ander and the Bruja.

“Everyone who was deemed bad was killed, but there are some we are sure about,” he answered.

I placed a truth spell on the ones he was looking at. And, yes, I could look through any supernatural eyes. “Ask them questions now. They won’t be able to lie, okay?”

I saw him nod his head as I went back to my surroundings. I shook my head and watched as my mom and dads’ came out of the woods and looked around. I heard my mom scream, one filled with pain. My dads’ had tears running down their faces as they ran over to us, my mom following.

“No. No. No! Not my family,” my mom screamed as she sank to her knees, crying as if she had really lost us. She pounded the ground with her fist and screamed one last time before Ander was on her.

“No!” My dads’ screamed as they tried to get Ander off my mom. Ander turned and attacked them next, leaving bloody corpses on the ground and me with my heart in my throat from watching. It was incredibly hard to watch even if it wasn’t real.

“Well,” the Bruja said as she walked towards Ander. “You did very well, little wolf. Very bloody.” She kicked at my doubles head, making a sickening thump.

The Bruja looked around again. “Now, I need you to go get your brothers and your twin, it’s time to take out the trash. I want to be on my throne by this afternoon.” The Bruja clicked her fingers together, catching the attention of her skinwalker hoard. Every one of the skinwalkers stood at attention, their eyes watching for their next orders.

Clicking noises?

I took in a breath of air and remembered where I had heard the same noises. She was using clicking signals to get them going. She didn’t want anyone around her knowing what they meant.

“Now!” Kat screamed loud enough to wake the dead, making me jump from her close proximity to me and her to duck her head.

All of us converged on the skinwalkers and the Bruja. I could hear the grunts and screams of my people but I knew no one had fallen. Yet. My family had designated the Bruja as their own, including Ander and Asher.

Party time

We stalked the skinwalker as she looked on in horror. I saw a small smile before skinwalkers poured out from behind her. My parents went after the Bruja and the rest of us were killing skinwalkers. The skinwalkers were incredibly fast and smelled of death. I was wondering if I had enough time to put on a face mask, but before I finished the thought my whole clothing changed into what my mom used to wear. I was very thankful for the mask as were the rest of us.

We were making doubles of ourselves, teleporting behind the skinwalker and killing it. The shits were very hard to kill and I was never more thankful for my Royal warriors. I didn’t have the time to watch them fight, but I wish I could have.

I felt someone at my back, causing me to turn quickly. “Thought I would join the party along with a few of my trusted warriors.”

“The more the merrier, King Maximus,” I sarcastically said as he laughed at my antics. It was the same way every time when I saw him. “Thank you, Maximus. These shit-stains are hard to kill.”

I crossed my swords, cutting the head off two of the skinwalkers before I took their hearts and incinerating them. “Hey, don’t forget to set their hearts on fire, heads too. We do not want to be fighting the same ones.”

“Ooh, I likee. This will be something to see,” I heard Asher say as he incinerated the skinwalker’s head and heart - while the body was whole.

Well, okay, then.

I decided to join in with Asher and Ander, frying the ugly fuckers where they stood. It made it easier to take them out, well, at times. Did I mention these fuckers were fast?

Well, yes, yes I did

I heard a scream and felt the death of a warrior. I grunted with the pain of the loss of one of my people. I felt as if I had died along with my warrior. I knew I had to hide my pain from everyone, well, for now. I made sure to teleport his body to the castle and killed the fucker who had killed him. I didn’t kill in anger, but I did kill him for killing my warrior, a person who put his life on the line for me.

I heard a scream, one that had us all ducking down, including the skinwalkers.

A/N: Hmm, wonder what happens next. Does anyone have an idea?