His Blue Moon Princess
His Sunshine Baby Chapter 113

Like an enraged animal, I keep biting deep, digging into the flesh until my mouth is full of blood, and the Vampire Queen stops moving under me. It was over in a few seconds... I didn't think... I keep biting, making sure the Queen is dead, but my eyes are on Iris. I can't believe it. She slowly falls on her flank, in the mud, and her face is suddenly a few inches away from mine. Her eyes are open, but the light inside is almost gone... I try to hold on to the little bit of her inner wolf I still feel inside her.

Iris!

Why...

Chris idea... For me... for... Eric... Eric...

...She's gone. She... What... Chris' idea? What were they thinking...? I still can't believe it, but my cousin just sacrificed herself to help me kill the Vampire Queen, and I let go of my prey. Nate! I need to check on him...

Unlike my expectations, the vampires don't attack me as I run to him. Thank Moon Goddess, they let me through. The death of their Queen seems to have shocked them. They all start screaming, a horrible high-pitched sound; I couldn't care less. I can't have anything slowing me, I just run to Nate, lying down. Oh, Moon Goddess, no, no...

Nate! Nate! I... I'm fine...

I have another definition of fine! I'm trembling, shaking in despair, unable to accept this horrible sight. He's bleeding so much, and his arm... His arm is... laying away from him, completely chopped off! Can I even fix this? Can we do something? I go to bend over him, about to shift back, but he growls.

Selena, don't you think about it!

I can heal you! If we kiss...

He growls even louder.

You can't fix that! Moreover, if you shift back, you'll expose yourself!

B... But, Nate...

I can't do nothing about what I'm seeing! He's... in that kind of state...

Selena, no. Healing Damian from a gunshot got Nora two years of coma, and you're not Nora. You can't risk that now!

You'll bleed to death if I don't!

Selena, I won't. My healing will take over soon enough. It's okay.

Your arm is f*****g chopped off, Nate!

I know. Don't worry about me. I'll be fine.

You're... you're... losing so much... blood...

I start crying, whimpering, torn between healing my mate and the current fight. I look at the blood flow, but his werewolf healing is indeed taking over... Slowly but surely, it's... closing off... Moon Goddess.

Around us, I feel the vampires gathering, targeting my injured mate. Do they want to avenge their Queen? I thought the fight would be over if we got rid of her! I growl angrily as a warning, and extend my aura to its limit, trying to keep them at bay. What do I do... I can't leave Nate to them, he'll die. Even if his healing closes his injury, with the blood loss and missing limb, he'll be easy prey.

I need to do something, anything.

I take deep breaths, slow my crying, and focus on my inner wolf. Come on, girl, what can we do? We are fighters. Fighter down to the bone, to our blood. I'm a damn Alpha fighter. I...

I sense something new. Another royal aura. Nora?

I can almost hear it. A baby's crying....

He's born. Selena, my baby... it's a boy...

Yeah, I can feel him. My baby nephew, and his aura so pure... Moon Goddess, I feel like crying again. Nora is crying tears of joy. I can't believe her son is born. During this madness... A baby is born. My new nephew...

I keep extending my aura. I feel the little newborn pup more intensely. It's like the appearance of another Royal is guiding me. I play with my aura, its heat, my eyes glowing like fire, piercing the vampires and somehow, terrifying them. I feel the baby, and so much more. Something else...

Nora's focusing on her healing. I sense our link growing back, stronger, her snow-white aura holding on tight to mine.

Selena, how is Nathaniel? She asks, worried.

He could use some healing.

I feel her power growing and expanding. Our auras are so similar yet different. Nora's is like fresh, pure snow, blown by a cold wind. I feel her, extending her strength, covering the battlefield. Our auras replace each other, touch, blend into something even stronger. I guess we finally unlocked something, between the two of us.

It's amazing... she says. I feel absolutely everyone's wolves, so strongly, as if I can touch them.

I know, right? I'm starting to understand the Royal thing.

We're connected to every wolf... More than I thought. I think I can...

I feel her aura, somehow transmitting to Nate. What the... His injury is closing up even faster now! Amazed, I watch it close in accelerated motion, almost unreal. It takes a few more seconds before Nate tries to get up with my help, standing despite his missing limb... I'm amazed... Nora! Are you all alright?

Actually, yeah... I think your aura unlocked something in me... I don't use my own strength to heal others, but the Moon's power. It's not easy, but I think... I control it completely now...

Indeed, I can feel it. Nora's aura is slowly covering the whole battlefield, going from one wolf to another, closing injuries and healing one wolf after another. She can't seem to do more than one at once, but considering how far she is, it's still pretty amazing. I'm starting to feel hope again. Nate is standing by my side, and I know Nora will be on her way soon.

We are far from safe, though. The vampires, seeing the werewolves get back on their feet one by one, are resuming the fight. Damn it, the Queen's death did almost nothing! I growl in warning.

Selena, go back.

But...

Don't worry about me, go back to my brothers. I'll follow...

I hate parting with Nate, but at least now I know he'll be alright, not just bleeding on the ground. The black wolf is still trying to replace his new pace, the right balance. I help him, letting him use me as a crutch until he's stable enough. He growls and pushes me once he's fine enough to stand with me. I give him a lick on the cheek.

Love you.

I know, Sunshine. Go.

I growl a bit, frustrated, and run back to our former position. I can't babysit Nate for the rest of the fight, he'll hate it. He'll be fine, he'll be fine... I mind-link Damian, Liam, all the Alphas and Beta, telling those who have yet to know about the Vampire Queen's death. Of course, the Black brothers knew about Nate, and both thank me silently for protecting him, and Nora for accelerating his healing with her brand new enhanced power. I can sense Damian's worried about his wife, but Nora seems fine. She probably channeled some of the Moon's power for her own healing.

I'm coming, she says.

How's my nephew? Asks Liam, excited.

He's adorable, of course. His brother's carbon copy.

Let's have a girl, next.

Damian!

I chuckle. It's crazy he manages to bicker about having a third child in the middle of a battlefield... Even Liam didn't dare make any joke yet.

Nate, are you okay?

Yeah, I... I just need to adjust to running on all three instead of... you know.

My heart hurts when I think about his arm... Maybe we can do something about it after the fight... I run back to the Black Brothers, jumping on vampires on my way, trying to take down the ones I can, and catching a glimpse of the situation. Our Alpha line is gone. With the brothers and I at the Witch's position, Lysandra had no choice but to retreat all the way to where the Betas are. We lost a lot of ground, they are almost at the border. Nora's intervention is helping maintain it for now, but we are running out of time. She won't be able to keep healing people once she gets into a fight herself, and I can feel she's on her way already. I can't believe her. She just delivered a baby and she's ready to join the fight... She's definitely Silver City's Luna... I tear apart another vampire, jump down, run, grab another one to pull it off of one of our wolves and kill it on the spot. I'm closing on the brothers' position and trying to rekindle that feeling from before. I definitely felt something else... My aura is different from Nora's. I can't feel that healing superpower she has. I'm not a healer.

I'm a warrior, a fighter. I wonder what that means... I'm stronger, silver and blood venom immune, but... If there's something more...

I keep running and heat up my aura, like before. This warmth I've been able to manipulate now, spreading to all the auras around me. it's not like Nora's healing aura. Mine is more like a lamplight, guiding them, grasping their wolf aura and holding on. Like charging them with some heat, more energy. We are all linked.

I push it even further. I can almost feel the glow the others see in me, as I keep testing that feeling, all those auras around me. So many auras.

It's... it's not just the werewolves. Thousands of auras. They are like mine, of the same, warm color... like the sunshine.

The sons and daughters of the Sun. The Humans.

...Could it be? I keep running, stop a moment to fight another bunch of vampires, helping an injured wolf, and saving another right in time. My mind is everywhere. On the fight, with Nora, with Nate, with the brothers, with all those auras.

It's insane... I can feel the humans? As Nora said, something unlocked in me. I try to hold on to them, to that strange feeling. I can't mind link them, they are not wolves. How do I do this?

I keep growling, making my way to the heart of the battlefield. I know we can do this. There's a solution. Something more I can do, I can feel it. It's like a fire in my back, something burning inside.

Nora, I can feel the humans!

What?

I know, it's crazy, but my aura... My aura reaches the humans of Silver City.

Can you talk to them? Tell them, hey, we could use some help?

I don't have a human channel and a werewolf channel, Liam! It's just... I feel bound to them, I just don't know how to use that.

It's true. It's like a tiny tunnel, something too small for me to send my inner words as I would do with a wolf. It's different, like another kind of link. They barely have any aura, and it's nothing like what we werewolves are used to. I feel like my aura is attached differently to humans, but I can definitely feel them. If only I knew what to do with it...

I'm almost there! Says Nora.

Me too!

You might want to hurry up ladies, we are... s**t, Damian!

Liam's panicked wolf makes me jump and accelerate. Moon Goddess, not the King, not now! I can feel Damian, he just got injured, bad. His flank... Damn, his sharp pain almost wakes mine up, like my own injuries reopened violently. Damian! Screams Nora.

I'm... fine...

I would never have pictured him saying anything else. Even if he was dying, he wouldn't show his weakness. I hope Nora and I can get there fast. Nate too. I keep running to them, all of us gathering around Sylviana. She's the only one I can't reach through the mindlink, and aside from what Liam and Damian can relay to us, I have no idea how she's doing... We have yet to be all drowning in waves of Nephera's magic, so I guess it means we are okay...

I desperately try to understand this strange bound to the humans, but I am not in the best situation for experiments. The situation is going worse every minute now. Nora can't possibly heal every wolf, and we have already lost a lot...

The only thing is that all of the vampires seem to be on the battlefield now, I don't see any new waves coming. Did the Vampire Queen's death have some effect after all? I run into another close fight between two wolves and a handful of vampires to help. Selena!

You okay, Ben? Yeah, but... Levi...

I know. I've been trying not to think about all the dead. William, Levi, Chris... so many of our friends... I can't even stop to count them all. I want to cry, but I can't. We need to focus on the fight, to avoid any more tragedy. We can mourn later, for those who survive. Once I'm sure Ben and his friend are in a better position, I finally take back my position to Damian and Liam's side. I hadn't realized how worse their situation has gotten. The vampires have aggregated around them, trying to overwhelm the brothers with their number. Damian seems to be easily getting rid of them like puppets, but the King is injured. He has a few bite marks he hasn't even complained about, and more alarming, one large injury on his flank, the one we felt earlier. It's bleeding out, and the healing process is slowed down, most likely because of all the vampire venom he's been infected with. I hope Nora can do something about it as soon as she gets there...

Liam is in better shape, but not unscathed either. He's got cuts here and there, one leg limping a bit, and his tail is torn in an odd way. He still looks like he's eager to fight, though. The brothers are keeping their position close to Sylviana, taking down any vampire that tries to get to her. Apparently, our Witch took the central position in the fight, using her magic to control all of her immediate surroundings. Roots and branches appear in random positions to block most of Nephera's water attacks, or the nearby vampires. This fight is so unreal. Elements of nature fighting one another, directed by the two women's movements. Sylviana's butterfly, too, is way bigger than usual, flying around her, though I have no idea what that thing is actually useful for. I think she's using it as a second pair of eyes, guiding her with her surroundings, because all this time, her power is acting everywhere while she's only looking at her sister.

Nephera is almost having fun. She's smiling like a creep, agitating her arms to throw one wave after another, leaving her younger sister no rest. Somehow, the fight looks more balanced than before. The witches are on the same level, but no attack seems to hit its direct target. Sylviana is being more passive than offensive...

Damian! Liam!

Next to me, Nora's white wolf just appeared, shining on the battlefield with her unique appearance. She immediately runs to help her mate, and I run to help Liam. The position is harder to hold than before. Because the number of wolves has lessened elsewhere, it feels like the vampires are focusing on us now.

Damn, if only I could figure out this thing with my aura!

"How long do you think you can hold this for, Sylviana? I'm nowhere near done yet!" Yells her sister, hysterical.

Sylviana doesn't answer. She's frowning, barely keeping up. Their elements are too different, her roots are struggling to block the waves and all the water pikes coming. Unlike Nephera, she has a lot of people to protect at the same time, and can't just focus on her sister. The water witch is just acting randomly, hitting as many people as she can. She doesn't care about hitting the vampires, and those damn things still get up even if she hits them anyway!

I don't have time to help her, though. I'm focusing on my own fight, back to back with Liam. It's a f*****g mess... Vampires crawling from all angles, and Nora can't heal anyone anymore while she's busy fighting. The fight is even more violent than before. Nora!

I'm okay, I'm okay... I'm just... not in the best shape today.

No wonder, she just f*****g gave birth minutes ago! I think she got scratched a bit, but she seems fine, and Damian is watching her like a hawk too. His own mate appearing on the battlefield gave him even more reason to fight harder. I try to sense my own, and Nate is near, almost there actually.

I roll back to avoid another vampire and bite him down savagely. My aura, my aura. I try to take my friends out of my mind for a moment, to focus on that strange bond with the humans. What can I do? I can't send them my thoughts or inner wolf's talk like I would for a wolf. They are humans!

Elena!

Nate!

Missed me?

My mate jumps next to me, but he immediately becomes one more target. Not my man, you damn blood-suckers! I growl and ferociously attack the enemy that was about to get him, taking them down like a fury. Suddenly, I feel it. Like a spark. I hold on to that feeling and growl louder, letting my anger grow.

Uh... Elena...?

My friends feel my furor, growing like a fire, a raging fire. My aura is burning up, ardent, and this time, it ignites. The vampires nearby suddenly screech, retreating as if I was burning them. I let my anger guide me, and growl, attack, bite like a machine. I can even feel Nate and Liam backing away, unsure about my sudden state.

I'm just a big cloud of raging emotions right now. A raging sun, showing the way and burning high. The wolves can't feel it, they are stealing glances at me, confused by my sudden fit of rage and my aura going wild. But I feel it burst all the way to the humans I'm connected with. That's right. Silver City isn't just full of werewolves. Half of it is human. Half of my blood is human. Come and fight. Get angry at those vampires, get mad. I growl again, showing my fangs to those creatures who dare attack my territory. This is my City, you damn creatures.

Our City.