His Blue Moon Princess
His Sunshine Baby Chapter 114

It's like something crawling under my skin, a spark, running through my veins and guiding my anger. I feel stronger, faster, fiercer. More dangerous, and my enemies know it too. I show my fangs and growl aggressively. The vampires around us are retreating back, I don't know what you're doing, Selena, but please continue!

unsure, looking at me with fear in their eyes.

It seems to scare them... They won't approach you, sunshine.

The humans are coming, too, I say. What? The humans?

I'm sure of it. I can feel hundreds of them, moving to the northern border where we are. I hope somehow, it helps us get out of this mess and shift the balance in our favor... I never thought this would really turn in an all-out war, but after all, this is their city too. If we had the humans to our number, we might finally have an issue.

I think you're doing to our wolves too, everyone is... glowing.

I can tell. I'm communicating my aura all around me, spreading this fire to the other warriors. My rage is contagious. Is that the warrior side of my blood? Communicating my rage to them, making them eager to fight more, the fights are harsher and more violent than ever like the werewolves have turned into complete animals, wild beasts.

We keep fighting, but another thing worries me.

Sylviana is getting whiter, and the burn marks are extending on her body. This is not good news. Liam keeps glancing at her, too.

Is she gonna be okay?

I don't know, she's been using a lot of her magic since earlier. I can't really say... I've never seen her use so much...

The witch is not sparing her efforts. We are surrounded by so much vegetation now, it's getting closer to a jungle than the muddy meadow it was a while ago. The water is raging too, flying all sides and trying to get to us. Nephera keeps smiling crazily like she's evil or possessed. Or both.

"How long can you keep that up, little sister?" She says. "You're burning so much magic for those pathetic dogs... But you're too young to use your powers fully, aren't you? You'll be exhausted before I'm done!"

With this, she sends another wave towards Liam. She seems to have understood their bond at some point, because she seems to be targetting the younger Black brother more than Nate or Damian. Liam is exceptionally agile and has been dodging her attacks for now but the next mistake might get him killed. The vampires don't leave him any rest, either. We need to replace a way to stop her...

Suddenly, a gunshot resonates in the air, shocking everyone. The whole battlefield freezes. Everyone heard that. We are all waiting, our hearts thumping crazy, but I know. I smile internally, feeling a wave of adrenaline flushing in my veins. Another gunshot and several others follow. Yes, that's it. We listen, and it goes on. Pang, pang, pang. The vampires start to screech and panic. All the wolves react to it, curious, anxious, looking for what is going on.

Tell me that's good news?

What's going on at the back!

The humans! The humans have just come to help us! They have weapons, but they are shooting only at the blood-suckers!

Don't growl at them, you i***t! They're on our side!

I can't believe it!

Some are taking our injured wolves! I think they are evacuating them!

Here! We need help here!

Yeah, I saw them taking Joe!

Crap, Joe? Joseph Lewis got injured? I look for Danny's dad, but thank Moon Goddess, I replace him quickly and he's alive, though he is getting further away from me. I can feel the humans. I want to smile and laugh of relief. Moon Goddess, so many of them are showing up at the back, hundreds of those warm lights, like me, the sons and daughters of the Sun! I can't believe they really answered my call, or whatever it was...

I focus my mindlink, and, with Nora, we relay the same orders in unison.

Cooperate with the humans! Give them space to shoot and let them take our injured away!

Make sure they don't get on the front line and stay out of their shooting range!

Moon Goddess, this might be what we needed to win this fight!

The arrival of the humans is enough to balance with the vampires' numbers. Their ranks are clearly taken by surprise, too. Moreover, mine and Nora's aura's, keep mixing together and fueling the battle to give a newfound strength to the werewolves. With the sudden arrival of unexpected reinforcement, the fight resumes, on a better sight.

However, our own battle is far from over. The Water Witch is not giving us any chance to approach her, and the vampires are resolute on defending her. It seems like she didn't just control the Vampire Queen, something happened that they would protect her to the end! I try to keep up, replace an opening, but Moon Goddess, she doesn't give us any rest.

Sylviana is losing ground, too. I don't know why but our Witch is slowly starting to make mistakes. She's too busy trying to defend all of us. With Nora, Nate and I back, she knows has five people to protect from Nephera, who's just attacking blindly and trying to hurt us as much as she can. I'm worried about the quantity of water she's slowly gathering, too. She controls it like tentacles, whipping around and sending water pikes here and there. I dodge one last second, grazing my shoulder.

I growl back.

I need to get to her. I focus my aura on myself, making the glow even brighter and bigger. The vampires step back, afraid as if I was holding the sun itself in my hands. I growl furiously, jump on one of them to kill him, and run past them, trying to sprint to Nephera. Liam catches my move and jumps right after me.

We are both furiously running towards the Witch, growling and speeding up. She sees us coming and for the first time, something that looks like fear appears in her eyes. She moves her water tentacles, trying to whip our way, but we jump, roll, dodge and do our best to keep going. Sylviana intervenes to protect us too as she sends a new salvo of water pikes, blocking it with a branch. Nephera steps back, frowning and panicking. We are almost there! I show my fangs, ready to bite. Anything I can do to take that damn witch down, I will! Liam is growling furiously right behind me, too!

Suddenly, something beaks behind me, and I hear Liam's scream of pain in my head. Don't look, don't look, keep going!

I finally jump over the witch, half a second to see the fear in her eyes, and I furiously bite down. I let the beast in me unleash. I bite, bite, harder, like an animal, like a furious savage. It's not hard. I hate that woman, I hate her for what she did, how she hurt me, how she killed Reagan, how she tried to hurt my baby! She screams loudly in my ears, and I'm suddenly pushed away by a wave, rolling in the mud before I brutally hit a tree. Selena! Liam!

I hear Nate and Nora's screams, but it's from far away. I'm completely lost... It... It takes me a while to come back to my senses.

"It seems like the first time wasn't enough! You b***h! How much do you need me to tear you apart this time!"

I need to get up, get back on my feet and get away from here... Come on, get up... It's like my whole body is numb. My head f*****g hurts. I really hit it badly. It hurts... I open my eyes, growling a bit, fighting to get back on my feet.

A horrible stream of pain pierces me. I scream, loud, the excruciating pain. I feel all of my scar, being ripped apart, from my shoulder down, the flesh tearing under the pressure. I'm suffocating, I can't breathe when my whole body is screaming in utter pain! "Shall we try getting a bit lower? Hm? See if you damn Royals can heal that!"

I scream again, and that crazy b***h, whatever she does, it intensifies. The horrible blade of pain goes down on my chest. I'm on the verge of passing out, but the sharp pain is actually what keeps me very f*****g much awake. I scream, again and again. I want to die. I want to die, anything but that horrible pain, I can't. I can't take it...

Selena!

Furious growls suddenly surround me, and whatever was torturing me suddenly stops. I want to faint, but my mate's smell calms me down. Oh, Moon Goddess...

Selena, hang on, hang on... I'll heal you... Please, stay with us, please... Hang on...

I want to pass out. I'm so tired... Something cold gently comes to numbs my pain, and I catch a glimpse of Nora's white fur, covering my vision. I can feel my cousin's aura, gently surrounding me, healing me. Moon Goddess... Thank Moon Goddess... This is the best sensation ever, like some fresh, cold snow applied to my injury.

I sense Nate is on top of me, guarding me like a furious dog, growling. I hear a fight going on nearby, but I can't see.

The Witch...

It's okay, Sunshine. Damian and Liam are keeping her busy away from you. Just give us a minute to heal you... Liam...

He... He's okay.

Why just okay? Can't Nora heal him too? I definitely heard him being injured before me. Did she focus on me? Or did Nora heal him already?

I try to replace my inner wolf, reconquer my aura, and the glow grows back, mixing with Nora's white glow, helping me regain my strength. Moon Goddess... My cousin steps away, and despite my sore and painful shoulder, I know I can go on like this. It's bearable. I growl a bit for Nate to give me some space, and, after a bit of struggle, painfully get back on my feet. We are in some sort of wooden trap, probably Sylviana's emergency solution to protect us from the vampires while Nora was healing me... Those bloodsuckers have already gathered around to attack the minute they can, though. We can only get a short break.

Behind them, I see the two black wolves, dancing around and trying to get to the Water witch. Liam really is badly injured, but fighting as hard as before. In fact, the right side of his head is covered in blood. His ear is ripped open, and I'm pretty sure his right eye is gone... Moon Goddess, what did that b***h do to him? Couldn't Nora heal that? Or did she run to me first?

I growl, furious. At least I got her bad. She's full of blood, too, and a wide injury is visible on her shoulder and neck, the exact same spot she hurt me twice. Karma bites back, b***h! Nora wants to heal me more, but we don't have that much time to lose. As long as I can stand, run and fight, I'll be fine. I growl to have her and Nate step aside, and wait for Sylviana to open the cage. It was short, but that one-on-one with the witch makes me want to take her down even more. We need to end this damn fight! Sylviana glances at us, and she sees I'm up, but she doesn't open the cage yet. She seems to hesitate about something. Liam and Damian keep attacking, but with only two wolves and one witch, Nephera defends herself just fine. She just can't move as much because of her injury. I don't know who managed to bite her other wrist, too, but it's ugly, wide open and bleeding. She's in bad posture!

Sylviana!

I growl after her, hoping she'll open that damn cage soon. She glances our way and turns to Nephera. "Nephera, this needs to stop, now! Enough! You'll die if you continue!"

She's still trying to save her sister?

Indeed, the Water witch, despite her injuries, starts to be covered in the characteristic burnt marks that show they are running out of their magic, overusing it. She mentioned it before, it's not like they can keep going on like this forever... I understand why she was wearing a long black dress now, to hide her skin. But we have gotten close enough to rip several parts of her outfit, and everywhere we can see Nephera's skin, it's charcoal black...

However, despite her sister's warning, Nephera suddenly smirks.

"You think I care, Sylviana? As long as I take you down with me, I don't care! Do you think I'm weak? Do you think I can't beat you? I've had years to prepare!"

She suddenly calls her tentacles back. For a second, it looks like she's perfectly defenseless, and Damian and Liam are both about to jump, but Sylviana screams to warn them, and they both decide in a split second to jump back instead. Damn, they made the right choice. The next minute defies anything I had ever thought possible.

Nephera's eyes suddenly turn completely blank, as a filter covers them. The burnt marks crawl to her face, almost devouring her skin into black stripes. However, we have a bigger problem. A much, much bigger problem.

Behind her, a huge geyser of water erupts from the soil brutally. A cold shiver runs down my spine. That crazy witch just f*****g hijacked the river! A tower of water is standing behind her, like a waterfall ready to jump at us. This is nothing like her little water tentacles from before. The pressure and quantity of this giant water stream are terrifying. Even if it wasn't magic, this would be crazy dangerous already. If she uses that thing against any of us, we are dead.

I crawl back, realizing the cage is gone, and Nora, Nate and I quickly run back to Damian and Liam's side, unable to leave that sight. It's a nightmare. Nephera is clearly exceeding her powers' limit to kill us. She moves her hands, and this damn column splits apart into six smaller ones, but still powerful as hell, like little geysers. She directs them to bend around her, looking like a spider's arms. But those arms are digging into the ground around her, just with mere water pressure. Oh, Moon Goddess... If she hits us with that, it will be like a water cannon hitting us directly.

"Liam..."

I'm surprised to hear Sylviana's voice now. She's looking at the tower, almost out of breath, looking more determined than ever. She puts her hair back and pulls her sleeves up, focused. The now one-eyed black wolf turns his head to her.

"Promise me you'll do anything to stop my sister," she says.

He growls, confused.

"Promise me, Liam. Please. You need to protect them."

He stands there, growling, unhappy. I don't like what's going on. I don't like it at all. What is she hinting at? Sylviana looks at him, finally, looking angry.

"Liam Black. Promise me, now."

He hesitates, and finally, whines, lowering his head with a sad look.

Liam? Liam, what's going on? Asks Nora, worried;

I don't know, I don't know! I...

He seems as lost as we are about Sylviana's attitude. Our Earth Witch nods, and, looking resolute, suddenly dives her two hands into the mud.

"Get ready," she says. "Here we go..."

Something starts crumbling under us. What the heck is going on? The ground keeps shaking, like a f*****g earthquake. We all crouch down by reflex, and I'm thankful to be on my four paws instead of two feet. It's too unstable! The nearby vampires all lose balance and fall in all directions. Some are swallowed down, covered in the mud. What is she doing? Preparing some giant root? Sylviana is frowning, a pearl of sweat on her temples, and like her sister, her burn marks spread alarmingly fast on her hands and face. Sylviana!

"Don't... worry..." she mutters, her teeth clenched.

Suddenly, a giant form appears next to us, or rather above us. That thing is several meters high, made of roots and mud, with a vaguely humanoid shape. What the actual f**k...

What is that thing...

We are all thinking the same thing. She made a giant! A... A giant of mud, or whatever. It's... It's a...

A Golem!

I look down at Sylviana. She's confidently directing her creature, but like Nephera, her black stains are spreading, fast. The two witches are running out of magic, and I don't know what comes after that, but I don't want to.

This will most likely be the final assault for everyone. Either Nephera manages to kill us with that thing, or we kill her first.

Time to end this...