My Miracle Luna
Their Gemini Wolves Chapter 76

{Rylee's

P.O.V.}

To say things were strange would be the understatement of the century. Not only was I shrunk and put into a dollhouse, but I realized that Kendrick had been shrunk with me at one point. I was so curious to know how he had been able to mind link with Melody while we were this small, but that was something I would have to question later.

While hiding behind the ginormous teacup, I heard a voice and a cackling, and it made sense that it would have been Morgan. That psychotic b***h and her twisted magic. I mean, who the hell shrinks another person and puts them into a dollhouse? Talk about control issues. Being this small actually made me feel like a real-life Tinkerbell. The only difference was that I didn't have any wings.

I had no idea who Morgan was talking to because I never heard anyone actually responding to her, but I knew that she wasn't alone. I figured that I could try and climb down the table, but I noticed that the leg of the table was a lot further away than I realized. If I moved from this hiding space, I would surely be seen. But if I stayed here any longer, then Ash or whoever was in the dollhouse with me would notice that I was gone. I wondered if I could use my power to control the wind to guide me down to the floor, so I gave it a shot. There was a slight breeze coming from the cracked window, so I tried to get some leverage using the air around me, but it wasn't enough. It would only lift me up a few inches before settling. I tried a few more times, but it was no use.

Since manipulating air didn't work, I thought maybe it would work if I used water to create a slide of some sort. I climbed up the handle of the teacup, only to be disappointed and replace that it was completely empty, aside from a few droplets of tea or coffee. It wouldn't be enough to create a water slide. I slid back down the handle and hid again. I was quickly running out of options and was about to take my chances with Ash in the dollhouse when I felt pressure in my head. I realized that I was being mind-linked by Wyatt. I never thought I would be so happy to hear his voice.

Of course, this proved to be more difficult than it should have been due to my tiny size. Wyatt telling me that he was just outside of the shack gave me hope this would soon be over, but our connection was terrible because, well, my connection to him was the size of an inchworm. Thankfully, he understood enough of what I said. I was even more shocked to replace out that Ash had sold his soul to Morgan. Honestly, I wasn't that shocked since it sounds like something he would do, but I just didn't think he would actually go through with it.

As I was trying to figure out another way to get down from the table, I heard Morgan open the door to the shack, and a gust of wind came in. This was my chance. The gust of wind had enough momentum to allow me to glide down with the current around the table. I won't lie, about halfway down, the intensity died, and I ended up landing on my a's pretty hard. Unfortunately, I didn't have the time or luxury to dwell on the pain. The door to the shack was wide open, and I could hear Ash calling for me from within the dollhouse. I stood up and ran as fast as I could towards the door while Wyatt and Svetlana had Morgan distracted. Despite using my super speed, it still took me a good minute or so to get from the dining room to the front door. It was actually quite frustrating being this small. My powers didn't pack the punch that they usually did.

Once I made it to the door frame, I looked up to make sure that Morgan hadn't noticed me or sensed me. I quickly jumped from the doorway down onto the stone that paved the way to my freedom. I had to use my super speed to get the running start I needed to reach the next stone, and that's when I realized I was looking down towards the ground.

"J!" I screamed, which I'm sure sounded like a mouse in her ears. I waved my arms as hard as I could in hopes that she would see me. "J! I'm down here!" I called out to her. She kept looking around, but she was looking past me. I must look like an ant to her. Even with enhanced vision, it would be hard for anyone to spot me. I jumped to the next stone, which wasn't too far from her foot, and I picked up a pebble with my telekinetic powers. I aimed and flung it at her ankle, which she must have felt because she looked down at me again. This time, J saw me. She bent down and laid her hand flat on the stone right next to me, and I climbed on. I had to admit, this was pretty embarrassing and cool at the same time.

She walked over to Svetlana, and when Svetlana saw me out of the corner of her eye, I waved, and she smirked. I knew that she would be able to return me back to normal, and I was ready to kill this b***h for turning me into an even smaller version of Thumbelina. When I was back to my usual size, I made a mental note to thank Svetlana with whatever she wanted, but first, there was hell to pay. Seeing Morgan's face react to my being full size again was glorious, and her finally realizing who I was-even better. Using my telekinesis, I hurled Morgan through the house and into the dining room, where she landed on top of the dollhouse, shattering it to itty bitty pieces. That's when I heard Ash scream my name.

When he came wobbling over to the door, in a complete daze and barely able to hold himself upright, that was the moment I realized he was in worse shape than I originally thought. Whatever Morgan had been doing to him was slowly killing him, and I don't think he was even aware of it. There was no time to wonder about it though, I was ready to be rid of Ash Patterson for good this time. I walked over to Wyatt to show Ash that he could never have me and to show him what it really felt like to be aroused by the touch of my mate. When Wyatt kissed my mark, Kaleigh purred with delight, and my body just gave in without a fight. It was a little unnerving to see just how much Wyatt's touch affected my body, especially in a situation like the one we were in.

Wyatt making a point to kill Ash himself kind of rubbed me the wrong way, but I would have settled for Morgan. After all, that b*h turned me into a bite-size version, but of course, Svetlana wanted to take Morgan on. Dark witch against poser. The fight with Wyatt and Ash should have been a clean fight, but it appeared that even though Ash and possibly Kano were weakened by whatever st Morgan had done to them, they were still skilled enough in defense to fend for themselves against Blade. Hearing the backup that Ash summoned was what caught all of us off guard. Then Wyatt told me the truth about how he had been feeling. That was an eye-opener, to say the least. But, when he gave me full support to use my powers, I felt my body just come alive. I had never felt so much power radiate through my body. This fight was between the Alphas. So, I uprooted every tree and created an unbreakable barrier around us, keeping the rogues that were on Ash's side out.

When the fight continued, and I noticed that Wyatt was going in for the kill, I saw what happened next in slow motion. Morgan had conjured what appeared to be a dark athame and threw it at Wyatt. The trajectory showed it going for his head, but luckily, he had gotten up onto his hind legs to stomp on Kano, so it hit him in the shoulder. That's when I saw nothing but red. The rage that coursed through my veins at that very moment was making my blood boil beyond one's imagination. Kaleigh had pushed her way through and took over, forcing me to shift. I don't think I had shifted that fast-ever. Nor had I ever run so fast. In a matter of mere seconds, I was fully shifted, and Kaleigh was in Morgan's face, slicing at her chest with her paw and catapulting her across the field. Before she could even land, though, Kaleigh had made her way to the other side and back kicked Morgan in another direction. Kaleigh did this several times. Morgan had become Kaleigh's personal hacky sack.

Finally, after dribbling her like a ball, Kaleigh grabbed hold of her leg with her teeth and tossed her in the direction where Kano was still lying down. Kaleigh sauntered towards them, her jaws open in a snarl, eyes glowing pure silver from my vision, and saliva just drooling from her mouth as if she were a rabid dog. I had never felt so much anger from my own wolf as I currently was. Attacking Wyatt with an athame was the final straw for Kaleigh. Morgan gathered her marbles and tried to cast another spell, but luckily, Svetlana beat her to it and sealed her mouth while tying her hands together with some kind of magical rope. Kano was starting to shift back into Ash, and Wyatt was receiving aid from J. I could see from the corner of Kaleigh's eye that I was fixing his wound. Thankfully, there didn't appear to be any poison. Just a silver blade. Poison. That reminded me. I quickly shifted back because there was one more thing that I needed the answer to.

"Rylee?" Ash croaked with blood spewing from his mouth. Wyatt must have broken something when he kicked him into the tree. "Why?"

"ARE YOU SERIOUSLY ASKING ME THAT!?" I screamed at him. Forget the fact that I was naked from shifting; I was so livid at his blatant incompetence that nothing else mattered. "Do you really not take into consideration how you and your family ruined my life!? Are you that blind!? Are you that stupid!? Are you that egotistical!?"

"I told you I was sorry!" he cried.

"THAT DOESN'T MAKE WHAT YOU DID TO ME OKAY!!!" I roared, shaking everything around us.

"You're only sorry because you found out she was an Alpha at the time of the rejection," Wyatt insisted as he walked up to us. He gave me a shirt, and I hastily put it on. I looked at his shoulder where the athame had penetrated, and all I saw was a small scar. I glanced over at J in surprise, and she just smiled. I mouthed thank you to her and turned back to Ash.

"That's not true," Ash said in a hushed tone. "I've loved Rylee since we were kids. I wanted to be her friend. But my father's views clouded my own, and it was all I knew growing up. Her being an Alpha wasn't the only reason I regretted my decision to reject her. I regretted it before I had even done it." He wasn't lying. I remember he had told me all of this before, but it was before I had my powers. "I know what my family and I did to you was wrong, in more ways than one, but I swear to you, Rylee, I love you." "MMMM!!!" Morgan cried from behind her gag. I saw tears in her eyes as she stared daggers at Ash.

"What the?" I said out loud without realizing it. "Svetlana, remove her gag."

"What? Why?" she asked.

"Just do it!" I commanded. Svetlana rolled her eyes and removed the magical gag from Morgan's mouth. "What is it, Morgan?" I asked, annoyed by her interruption.

"YOU SON OF A b***h! YOU TOLD ME YOU WANTED HER SO YOU COULD KEEP HER AS A SLAVE AGAIN!" she screamed at Ash.

"Did I miss something?" Wyatt asked. That's when I heard Ash's thoughts.

"Oh my goddess, SHE'S YOUR SECOND CHANCE!?" I shouted at the top of my lungs. Everyone looked at them in shock-and I mean everyone.

"No, she's not. She's just a witch that my father saved from a pack of rogues. We f****d a few times."

"YOU TOLD ME YOU LOVED ME!"

"I told you what you wanted to hear so you would help me!" Ash exclaimed. Morgan sneered and hissed at him.

"If that was the case, then why did you sell your soul to her?" Svetlana asked him.

"What!?" Ash gaped at Svetlana in complete disbelief. "I didn't... What are you ... Sell my soul!?" I never thought that silence could be so loud.

"You ... didn't know?" I asked him. I could see the fury behind his eyes as he shifted back into Kano.

"KANO, DON'T!" Wyatt shouted. Kano stopped in his tracks with his jaws hovering over Morgan's head. I looked at Wyatt in dismay.

"Why did you stop him!?" I demanded.

"Kano, if you kill her, you die too. Your soul is tied to hers. Killing her means you go with her."

"Wyatt, what are you doing!?" I repeated with gritted teeth.

"Ash, Kano, or whoever I'm talking to. Think before you do what you're about to do. You have a choice. We can either take both of you in, and you can be tried fairly by the counsel after we get ahold of your father. Or you kill her, and you die with her. The choice is yours, but those are your only choices."

"Wyatt!" I grabbed his arm, forcing him to face me. "What.are.you.doing!?" I growled at him.

"Rylee, I'm doing the right thing. Ash is going to die no matter what, but I think it's only fair that he is given a choice on how he goes. It was something that I've been thinking about since Svetlana told us Ash sold his soul to Morgan and said that killing her means killing him."

"What does it matter how he dies!?" I shouted, not caring whether Kano heard me.

"Do you really feel that way about me?" I turned back to see that Ash was back in human form, and Svetlana gagged Morgan again.

"You know, I could stand here and reiterate all of the horrible and malicious things you and the Halfmoon pack did to me for eight years, but I would just be wasting my breath. You know everything already, so there's no need to remind you of it. The fact of the matter is you just don't care. You don't care that you not only physically hurt me but also emotionally. You and your pack broke me to the point where I was ready to become a rogue for the rest of my life. I was going to give up EVERYTHING just to get away from you. And then, the moon goddess decided to play some sick joke on me and make you my mate. Whether it was to punish you or f**k with me, it didn't matter. Rejection is rejection, and there was no way I was going to take you back, even if Wyatt wasn't my true mate. I would have rather died than be mated to you! You only care about yourself. That's why you're in the predicament that you're in, Ash. Your soul is literally being sucked out by the dark magic that Morgan has been using on you while we were in the dollhouse, but you were so caught up in the moment when you thought you had me that you didn't even notice. So, to answer your question, yes, that is how I think of you. And no, I will never regret it. So, how you die really doesn't matter to me, as long as you're dead." With that, I turned my heel to walk away, but before I could, I heard Morgan's muffled screams. I turned around to see that Ash had dug his hands into her chest. His eyes were full of tears as he ripped out her heart. He stared straight at me as I saw the light from his eyes disappear and he fell to the ground, completely lifeless.

"That was rather anticlimactic," Chad said.

"No, it wasn't," Wyatt answered. "Selene was right; I was going to have to make a choice on who died and who lived."

"What?" I looked over at him. "Selene came to me, and she lectured me about a few things. Svetlana being one of them. Then she told me that there would come a time where I would have to decide who lived and who died. That's why I told Ash what would happen if he killed Morgan. Killing Morgan would mean he died right away. Morgan would have more than likely been kept in captivity rather than be executed."

"Oh no, Wyatt, that's not true. Morgan would have had to answer to the coven of dark witches. Just like you, my fine furry friends, dark witches have rules we have to follow. Using magic against another species for personal gain is one of them," Svetlana said. "What do you mean?" Richard asked as he came up and put his hands on her shoulders. I couldn't stop myself from lifting my brow in confusion at this sudden, intimate gesture.

"She took his soul without him knowing. If one sells their own of their own free will, that is one thing, but taking it is another. She would have more than likely been killed anyway." I looked over at Wyatt, and he just furrowed his brows.

"I think Selene meant who you were going to kill, Wyatt," I told him.

"That's not what she said, though."

"Since when has the moon goddess ever been upfront with any of us?" I asked him. He didn't have a response.

"RYLEE!!!" I suddenly heard two very familiar voices. I turned around to see two heads of blonde hair coming at me. I caught both Lanie and Lexie, but we all tumbled to the ground and laughed as they landed on top of me.

"Um, I don't mean to disrupt this reunion, but we still have a couple of other issues to deal with," Richard reminded us.

"Richard's right, we have to deal with the rogues behind the trees, and then we have to go deal with Eric," Wyatt said as he and the others helped us up.

"Where is he?" I asked without beating around the bush.

"He's at Silver Lake. Morgan created some kind of mirage that makes it seem like there's nothing but a gaping hole."

"Well, now that Morgan is dead, that spell should have reversed itself," Svetlana replied.

"You said that her death would only solidify her magic!" Wyatt shouted.

"No, I said that killing her would keep Rylee small. That is a spell on her physical body, and it's one of the repercussions of killing the dark witch who cast it. A mirage spell is superficial. It breaks with the death of the witch who cast it. Dark magic is not black and white, Wyatt. You should know that by now."

"Wait, what did you say?" I asked when a sudden realization hit me.

"I said that the mirage spell-,"

"No, not that. The part where you said I would have stayed small if Morgan were to have been killed before it was reversed!" I started to panic.

"Rylee, what's wrong?" Lanie asked.

"Kendrick."

"What about Ken?" Wyatt asked while pulling me to face him.

"He... he... he was in the dollhouse with me."

"WHAT?!" everyone cried out.

"He was there with me. But they moved him, and I have no idea where. I didn't have a chance to search their thoughts for that answer. I don't know where he is, Wyatt. I mean, I saw a hologram of him and the others, but I don't know if he's actually there with them or not. I don't know where he is! Oh my goddess, what if he never left the dollhouse!?" I shouted as I ran back into the shack like a maniac. I went over to where the shattered dollhouse was and lifted all of the pieces into the air. I scattered them to see if I could replace anything.

"Rylee, I'm sure he's with the others," Wyatt reassured me as he tried to calm my nerves.

"Wyatt, try to link with him," Chad suggested. "If he's at Silver Lake, that's not far from here, so we may be close enough." Wyatt nodded, and I saw his eyes cloud over. I kept the pieces levitated as I waited for confirmation. It took a minute, but I started to see Wyatt's facial expression change and become calm. His body relaxed, and his eyes turned back to their normal teal color. "He's alive." I let out the breath that I was holding. "But..." I looked at him with wide eyes.

"BUT WHAT?!" Wyatt didn't answer. Instead, he walked over to the kitchen and brought out a small birdcage. I dropped my arms, and everything fell to the floor. Wyatt placed the cage down on the counter and opened it. Then about three dozen people walked out of the cage. "My stars ..." Richard gasped.

"Kendrick's not the only one who's still small." I bent down onto my knees to get eye level with the counter and studied the small group of people, no pun intended. It was everyone that I had seen in the dollhouse hologram. Now I knew why Ken was able to mind link with Melody. She was in the shack just a few feet away from the dollhouse.

"Ken, is this everyone?" I asked him.

"Yeah! Everyone that we know of!" I watched as Wyatt counted how many people there were.

"He's right. That seems to be everyone. There were just over 30 people taken from the region packs. There's 33 here," Wyatt validated. "Wait, Jackson lied to us? He said that everyone was being held in cages at Silver Lake! How could he lie to us?" Chad exclaimed. "We were at Silver Lake!" someone in the crowd shouted.

"Mom!" Jason exclaimed.

"Hi, honey!"

"What do you mean you were at Silver Lake, Aunt Zoe?" Wyatt asked her.

"We were there! But for some reason, we were all transported and ended up in that damn birdcage. We were full size at one point too!"

"Hold on, I don't get it. Why would Eric have everyone sent here if he was going to hide in plain sight at Silver Lake?" I asked.

"Guys!" We all looked down to see Kendrick flailing his arms. "We overheard Morgan on the phone earlier, and she said that the plan was in motion. They were hoping that all of the Alphas would follow Wyatt to Silver Lake to try and save the hostages, and then Eric would be free to use the poison he used on Rylee's dad on all of the Alphas!"

"But they didn't come with us, at least, not yet," Wyatt answered.

"Yeah, they're waiting for us to head to Silver Lake before joining us," Chad added.

"Exactly! Morgan knew that you guys would be coming here first! She had sensors all over the Halfmoon territory. She told Eric that his plan to catch you all at Silver Lake was a bust, so he left you guys to her and Ash while he and Nicole go around from pack to pack to kill the Alphas and Lunas while their guards are down!" We all snapped our heads towards Richard.

"Richard, we need to warn everybody!" Wyatt cried out. Richard and Svetlana didn't even hesitate to teleport out of there.

"Everyone in the cage! We will take you all back to Blue Lake until we can figure out a way to-" I was stopped mid-sentence when pressure started to fill the inside of my head. The images played at warp speed, but I saw them ever so clearly. As soon as they stopped, I couldn't stop myself from saying his name out loud. "Ronan." I didn't even pause to think before I ran out of the shack. The trees were still surrounding us, and I knew the rogues were still waiting. I didn't have time to deal with them one by one. I need them out of my way and dead. The fireplace in the shack was still going. I used my power of fire manipulation and threw raging fireballs at all of the trees, making them explode. I knew that the shards of wood would impale the rogues behind them, either killing them or injuring them beyond repair. Their screams could be heard echoing into the skies.

Once I cleared a path, I shifted and ran full speed back towards Blue Lake. I could hear Wyatt calling out after me, but I didn't have the luxury of explaining to him what I had seen in my premonition. I had to make it there to stop Eric. He already took one father from me; I was not about to let him take another.