Hannes transformed without hesitation.
Using the Dark One’s hold on my ankle as leverage, I thrust myself up, jumping on him and surprising him. My sharp wolf claws plunged into his face, dragging down with force.
“Tackle him! Straight ahead!”I roared.
Hannes shot forward with all his might, his massive Beast form colliding against theDark Oneand taking down both of us.
My body crashed onto the ground, rolling away free.
The instant theDark Onefell, his invisible field disappeared from around us, letting Dante and André finally see me. They ran to my side while I scrambled toward them and away from the fight, Dante and André lifting me to my feet.
A hiss escaped me when I was forced to pull my foot up, unable to stand on my right leg. I looked down, to find a piece of twisted claw protruding from my skin—ripped right out of my captor’s hand. Probably the same thing that had happened to my dad.
Fuck!
“My fire can’t hurt him,” I alerted my mates, and they exchanged a glance—confusion and shock coloring their expressions. “I know,” I agreed, it was fucking ideal. “I think he can block the effects of our powers on him, not the power itself. It’s how he protects himself.”
Hannes’s beast roared far behind us, and I glanced back to see he had overpowered theDark One, pinning him down while he viciously growled, bucking to push my mate off him. The wounds my claws gave him were nothing compared to what Hannes’s beast had done. His obsidian claws extended to their fullest, piercing the sides of his head dangerously when the Beast gripped it.
I knew what was next—my mate was about to rip it from his sickly green body.
TheDark One’s mouth opened, showing rows of sharp black teeth before a greyish-white mist fired from his throat.
“Hannes!” I shouted when the mist engulfed his entire body, immediately hardening into a thick layer of ice and burying him in it.
Terror gripped every cell in my being as I watched the Dark One jump free.
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Dante’sTwilightshot toward theDark One, aiming to kill.
The power crashed against the center of his chest, blowing him back several feet away from us, but it didn’t do much else. The same wave of deathly darkness that I’d seen disintegrate beings into nothing in a split second, didn’t even leave a scratch.
Roaring, theDark Onelunged for me, but Dante wrapped me in his arms, his shadows curling around us and taking me away. We came out closer to Hannes, who was still frozen, but a viciously low, clicking growl echoed from under the ice.
Night extended across the sky for a few seconds and my head snapped up to see André pulling power right out of the sun, sending it in a pure stream toward theDark One.
No light blades. No spheres. Only a raw, obliterating, solar flare.
It swept over theDark Onebefore he could escape, its force flaring past him, and pushing him back even farther away from us.
A nightmare-inducing screech erupted from his throat, and I caught parts of his skin sweltering from André’s attack as smoke rose from him.
“Did he kill him?” I gasped, hopeful, clinging to Dante while we waited for the smoke to dissipate.
Tremors came from his injured body, but he rose. The fucking asshole was alive.
When the sky darkened again, we knew the solar flare that would surely kill him was coming… he knew it because his form went invisible instantly, escaping.
Not without revealing a hoard of scorched crawlers behind where he’d stood, all incinerated by the solar flare.
André’s arms fell to his sides, letting the sun return, but he dropped to his knees, silently declaring how much the feat had taken from him. One more shot would have probably hurt him too.
“Help him!” I urged Dante, who looked between me and our mate. “I’m fine, I have hybrid blood. Go!”
Rushing to him, Dante placed both hands on André’s chest, sending a surge of regenerative healing power right into him.
I repressed a scream when I tried to fix the position of my leg and the twisted claw shifted inside me, I could feel its venom burning through my calf and down to my ankle. Still, my attention was on Hannes. I had to do something to free him.
