It’s my first time seeing her, and the dark wolf launches the attack as soon as she’s here, starting by the vampire that was on Tonia. Their pack is small, but they are notorious fighters. The fight resumes, and this time no side has the upper hand. Lysandra’s wolves are helping others, taking over for the hurt wolves. But they are not on my position yet, and I must keep fighting the vampire on me. Just when I thought he was about to kill me, his hand tightening around my throat, I suddenly hear the vampire next to him, a woman, yelling:“Idiot, don’t kill her! She needs us to take this one alive!”
What the...? Before I can realize what she just said, a dark form jumps over us, and a loud growl follows. I see a black fur above me, covering most of my sight. The furious wolf bites off the vampire’s shoulder, pushing him off me, and attacks again. I struggle to get back on my feet. For a split second, I thought it was Damian, but I notice this wolf is a bit smaller than my mate and has reddish hair around his collarbone.
“Liam!”
He turns to me and helps me get up; his fur tainted with vampire blood all over. I probably don’t look any better, either...
“Hey, Nora, what’s up?”
“Don’t “what’s up” me! What are you doing here? Why aren’t you with Nathaniel and Damian?”
“Don’t yell, I sent them reinforcements already! But my brother was worried about you, so I went to you first. We heard your distress call! How the hell did you do that?”
They heard me what? Oh, Moon Goddess, did they actually hear me all the way to the Northern territory? I just mind-linked without thinking!
I don’t really have time to focus on anything else, as, despite our arguing, Liam jumps into the fight right away. I can catch some rest while he fights off my opponents, but I’m too worried about my friend. I look for her on my left side.
For some reason, the Purple Moon Alpha is protecting Tonia fiercely, not letting anyone approach her. However, my friend is trying to push her off. Bobo, too, is busy defending Elena and her friend. I notice the tawny wolf also got hurt, he is limping a bit.
Around us, the fight is slowly dying down. The arrival of the Purple Moon warriors totally shifted the power balance to our side. Liam, too, is exceptionally efficient. It’s my first time seeing the youngest Black brother fighting. Still, he’s doing great, taking vampires down one after another without stopping. He even scares off a few of them.
“Elena, how is the...?”
“The North is okay; they are almost done! The water stopped attacking them, and the wolves that were hurt are getting back on their feet, too. I don’t know what it is, but whatever it was is gone.”
We both start mind-linking our sides to check, but it’s the same everywhere. Vincent is busy taking care of his injured pack members, and the Sea Moon Wolves are dispersing to chase the remaining vampires on the harbor and hunt them down.
Elena starts to check her friend’s leg, frowning. “You’re hurt... I told you to not shield me! Idiot!”
Though she sounds angry, she seems genuinely worried for her friend. Moreover, I’m observing Bobo, who is walking in circles around them, not coming too close or leaving them, visibly anxious. What is this, Bobo? I wish he would go back to his human form to talk to me, but he just walks up to me once he sees me. He whines a bit, bowing his head, putting his ears down.
Gosh, don’t apologize, Bobo. I’m okay, aren’t I? I wish I could communicate with him, too, but instead, I just push him off gently with my muzzle. Once she’s done tending her friend, Elena starts setting the vampire’s corpses on fire, the usual thing to do. To my surprise, the Purple Moon Alpha then shifts back to her human form.
She’s a tall, dark-skinned woman with long purple hair and lots of tribal tattoos. She obviously doesn’t mind walking around naked, as she helps Elena with the fires. Once she goes back to Tonia, my friend growls furiously, obviously trying to fend her off. Didn’t she spend the whole fight protecting her? What’s with Tonia not wanting her close? I remember Bobo saying they have a connection, though he didn’t get into the details. Well, it’s probably not of my business anyway.
Liam walks back to my side. “My brother is nagging me about you. They are coming here.”
“Are they okay?”
“Nora, it’s my brothers. Of course, they are fine.”
Though his arrogant tone is a bit annoying, I’m finally relieved. I look around, and sadly, there are a few dead werewolves from each clan. I bet it’s worse in the North... The Sea Moon Alpha joins us, and he shifted back to his human form, though he is clothed. He is an old man, rather short, with a sailor look.
“Jones, you little rascal,” he says to the Purple Moon Alpha.
She waves back at him. “Hi, Old Man Seaver. How’s your side?”
“It’s not pretty, we lost a few good people. How’s yours?”
“We’re okay.”
She won’t say more. It must be hard on the Alphas whenever they lose people in a battle like this... And because of vampires, too. The Sea Moon Alpha turns to me. I can’t really shapeshift now, I would be too embarrassed to stand naked. Still, it doesn’t matter since I can communicate, anyway.
“Thank you for your help, young lady. I almost lost my daughter today, but you saved her. You helped a lot of my boys and girls. The Sea Moon Wolves have a debt to you, I won’t forget it.”
“It’s nothing. I did what I had to.”
“No, no, a Sea Wolf pays his debts. Sooner or later. Anyway, which pack are you from? I haven’t heard of a pack with a white Alpha.”
