We all dropped, plunged into darkness as whatever they did to her knocked her down, effectively putting her out.I knew she wasn’t dead, but I also knew that if they did kill her there would be no waking up, her link to this Pack was far too strong, stronger than we could have imagined as we were pulled into oblivion.I opened the link just in time to hear her.
“Reid, please Reid, you have to save them.”
Then nothing but darkness.This was their plan all along.Take out the Luna and we all go down, so they can escape taking the only light in my life with them.
Aria’s POV
This maniac of a man has been rambling nonsense for what felt like hours.I have never held so much anger towards one person before.I didn’t just want to kill him; I wanted his death to be slow and painful, I wanted revenge.I wanted revenge so bad I could taste the bitter taste of it in my mouth.Christine and Wendy still hadn’t awoken.Periodically men in white lab coats would come in and inject them with something.I demanded so many times to know what it was he was giving them, but he said we would find out soon enough.
We learned a few things about him like his name, which is Kade.I was going to kill Kade, no matter what, I knew when I went down, I was taking him with me.I watched as he finally walked out.Lily visibly relaxing as soon as the door clicked shut.
I looked to David, who was still clinging to consciousness after being electrocuted at random by the sick bastard.
“David?” He looked in my direction but couldn’t even lift his head to look at me.At least I knew he was listening.
“Do you think you could shift out of your restraints?” His breathing was ragged, sweat dripping off his head and onto the floor.I could smell the burnt smell of his body hair, wherever the cow prodder touched, leaving behind round inflamed red blotches on his skin and bleeding holes.His blood was enticing my senses, trying to consume me.
“I am too weak, and I can’t feel my wolf anymore, I haven’t since we got here.I think they did something when I was knocked out.” Even his speech was slurred and raspy.Lily looked at me, frightened.This was the man I feared for years and was now a crumbling mess, what chance did we have of escape when they took him down so easily.
“Lily, I need you to try and wake up Amber, nudge her try to rouse her awake.” I watched as Lily used her elbow trying to nudge Amber awake, all it managed to do was make her move closer to the edge and closer to falling.I shook my head at Lily to stop, and she did.I could hear Amber’s heartbeat, but it was so faint, I knew she was only just clinging on to life.Looking at my hands, I tried to wriggle them free, but it was no use.I actually wished; I could shift it would come in handy right about now to escape these restraints.Wendy shifting her head and groaning pulled my attention to her.
“Wendy, you’re awake, are you okay?” She lifted her head, and I could see the full extent of her injuries, her eyes were swollen shut, her lips bruised and bloody, her hair sticking to her face from the dried blood from the gash on her head.“Mitch, Mitch, where are you?” She muttered.
“Wendy, it’s Aria, I need you to look at me, I’m on your right side.” She moved her head, it rolled more to the side then moved.She was weak.
“Aria, where is Mitch?Why isn’t he here?” She was disorientated that much I knew.
“We are in some lab,” I told her.I didn’t want to tell her, I felt Mitch’s teether snap, I knew when she came too, she would realise and feel he was gone.I felt him leave this life just as the first explosion went off outside the bunker doors.Felt his life be snuffed out.
“Wendy, what do you remember?” She slurred her words and muttered something that didn’t make sense before going unconscious again.I put my head back against the wall.We were screwed.I was losing feeling in my limbs from the restraints.Looking at my hands again, I stretched my fingers and realised they were only a few centimetres off David’s.Then an idea popped into my head, one that might actually work.
David was drooling on the floor, but I needed him awake.Just when I went to call out to him, the door opened again.This time another man walked in, he had a shaved head and bulging eyes, he wasn’t dressed like the others, in their lab coats instead, he wore a white singlet with jeans, and I could see his tribal tattoos that ran up both his arms from his wrist to his shoulder.He looked towards the table.
“Stay away from them, don’t fucking touch them!” I yelled pulling on my restraints.David hearing me yell, looked up and started struggling as well to get free.He walked towards the table Lily and Amber were at.He lifted Amber’s head by her hair and sneered as he let go, her head hitting the table with a thud.Lily started screaming as he grabbed her, before undoing the cuffs holding her to the table.He then pulled her to her feet, and she stumbled, trying to free herself.
“Let her go, she is just a child.” The man grabbed her arm and started taking her towards the door.
David and I both screaming at him.
“Let her go, where are you taking her?” I screamed tears building in my eyes, panic setting in.The man opened the door.Pushing her through the door she fell forward, she got up and tried to run, but another man grabbed her, we watched on in horror as he held her.Another man brought in a mesh cage, he opened it and shoved her inside.Her fingers clutching the mesh as she called for us.She couldn’t even stand the cage was fit for a dog, not a person.Kade walked over with a syringe in his hand, walking directly towards her, Lily backed into the corner of the cage trying to get away from him screaming and crying.My heart tearing into pieces at seeing her so frightened and defenceless.
David screamed for them to stop, but they ignored our pleas.Kade put the syringe on the end of a pole before shoving the pole through the mesh.He tried to stab her with it, but she managed to move just in time.This went on for a few seconds before he jabbed it into her thigh.
Chapter 45
Aria’s POV
I watched and thoughtmaybe whatever they gave her didn’t work, I prayed to the Moon Goddess that whatever they injected her with was a failure.Only when I heard her scream, did my blood run cold, colder than ice.I could feel the blood leave my face and bile rose in my throat.And if that weren’t enough, they then wheeled her in so we could listen to her agonised screams.She looked at me in panic, her fear radiating out of every pore in her body, making the room fill with her scent.She writhed in agony panting, as wave after wave of pain shot through her.
“Lily, focus on me, bub, focus on my voice,” I called out to her, tears running like a stream down my cheeks.I watched them close the doors, leaving her screaming in pain.They sat on the other side of the glass, notepads in hand scribbling whatever garbage they were writing on to the pads.Lily looked at me, her eyes begging me to stop the pain.That’s when I heard her bones start snapping and moving, morphing, her eyes changed colour half blue, half yellow.
“Make it stop, make it stop, please Aria, make it stop.Daddy please.” Her voice taunting and tugging at the pieces of my heart.David, hearing her call him Daddy snapped.I could hear his shoulder break as he pulled against the restraints trying to get to her.
Blood dripping from her mouth as her face morphed.I will never forget the sound of her screams; they will forever haunt my memories burned into me forever.Her nails ripping from her nail beds, as her hands turned into paws, her claws going through the mesh, her screams getting louder as her spine rearranged itself, her clothes being torn to shreds, as she shifted right before our eyes.
Werewolves aren’t meant to shift before they are teenagers, Lily wasn’t meant to endure this torture for many years, and now she was forced to shift, and all I could do was watch.Her blue and yellow eyes staring back at us pleading to make it stop.When the shift finished, she was left standing in the cage, not as Lily but that of her wolf.She was magnificent, her fur was an unnatural silver with black paws that kind of looked like socks.One side of her face black and the other silver.Werewolves weren’t these colours; I knew whatever they did to her changed her, Werewolves didn’t shift early to give their wolf time to create a bond with their human part.Just as the shift completed, she let out a mangled scream before passing out on her side, the floor drenched with her blood.
“Lily, Lily, baby, wake up,” David called to her.She didn’t wake.