My Fated Mate Can Have Her-Chapter 117: Unleashed
[Warning: Omniscient POV]
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Another pillar of the same light radiance exploded upward from where his dead Righg lay, engulfing its corpse completely.
Terror unlike anything Darnel had ever experienced washed through him in waves. This was beyond an Alpha’s dominance. Beyond a Supreme Alpha’s power. The screams were enough to destabilise him, but now, it felt as if he was watching something he was never meant to witness.
He tried to move. Tried to shift back to human form so he could run since his wolf form wasn’t responding.
But his body refused.
His locked muscles would not budge. Every instinct told him that movement meant death.
Another pillar erupted in the distance.
Then another.
And another.
All over the red woods, pillars rose to the sky like it was a forest of light. Each pillar marked the location of every Righg. Dead or alive, it made no difference.
And along with those toches, bloomed gut wrenching screams that rooted every other living creature, along with the wolves, rooted in place.
One by one, the Righgs were snuffed out by a force of nature that refused to acknowledge their right to continue living.
[ - ]
At the edge of the Red Woods, Kael stood transfixed, along with all the other wolves, staring at the pillars rising all over the red woods.
More pillars rose in the distance away from the forest itself, their light so intense it turned the eclipse’s darkness into something closer to day.
Kael’s wolf roared in his mind, recognition and terror mixing into something that had no name.
"Mate!"
The bond, which had been fluctuating so strangely all day, suddenly blazed to life with intensity that nearly drove him to the ground. He could feel her and at the same time, he felt so alienated from her.
And beneath it all, he felt power like he had never felt before.
A lot of the wolves broke from their stupor, wrecked with confusion as to what was happening. Karla droned at his side and Tow came to join him, their voices thrashing into the mindlike in a fruitless attempt to grab his attention.
Something more shocking was happening.
He could feel as the Righs were dying out, and with growing awe, he slowly came to the realisation that the pillars of light she was creating in all directions were targeting Righgs.
Every single Righg in the entire nation was dying in the same moment.
[ - ] 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎
In the capital, where families and other wolves had gathered to experience the eclipse, were dazed by the sudden distractions. Their heads turning toward the forest in the distance where pillars of light rose like a second sunrise.
In the woods, where wolves hunted during the eclipse, and rogues trailed the boundary lines, similar pillars erupted from the ground with no warning, targeting Righgs that had been lurking in the shadows, waiting for their own opportunities to hunt.
In distant packs, even in forests that hadn’t seen a wolf pack in generations, the light found its prey.
Across the entire nation, in the span of minutes, an entire species ceased to exist.
[ - ]
Beyond Fresna’s borders, in nations too far to witness the eclipse’s totality, life went on as usual.
Except for the two neighbouring nations who fell within the eclipse’s path.
And only the Supreme Alphas felt the subtle shift in the air.
In Thornhelm, Supreme Alpha Calder sat in his sun room, lounging under the open roof in his human form as he took in the eclipse’s dull glow. At ninety-three years old, he was one of the oldest living Supreme Alphas, his silver hair and scarred face testaments to decades of rule.
A sharp, electric sensation ran across his skin like static before a lightning strike. The hair on his arms stood on end, and his wolf stirred uneasily in his mind.
He slowly opened his eyes and lifted his burly frame off the hammock. He sat still, listening to the air itself.
He had only felt it for a brief moment, like the fabric of reality had been pulled taut and was now vibrating with invisible tension.
One of his betas was in the room, her weathered hands clasped over her stomach as she lingered in a reclining chair, also in her human form.
Her eyes lazily shifted to the old man. "Calder?"
Calder raised a hand for silence, his eyes narrowing as he seemed to focus more with his enhanced senses. The disturbance was coming from Fresna.
"Ergo... Do you feel that?" he asked quietly.
[ - ]
In the second nation touched by the eclipse, Supreme Alpha Palisa of Nal stood in her courtyard, petting the pink snake coiled around one of many vegetative plants decorating the area.
The same crackling static sensation washed over her, making her go still.
The serpent swept out its tongue in a hiss, lapping at the woman’s outstretched hand. It rubbed its head alongside her arm, begging for its master’s attention.
Very little caught this woman off-guard.
But this slight, barely perceptible feeling that had faded just as quickly as it appeared stunned her.
"What..." the word died on her lips as the sensation flared up again before vanishing once more.
Palisa abandoned the pet and strode towards the entrance of her estate, her long pink hair, and sleeping coat billowing in the air behind her. She rushed into the building and rushed up the flight of stairs leading to the highest balcony, following a compulsion that convinced her she would find her answer high up in the sky.
She slammed her weigth down on the balustrade, leaning forward as she squinted her eyes, tensing them to focus on the distant horizon, towards where she knew Fresna lay beyond the vast stretches of land that separated their nations.
At first, she saw nothing.
Then, for just a moment, a single, heart-stopping moment, she saw them.
Tiny threads of light in the distance. They rose from beyond the horizon in multiple places, so far away they should have been impossible to see at all.
But she saw them anyway.
