Evolution

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Ch 13 Consequences

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:::content warning – Violence, death, suicide attempt:::

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Trinity's inner shadow shrieked within her, "My beast!" Destroying the last of Malak's dark chains binding their souls, she inhaled as great bat wings spread from her back while clawed hands reach the upward in a moment of evolution, then the pale gargoyle demoness leaped off her pillar to fly after her wolf's soul. In the mortal realm, keening, Trinity rocked Coen as her soul was tearing apart. Her wolf tried to follow her mate but her evolved demoness kept her wolf with them, hissing, 'Vengeance, my sister, we are one in vengeance!' Trinity felt the pieces of her soul collide with her body like a sledgehammer striking her chest over her heart.

Trinity staggered as she took two shaky steps away from Coen's corpse. She looked at her mate's blood dripping off her shaking hands and then sucked it off her fingers. Dropping to her knees, she shrieked inhumanly as her body began to glow and grow, stretching her leggings and top, and tearing them apart as she evolved physically. Sensing the shift in her soul through the bond she shared with his brother, Callen stood, growing to his warform, and ready to die to protect her while she changed. Coen's last gift to his brother doubled his power as an alpha.

His second stood to the side warily watching Trinity change into something unlike any walker or hybrid. "Master, we must flee," he begged, worriedly stepping between his master and the two teens, knowing they were about to attack again.

Lord Malak struggled to stand. "No, the Daughter of Darkstone will be mine!" His flesh as torn as the dead werewolf's. The blood pooled around his feet was his own this time. He never faced an enemy so willing to suffer to overcome him.

Great white wings unfolded, and a female gargoyle rose. Her eyes shining like the full moon. "It is time, my brother." She stepped forward and touched his shoulder.

Callen howled a challenge as they lunged at the two Shadow walkers. Callen's jaws clamped down on the assassin's head and it popped like a melon before the enemy could shimmer away to safety. Trinity jumped on Malak with her talons sinking into Coen' claw marks. Ripping bone and flesh as she sinks her fangs into Malak's throat, growling one word, "Submit!"

Malak's body went rigid as the gargoyle warform held him. Callen dug out the shadow walker's heart and then staggered to her side while Malak shuddered and convulsed. His inner demon fighting against both Trinity's demoness and her wolf as they shredded his dark soul to pieces. Her wolf was particularly vicious while her demoness laughed manically.

Trinity stared mercilessly into his eyes, "You took my wolf's mate, my shadow's beloved, and tried to change my baby brother into what you are... Lord Malak of the Dark Shadows, as a queen, my judgement is that your coven is forfeit."

"I will never yield to you, abomination," He gasped like a fish out of water as her talons and her power dug into his cursed soul, but he struggled to break free.

"Suffer," Trinity hissed. Malak wailed like a lost soul as her demoness forced him to endure the suffering of those he tortured and murdered.

"I need to drink his blood to reach those in his coven," she hissed at Callen.

His warform nodded and bit one of Malak's hands off, spitting it on the ground like an unwanted bone. Cupping his own under the spurting blood, he blew on it to cool it before offering Trinity a drink. She slurped and licked the blood from his palm, then he filled his cupped hand again. As he held the second palmful of blood up to her mouth, they sensed and heard the approaching wolves and sun-walkers.