The Alpha's Saviour

Chapter 130 - The Storm

Jaycee's POV:

Without a second thought I absorb all of Coals emotions allowing them to become my own.

His beast is going into a sleep state, shutting himself off from the not just Coal, but the world: Refusing to fight, no longer feeling the need to be here on this earth. Not even the goal of saving his world, or the goddess herself is able to touch him with reason now.

The loss, his broken heart that ached so painfully, his loneliness and the deep feeling of powerlessness. I welcomed it all.

It was the air I breathed, became the very oxygen my lungs inhaled, reaching every cell, muscle, bone and tendon in my body.

The sorrow so intense I hadn't realised I was screaming. The sound high yet guttural as it gathered all the emotions that were now my own, before forcing them from my body like a sharpened blade. Its trajectory? The four witches before me and the one at my back stabbing frozen.

As my magic explodes I see the bright red and orange strings of emotion as it wraps around each witch. It enters their eyes, their mouths, their ears, and noses allowing them to hear, see, smell and feel everything I felt tenfold.
I wasn't sure how I knew this power, having never used or acknowledged this magic before, but I did. It was now an extension of my being, and as easy to control as my arms and my legs.

The witches screams were deafening, however didn't last long before they collapsed to the ground. Blood oozed from their eyes, ears and noses as they lay motionless.

The sob that sounded behind me had me turning to the witch who's skin glowed like that of tar. It's power like a force-field repelling whatever magic I had released.

"Darea!" She screamed and ran towards the witch wrapped in a gown of vines. The vines that once slithered and writhed along her curvaceous body, now looked floppy and withered.

"No.. not my sister!" The witch yelled looking my way. Her heart break almost as raw as Coal's was for his beast. My heart squeezed when I took in the girls motionless form, realising what I was capable of. Their heart beat was there but slowing drastically.

As if on auto pilot I approach the five of them. Coal remains silent, his eyes watching however never really seeing. He was to obsorbed in his own agony, even now that it has lessened, to care what happens next.

"What's your name?" I ask the witch who had the impressive ability to repel magic.

She glares my way, her jaw tightening as rage fills her. "Like I'm going to tell you!" She spits, her hold tightening on her sisters limp body.

I sigh. "I can save them all, but in return I want your name and for you all to surrender. You all won't be harmed if you cooperate. I assure you." I wasn't going to let them die, but she didn't need to know that. Getting their cooperation would make things easier.

Her blue eyes look towards Coal. His body surrounded by the same withered vines surrounding her sisters body. I hadn't noticed they were the reason he was kneeling earlier. Apart from the thorns that had sliced some parts of his skin, he was fine.

The moment she makes her decision was evident. As the fear and determination in her eyes gives way to me, she speaks.

"Promise me she will be unharmed while we are imprisoned. She only agreed to fight because Margo has our mother as leverage. Now that we have failed our task to capture the weak to blackmail you into surrendering, he will likely kill her."

Truth. It shone in the blue windows to her soul, long before the tears welled up in them.
I nod, not missing the way she pled only for her sister and not herself or the others.