Full Circle (Book 8 in Arrow/Spn Crossover)

Ticking Clocks

None of us said anything at first. Then Coyote broke the silence, "Can we trust you to not lie or deceive us in your answers about Mairyn and the plan to kill hunters? Honestly, this whole switch of allegiances just feels wrong to me, although I can feel the wolf part is fine with it."

All four of them nodded, "Mairyn abused her position as pack leader, we only followed her because we had no other choice,"  Einar stated.

"Okay but if we send you back to Purgatory, you'll be right there with her again  as soon as we kill her." I pointed out.

"Perhaps not," Audun said. "It is a big place and if we stay away from her we won't be forced into her pack again. We have a chance now because you freed us from the bonds. That is more than we have had in centuries. We were once honorable humans and tried to be honorable wolves. We used to hunt animals, not humans. This gift from Fenris was to be used to help us survive not to destroy others. We remember that even if she does not."

We all felt that there wasn't any lie to what either of them said. They didn't seem to hate her, but they sure as hell didn't want to be around her. I guess since they knew how she was before they could forgive her.

"We want to stop her, stop the vampires and other things that escaped along with us,"  Raelyn added, her thought was so soft I barely heard it. "When we were alive we avoided the bringers of death, the cursed, the inhuman. Even in Purgatory we would keep our distance, until Gordon and that portal. We have all been tainted by what Mairyn has done, we wish to, in some way, negate that taint."

Coyote looked at the rest of us, none of us said a word. We all knew where the wolves were coming from. She looked back at the four of them, "How many are left? Where is she going? What was the next step?"

Audun nodded, "Four other wolves, made last year. She will return to the staging area. The next step was to find a way to draw out the group of hunters that you sent away after you killed Gordon. She assumed, incorrectly it turns out, that only one or two of you would survive the rebirth, she would claim you and you would be forced to betray your friends."

I almost didn't catch the rest after that first statement, "You said made last year? How long have you been out?"

"Close to two years."

Sam and I just stared at each other, this was so not good.

"Our bones were in different places, as you can imagine." Audun continued, "So it took several months to gather together. Mairyn went first,then she would go to roughly where we thought our bones would be, send a Reaper with a human to us in Purgatory, we would do the spell, join her then move to the next spot. I do not know what the Reapers were getting out of this exchange but they seemed content to help. Once we were all together she and Gordon recruited monsters who were here and a few others came through from Purgatory to help as well. We fed carefully to not attract attention. Gordon trained us on how to hunt you and gather information as to your whereabouts. She turned a few new people along the way to gain knowledge quicker on how this world worked. Some were hunters that you know, not well from the information we gathered, but they knew enough. We were aware of your...what is it called? That system you use.."

"Email?" Sam asked.

Double down on this shit not being good at all. We were going to have to track down and kill every single thing that had been involved in this. There was just no way around it. The entire pack bond was vibrating with how jacked up this was. We all knew it, feeling it magnified through everyone else's brains wasn't the least bit helpful either.