Crescent flame of the night

Chapter six

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Lunathion
After Hunt and Bryce had flown off to do the deal for Jessiba, Ruhn and the others had continued on towards the white raven. It had taken them a month to finish rebuilding after Micah had blown it up.
When they were two blocks off from the club, they heard a crash coming from behind a cafe. Ruhn instantly had his gun out. Sure, there were always commotions in the city, but when you can also see ice creeping along the ground from where that crash came from, you know that there's gonna be trouble.
   Isaiah shot into the sky, preparing to strike if anything went terribly wrong. The others followed suit in drawing their weapons. Hypaxia stayed at the back of the group in a fighting stance since she carried no weapon. Ruhn lead the group to the edge of the ally where the commotion came from. Slowly he turned the corner and found 4 fae males and 4 humans, three of them girls and the other male.
   All of them were back to back surrounding one of the human girls with some form of weapon drawn, wether it be a dagger or sword, and had their teeth barred.
   Ruhn motioned for his companions to come around the corner, and they all surrounded the 8 strangers. After closer inspection he realised that three of the humans had no weapons draw but were still surrounding the one human girl. The girl had her dagger drawn but something seemed to be wrong with the way she stood. She must have a problem with her leg.
   "Where's aelin" one of the males growled. He had a tattoo that went from the side of his face to the tip of his fingers that was written in some foreign language ruhn had never seen before. His pine green eyes had a fierce icy rage in them, and his shot silver hair reflected the light. By the looks of it he was the leader.
   "Who are you?" Flynn demanded from his left. He could hear his friends shifting into fighting stances and could feel a tension start to build in the air. Darkness started to swirl around the human and fae group, and ice started to spread further and faster.
   "I'm going to ask you this one. Last. Time... Where. Is. Aelin"
   Suddenly Hypaxia's phone started to ring, her ringtone indicating it was from the medwitch clinic, and the strangers leaped at them. All guns forgotten, the aux members drew their swords to defend themselves and fight back.
   Ruhn called out to Declan to call Bryce and the hacker ducked behind a door to get out his phone without being interrupted by the fae and humans.
   As Ruhn battled the silver haired tattooed one and the dark and brooding one, who seemed to be surrounded by and creating darkness, he felt Ithan at his back. From looking around at his friends he could tell that The wolf was battling the male human and the blond haired fae male.
   He saw Hypaxia going head to head with the human girl who had the damaged ankle, and Flynn battling the two other human girls.
    He heard a hissing sound, like iron scraping against steal and heard Flynn cry out.
   "Fucking hell! What the fuck are you!"
   Chancing a look at his friend he saw that the silver haired woman now had long iron nails and iron teeth protruding from her mouth.    Who the fuck are these people?

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   Rowan had panicked as his mate had fallen to the ground, but nothing made him panick more than the tug he felt in his chest as he hit the ground in this strange city. There were tall buildings everywhere that looked nothing like those of erilea, but none of it registered with him. All he could think about was aelin and what could have caused the tug in the mating bond.
Please let aelin be ok. Please let that tug just be an indication that aelin was in whatever this place was.
   As Rowan straightened up, he turned to the 7 of his friends who were with him. Why wasn't aelin with them?
   Elide let out a cry of pain and fell to the ground clutching her ankle. Lorcan quickly dropped down next to his wife to make sure everything was ok. "I'm fine. It's ok. I just landed on my ankle funny"
   Lorcan didn't look any less worried and Rowan could feel the demifae brace her leg with his magic. 
   "Dorian, I need you to check out our surroundings with your magic. Figure out where we are" Rowan announced, taking charge.
   Ice started to seep our along the concrete, feeling around for any indication of where the hell they were. "already on it"
   As dorian's magic continued its search, the court of terrasen, plus Manon and Dorian, heard footsteps approaching. Almost at once, they all feel into a fighting stance back-to-back in a circle surrounding elide with her still painful leg. They all had their magic on standby and all the fae, as well as elide, drew a blade.
4 males and a female came around the corner with strange metal contraptions raised. Whatever those metal things were, Rowan knew they were some type of weapon and that a fight was going to come their way.
"Where's aelin" he asked, pure venom in his voice. Nothing would keep him from finding his queen.
One of the males to the left of the male who appeared to be the head of the group snarled at him and his friends. "Who are you?"
Rowan wasn't in the mood for games. He needed to find his wife. Nothing and no one would stop him from finding aelin. She was taking from him once. Never again would he let her be stolen away from him. Never again.
    "I'm going to ask you this one. Last. Time... Where. Is. Aelin"
   As Rowan growled, a sudden noise broke out from the females pocket. It was like a high pitched song being blasted as loud as it could go. Whatever that noise was, he didn't like it. And neither did his friends.
   Rowan and the others charged at the strangers who drew swords and daggers and disregarded the metal objects. Rowan and lorcan were locked in combat against the guy up front who had a sleeve of tattoos and multiple rings in his arched fae ears.
Rowan didn't pay attention to who his companions were fighting and kept full focus on the male in front of him. After a few minutes of battle, he heard Manon extend her claws and teeth and the cry of her opponent. The male he was fighting looked to see what was wrong and in that moment, Rowan slashed at his side, leaving a shallow gash. If the male had not of manoeuvred out of his way at the last second, the wound could have been fatal.
"Declan! Hurry up and get Bryce on the phone!"
What in wyrd was a phone? And who was Bryce? He didn't have much time to think on these thoughts as the fae male with the ear piercings and the left side of his head shaved charged at him. He shouldn't have let his guard down for even that small amount of time. If lorcan hadn't of been there he would have been incapacitated.
"Thanks brother"
"No worries. Next time pay attention and you won't need me to save your ass"
Rowan just snarled at the male and continued his advance on his combatant.

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Whoever these people were, they were powerful. It took all of Ruhn's skill not collapse under the pressure of the two males blades. He knew that they weren't even letting loose their full power. He could feel it. The dark haired male kept using magic something like his own. The tattooed one seemed to be manipulating the air.
Out of the corner of his eye he saw Declan racing towards him, phone in hand. When Declan reached him, sword drawn, he threw him the phone and cut in for his friend. Ruhn rushed off to the side bringing the phone up to his ear.
"I'm a little busy right now Ruhn. This better be important"
"How long will it take you to get to the old square?"
"I can't go to the old square. Me and hunt are a bit preoccupied"
"You two better not be fucking whilst we're fighting some fae and humans who are beating the crap out of us!"
"No were not fucking you alphahole. We found some girl lying in the street who had a whole arsenal of weapons strapped to her cloak and dress. And that's not even the strangest part. She was surrounded by ash and soot where a ball of fire should have landed."
"Well fuck Bryce! Why didn't you call me! You could have gotten hurt! You had no idea what that girl could have been capable of!"
"Oh calm down. I can handle myself and hunts here as well. We've got her handcuffed to a chair and hunts questioning her now. There's nothing to worry about."
"Did she tell you anything important? Because these people we found were asking where some girl was. And when they heard Hypaxia's phone ringing they freaked and attacked us"
"She said her name was Lilian Gordainia. When we found her she mentioned the name of some male. Rowan I think it was. And she seemed totally spooked when she saw our guns, as if she'd never seen them before in her life"
"Well don't let her leave. I'll be there as soon as I can."
As ruhn spoke he saw that Declan had been badly injured and was lying unconscious on the ground. Without thinking, he pulled out his gun and fired at the silver haired fae. The iron bullet his exactly where he was aiming. For the shoulder. He didn't want to kill the man, but he also needed to prevent him from being able to use a sword.
As soon as the Bullet connected with skin there was a deafening scream. Only it didn't come from the male or anyone in the ally. It came from the phone.
"BRYCE! What's wrong? what was that scream!?"
He heard rushing footsteps on the other end of the phone.
"What the fuck! What's wrong with her!" Came his sisters muffled voice from the phone.
"The weirdest thing just happened. Hunt had just asked Lilian a question and she just started screaming. There was nothing that could have prompted her to scream. One second she was just sitting there, then the next she was screaming like she had been shot"
Ruhn looked up to whet his friends were, and saw that the fighting had stopped. The strangers had surrounded the fae male he had shot, but now instead of there being 4 humans there were only 3. But there was also something new. There was a big grey ghost leopard. The silver haired human still had long nails and teeth that appeared to made a iron, and the dark haired human male had ice surrounding his hands.
"Ruhn? Are you still there?"
"Oh. What. Yeah. I'm here."
"She's screaming the males name. She won't say anything else. All she is doing is thrashing on the chair and screaming out the one word. Listen"
"ROWAN!! ROWAN!" The muffled scream of a female rang through the phone.
"What the fuck is going on here. It's no coincidence that we both run into random strangers in the streets who have weapons on them and who seem to have strange magic about them." Again he looked to the group of strangers. The blond haired fae was kneeling next to the injured male whilst the others surrounded them and snarled if anyone went near them.
"Rowan? Are you ok?" The blond one asked
"What the fuck was that?" The darker haired male who he had fought questioned.
The injured male just lay on the ground writhing, clutching his bleeding shoulder. "Whatever it was, it had iron in it" the guy, presumably named Rowan if what he heard the blonde male say was correct, said through panting breaths
"Bryce. What did you say that males name was? The one that girl keeps screaming?"
"Rowan. Why?"
"I think I found him"