Crescent flame of the night

Chapter eight

His friends surrounded him and Rowan could just make out the snarl coming from lorcan and the tense form of Fenrys hovering over him. Whatever that metal L was it was lethal. He could feel the iron of the little pellet in his shoulder, tearing through his flesh. His vision was red and the last thing he noticed before blackness enveloped him was the strangers surrounding his friends.

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   "Enough!" Ruhn yelled at the group. "We have you surrounded and at gunpoint so put down the weapons and we won't shoot you like we shot him" ruhn jerked his chin towards the the white haired male, who was supposedly named rowan " we don't want any trouble so just put down the weapons"
   The human male levelled his sword at ruhns chest. "How do we know we can trust you. For all we know you could just be saying this so we let down our guard and you can attack us" his eyes were icy cold and there was a chill in the air as he continued to glare.
   Ruhn motioned to his friends to lower their weapons slightly and he did the same. "We're not in the mood for a fight. You people just showed up out of nowhere and are super powerful. Things like that don't happen everyday, and you are the ones who initiated the fighting in the first place. And just because my friends phone rang. So can you please put down your weapons so we can work this out like civilised people"
The human seemed to look at his sword and after a few seconds lowered his weapon to his sword belt.
   Snarling, the fae conceded and lowered their sword and daggers in suit. The silver haired female looked reluctant but she eventually retracted her teeth and nails. The ghost leopard, who he assumed to be the other human female who disappeared, refused to change back to its true form.
   Hypaxia started towards the wounded stranger after she assessed that Declan was ok. When she got near to the group the Ghost leopard snarled and bared it's teeth. "Calm down. I'm a medwitch. I just want to take a look at his wound to make sure it's ok and not fatal" the beast stepped away growling and didn't take its eyes of the witch as she examined the gunshot wound.
   Ruhn felt the wind shifting and looked up in time to see Isaiah land on the pavement a few feet behind him with a loud thud. "Now that you've all stopped fighting can someone explain to me what the hell is going on here." The angel growled as he strode toward the group. The girl with the bad ankle stepped forward after giving a quick look to the dark haired fae.
   "My name is Lady Elide Lochan of Perrnath. This is my husband Lord Lorcan Lochan of perranth" she gestured to the male who she exchanged looks with before. She gestured to the blond male hovering over the silver haired fae next. "This is Fenrys. He is one of my Queen's warriors." Next she gestured to the silver haired woman and the dark haired man. "This is queen Manon blackbeak of the crochan witches and her husband King Dorian Havilliard II of Adarlan."
What were these places they talked about? And what kind of witch had iron nails and teeth? The Lady Elide continued introducing her friends.
"These two" she said gesturing towards the ghost leopard and a second fae male who stood by its side, who on closer inspection looked to be only half fae like Bryce, "are the Lady Lysandra Ashryver and Lord Aedion Ashryver of Caraveer." She finally gestured towards the silver haired male. "This is King Rowan Whitehorn Galathynius of Terrasen."
Elide finished speaking and stepped back towards her husband. The male named fenrys looked up from where he was bent over Rowan. "Well? Who are you? We told you who we were so the least you could do is tell us who you are."
Hypaxia rose from examining Rowans shoulder wound looking perplexed, but quickly hid it behind a cautious smile. He would ask her about that look later.
"Well I'm Hypaxia, queen of the witches. This" pointing to ruhn "is the starborn prince, ruhn Dannan." Next she pointed to the two fae males. "This is Declan and Flynn. They're part of the lunathion aux. so is Ithan." She gestured toward the young wolf. " and lastly we have Isaiah. He's the malakim."

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Dorian kept his hand on Damaris the whole time the witch spoke to be certain every word was true. With every word the sword stayed warm. He had never heard of a place called lunathion. Or of a starborn. Or an aux. And how was this hypaxia woman queen of the witches? There were only the ironteeth and the crochans and Manon was their queen. This place was making no sense at all.
"Now that we've finished introducing ourselves can someone please tell me what is wrong with my friend and what in the wyrd injured him?"
He saw the two fae, Declan and Flynn, look at eachother like what he said was insane. There was a flash of light in the corner of his eye and Dorian knew that Lysandra had shifted back to her human form.
"Your friend should be fine if he is treated for his wound soon. If the bullet had hit him in any other place from where it did it could have caused some permanent damage. We could take him to my clinic but that will take too long to get him there and he would loose lots of blood."
The witch turned to the tattooed fae who she introduced as ruhn. "Bryce's apartment is just a few blocks away. We can take him there."
"Unless we know exactly where your taking us, we're not going anywhere with you" cane the snarl of lot and voice.
"Bryce is my sister. She lives only a few blocks away. We can be there in 2 minutes.