The Gift chronicles

Book 2 Chapter 13

To my surprise, the Blood Luna didn't even look at me. Her and Axel made eye contact and he nodded at her.

"Onyx, you need to get down on the ground. Keep your head low. We're under a chemical attack," Axel commanded, and I quickly dropped to the floor, despite the fact that I couldn't see anything, despite the air looking slightly more cloudy.

Suddenly, I felt burning in my nostrils, and tried to inhale as little as possible.

Out of nowhere, seven men wearing gas masks began to form a circle around Axel, Ares, and I.

The Blood Luna didn't hesitate to throw the knife in her hand at one of them, and then quickly summoned another one which went into another masked man.

To my disbelief, Axel's whole arm turned into metal. He punched the crap out of one of the men, and I heard the guy's neck snap sickeningly.

As for me, I felt completely handicapped by whatever chemical they sprayed into the air. I was now coughing, and could barely move except to whither in pain. It felt like I was being burnt alive.

Axel didn't look like he was doing too well either. After he took down the man, he began to cough and I could see his face scabbing. He began to fight another man, and sent one punch to his face so hard his skull completely shattered.

Ares however, looked to be resisting the chemical better, presumably because she is an Alpha. She stabbed yet another masked man, and made it look easy.

Unfortunately, five more men took the places of the ones that had fallen. Axel swayed slightly before falling to his knees. Blood poured out of his nose.

I felt a wetness under my eyes, and to my surprise, it was blood that was seeping out of my eye sockets. Well. I guess this is how it ends.

The chemical was making my thoughts extremely hazy, as I could only focus on the pain. I watched Ares kill man after man, and at one point I thought I watched her rip the heart out of a man in a hazmat suit with a backpack on. It was hard to tell what was real or not, especially since I could feel myself slipping in and out of consciousness.

Ares was covered in blood. When she began to walk towards me, I wanted to scream in fear but found myself unable to. Instead of killing me, she picked me up and ran a few yards.

ran back into the foggy air, where she helped Axel off

standing, I could see Axel breathe in deeply with

down to where I was on the ground, and

my hands, where there were blisters from whatever chemical was used. She

out of her nose. "Ares,"

to her nose and looked at the blood. She just shrugged, seeming uninterested

be doing fine too. "We have to go back and tell Cain

glared at him. Their eyes went glossy, and it looked like

Axel said, motioning towards me. When I tried to stand up, my legs felt like Jell—o, and I just crumpled to the

lead, taking us back to the pack house, and I subconsciously noted that it

and the other Blood Lake wolves stood up off

Ares roughly by the shoulders and examined

no time, and Axel handed me over to him. He was not nearly as rough as Alpha Cain when he examined me for injuries. He frowned when he

you okay, little one?" He murmured softly, inhaling my scent deeply, and I felt him

my voice yet.

repeating the Blood Alpha's

15 men. None got

Cain roared loudly, the sound sending echoes throughout the house. "This pack isn't safe. Ares, you're coming

at him. My mouth

"Oh boy," Thane sighed.

cropped tank top, I could see her body much more visibly. Her abs were clearly defined, and if I counted correctly, she had an eight—pack.

and I'll be damned if he didn't square up to

knife, and threw it at her mate without hesitating for a second. The action was so quick, I would have missed it if

action seemingly pissed him off more, but he flicked the knife away without a second thought. I assumed he would just be

and a ball of fire appeared in his hand. His Gift was fire. I