Chapter 246

• I run for her, so intent on being by her side and helping protect her, when Radar skids across my path in front of me, shifting back to human, and the sight of him halts me. His body is drenched in blood and sweat, and the wounds from claws are not healing as fast as they should. He’s pale, almost lifeless, as he slumps on the debris-strewn ground, spent of life force, and I focus my gifts on him as a vampire takes a potluck shot at leaping towards him. I throw it back, throw my hands wide and scatter everyone closing in on Radar, tumbling them like dominoes with this new burst of intense power I seem to have found. Sierra is fast, and in a flash, she sprints to his side, pulling him into her as she, too, turns human and cradles him in her arms, shielding him protectively.
• “Leyanne, where the hell are you??” I scream out into the havoc around me, losing my cool, my voice hoarse and raw with the instant wash of intense emotion at seeing Radar this way, and quickly have to go back to scattering any who make a move on him. Juan appears to my left, running fast, and leaps right at my human pair. Putting his all into a flying assault as he thrusts his claws forward with deadly intent. I lift my arms, muster all I have left to create a body-sized orb, and chuck it towards the man with a vengeance, over the top of the two people I must protect against all costs.
• Juan is hit face-on, startled to a midair stop, and momentum hurtles him backward like he was just smashed by a freight train. He is blown tens of feet back into the heaving crowd of battling enemies and disappears into the chaos, like being swallowed into a sea of moving darkness.