Chapter 239: Down to Earth

Moana

I opened my eyes, and started to panic as I felt myself starting to come back down. The shifting process wasn’t complete, and although I could feel myself shifting a little more with each moment, I was worried that Michael would kill me before I could shift fully.

However, my eyes widened as I saw Edrick standing in the mist behind Michael.

“Edrick!” I called, feeling my heart lift at the sight of him. He came for me after all…

His glowing silver eyes met mine for the briefest of moments.

“Hold on,” he said, his voice reverberating in my skull. “I’ll buy you some time.”

Suddenly, as I came back down, Michael lurched forward with the knife in his hand. I shrieked as I was practically touching the ground now, and held my hands up in self defense. But Edrick was too fast, and dashed forward.

I watched in horror as Edrick grabbed Michael by the back of his shirt collar and threw him backwards, putting himself between us. He growled and raised his hackles as he stalked closer to Michael, who was scrambling to his feet.

Michael shifted next into a large, gray wolf with a menacing appearance. I gasped at the sight of him; he was even bigger than Edrick, somehow.

“Edrick, no-” I said, reaching out to touch Edrick’s fur. “It’s too dangerous. Let’s just run away.”

But Edrick didn’t seem to be listening. I could tell that his sights were set on taking down his

father.

a circle. I wondered if they were saying something to each other

overtook my head. I yelped and fell to my knees, clutching the side of my head where the pain rang out. I was starting to shift; I could feel it. The sensation of my bones and my atoms shifting and changing made me almost sick, and I felt as though I could retch right there on

I heard the snarling intensify. Edrick leaped forward and collided with Michael mid–air, and all I could do was watch as they fought viciously

and claws and blood.

was so much more vicious than the fight with Ethan. Michael wanted to kill me so badly

paw made contact with Edrick’s neck, sending Edrick skidding off

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at me, and

use. The pain was traveling down

violently from the ache in my bones, and could only

again. The two of them went rolling off

All it would take was one shove or one

I had to shift.

wolf.

that she could hear my pleas. I felt another surge of power course through me, and I screamed again as another flash of pain took over my body. It was so intense that it felt as though

pain and

heard a loud yelp, followed by a thud. I whipped my head around to see that Edrick had thrown Michael backwards once more, and now they were fighting further away from the cliff’s edge.

watch, still in agony on the ground, as Michael clawed at Edrick’s throat and belly. Blood spewed out across the wet ground

and howled agonizingly,

clutching my pregnant belly, I started to hobble toward him. His fur was caked in mud,

the Golden Knife, and I could only fall to my knees beside Edrick. I dug my fingers into Edrick’s fur and held

Michael said, raising the knife above my

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was shifting. I closed my eyes and pictured my parents there, holding my

My

from before. At the same time, however, I felt a

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