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

rang out. I was starting to shift; I could feel it. The sensation of my bones and my atoms

the snarling intensify. Edrick leaped forward and collided with Michael mid–air, and all I could do was

and claws and blood.

to kill me so badly that

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

Down

at me, and

pain was traveling down

I shook violently from the ache in my bones,

feet and slammed into Michael again. The two of them went rolling off

into the misty abyss below. All it would take was one shove or one wrong turn, and one or both of them would

I had to shift.

Mina,” I begged my wolf. “We have to do

I screamed again as another flash of pain took over my body. It was so intense that it felt as though the world was

I gritted my teeth against the pain

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. Edrick seemed to have the upper hand over Michael, which

watch, still in agony on the ground, as Michael clawed at Edrick’s throat and

and howled agonizingly,

I managed to climb to my feet and, clutching my pregnant belly, I started to hobble toward him. His

excruciating pain as I saw him pick up the Golden Knife, and I could only fall to my knees beside Edrick. I dug my fingers into Edrick’s fur

Michael said, raising the

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

myself shift fully. My wolf’s immense power surged

before. At the same time, however, I felt a searing pain in my belly. An excruciating scream escaped my

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