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.

and pacing around in a circle. I wondered if they were saying something to each other telepathically, but I couldn’t

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

was on the ground, I heard the snarling intensify. Edrick leaped forward and collided with Michael mid–air, and all I

and claws and blood.

vicious than the fight with Ethan. Michael wanted to kill me so

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

Down

at me, and

pain was traveling down my neck, over my shoulders and my arms, and it was slowly working

through my body. I clutched at the dirt with my hands while I shook violently from the

all of a sudden, Edrick scrambled back to his feet and slammed into Michael again. The two of them went rolling off

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

I had to shift.

Mina,” I begged my wolf. “We have to

but I knew 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 the world was spinning

on…” I gritted my teeth against the pain and held the vomit down

Michael backwards once more, and now they were fighting further away from the cliff’s edge. Edrick seemed

long. I could only watch, still in agony on the ground, as Michael clawed at Edrick’s throat and belly.

yelped and howled agonizingly, and fell to the

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

human form. I felt another surge of 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 and held him

over now, Moana,” Michael said, raising the knife above

Down

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

fully. My

I felt a searing pain in my belly. An excruciating scream escaped my lips, and I doubled over,

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