too.” I leaned down and kissed her softly, trying to put every ounce of the love I felt for her into it. Puffs of dirt and snow popped around us as bullets continued to fly, I lost count of the ones that had hit me.
The gunfire slowed before finally coming to a stop. I had been hit too many times and felt light headed. There was no single point of pain, my entire body felt on fire. Jen was alive though, that was all that mattered.
“Use my energy,” she whispered and winced. The pain in her shoulder was bothering her more than she was letting on.
“What?” It was getting hard to see, harder to think.
“My energy!”
Not really able to think about it I reacted to her request on reflex, reaching inside myself to tap into that special energy reserve. The one that enhanced my abilities, the one that healed.
Clarity flooded into me, along with strength.
I could see my sister, still breathing and looking at me with fear in her eyes. Troy was slowly getting up on his knees, alive as well though clearly injured somewhere. Jen lay beneath me, eyelids fluttering as I took her energy into myself, repairing the damage the bullets had caused.
A footstep fell beside me and I felt the cold barrel of a gun at the base of my head. “All that shooting and we didn’t kill any of them?” The man above me called out.
“Fight them...” Jen’s voice was soft was she looked up at me.
It was time.
Chapter Fourteen
Jen
I looked up into his face and saw the destruction about to be unleashed a moment before it started. Liam stood with a quickness too fast to follow, sending a painful jolt through my injured shoulder. I’d been shot! Assholes!
The pain passed quickly and I smiled grimly, my hurt was nothing compared to what was about to be delivered to the hunters. They all looked on, dumbfounded, as Liam held the closest man by his neck in a single hand. His feet dangled well above the snowy ground.
His rifle dropped to the ground as he brought both hands up to Liam’s wrist in a vain attempt to free himself. Liam didn’t even seem to notice, he simply used the man as a living shield between us and the hunter’s friends.
A deep, menacing growl began in Liam’s chest as I felt a sudden surge of exhaustion, he was drawing deeply from my energy. I fought past the waves of tiredness, thankful for the adrenaline still flooding throughout my body, and kept my eyes on him, alert for any sudden problems.
The hunters began moving, attempting to get around for a clear shot at Liam, but most were still further down the hill. With his free hand Liam unbuttoned his pants, then reached up and tore off his shirt.
I heard my gasp echoed by Kris nearby, Liam’s back was riddled with bullet holes and covered in blood. Just before the shock set into my mind I saw his wounds knitting together right before my eyes.
Cuts stitched closed quickly, holes grew smaller and began pushing out the bullets that had caused them. The soft patter from the dozens of bullets falling to the ground caused the hunters to stop in their tracks and look on, wide eyed in rising terror.
“How...” Kris sounded just as frightened as the hunters looked. Her own injuries were forgotten as she watched her brother recover from what should have been an excessively fatal onslaught of bullets.
“What.” Troy spoke, his voice catching in his panic. “What are you?!”
“Furious.” Liam’s voice was guttural, enraged, primal as his shift began. Casually clenching his fist brought the sound of a breaking neck, followed by the sound of the hunter’s body dropping to the ground.
A few shots rang out, some hitting their target but getting healed out immediately. The sound of continued gunfire was soon washed out by the sounds of his shift. Louder than any of the other shifts I had heard, it nearly felt and sounded like an avalanche.
Once the shift was completed, a behemoth stood over me.
Screams of primal fear filled the silence after the transformation, fight
The gunfire slowed before finally coming to a stop. I had been hit too many times and felt light headed. There was no single point of pain, my entire body felt on fire. Jen was alive though, that was all that mattered.
“Use my energy,” she whispered and winced. The pain in her shoulder was bothering her more than she was letting on.
“What?” It was getting hard to see, harder to think.
“My energy!”
Not really able to think about it I reacted to her request on reflex, reaching inside myself to tap into that special energy reserve. The one that enhanced my abilities, the one that healed.
Clarity flooded into me, along with strength.
I could see my sister, still breathing and looking at me with fear in her eyes. Troy was slowly getting up on his knees, alive as well though clearly injured somewhere. Jen lay beneath me, eyelids fluttering as I took her energy into myself, repairing the damage the bullets had caused.
A footstep fell beside me and I felt the cold barrel of a gun at the base of my head. “All that shooting and we didn’t kill any of them?” The man above me called out.
“Fight them...” Jen’s voice was soft was she looked up at me.
It was time.
Chapter Fourteen
Jen
I looked up into his face and saw the destruction about to be unleashed a moment before it started. Liam stood with a quickness too fast to follow, sending a painful jolt through my injured shoulder. I’d been shot! Assholes!
The pain passed quickly and I smiled grimly, my hurt was nothing compared to what was about to be delivered to the hunters. They all looked on, dumbfounded, as Liam held the closest man by his neck in a single hand. His feet dangled well above the snowy ground.
His rifle dropped to the ground as he brought both hands up to Liam’s wrist in a vain attempt to free himself. Liam didn’t even seem to notice, he simply used the man as a living shield between us and the hunter’s friends.
A deep, menacing growl began in Liam’s chest as I felt a sudden surge of exhaustion, he was drawing deeply from my energy. I fought past the waves of tiredness, thankful for the adrenaline still flooding throughout my body, and kept my eyes on him, alert for any sudden problems.
The hunters began moving, attempting to get around for a clear shot at Liam, but most were still further down the hill. With his free hand Liam unbuttoned his pants, then reached up and tore off his shirt.
I heard my gasp echoed by Kris nearby, Liam’s back was riddled with bullet holes and covered in blood. Just before the shock set into my mind I saw his wounds knitting together right before my eyes.
Cuts stitched closed quickly, holes grew smaller and began pushing out the bullets that had caused them. The soft patter from the dozens of bullets falling to the ground caused the hunters to stop in their tracks and look on, wide eyed in rising terror.
“How...” Kris sounded just as frightened as the hunters looked. Her own injuries were forgotten as she watched her brother recover from what should have been an excessively fatal onslaught of bullets.
“What.” Troy spoke, his voice catching in his panic. “What are you?!”
“Furious.” Liam’s voice was guttural, enraged, primal as his shift began. Casually clenching his fist brought the sound of a breaking neck, followed by the sound of the hunter’s body dropping to the ground.
A few shots rang out, some hitting their target but getting healed out immediately. The sound of continued gunfire was soon washed out by the sounds of his shift. Louder than any of the other shifts I had heard, it nearly felt and sounded like an avalanche.
Once the shift was completed, a behemoth stood over me.
Screams of primal fear filled the silence after the transformation, fight
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