My Miracle Luna
Their Gemini Wolves Chapter 77

{Third Person P.O.V.}

At last, the moment had arrived when Rylee was able to close the book on Ash Patterson. But this was no cause for celebration, for a far greater threat still loomed in the distance. Ash only had a small part to play in the grand scheme of Rylee's misfortunes, and the one responsible for toying with the lives of so many people she cared for was about to make his move. The million-dollar question was whether her Primordial prowess would be enough to put an end to this madness.

Wyatt and the others found themselves in familiar territory as they stared blankly off into space, trying to figure out why Rylee had disappeared without warning. She sprinted off, full speed ahead, and they didn't realize what had happened until the dust settled. Before they knew what hit them, a thin veil of unease had overshadowed their short-lived victory.

"Hold on, did I miss something?" Chad asked.

"Did I hear her right? Did she say your dad's name before running out of the shack?" Jason asked while turning to look at Wyatt. It took a second for Wyatt to register what just occurred, but upon the realization that his father may very well be in danger, Wyatt wasted no time of his own shifting into Blade and taking off after Rylee. Even though his speed was supernatural in wolf form, it was still no match for Rylee's. He could only hope that his legs would carry him home in time to save his father from imminent danger. As the others felt a sense of déjà vu while watching Wyatt's retreating form, Chad took point and ensured all of the hostages currently in a shrunken state were safe and sound within the birdcage. He handed off the cage to Lanie, and she clutched onto it while everyone else that remained shifted into their wolf forms. Havoc lowered his body to the ground, allowing Lanie to climb on. She held the cage firmly against her body while leaning forward slightly to hold onto Havoc's fur. As soon as she was settled, everyone immediately took off to head towards Blue Lake's territory.

Meanwhile, Rylee was running at full throttle and testing the limits of her super-speed, just short of going Mach-1. Kaleigh was maneuvering through trees and bushes, jumping over logs and boulders that would have otherwise been in her way with unmatched agility. The adrenaline pumping through her veins was the only thing preventing her from colliding with the inanimate objects obstructing her path. Kaleigh burst through the edge of the woods and began the ascent of hills and mountains that would lead her back to Blue Lake. As she made her way to the top, she looked towards the sky and saw the crescent moon still hidden behind the blue hour clouds. That was the only indication she needed to know she was not too late, for, in Rylee's premonition, she saw Ronan's death just as the moon revealed itself from behind the overcast of black and blue. The scene replayed once more in her mind-a dagger in his chest and Eric laughing over Ronan's dying body, whispering evil nothings about how he killed Ronan the same way he killed Mitchell. Although neither Nicole nor Emma were seen, she had no doubt that they were there as well.

With Wyatt pushing Blade to his max, they soon found themselves bursting through the forest's edge, only a few minutes behind Rylee. Wyatt was stunned at how fast Blade was running.

Blade, when did you get so fast?

I don't know. But I think I can go faster! Seriously?

Let's find out.

With a little push and the will to accelerate even more, faster was what they got. Blade's supernatural pace became even more extraordinary as he climbed the very same hills and mountains that Rylee had just traversed not too long ago. This is crazy! Blade, what is going on?

I think it's our mate.

What do you mean?

I think you finally accepting her fully and giving her free reign allows us to share her abilities. This isn't my speed. This is her speed.

Riding in the back of his own mind, Wyatt was speechless to hear this. He and Blade were sharing Rylee and Kaleigh's speed? If that was the case, then what else could they possibly be able to share as mates? That was something that they would have to test later. Right now, Wyatt's number one concern was the safety of his family. Rylee bolting the way she did after a premonition only meant that something terrible was going to happen, and it needed to be stopped right away. Wyatt feared the worst, but he wouldn't go there until he absolutely needed to.

Rylee cleared the final hurdle and stood atop the mountain that overlooked the Blue Lake's signature lake. She was met with silence; however, that silence was fleeting as the alarm that signaled a challenge echoed through the night sky. She looked towards the castle and had a clear view of the front of it. That's when Rylee saw the front doors burst open, and two wolves attacking each other emerged. She knew for sure that one was Harvey, Ronan's wolf, and the other was Dracul, Eric's wolf. Or, as she liked to call him, Dracruel.

Kaleigh glanced up at the sky as she could sense the clouds were beginning to move-and not in the direction they needed to. A sense of full-blown panic set in as she realized the moon was about to be fully exposed, which meant that she needed to move quickly. Rylee pushed Kaleigh to her top speed in no time at all as she barreled towards the fight. She could see that Dracul had overpowered Harvey and that he had also shifted back into Eric. This was it; this was what she saw in her premonition. As she made her way onto the field in front of the castle, she leaped over the pack members that were outside bearing witness to the challenge, roaring with pure rage. Just as the syringe pierced the skin above Ronan's beating heart, Kaleigh tackled Eric, knocking the syringe out of his hand and onto the ground. Eric rolled multiple times across the ground, snarling the entire time until he came to a halt.

"NO!!!" he screamed at his failed attempt to kill Ronan. He looked up from his place on the ground and saw the light blue wolf, realizing immediately that it was Rylee. "YOU!?!" Kaleigh snarled in response and stood between Eric and Ronan while Grace and Dylan helped Ronan to his feet. "YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE IN A DOLLHOUSE!! HOW ARE YOU HERE!?!" Eric cried out and was in complete disbelief that his plan to kill Ronan had been intercepted by someone who was nothing but a mere child in Eric's eyes. Rylee shifted back into her human form so that she could confront Eric face to face. As soon as she did, someone wrapped her up in a blanket. She knew without even looking that it was Milan. But before confronting the man who ruined her entire childhood, Rylee turned to Ronan.

"Are you okay?" she asked him, her eyes softening with genuine concern.

"I'm fine. It barely pierced the skin. Nothing was injected," Ronan reassured her. Rylee looked him over once more and saw that he was, indeed, 100% fine. If any poison had entered his bloodstream, he would have been keeled over and dying that very second. She turned her attention back to Eric, who was seething.

"HOW!? My planning was meticulous!" Eric shouted as he flailed his entire body, grabbed his hair, and screamed like a teenage girl.

"The next time you plan on attempting to kill everyone in the region, make sure that the most powerful wolf in existence isn't part of that region," someone else answered. Rylee turned to see that Wyatt had also made it back in time.

"What are you going on about? Most powerful wolf in existence!?" Before anyone could say another word, the sudden appearance of over a thousand werewolves caught everyone's attention. "What!?"

"ERIC PATTERSON!" a powerful voice boomed. Every single head that was attached to a body snapped in the direction of the voice, and there stood the twelve Elders that made up the council of the region, with Jonah at the point, Richard at his right, and Svetlana his left. All the werewolves bowed their heads in respect. Jonah and Richard stepped aside opposite one another as an unknown individual was thrown onto the ground in front of the crowd. "Jonah, who is that?" Wyatt asked.

"This here is the assistant M.E. of the council that helped Eric and his family fake their deaths and escape!" Jonah answered. Rylee snarled at the puny man at the feet of the Elders. "He has already confessed to his crimes, but seeing how his decision greatly affected everyone here, we have decided to give you all the choice to determine his fate!"

"DEATH!" all of the Alphas present shouted as one monolithic voice.

"Alpha Wyatt?" Richard addressed him. He didn't answer, but instead, Wyatt looked down at Rylee and nodded his head. Rylee didn't need to be told twice. Her eyes glowed bright silver, and her hair danced in the wind from her aura of immense power as she focused all of her energy on the betrayer. The crowd of onlookers gasped in astonishment and, most of all-fear. Without lifting a single finger, Rylee's powerful telekinetic powers shattered every bone in the assistant M.E.'s body. Rylee gave him exactly what he deserved, a slow and agonizingly painful death. His screams could be heard for miles past the Blue Lake territory, which Chad and the others heard as they, too, made their final descent into Blue Lake.

"Oh my god, what is that?" Lanie asked out loud as the cries continued echoing. All of a sudden, the sounds of anguish completely stopped.

Whoever it was, just died a very slow and painful death. Chad said to her in a mind link. And something tells me that they deserved it.

Lanie couldn't help but wonder if it had been Eric whose cries were heard just now, but she ruled it out quickly since she knew that killing him would not be so easy. That and she knew to expect a second cry to be heard if it had been him. Nicole's cries at the loss of her mate. The palpable silence only confirmed that it wasn't Eric that had died.

What's wrong, Lanie? Lexie linked her.

I was hoping that it was Eric who just died.

Oh.

Does that make me a bad person?

No. That makes you normal. Eric's a bad man. And a horrible werewolf. He ruined so many lives, and he deserves to die even more painfully than this other person did. I'm kind of glad it wasn't him, though.

What? Why?

Because. I want to be there to witness Rylee kill him. Does that make me a bad person?

No. But that does make you sound psychotic.

Shut up!

Lanie couldn't help but laugh a little over her jab at Lexie. It definitely eased her conscience and removed the guilt from her thoughts about wanting Eric to just hurry up and die. But she and Lexie were in agreement on one thing-she, too, wanted to bear witness to his death and the end of his terror.

As they ran over the mountain that led into the territory, a massive roar that didn't belong to a werewolf could be heard reverberating through the skies. A blur of orange could be seen running parallel to them. What caught Lanie off guard was the fact that there was more than one blur of orange running with them.

"Ryker!?" Lanie called out. A roar could be heard as a response, and Lanie couldn't help but smile, seeing that her friend had joined them. When the pack of wolves reached the base of the mountain, they were met by two weretigers, one being Ryker and the other was someone they didn't recognize. "Uhhh ... Ryker, who is this?" Lanie asked. Ryker rubbed his face into the neck of the other tiger, and they both purred with delight. Lanie gasped as her smile reached ear to ear. "Oh! Oh! Oh! I want to hear all about this. Especially since you were supposed to stay back and keep the packhouse safe! How in the world did you know to... Ah, never mind, we don't have time for this!" she exclaimed, and they took off again to meet everyone at the castle where they bore witness to Eric's ever- growing temper tantrum.

"WHAT ARE YOU!?!" Eric screamed at Rylee when he saw his alibi lifeless and looking like an overcooked noodle, his bones and his brain matter spilling out of his cranium.

"The most powerful wolf in existence. Either you don't know how to listen, or your old age has made go deaf," Rylee spat at him.

"You!? The most powerful wolf!? That's not possible! You're nothing but a street rat!"

"That you found in the rubble of my packhouse after you destroyed it. You always assumed that I was an Omega, and then you found out I was an Alpha. But what you were never told was that not only am I an Alpha, I am also a Primordial. I possess power beyond anyone's comprehension, and what you saw me do just now is nothing compared to what I'm going to do to you!" Rylee wailed and lifted Eric into the sky as she closed his airways. She used her power of water manipulation and summoned a massive whirlpool from the lake, concealing Eric within it and essentially drowning him.

"LET HIM GO!!!" someone screamed. Everyone's attention turned towards the voice, and there stood Nicole and Emma with Grace in their grasp, the syringe that Eric had dropped pointed at her jugular vein. "LET HIM GO, OR I WILL KILL HER!" Nicole screamed again, pushing the tip of the needle even closer to Grace's neck. Rylee knew that Nicole wasn't bluffing, so she did what Nicole wanted and released Eric. But she never said she had to let him go nicely. Rylee shut off her powers as if they were a light switch, and Eric fell to the ground with the water splashing on top of him. Eric hacked up the water and coughed for dear life.

"Nicole."

"You ungrateful little b***h. After everything that we did for you, this is how you repay us!?"

"Did for me? You mean did to me!"

"For you, to you, it doesn't matter. We gave you a home! We let you eat our food. We even gave you a purpose. You should be thanking us for not killing you!" Emma interjected. Rylee glared at both of them, trying to find a way to get the needle away from Grace. Because of the close proximity and Nicole's thumb on the trigger, just waiting to push in the injector, Rylee couldn't risk scaring Nicole because it would surely make her thumb slip.

"Don't even think about using your powers on me, you little hellion. I heard everything you said and saw everything you just did. If you even so much as lift a finger, I will plunge this poison straight into her neck!"

"If you hurt my mother, I swear on the Moon Goddess that I will rip your head off!" Wyatt snarled.

"Like I told you before, Wyatt," Emma started to say as she stepped forward. "You chose the wrong mate. You could have had so much more, but you chose that little w***e! Who cares if she has powers. All that comes with it is problems and enemies! Had you chosen me, or even that b***h Layla, your life would be so much easier. So much calmer. What have you gotten out of being mated to Rylee? Hm? Your memories taken from you. Rejection. Near-death. And now, you have to deal with my family and me. I'm sure that my brother had his way with her a few times already. Are you sure you still want that piece of trash?" Emma blabbed on.

"Ash didn't touch me. I didn't give him the chance. And he never will either," Rylee said and stared at Nicole, who didn't miss the twinkle in Rylee's eyes when she said that. "What... What did you do to my son!?"

"If we're going to be technical, I didn't do anything except outsmart him. Morgan, on the other hand, did quite a bit to him." "What are you talking about?!"

"Morgan, the dark witch that Eric saved and has been helping you guys? She and Ash had a little fling, and well, she took his soul as payment without his knowledge. She was slowly killing him. And in retaliation for her deceit, Ash ripped out her heart, killing her as well as himself." Hearing that her son was now dead did nothing but escalate the situation at hand. Nicole screamed in agony at the death of her second-born and only son, distracting her long enough to allow Grace to push her away and free herself. "AHHHHH!!!" Nicole screamed at the top of her lungs and ran after Grace. Ronan intercepted Nicole and tried to fight her off, which led to Emma pursuing Grace. But Milan appeared and intercepted her, tackling her to the ground. Both shifted into their wolves and started to brawl. The chaos threw everyone off and gave Nicole an opening to knock Ronan away from her. She picked up the syringe and stood over Ronan.

"NO!!!" Rylee and Wyatt cried at the same time and tried to run to him, but before they could even get two feet, they stopped when they both saw that someone else had gotten in the way. Time had slowed to a near stop. Rylee whimpered when she saw what happened. At the same time, Emma's wolf could be heard crying and screaming in pure pain as Milan's wolf, Ivory, tore her to shreds.

"EMMA!!!" Nicole cried as her daughter was killed mercilessly. Rylee was stunned at the turn of events, but Wyatt was not. He ran past her and straight to his father, leaving her completely open to an attack. Eric took the opportunity to shift and ran full speed to pounce on her, but Rylee knew Eric and his dirty style of fighting. She turned just in time and caught Dracul midair with her powers of psychokinetic energy and crushed his larynx without even batting an eyelash. Eric slowly started to suffocate as she continued to put pressure on his windpipes.

"Before I kill you, I think it's time that Nicole knows exactly what you did!" Rylee shouted at him. She forced his wolf to retreat into the back of his mind and made him shift back into human form, never once letting him go. Knowing that Rylee was referring to them, Lanie and Lexie both stepped forward. Nicole had been apprehended by Wyatt and Jason and was on her knees facing three blondes that looked so much like the woman she hated more than anything. "Nicole, I'd like you to meet my half-sisters, Lanie and Lexie." "Why should I care about your sisters?!" Nicole spat.

"Because. They're not only my sisters, but Emma's and Ash's too." That information hit Nicole like a ton of bricks, and it didn't take her long to realize the meaning behind Rylee's words. "WHAT?!"

"Your mate had my mother kidnapped. He put her in a cage! Like some kind of f*****g animal, and then forced himself onto her and violated her until she conceived his pups. Eric killed my father because he wanted my mother. He wanted her and the girls that she gave birth to. He wanted a family with her, even if it was going to be by force. But my mother didn't want that with him. Even if it meant giving up the daughters that she loved more than life itself. She gave all of us up because she wanted to protect us from this piece of s**t you call a mate!" Rylee exclaimed and slammed Eric to the ground in front of Nicole.

"YOU HAD s*x WITH MEGAN!!" Nicole screeched at Eric, who was literally suffocating to death. She broke free from Wyatt and Jason and started to beat him. She slashed at him with her claws, stomped on him with her feet, and slammed his head onto the ground. She reached into her back pocket and pulled out a second syringe.

"NO!" Rylee shouted and forced the syringe out of her hand. Nicole seized the opportunity to run at Rylee, colliding with her. Nicole had her hands around Rylee's neck and squeezed as hard as he could, but what she didn't expect was for two wolves to attack her from behind. Those two wolves being Atlanta and Brooklyn. Without even hesitating, Lanie's and Lexie's wolves tore Nicole to shreds in order to protect Rylee. Sisters saving their sister.

Rylee stood to her feet and found that Eric was still breathing. Rylee stood over him, and her lips quivered in disgust. Lanie and Lexie came up next to her covered in Nicole's blood, and they too stared down at the man that took them from their home and left them in the hands of a trafficker for money.

"Help me, my daughters," Eric muttered out the best he could.

"Go to Hell," they both said and turned away from him. Eric watched as the only children he even remotely loved turned their back on him without even a second glance.

"As my sisters said, go to Hell," Rylee repeated and had the root of a tree impale him from underneath. Rylee watched as the life from his eyes slowly died away, and when she heard the final beat of his heart, she finally let out the breath that she had been holding for the last decade. But the reverence of peace that she felt was pierced through as the cries of Jason, Keaton, and Kendrick could be heard.

At some point during the chaos, Kendrick and the others were turned back to normal. That's when Rylee noticed several unknown men and women speaking with Svetlana. She would have to deal with that later; first, her pack needed her.

"Dylan, you old fool! Why would you do that!?" Ronan shouted.

"Grace needs you," Dylan whispered. Dylan had been the one that had taken the syringe full of poison in his back. He saved Ronan, his best friend. Felix was standing over him as well.

"Milan! Come on, baby, stay with me!" Jason cried.

"What happened to her!?" Rylee asked as she kneeled down between both her and Dylan.

"Emma must have cut her with a blade or something. It was probably laced with the poison," Jason explained while holding onto a feverish Milan, who was going in and out of consciousness. "She came over to check on Dylan and suddenly collapsed. That's when I saw the cut on her arm." Rylee didn't know what to say.

"Rylee, save them!" Kendrick cried while holding his father.

"I can't," Rylee replied.

"Yes, you can! You have the power to stop people from dying!"

"No, you don't get it! I can't save them both! I can only save one!" Rylee cried.

"Milan! You have to save Milan! Our kids need her!" Jason cried.

"We need our father! We've already lost our mom to poison!" Keaton cried. Rylee was at a crossroads. She needed to decide who to save, and she had to decide soon before they both died.

"Milan." Everyone snapped their heads up. "Save Milan," Wyatt said.

"WYATT!" Kendrick shouted and got to his feet, shoving Wyatt back. "This is my dad! The man who's been like an Uncle to you! He saved your father's life!"

"I get that, Ken, I really do, but Jason's point is more valid. Their pups need their mother," Wyatt said with tears in his eyes. This was the choice that he had to make. The choice that Selene warned him about. Not a choice about who he killed or didn't kill, but an impossible choice between choosing a man, who has been like a second father to him, or the friend that he's loved like a sister all of his life. "Kendrick." He looked down at his father, who signaled for him to come closer.

"Dad, just hang on. Maybe Rylee can save you both."

"No."

"DAD!" Keaton cried. Irene was sobbing next to him, and Melody was also crying with Ronan and Grace holding her.

"I'm ready to be with your mother," Dylan whispered.

"DAD! COME ON! You have to meet your grandpup! You promised me." Keaton wept.

"I'm sorry, Kea.. Kea... Keaton," Dylan croaked and spit up blood. "Milan. Luna, save ... Milan." Rylee didn't have the luxury of second-guessing and immediately turned her back on Dylan. She bit into Milan's neck, opposite of Jason's mark, and injected her venom, praying that it would be enough to counteract the poison. As Rylee worked to save Milan's life, she concentrated on Dylan's slow heartbeat. She could feel his wolf trying to fight off the poison, but it was turning into a losing battle as it soon took the soul of his wolf, and all that was left was the body of a human. Dylan's heartbeat became more steady, with seconds passing per beat. As his heart rate came to a palpable stop, Milan's started to accelerate. That's how Rylee knew that her venom was running its course and pushing out the poison from Milan's body. Rylee pulled back and watched as the poison seeped out of the wound and evaporated into thin air. As the last of the poison disintegrated, Dylan took his last breath.

"Dad?" Kendrick called out.

"Dad?!" Keaton cried.

"DAD!!!" both bawled and buried their faces into Dylan's still chest. Rylee bowed her head and cried, while everyone else did as well. Even those who were not part of Blue Lake cried and paid their respects for the loss of the former Beta. Kendrick stood to his feet in pure rage and punched Wyatt square across the jaw. Wyatt slowly faced his best friend with tears streaming down his own cheeks.

Both just stared at each other crying and then hugged each other to give one another comfort. One comforting his best friend and Beta for the loss of his father. The man who raised him and his younger brother to be the men that they are today. And the other comforting his best friend and Alpha, who had to make an impossible choice.