The Defiant Luna
Chapter 50

Nathan POV

His tether was open, as was his mind to try and establish a link to either Jay-la or Stephen. That dull ache in his chest was gone, he now knew he was close enough to her that there was no separation from her, he should be able to feel her tether or be able to mind-link to her or Stephen for that matter.

Though he had no idea if either of them were bound by silver to suppress their wolves and reduce their wolfen strength, he could only pray to his Goddess that this was not the case. He could see there was a good foot of snow out here in the mountains laying on the ground, hiding the sound of his wolves racing or even stalking through the woods was not going to be easy.

They were already out there in the mountains in wolf form, had shifted and were on the move. He was hoping that both Jodi and Brad still held a strong family connection to her. So that they could sense out her location, knew that they were both out there leading separate retrieval teams.

He appeared to be the only one in the car he was driving.

Although he was not alone, Jackson was in the back, a blanket dropped over him in case of any prying eyes, though he had not seen anything at this point, to indicate he was being watched

They had been travelling in the car now for 20 minutes by themselves, when his tether finally connected him to Stephen, he heard Jackson state “Boss.” Instantly, as he felt the tether to the packs Gamma establish, was open for It to connect as were all his wolves.

“I know I feel it” he stated right back, opened a mind-link right to Stephen, it was going to cause him a hell of a headache later on, having to see where he was going and mind-link to someone at the same time, two completely separate focuses at the same time. He would suffer it at will.

‘Stephen?’ but then the tether was just gone, severed from him, he cursed out loud as he tried to re-establish it and got nothing.

“Something is wrong.” Jackson told him.

“You don’t need to tell me.” Nathan muttered. He understood there was something wrong, for there was no way that Stephen would shut him out on purpose at a time like this. He didn’t think that he could do it at all. The only one able to ignore him as the Alpha was Jay-la herself.

He and Havoc both reached out for Jay-la. If she and Stephen were together he should be able to connect with her as well. All they got was a flickering of her, it was like an unsteady phone line of a connection to her, cutting in and out constantly, his tether to her though, that was there still. He just couldn’t establish a full mind-link to her.

‘Boss.’ It was Stephen reaching out to him finally.

right away

Latched right on to that man “What is going on?’ he asked “You need to get here asap.’ He could hear the urgency in his voice.

‘What is wrong with Jay-la?’ he asked right back needed to know how she was, what was happening and why he couldn’t reach her.

‘In full flight and fight mode. Fighting a Beta wolf, from what I can tell.’

‘What you can tell?’ how could he not tell what the man was? Smelling him should tell him just that.

I’m not in the cell and her distress is hampering me, hes bigger than the other two in her cell with her, though one is dead already. Gut him like a pig. Sorry boss.’ Then he was just gone once more.

Heard Jackson swear from the back seat and saw him toss that blanket off him. It wasn’t Stephen’s fault, of course they would separate him from her. He was her Gamma. That would be the logical thing to do, because he would die to protect her.

“Why can’t we hold onto him?” Jackson sounded more than annoyed.

“I don’t know.” Nathan muttered. He was more than annoyed himself.

They felt him come back about a minute later. Why can’t we stay in contact?’ he rapped out.

Silver bars on the cells, she’s bouncing off them or touching them while fighting for her life, I had to reach through and grab the Delta as he tried to get up, to stop him from helping his Beta. Got cut off because I came in contact with the bars in order to do so. It’s all I can do, boss, to help her, but the minute I touch them he outpowers me. I’m trying my best to stop him.’

I thought her flight response would bring them all down?’ he frowned

‘It did, only the Gamma stood up with it, both the Beta and Delta went down, Sophia went in to labour when she got hit with the Luna’s distress. But the minute her fight response kicked in, they all started recovering and getting up, took a bit for them to do.’

‘Is her cell open or closed?’

‘Open.’

Can you keep it open? Are you close enough to it to reach it?’

‘I can, it backs right on to my cell.’

‘Keep it open, give her an escape route.’

‘on it’

Felt that man disconnect from him a moment later and then a few minutes later there it was, a fully established tether right to her, he could not only feel it good and strong, could sense what direction she was in, wasn’t that far from him. Jammed the breaks on and snapped “Out I got her.” as he got out of the car. “We’re close.” He told Jackson.

The moment he was out of the car, Havoc was ripped right out of him and they were gone off in the direction of their Mate at full Alpha Wolf speed. They were latched on good and tight to her tether, Havoc was fast in his half-shifted state, moving at full wolfen speed, a direct line to her unlike the road that they had been driving on which was continuously winding back on itself

They would be quicker on foot now. They tried to reach out to her via a mind-link, got nothing at all from her, they could feel her but make no contact with her, there was no mind-linking to her in her afflicted state, something they’d not known if was possible or not, hadn’t thought so but now knew they couldn’t.

Heard a massive roar echo through the area and knew it was Kora, and all pure aggression, her Luna’s roar, felt Havoc move even faster if it was possible, and could hear fighting going on within a minute, as they raced towards her. They could see some of his wolves already in battle with other wolves as a building came into sight, had reached the patrolling wolves.

Shot past them all his only concern now was for his Mate and to save her. That roar was all aggression and it was likely she was out there fighting still, in an uncontrolled bloodlust state of mind.

Rounded the corner of a small building to finally lay eyes on her, she was not just fighting wolves, she was fighting an Alpha wolf, they could smell him from here, see the b***d that was all over her. They could smell her b***d as well, a full Alpha Roar ripped out of them at the state of her, and they were on that Alpha male a second later.

They slammed their body right into his, right as that man’s eyes turned to look at him, widened a little at the sight of his half-shifted form. All their claws right into him as they shoved him away from their Mate, rolling over each other on the ground, saw that man get up and stare right at Havoc, more than shocked by it, then his wolf just ripped out of him.

He and his beast understood the fight they were in was about to be very different from a normal wolf on wolf fight Havoc was on him the moment he shifted, snarling all his Alpha aggression, rolling all his aura at the other Alpha wolf as he punched that wolf in the side of its head and raked claws down its body.

They could feel Jay-la suddenly moving away from them, she was fleeing from the fighting, couldn’t keep focused on it and the fight they were in, had to relinquish it. They launched themselves at that Alpha male as fighting was breaking out all around them, his elite warriors now here as well.

Both he and Havoc could smell Jay-la’s b***d on this SOB, and fury rolled off of Havoc, even more so than before, then there was no control to be had, his wolf was ripping into that Alpha wolf, with all his claws and tearing chunks off of him with his teeth, until that bastard was down on the ground forcibly held down by Havoc.

He had both his clawed hands wrapped around that bastard wolf’s head and was squeezing with all he had, and then he just snapped a foot into the bastard’s neck, digging in his claws and ripped its head clean off. Tilted his head all the way up and howled for his Mate.

Stood and listened for a return call, he was calling to Kora directly, like he had done the day they had gotten back to the pack. Was waiting for his Mate to respond to him, got nothing in return, she was still lost to her affliction, dropped that wolfs head and then just tore into its body in a full frenzy of fury.

He stood in his half-shifted form and looked about him, his body a mess of b***d and guts, and looked about the area. The fighting had practically stopped now, those wolves that belonged to this Alpha were all aware he was dead, likely couldn’t feel his unit either, had no one to tell them what to do. There were not many of them left.

“Dispatch them all.” Havoc snarled. They tried to feel for Jay-la and Kora. They were still moving away from them and faster then he’d ever felt her move before, that adrenaline in her system was giving her the extra boost they thought it would. Could feel annoyance roll off of Havoc at how far away she had gotten in such a short time.

We need to let them calm down, Havoc.’ He told his beast, they could still feel her, knew what direction she was going in. They could actually feel two wolves going that way themselves, pulled on those tethers and found it was Jodi and Bradley. They were not going to catch her, just likely trying to keep a tether to her, so they could find her later on, were probably trying to keep her close enough to them, if she got too far away they’d stop feeling her as he would.

Felt Havoc move after surveying the area, the building was only small, a shack in the middle of nowhere really. His beast was headed for it, he could feel Stephen in there. He pushed right into that shack. It was a small room with only one window and then a door, which stood open, and they could see the stairs that led down.

Could smell the rank rotting flesh that was in the air, and saw as they walked down the stairs why, nearly a dozen cells down here, all filthy dirty, likely many had died down here in this place. Stephen was in a cell, shirtless, he had used his shirt to tie the cell door to the bars of his own cell, to keep the door open for Jay-la, to have an escape. Smart man, he thought.

They could see the dead men in the cell. Stephen had not been wrong, she had gutted them all, there was b***d all over the place, Havoc stalked right passed Sophia who was over on the other side of the room. His eyes moved towards her and fury rolled off of him, they heard her cry out in pain, but dismissed her for the one in the cell that was still alive.

There was just one lying on the floor who appeared to be struggling to breath, looked right down at that man, kicked him over onto his back and allowed him to look up at them, felt fear roll off of him as Havoc reached down towards him. Snapped that wolfs neck to make sure he wasn’t going to survive.

They turned and looked at Stephen. “The Beta has the key” He told Havoc, but his beast was in no mood to search the dead men, and turned his attention right back to Sophia out there on the floor across the room from him, sitting there giving birth right this very minute We can’t kill a pregnant she-wolf. Nathan reminded him.

Yes, I can.’ His beast snarled right at him, as he stalked over towards her.

No, Havoc. We can’t.’ he stated right back. Though if the b***h, had not been pregnant, he wouldn’t even be arguing with his beast right this minute, wouldn’t have intervened at all.

Nathan saw Havoc reach down and grab her by the hair, uncaring she was in labour, smell her. That partially familiar scent from a few days ago, it was her, why they’d not actually recognised it, had not only a different pack scent but a Mate’s scent as well, smelled completely different. He twisted his hand in her hair which forcibly turned her head as she cried out in pain, likely not a contraction rolling through her.

Looked at the woman’s neck, there was still a mark on her, she didn’t belong to the Alpha they had just killed, nor any of the men out there. Her mark was still in tact though she did have that Alpha’s pack scent on her, part of his pack. ” There’s one still alive.” He snarled angrily.

“Havoc.” She gasped up at him pleadingly, saw her reach out a hand to him, tried to touch him. Only to have Havoc s***h it away and snarl right at her, saw and smelt fear rolling off of her as his claws left a bloody trail across her hand. But honestly, what did she think was going to happen? They were just going to accept her back after all she had done.

‘Havoc shift us back’

We need to find Kora.’

‘I know buddy, I want Jay-la back to, we need Stephen to help with that.’

Saw through Havoc’s eyes as he turned and looked at their

Gamma, tuned his hearing to the outside world above them, there was no fighting going on that they could hear, but both the tethers to Jodi and Bradley had stopped moving away from them, were in fact coming back this way towards them ‘Lost Kora: Havoc huffed.

They couldn’t feel her anymore either, she was too far away from them now, he sighed himself. He was shifted back and he heard Sophia whimper his name, glanced at her briefly, then just turned and walked away from her, she was not his concern, left her there to go and find the key to the cell Stephen was in, to let him out.

“Are you alright?” he asked him as he unlocked the door.

He could see that the man had several burn marks to his arms and one on his shoulder, and welts down his arms, likely where the Delta he’d been trying to contain through the bars and wounded him.

“Yes, we’ll heal up good as new in a day or so.” Then he just sighed “I’m sorry Nathan.”

“Not your fault.” Nathan told him. “I should never have given the men the night off.”