The Broken Warrior’s Daughter by Cooper

But this? This isn’t fear for me. This is fear for my mate. Fear for my sisters standing beside me. Fear for my

pack, and fear for the innocent pups huddled behind me.

How dare they? How dare these hunters cto take what is mine? How dare they threaten the

happiness that Eli and | have worked so hard to create?

And as Cara blasts them with our power and they turn their attention toward us, my fear turns to anger. A fiery

inferno of anger. They do not get to take what is mine. They do not get to take the happiness of my people who

have worked so hard to find a better life, to make a better life for

themselves. They, who have cto take everything from me, will have everything taken from them today.

| grip Cara’s hand in mine, pulling her strength. She feels the change and her head whips around

to look at me.

I've heard that people who can see auras say that individual auras have different colors. | don’t know if it’s the

same, but where my strength feels like it's a bright red, Cara’s feels orange to me. It blends easily with mine,

creating a new color, something lighter than mine but darker than hers.

When | feel a hand conto my shoulder, | know that Angel has joined our connection. Her color is blue, a

cooling color. But rather than mute our fire, her blue bleeds into our reddish orange. making it purple, something

powerful, yet malleable.

I look around the circle again, finding the hunters, before closing my eyes. In my mind. | can see them as if they

are shining beacons, just like when | ‘count’ with my smell The wer dark, and | work to separate them quickly

from the light. When | open my eyes, | know that Mala is shining brightly in them. | feel her energy and | pull

from the strength of my sisters

I'm not sure what the hunters see in me, but as one they begin firing off their guns and arrows now almost solely

focused on the three of us.

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“You will not take what is mine!” | shout at them, my voice deep with Maia’s overlaying. | raise my arms, Cara's

hand still held tightly in mine and the blast of power that comes fromis like nothing I have ever felt before. |

scream as it leaves me, feeling like a freight train is rushing out of

my body.

| feel Angel drop behind me, feel Cara drop beside me, breaking the connection and leavingfeeling empty,

left with nothing but darkness. | stagger, several bullets finding their mark in my body, as I collapse. Before | hit

the ground, Eli is there, catching me.

“Grace! Grace!” | hear Eli calling my name, but | can’t respond. My strength is gone, my mind feels like it is

floating.

“Medic!” | hear someone yell beside me.

“Hang on Luna, you're not dying today.” Another voice, Carlos maybe.

“Grace, baby, listen to my voice. Stay with me. Stay with me.” | can feel Eli's hands on my face, his touch

grounding me.

“Get the silver out of them. They have an immunity to silver, but they were all hit several times. They won't heal

with the bullets in them.”

The sounds of chaos is still all around. People yelling for help from all different directions. | can hear the babies

screaming, hear someone trying to soothe and quiet them. “Are they okay? Are they injured?” Someone, possibly

Rik, asks.

“The babies are fine, nothing got past Aolis* barrier.” Someone, Sarah maybe, responds.

“And Aolis?”

“He's weak, but fine.”

| can hear Liam and Rik talking to Cara and Angel, saying similar things that Eli is saying to me.

“Okay, where are her bullet wounds?” Someone whose voice | don’t recognize asks next to me. | barely feel it as

the person starts removing the bullets from my body. However, when they are all gone, | feel the shift inside. My

body can now start healing itself.

“Grace, can you open your eyes for me?” No, | can't.

| feel Eli's hand take mine. “Can you squeeze my hand?” | try, but nothing happens.

| hear someone suck in a huge mouthful of air, like they are taking their first breath in way too

long.

“Angel! Oh, little angel. You scared me.”

“I'm okay. I'm okay. Grace drained my power and energy, but I'm okay. | just needed a minute to

recover.”

“They both lost consciousness too?” Angel asks, realizing that Cara and | are unconscious around

her.

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“Cara dropped right after you. Grace right after that.”

“They'll be okay. | could hear everything, | just couldn't move. I'm guessing they can hear everything going on

around us as well. My healing power just helpedheal faster than them.”

“Baby, if you can hear me, I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere.” Eli says, stroking my cheek.

“Did it work? Did whatever Grace do work?” Angel asks.

It's quiet for a moment. “It looks like it.”

“Cara!” Rik exclaims.

“You didn’t think you were getting rid ofso easily, did you Alpha?” Cara's exhausted voice. drifts to me.

| hear a muffled response from Rik. I'm guessing he has his face buried in her neck.

“Angel is right, | could hear everything. Grace will be okay Eli. | feel weak, but I'm good.”

| hear footsteps approaching. “Alphas.” Another voice | don’t recognize. “Most of the hunters are dead. A couple

escaped but”

There's a brief pause. “But?”

Well, the hunters, they... they're in pieces. It's almost like they were put through a woodchipper. I've never seen

anything like it.”

“She pulled a lot of power, she basically drained us and most likely herself.” Cara says.

| gasp as | feel light pump back into my body. | go from feeling heavy and unable to move to just feeling weak

and sore.

“Grace!” I'm immediately in Eli's arms, his face in my neck, breathing deeply. | wrap my arms around him,

holding on to him.

“I'm okay. Like Angel and Cara said, | could hear you, but I couldn't move.” | tell him, letting his scent and the

mate bond continue to heal my aching body.

I turn and look at my sisters. “Are you both okay? I'm sorry, | didn’t know | was pulling too much.”

“We're fine.” Angel says from her position in Liam’s lap. “I think we'll have to train smore with Ailduin so

you can control how much you pull from us.”

“Yeah, | feel tired, but I'm good.” Cara says from Rik’s lap.

“So it worked? | was able to direct the blow to the hunters and protect the werewolves?” “So—it |

“It worked.” Eli says. “The Guardians of the Realm saved us today.”

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Cooper Author

Hey everyone! I've been sick all week and I'm behind, but I'll have another chapter up for you later today. What

do your think of the Guardian's combined power?

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