Their Lycan Queen

Chapter 23

Noras POV

As I was sitting in the tree, I noticed something or rather someone, Linus had been following us into the forest but he was alone. After the two rogue lycans barrelled into the tree and the tree broke off in the middle. I fainted for a minute or two I think.

But I was woken up by Artemis that was growling like hell inside my mind. A rogue lycan had gotten close to me and tried to drag me down the tree but instead I touched his hand and sent him backwards into another tree making him fall unconscious.

*I thought you were going to help him?* I tell Artemis but she only huffs.

*Yeah I know but I couldn’t do it, not to him and not right now* she

answers

*What do you mean? Not to him? Is there something wrong with him? * I try to ask her but she just responds with a hum.

Then I feel him, Helios, he is close, really close but.. what? Did he just disappear? Strange.

*Nora? It’s me Ben, we don’t know where Helios went but he was here a minute ago. I am with Gray and Andrei, do you know where you are? * Ben mindlink me and I look around to find Linus but he isn’t in the place where I first saw him.

*Ben? I am by a creek and there are lots of rogue lycans here. I think the first ones wanted me to help them but then another group came and now it’s just chaos and Artemis has shut me out. I think she will try to

do something but I don’t know what.* I answer and send him my memory of me coming into the forest and the creek and which tree I am clinging myself to.

*Really Nora? A tr ee? What are you, a monkey?* Gray laughs in my mind and I growl back.

*I will kick your ass, you stupid overgrown wolf* I sent back and I could literally hear him laughing his ass off. Property of Nô)(velDr(a)ma.Org.

A minute or two later Ben and the guys came rushing into the meadow and they didn’t stop as they attacked the rogue lycans. I watched from the tree top how two of the other lycans tried to get to me by trying to either jump up or break the tree.

As one of them jumped up in another tree and jumped over to me I semi-shifted and my claws raked over the lycans face and he released a howl on his way down. The fighting stopped for like a second, a very long second, before the growls came and the other lycans turned. against me.

One of them jumped high enough to get to my foot and I screamed in pain when I felt his claws penetrate my skin but he was taken down by a light brown lycan that growled ferociously at him. Then all the guys, Ben, Andrei, Gray and the light brown lycan surrounded my tree, they fought to hold the other lycans back when I suddenly heard from Artemis.

*I am done now. Try to make it so all the guys are connected somehow.*

Uhh what the hell does she mean by that?

*Ben? Can you try to make it so you guys touch as many rogue lycans that you can? I think Artemis is prepared to do something strange again* I could feel Ben’s confusion but he nodded and told the other

guys.

Then Ben and the guys rushed forward, dealing out punches and touching a lot of the rogues or making sure the rogues touch each other. Then I felt it, a warm, exploding sensation that came over me and everything went white. The raw power washed over me like several waves of water, all crashing through me and at last everything went still like when you hold your breath.

For a moment, everything and everyone was blinded by this powerful white light and everything was quiet and peaceful. Almost like I was dead and sent up to be in heaven, but then I felt it. A heartbeat, thump, and then another one, thump thump.

The world became normal again but I could still feel all of them literally. All their pain and devastation like how much it tortures them inside. Then I felt it; a very small flickering, glimmering ray of hope. At first I didn’t understand who it belonged to until I felt more and more of them.

The little rays of hope came from the rogue lycans that have lost their other half of themselves. I reached out to them, answering that little ray of hope with kindness and a promise to light up their darkness.

But as I did I felt my own light drain out of me and I sighed as I hugged the tree even harder. I was so exhausted that I just wanted to fall asleep.

*Nora, please try to stay awake because we have a huge problem down here* Ben mindlinked me and I looked down.

As I was trying to figure out what this huge problem was supposed to be, the forest became eerily silent. Then they came, morerogue lycans, around 50 of them running in, growling like hell. And just like that, all

hell broke out.

Therogue lycans that Artemis and I had helped rose from the ground and turned against the lycans that came into the clearing.

As I clinged to the tree trying not to fall down or fall asleep, I felt him. My mate, Helios, is here in the forest somewhere.

I tried searching for him but I was too tired and in pain. My foot was killing me and I did the thing I shouldn’t have, I looked down on it. It was still bleeding pretty badly and now when I look again, I can see it’s broken.

While I try to understand how, I feel an agonizing pain on my back and I stretch my hand back to feel why I am in pain but as I touch my back, it’s nothing there. No blood and no wound.

While the confusion racks my brain and body when I feel the tree start to shake and I hear it crack.

*It’s Helios. He is wounded but Nora, both you and I are exhausted so I can’t heal us and help our mate out. What do you think I should do?* Artemis said and I could hear that she needed rest.

*Help them* My answer was strong in our mind and I could feel Artemis approval.

I felt even more exhaustion creeping over me but I closed my eyes and clung myself to the tree even harder now.

Then a pulse went through the forest and I felt the soul of the forest awakening, greeting me with respect and a whisper of an old promise. The forest will always be guarding me and keeping me safe.

The forest answered Artemis’ call and I was helped down from the tree by Helios, rather I jumped but still I was safe. But the exhaustion was too great so after I breathed in Helios scent I fell asleep in his arms.