Chapter 13



Aurora watched as every witch in the crowd drew orange fire between their hands. She stood back and admired as every shapeshifter changed, growing into the animal of their nature. With every other vampire around her, she extended her teeth and let out a loud growl. The humans took their positions, wooden stakes and silver knives in hand.

She grew depressed when she saw only three Wild Powers causing blood to well on their forearms, blue light surrounding them.

Before she knew it, the two groups clashed together.

She watched as people fell all around her, good and evil. Orange and blue fire shooting through the mob. Screams ripped through the night air, and people were dying.

She had to do something.

Suddenly, a stake ripped through her arm. A vampire with jet-black hair and wild emerald eyes laughed as she aimed for Aurora's chest.

Out of no where, Aden came to the rescue, already bleeding himself, stabbing the girl with one of his knives.

Aurora attacked the witch aiming her glowing hands at Aden. Snapping her neck, she felt the power of her previous killer instincts come into play.

She ran to Hannah's body laying on the ground. Still breathing, but hurt badly. She stood over her, protecting her from the oncoming brigade, pointing Thierry off to fight. Paying so much attention to the girl on the ground, giving her vampire blood to strengthen her, she didn't notice the ebony skinned witch coming from behind. Turning at the last second, she was too late. The witch blew a dried mixture from her hand right into Aurora's eyes.

She screamed in agonizing pain, keeping her body over Hannah's to protect her. She could feel the small fragments of wood seeping into her eyes, blinding her.



Aden felt the pain in the soulmate connection. He ran to her, seeing blood coming from her eyes. He already knew. She'd been blinded. Opening her eyes in his direction, he could no longer see the beautiful lavender of twilight that they'd always held from life to life. Now they were black, completely dark.

That's when it came to him. The reason he was here in this battle. The words he'd heard so many times but had never understood until this moment . . .

One from the twilight to be one with the dark . . .

The line hadn't been saying that the Wild Power was going to be on the dark side.

Dodging an oncoming ball of fire, he fell to Aurora's side, calling for Thierry to come quickly.

Thierry came to the ground next to Hannah. She was slowly lifting her body from the ground, regaining consciousness. Aden turned to him. "Where are the Wild Powers?"

Thierry pointed to a large mass of people in a protective circle. Blue fire was pouring from the inside.

He looked Thierry straight in the eyes and repeated the line again. "One from the twilight to be one with the dark. I told you the last Wild Power would be here."

Hannah was holding Aurora now, wiping the blood from her face with her shirt. She looked at him. "Aden, what are you talking about?"

Aden laughed. "Aurora's eyes. The color they've been in all of our lives has been lavender, the color of the sky at twilight, those few moments before the sun comes up and after it has set. When she opened her eyes after being blinded, they were black. Completely dark."

Thierry looked at Aurora, then back at Aden. "I hope you're right." He took Aurora by the arms, turning her face toward him. "Aurora, I know you're in a lot of pain right now, but I need you to do something for me. You have to try, for the sake of the world."

She looked at him with unseeing eyes. "I'll do anything, Thierry."

He nodded, looking at the blood in her eyes and the cut on her arm. "Think of the blue fire. Think of what that witch just did to you. Think of someone hurting Aden. Just try."

"I don't think I'm the Wild Power."

Aden could see that Thierry had thought of something else, moving just in time to miss a flying stake. "Remember the day that Oren died, Aurora? You were so angry with me for letting that girl go. Keller and Rashel took you away, but you accidently got cut, remember?"

She was nodding slowly, as if it was all coming into her mind.

Thierry continued. "You hit us all with a strong wave of mental power. You froze us all in place so that we couldn't move for almost ten minutes. You are the Wild Power. You're the one from the twilight."

Aden felt her mind filling with power, saw her forehead wrinkle as she concentrated. Thierry went on relentlessly. "Try, Aurora. Feel the white light, and let it go!"

With just enough time, he turned her in the line of a panther that was about to strike their group. Her hands together, light growing between them, she began to mumble something a human could not hear and would never understand.

As if in slow motion, the panther pounced, flying through the air. A stream of blue light came from Aurora's hands and made contact with the cat.

And the panther disappeared.