Drake took the front of the formation since he knew the way to Kyle's house.
Kendra was on edge and so was the entire team. They were deep in the woods and normally the woods had sounds from insects and other animals. However, this time, it was dead silent as if all the insects knew better than to make a peep.
This island had a mature lush forest with a canopy over a hundred feet tall. The base was therefore not over grown so it didn't need someone to hack away through the underbrush. Sun light did however speckle the land scape throughout.
Finally Drake reached the stream and signaled them to walk along it as Kyle's place came into view.
A smoke stack from a recent fire was still billowing up since it looked like it was just extinguished.
Kendra kept her hand on her AR handle as she recognized 3 women talking about the fire. It smelled like they just cooked fish. She noticed several crows perched all around the surrounding trees looking towards the 3 women possibly to score some free food.
Normally Kendra would have ignored them, however, if Kyle was right, these weren't ordinary crows. They could be Aswangs.
The good thing about it being day light was that Aswangs could not change forms and same with the 3 women. They also had to pick or manifest themselves as ordinary worldly beings with their same eathly limitations.
The 3 women were somewhat fair skinned, long straight dark brown hair with a mix of Asian and Spanish features. They were Filipino, Kendra noted from their features alone and they looked unarmed.
"Spread out a little and relax, we don't want to look like we are in an attack formation. Smile everyone," Kendra ordered through a tight smile taking the lead. She took her hand off the handle of her AR. The rest of the team fell out of the single file formation Alex stayed in close and tight to Kendra. Anjali took up the rear pretending to take in the scenery behind her.
The 3 women abruptly stopped talking and set their food aside and all stood up to greet Kendra and team.
Kendra swore she heard them speak Tagalog but it was confirmed when one of the three smiled and stepped forward, "Naiintindihan mo? (Do you understand me)"
Kendra just feigned to not understand and tilted her head in faux confusion, "Excuse me? Do you speak English?"
"Yes," the woman responded, "I'm Grace and these are my cousins Marita and Cecil."
"I'm Kendra, and this is my team representing the Burning Cypress clan," Kendra spoke evenly in a friendly manner. By the sheer fact that they were Filipino and by Kendra picking up the scent of coconut oil which they probably used on their skin made her believe that Kyle was telling the truth. What about the crows surrounding them though? Where they Aswangs as well?
"Sit down with us Kendra. We can restart the fire if you or your team is cold. Would you like something to eat?" Grace offered gesturing them smoothly to sit on the fallen logs which surrounded the former fire.
Alex noted that these 3 women had long straight hair down that went most of the way down their back. With their beauty and their inviting demeanor it was hard to say if they were Aswangs, but Kendra did tell her that looks were deceiving, especially from this type of rare Fae.
"Thank for offering but, we probably need to get moving soon," Kendra clarified with a wave. A fire would have been good, but it would have created an extra distraction for her team.
Kendra sat down while the rest of the team stood about but made sure to stay alert. Alex stood right behind and to the right of her. Kendra knew Alex was watching her back and appreciated it.
Marita to a bite of fish and then asked, "Kendra, you're human, but you are part of a clan which is… ummmm .. not. How is that so?"
Kendra smirked and clarified, "You mean Fae? The Burning Cypress Clan isn't exclusive or a race or specie."
"How interesting," Grace put forth after she finished chewing on a fish, "The Burning Cypress Clan was created from several groups of Fae specie who didn't have another faction or group they belonged to. I guess that also included humans."
Kendra blew off the veiled insult and retorted back, "You don't have to be stuck with a group based on blood, specie, religion, color, or anything else. You can choose."
Cecil answered back, "While that may be true, sometimes staying with your own kind has its advantages. You don't have to explain all the nuances all the time in your group; it is just understood as part of the culture."
Kendra found it time to cut to the chase as she finally queried carefully, "And you ladies are part of what group?"
"We're just family," Grace calmly stated with a smile.
Kendra knew Grace was being purposefully evasive but asked a follow up question in any case, "So how large is your family?"
Kendra carefully observed Grace and found that she glanced at the crows and surrounding wooded area.
"Just what you see here," Grace offered with a conniving smirk.
Kendra then just went straight to the point knowing that when you counted the crows, the estimate was 40 Aswangs and change. She had no count of the wolves and knew they were in hiding.
"So what is a large contingent of Aswangs doing in a relatively unpopulated island?" Kendra asked with a dead serous but friendly demeanor.
Grace just politely asked, "And what makes you believe we are that which you speak?"
"Trust me, I know an Awsang when I see one. Do you deny it?" Kendra rebutted.
"No." Cecil smiled.
"An abandoned island is not a good feeding ground and going up directly against the trained security forces of the mansion not far form there is not your style either. So which I ask again, why are you here?" Kendra asserted more forcefully.
"Why is a human mercenary from the burning cypress clan questioning where we go and what we do?" Cecil flippantly directed her comment to Marita next to her.
Alex spoke up right behind Kendra and stated loudly, "Kendra's no mercenary, she has the rank of Captain amongst us."
Grace put up her hand sharply and stop the escalating tension on both sides that could be felt in the air.
Kendra now knew that she had to get out of here. Her team had the right gear, but depending on how well organized these Aswangs hunted made the difference between coming out alive or being food. From what Kyle mentioned, the Aswangs were either wolves or crows but they could take on ANY animal or human form they wanted during the day.
She didn't want to stick around and find out.
It was then she noticed something odd about the light speckling the landscape. It just didn't look right.
"We were granted this feeding ground from both the Fire Sprite and the Tree Elder clans. We are to feed in a couple days' time when this island becomes a veritable buffet of rare Fae royalty," Grace calmly confessed with a smirk.
Kendra noted that something was VERY wrong. The 3 were acting like they knew something she didn't and then it hit her. The light coming from in between the leaves of the trees made a pin hole type camera which reflected the sun's normally round shape. In this case, the round specs looked like something took a bite out of the sun.
'Oh my god,' Kendra thought, 'An eclipse was forming where it was NEITHER night or day! They might be able to shift to their true forms any second NOW.'
Kendra kept her poker face and asked while making tactical signals with her free hand behind her back to Alex, "WHO gave you those promises since we have assurance from both clans you just mentioned that this event will be a peaceful one."
Graced looked up and thought.
Kendra knew she was stalling and stood up calmly.
She then heard Alex turn her safety off on her rifle.
Kendra glanced back and everyone else had a somewhat relaxed but ready stance. Only Alex seemed a little on edge. It seemed that Kendra had a seasoned team and that was good. She also needed the element of surprise in order to survive this.
She was slightly abladed to Grace and the rest then she undid the thumb break snap on her holster for her Glock and also with her other hand surreptitiously undid the snap for her machete with her left which did face the women.
"I can't say," Grace smiled in a friendly manner taking a couple steps to Kendra.
Kendra then used Jessica's line, "Can't or won't"
"Won't" Grace concluded challenging Kendra.
Kendra's ear piece then came to life and it was Talan, "Kendra! Tamsin just called me, full eclipse in less than 30 seconds lasting 7 and a half minutes. Get out of there NOW."
"Understood," Kendra said knowing that she was both talking to her voice activated mic and to Grace.
Cecil then laughed maniacally and proclaimed for all to hear in Tagalog, "Mamamatay kayong lahat! (You are all going to die!)"
Kendra smirked bowing her head slightly looking toward them with an evil stare and retorted, "Patay ka sa akin! (You're dead already!)"
All three women looked on at Kendra in momentary shock since she knew Tagalog after all but shifted right after. They turned pale white and their fangs grew in and their tongues started to extend from their mouth but were dead before they could fully shift.
Kendra drew her Glock and her machete at the same time and sliced Grace's head off while bringing her gun up and firing twice at Marita's head a heartbeat later who was to her left.
Alex snapped her AR into firing position sharply and killed Cecil with a head shot who was on Kendra's right.
The three Aswangs just collapsed to the ground even before Alex and Kendra's spent shells hit the ground.
Normally, Awangs were resilient against attacks from bullets and knives, but by when Kendra's team dipped their weapons in holy water and garlic, it made a huge difference. Kendra and team at least had a chance.
"In coming," Drake stated pointing at the crows now diving towards them.
"Stay in the open along the stream! MOVE MOVE MOVE!" Kendra ordered urging them to go up stream more towards Lauren place.
This was the only way her team could combat the Aswangs was to get them out into the open. In the thick woods, they wouldn't stand a chance. There were just too many places the Aswangs could hide, shifted or unshifted. She needed to be up the stream enough so that when the do enter the woods to get to Lauren's, it would the shortest in terms of distance.
Kendra and Alex quickly made their way up stream as Anjali, Max and Jack opened fire at the line of crows while retreating backwards towards Kendra. Anjali show just as much talent with her flame thrower as Max and Jack had with their fire sprite power.
Their action of falling back forced the crows coming toward them to glide in a column formation, right into the flame thrower and fire balls.
Kendra was about to radio Jessica over the comm when Alex transmitted, "Major, under attack by 50 plus Aswangs at my GPS location. Falling back for defensible position. Awangs hired by both Fire Sprites and Tree Elders to stop the wedding this weekend."
Kendra sliced her machete the air and killed a crow but saw multiple wolves come out into the open. They growled and made their way hastily toward Kendra and team.
The team only needed a hundred more meters before they needed to make a break for Lauren's via the woods.
"Kill them BEFORE they shift!" Kendra ordered snapping up her AR yanking off a couple of shots shooting dead a fox.
Max, Jack and Anjali already took down several attacking crows with their walls of fire. Drake was using his shot gun to knock off wolves that got in close and Alex stayed by Kendra, but was picking of wolves that came out of the woods into the open with her AR.
Kendra's ear peace came alive and it was Jessica, "Kendra, do you need reinforcements?"
"For later today, YES. Now, don't bother Major, win or lose, this will be over in less than 7 minutes," Kendra relayed back.
"Copy Captain," was the terse reply from Jessica.
Tamsin then came onto her comm, "Kendra, we just got a Laruen's place, Bo and I are coming in."
"NO DAMMIT! Too many. Those Aswangs will KILL you if you venture into the woods," Kendra let out exasperated but thought on her feet, "CLEAR the path from the perimeter of the woods to Laurens vectored from my location. We will make a run as soon as … Fuck!"
Kendra ducked just in time as 3 wolves jumped over and her and shifted. Several AR rounds later and the help of a spinning back kick as well as a machete, all of then let out grunt and fell over dead, "When this thins out a little, I'll need it. The eclipse will be over in 5 minutes or so, then you can get me but otherwise everyone stay back."
"Copy. Oscar Mike." Tamsin relayed.
Kendra head butted an Awsang that shifted then stabbed it with her machete. Alex had attached the bayonet to her AR and stabbed an Aswang through the heart. Both Aswangs let out a screech writhing in agony. Kendra was glad garlic and holy water worked on their equipment.
All of a sudden the 30 or so Aswangs all halted their assault in their other forms and all shifted to their true grotesque form.
"Kill the human," they chanted and then charged Kendra and team running at full speed.
Their tongues elongated to stab and impale anyone that got within 10 meters or so. Their pointed fangs were ready to rip into their flesh.
"Shit! Into the woods now!" Kendra exclaimed slicing off a tongue from an Aswang. "Smoke NOW!"
Kendra and team sprinted as fast as they could and dropped all their smoke grenades to cover their escape into the dense forest.
"Tamsin, coming to you!" Kendra relayed through her mic. "Team, spread out and push to Tamsin!"
It didn't take long for the Aswangs to locate Kendra and team. Just over half way to their rendezvous point Kendra knew the crows had located them and that they were coming for her specifically. Grace, Cecil and Marita may have been their leaders which she just killed.
For an Aswang to be bested by a Fae was one thing, but to be killed by a human added that much more insult to injury.
Kendra's first thought was to distance herself from Alex and Drake so they had a chance to escape but it was too late. Not only would Alex NOT leave her, but Drake wouldn't leave Alex either.
They were surrounded as Drake sliced off the tongue of an Aswang charging him then used his Glock to put a hole in its head. He groin kicked another one and threw him into another charging Aswang. Shells ejected quickly from his gun and those Aswangs were done for.
Alex fired rapidly her AR bringing down 2 Aswangs guggling in pain writhing as they died mid charge. She did a flying side kick on another charging Awsang put it flat on her back. Alex being one step ahead impaled the Aswang through the heart as she screeched in agony right after the landing.
Alex drew both her Glock and backup 375 snub nose revolver since her AR was now stuck in the Aswang below her and the glaring fact that she was not surrounded by 3 more in close quarters.
A front repelling kick in combinations with a several rounds from her Glock dispatched them. An Aswang did charge her on her left flank which her Glock was not pointed at and Drake looked like he was about to throw a knife at it but Alex brought up her revolver on her left and cracked off one round which hit the attacker between the eyes and it had the effect of him flying back into others poised to attach behind the now dead Aswang.
It impressed Kendra that Alex had such refined moves and that Drake did train her well, but was it good enough? Even in mid fight, she knew she was responsible for bringing all of them into a trap and their lives where on her head.
Kendra swung the butt of her rifle and knocked out the teeth of a tongueless Aswang right on top of her and then unloaded her magazine to drop 2 more. It was then Kendra realized that there were too many and death was upon all of them as the enemy all changed in a second wave.
Kendra reloaded and just said one word to herself. It wasn't an order, nor was it something to jeer the Aswangs, nor was it to spite death.
"Dyson," she whispered mid fight engaging an Aswang before her in hand to machete combat.
Out of all the things to think about, Dyson was still in the forefront of her mind even when death was ready to touch her shoulder to summon her in addition to Alex and Drake to never never land.
Kendra knew her death would only make all of Dyson's efforts to make her his life mate absolutely futile.
Not only would Dyson be an outcast by his own kind, but he would live the rest of his life alone, never truly capturing her love. Wolves were pack oriented and being a lone wolf would be his death sentence.
Kendra had to ask herself again if she was that selfish since giving love was supposedly free. But it always circled back to the fact that it would require her to let go of her empire of hate and distain of all shifter kind. Then what of her promise to Eric? Her bother?
She was on auto pilot as bullets flew out from her Glock into an Aswang she just drop kicked.
Drake threw is knife at an attacker and drew his backup semiauto since his Glock and shot gun were all out with no time to reload. He too knew that this was the end of the line for all of them. He didn't need to read minds to know that.
Alex needed to reload all her weapons but there was no time with the charging Aswangs. Her combat knife was all she had left and glanced over to Drake and Kendra and knew they were all in the same boat.
Alex closed her eyes briefly and knew what she had to do although she spent all her life suppressing it. It was her last resort and it very possibly meant her death.
They were all dead anyway but Alex needed to give Kendra and Drake TIME. If the eclipse passed, then the Awangs would be forced into non Fae forms.
Kendra just spent her whole magazine in her Glock and was now fighting with a machete and combat knife, but at this rate she was out of ideas. She needed a little more TIME.
Kendra the heard Alex grunt in pain and when she looked at her, Alex's hands turned into plant like vines and branches at first then shot out quickly to grab the attackers in her side. The odd part about it was that the ends of her tendrils were glowing red hot.
Kendra retreated more toward Drake and Alex but made sure to make minced meat out of an Aswang who tried to bite her.
Kendra was amazed as Alex's branches ensnarled 5 Aswangs but they gurgled in pain when all her branches became red hot. They were literally being cooked to death being melting into a mess of charred bones.
With Alex covering a whole side, it gave Kendra and Drake enough time to reload with what little ammunition they had left.
Alex repeated it again as her whole body started to glow red as well as more charred bones came falling to the ground as a result.
Kendra turned to open fire on 2 Awangs when out of the corner of her eye she saw a very large wolf cut just in front her. She dropped prone to take aim at it but recognized that this wolf was not the type of wolf that the Aswangs change into. This was a grey heavy set 160+ pound DIRE WOLF, an extinct species from prehistoric ages so therefore, it was not a form the Aswangs could take.
It crashed into the 2 attacking Ghouls taking one by the neck slamming them both into the ground.
This took all the attackers off guard as the powerful Dire Wolf snarled and barked deeply and ferociously at them with its razor sharp teeth on full display.
One Aswang approached from it rear to which the Dire Wolf kicked its hind legs to the approaching threat and it was neutralized as soon as it sailed 10 feet into the air and 30 feet back into a tree trunk with a dull thud.
Kendra was still confused but what tipped her off was that this Dire Wolf had on lose fitting cargo pants, the type that Dyson wore.
The Dire Wolf shifted into the wolfed and hulked out version but stood on 2 feet. Now THAT was the Dyson she knew. He came for her.
He growled at them and yelled in warning, "Kendra Shaw is my LIFE MATE. Stand back! You are in violation of the armistice!"
All of a sudden no one was attacking anyone. Everyone was dub founded but Drake could be heard in the silence.
"Alex… SHIT! Alex! No….. Stay with me!"
Kendra looked over and so did Dyson to womanly form with blackened 3rd degree burns all over her face and body. She was barely breathing. This is what Jessica meant. A tree elder can grow and create life, a fire sprite destroys it. The 2 were incompatible and were total opposites and right now it seemed that it was the side effect of her own incendiary powers that was killing her.
By Alex using her powers she sacrificed herself and Drake was barely holding it together. His action normally showed a hardened soldier, but now not so much as the gravity of the situation was taking a toll on his emotional state.
"Drake," Dyson said loudly, "Go to Tamsin and Bo NOW. It's me and Kendra they want now."
Drake looked to Kendra and Kendra had no idea that he still looked up to her for leadership. If roles were reversed she would not be that forgiving.
"Go dammit!" Kendra pointed sharply to toward Laurens place and then turned away and said knowing full well that her mic would transmit her voice to the rest of the team and Tamsin, "Tamsin, Alex is hurt badly and needs Lauren ASAP. Drake is bringing her to you now. Sit rep everyone else."
Kendra heard Drake run off into the woods most likely carrying Alex across his shoulders.
Kendra turned to Dyson and the confused Aswangs surrounding them. They let Drake pass since they had much bigger fish to fry.
'Anjali to Kendra, I have Jack and Max. We are injured but are reloading now. 2 minutes to end of eclipse. On our way to you with Bo and Tamsin but not before the end of the eclipse due to distance,' Kendra heard in her ear piece.
Kendra told them to stay back, but in any case, convincing Bo was a feat in futility from what Tamsin mentioned. This smelled like Bo's idea since Tamsin would remain loyal to her.
One Aswang finally stepped forward glaring at Dyson only to point to Kendra as it hissed, "Kendra SHAW? The widow maker? Sworn enemy of the shifters!"
"That DOESN'T matter! She is my life mate and by the terms of the Armistice you will stand down!" Dyson argued invading the personal space of the Aswang.
'Crap. Word does get around,' Kendra though to herself incredulously.
Kendra spent this time quietly looking for more ammo when she reached behind her and felt the staff of the Holy Lance. She totally forgot about it but initially didn't want to use it and then explain to Trick why she damaged it or worse, lost it, but right now with limited ammunition and still 20 or so Aswangs left with 2 minutes to go, it was time to break it out. In addition her machete was also bent to hell so she just tossed it aside.
She slid the Holy Lance over her head slowly and set it the butt down on the ground silently, with the spear tip up in the air. None of them paid notice and that was good. To everyone else this was just an ordinary spear.
"If Kendra is your life mate, she wore no necklace as such and also didn't make it known," A female Aswang hissed. "In any case she FOUND us to kill us all and YOU must be the fool of a shifter that fell for her human wiles. PATHETIC!"
"We don't trust traitors to their own kind," another spoke up in more anger. "And most of all a human female named Kendra 'Widow Maker' Shaw."
"BACK OFF! Breaking the armistice would mean the extinction of your kind," Dyson yelled to all.
"He broke the armistice!" they started to chant over and over until the swell of voices grew louder over powering Dyson voice.
"Don't do this!" Dyson bravely said flexing his muscles.
They all looked to Dyson but Kendra went back to back with him and put her spear forward.
"Shit Dyson," Kendra said in a low tone, "I told you not to come."
"Well I can't help it, I can't help but to come when I'm with you," Dyson chided with a smirk.
Kendra attempted to smile at the humor but it was lost due to the Aswangs now circling them. Even with death staring them down, he was brave and loyal.
"They hate us shifters, so run as soon as you get a chance," Dyson communicated urgently.
And not a moment sooner all hell broke loose when everyone just attacked.
Kendra sliced and diced the first couple of Awsangs like she was cutting butter, but came to the realization that the Holy Lance was literally burning through them and even the most simple cut would burn them through and through.
She increased her speed and found that even contact with the staff end would cause them to burn and screech in pain. This true was made from a nail during the crucifixion. Her spear became a blur, wielding the Holy Lance with extreme skill and precision.
Dyson was doing his best to throw off all the Aswangs that engulfed him but was making due snapping their necks and ripping out everything inside their necks.
Kendra knew Dyson was a beast when she could hear Dyson crushing their bones with his bare hands.
Aswang blood and bodies were everywhere but the Aswangs didn't give up even though there were less than a hand full of them left. Then all of a sudden they shifted into crows and flew away.
The eclipse was over.
Kendra jerked her head to look at Dyson only to see him covered in both his own blood and Aswang blood. He fell down into his knees and then to the ground as Kendra rushed over to catch him.
Dyson was shivering and bleeding out. His eyes rolled up into his lids. Apparently the Aswangs took several bites into him. Kendra saw death enough and this was not good pulling off her pack rapidly to get her medical kit.
Shock was coming, followed quickly by death.
"Anjali, get Bo here FAST. Dyson….. He's.. he's" Kendra stammered as a tear rolled down her face, "hurt bad. I can try to stop the bleeding and stabilize but that's not going to do it."
"Be there in 4 Captain pushing to you location, Drake out," Kendra's radio relayed.
Kendra quickly put bandages on where she could see injures, but there just too many gashes and chucks bitten out of him. Kendra too was roughed up too but not nearly to Dyson's extent. She also had on body armor.
Then Dyson stopped breathing and Kendra wailed as more tears hit the forest floor. 4 minutes might as well be 4 hours or days. She didn't have a field medic's equipment. That was with Alex but she packed light since Lauren was nearby. Even with that, it was highly questionable if he could pull through.
She slammed her fist on his chest and just yelled, "Dammit Dyson, don't die on me."
"I don't give you permission to DIE on me (SLAM)."
"Damn you! (SLAM)" Kendra voice became uneven as she cried more and put her ear to his chest to check for a heartbeat but before she could listen, Dyson's hand stoked her cheek.
Kendra shot up and looked into Dyson's eyes as he scanned her.
Kendra yelled at him mad, "Dyson, you IDIOT! You broke and armistice for a human who'll be gone in a blink of an eye!"
Dyson just weakly chuckled, "You're my life mate, I'd move the world for you. I now know why sometimes wars are fought over a single person."
"No!" Kendra exclaimed exasperated but still crying, "You'd trade your life, sacrifice your entire kind and START of fucking bloody war over a fucked up human that belongs in a padded cell!"
"Damn YOU!" Kendra pushed back on him looking away at her wits end.
Dyson knew he was close to passing out again and just changed topics cradling her cheek to guide her face to look into his eyes once more, "I… I roamed thousands of years in search to be with and serve the most noble and powerful of Fae."
Dyson strained to stay focused and Kendra's face which started to change from that of anger to caring continued after a half breath, "I had it all wrong. (cough) Image my surprise when I found everything… everything I was looking for in that same human who I'd gladly share that padded cell with. I love you very much."
Dyson felt himself drifting off and was brought back when Kendra slapped him hard across the face, "Don't do this Dyson!"
He was feeling himself staring to shift as the Awsang saliva circulated through his system and this was not good and he weakly informed Kendra, "Hey, when a shifter is mortally wounded by an Aswang or another shifter, we go back to our Dire Wolf forms to heal and that takes hundreds of years. I.. will not live a life .. if I were to wake up and you not be there… PLEASE Kendra …" Dyson pleaded weakly tapping Kendra's holstered Glock.
"Noo! I can't… I WON'T do it! NOT you too." Kendra shook her head vehemently. "Bo will be here soon and fix it ok?"
Dyson closed his eyes but tailed off saying, "Bo can heal me but I will still be a Dire …" He fell limp immediately after.
Kendra shook him and slapped him again but it was of no use and Dyson started to shift. "Nooooooo!" Kendra yelled at the top of her lungs.
She hugged him tightly and in her now very broken state realized that she didn't have any more time to pick and choose what Dyson was to her. Limbo was simply no longer an option.
He was her best friend and mortal enemy.
He was Fae but she was human.
She had conflicting commitments but he was steadfast and stood by her side.
Dyson LOVED her without conditions.
But could she return the same?
Finally Kendra proclaimed loudly to Dyson as tears fell into the ground in a steady stream, "Dyson, kahit pinilit kong kamuhian ka at ang mga katulad mo, unti-unting nahulog ang loob ko sa iyo. Gusto … Gusto kong malaman mo na …. mahal na mahal kita! Para sa iyo, tatalikuran ko ang hangarin kong paghihiganti."
How many ways could someone say they cared for the other more than anyone else in the world?
For Kendra, she was trilingual. She knew English, Mandarin, and Tagalog.
Mandarin? Wo hen ai ni.
Tagalog? Mahal na mahal kita.
English? I love you very much.
Why would Kendra choose Tagalog even though Dyson didn't understand it?
Out of all the languages she knew, Tagalog was the most expressive of the three and it was also the language of her heart.
She told Eric she loved him in English, but by proclaiming this statement in Tagalog, it superseded all else.
All commitments she made before now became null and void. She just freed herself of them.
Dyson finally got to her heart and Kendra's unconditional love.
Kendra took a leap of faith since no one could PROVE love as if it were a tangible item. Oddly enough her only love came from her only hate.
Kendra's monolith of hatred and revulsion of the shifters that took Eric and her bother finally took a drastic turn. Cracked, marred, and in disrepair, Kendra finally was brave enough to let it all go.
It just crumbed to the ground in rubble. Gone now was her passion for revenge. It was her source of power before, but now, in order to love, Kendra found that she had to let go of all the hate.
Dyson shifted back into a Dire Wolf and was barely breathing. She pulled out her backup weapon, the same one she used on herself and considered what to do.
She didn't want to live without Dyson either and his last request weighed heavy on her in her distraught state as she trembled.
Was there was way she could fulfill her now defunct promise to Eric to rid the world of shifters or die trying and still stop her rampage which she just promised Dyson?
Yes.
Would it possibly avert a war due to the breach of the armistice by Dyson?
Yes.
She did have plenty to bullets to do the job at hand and out of 8 rounds, she only needed 2 good ones locking the barrel of her semiauto to Dyson's head first.
A/N: Yes cliff hanger. Sorry and around x-mas too but will be running around for the holidays so I don't know, wait like 3 more weeks or post now what I have. I guess either would be bad. Hmmm some would say this is worse.
You know I get very few comments about Kendra since I guess she is an OC character after all for this fic. Curious, this chap has no Valkubus really (but still sets the stage) but has Dydra and touch of Drake/Alex, also OC. Opinions on Kendra and her role here? Lemme know.
Also, if you do understand Tagalog, you will know exactly what Kendra told Dyson and that's great. Don't worry readers, total translation of that statement coming up in the next chaps.
Hmmm and finally thoughts on S05E03? OK mixed bag on my opinion. SKIP to avoid spoilers.
Was I too harsh on my last thoughts on S05E01 and E02? Hmmmm I guess. A little bit. I just hope Tamsin does not become the Kenzi fill in. IE BFF only status.
It is nice to know that Tamsin has no qualms about waking up in bed with Bo and vise versa. If she really had Kenzi status, they would not share a bed since Tamsin does have her own room (Kenzi's)
Still a little bit of a let down. No Valkubus. I guess I expect too much.
I am at least somewhat OK with Tamsin getting 'part of the gang' status based on statements from Dyson and Lauren.