Topple 217

Chapter 217 

They thought they were gods.We were about to introduce them to real ones. 

Bram POV 

The second the gates fell, I was already running. No questions. No hesitation. Just the red haze of rage and the snap of my bones as I became the grizzly they all feared. 

1 hit the first cultist like a fucking wrecking ball, breaking his ribcage with a swipe of my paw. Someone tried to stab me in the side, I 

turned and bit his arm clean off. 

“Try again,” I snarled through a mouthful of blood. 

I saw Elowen shift out of the corner of my eye and let out a roar that shook the air. Holy shit. She was glorious. Dragon queen. Our 

goddess. 

“Protect her,” Karkon growled. “Kill every last one of them.” 

Daxon (Talon) POV 

Blood hit the back of my throat the moment I shifted.Talon surged forward, our thoughts tangled in primal rage. 

We didn’t even wait for orders, we leapt at the nearest line of mages and ripped the throat out of the first one who dared breathe a spell. 

“You think you’re gods?” I screamed. “We were BORN for war.” 

Talon’s claws shredded two more, blood soaking the stones. I felt Elowen’s fury ripple through our bond, then a rush of divine magic so 

intense, my knees buckled for half a second. 

I looked up just in time to see her become a dragon. 

We howled as one, Talon and I, and tore through the next mage with joy. 

Ashrian POV 

I spotted Lucien through the smoke and flames.Our eyes locked. His smile was full of rot. 

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“So the moon princess sends her broken, traitorous pet,” he sneered. 

I lunged, my blades flashing. We clashed like titans, steel on steel, teeth snapping, blood flying. Every strike echoed with centuries of 

hate. 

“You fucked with the wrong empire,” I hissed, ducking a swing and slicing across his side. 

“You’re soft traitor,” he spat. “Mating made you weak.” 

I drove my dagger into his thigh and twisted. “Nah. Mating made me dangerous.” 

Lachlan POV 

The battlefield listened to me. Every root, every tree, every speck of earth obeyed. I raised my hands and crushed a cluster of cultists 

beneath a spiraling oak that ripped from the ground like a beast. 

“Ye want blood?” I growled. “Then bleed, ye bastards.” 

Spells shot toward me, I caught one in a shield of bark and threw the next back with a wall of stone. Vines wrapped around a mage and 

pulled him into the dirt, choking his screams. 

Then I felt her. Elowen. I looked up just in time to hear burst into a green and purple dragon 

I grinned through the smoke. “Atta girl.” 

Soria POV 

The comm crystal pulsed against my skin, warm with Luna Aelira’s voice. “Back exit. Now. We’re holding the line for sixty seconds. Get 

them out.” 

Sixty seconds. I grabbed Varek’s wrist and yanked him forward, whispering sharp and fast. “It’s time. Let’s move.” 

The hallway echoed with our steps and the barely muted sobs of the teenage fox shifters and adults trailing us like ghosts. Their wide 

eyes were full of trauma and fear, but they moved, silent and obedient. Good. Smart. Survivors. 

We turned a corner and I threw my arm out, stopping Varek and the line. Lucien’s voice boomed from the inner sanctum. My blood ran 

cold. He was busy screaming orders, but not about us. 

They didn’t know we were gone. Yet. We moved faster, weaving through corridors reeking of blood and burning flesh. One fox girl stumbled, I caught her, hoisting her arm over my shoulder. She couldn’t have been more than fourteen. 

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Varek was muttering under his breath, his jaw tight, fingers twitching with barely suppressed rage. “They’re kids,” he whispered. “Fucking 

kids.” 

“I know,” I hissed. “We save them first. Then we burn this place down.” 

We rounded the last hallway and I could see it, sunlight. Blessed gods, sunlight through the back door. 

But fate’s a bitch.Three guards stormed out from behind the rubble like hellhounds unleashed, blocking the path just as we shoved the 

shifters into the clearing. 

“Traitors!” one of them screamed, lunging. I didn’t think. I snapped. My bones cracked, fur burst from skin, and Sierra exploded from 

within me in a white hot rage. 

My massive brown and grey wolf form hit the guard like a freight train. My jaws clamped down on his neck, and I ripped his throat out with a growl so loud it shook the ground. Blood sprayed across my muzzle and fur, hot and vile. 

Behind me, I heard the clean metallic schlink of Varek’s blade as he beheaded the second guard in one swift strike. His face was blank, pure lethal focus. The third spun toward the teens, raising a cursed blade. He never got the chance. 

Alpha Draven appeared in a flash of shadow and ripped the bastard’s head off with his bare hands. One move. Gone. 

“MOVE!” Luna Aelira shouted, her hair flying behind her as she herded the fox teens and adults toward the open portal with the force of a 

hurricane.The shifters didn’t wait. They bolted. 

Varek and I fell in beside them, guarding their flanks as we pushed the entire group through. One by one. 100 souls. One hundred broken survivors. The last girl, the youngest, barefoot and trembling, looked up at me with tears streaking her dirt covered cheeks. “Thank you,” she whispered. 

My heart shattered. But I nodded and nudged her through with my muzzle. Portal shimmered, then closed. 

I shifted back, covered in blood and shaking, breathless from the adrenaline and rage. Alpha Draven was already turning, his eyes glowing. 

“Back to the front. Now.” 

Luna Aelira touched my arm. “You did good, Soria. You both did.” 

Varek met my eyes and nodded once. Then we ran, back into hell, where the battle raged and our people waited to finish this. 

Hunted Hybrid – Aegis War Saga 1