Chapter 29

She had totally forgotten about Kane. He was also on the floor, the blast had hit him too, but it did hit him in only mildly. Definitely, he was stronger than Blackclaw and Divina combined for now.
Why didn't the witch attack me first? He thought. Maybe she felt Blackclaw was more of a threat than . . . He could hear Blackclaw move. Shit he thought.
Blackclaw wasn't going to be weak for long. Blackclaw was on his feet again.
"Bitch! I'm going to rip out your throat and fuck your bleeding neck!" He bellowed.
He charged towards her. Divina saw him moving amazingly fast like before. Blackclaw lunged at her again-and then was yanked backward by the wolf who had seemed to materialize behind him. The blow was expected, Divina closed her eyes and braced up for the death blow. But after some microseconds she didn't feel anything, her bones didn't break, her head didn't bleed. It was Kane. He held him roughly, one hand on the stake in his neck, the other gripping the one in his back.
"Filthy bastard, I should have killed you first,"
It amazed Divina that he could talk even with half of his throat laid open. Kane tightened his hold on Blackclaw's back next, digging it deeper until it must have been grazing the vampire's heart.
Blood was running in rivulets down Divina's arm. She sat up, ripped off one of her sleeves and wrapped it around the wound, which throbbed in accordance with her pulse. Even with that, she managed to grim at Blackclaw's face. Did she trust Kane to help her?
Blackclaw remained trapped in Kane's grip.
"Leave!" He bellowed at Divina.
She was too weak to get up and didn’t think she had it in her to walk. How possible was it for her to leave or run away from the imminent danger? She just stared at Kane lifelessly. Her eyeballs fizzy and foamy but lacked the vibrancy to kill or launch any attack.
Next Blackclaw did a quick flip, yanking himself from Kane's grip. That was an impossible move made possible by a rare vamp. He was the Lord of the wolves and vamps alike what else could one expect? The flip forced his spine to break in Kane's hand. However, Blackclaw was still standing. He was much stronger than he was only mere days ago when Aiden attacked him in his compound. Blackclaw managed to give Kane a deadly blow to his ribs, but it wasn't deadly after all because Kane still survived.
To Kane and Divina's surprise, Blackclaw dropped to the floor. He was weak. This was the time to end him for good. Kane launched himself but he was stopped midair. Three vamps jumped at him. Their teeth were murderously extended, but so were Kane's knives. He managed to dart away from their fangs while landing punishing blows with his legs. He began tripping one of them.
Within a blink of an eye, he had turned into a wolf. His deep growl vibrated around the room, before her dove into action, gouging their heart and shredding their flesh with different slashes of his dagger like claws. He was so caught in the act that he had temporarily forgotten about the major threat-Blackclaw. The other two carried Blackclaw and in an instant they were out of sight. They were the light-aired vamps. Known for their swift run. Faster than the speed of lightning, most of their energy were channeled to moving fast which made them quite easy to kill once you have a grip. They didn’t carry weapons and had no footwear. A vamp with the mind-speak power could communicate to another vamp several miles apart. Blackclaw must have made such contact while he was at Kane's grip.
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Divina's heavy eyes drifted into another world. She found herself somewhere close to the ends of the earth, she had been walking northward on the ice for what felt like days.
She had no food with her, nor shelter but just a coat. On this particular ice, nothing grew, and no beast ran. It was the coldest month; the last month of the year and the first great snows were falling every day and night.
She went alone through the storm. She knew she was growing weaker, she had to lie down and sleep for a while or else, the outcome would be tragic.
In the morning wake she saw that her hands were frostbitten and found that her feet were too. She began to crawl forward on her knees and elbows. She had no reason to do so, as it did not matter whether she died in one place on the ice or another, but she felt that she should continue northward.
After a long while the snow ceased to fall around her, and the wind began to blow again. The sun shone out and she could see not far ahead. She crawled on and the fur of her hood came forward over her eyes. She couldn't feel any cold anymore in her legs, arms or face, she thought that the frost had benumbed her. Definitely it did yet she could still move. Even though she could hear some faint sounds bantling in her ears. The snow which lay over the glacier looked too strange to her, as if it were a white grass growing up out of the ice. It bent to her touch and straightened again. Grass-blades. Divina ceased to crawl and sat up, pushing her hood to the back of her head so she could see around her. Here, she had been accustomed to snow, but this was something quite different, like it had an extra touch. Then her eyes traveled as far as it could to see fields of the snow grass, white and shinning. There they were, a white, cold grove of white trees, with white leaves growing on them. The sun shone, and immediately it became windless. Everything was white. Divina could now look away over the ice to the north and a tall white tower was present there. After a while, Divina could see someone walking towards her. He was naked, his skin all white, his hair all white too as he came near enough to speak to her, he asked,
"Who are you?"
Divina was surprised. She should be the one on the asking side not him.
"I am Divina," she answered looking at him in awe.
"No, you are not,” the man snapped.
Now this wasn't looking good. Who was he to tell her who she was?
"I ask you again, who are you?"
Divina thought again, definitely this wasn't real.
"I am Divina-the witch with a destiny to unite the two underworld kingdoms, I am known as the Lycan god mother,"
"You are not just a witch" He replied.
"You are magic itself, don't use the sword as a weapon, and make use of it as a part of your body, an extension of your hand. And remember your true mission."
"And what is that?" Divina asked like she wanted him to say something new.
"Unite both kingdoms",