Page 307 of His Sunshine Baby

“What is that thing?”

We are all thinking the same thing. She made a giant! A giant of mud, or whatever. It’s a…

“A golem!”

I look down at Sylviana. She’s confidently directing her creature, but like Nephera, her burn marks are spreading, fast. The two witches are running out of magic, and I don’t know what comes after that, but I don’t want to.

This will most likely be the final assault for everyone. Either Nephera manages to kill us with that thing, or we kill her first. Time to end this.I exchange a look with Nora.

“It’s now or never.”

“I know. But we must watch the timing.”

“I’ll go in front, Nora, with Liam and Damian. You stay back with Nate; if Sylviana can protect you, maybe you can shape-shift in time to make Nephera stop.”

She nods. This is such a reckless move at this point, but if the witches start attacking, with that giant water spider and this golem, we will only have a few seconds left for the last part of this plan to be put in motion. We only need five seconds. Five seconds for Nora to shape-shift back into her human form and scream with her Luna power for the witch to stop. I really hope this theory works.

It would be so much easier to carry out if it wasn’t for all the vampires surrounding us. Those damn blood-suckers don’t seem impressed by Sylviana’s surprise golem; they are already screeching loudly and jumping back on their feet to attack us.

“Nephera will target Nora first, she knows her Luna Power is the strongest. I’ll be the decoy, but we have to move fast.”

At least I managed to piss off that bitch enough to hope she’ll focus on me instead of my cousin now. The large wound I inflicted on Nephera’s shoulder and neck is still bleeding profusely, but it’s hard to decipher her expression when her eyes have turned opaque, her iris and pupils hidden in a blue fog.

We are tensed up, waiting for the moment to attack. The vampires are crawling around us, ready to jump at us again. Moon Goddess, if Nora shape-shifts back at the wrong moment, her Luna Power doesn’t work, or Nephera ignores her… So many things could go wrong with this plan, but it’s our best shot. We gather next to the golem’s feet. Sylviana nods, her green eyes went opaque too.

“Now!” she screams.

Everything gets set in motion at the same time. Damian starts running first, I’m right behind him. Nephera screams in anger, and the spider’s legs start moving. Two of those water geysers are about to shift towards us, and I prepare to endure it, but an uproar above us catches the witch’s attention first.

The golem is advancing towards her, and Nephera changes her attack at the last second to stop the giant. She steps back and agitates her arm, sending three of the spiders’ legs against the golem. The pressure between the two strengths is making an awful rumble. The golem’s head and hands are stopped by the water geysers, and for a second, it looks like one will have to give up. The giant of mud tries to fight back the water pressure, and both have to maintain full force not to give in. The struggle ishappening right above our heads, and we are soon drenched by the downpour.

However, at least it’s keeping three of Nephera’s giant water streams busy. Damian and I accelerate, and I feel the others right behind us. Damian, Nate, Liam, and I need to stop her other “legs” long enough for Nora to get close, shape-shift, and yell for her to stop. We don’t know how close or how loud she’ll have to be, and I’m scared the ruckus around us will force my cousin to get too close to the witch. Nora will be in the most danger, and the vampires are rushing to stop our group too.

Suddenly, another water geyser moves, the fourth one, and Damian growls furiously, prepared to take it. It hits the Werewolf King full force, and I have to jump to the side to not be caught in it as well. The Black wolf struggles to keep standing for a second, his paws and claws digging into the mud. I can feel the full violence of the sudden hit. Nephera tries to increase the water pressure, to blow him away, but Damian won’t give up. He remains there, blocking that geyser all by himself, shoulder first, and growling furiously. Moon Goddess, if even the King struggles this much…

I growl fiercely. Only two more of her “legs” to stop.

I’m now in front, but we are not there yet. Maybe a dozen feet between Nephera and us, but it feels like much, much more. The muddy ground and the downpour above us make it hard to run. Suddenly, I hear a furious growl on my right side, and Nate jumps in just in time to save me from a vampire’s fangs.

“Nate!”

“I’m fine! Keep going!”

He fights off the vampires on my right flank, detaching himself from our group and growling furiously to defend us. I didn’t notice the blood-suckers had already gathered around us! That was too fast! I lose a second watching Nate and, like an idiot, miss the sudden attack coming from the other side. Ihear Liam’s yell in my head, and the next second, I’m rolling in the mud, a vampire screeching above me. I growl furiously, defending myself and trying to kick him off me. The group of vampires have caught up on us, and I’m quickly surrounded. Liam intervenes to help me, his black fur suddenly covering my vision. He bites the vampire’s arm off and pulls him away from me with infuriated growls to warn the others. Nora runs to catch up to me.

“Selena! Are you okay?”

“Yeah, sor–!”

I can’t finish my sentence. I spot another vampire about to jump on Nora right behind her. I growl angrily and activate my aura again, brighter, before jumping on him. Damn it, I can’t do everything at once! I finish that damn vampire off and use my aura to spread the message to humans and werewolves all at once.

“This battle needs to end here and now!”

I spread my anger to all our peers, calling our troops to rally. The vampires around us, once again scared and blinded by my glowing aura, retreat a bit.

Meanwhile, I feel all the wolves turning to our area, guided by my glow. Nora and I react together, and our combined auras are like a beacon, indicating to everyone where to gather on our side of the battlefield. In a few seconds, all the wolves not caught up in fights start running to our area, ready to end this. If the vampires reassemble, so will we. We need more wolves to fend off the vampires gathering to stop us. The humans can handle the frontier temporarily, or so I hope.

Moreover, Liam is still caught up in his fight on the side, a few steps away.

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