“Finn!” I screamed in agony.

Chapter Twenty-Six

Finn

Istruggled, pushing against his grip with everything I had. The darkness around me was closing in, but the fire in my chest was brighter than ever.

“I’ll make you pay for this,” I said as I looked at Vera still struggling for my life.

“How bold of you to threaten my mother in front of me,” Lucifer said with a vile smirk as he kept on strangling me.

So, you are Lucifer, my half-brother and the cursed one,I thought.

“Let him go!” Aidan ordered as he used all his strength to break free from the chains and at the speed of light ran towards Lucifer and pushed him away.

“Oh …my…” I struggled to talk as I kept on coughing.

“Are you okay?” Aidan asked.

“Yeah… I am,” I said as I stood beside him as Vampires surrounded us, and Lucifer and Vera faced us.

“You need to howl now, that’s the signal for backup to arrive,” Aidan muttered.

I howled a primal roar that echoed through the warehouse. My body surged with power, bones cracked, fur blonde, and my eyes glowed yellow. I grew larger, towering over everyone, an unstoppable force, ready to fight.

“That’s more like it,” Aidan smirked at me.

Then, I heard running feet, followed by the unmistakable roar of wolves joining the battle.

“They are here, I think Damon must have called the other werewolves,” Aidan said.

Aidan’s vampires appeared with weapons in hand, opening fire on Vera’s vampires. The shots rang out, hitting their marks, and chaos erupted in the warehouse.

“How come they are dying? Bullets don’t kill vampires,” I said as I looked around confused.

“They are silver bullets, hence them dying” Aidan answered...

Amid the chaos, Damon emerged in his werewolf form. His grey fur and yellow eyes marked him as a beta wolf, smaller but powerful. He charged into battle, tearing through Vera’s vampires. I snarled, ready to take down anyone who stood in my way.

“I see, your backup has arrived, I was wondering how you’d come here with just Amelia,” Vera smirked as she looked at Aidan.

“You can still put a stop to this, we don’t have to kill ourselves,” Aidan said.

“My dear brother, death is inevitable for all of us. It’s time Lucifer!”

The room seemed to freeze, the ground trembled beneath my feet as Lucifer’s body expanded, muscles rippling, and his fur grew thicker and darker. He towered over us, easily twice the size of a typical alpha wolf, his massive form intimidating and powerful. His eyes glowed a blood-red, and with a deafening roar, he sent a shockwave through the air.

What the …I thought.

The moment my howl tore from my throat, I felt the raw power ripple through the air, shoving back friend and foe alike. The warehouse trembled around us, dust shaking loose from the rafters.

"Kill them all!" Vera's command sliced through the chaos.

My body still burned with the energy of my transformation, muscles coiled tight, claws itching to tear into Lucifer. I could feel him - his arrogance, his cruelty, the way he looked at me like I was nothing. Like I'd always been nothing to him.

"Stay back, Amelia," Aidan stepped forward, voice low.

Damon's growl told me Amelia was safe. Then Lucifer moved towards Aidan.