They arrived in a large field with a big barn on one side and an old rickety house close by. Eve sat in wolf mode, then changed to her werewolf form as they parked. He and Rane got out of the car and walked around the area, he pushed out his senses, searching for Lexie, and stilled when he felt several different elements. “Guys, there’s a lot of supernatural people down there. I can feel animal, water, air, there are two fire elements and two earth elements. Hayden, get over here, I’m going to channel both earth elements. I’m hoping the strongest will be Lexie as she already knows the feeling of my pull on her powers.” His brother touched his shoulder and he concentrated on only moving the earth in front of him.
The ground shook before him and opened up, screams got louder the bigger the hole got. Then they heard Lexie and Remy. Lexie grumbled, “Get them to shut up, Remy. It’s Logan, I know his pull.”
At the sound of Lexie’s voice, Duke jumped down the hole, Arden going after him.
They heard Remy say, “Oh for Christ’s sake, women, shut up. They’re the good guys, and if you keep your whining up I’m going to fucking knock you out.”
Logan stopped when the hole was big enough for two people to jump down comfortably. He looked down at the hole and back at Rane. “Hayden and I can’t make that drop without a rope.”
Rane grinned at him before he pushed him down, yelling, “Well, be happy you mated one of us because you can now.”
Logan landed with a jarring thud on the ground, Hayden landed next to him on a groan. He looked around to see a dirt room with a door on one side and women chained to the ground.
Arden held Remy who pushed at his chest. “Yeah, yeah, you missed me. Go get something to break the chains so we can get out of here.”
Logan watched as Arden tried unsuccessfully to break the chain. He saw Duke trying to do the same to no effect.
The women around them were sobbing and begging to be let go. Logan looked up and yelled to Rane. “We need something, the chains aren’t breaking.”
Griffen jumped down with bolt cutters and other tools.
Logan walked slowly over to help the girls with the chains not wanting to scare them further. Once the women were free he and Griffen started passing the women up to Rane, Tray, and Jamie. When all the girls were out of the room Griffen boosted him and Hayden back up.
Rane walked over to him. “As much as I want to kill all the demons I know are down there, I think we need to wait for back up. Even then I fear there won’t be enough of us. Right now we need to focus on finding everyone else, so we need you to use your senses, your supernatural power.”
Logan nodded. He wasn’t stupid, he knew they were outnumbered and needed to keep a low profile, and finding Ava was more important than killing demons. “Fine. But the problem with that is they are going to eventually know and feel the vibrations. We got lucky this time. I already feel drained from opening that hole only moving the earth around it.” He looked over at Eve who was back in wolf form. “You need to find my girl.”
She nodded and walked around with her nose to the ground and sat at the very end of the field. Logan prayed he could make it and that their luck held. He debated for a moment if he should use the two earth elements he’d just found, but he didn’t want to scare or exhaust them more, especially after what they’d gone through.
Slowly, he strolled over to her, pausing and looking at Hayden and Lexie, who was held in Duke’s arms. The three of them did four more holes, and rescued a good thirty more women and ten men. The hole before he reached where Eve sat broke his heart. He came upon a room full of fifteen grubby children of various ages, huddled together. They cried and were the hardest to keep quiet. Some of the rescued people ran to the children to claim them as their own. But there were many left that continued to cry. The children’s distress brought the attention of the demons.
Two demons came in the door as they lifted the last of the children out. Griffen and Jamie attacked them. A small demon around eight feet tall came running in and went straight for Hayden. Duke let go of Lexie and attacked the demon so he could move on to the last hole, the most important one. Logan needed to get Ava.
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“They’re here!”
Pet’s squeal of joy shocked Ava out of her dozing state, and she stood up, testing the chains again.
Pet skipped over to her. “Hold my chain and me, so you could break my neck.”
Ava looked at the crazy woman. “Ah no, I’m not going to hur—”
“I know that, but the demons don’t, and they will come in here and get me. The demons won’t have time to get me if they have to fight you. The demons are running scared because they don’t know your numbers outside.”