“I don’t know really. I got so mad at all the violence, all the bloodshed around me. Then, everything changed, from the magic inside of me, to the way I saw the world. I think I communicated with it, like I got Mother Nature’s blessing. Then, I felt calm myself, confident actually, like the way you make me feel. Yet, I felt I could save the world. I guess after dealing with killing Daniel and then Chloe being missing all in one night, plus memories of you being here, seeing you get bit, I just lost it. My magic built up inside me and all I could think was that I wanted it all to stop. Guess it did. The earth listened to my thoughts. But, they are alive, like you, right?”
“I would assume so. You just touched me and I woke up?” he inquired.
“Right. I should find Nira and see if it works on her. They all have to be okay,” I said, helping him up, moving through the bodies, both wolf and vampire that appeared dead on the ground, my doing. “I know they are. Don’t ask me how, but I do. And, I know that I am the one controlling them. I decide when they wake. It is a heady feeling.”
“I can only imagine, but I do feel the change in you. I like it. You glow even without your magic around you. Your eyes are sparkling. You look beyond amazing, surreal. A goddess.”
“Oh, stop. We have to find Nira, and wake her up. Then, we can wake the others, well our others, and decide what to do with the rest of them.”
“Okay. I’m healing faster than usual. Probably you too. Let’s go find her,” he said as he stood, helping me up, a huge smile radiating on his face.
“Here!” I yelled, only a few steps later. “She’s right here.”
I bent down, letting my hand fall to my friend’s chest. It would be hard to tell if a vampire was alive or dead, as no heart beat and no air moved in and out of their lungs anyway. Nira began to stir, though, as her eyes opened up immediately.
“Oh, Nira, you are okay,” I said, the tears threatening in my eyes so obvious in my voice. “I knew you were, but to see it. It is a miracle anyway.”
“What did you do?” Nira said as I shook my head, like warding off sleep.
“I don’t know, some rage induced magic that put everyone to sleep or something. It seems though that when I touch them, well at least you and Lex, that you wake up. It somehow releases you from whatever I did. I wanted it all to stop, and the universe did my enraged bidding.”
“We should try to wake our others and then decide what to do with the true werewolves,” Nira offered, sitting up.
I shook my head, loving how on the same page we were. Yet, as I sat down, a wave of dizziness finally took me, a residual effect of all the power that had coursed through my body. The grass beneath me made me realize I was still completely naked. While I marveled at what had happened, looking over the bodies strewn about the bloody ground, some on the gravel parking lot and others in the grass beside it, my mind took advantage of the situation, forming a plan in my head.
“Are you feeling okay?” Nira asked, coming back down to crouch beside me.
“Just dizzy. I don’t know what happened to me exactly. I just need a moment. But, as I am sitting here dazed, somehow my mind got an idea, or the earth gave me one. I don’t know anymore. Anyway, tell me what you think. How about if I wake up our guys, and then you, not me, tie up the true werewolves, not to take them prisoner or anything, but to make them a captive audience as to the Royal’s proposal of helping them, possibly breaking their curse, training them as Royal werewolves who turn magically? Do you think it would work?”
“Hell, I think you are brilliant, and that we have to try. Without your magic, Christina, controlled or not, you have helped us in so many ways. I am, as I have said before, honored to know you,” Nira exclaimed as Lex crouched down beside us, taking one of each of our hands in his.
“An amazing plan. I too am honored to not only know you but to be your mate, my love,” Lex added. “You are both extraordinary women.”
As tears formed in my eyes, happy ones, I let them help me up. For the first time in my life, I walked proudly naked. Well, I had in front of Lex, alone, but not yet in a more public setting with the other werewolves. My insecurities from childhood thanks to my overabundance of curves still surfaced in those situations though I’d been fighting it, working on it. Tonight, though, I walked proudly among them. As the sun showed its first signs of rising, signaling amazingly a new day as if it too approved of my plan, I walked to each of the Royal werewolves and vampires, touching each one of them and watching them rise as Lex and Nira gathered them together, offering explanation.