“Cool. I’m just going to go with it,” I linked him, sucking in a breath, “The supernatural world is real. I’m a dragon shifter, and Fox is my mate. A mate is something like a soulmate, the other half of each other’s souls. Your uncle is a hunter-”
“Like Supernatural?” Sutton asked.
“No. Unlike the brothers on Supernatural, real hunters don’t really believe they’re ridding the world of evil, they are doing it because they see us as subhuman. They believe they’re ridding the world of filth. Hunters torture and rape their victims before killing them,” Fox pulled me to him, kissing me on my temple.
“You sound like you’re talking from experience,” Fletcher said quietly.
“I am.”
“What actually happened to your family?” Fletcher asked.
“It wasn’t hunters. I’ll tell you all more later, but right now the house has been surrounded by hunters. Phillip is their leader, and they’re here for me.”
“Why should we believe you, help you?” Viola said coming back into the room.
“Because she’s telling the truth,” Audrina said before Fox had the chance to defend me. “I was a hunter. My family, our family, has hunted since the dark ages. I never helped in the other stuff she’s talking about, but I did help in capturing supernaturals. I was raised in it. I left after I met my mate, a dragon.”
“How could you not tell us?” Fox asked accusingly.
“I know you all have a lot of questions and there’s more to the story, but there are more pressing matters,” as I said that a metal canister flew through the window, spitting out a gaseous form of snapdragon oil.
I bent the fog out of the hole the canister created and used the plants in the room to pick it up and toss it back out the window. It blew up as soon as it got outside. “How did you do that?” Sutton asked.
“I’ll explain la-” Some of the hunters crashed through the back door. I grabbed the knife from the floor and motioned for Viola to get behind me. Thankfully she didn’t fight me on it and moved behind me with everyone else. The first guy came into the room and I threw the knife hitting him square in the throat, dropping him to the floor. The others shot blindly into the room, so I bent the bullets causing them to stop midair and drop to the floor. I walked toward the shots, easily overcoming the first two hunters I came upon just after the opening to the next room.
The other hunters tried to shoot me, but I jammed their guns by bending the metal inside the slides. I took them out easily too. I searched their bodies for weapons and came up with several blades. I threw them quickly and efficiently at the hunters that continued to pour into the house. This time once a knife met its mark, I bent it back to me, “How is she doing that? None of them can do that,” one of them said.
I smirked, they dropped their guns to the floor, as they stopped working, and switched to knives as well. I caught most of them or bent them back to their origin, until Audrina screamed, pulling my attention back to the living room. I took an iron knife to the shoulder, “Fuck.” I pulled it out and staunched the bleeding, and headed back for the living room. Immediately I saw what Audrina was screaming about, one of the hunters had Jack by the neck with a gun to his head. Viola and Audrina were both pleading with him to let Jack go. I reached out to the water in his body and moved his limbs, forcing him to let go of Jack, but instead of knocking him out, I snapped his neck with the control I had over his body. “Call Daniel. Tell him to bring transport and clean up. I’m almost done,” I linked Fox.
He nodded and I walked back out into the thick of the hunters. I decided to end this sooner rather than later. I reached out to the water in each of their bodies, I used it to collapse the organs in their bodies. The last hunters fell dead on the floor. “Daniel will be here in a few minutes,” Fox linked me.
“Good. I don’t feel like cleaning up this mess by myself,” I said aloud as I came into the living room.
“Who the fuck are you talking to? And how did you do all of that?” Sutton demanded.
I sighed, “I was talking to Fox. We can communicate telepathically through what’s called a mind link. I asked him to call my dad and my team, and he just linked me that they would be here in a few minutes. As for how I did all of that, every dragon has a set of skills they can do; some can bend the elements related to their dragon, others can only breathe their elements when in dragon form, and a select few can do both. There are different types of dragons based on the different magics used to create us. I can bend and breathe all elements-”
“Like the fucking avatar?” Sutton interrupted.
“Yeah kind of, but my abilities come with so much more. I am the Queen of Dragons, like my mother was, but the queen isn’t an inherited title typically, the goddess chooses each queen.”
“We’re here Amaya. Where do you want us?” Daniel’s voice rang in my head.
“Inside. That’s where the bodies are. I left a few of them alive. I think,” I linked back.
We heard the front door open and all of them, but Fox, looked at me with a worried look, “What do you mean you think?” Jace shouted as he walked in the house.
All eyes were still on me but the look had changed to a questioning one, “My idiot cousin,” I explained.
“I heard that you, asshole,” he said as he walked into the room.
“You were supposed to, dumbass.”
“Now that wounds me deeply,” He said, putting his hands over his heart.
“Uh huh. I’m sure. Everyone this is Jace, Jace is this everyone,” I said, letting Jace go around and introduce himself.
“What did you do to these?” Daniel asked from the other room.
I walked in, Fox following, “I collapsed their internal organs,” I told him with a shrug. They gave me looks that were a mixture of mystified and horrified. “What? I needed to end it quicker than I would’ve if I had fought them hand to hand especially considering they’re armed out the ass.”
“Still though,” Daniel said to me. I shrugged, “So do you want to give me the full story?”
I rubbed my forehead, “Let’s get everyone loaded up and then we’ll gather everyone in the living room and talk.” With Jace, Alanza, Josie, and Lavi’s help we got everyone loaded quickly, a blanket of thick fog concealing our movements.
The hunters that made it through were shackled to the van walls, while the dead ones were just thrown haphazardly on the floor surrounding them. Once we got everyone loaded we went back in the house. Lavi noticed the blood on my shirt, “Where are you hurt?”
“It’s nothing, Lavi,” I replied, waving her off, trying to join everyone in the living room.
She stopped me though, “Shirt off. Let me do my job as I let you do yours, goddess.” She added the last part under her breath so that only I could hear her.
I started unbuttoning my shirt with a sigh. I shrugged out of it just enough so that she had access to my wound. “See it’s almost healed,” I told her, earning myself a glare.
She muttered something to herself that I didn’t quite catch. Pressing her hand on the wound, she whispered an incantation, healing me instantly. “See it’s completely healed,” she retorted back at me with an eye roll making me laugh.
We rejoined everyone in the living room. Fox walked up to me, putting his arm around my shoulders and giving me a kiss on the temple. “Good?”
I nodded, turning my head to look at him, “Good.”
Author: Kailan Counahan 