Defy The Alpha(s)

Chapter 477: Detonate Music Recommendation For this Chapter : Winter has c- Ramin Djawadi "Oh shit," Roman breathed, eyes wide as Adele pulled her hands back from his healed leg.

Violet was no longer on the ground.

She was suspended mid-air, completely weightless, as if the earth itself had let her go. Spirals of raw energy coiled around her, glowing brighter with each slow turn.

Her body was hovering at least six feet off the ground, her limbs slack, and her head tilted slightly back. Violet's hair floated around her like a halo of amethyst flames, moving as if underwater. It was quite a beautiful sight that left those who stared in awe.

Violet's eyes were shut peacefully. Almost too peaceful. She didn't seem to know what was happening, or worse, she didn't seem to know what she was doing.

The air changed.

The wind picked up fast, howling through the trees as branches bent and groaned under the pressure. Dust, pebbles, and sand from the nearby shore lashed against their faces while leaves whipped past like blades. This was no longer just wind. It was pure, unbridled power.

Roman shielded his eyes, hair flailing around his face. "We need to get out of here!" "Oh, now you agree with me?!" Micah snapped back, already squinting against the gusts.

Then he felt the energy rippling through the air.

Micah's eyes went wide. "RUN! RUN NOW!" He didn't wait and bolted.

That snapped the others out of it.

Asher spun, grabbing Alaric. Griffin snarled, glancing back at Violet one last tas her body began to pulse with terrifying frequency.

This time, they ran not just from the remaining mercenaries, but from the girl they were trying to protect because Violet was no longer stable. She was ticking like a tbomb and was about to go off.

Unfortunately, there was no outrunning what was bound to happen.

Violet exploded.

It was everything as heat, pressure, and magic, detonated outward in a single, catastrophic pulse. The air cracked with the sound of a thousand thunderclaps as a blinding flare of white-hot energy erupted from her body. The ground split open beneath her, the shockwave flattening everything in its path.

The heat hit first, unbearable and all-consuming. It scorched the earth, turning the soil into glass. Then cthe force, a violent rippling wave that ripped through the landscape like a bomb dropped from the heavens. The energy moved fast, leaving nothing but destruction in its wake.

"Oh, fuck it!" Micah snapped, making up his mind in a heartbeat.

There was no explaining what happened next.

Immediately, his body turned to a black mist that twisted like a living thing. In that split second, the smoke shot toward Adele and Roman, wrapping around them like a cloak just before the shockwave reached them. Then it stretched, impossibly fast, whipping through the chaos and curling around Asher, Griffin, and Alaric as well.

The instant it enclosed them all, the world behind them lit up in pure destruction.

And then, there was nothing.

They vanished, pulled from the blast a breath before it could vaporize them.

Except the world reformed again in a violent lurch, and suddenly Asher, Alaric, Griffin, and Adele landed hard on a jagged black surface.

The air was thick with heat, suffocatingly dry, and choking. Lava flowed in wide, glowing rivers between cracked obsidian rock, bubbling and hissing as it spat fiery embers into the air. The sky above was pitch black, pulsing with angry red veins, and the air itself echoed with with tortured, unending screams.

Asher's eyes narrowed, scanning the burning landscape. "Where the hell are we?" "Literally?" Micah answered as he materialized in front of them, his body solidifying from the mist. He collapsed to one knee, panting heavily, like whatever magic he'd just used had nearly torn him apart.

"Wait a minute..." It dawned on Asher. "You brought us to hell?" For a moment, everyone thought Asher would lose it only for him to ask. "Mind if I see my father?" Micah rolled his eyes just as the groaning creak of armored footsteps echoed behind them.

Two massive demons patrolling a nearby ridge had turned. Their skin was gray and cracked like burnt stone, with horns that spiraled upward and eyes that glowed like dying suns. Spiked armor clung to their hulking forms as they raised their obsidian spears and froze, staring at the group with baffled expressions.

Clearly, they had not been expecting visitors.

Roman gave a small wave. "Hello?" The demons blinked, only for their expressions to twist into rage suddenly.

They spoke in a language they did not understand, but clearly Micah did judging from the colorful words that left his lips.

The demons charged at them, but before their weapons could reach them, Micah's body exploded into mist again, wrapping around the group like aof darkness.

The last thing they saw before vanishing was one demon's snarhas he swung his spear and the lava glowing brighter beneath their feet. And then, they were gone. Again. They landed back where it had all started, except it wasn't a forest anymore.

Every tree had been flattened, torn apart by the blast. What remained were broken trunks, scorched stumps, and ash. Fires stilom smolder sh smoldered across the ruin, casting a sickly orange glow beneath thick clouds of smoke. The air was hot and dry, filled with the acrid stench of burning wood, singed earth — and flesh. Smoke was everywhere, clinging to their skin, stinging their eyes, and choking their lungs.

Micah collapsed instantly, hitting the ground with a grunt.

"Micah!" Adele shouted, rushing to him and falling to her knees beside his unconscious form, her hands glowing as she checked him.

But the boys weren't waiting.

Their feet were already moving, pounding over cracked dirt and m splintered debris. Griffin, Asher, Alaric ered debris.

and Roman, all of them run to find her, their heart hammering in their chest. When they reached the spot, they froze because a wide crater now replaced the spot where Violet had once been.

The center was still smoking, like the earth itself had been ripped apart and cauterized in the sbreath, embers crackling in the pit's heart.

They couldn't see anything at first because the smoke was too thick. But when it cleared a bit, they saw her. Or rather, what was lying in the center of the crater.

It was a wolf.

And not just any wolf, but a purple-furred one.

No way...