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2025-08-13 20:40:09Elise's POV
Leia's voice echoes around the room and Sammi and I both snap to attention.
"Come on, he's in the woods. Echo and Tai found him out there."
"What do you mean he's lost his mind?" I ask as we run through the packlands and into the forest.
"You'll see," Angie yells as she trails behind us.
My heart is pounding, we could go so much faster if we shifted, but we are trying to make sure Angie isn't lost out here.
There’s a clearing behind the old church ruins. It sits on the backside of our lands and I stop dead in my tracks when we get there. Echo and Tai are signaling us to keep quiet as they quietly look into the clearing.
"Shhh, we found him here like this," Echo whispers.
"What the hell is he doing?" Sammi asks and we all stare at him.
Josh is standing barefoot in the center of a scorched circle of earth, grinning like he's possessed. In his hands he's holding something like it's a sacred gift. It's some kind of marble or orb. I can't get a good look at it, but it looks black and there is blood red light coming from it.
"What is that?" Angie asks.
"I have no idea, is he talking to it?"
There's a low humming that vibrates and it makes my teeth ache. Light is slithering below it, almost like something is alive and trapped inside, shifting, watching.
"Josh!" Sammi yells and I try and pull her back. "He's my mate, Elise, let me go!" She shrugs my arm away and steps out of the shadows. "Josh, what the hell are you doing?"
He looks up slowly, pupils dilated into pinpricks. "She says I'm chosen," he says almost dreamlike. "It wants to keep testing me."
"Testing you?" I ask and he just stares back at the orb. "This isn't a game Josh. Stop screwing around. You're scaring us."
Josh laughs and it's wild and unsettling. "She's showing me things. Power. Freedom. All I have to do is pass the tests."
"Is he screwing around? This isn't funny." Angie says and Echo and Tai get closer to him.
"I don't think this is a joke," I say and Sammi goes to reach out to him and she's suddenly tossed back as flames erupt at Josh's feet. They are blue and rise up like they are licking at his legs. He doesn't flinch, instead he walks through them like they aren't there.
I hear Echo growl, he has half transformed and I notice that Tai's claws are out. "This is bad. It's not a joke."
"It's using him," Angie says, "It's seeing how far it can push him. How much of Josh it can break before taking over."
"What are you talking about?" Sammi asks frantic as she watches her mate.
"It's like a movie I saw once, it's like he's being possessed."
The orb starts to pulsate and Josh turns to a tree and raises one hand. He reaches up and without touching it a huge branch cracks like thunder and his smile widens.
"That will crush all of us if it falls!" I say and Sammi yells out.
"We have to stop him! The longer he holds it the more it rewrites him!"
We know we can't rush at him, and Sammi slowly moves towards him again.
"Josh, please look at me."
He hesitates but still has an eerie grin.
"Josh, this isn't you. You're my mate, I know you feel it in there. I know you do."
His insane grin falters.
"Please," Sammi reaches out her hand and the pulsing of the orb gets stronger and Josh gasps, clutching it tight and he falls to his knees, trembling.
"She says you're lying. She says you're afraid of me and you will reject me. She says you want to steal the orb and have the power to yourself."
"No, Josh. The Goddess made me for you. Please just drop that thing and feel our bond!"
The orb's light starts to get brighter, blinding almost, and then it speaks. Through Josh. A thousand voices in one.
"He is almost mine."
With that Echo lunges into the air and tackles Josh to the ground, pinning him down. I dive forward, grabbing Josh's arm, the one with the orb, and I try and force it from his hand. Tai joins me and Sammi touches Josh's chest.
The orb shrieks and Josh loosens his hand enough for me to pull it away from him and I toss it on the ground.
Josh looks up at all of us, looking confused, and then collapses, unconscious but breathing.
"We need to get him back."
"What do we do about that thing?" Angie asks, pointing at the small obsidian ball.
"Don't touch it. Echo and I will sit here until Alpha Roman and Beta Lucas get here. They'll know what to do," Leia says. "Tai can you carry Josh back to the packlands?"
He nods and carefully lifts up Josh, whose limbs are lifeless.
We make it back to the pack hospital in record time and Tai lays Josh down on a cot. My father and Lucas join us and we try our best to explain what happened.
They both look puzzled.
"Ok, we will go out to Echo and Leia. By the way, have any of you seen Jack or Leo today?"
None of us have.
"They were going to run some errands in town I think," I say and my father looks angry.
"Get them back here right now, you understand? They are in deep shit with me. They should have checked in."
I nod and instantly mind link Leo.
Leo's POV
"How much further?" I ask and Jack fiddles with his phone.
"Like, twenty minutes. We're almost there."
"You two better get back here quick. Something's wrong with Josh. You won't believe what happened! And my dad and Lucas are pretty furious with you too."
"Looks like we are in hot water," I say and Jack smiles.
"We always are," he chuckles.
"Something up with that Josh kid too," I say and Jack gets stiff.
"I don't like that kid. He's not wired right," he says.
We make our way to the pack and head to the hospital. I sit down beside Elise. Sammy is beside Josh's bed.
"So what happened?" I ask and they explain almost frantically the events.
"It was testing him," Jack says quietly, "he's been acting really reckless all week. Like he had some kind of death wish. Whatever that thing was, it was seeing how much danger he'd put himself in, and others. I think it was testing him before it fully took control."
"What if he passed the test?" Sammi asks with tears in her eyes.
"My guess is he won't be Josh anymore," I answer, "He'd be hers."
None of us say what we are all thinking. Where is it now? What if there are more out there? How many would pass the test and be taken over?
But there's one fact that only Jack and I know and Jack mind links me.
You gonna tell them about the books? The patterns? You're connected to this Leo. What if the thing was meant for you?
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