Semua Bab Lunar Blessed : Bab 11 - Bab 20

The first Mechanical Hunter burst from the trees like a nightmare made of steel and death.Tamara had expected something like a robot from movies. This was way worse. It looked like a wolf, but off. Too many joints, legs that bent backwards and forwards , a head that could spin all the way around. Red lights for eyes. And it moved without sound, without breath, like nothing alive.It went straight for her.Kai slammed into it from the side, his wolf form all huge and black. His teeth hit metal and came back bloody – his own blood. The thing's skin was sharp all over, like it was made of knives.“Don't bite them!” Marcus yelled, shifting back to human. “Use stuff around you!”Easy for him to say. Hard with five more Hunters coming from the shadows.They moved perfect. Too perfect. While real wolves stumble sometimes, breathe hard, get tired – these things just kept coming. One grabbed Sarah, a young wolf who'd joined last winter. Metal claws went through her shoulder, and she screamed.

The Hybrid Hunters closed in on the gas station, like sharks when they smell blood.Kai tensed. “Oracle, tell me you've got another way out.” His wolf was ready to fight.“There's an old tunnel,” the Oracle said. “Basement storage, which connects to the storm drains—but…”“But what?” Lilith snapped.“It goes under the cemetery. The old one. Where things that should stay dead are buried.”A Hybrid rammed against the window—half wolf, half machine, one eye yellow and alive, the other red and dead. Metal teeth glinted behind the real ones.“Cemetery sounds better than this,” Marcus said.They bolted for the basement door. Glass shattered behind them as the Hybrids swarmed in, moving wrong, too smooth.The tunnel was worse than dark; it swallowed light. Their flashlights died after like three steps.“Stay close,” Kai said. Hold on.Tamara grabbed his hand. The silver and gold under her skin gave off just enough glow to see shapes. Behind them, metal scraped on stone. The Hybrids were in t

Kai shoved Tamara hard sending her sprawling to the left just as the Victor-thing's metal claws sliced through the air where she'd been standing. Instead of flesh, the claws tore into the bone shelves, sending ancient books to dust.“Stairs! Now!” Kai yelled, grabbing Tamara's hand.But the Victor-thing was too fast. It leaped over them, landing between them and the stairs. Its red eyes spun like some broken camera.“No escape,” it rasped, oil dribbling down its mouth. “DSC wants the Bridge alive. The wolf can die.”It swung at Kai. He barely dodged it, the claws snagged his already-hurt shoulder, tearing deeper. Blood splattered across the white floor.“Enough!” Tamara's power just exploded out of her without her thinking. Gold and silver light slammed into the Victor-thing, sending it flying backward into the black pool.The Library shook. Cracks spread across the walls like spiderwebs.“Violence,” The ghost appeared again, only this time it was angry. “I said no violence here!”The

Tamara fell asleep in Smith's car as they drove north. The engine's hum and Kai's warm hand in hers made her drowsy. She didn't mean to sleep. But her body was tired from using shadow power.She closed her eyes for just a second.When she opened them, she wasn't in the car anymore.She stood on ground made of black glass. Above her, the sky danced with colors like the northern lights, but wrong. Purple and silver and dark green, moving like living things. The air smelled like old books left in the rain. Like flowers at a funeral. Like the moment before lightning strikes."Hello?" Her voice echoed strange. Like it bounced off things that weren't there.Whispers answered. Hundreds of them. Thousands. All around her but far away. She couldn't understand the words, but they sounded sad. So sad.She started walking. Her feet made no sound on the black glass ground. In the distance, she could see shapes. Trees maybe? But as she got closer, she saw they weren't trees. They were shadows stand

Tamara lay in her bed, staring at the ceiling. It was 4 AM. Everyone else was asleep in the pack house. They'd stayed up late planning how to reach Theo. How purposely go into the shadow realm without dying. How to save a brother she never knew she had.Smith's words kept spinning in her head. "This is dangerous. You could die. The shadow realm doesn't let go easily."She felt like she was drowning. Her mom was dead. She had a twin brother stuck between worlds. Shadow wolves. The DSC wanted to capture her. And in two hours, they'd try something that might kill them all.She needed air. She needed... normal. Just for an hour. Just to remember what it felt like to be regular Tamara, not the Bridge between worlds.She slipped out of bed. Grabbed her old hoodie - the one from before everything changed. Put on jeans and sneakers.The pack house was quiet. She knew the safe route out. Down the back stairs. Through the kitchen. Out the side door.The morning air was cold and clean. No shadow