Alpha Ryu
“Then we’ll finish it. Together.”
Above us, a horn sounded—ancient, deep, and distant. Every head in the arena turned skyward. The clouds didn’t just rumble—they split, revealing a black-winged shadow descending at impossible speed.
Not a bird.
Not a wolf.
Something else.
Something worse.
Ryu’s grip on my hand tightened. “They’re coming,” he said grimly.
And I knew—we hadn’t broken free. We had only just opened the next gate.
The black-winged shadow moved faster than any eye could follow, its arrival signaling a new level of danger none of us were prepared for. It cast an enormous, suffocating darkness over the arena, swallowing the flickering stormlight and silencing the shouts of the crowd
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