Luminous Scans Novels & Stories

Found a body Chapter 021 At the pack house, in the sterile examination room, chaos had erupted. "This doesn't make any sense," one of the doctors said, staring at the machine. "We all saw the videos. Everyone saw his eyes glowing and his claws. How can the scan show nothing?" "Run it again," Alpha Derrek ordered, his voice sharp with anger. The room felt suffocated With his aura. "We've run it three times, Alpha," Dr. Thorn said, his voice still cold and emotionless. "The results are the same every time. Zero wolf energy detected."

**<< Could be key… Antidote research… Reverse engineering… Need its genetic profile… Without it… fighting blind… >>** The burden of the vial grew heavier. Destroying it eliminated one weapon but sacrificed potential salvation. Keeping it made them a target and risked it falling back into enemy hands. Before they could debate, Winters stiffened. He pulled a compact scanner from his pack – different from the thermal imager. It emitted a low, urgent beep. His expression, usually impassive, tightened almost imperceptibly. **<< Signal trace. Short-range. Directional. >>** He moved swiftly to the clinic’s grimy window, peering out into the rain-lashed darkness. **<< Triangulating… source: perimete

I felt the shape of the plan settle like armor around us. He studied me for a second, then nodded. “Alright. I’ll mobilize the med team and run the scans tonight. I’ll bring you the first results in the morning.” I put my hand on the scanner James had left on the table, feeling the hum under my palm, and let the tiniest sliver of exhaustion in. “Good. Move. And James—if anything in those scans looks like a trigger no theatrics. You cut it out, now. Quietly.”

“Alert me if anything changes.” As I descended the stairs leading to my lab, I knew I didn't have much time. Lumina, based on what my informants told me, works by destabilising the normal biology of the body. And it wasn't something that could be countered easily. Lira's case was worse. She had barely taken her full form as a gamma. I didn't even know where to start. What rank would she wake up to? My hands shook as I scanned the labels, pulling bottles closer to inspect them. I hadn't admitted it since they arrived, but Lumina scared me. It had the power to potentially end our kind. And worse, in the hands of my brother, we were doomed.

Lucian was fighting, his forehead bleeding from where a guard had struck him, his eyes fixed on Thalynn with a devastating mixture of love and agony. The machine began to hum. A ring of red light passed over Thalynn’s body, stripping away the digital masks he had worn for few weeks. [SCANNING... 20%] [HEART RATE: 145 BPM] [PHEROMONE CONCENTRATION: UNSTABLE] "Wait," the medical officer muttered, looking at his monitor. "The readings are... discordant. There is a secondary Alpha signature deeply embedded in the tissue. It’s masking the core."

I look at the tools. I look at the men. I look at Liam. He’s standing behind me. He’s holding the gun. "Aiden," he whispers. "Run." "I’m not running anymore," I say. I step forward. "Let them scan." "Aiden!" "I said let them scan." I stand still. The lawyer smiles. He signals the men. They move closer. The tools hum. They sweep over my skin. The red light glows. It hits my chest. It stops.

A single scanned page glowed on her screen. “I need all of you to see this yourselves.”

The blue light pulsed, then suddenly flared bright red over my chest. Dr. Chen’s expression went very still. “What?” I sat up straighter, ignoring the pull of sore muscles. “What is it?” She didn’t respond. Just kept scanning, her face growing paler with each pass. The red light appeared everywhere—my chest, my stomach, my head, even my hands. Finally, she lowered the scanner and looked at Kael. “You need to see this.” Kael crossed the room in two strides. Dr. Chen showed him the scanner’s display screen. I couldn’t see it from my angle, but I watched Kael’s face go from concerned to furious in seconds.

"I will start the scan of the book to the Index." Susan announced and ran the command. The crystalline pyramids in the vertices shined for some seconds and shot beams of light to its neighbours, drawing with it the edges of the rectangular box that make the library room. In the system's monitor, a window appeared showing a progress bar, an elapsed time display, an estimated time left display and a counter of books scanned. The counter in the last one was growing by the second and could be read '154 books of 16248 books scanned'.

They stood utterly still, their presence a promise of absolute, final order. This was the real test. The line moved forward slowly, methodically. Each person, each cart, was scanned multiple times. The Reapers didn't move, but Liora could feel their attention, a cold, blank pressure on her mind. Finally, it was their turn. They were directed onto a larger, more complex scanning plate. Orbs on the walls above them glowed, sweeping them with beams of pale light. Liora felt the invasive tingle again, deeper this time, probing for the secrets she held locked away.