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Then Hunter felt fire. Somewhere distant, but a raging fireball, heading this way.
The kids must have started a fire as they fled, somewhere farther down the line.
Maybe it was the blood loss, but Hunter was having a hard time figuring out what was going on.
Especially when Michael stepped out of the darkness and slammed Silver into the concrete wall with enough force to break the stones. Rock crumbled around him. Silver crumpled to the ground.
Hunter felt himself lifted by the shoulders. He opened his eyes but didn’t remember closing them.
Gabriel was dragging him.
But he was looking at his brothers. “We need to do something! I can feel it building!”
Fire. He could feel fire building. Hunter could feel it, too, a swelling rage coming fast.
“Did they . . .” started Hunter. He had to wet his lips and really think to string a sentence together. “Did the kids make it out?”
“Yeah. They got out.” Gabriel didn’t sound entirely happy about that.
Hunter could feel the heat, the rage in the air around him.
Then he felt the fire, true fire, barreling through the tunnel.
His mind was trying to panic, but he could barely lift his head. At least it let him string a sentence together. “Gabriel! We need to stop it!”
Too late. Hunter felt the fire wash over him. Heat seared his lungs and scorched his cheeks, blinding him for an instant.
But then he felt Gabriel’s power in his element. His friend was trying to harness the energy, to keep it from spreading.
There was too much. He couldn’t handle it all. This fire wanted to explode from these tunnels, and Gabriel couldn’t hold on to it.
But then another source of power joined Gabriel’s. Nick, trying to choke oxygen from the fire.
Not enough.
Chris, pulling power from the steam in the pipes, the trickles of water on the walls.
Not enough.
The fire was weakening, slowing, but not enough.
Rubble scraped against pavement, and it took Hunter too long to realize what that meant. Silver was getting to his feet.
And he was pulling power, lots of power, from the air around them. Hunter felt it building and knew Silver could kill the Merricks, right here in these tunnels, using their own power.
So he did what he’d been told never to do. He added his power to theirs.
And like a final link clicking into place, the five of them formed a perfect circle. Everything hesitated. The destructive power was right there, in Hunter’s control, lighting up his vision like a power grid. Waiting for direction.
Hunter looked at Silver.
Then he shoved every ounce of power in his direction.
Hunter felt the force of energy leave his body and slam into Silver’s.
And then he didn’t feel anything at all.
CHAPTER 34
