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“Did he serve in Afghanistan?”
“Yes. Just six months.”
“Wait a minute,” said Gabriel. “Someone knows what the secret tattoo says?”
Hunter gave him a look. “It’s not a secret. It’s on my arm.”
“Enough with the suspense already. What does it say?”
“Nothing important,” said Hunter.
o;You’re right,” said Silver. He pointed the gun at Hunter’s head. “I do what needs to be done.”
He pulled the trigger.
The gun exploded. Hunter saw the flash, but that was it.
Then Silver was yelling and the smell of gas was in the air.
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.
