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"Aurelia," Onyx said, reminding us that the hybrid witch was with us. "Any luck?"
I hadn't realized she'd been concentrating, trying to locate Willow.
She looked frustrated, just like the rest of us, but even with the beads of sweat forming on her forehead and running down the sides of her face, it was clear from her expression that she was finding difficulty grabbing onto their location.
"There's too much interference. It's like they know we'll be trying to locate them with basic magic, and from the feel of things, I doubt a mate bond will aid us either."
"Shit," Dimitris cursed. "There has to be some way to track them. We're wasting too much time already."
"I know something," Milo brought up, and his eyes were on me for a long moment.
"What?" I insisted.
"You're not going to like what I'm about to suggest," Milo countered.
The sudden sound of another round of safeties being shifted off caught our attention, and that was when we all noticed Neo wasn't near our group but standing in the middle of the ring, staring at the rows of armed shifters.
Dimitris cursed under his breath. "Neo! You can't handle that many."
Neo didn't even budge, but his aura alone made the flickering lights that somehow survived the blast explode, making some of the armed shifters flinch.
And one of their guns went off.
"Fuck! Neo!" Saint snapped, but a wall of gold appeared in front of us. "Milo?!"
"Sorry, but in your best interests, I'm running off my instincts," he announced as we all focused on Neo. The single bullet didn't hit its mark, but it was close enough to leave a slight cut on his cheek.
Blood began to gather at the very spot, and it was enough to ignite a low, dangerous chuckle from Neo.
"Now they've fucked up," Dimitris whispered. "Milo! Surround us with the barrier. Everyone huddle close."
We didn't dare ignore whatever Dimitris was trying to protect us from as we moved in close. Milo wrapped us in the golden barrier that seemed to grow stronger by the second.
"Milo? Why are you increasing your magic?" Aurelia questioned.
"The pressure around us is growing," Milo admitted. "If I don't, the increase in gravity is going to squish us."
"Increase in gravity?" I whispered.
"Neo's mad," Jayce announced, and we looked at him to see his blank expression that resembled Dimitris's and Saint's. "You're about to witness a glimpse of what happens when Neo loses his shit."
It was like we'd now realized he'd been the only one who hadn't been in the conversation since Willow's kidnapping, but another look in his direction proved why.
Shit...
The heaviness in power was already making the rows of shifters freak out as they called to their leader to figure out what to do.
"Dammit! Kill him! Shoot! He's the culprit of this!" the leader finally ordered, and all hell broke loose. Bullets escaped the chambers of their rifles and guns, and I watched in horror as they went through Neo, leaving holes through him.
Aurelia gasped, and Onyx was frozen in shock, but Dimitris, Saint, and Jayce seemed unfazed. The army shot every single bullet until every gun was out of ammo.
Watching in silence, our attention was transfixed on Neo as he remained standing in place - bullet holes literally from head to toe. It was like watching a horror movie unfold, only this was very real, and I struggled to process how he wasn't succumbing to his wounds and falling to the ground.
"This is one of the reasons why no one messes with the Forbidden," Dimitris whispered, and Neo's soft chuckle began to drift on the chilled winds that passed.
"My turn," he announced, and the deep voice didn't sound anywhere close to Neo's or even Nico's voice from the last encounter we had.
His voice literally had the deepness of the fucking devil.
