The Black Alder Series (Books 1-3)

Kayla Pov I’m standing in a field of grass. The grass is so stalled, it tickles my leg as I walk by. The grass seems to stretch out for miles. The sky is clear and beautiful. It looks like an ordinary, beautiful day, minus the five suns that are in the sky. I look down. I’m wearing a red gown, but my feet are barefoot. The ground is hot, yet it feels like home. The wind is blowing beautifully, and I hear someone yell behind me.

“Katiana”

I turned around and saw a girl coming towards me. She looks familiar. From a distance, I can tell her hair is made of fire, and fire dances off her body, but it looks so natural to her. She is sporting a white dress, the same as mine except for the color. As I walked closer to her, I could tell her eyes were bright red. She was me. She looked just like me.

“Who are you?” I asked, and she smiled.

“I think the bigger question is: who are you?” I ended up laughing. Her presence was somehow comforting. She even sounded like me.

“Why am I here?” I asked her.

“Why are you here? Well, let’s see, what do you remember?” she asks. I try to remember the events that just happened. My mates. My friends and family were captured. Captured trying to save me. Solem. Solem is trying to channel the sun’s power. She nodded as if reading my mind.

“That’s because I can read your mind, doll.” She smirks. “I am your spirit bond. My name is Anshul. Much like your mates have their lycans, you have me. When you reach your full power, you will channel me.” She explains.

Speaking of channeling powers

“I need to go back. Solem is channeling my power. I have to stop him and save my family.” I explain

“Your place is here. You should remain here. Your friends have become feral now. Unstable. They will soon join my twin sister in her realm,” he says.

My friends have become feral. Oh no.

“No!” I screamed. She seems surprised but, thankfully, not upset. I kind of shocked myself, but she didn’t look upset, so I continued. “My life never really had any meaning until I met my friends. Knowing they have lost themselves, even if I can’t kill Solem, I need to bring them back. If I die again in the process, then, oh well, I die, but I will do whatever it takes to get them back to normal. I will save my friends and my family.

“SEND ME BACK,” I commanded. He seems to ponder in his mind as she observes me.

“You’re very bold to address me the way you are now, but I suppose you got that from me. Yes, I will send it back to you. You still have a prophecy to complete after all,” Anshul says.

“But he is a phoenix; I can’t kill him without him coming back, and he has also stolen my powers.” I told her.

“He can never steal all of what we are. Our light burns brighter than any other because it is generated directly from the many suns above. You are the only one in existence who is strong enough to handle all of the sun’s power. If you choose to go back, you need to remember the prophecy. My twin moon sister and I paired the three of you up for a reason. It was not an accident that you met. Your destiny was written centuries ago.”

“Is there anything you can tell me that will help me?” I asked her. She walks toward me and touches my forehead as a glow begins to form.

TAKE HER BODY OUTSIDE, she says in a commanding voice,

“Who are you talking to?” I asked her. She smiles.

“You will see soon; as for your prior question, you have all the answers you need, my love; you must remember,” and with that, I fade out. Elena Pov

I woke up next to Kayla’s body. I hadn’t realized I had passed out. My wounds seemed to be healed. Kayla’s body seemed to cover itself in some sort of rock. I stood still, unsure of what to do. She was dead. There was nothing I could do anyway. My boys were fighting their way out of the cave to my side and saw Kayla’s body.

What did you do to her? Aiden growled while taking the heads off two wolves.

Something of tremendous power told me to take her outside. I told them.

Soon they were in front of me, and we were all surrounded. More wolves. Great. Solem and Liam walk out of the cave slowly until they reach us.

Suddenly, I felt a massive wave of power. We heard a crack in the rock shell of Kayla’s body beside us, and Kayla came out, punching through.

“Mate,” I hear my boy’s growl. They both bend down to her, suddenly oblivious to everything else around them.

“My loves,” she says, holding their clawed hands and taking in their lycans. She closed her eyes, and a soft glow emitted from her body that changed the boys back to their human forms.

Solems focused on her.

“I see you have retained our mother’s gift, but you forgot. I’m a phoenix. I will always come back as well.” Solem sneers happily. He then began to build a massive ball of the sun’s energy and prepared to aim it at my boys.

I readied myself, preparing to take on the blast that would kill my kids, when we suddenly heard a loud banshee-like scream.

All the wolves around us have been pushed back further around us, and we’re all on the ground. I looked over and no longer saw Kayla between my boys.

Instead, Kayla was directly behind me, but she didn’t look the same anymore. Where her hair should have been, there was only fire. Flames danced off her body as she seemed to have generated nothing but heat. Her eyes were bloodshot red. I heard Solem gasp.Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

“How?” Liam demanded with fear in his eyes, slowly backing away.

“More power for me to drain, how nice,” Solem grins. “But it doesn’t matter. I channel the power of the sun now. You’re no match for me.”

He still had the ball of the sun in his hands, as it took him no time to even get a response from us. He shot energy towards us. Kayla pushed me out of the way as wings of pure fire shot out of her body and clapped themselves together. It seemed to split the flame in half as it danced around her and through the bodies of the wolves behind us, who were instantly burned to a crisp. Solem was knocked down as the wave of her wings clapping together made him lose his balance.

“You may channel the sun, Solem, but we both know you can’t handle that power for long.” Kayla sneers and creates a ball of energy, shooting it at Solem, who was able to dodge at the last second. He took one look at her, fear written all over his face, and created a portal, going through. He abandoned all the wolves to their fate. Liam was missing, most likely on the run. No matter. We will catch him later.

We all looked at Kayla, shocked.

Her wings faded away, and her eyes turned back to green. Her hair had grown back, and she was no longer bald anymore. Instead, it hung beautifully long past her waist now. My boys grabbed her, smothering her in kisses. The beautiful moment was interrupted by the growls of the wolves around us. Kayla instantly went back to her fiery state, with her wings bigger and somehow brighter, and the wolves backed away slowly from her.

I growled to make them submit, and they did. There was no need for more blood to be spilled, and while I didn’t know the full extent of Kayla’s powers, I could tell her powers were strong. Once she saw them submit, she went back to normal.

“My boys, I missed you so much, and I can’t wait to tell you how much, but we have a prophecy to fulfill,” she told them, her voice commanding.

They straightened themselves up, wiping the tears from their eyes. They knew the threat. She snapped her fingers, and suddenly we were all back at the packhouse, along with the remaining wolves. They were surrounded by our guards instantly.

“Lock them up,” I commanded, and my guards led the wolves out. Kayla and the boys head inside the packhouse, where everyone is gathered in the kitchen. Lauren is in the kitchen crying, and everyone else is around her, trying to console her. I smell Roland and soon feel arms around me.

“Now, Lauren, you should know better than to cry over little ole me,” Kayla said, leaning against the wall. Lauren’s head shoots up instantly, and she pauses as if seeing a ghost. Everyone else is in shock, looking at Kayla. I feel Roland stiff behind me,

“Long story,” I whisper.

Kayla Lauren screams.

We all jumped because Lauren must have finally recognized she was here. Lauren runs into Kayla’s arms, and Lauren kisses her head multiple times in worse tears than before.

“How, how, we saw you die, oh my goddess, how?” She rambled on. Kayla held her until she calmed down.

Kayla briefed us all quickly on what happened.

“Then we need to go kill our brother Katiana,” a voice said, coming up to the kitchen. It was Alverez.

“Alverez,” Kayla said, pulling him into a hug.

“I knew you would come back,” he whispered, kissing the top of her head.

“Aiden, Ethan, and Alverez were going to the Firelands. I know it’s where he escaped. I can feel him walking around in my realm. I don’t know how, but I can feel him there,” Kayla said.

“You are at full power. All the magic of the Firelands will be at your disposal as per your birthright, but I’m afraid I can’t help you. He has taken my magic,” Alverez explained, ashamed, and hung his head.

Kayla touched his forehead and closed her eyes, emitting that same glow from her body, and covered him with it. When she opened them back up, they were bright red. The light suddenly ran through his body, and he shouted. She closed her eyes, and when she opened her eyes, they were back to green.

“I have given you access to some of my celestial energy. You can’t channel the sun like me, but you can control the element of fire now,” she tells him, and he nods in understanding.

“We’re all going with you,” I told her.

“No,” she says. “Mom, this is an issue the four of us were made to overcome. This is our fight. Plus, we need everyone to protect the packhouse in case Liam tries to attack it.” Kayla told me.

I nodded in understanding. I hugged her and my boys. “Come back safe. Your biggest weapon in this fight will be your celestial powers. Channel them.

“Yes, mother,” my twins said.

Kayla created a portal in the kitchen, and they all went through, leaving us all behind.

This was their journey to take now. Their prophecy, and as much as I wanted to protect my babies

This was their destiny.

“Find the escaped Alpha Liam,” I commanded through the pack link. We will find that alpha, and this time, there is no escaping his fate.