And Then There Were Four

Chapter 114

Chapter 114: Bring Him Back

Staring up at the eyes of the man who stepped through the portal, my ears almost went deaf from what he had said. Not only did he

say he was Odin… as in the freaking God of Gods… but he was also my fucking dad.

“What are you talking about?” I was a chaotic mess, and as the tears flowed freely down my face, I tried to wrap my mind around what had happened. The war might have been over, but the problem was Damian was gone.

With him gone, it had all been for nothing.

My heart was absolutely broken.

“I mean exactly what I said, my daughter. I am your actual father, though the circumstances behind that are not as you would expect.”

“So you’re telling me that my father is actually a God and the man Zane, who had proclaimed to be my father, wasn’t?” I asked with confusion. There was no way this was possible, that I was the daughter of Odin.

He stared at me for a moment before Frigga nudged him, catching his attention. No words came from her mouth, but instead, she nodded to Damian and cocked an expectant brow.

“Of course, dear,” he replied under his breath before turning and making his way toward Damian.

I wasn’t quite sure what they were planning on doing, but Odin wasted no time in kneeling at Damian’s side, his eyes gazing over

the wound on Damian’s neck with concern. “Please, don’t take him from me.”

My words caused him to turn his gaze towards me with furrowed brows. “Your mate has not passed over into the land of the dead yet. His spirit still lingers here with us now. I can heal his wounds, but it is up to you and his brothers to bring him back.”

“Bring him back? We can do that?” James’s voice said in shock.

Turning my gaze behind me, I looked at my three mates, who had all shifted back. They stared with tears in their eyes, and hope on their faces. Never had I seen them this upset before, but Damian was their brother.

He was the person they had always looked up to.

“Yes, my children, you can bring your brother back. But it is also down to him if he wishes to return. He may be here in spirit among us, but his will is what will drive him to stay with you.”

Nothing but riddles floated in the air between us all. I wasn’t quite sure whether we could make it happen, but if we had to, I would do whatever it took to bring him back to me.

“Heal him then. I will bring him back. I will do it even if it takes every ounce of me.”

A small smile crossed Odin’s face as he nodded his head, bending down towards Damien’s lifeless body. He waved his hand over the wound on Damien’s neck, and instantly had healed. I was still in shock over how these gods and goddesses could work magic, but as soon as he was done, he turned his gaze back towards me.

“Loki will be taken care of for everything that he has done here. If it had not been for the strength of you and your mates, none of this

would have been possible, but I do ask one thing of you.”

“What is it? I will do anything to make sure that I have my mate back,” I replied with desperation.

“We will need to close this gate once more. That way, no one can come back through who isn’t supposed to be here. It was done before, but it will need to be done again,” he replied as he looked at Frigga. “As much as we would love to be able to come and go…. we cannot. It isn’t safe for the human realm to mingle with our kind.”

I realized what he’s saying. There was too much power in the realm of where they lived for the mortal realm to be able to withstand it. We had our own issues here, and while the Council members who had come here were now dead-we weren’t safe.

There were now packs without Alpha’s and wolves without mates.

Retaliation would more than likely come one day, and when it did, We would have to be ready. We would have to realize that standing together would be our only way to survive.

“I understand. As soon as you leave, I will close the portal and seal it from our world.”

Nodding his head, he turned back to the shimmering portal in the air. Loki had been cast back and was now their problem to bear. I, however, was left with nothing but kind words from Frigga before her and Odin, and those who had come with them disappeared from our sight.

Closing my eyes, I let my celestial orbs take in the shimmering portal, and with a wave of my hand, I closed and sealed it forever. Never again would their realm walk amongst ours. At least, not while I was alive.

Turning my eyes back toward Damian, a sob escaped my throat as I came closer and brushed the hair from his face. “My love, I know that you can hear me. Odin said that you were here with me in spirit, and I want you to know that I need you. We all do. It doesn’t matter to me if you think that you’re incomplete because in my eyes, you’re not. You are everything to me.”

“Ivy, if we’re going to do this, we need to do it soon,” Hale said softly as he knelt down at my side, staring at his brother, who lay lifeless on the ground.

I wasn’t sure how I was supposed to bring him back, but somewhere deep inside me, I felt like there was an answer.

I felt like there was something that I could use to give him life.

“I’m not sure what’s going to happen to us, but it could be painful. I just need you to bear with me… this is for Damian.”

Each of them nodded in agreement. They were well aware of what was being asked of them. “To give life, I must take life. I must replace the mortality of four for the life of one.”

Closing my eyes, I searched deep within myself. The darkness that had once been laying under my skin floated freely, and within that darkness, I found a speck of light.

Pulling the images of what our family had been before Damian had gone missing, I used it to pull the light towards me. How I felt about him, the love that I had for him and his brothers, I pulled every ounce of it forward and pushed it into Damien.

As my eyes flew open, I saw the swirling mass of blue and white auras coming from my mates and I. The essence of our being. The life force for which we were celestial.

The only life that we had to give Damian to bring him back was that of our immortality.

Our Celestial connections would save him… and bind him to use once more.

“I love you, Damian.”

The more I pushed, the louder my screams of pain echoed from my throat. The pain was unlike anything I had ever felt before, and with one final, death-stricken scream, I shove the last of what I had straight at Damian watching his body glow with a light I had never seen before. NôvelDrama.Org owns this text.

As the light brightened, darkness swirled around me. I wasn’t sure if I was dying or if this was simply something else, but slowly slipped into the darkness. Watching Damian’s body fade from my sight like the closing of a movie.

“Please, Damian… come back to me. I can’t do this without you.”

*****

Hale.

Never once had seen such immense power as I did from Ivy. She had poured everything she had and pulled every ounce of power we had out of us and into her before pushing it, projecting it into Damian. It was like the life had been almost sucked out of me, and in a way, it had been.

Our Lycans had been stripped of us, and we were left as simple shifters.

Our wolves were now free in our minds, no longer hiding from the Lycan beasts that had always sat in the forefront. “What the fuck?”

As soon as Ivy collapsed, I watched Damien’s eyes flutter open. A glimmer of hope radiated through me and through the link that I had with my brothers.

She had done it. Ivy had brought him back, but not without her own cost.

She laid on the ground, her hair no longer its white coloring, but had returned to the reddish brown she had before. I couldn’t help but wonder if this meant she was human again, or perhaps was she something else?

“Damian?” I stammered quickly as I rushed to him. Talon and James right by my side as he coughed and sputtered trying to understand what was going on.

“What happened?” He croaked out.

“Dude.” James choked out with a laugh. “You fucking died, man. Can we try not to do that again?”

The three of us laughed at James’s comment, and though Damian had a hard time moving, he still laughed, which ended up causing him to wince in pain. “Perhaps you should relax, man,” I said to him, shaking my head.

“Where’s Ivy?” he said through a strained voice as he looked around, searching for her. My eyes lifted from his and turned toward where she was laying.

“It took everything out of her, but she isn’t dead.”

“I need her,” he said, trying to move, but Talon and James held him back.

“No, we need to get both of you back to the pack house. The

wounded are being treated at the hospital.”

“Wounded. Did I miss the battle?” Damian smirked. “I was hoping to kill someone for messing up my hair.”

Talon laughed and reached over, messing Damian’s hair up further. “Yeah, man, you missed the fucking battle, that’s for sure. You should have seen Ivy. She kicked some serious ass out there.”

As James picked up Ivy in his arms, Talon and I helped Damien to his feet as we attempted to make our way back towards the pack house. It wasn’t as easy as it looked, but I will take on any difficulty life had to throw at me to make sure I had my brothers and Ivy by my side.

“Did she have the babies?” Damian asked softly. His eyes reached mine with guilt.

“She did, and wait till you see them. You have a lot to make up for.”

It would take a while for things to get back to normal, and I knew more than anything, but if that meant I still had to stay as alpha for the time being, then I was fine with that. I did not have a problem helping my brother out.

The only thing that mattered to me was that he was alive and Ivy was alive, and the twins were safe, which meant that our family could be whole again.

Our family could move past what had happened and try to rebuild our home.