My body twitches in slight pain as I move us all to just inside the Hunter’s Organisation base, and my hands fall to my knees once we appear as I bend over, getting my breath back. I’ve never moved this many people before.
“Impressive. I can only move forty, but you managed to move forty-two,” King Atticus says, sounding as out of breath as I am. I glance at the competitive witch king and shake my head.
“This isn’t a competition, guys,” Queen Winter huffs, walking over to us. King Jaxson slides an arm around her waist, stopping her from going any further.
“You’re staying right by my side, lass,” he quietly tells her, but we all hear it. Josh rolls his eyes at the interaction and starts the walk towards the base, with Rick and Nath at his side.
“Let’s go,” I suggest, nodding my head at the base. We run silently towards the building, walking between the cars to get to the entrance. The royal army floods around the building, running in all directions to make sure we have all exits covered. We trained with the kings’ royal army, and we know they move like one; they are as deadly as it gets. I pause next to Josh when he suddenly stops, and everyone does the same. I stare open-mouthed as all the hunters are running out of the building, not even glancing at us as they run. Mixed in between them are clearly prisoners, their white clothes are hard to miss. I gape in shock as Adelaide steps out of the building, every part of her body covered in blue energy, and blue lightning shoots out of the sky, hitting her body and making the blue energy grow larger. A hunter runs out the building, and she reaches a hand out, shooting blue lightning at him, turning him into dust in a second.
“Please say that’s the girl,” King Jaxson mutters, “because I don’t fancy a fight against her, and I don’t think we need to rescue her.”
“Adie!” Rick shouts, stepping closer, but Adie doesn’t even look his way as more blue lightning flashes across the sky, and she puts her hands up in the air. The lightning hits her hands, and she seems to just keep draining the lightning.
“We need to snap her out of it,” I tell the others firmly.
“How do you suggest any of us do that?” King Dabriel asks, staring at Adelaide. “She looks very familiar.”
“I don’t care if she is familiar, we are moving back. Try to stop her or we will knock her out. You have a few minutes,” King Jaxson states, pulling Queen Winter, King Wyatt, King Atticus and King Dabriel with him as they move back to the trees with the royal army not far behind.
“I can make a ward that covers me and get to her,” I say, ignoring King Dabriel and thinking about it.
“She won’t listen to you. You guys don’t even get along,” Rick snaps.
“And you don’t know fucking everything, prince Fredrick. I’m the only one that can get close to her,” I say, feeling like we need to do something before she takes in too much power. I think she is getting new powers and going through a change like we have at sixteen. This is what happens sometimes, and someone needs to stop her. People do change from the change, and I won’t let Adie die for something like that.
“She could kill you,” Rick warns. “That isn’t Adie. Something has changed about her, and she is out of control.”
“Then she kills me, or she kills us all. I have a feeling she is going to kill everyone near her soon,” I say, knowing all that energy has to go somewhere.
“I have a better idea,” Josh interrupts, “one that doesn’t get any of us hurt.”
“What?” I ask, shocked that Josh wants to help at all.
“Hold my coat, and stop me if I can’t pull it back,” Josh says, pulling his coat off and chucking it at me. I catch it and frown as I realise what he is going to do.
“Fucking hell, you’re going to try and drain her with your demon powers?” Rick asks in shock. It’s a terrible idea, but it might work.
“She seems like the type of girl I want to save and be the good guy for. So sure,” Josh says, shocking us all and winking at Rick who goes to protest when Josh’s eyes flash blue. I grab Rick’s arm, making him step back when I know we can’t stop Josh now. Josh is our best chance, and it’s too late to stop the idiot anyway.