the others were further behind.
"Do we have a plan B?" Jayce inquired.
"Nope," Aurelia announced. "We fail, we're all dying."
"I feel like there should be a plan B," Milo muttered.
"I agree, but I don't think one plans for a magical avalanche to kill them," Saint acknowledged.
"Brace for it," Dimitris ordered, and silence followed to give us the moment to focus.
"Now!" Aurelia announced and the two of us screamed, "LE RE BLOODANDA!"
The surge of magic that escaped me was overwhelming, but I stood my ground as I gritted my teeth and forced the new energy to push outward toward the approaching threat.
Neo's eyes were closed while he began to take calming breaths, and suddenly he was pushing his hands outward - the action shooting out silhouettes of wolves.
Blood silhouettes of wolves.
They burst out of the palms of his hands, two at a time, which multiplied into eight the moment they hit the ground. They raced forward as their howls multiplied and multiplied, the sound so loud, it made the ground shake, just like the approaching wave of snow.
When it finally crashed into our protective shield, Aurelia and I gasped at the impact because it felt like it was colliding into our intestines. We both held our ground, and I surprisingly felt Loki behind me in his wolf form.
His forehead was pressing against my back as if to give me stability as I continued to stand my ground. I couldn't help but take a peek at Aurelia, and there was Onyx in his wolf form doing the same.
Aurelia noticed my gaze and nodded to me, her encouragement only fueling more energy through me as we began to funnel more magic into the spelled wall. Neo's blood wolves were crashing into the piled mass that was growing taller against our magic wall, but the snow tower was beginning to shift from white to pink.
I couldn't tell how long we kept going, my body beginning to shake with exhaustion. Even Neo was struggling, his breaths beginning to grow uneven, and both eyes wide open to extend his power.
If we stopped now, the wall would evaporate, and the tower of blood snow would be tall and wide enough to take us all out with one tilting fall.
I was losing hope until Loki suddenly howled an odd sound. I thought he was in pain, but then I sensed a sudden presence.
Then a wall of flames crashed into the snow from above.
We all gasped and looked up to see the rain of flames that came down upon the thirty-foot wave of snow, the intensity of the temperature enough to melt the snow upon impact. Within seconds, our threat was now boiling hot water, and that was when Milo rushed forward past us and lifted his hands.
"I call upon the realms of my people! The power of our great Divine! Absorb this offering of water and purify it to become chilled ice to rain upon these lands that are threatened by tainted loss! ESHNA VE ME RU!"
His spell work was beyond different, but that was when I sensed the flood of fae energy oozing out of him like a running faucet, the pool of boiling water only bubbling more until it began to evaporate into steam and lift upward into the sky.
We watched in amazement as the water lessened, the smoke growing bigger and spreading outward into the sky until the ground was left with debris while the sky was covered in a cloud of grey.
Then it began to snow.
"Pink...snowflakes?" I whispered in awe and even though I was tired as fuck, I couldn't help but walk forward to where the snow was raining down, just to catch some in my grasp.
I didn't know why it amazed me so much, but the sight made me smile as I looked down at the very pink snowflakes piling in my grasp - their pink crystallized bodies slowly melting due to the intense heat of my hands.
Milo sighed as he sat right back into the snow.
"I haven't used magic like that in ages," he commented. "Exhilarating, but fuck. I'm out of shape."
I couldn't help but look over my shoulder at him, checking out his clearly muscled body.
"Out of shape my ass," I huffed. He smirked in return as his eyes softened.
"Glad to see you survived, Willow. Death really doesn't suit you."
His words only reminded me of what we'd just overcome, and I noticed the rest of my pack were watching me with relief.
Minus two wolves.
The growl from my left alerted me that