Chapter 62 - The Alpha King and His Second Chance

Edward

"You can't get anything?" I asked Gwendolyn.

"Im afraid not. The boys never saw the outside of the building. We can look into their memories all we want, but without knowing what the outside looks like, I don't see how we will find their lab. Not quickly at least."

"Cant you have a vision?" I pleaded.

"Not all witches can have visions, those who do have them can't always control what they see and most who have them are not accurate like your mate." She frowned.

"Are you two sure you don't remember anything else? A landscape painting on a wall, a refrigerator magnet with places on them? Car plates?" I asked my boys.

"No." They answered together, frowns on both of their faces. They hadn't smiled since returning. I asked them if they could open a portal to go back, but they said they couldn't, they didn't remember much of what the inside of the building looked like to get themselves back there. I think they both had a bit of PTSD going on inhibiting their memory. I couldn't blame them, what they had to endure was a lot, even for an adult, and they were only six.

"We will continue our search towards the east." Gwendolyn said, disappearing a moment later.

What was I going to do? It could take forever to find where they had Sierra, which I would gladly spend the rest of my life looking for her if that's what it took, but I knew we didn't have forever.

"Ouch!" I yipped. Ella was doing her best to sew me up while Jackson was consoling our mother. I couldn't focus on the dead right now. I needed to find the living. I needed to find my mate.

"Sorry, that one was deeper." She apologized, finishing up another stitch.

"Edward! Edward!" William called out, barging into my office. He snapped his head in my direction, his hair a wild mess, probably similar to mine. "Tracker, the tracker!" He yelled, a crazy look in his eyes.

"Tracker?" I asked. William frantically pointed to his arm, practically jumping out of his skin. "The tracker!" I lept out of my chair, making Ella gasp in shock.

"Tracker? What tracker?" Ella asked while I began unlocking my secure record room.

"Sierra has a tracker!" William beamed with joy. "We can find her!"

"Im such an idiot! I cant believe I forgot she had this!" I said, digging through a few boxes in search of the device that went with hers. Sierra had gotten it over six years ago. We, thankfully, never had a reason to use it, so it completely slipped my mind.

"What are we looking for?" Ella asked, opening a random box.

"Size of your hand. It has an orange case, antenna, and a few buttons on it." William explained, tearing through boxes with me.

"Like this?" Ella asked a few minutes later, holding the tracking device. Thank Goddess!!

"Yes!" William said excitedly.

She handed it to me and I pressed the power button. Nothing happening. "Batteries, I need two AA batteries!" I said, running to the living room. I searched high and low for the TV remote, eventually finding it in the kids' toy bin. I ripped the back cover off, finding exactly what I needed. I loaded the batteries into the tracker, trying the power button again. The screen lit up, ready for action. I hit the location button and the screen lit up, a single dot lighting up on the map. Below it were coordinates.

"Get everyone ready to move out!" I barked. I looked up the location on my phone. It was a three-hour drive from here. Three hours in the middle of nowhere. I gathered a group of fifty men, taking ten vehicles along with us and as many weapons as we could grab. I didn't know what was in store for us there, but I wasn't chancing anything. I left William in charge of cleanup with Cyrus while I was gone and Jackson was mourning with our parents. I wished I was close enough to link my mate and let her know I was on my way. Maybe she would be able to feel my glimmer of hope through our bond, I prayed that we would get to her in time.

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Sierra

I was left alone in my cell for several hours. I felt like pacing but my body was still weak from birth and blood loss. My mind, on the other hand, was racing a mile a minute. I finally decided to meditate, something that didn't require magic or much physical exertion. It took some time, but I finally managed to relax a bit. I felt calm for a moment. I thought back to all my visions of the future. We will get through this. I just had to keep telling myself that.

"I thought I would bring your dinner tonight." Arthur said, strolling down the hall, stopping in front of my cell. I narrowed my eyes and watched as he pushed the tray of food through the slot that was parallel with the floor. "Its a shame really, I expected more of a fight from you."

"Sorry to disappoint." I shot back, my anger rising.

"Dont worry, you can make up for that with Dr. Hemsworth. He has many new ideas that he is looking forward to trying out on you." He smirked.

"Bite me." I spat.

"My spies tell me that your mate is on his way. He should be here in less than an hour. I think I'll send him a welcoming party."

"You leave him out of this!" I growled.

"He is the one who desecrated our bloodline, and he is the one coming guns loaded to our lab." He spat back. "Once he is gone, nothing will stop us from taking those pups of yours. The legend will be just that, a legend." Arthur stormed off, the heavy metal door slamming on his way out.

"Fuck you!" I screamed. I could feel my veins constricting. I was ready to blow a gasket. That's when I noticed the same familiar red glow spreading through my body.

"I thought this collar was supposed to stop magic?"

"Magic, yes, but you are also part vampire. Your powers from your father's line are not made of magic," Sienna noted.

"Youre telling me that all these years, this advanced lab and my own twin never realized he had a vampire gene? That this collar will only stop parts of my abilities?"

"You didn't know until you marked your mate, maybe Seth had even less of the already recessive gene and never even knew it."

"Sienna, I think I just figured out how to end this."

"Unfortunately, I know what you are thinking. And it might be our only option. You had better eat, you're going to need the energy."

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I ate my entire cold barely edible meal, trying to get every last calorie out of it. Sienna and I had spent that time thinking of every possible scenario. What could happen, what could we do about it, and what the outcome could be. I only saw two possibilities, one being that Edward would arrive with a massive army to fight the Purebreds. The other would be that the Purebreds would overthrow my mate and his men, but I wasn't about to let that happen. I took an oath as Queen and Luna to put my people before myself. If that is what needed to be done, then so be it.

"Sierra?" My mate linked me.

"Edward! Are you okay?" I answered back, grateful to finally hear from him.

"I have had better days." He half laughed in my head. "Are you okay? We are just a few minutes away. Can you escape?"

"I'm okay...I cant get out." I said, trying to open my cell door once more. It was lined with silver and bit at my skin immediately. "Edward, they know you are coming, they are waiting for you."

"Do you know how many?" He asked, worry in his voice.

"Probably too many." I said, a lump forming in my throat. "How many of you are there?"

"Fifty."

Shit.

"Turn around, save yourselves. I'm not worth it. The pups will need you." I begged him to turn back.

"Not up for debate, I came here to bring you home. I'm not leaving without you." Edward said firmly.

"Please...."

"I have to go, we just got here. Whatever happens, I love you."

"How many Purebreds are there?" I swallowed hard, already knowing deep down what his answer was going to be.

"Too many." He answered honestly.

I used my vampire abilities to break the collar. That part of my powers was mostly unphased by my delivery. My vampire side seemed to work solely off my anger and rage. Birth wouldn't have affected that too much, except maybe make it stronger with all the additional hormones. Whereas my witch genes were mostly based upon balancing my emotions.

"I love you Edward. Please forgive me for what I'm about to do." I said, cutting the link with my mate.

I sat cross-legged on the bench and thought back to all those years ago when I was first practicing magic. The first and only time I used a weapon spell. Although it was from a witch's book, my vampire abilities had responded to it. Whatever forces of nature were out there, they must have known that I would have needed all my powers to work together for this moment in time. Adaline told

me not to use this spell until the right moment, and if I had to guess, now was the time. I channeled all of my energy, and began reciting the spell.

"Use my body as your temple, show no mercy to those who conspire, let your wrath be known among everyone, in death may I find your favor."

An overwhelming feeling took over my body, much like the first time, but far more powerful this time. I felt a burst of energy clawing its way out of me, it was painfully suffocating. "Aahhhh!" I screamed, a blinding light taking over my senses.

- - - - - -

Edward

"Sierra?! Sierra?!" I called out to my mate. She severed our link. I hardly had time to focus on that though, with the number of Purebreds lined up outside the building just waiting for us. There were so many, too many. We didn't stand a chance.

"I won't ask you to stay and fight. It is obvious we are outnumbered. The first chance you get, leave this place." I said to the men in my car.

"We won't be leaving you behind, King Edward." One warrior said.

"None of us are going without you." Another added.

"Sierra is in there somewhere, I am only trying to get her out. We can worry about tearing this place to the ground another day." I said, feeling proud of my men for their willingness to fight after everything that had happened, and being grossly outnumbered at that.

"We'll bring her home." William patted me on the shoulder. "What is our plan?"

"Well, we brought grenades and guns. I suppose we can start with that." I said, pointing to the boxes in the trunk.

"Lets fuck em up!" The youngest of our group howled, hyping the rest of the car up.

All of my men began exiting the vehicles which they came in, ready for what might be their final battle. I just wanted to find my mate.

"Attack!" One of the Purebreds yelled, commanding the rest. He gave off an alpha aura. He would be my first target.

The mass began swarming towards us, my men holding their ground, using the cars as shields while they took aim with their weapons. Suddenly, a deafening boom and a blinding light came exploding out of the lab. A shock wave threw us back, but my men and I managed to recover quickly and took cover from the flying shratinal and debris that followed. The building went up in flames, a perfect mushroom cloud forming where the building once stood. The Purebred army came to an abrupt stop, all of the bodies collapsing to the ground. All except the Alpha, who was commanding them, and two of his men.

"What the fuck was that?!" William asked, rubbing his head.

"Sierra!!" I yelled. I ran towards the building, or what was once a building. The place was completely leveled. "What did you do?" I said outloud, dropping to my knees. I looked around, hoping that I would find my mate somewhere out here and not there. To my utter surprise, I watched in shock as the Purebreds began to sit up, looking fearful and confused.

"Where am I?!" one asked.

"I don't understand?!" Another questioned.

It seemed like they had no idea where they were or how they got there. Hystrical crying and pure chaos erupted, the mass trying to evacuate the premises in search of familiarity. I got up and began running towards the demolished building, not knowing where or how to begin looking for my mate.

"King Edward" Gwendolyn called, appearing next to me in an instant.

"Sierra....in there...." I could hardly bring myself to say the words. My body and mind were in overdrive.

"Lets start searching!" Gwendolyn yelled. Half a dozen witches joined her and began carefully removing pieces of rubble with their magic while I watched in stunned silence.

"This can't be real." I said to no one. Edmund howled in despair in my head.

"Edward!" I heard my name being called. I turned and saw that William and a few of my other men had the Alpha held as prisoner, along with the two others. I couldn't focus enough to even begin to decide what to do with them.

"I found a body!" One of the witches yelled. My head snapped back to her direction, watching her move a dead body onto the grass. I ran over and was both relieved and disappointed to see a man and not my mate.

"Here! I found her!" Gwendolyn called. She and two others carefully extracted my mate's body from the rubble, setting her gently on the grass.

"Sierra!" I dove to her side, resting my head on her chest, trying to find a heartbeat. Nothing. I felt her neck for a pulse, and again, nothing. "You have to help her!" I yelled.

"King Edward, my condolences...." Gwendolyn said grimly.

"No! Youre wrong!!" I snapped. I began doing CPR on my mate, refusing to believe that she was gone. But from the lack of pulse, the far off look in her unmoving eyes, and her pale skin, my head told me she was gone. My heart just hadn't caught up yet.

"Edward..." William said carefully, coming from behind me. He tried to place a hand on my shoulder but I slapped it away, still trying to revive my mate.

"She is gone." Gewndolyn said softly.

"Edward, stop." William said again. This time three of my men pulled me off of her. I fought them for a moment, but after seeing her lifeless face again, and watching the witches cover her with a blanket, I finally broke down.