Chapter 6
Loiza's POV:
I woke up suddenly, only to find myself still in the plane taking us to safety. The cruel smell of smoke still lingering in my memory, how could this have happened? My mark was no longer sizzling and has eased up into just a bothersome itch. We have always been careful, we have always monitored the mountain, not just Yaya and me, but The University's Geology Department is always monitoring it and until that morning I have never felt it stir. What went wrong?
I sit up and get my bearings. I look in front of me and see General Braka and my brothers Urayoán, a Gamma of the pack and Aymaco, a Gamma Tech Engineer. All three are looking at me with what I perceived to be the same face I'm looking at them with, a face full of loss and empty eyes. It was difficult looking at these three men with those faces, Braka a mountain of a man at 7 feet tall, flawless onix skin, pure muscle and the most astounding yellow eyes I have ever seen. Both my brother's themselves, Ura is 6'3, same black smooth hair as myself with the eyes to match, his skin the tone of cinnamon that I have always been jealous of, lean muscle, too much muscle would impair the speed which is one of my brother's strengths, he needs to be lighter, but he is muscle and power none the less. And Maco, at 6'3 of muscle, curly chocolate hair and eyes, with fair skin like myself, he doesn't fight unless extremely necessary, always working out to be ready, yet his hands and mind are more valuable to the pack than his fists.
Every single member of our pack has a specific role to contribute to the whole and helps us work as a strong unit in harmony, when we find a gift we continue to encourage and usually certain ranks have particular gifts, we know it's a Blessing from the Goddess to the pack. However, it is emptyness and confusion the feelings I am receiving from the Pack Link, I share the same sentiment. I stare at all three of them in silence for a while while they stare at me with the same face, there's really not much to say, I look to my left to finally look out of the window of the airplane..."Did the Luna get out?" I ask to no one in particular.
"Yeah, the Alpha sent her with the first plane with pups and The Elders." Ura responded.
"Hmm." Was my only response while still looking at the clouds outside. I was afraid that we had lost her as well. She must be in agony, she lost both her mate and her only son... My milk brother. "Do you have any news of anyone else?" I asked feeling my eyes starting to burn with tears I'm holding back as much as I possibly can and feel that they will disobey me at any moment yet I hold, my brothers know exactly who I'm asking about, they know that I'm asking specifically about our family. Maco sighs, "Don't look for Mom or Dad in the link, you won't find them. The rest are scattered but alive." He says bitterly as a tear defied my will and dropped down my cheek, while I nodded at his answer. Damn it.
"What about Yaya?" A sudden thought enters my mind.
"I heard she got out in the first plane with The Elders and wasn't permitted to assist you..." Ura starts. The hell!
"WHAT?! Who gave her that order?!" Yaya is a High Priestess, she could have helped me restrain the mountain to help buy time for the evacuees, I was calling her through the Link desperately!" This is Bullshit! How could she even accept such and order? And I doubt very much the Alpha commanded it, he knew that I was struggling!
"I have no idea Iza, do you already foresee a puzzle?" Ura asks his eyes suspicious. I mindlink him, Maco and Braka to keep it strictly between us... 'I foresee treason! I need to know who gave that order! I smell a traitor or faul play! Yaya is very powerful, I don't want to believe that she would betray me or the pack in such a way. The ONLY one who could have given a compelling order she would follow, it would have come from the Alpha himself and I bet my Mark that he didn't. He knew I was looking for her, knew that I was failing alone and knew the limitations to my powers. With her we could have definitely been able to at the very least buy our people another half an hour, maybe more! Hell, we could have probably stop the mountain!' I am livid.
'You have a point, to think Yaya would betray the pack, it's almost impossible to believe.' Maco responds.
'Maybe she was completed by a spell. There are many possibilities for what could have happened, does anyone feel her in the Link? I don't feel her.' I ask them all.
I see them all searching...'I can't feel her.' Braka says.
'Nor I.' Ura adds.
Maco shakes his head. 'I don't feel her either, could we be too far away to sense her? We might have received the wrong information and she may be dead as well.' He suggests.
'Yaya's intuition would have kicked in, I doubt that a High Priestess of Avalon would have allowed to let the mountain get the better of her, she has also been putting in the training for her Prime Priestess title!' I feel desperate for answers now, thinking a mile a minute!
'Could she have been bought by The Council, I heard they have been doing that.' Braka says.
'Yaya knows damn well the consequences of such a play, and I have never known Yaya to want to join the club of The Cursed Roses. It would mean eternity in Hades's torture chamber. And not even Yaya is powerful enough to escape Avalon's justice and that is assuming she kept her Mark after such a treacherous act.' I refuse to believe that Yaya is a traitor but I don't have proof either for or against it.
I start thinking of a hundreds of scenarios over, but without evidence and as tired as I am and the little focus I can muster I feel the hibernation process starting. Wherever it is that we're going I really hope we get there soon. Or I will be risking Aryn, my wolf. And without her, I'm just human.