Norman:
"What is going on? Tell in detail," I asked Kaye on the phone, running around to find Helanie like a headless chicken. She had left before, but that was when she was under a lot of stress. But last night after I left her at ho, she seed fine. In fact, she was happy about how her life was turning out. I didn’t see her being upset or stressing over her pregnancy.
"Emt has lost his mind. He is attacking everyone at the bar. We ca here to collect him but—" Kaye’s voice cut off when I heard sothing hit him. Then there were just sounds of a struggle.
"What is happening?" I asked myself before speeding to the bar. At this point, I had no clue where Helanie might have gone, but I knew where my brother was. And him acting out after Helanie had gone missing gave an ick. It gave a feeling that sothing had happened after we, their brothers, left. Maybe Helanie and Emt had a confrontation about the pregnancy?
But Emt wasn’t the type to upset her so much that she’d leave. I ran straight to the bar, where I was t with disappointnt.
"Ah, he used to be such a gentleman before. But look what he has done to my bar," the owner was crying, standing among the broken furniture. So many custors were huddled on the side, wounded and scared.
"He was so viciously attacking his own brothers," one of the custors said to her partner, still shaken by the violent scene.
"Take their statents and pay double the damage," I told my warrior while leaving the bar to call Maximus this ti.
"Yeah? We left after Emt. He ran out of the bar, so we were worried he might hurt others on the way. Norman, he has lost his mind. It doesn’t seem like he rembers anything at all. And you know what’s the scariest part? He started to lose his connection to his human side right before our eyes. He kind of lost his ability to speak and was only making noises like growls and howls," Maximus’s words shook to the core. This is what I’ve feared all my life, and now it was happening.
"Tell , where are you guys? I’ll be there," I asked Maximus, who started giving directions to where they had seen him go.
"Keep following him. I’ll be there in a few minutes," I hung up and let my wolf take over to run faster. We could sll the tension in the air and could tell they had been anxious. The entire air was thick with stress.
Finally, I arrived at the top of the mountains, where I joined Maximus and Kaye running after Emt.
"He’s headed towards the nearest pack’s border. If he gets inside, they’ll attack him to protect their people," Kaye told while breathing heavily.
"We should stop him before that happens," I said, leaning forward and speeding up after Emt. "Maximus, you take that cut and catch him from the side. Kaye, go up there and co down the slope to confront him from the front," I gave the instructions to trap him while I followed him on the sa path.
After a while, our plan worked, and as soon as Kaye ran down the slope and ca in front of him, Emt stopped.
He tried to turn to his left, but Maximus was already there. Behind him was I.
"Emt, we are your brothers," I said to him, my hands aching to hold him.
Seeing him so anxious and lost crushed my soul. He was panicking, looking around while his fingers were all spread, ready to attack. The worst part was that he was in his mid-shift, so his bones were cracking and breaking but still staying in human form. However, only his animal side was awake.
He howled and tried to attack Kaye to get him out of the way when Maximus jumped on him, rolling him over to the side. Once on the ground, Emt kicked Maximus off so easily.
But now the three of us were watching him.
"We’re sorry," I said as I lunged at him. I quickly put him in a chokehold while the others started to freeze his legs and arms.
Since he didn’t rember us, he was using all his strength to fight us. We were struggling, but I needed to make him pass out.
After a while, and many struggles, he passed out but I knew it would only be for a short ti.
"Quickly, get the restraints," I said to Kaye, still keeping Emt in a chokehold because I was afraid he’d wake up any second.
"We’ve co way too far into the woods. It’ll take us so ti. Why don’t we use sothing from around here and try to take him ho first?" Kaye suggested, making nod in agreent.
"Then make a rope from the vines and whatever we have around us," I said to the two, but Maximus had an even better idea.
"Kaye, why not use so herb to get him to pass out? You know the herbs so get to work," Maximus suggested, and Kaye got to his feet.
The next ten minutes were hard to bear. I had Helanie on my mind while I was holding my brother in such a painful grip.
After a while, Kaye returned with a lot of wolfsbane.
"How did you manage to get that in these woods?" I asked Kaye.
"I have my ways of spotting the hidden locations of herbs," he replied, forcing Emt’s mouth open to shove the herb in. He groaned in pain and probably burned his tongue.
After that, I carried Emt ho to leave him behind so I could go find Helanie. But I still had no idea where she could be.
However, after leaving Emt in the basent, I ran to his bedroom to find so new clothes for him when my eyes landed on the papers scattered around.
I picked one up and my heart started to beat faster.
"In order to have Azura back, I have to sacrifice Helanie in the well. It is a life for a life."
My heart missed all its four beats when I realized what it was.
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