Chapter 106: THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Chapter 106: The Underground Railroad
The portal spit them out in full darkness. Darius hit the ground hard, feeling broken stones beneath his hands.
The hybrid children fell around him, their network light flickering like dying stars. "Where are we?" Luna whispered, her blood magic leaving eerie red shadows on wet walls.
"Underground," Death answered, his shadows reaching out to map their surroundings. "Old subway tubes, maybe. Haven’t been used in decades."
The scaled girl struggled to sit up, her link to the hybrid network weaker than ever. "I can barely feel the others now. The Council’s jamming is getting stronger."
That’s when they heard footsteps echoing through the tunnel. Multiple sets, moving fast but trying to stay quiet.
Darius tensed, ready to fight, but a familiar voice called out. "Don’t shoot! It’s us!" Talia emerged from the shadows, her red curls matted with dirt and her hazel eyes sparkling with an intensity that hadn’t been there before.
Behind her came a group of about twenty supernaturals - wolves, vampires, witches, and others Darius didn’t recognize. "Talia?" Luna gasped.
"What are you doing here? Where’s Liana?" "Still trapped behind the Council barriers," Talia said, her voice tight with fear. "But that’s not the biggest problem right now."
She knelt beside the hybrid children, her seer skills crackling around her like invisible lightning. "I’ve been having dreams. Lots of them.
And they all show the same thing - the Council isn’t just trying to clean us. They’re moving us." "Herding us where?" Sera asked. "Into one big trap." Talia’s eyes went faraway, seeing things that weren’t there yet.
"They want all the surviving supernaturals in one place so the Void Feeders can eat us all at once." A new voice spoke from deeper in the cave.