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00:00The rogues circle the stronghold like death itself. I watch the last child die. His intestines torn from his belly
00:07while he's still screaming. The warriors around me collapse. These are grown wolves. Battle-hardened males who've ripped throats and
00:14survived pack wars. Now they weep like cubs.
00:18Alpha Cade! Jacob's claws sink into Cade. He screams, exposing the Alpha's delusion. That my warnings were just jealousy. That
00:27Lola's night was worth our slaughter. His voice snaps like bone.
00:31Why is my baby missing her face? Cade stands frozen. His golden Alpha eyes are empty, hollow. I stare at
00:39the carnage and my heart shatters. I've lived this moment before.
00:42In my previous life, the rogues attacked during Lola's birthday. My husband, the pack Alpha, took every warrior to the
00:49ridge so his true love could watch the Starfall ceremony.
00:53He said I was paranoid. Jealous. A bitter Luna who couldn't accept that he loved someone else. I begged them
01:00to return. I screamed through the mind link until my throat bled. They came back to corpses.
01:06But Lola wandered into the woods, sulking because Cade kept checking the mind link during her special night. The rogues
01:13found her, dragged her screaming into the darkness.
01:16By the time we arrived, nothing remained but her left femur. Cade held that bone for six hours. Didn't speak.
01:23Didn't shift. Didn't breathe.
01:25Then, the day I gave birth to our son, he severed my hands with silver. My feet next. He threw
01:32me into a rogue feeding pit and healed me, over and over. Letting them tear chunks from my flesh while
01:38the mate Bond forced me to feel his hatred burning like acid through my chest.
01:43You killed her. So you must be suffering more than she was.
01:48I died on day seven. I woke on the day when the rogues launched the attack. The howling hits me
01:54first, not through the mind link that's filtered, controlled. This is raw. A thousand feral throats shrieking hunger across the
02:02mountains. I'm out of bed before conscious thought. My bare feet slap stone as I sprint toward the control room.
02:09The stronghold is three stories of timber and reinforced steel, built to withstand siege. I grab the mic, hands shaking.
02:17All pack members, this is Luna Selina. Massive rogue surge from the northern pass. Get to the panic room. Now!
02:25I slam the alarm. Red lights flood the corridors. Doors bang. Footsteps thunder. Outside, someone screams. I grab the emergency
02:34rifle. Silver bullets, blessed by our shaman, and run.
02:38The courtyard is chaos. Mothers clutching cubs. Elders stumbling. The air reeks of fierce sweat, and the rot stench of
02:46rogues.
02:47Three crash through the east fence. They used to be wolves. Now they're things. Fur matted with dried blood and
02:54filth. Eyes milky white.
02:55Jaws unhinged, hanging at grotesque angles. They don't hunt for territory. The madness ate everything else. I fire. Silver tears
03:05through the first one's skull. It drops. Convulsive. I scream at a frozen teenager.
03:09I shove him toward the panic room. A reinforced bunker built into the ground.
03:16Get inside!
03:17More rogues pour through. I shoot until the clip runs dry, then shift. Bones crack. Fur erupts. My wolf is
03:26smaller than the males, but faster.
03:27I slam into a rogue mid-leap. Jaws closing around its rotten throat. The taste is rancid decay. I rip
03:35and spit and move. Someone yanks a child from snapping teeth. Someone else seals the hatch. The heavy locks clang
03:42shut. Silence.
03:44I shift back. Naked and trembling. Blood. Mine. Bears. Drips down my ribs. We're in the panic room. Concrete walls.
03:52Air filtration. Supplies for two weeks. But the wards are failing. I feel it. The electric hum that usually surrounds
03:59the strongholds is stuttering. Dying.
04:02Luna, you have to mind-link the alpha.
04:05Mary, an omega whose son is four, grabs my wrist. Her hands shake.
04:10Tell him to come back. Tell him to activate the wards.
04:13I close my eyes. The cruel truth breaks my heart. Yet I cannot lie.
04:19He can't. Alpha K took every warrior to Starfall Ridge. He's protecting Lola during the ceremony.
04:26Ceremony! Are you serious?
04:27The room erupts.
04:29He left us just to die for some lights!
04:31She's not even his real mate!
04:33Bang. The steel door buckles. Metal shrieks. Bang. Another hit. These rogues are stronger. Evolved.
04:41We have minutes.
04:42I look at Elder Martha. Cade's mother. Former Luna. 73 with silver hair and a wolf that can still kill.
04:49She meets my eyes. The silver wards. If we activate the backup grid, it'll fry everything within a hundred yards.
04:56Hope flickers across faces.
04:58Martha pulls out the alpha emergency comm. Satellite link that bypasses mind link.
05:02She dials. The line clicks. Cade's voice is annoyed. Distracted. In the background, music. Laughter.
05:09Mom? Kind of busy.
05:11Martha's jaw clenches.
05:13Cade! The stronghold is under siege! Rogue surge!
05:18We're in the panic room. Wards are failing. Activate the silver grid. Now!
05:23Everyone holds their breath.
05:25Cade laughs.
05:26Mom? Seriously? The grid pulls power from the... We're 30 minutes from peak display. I can't shut it down?
05:32His tone shifts. Suspicious.
05:34Is Selina there? Did she put you up to this?
05:38Martha's hand shakes.
05:40Your Luna just saved 20!
05:43My Luna is jealous. She's been pulling this for months. Lola's dangerous. Rogues are coming. It's pathetic.
05:51He scoffs.
05:52Tell Selina if she keeps trying to ruin Lola's night, there'll be consequences. I'm not falling for fake emergency bullshit.
05:58The line goes dead. Mary's face drains white.
06:03He thinks we're lying.
06:05Samuel, former Beta, slumps against the wall.
06:08We're going to die. For a light show.
06:11Service tunnel. Runs from here to the old mining roads.
06:15Then she looks at me. Her eyes burn.
06:17Six miles through rogue territory to Silver Plane Base.
06:22They have warriors. You and I go. We shift and run.
06:26The door slits. A rotting claw shoves through.
06:30Claws scrape metal. A pup was frightened and he started crying.
06:35Martha doesn't flinch.
06:36We leave in 60 seconds. Barricade after we're gone.
06:39She doesn't finish the sentence. She doesn't have to.
06:42I nod. Because if we don't make it, everyone here dies.
06:46Hope flickers in my chest as Martha speaks.
06:49Wait for me.
06:50She says, slipping through the side door.
06:52One hour later, the panic room door tears open.
06:55A rotting arm reaches through, grabbing for the baby in Mary's arms.
06:59The infant's cry cuts off mid-screen.
07:01The mother collapses. Her eyes go empty.
07:04Despair floods the room.
07:06Then a figure rushes through the side entrance.
07:08Martha.
07:09Did you bring the warriors back?
07:11She is covered in blood.
07:12Barricade that gap!
07:13I rush to steady her. Martha's voice shakes.
07:17That bastard!
07:19She is trembling with rage.
07:20Cade set up blockades on every path.
07:22Every single one.
07:24All to make sure no one could interrupt Lola's precious birthday fireworks.
07:29Her eyes are bloodshot.
07:30The room goes silent.
07:32Cold dread creeps up my spine.
07:33I stumble backward.
07:35He blocked even his own mother.
07:37I forced myself upright.
07:38We can't just sit here and die.
07:41Desperate to grasp at one last lifeline, I frantically adjusted the frequency,
07:46broadcasting our slaughter to every nearby pack channel,
07:49begging, pleading for aid.
07:51Yet, the response left me frozen.
07:53They coldly informed me that, an hour earlier,
07:57Alpha Cade had personally warned them that someone in our pack would file false distress calls,
08:01ordering them to ignore all requests tonight.
08:04The indifference was suffocating.
08:06They even explicitly stated that Cade had targeted Martha,
08:10insisting they would not respond unless Elder Martha herself appeared in person to request aid.
08:15Go in person, through miles of territory infested with rogues.
08:18It was pure suicide.
08:20The gap in the door was buckling under the pressure.
08:22The shadow of death hanging over us all.
08:25I took a deep breath, steadied Martha, and said with iron resolve,
08:29Mom, I'm coming with you.
08:30My voice cold as ice.
08:32Everyone's counting on us.
08:33If we break through, there's still a chance.
08:37Martha looked at me for a long moment.
08:40Finally, she nodded slowly.
08:43Two hours later, I half-carry Martha through the darkness.
08:47Her left arm was torn off by a rogue fresh blood still streams from the wound.
08:52Over this mountain, we're almost there.
08:54From halfway up the slope, we see the outline of Silver Pine Base.
08:58Hope sparks in our chests.
08:59Then, a firework shell explodes directly in front of us.
09:03The blast wave throws us backward like ragdolls.
09:06Martha's blood was splattered on my face.
09:08I look up, dazed.
09:10Through the smoke, I see Cade with his arm around Lola.
09:13Then his voice booms through the ridge's speaker system, dripping with mockery.
09:17Selina, I knew it.
09:19You realized your lies wouldn't make me cancel the party, so now you're trying to force your way through?
09:23His voice turns ice cold.
09:25I knew you'd try to sabotage Lola's birthday.
09:28I won't let you succeed.
09:30The bombardment intensifies.
09:33Mom, tell him it's you!
09:36Cody!
09:37The ridge falls silent for a heartbeat.
09:40Then Cade's laughter echoes, crueler, louder.
09:43Selina, you're really committed to this act.
09:45First you had my mom lie over the comm, now you hired an actress?
09:48My mother has two arms, but the actress has only one.
09:52Stop trying to fool me.
09:53I am your mother! Can't you even recognize my voice?
09:58Cade hesitates.
10:02Lola immediately tugs his sleeve, her voice dripping false hurt.
10:06Cade, I know Saloma hates me.
10:08Maybe we should just cancel tonight.
10:10Go back.
10:11It's okay. I'm used to being treated like this.
10:15Cade's face hardens. He pulls her close.
10:18Continue.
10:20More shells rain down.
10:22Our path is sealed.
10:26The moon rises higher.
10:30Martha grabs my shoulders.
10:33There's no time.
10:34I'll distract them.
10:35You run.
10:36Get that rescue back here.
10:37Everyone's counting on you!
10:39She shoves me away and limps toward the peak.
10:43I try to grab her.
10:45Mom!
10:46They don't recognize you!
10:48You'll die!
10:49Cade's voice cuts through the air again.
10:52Selene!
10:55If you're willing to throw your life away to ruin Lola's party, I'll grant your wish.
11:00He hoists a rocket launcher onto his shoulder.
11:03Aims directly at him.
11:05The massive shell screams through the air.
11:09Selene!
11:09Down!
11:10Martha throws herself on top.
11:12Her broken body shields mine.
11:14Boom!
11:14The explosion tears through my eardrums.
11:16Hot blood sprays my face.
11:18Martha's body collapses onto mine.
11:20Her back has been obliterated.
11:21A gaping hole where her spine should be.
11:23Blood pours like a river.
11:25My hands shake as I touch her.
11:27Warmth.
11:27Sticky warmth everywhere.
11:28I shake her gently.
11:30No response.
11:31I scream.
11:34Lola's saccharine voice floats through the speakers.
11:38Selene.
11:39You should throw that corpse off the cliff.
11:42The rogues will smell the blood and come for you too.
11:47Several warriors witness this.
11:49Unease flickers across their faces.
11:51That didn't look fake.
11:55What if the stronghold really is under attack?
11:57What if she's telling the truth?
11:59The alpha would know if something was wrong.
12:01She's obviously staging this because she's jealous of Lola.
12:03Her jealousy is terrifying.
12:05But what if...
12:05What if something did happen?
12:07Our families are all down there.
12:09We're all down there!
12:10Shut up!
12:11Alpha Cade would never gamble with our family's lives.
12:14The squad leader barks at them to shut up.
12:19Then several warriors dragged me like a traitor to the ridge under Cade's orders.
12:23Not one part of my body is unbroken.
12:26Blood and mud mixed together.
12:30Lola approaches with a pitiful expression.
12:33Selene.
12:34You're bleeding so much.
12:37Let me barnage you, okay?
12:38She reaches for me.
12:41Don't touch me!
12:44I slap her hand away hard enough to make her stumble.
12:47Selene!
12:48Lola's trying to help you despite everything, and this is how you treat her kindness?
12:53He stomps on my broken finger.
12:55Looks like you need a lesson.
12:57You never learn.
12:58Agony rips through me.
12:59I convulse on the ground.
13:01But I don't care about myself.
13:03The people in the panic room are still waiting for me to save them.
13:06I lock eyes with Cade.
13:08The panic room is about to fall.
13:10Every minute you waste, another person dies.
13:14Can't you hear the rocks down there?
13:16Lola immediately bursts into tears.
13:18Cade, it's all my fault.
13:20I shouldn't have had a birthday.
13:22I shouldn't even exist.
13:23Cade pulls her into his arms protectively.
13:27Selene, how long are you going to keep this up?
13:30The stronghold has the most advanced defense system.
13:34Every elite warrior is here guarding you and Lola.
13:38The Silverwoods have no power because you diverted it to the mountain.
13:44Cade, you're going to regret this.
13:47Alpha Cade, should we send someone to check?
13:49You don't know her.
13:51Making up lies.
13:52She's always been jealous of Lola.
13:53This isn't the first time.
13:55Right, last time she claimed Lola pushed her down the stairs.
14:01Tie her to that tree.
14:03Let her reflect.
14:09Lola smirks.
14:10I struggle with everything I have.
14:24My warning earns me a vicious slap.
14:27Selene, I'm telling you, the more you try to force me to love you,
14:33the more I hate you.
14:36Just as they drag me toward the tree,
14:39suddenly a piercing alarm shrieks from the valley below.
14:42The stronghold's highest level emergency signal,
14:45meaning the panic room has fallen.
14:47No survivors.
14:48Everyone freezes.
14:50The older warrior who'd been mocking me stumbles to the cliff edge,
14:53staring down.
14:58Maximum alert.
15:00That's maximum alert.
15:02My wife and son are down there.
15:06The young warrior's face drains of color.
15:08His lips tremble in the silence.
15:10I use my last shred of strength to look at Cade.
15:16Do you hear it, Cade?
15:18They're all dead.
15:19This is the firework show you brought with everyone's lives.
15:22Are you satisfied?
15:25Even your mother, the one you respected most,
15:28you killed her too.
15:29Inside the stronghold,
15:30the security door hangs twisted and broken.
15:33Blood pools like water, dismembered limbs,
15:35shredded clothing, scattered organs,
15:37all mixed together.
15:38Rogues feast greedily on the corpses,
15:41making sickening chewing sounds.
15:43I can't hold it in.
15:44I bend over and wretch.
15:46Tears stream uncontrollably.
15:48We were still too late.
15:49I gave everything and still couldn't save them.
15:52Well, let's go inside.
15:55Kira!
15:56Kira!
15:57Mom!
15:58Mom, where are you?
16:05Nearby, the young warrior finds his mother.
16:12Alpha Cade!
16:14Look!
16:15Look at my mother!
16:16Her eyes are still open!
16:20Why?
16:21Tell me why!
16:22We all heard Selene call you back!
16:25Why didn't you come?
16:26Why did you pull all of us to the rich
16:29for a few fireworks?
16:31Are you even human speak?
16:33Look at this blood everywhere!
16:36Doesn't your conscience hurt?
16:39I wanted more than anyone to change it.
16:42But why?
16:42Why couldn't I save them?
16:44Where's my mother?
16:46Selene?
16:47Where is she?
16:49You have the nerve to ask about Mom?
16:53Mom's dead.
16:55You killed her yourself with that rocket launcher.
17:00Cade!
17:02Mom's corpse is at the bottom of that cliff feeding vultures.
17:05It was you!
17:06You killed her!
17:08You killed her!
17:12No!
17:13Impossible!
17:14I couldn't have killed my own mother!
17:21Why?
17:22This is so strange.
17:24Why didn't the rogues attack any other time?
17:27Why specifically on my birthday?
17:29And why when the stronghold had zero warriors and was at its weakest?
17:38I know I shouldn't say this now, but it's just too strange!
17:42Everyone think about it.
17:44Selene patrols the outer perimeter alone all the time,
17:46claiming she's tracking rogue movement.
17:49The broadcast center's alarm system?
17:51She's in charge of that too.
17:56She knows so much about rogue activity.
17:59So why today, my birthday specifically?
18:02Unless someone deliberately led them into the stronghold?
18:07Selene, it's because years ago Cade chose to save me instead of your father.
18:11You're jealous.
18:12You hate me.
18:13So you picked my birthday specifically to frame Cade and me.
18:17You intentionally let the rogues in.
18:19You're lying!
18:21Enough!
18:22Selene!
18:24I never imagined you could be so vicious.
18:29Yes!
18:30I chose Lola because she was closer.
18:33It was an impossible choice.
18:35I tried to save your father afterward, but I was too late!
18:40That's haunted me ever since.
18:42I felt I owed you, so I've spent years trying to make it up to you.
18:45But I never expected you'd harbor this much hatred.
18:48To get revenge, you picked this moment.
18:50Used hundreds of lives to frame Lola and me!
18:53What kind of monster are you?
18:56I stand there, reeling from their words.
18:58I don't know where to begin.
19:00He surveys the stunned warriors, voice filled with righteous pain.
19:06I, Cade, failed to see what kind of evil woman I married.
19:10Today, I'll do what's right.
19:12Get justice for everyone who died.
19:15Alpha!
19:17Seize her!
19:19Hearing this, I thought my heart was already dead to him.
19:22But it still aches.
19:24For how little I am worth.
19:26Murderer.
19:34Why did you do this?
19:36If not for you, mom wouldn't be dead!
19:38I can't help but laugh quietly.
19:40I laugh at my past self for being so blind.
19:43For falling in love with such a weak, cowardly man.
19:46My laughter only enrages Cade more.
19:48He grabs my injured hand, squeezing the severed finger stump.
19:52Blood gushes instantly.
19:54Searing pain drains the color from my face.
19:57Cold sweat pours.
19:58Killing you would be too easy.
20:00You like luring rogues to hurt people?
20:02Fine.
20:02I'll let you experience being eaten by rogues piece by piece!
20:06Drag her to the outer quarantine zone.
20:09Tie her to the post.
20:11Without my command, no one gives her a quick death.
20:14Under Lola's manipulation.
20:17Not a single voice objects to this cruelty.
20:19More terrifying than before.
20:21The rogues we drove back are returning.
20:23Their speed is horrifying.
20:26How do they have strength to attack again?
20:29They've evolved!
20:30These beasts devoured too many lives.
20:33Their power multiplied!
20:35Everyone!
20:36Defensive positions!
20:37Warriors raise weapons against the surging rogue wave.
20:40One breaks through the defensive line.
20:42Howling as it lunges for Lola, she shoves Cade directly into the rogue's path.
20:47The rogue's jaws clamp onto his entire left arm.
20:50Blood sprays.
20:51He collapses, screaming, but still stares at Lola.
20:54Help!
20:55Save me!
20:56Pull me off!
20:57Cade.
20:58You said you'd always protect me.
21:01Remember?
21:02You abandoned Moon's father to save me.
21:05You'll save me this time too, right?
21:07Lola!
21:11You're the alpha.
21:12Protecting everyone is your responsibility.
21:14Now you're injured and bleeding.
21:16Perfect to distract the robes.
21:18Give everyone time to escape.
21:21So you should stay here.
21:24You.
21:24In the chaos, someone pulls me behind a hidden boulder.
21:29I look up.
21:30It is the young warrior who questioned Cade earlier.
21:32Luna, Serena.
21:33Hide.
21:34Spade the silver wards!
21:36That's our last hope!
21:38Hope flickers in his eyes.
21:40Yes.
21:41The wards.
21:42They rush to the control room, only to discover crushing truth.
21:46Report!
21:47The ward power has been completely diverted to the Ridge Firework Equipment!
21:51There's nothing left!
21:53What?
21:55This is what we deserve!
21:57We throw away our lives for one woman's birthday!
22:01Hidden behind the raw, I watch.
22:03My heart tears.
22:04In the face of disaster, humans are so small, so pitiful.
22:08But even so, we can never surrender to fate.
22:10As a rogue lunges for the young warrior, I charge out without hesitation,
22:14using my broken body to shield him from the killing blow.
22:17Let's talk.
22:18Move.
22:18Then helicopter blades thunder overhead.
22:21Three helicopters marked.
22:23HQ Special Forces hover above.
22:26Command rescue all survivors.
22:28Move to extraction points.
22:31Save me first!
22:33I'm Lola!
22:34Please, I'm begging you!
22:36You're not getting on this helicopter.
22:39Why?
22:41He pulls out photos and throws them at her feet.
22:44Lola.
22:45Traitor to your own pack.
22:46What do you have to say?
22:48What makes you think you deserve rescue?
22:57That's right!
22:58It was me!
23:00All of it!
23:02Selene, why were you always the brightest one?
23:04Why did everyone always notice you?
23:06Even the man I love became your mate!
23:10I wanted to destroy you!
23:12Destroy everything!
23:13So I sabotaged the defenses!
23:15I let the rogues in!
23:18You.
23:20Because of jealousy?
23:21You killed everyone!
23:23All pack members of the ethnic group were innocent!
23:26They did nothing wrong!
23:29Kay, do you think you're innocent?
23:31If you'd come back, would they have died?
23:34Especially your inconvenient mother.
23:37If you hadn't ordered the attack, would she be dead?
23:40You killed her with your own hands.
23:45Stop!
23:46I didn't!
23:49Your mother called your name as she died.
23:51But you?
23:52You didn't recognize her.
23:54Then you ordered her body thrown off a cliff to feed vultures!
23:57At that moment, howling erupts behind Lola.
24:00Help me!
24:03Help me!
24:04Save her.
24:05Who's going to save the people you murdered?
24:08They watch coldly as rogues swarm her, tearing her body apart.
24:14The older warrior who mocked me earlier suddenly drops to his knees with a heavy thud.
24:19Luna, Selma, we were wrong!
24:21His voice is hoarse, choked with regret.
24:24We'd believed you!
24:25If we hadn't followed Kay'da's madness, our families would be alive!
24:30Other warriors kneel.
24:31Sobs fill the air.
24:32We're sorry.
24:34It's our fault!
24:35We believe that bitch's lies!
24:38You were so injured but still saved us.
24:40We're beyond redemption.
24:41As I am about to speak, Kay'd staggers to his feet.
24:45Where is my mother?
24:47Where is Martha?
24:49Forgot already?
24:51You personally ordered her body thrown off the cliff to feed vultures.
24:56No.
24:57Impossible.
24:59Mom's alive.
25:00Martha!
25:02Where are you?
25:04He stumbles toward the perimeter.
25:06Then, rogues from the outer zone catch his scent.
25:09Kay'de reaches toward empty air, oblivious to approaching death.
25:12A deranged smile crosses his face.
25:14Mom, I see you.
25:16Rogues tear at his limbs.
25:18Blood soaps his clothes.
25:19I shouldn't have trusted Lola.
25:21Ignored Selen.
25:22Doubted you.
25:23Everyone.
25:24I killed them all.
25:25I killed every member.
25:27Stay in the territory.
25:28The once mighty Alpha ends his life like this.
25:31Luna, Selenma.
25:32We should go.
25:34I nod.
25:35Looking toward the cliff.
25:36Martha's body still lies there.
25:39Take the wounded first.
25:40I have one more thing to do.
25:45Her aged face still holds her final worry.
25:48I gently wipe blood from her face.
25:51Mom.
25:53We're going home.
25:59One month later, reconstruction begins showing progress.
26:02On a bright morning, we hold a grand funeral for all who died.
26:06I carve a headstone myself.
26:08We choose the highest hill, overlooking the entire stronghold.
26:11Elder Martha, beloved mother, rests here forever, guarding this land.
26:15And I make anointment on thisny times, Capstone.
26:16I love it.
26:17The
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