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Reborn In Fire
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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!
00:20Jakob's claws sink into Cade. He screams, exposing the Alpha's delusion.
00:24That my warnings were just jealousy. That Lola's night was worth our slaughter.
00:29His voice snaps like bone.
00:32Why is my baby missing her face?
00:34Cade stands frozen. His golden Alpha eyes are empty, hollow. I stare at the carnage and my heart shatters.
00:41I've lived this moment before. In my previous life, the rogues attack during Lola's birthday.
00:46My husband, the pack Alpha, took every warrior to the ridge 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.
00:59I begged them to 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.
01:12The rogues found her, dragged her screaming into the darkness.
01:16By the time we arrived, nothing remained but her left femur.
01:20Cade held that bone for six hours. Didn't speak. Didn't shift. Didn't breathe.
01:26Then, the day I gave birth to our son, he severed my hands with silver.
01:30My feet next.
01:31He threw me into a rogue feeding pit and healed me, over and over, letting them tear chunks from my
01:38flesh while the mate Bond forced me to feel his hatred burning like acid through my chest.
01:44You 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.
01:59A thousand feral throats shrieking hunger across the mountains. I'm out of bed before conscious thought.
02:05My bare feet slap stone as I sprint toward the control room. The stronghold is three stories of timber and
02:12reinforced steel, built to withstand siege.
02:14I 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.
02:33I grab the emergency rifle. 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.
02:52Fur matted with dried blood and filth. Eyes milky white. Jaws unhinged, hanging at grotesque angles.
02:59They don't hunt for territory. The madness ate everything else.
03:03I fire. Silver tears through the first one's skull. It drops. Convulsant. I scream at a frozen teenager.
03:10I 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.
03:22Bones crack. Fur erupts. My wolf is smaller than the male's, but faster.
03:28I slam into a rogue mid-leap, jaws closing around its rotten throat.
03:33The taste is rancid decay. I rip and spit and move.
03:37Someone yanks a child from snapping teeth. Someone else seals the hatch.
03:41The heavy locks clang shut. Silence.
03:44I shift back, naked and trembling. Blood. Mine. Bears. Drips down my ribs.
03:50We're in the panic room. Concrete walls. Air filtration. Supplies for two weeks.
03:55But the wards are failing. I feel it. The electric hum that usually surrounds the strongholds is stuttering.
04:01Dying.
04:03Luna, 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.
04:14I close my eyes. The cruel truth breaks my heart. Yet I cannot lie.
04:19He can't. Alpha Cade took every warrior to Starfall Ridge. He's protecting Lola during the ceremony.
04:26Ceremony, are you serious?
04:28The room erupts.
04:29He left us just to die for some lights!
04:32She's not even his real mate!
04:33Bang. The steel door buckles. Metal shrieks. Bang.
04:37Another hit. These rogues are stronger. Evolved.
04:41We have minutes.
04:43I look at Elder Martha. Cade's mother. Former Luna. 73 with silver hair and a wolf that can still kill.
04:50She 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 Com satellite link that bypasses Mind Link.
05:03She dials. The line clicks. Cade's voice is annoyed. Distracted.
05:07In 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. Cade 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.
05:35Is Selina there?
05:37Did she put you up to this?
05:38Martha's hand shakes.
05:41Your 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.
05:59The line goes down. Mary's face drains white.
06:04He thinks we're lying.
06:05Samuel, former beta, slumps against the wall.
06:09We're going to die. For a light show.
06:12Service tunnel. Runs from here to the old mining roads.
06:16Then she looks at me. Her eyes burn.
06:18Six 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. I 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. The mother collapses. Her eyes go empty.
07:04Despair floods the room. Then a figure rushes through the side entrance. Martha.
07:10Did you bring the warriors back?
07:11She is covered in blood.
07:13Barricade that gap!
07:14I rush to steady her. Martha's voice shakes.
07:18That bastard.
07:19She is trembling with rage.
07:20Cade set up blockades on every path. Every single one.
07:24All to make sure no one could interrupt Lola's precious birthday fireworks.
07:29Her eyes are bloodshot. The room goes silent. Cold dread creeps up my spine.
07:34I stumble backward. He blocked even his own mother. I forced myself upright.
07:39We 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, begging, pleading for aid.
07:51Yet, the response left me frozen.
07:54They 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.
08:19It was pure suicide. The gap in the door was buckling under the pressure.
08:23The 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.
08:34If we break through, there's still a chance.
08:37Martha looked at me for a long moment.
08:40Finally, she nodded slowly.
08:44Two 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.
09:00Then, 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.
09:09I look up, dazed.
09:10Through the smoke, I see Cade with his arm around Lola.
09:14Then his voice booms through the Ridge's speaker system, dripping with mockery.
09:18Selina, I knew it.
09:20You realized your lies wouldn't make me cancel the party,
09:22so now you're trying to force your way through?
09:24His 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!
09:36Cudder!
09:38The 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!
09:55Can'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.
10:12It's okay.
10:13I'm used to being treated like this.
10:15Cade's face hardens.
10:17He pulls her close.
10:19Continue.
10:21Continue.
10:47Cade catches me away.
10:51again. Selene. If you're willing to throw your life away to ruin Lola's party, I'll grant your
11:00wish. He hoists a rocket launcher onto his shoulder, aims directly at him. The massive
11:06shell screams through the air. Selene, act down! Martha throws herself on top. Her broken body
11:13shields mine. Boom, the explosion tears through my eardrums. Hot blood sprays my face. Martha's
11:18body collapses onto mine. Her back has been obliterated, a gaping hole where her spine should
11:23be. Blood pours like a river. My hands shake as I touch her. Warmth, sticky warmth everywhere. I shake
11:29her gently, no response. I scream. Lola's saccharine voice floats through the speakers. Selene, you should
11:40throw that corpse off the cliff. The rogues will smell the blood and come for you too. Several warriors
11:48witness this. Unease flickers across their faces. That didn't look fake. What if the stronghold
11:56really is under attack? What if she's telling the truth? The Alpha would know if something
12:00was wrong. She's obviously staging this because she's jealous of Lola. Her jealousy is terrifying.
12:05But what if, what if something did happen? Our families are all down there. We're all down
12:10there. Shut up! Alpha Cade would never gamble with our family's lives.
12:14The squad leader barks at them to shut up. Then several warriors dragged me like a traitor
12:21to the ridge under Cade's orders. Not one part of my body is unbroken. Blood and mud mix
12:27together. Lola approaches with a pitiful expression. Selene, you're bleeding so much. Let me barnage
12:38you okay? She reaches for me. Don't touch me! I slap her hand away hard enough to make
12:46her stumble. Selene! Lola's trying to help you despite everything, and this is how you treat
12:52her kindness? He stomps on my broken finger. Looks like you need a lesson. You never learn.
12:58Agony rips through me. I convulse on the ground, but I don't care about myself. The people in the
13:04panic room are still waiting for me to save them. I lock eyes with Cade. The panic room
13:09is about to fall. Every minute you waste, another person dies. Can't you hear the rocks down
13:16there? Lola immediately bursts into tears. Cade, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have had
13:21a birthday. I shouldn't even exist. Cade pulls her into his arms protectively.
13:25me. Selene, how long are you going to keep this up? The stronghold has the most advanced
13:32defense system. Every elite warrior is here guarding you and Lola. The silver wards have
13:40no power because you diverted it to the mountain. Cade, you're going to regret this. Alpha Cade,
13:48should we send someone to check? You don't know her. Making up lies. She's always been jealous
13:53of Lola. This isn't the first time. Right, last time she claimed Lola pushed her down
13:57the stairs. Tie her to that tree. Let her reflect.
14:09Lola smirks. I struggle with everything I have.
14:14Cade! If you don't bring warriors back now, everyone's families will be slaughtered!
14:22Torn apart and eaten! My warning earns me a vicious slap.
14:28Selene, I'm telling you, the more you try to force me to love you, the more I hate you.
14:36Just as they drag me toward the tree, suddenly a piercing alarm shrieks from the valley below.
14:42The stronghold's highest level emergency signal, meaning the panic room has fallen. No survivors.
14:48Everyone freezes. The older warrior who'd been mocking me stumbles to the cliff edge, staring down.
15:05The young warrior's face drains of color. His lips tremble in the silence. I use my last shred of strength
15:12to look at Cade.
15:16Do you hear it, Cade? They're all dead. This is the firework show you brought with everyone's lives.
15:22Are you satisfied?
15:25Even your mother, the one you respected most, you killed her too.
15:29Inside the stronghold, the security door hangs twisted and broken.
15:33Blood pools like water, dismembered limbs, shredded clothing, scattered organs.
15:38All mixed together, rogues feast greedily on the corpses, making sickening chewing sounds.
15:43Of... I can't hold it in. I bend over and retch. Tears stream uncontrollably.
15:48We were still too late. I gave everything and still couldn't save them.
15:52Well, let's go inside.
15:55Kira! Kira! Mom! Mom, where are you?
16:05Nearby, the young warrior finds his mother.
16:13Alpha Cade! Look! Look at my mother! Her eyes are still open!
16:20Why? Tell me why? We all heard Selene call you back. Why didn't you come?
16:27Why did you pull all of us to the rich for a few fireworks? Are you even human-speak?
16:33Look at this blood everywhere! Doesn't your conscience hurt?
16:39I wanted more than anyone to change it. But why? Why couldn't I save them?
16:44Where's my mother? Selene? Where is she?
16:50You have the nerve to ask about Mom?
16:54Mom's dead. You killed her yourself with that rocket launcher.
17:00Kade! Mom's corpse is at the bottom of that cliff feeding vultures. It was you! You killed her!
17:12No! Impossible! I couldn't have killed my own mother!
17:21Why? This is so strange. Why didn't the rogues attack any other time? Why specifically on my birthday?
17:29And why when the stronghold had zero warriors and was at its weakest?
17:37I know I shouldn't say this now, but it's just too strange!
17:42Everyone, think about it. Selene patrols the outer perimeter alone all the time, claiming she's tracking rogue movements.
17:49The broadcast center's alarm system? She's in charge of that too.
17:56She knows so much about rogue activity. So why today, my birthday specifically? Unless someone deliberately led them into the
18:05stronghold?
18:07Selene. Selene, it's because years ago, Kade chose to save me instead of your father. You're jealous. You hate me.
18:13So you pick my birthday specifically to frame Kade and me. You intentionally let the rogues in.
18:19You're lying!
18:21Enough! Selene!
18:25I never imagined you could be so vicious.
18:30Yes! I chose Lola because she was closer. It was an impossible choice! I tried to save your father afterward,
18:38but I was too late!
18:40That's haunted me ever since. I felt I owed you, so I've spent years trying to make it up to
18:45you. But I never expected you'd harbor this much hatred.
18:48To get revenge, you picked this moment. Used hundreds of lives to frame Lola and me! What kind of monster
18:55are you?!
18:56I stand there, reeling from their words. I don't know where to begin. He surveys the stunned warriors, voice filled
19:03with righteous pain.
19:06I, Kade, failed to see what kind of evil woman I married. Today, I'll do what's right. Get justice for
19:14everyone who died! Alpha! Seize her!
19:19Hearing this, I thought my heart was already dead to him. But it still aches. For how little I am
19:25worth.
19:26A murderer.
19:38I can't help but laugh quietly. I laugh at my past self for being so blind. For falling in love
19:44with such a weak, cowardly man.
19:46My laughter only enrages Kade more. He grabs my injured hand, squeezing the severed finger stump.
19:52Blood gushes instantly. Searing pain drains the color from my face. Cold sweat pours.
19:58Killing you would be too easy. You like luring rogues to hurt people? Fine. I'll let you experience being eaten
20:05by rogues piece by piece!
20:07Drag her to the outer quarantine zone. Tie her to the post. Without my command, no one gives her a
20:13quick death.
20:14Under Lola's manipulation. Not a single voice objects to this cruelty. More terrifying than before. The rogues we drove back
20:23are returning. Their speed is horrifying.
20:26How do they have strength to attack again? They've, they've evolved! These beasts devoured too many lives! Their power multiplied!
20:35Everyone, defensive positions!
20:37Warriors raise weapons against the surging rogue wave. One breaks through the defensive line. Howling as it lunges for Lola,
20:44she shoves Kade directly into the rogue's path. The rogue's jaws clamp onto his entire left arm. Blood sprays. He
20:51collapses, screaming, but still stares at Lola.
20:55Help! Save me! Pull me off!
20:57Kade. You said you'd always protect me. Remember? You abandoned Queen's father to save me. You'll save me this time
21:06too, right? Lola!
21:11You're the alpha. Protecting everyone is your responsibility. Now you're injured and bleeding. Perfect to distract the robes. Give everyone
21:18time to escape. So you should stay here. You.
21:25In the chaos, someone pulls me behind a hidden boulder. I look up. It is the young warrior who questioned
21:31Kade earlier.
21:32Luna, Serena. Hide.
21:34Fade the silver wards! That's our last hope!
21:38Hope flickers in his eyes.
21:40Yes. The wards.
21:43They rush to the control room, only to discover crushing truth.
21:46Report! The ward power has been completely diverted to the ridge firework equipment! There's nothing left!
21:53What?
21:55This is what we deserve! We throw away our lives for one woman's birthday!
22:01Hidden behind the raw. I watch. My heart tears. In 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, using my broken body to shield him
22:16from the killing blow.
22:17Less talk. Move.
22:19Then helicopter blades thunder overhead.
22:22Three helicopters marked. HQ special forces hover above. Command rescue all survivors. Move to extraction points.
22:32Save me first! I'm Lola! Please, I'm begging you!
22:37You're not getting on this helicopter.
22:40Why?
22:41He pulls out photos and throws them at her feet.
22:44Lola. Traitor to your own pack. What do you have to say? What makes you think you deserve rescue?
22:58That's right! It was me! All of it!
23:02Selene, why were you always the brightest one? Why did everyone always notice you? Even the man I love became
23:08your mate!
23:10I wanted to destroy you! Destroy everything! So I sabotaged the defenses! I let the rogues in!
23:19You... because of jealousy? You killed everyone! All pack members of the ethnic group were innocent! They did nothing wrong!
23:29Kay, do you think you're innocent? If you'd come back, would they have died? Especially your inconvenient mother.
23:37If you hadn't ordered the attack, would she be dead? You killed her with your own hands.
23:45Stop! I didn't!
23:49Your mother called your name as she died. But you? You didn't recognize her. Then you ordered her body thrown
23:55off a cliff to feed vultures!
23:58At that moment, Howling erupts behind Lola.
24:00Help me! Help me!
24:04Save me! Save me! Who's going to save the people you murdered?
24:09They 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 believed you! If we hadn't followed Kayd's madness, our families would be alive!
24:30Other warriors kneel. Sobs fill the air.
24:32We're sorry. It's our fault! We believe that bitch's lies!
24:38You were so injured but still saved us. We're beyond redemption.
24:41As I am about to speak, Kayd staggers to his feet.
24:46Where is my mother? Where is Martha?
24:49Forgot already?
24:51You personally ordered her body thrown off the cliff to feed vultures.
24:56No. Impossible. Mom's alive.
25:00Martha! Where are you?
25:05He stumbles toward the perimeter.
25:06Then, rogues from the outer zone catch his scent.
25:09Kayd 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. Blood soaps his clothes.
25:19I shouldn't have trusted Lola. Ignored Selene. Doubted you. Everyone.
25:24I killed them all. I killed every member stay in the territory.
25:28The once mighty Alpha ends his life like this.
25:31Luna, Selima. We should go.
25:34I nod. Looking toward the cliff, Martha's body still lies there.
25:39Take the wounded first. I have one more thing to do.
25:45Her aged face still holds her final worry.
25:47I gently wipe blood from her face.
25:52Mom, we'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.
26:18Proof of God.
26:18Aabile in the Twinenn ق
26:18We are now passing by a post jeep road.
26:18We are trying to reveal some real tools and you move away woman.
26:18Turn around our Vor品 to see the mission.
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