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