Chapter 95: Caleb’s Breakthrough

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Chapter 95: Caleb’s Breakthrough Caleb POV The old book burst into flames the moment I opened it. I jumped back from the library desk, watching centuries-old pages turn to ash in seconds. The fire wasn’t regular - it burned silver and made no sound at all. When the fires died, only one page remained, floating in the air like a ghost. "What the hell?" I muttered, reaching for the floating page. The moment my fingers touched it, words appeared on the paper in glowing letters. But they weren’t in any language I recognized. They twisted and moved like living things, making my eyes hurt to look at them. Then suddenly, I could read them. The Void Walkers were not destroyed. They were imprisoned. The lock needs three keys: Pack Magic, Wild Magic, and Ancient Magic. When the keys join, the prison opens. When they split, it closes. My blood turned to ice. Pack Magic - that was us, the werewolves. Wild Magic had to be something else. And Ancient Magic... "Oh no," I whispered. "Lily’s sacrifice was one of the keys." I grabbed another book from the shelf, this one about magical animals. It didn’t catch fire, but the pages flipped by themselves until they stopped at a Chapter called "The Great Banishment." The story made my stomach drop. Five hundred years ago, the Void Walkers had tried to eat all the magic in the world. Every magical creature had been in danger - werewolves, vampires, witches, fae, dragons, everything. So they’d worked together to make a prison that could only be opened by three specific types of magic working at the same time. "They made it so the Void Walkers could only escape if the supernatural world was united again," I realized. "But unity was supposed to be impossible after the war." The magical war had happened two hundred years ago. Every magical species had fought each other until most went into hiding. Werewolves stayed in packs. Vampires hid in cities. Witches lived alone. Nobody talked to anybody else anymore. Until now. Another book flew off the shelf and landed open in front of me. This one showed a map of all the supernatural regions around Silver Peak. There were way more than I’d ever imagined. A vampire group lived in the mountains just north of us. A witch group had a house by the lake. There were fae creatures in the deep forest, and something called "stone giants" in the caves. Even a dragon was marked on the map, though the note said "last seen fifty years ago." "Wild Magic," I breathed. "That’s all of them." But there was still the third key. Ancient Magic. What could that be? I was reaching for another book when the library door burst inward. Aiden stumbled in, bleeding from a cut on his forehead. "Caleb!" he shouted. "We need to flee! Something’s coming up from underground!" Through the broken door, I could see chaos outside. Silver light was shooting up from cracks in the ground like geysers. Pack members were running and screaming. And in the distance, I could hear Lily calling my name. "I can’t leave," I said, grabbing as many books as I could handle. "I found something important." "More important than staying alive?" Aiden demanded. "More important than everyone staying alive," I answered. "The Void Walkers aren’t just random monsters. They’re prisoners who escaped because we accidentally opened their jail." I quickly explained what I’d learned while Aiden helped me stuff books into a bag. His face got paler with every word. "So you’re saying Lily’s sacrifice was a mistake?" he asked. "Not a mistake. A key. And if we can find the other two keys and make them work together, we can lock the Void Walkers up again." "Other supernatural creatures," Aiden said, understanding. "That’s impossible. We haven’t talked to vampires or witches in decades." "Then we better learn fast," I said, throwing the book bag over my shoulder. We ran outside into complete chaos. The silver light from beneath was getting brighter, and I could see shapes moving in it. Big shapes with too many teeth. "Where’s Lily?" I shouted over the noise. "By the nursery with Elder Iris," Aiden answered. "But Caleb, look!" He pointed to the sky. Dark forms were flying toward us from every direction. At first I thought they were birds, but as they got closer, I realized they were much bigger. And they weren’t birds. "Vampires," I breathed. "They’re coming." More shapes emerged at the edge of the forest. Tall, graceful forms that seemed to glow with their own light. The fae. From the lake came a group of women in dark robes, their hands sparkling with magical energy. The witches. And from the mountains, something that made the ground shake with every step. The stone giants. "They can sense it too," I realized. "The jail opening. They’re all coming to help." But as the supernatural creatures circled Silver Peak, I saw something that made my heart stop. They weren’t coming to help. They were coming to fight each other. The vampires dove toward the witches with teeth bared. The fae raised spears made of moonlight. The stone giants roared dares at everyone in sight. "The war," Aiden whispered. "They still hate each other." "We have to stop them," I said desperately. "If they fight now, the Void Walkers will escape completely." But even as I said it, I knew it was hopeless. How could two werewolf brothers stop a magical war that had been brewing for two hundred years? That’s when I heard a voice that chilled me to the bone. "Let them fight," it said, coming from everywhere and nowhere at once. "Their hatred will feed us far better than their unity ever could." I looked down at the cracks in the ground, where the silver light was glowing brighter than ever. And I discovered the horrible truth. The Void Walkers hadn’t been trying to leave their prison. They’d been trying to lure every magical creature in the region to the same place, so they could feed on all of us at once. "It’s a trap," I whispered. Around us, vampires fought with witches, fae battled stone giants, and werewolves howled in confusion. Above it all, something huge was pushing its way up from underground, and I could feel its hunger like a physical weight pressing down on my chest. In the distance, I saw Lily running toward us, her hands burning with silver fire. But between her and us, the ground was breaking open like a hungry mouth. And something with a thousand eyes was climbing out.

Chapter 95: Caleb’s Breakthrough

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