“I can hear the diggers,” Stacia said, tilting her head.

“Yeah, there they are,” Chris said. The vampires all nodded while Gina just gave Declan a little shrug. He shrugged back.

“Four meters. Power is approaching seventy percent. Stand by.”

“What are we going to see, Omega?” Gina asked.

“Sudden light, Gina. And violence.”

“Excellent,” Senka said, leaning forward.

“Approaching three meters. Power over seventy-five percent. Engaging grav engines in three… two… one.”

Chapter 46

Light exploded across the screen, actually around the room as an entire three-hundred-and-sixty-degree picture was suddenly projected on all of the walls of the room on Earth.

On Fairie, the big battle drone shot straight upward as soon as the last few tons of stone whipped away from it. Gaining altitude, the drone now recorded the entire sphere of visible images all the way around its form. Back on Earth, the room exploded with light and color as the vampires, humans, and werewolf found themselves inside the center of the projection.

“Oh, this is outstanding!” vampire Elder Senka said to the others.

Omega was busy cataloguing the results of the gravitational disruption he had created. Shattered shards of stone ranging from pebbles up to boulders had been spun out in an arc around the drone’s burial place, the debris flung for fifty feet in every direction. Bodies lay crushed under stone and broken plant life, while surviving elves were either stunned, looking for weapons, or flat-out fleeing the scene. The bodies of squat green goblins made up a big percentage of the dead, their muscular frames having been useful for digging heavy rock. There were elves too, along with some of the six-legged horses and some ox-sized four-legged beasts of burden that appeared closer to dinosaurian than mammalian. Everything within that fifty-foot radius was either dead or wounded. Outside the grav blast zone, there appeared to be more elves than goblins, and they were higher-ranked ones at that. Blue-armored warriors were trying to take aim at him with what Omega was now calling energy lances, as well as some bows and crystal-tipped arrows, but most could not see him. A few, equipped with the same strange goggles that the woolly rhino drivers had worn, were beginning to draw a bead on him.

Instantly, multiple beams of blue light shot out, impacting each crystal arrowhead, the resulting explosions doing much more damage than the beam itself might have.

“That gravitational burst was devastating,” natural born vampire Tatiana Demidova said, her tone admiring. “Will Cora be able to do that?”

“We don’t even know yet if what she does is gravitational,” Father replied.

“Yeah, but how cool if she could protect herself and Wulf with that!” vampire Lydia Chapman said.

Father sighed. “If they are both tapping into that kind of power, they could probably or at least possibly both learn each other’s ability, at least to some extent.”