Triple Moon Rising: An Omega's Destiny
Chapter 86: The Void Walkers

Chapter 86: The Void Walkers

Omniscient POV

The first scream came from the Desert Pack area at exactly dawn.

Alpha Rodriguez was checking on the tear that had appeared near their water source when something grabbed his ankle. Not a hand - something cold and empty that felt like frozen air trying to pull him apart from the inside.

"Maria, help me!" he yelled to his mate, but when she rushed forward, the thing let go and disappeared back through the tear.

Rodriguez looked down at his leg where the thing had touched him. His skin was gray and cold, like all the life had been sucked out of it. Worse, he couldn’t feel his link to his pack anymore. The warm feeling that always linked him to his wolves was totally gone.

"I can’t sense anyone," he whispered in horror. "It’s like I’m not part of the pack anymore."

Two hundred miles away, something similar was happening to the Mountain Ridge Pack. The scout who had fallen through their hole was calling for help, but his voice was getting weaker and stranger.

"Help... me..." his words echoed from the other side. "Something’s... eating... my... memories..."

Alpha Chen pressed her ear to the tear, trying to hear better. "Tommy, we’re going to get you out!"

"No," Tommy’s voice came back, barely recognizable now. "Don’t... come... closer. They’re... using... me... as... bait. They want... more... dogs..."

Before Alpha Chen could reply, Tommy’s voice changed completely. It became darker, emptier, like an echo of an echo.

"Yesssss," the thing wearing Tommy’s voice hissed. "More pack bondsssss. More connectionsssss. We hunger for your linked soulssss."

Alpha Chen jumped back from the tear, her heart racing. Whatever had Tommy wasn’t her scout anymore.

At Silver Peak, Lily suddenly fell in the middle of eating breakfast. Her eyes rolled back and she started speaking in a voice that wasn’t her own.

"The bridges are open," she said in a flat voice. "The Void Walkers wake from their endless sleep. They smell the links between your souls and they hunger."

Caleb caught her before she hit the floor. "Lily! Snap out of it!"

Her eyes focused again, but they were filled with fear. "They’re coming through all the tears at once," she gasped. "I can see them in my mind. They look like shadows, but they’re not shadows. They’re... nothing. They’re the places between things."

Aiden grabbed the emergency radio. "All packs, this is Alpha Aiden. Do not approach the tears. Something dangerous is coming through."

But it was already too late.

Reports flooded in from every pack with a tear in their area. Wolves were losing their pack ties after being touched by the creatures. Others were missing entirely, pulled through tears by things that looked like empty spaces in the shape of wolves.

"They’re not trying to hurt us," Lily said, fighting to stand. "They’re trying to eat what makes us special. Our ties, our connections, our magic - that’s what they feed on."

Elder Iris burst through the door, moving faster than anyone had seen her move in years.

"The Void Walkers," she panted. "I found the old records. They’re older than werewolves, older than magic itself. They live in the spaces between worlds, feeding on the connections that hold reality together."

"How do we stop them?" Brock asked.

"You can’t fight nothing," Elder Iris said sadly. "But the records say they can only stay in our world if they keep eating. Cut off their food source, and they’ll be pulled back to the void."

"Their food source is us," Caleb realized. "Our pack bonds, our supernatural connections."

"Which means to stop them, we’d have to break every supernatural connection in every pack," Aiden said slowly. "We’d have to stop being werewolves."

The radio crackled with more panicked voices.

"They took half our pack! Just... absorbed them!"

"The tear is growing! It’s the size of a house now!"

"My mate bond is gone! I can’t feel Sarah anymore!"

Lily suddenly stood up straight, her eyes wide with understanding. "That’s not the worst part," she said. "If they keep feeding on supernatural connections, they’ll eventually find the biggest connection of all."

"What do you mean?" Aiden asked.

"The connection between our world and the magic that holds it together," she whispered. "If they eat that, reality itself will fall apart."

As if reacting to her words, the tear above Silver Peak began to pulse with dark energy. Through it, they could see movement - not the other version of their pack anymore, but something far worse.

Shapes that looked like holes cut out of the world itself were spilling through. They moved like liquid shadow, but where they touched the ground, grass and trees simply stopped existing.

"Everyone inside, now!" Aiden yelled.

But as they ran for the house, Lily stopped dead in her tracks. She was looking at something only she could see.

"They’re not just random," she said in fear. "They’re organized. They have a head."

"What kind of leader?" Caleb asked.

"Something that used to be like us. Something that was once connected to others, but decided to give up those connections for power. It became the first Void Walker, and now it’s teaching the others how to hunt."

The radio exploded with a new voice - deep, empty, and terrifyingly familiar.

"Packssss of the mortal world," it said. "We thanksss you for opening the gatewaysss. We have been sssso hungry in the void. Your bondsss are deliciousss."

Lily’s face went white. "I know that voice," she whispered.

"Who is it?" Aiden demanded.

"It’s the shadow wolf leader," she said. "The one I thought I destroyed when I broke their memory spell. But I didn’t kill him. I just... changed him into something worse."

The voice continued through every radio in every pack territory at once.

"Lily Carter, Triple Moon Bearer," it hissed. "You created usss when you broke our shadow bondsss. Now we will return the favor. We will break every link in your world, and when nothing remainsss connected to anything elssse, reality will be oursss to devour."

Thunder rolled across the sky, but there were no clouds. The sound was coming from the tears themselves, as hundreds of Void Walkers poured through into the mortal world.

"How long do we have?" Brock asked coldly.

Elder Iris examined her ancient book with shaking hands. "According to this, once they start eating, they grow stronger exponentially. If they’re not stopped within three days, they’ll eat enough connections to tear apart the barriers between all worlds."

"And then what happens?" Caleb asked.

Elder Iris looked up at them with fear-filled eyes. "Then everything that ever existed across all realities gets pulled into the void with them. Forever."

Outside, the first Void Walker touched down on Silver Peak land. Where its feet hit the ground, the earth simply disappeared, leaving a hole that led to nothing but empty darkness.

And in that darkness, hundreds more were waiting to follow.