"Too many," Leon replied, his enhanced hearing parsing the sounds from above. "At least twenty. Military-trained. They know what they're hunting."
Another bolt ricocheted into the chamber, this one trailing silver wire that sparked against the stone. Where it touched, Maya felt a wrongness that made her newly awakened dragon nature recoil in pain.
"Silver-core ammunition," Darius rumbled, his earthen skin hardening to granite. "They're not here to capture."
Maya's vision blurred as another wave of transformation rippled through her. She could feel her human form beginning to dissolve, her consciousness expanding beyond the confines of flesh and bone. Soon, there would be nothing left but raw power and instinct.
"Choose," Xander said, his void-touched voice cutting through the chaos wit
