Novel & Cerita Gate Series

Her mother gave Dannie a tight-lipped smile and she returned it. “Balric tells me,” Dad said from behind his desk. “You know where the gates are and how to close them?” “Yep, and I’m pretty sure I’m more than capable of doing it. There are four gates in the states, but I think the one in Cheyenne should be the one I practice on.” “Cheyenne,” Lee said her posture stiffening. “Interesting,” Dannie’s mom said and Dannie swore she was starting to hate that word. “I’d almost say the deabru was making a move on us.”

They all shuddered at his ruthlessness. “How can we trust you that you will also let our world go?” Arlen asked. “After all, our world still has the Gate.” he said. They nodded in agreement with what Arlen said. “You don’t know?” Nicht looked at them in surprise. “You only have to kill the guardian of the Gate so that the Gate would also disappear.” He answered. They were stunned. Nicht maliciously smiled. “So you don’t know…” he muttered. “The Gate only appears because someone was born to guard it. In short, its guardian was born.” He said. “Kill its guardian and the Gate disappears!” he told them.

He was just following orders. But true to these words, in exactly 60 seconds, we arrived at a back gate. The iron gate was similar to the second gate at the other side of their pack. They were both covered in grass and it had a distinct writing of the name and region of their pack. When Chris got to the gate, he grabbed a black remote from the console and pressed it. The gate parted open. But what caught my attention was the needle-like iron that entered the ground before we passed through and I watched it grow back up from the side window.

He asked. Althea’s eyes sharpened. “You know what this is.” She stated firmly. The generals exchanged brief looks. Reyes exhaled slowly. “Yes.” He answered calmly before his expression darkened. “And if Luca Valtieri is moving toward that convergence point, then this war is much bigger than you realize.” August straightened immediately. “What is it?” He asked. Silence filled the room briefly before Reyes pointed directly at the center point Nicholas identified earlier. “That,” he said quietly, “is the Axis Gate.”

Not Kael. Not Draven. Something new. Something awake. And the Gate— opened again.

Evelyn noticed first. "What is it?" The Guardian slowly pointed toward a faded symbol. A mark nearly erased by time. Althea leaned closer. The symbol resembled a circle surrounded by seven smaller circles. Nothing remarkable. At least initially. The Guardian's face had gone pale. "The Seven Gates." Silence. Nobody moved. Then Evelyn whispered: "No." The Guardian nodded. "Yes." Varis frowned. "I don't understand." The Guardian looked up. His expression grim. "The First Path was never one doorway."

"Are you hit?" "No," I cough, waving away the cloud of drywall dust. "I'm okay. What was that?" "C4," he snarls, standing up and pulling me with him. He grabs his jeans from the floor, hopping on one leg to pull them on. "Drive-by. They tossed a satchel charge at the gate." "They're breaching?" "No." He buckles his belt, his face grim. "They're testing. Seeing how long it takes us to respond. Seeing if we panic."

And the Gate had been feeding it, nurturing it, drawing it closer, every time we faltered. I clenched my fists. I had to hold the line, hold the chamber, hold the Gate itself if possible. I could feel the pulse of energy in the chamber, the heartbeat of the Gate, almost like it was aware of my focus, my determination. And I realized something: we could not just fight physically. We had to fight emotionally, with balance, with calm, with will. I turned to the soldiers nearest me. “Focus! Do not fear! The Gate only feeds on what you let it! Keep your minds clear! Ground yourselves!”

How? The gates were made out of powerful, thick steel rods that gave peeks into the paradise beyond it was protecting. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get much of a view of its beauty as scores of Blackvines Pack guards dressed in suits stood behind the barricades they had set in place against my G-wagon.