Scarred Alphas by Norisha May

Chapter 67 

“Kanda…I can’t! You are my 

friend!” 

“Friend… Then take up arms, 

friend. We don’t have a 

choice.” 

“Kanda…” 

She swings her axe in the air 

above her head before she 

slices at me. I dodge it, it is not hard to dodge her 

movements. Her body might be fast but that weapon is a heavy weapon. It slows her down just a bit. 

As I dodge back the swing, I do not see one of her hands 

letting the axe go. She grabs me by the throat and hits me with the axe’s hilt right on 

the mouth. 

She fights like a warrior. 

She then throws me back, 

picks up her axe with both hands and swings down at 

1. me. I roll on the ground and manage to barely dodge the blade. The edge of the axe gets stuck in the mud. I take the moment to swing my dagger, cutting her in the 

arm. This makes her let the 

axe go but she doesn’t move back, instead she sprints 

forward and tackles me with 

her shoulder. I fall to the 

ground and lose my blades 

but the moment she is on me, I get to my knees and use both my fists, punching 

her in the stomach. 

“Uh!” She takes a step back with a gasp. 

I wrap my fingers around the blade that is next to me, then 

I swing it. My blade plunges into her thigh. She screams 

and falls to her knees. 

Wasting no time, I got to my 

feet. I swing around her, and put my arms around her 

neck, ready to snap it. But I 

hesitate. I don’t want to kill 

her. 

In a split second, she grabs 

my shoulders and flings me to the ground in front of her. 

She puts a hand on my chest, pushing me down. As she does this, my hands feel the ground looking for one of my daggers. 

Suddenly, her other hand is 

on my face, then, she wraps her fingers around my mask 

and rips it off of my face. 

I scream in pure agonizing 

pain. 

I know the crowd cheers but 

all I can hear is a ringing in my ears. I feel disoriented. I am lifted and thrown a few 

feet away. 

I can feel warm liquid drip down the side of my face. I get to my knees and finally, I 

am able to focus but I am 

still in shock. 

Kanda grabs her axe and faces me standing a few feet away from me. 

“Kanda…” I whisper. 

She stares at me–I can see the remorse in her eyes—she looks up behind me at where 

Zao watches. I am sure he 

has a huge smile on his face. 

She looks back at me. “My 

friend…” She says. 

Kanda takes a deep breath and then to my surprise, she 

lets the axe fall from her 

hand. She kneels down, 

grabs my daggers, and throws them at me. They 

land in front of me. 

“Pick them up!” She shouts. 

I shake my head, telling her 

1. no. 

“Pick them up, or I kill you 

as you are! Fight! Give yourself a chance.” 

So those are my choices, fight or just roll over and die…never. If I go down, I go down fighting. 

I do as she says and pick up the daggers. 

“Kill them all.” She mutters 

and then starts running in 

my direction without her 

axe. 

I try to move back away from her but I can’t seem to 

react. I am so confused by 

her words. When she is on 

me, she grabs me by the leather straps, one hand on my chest and the other on my back, then she twirls around as I dangle in her hands. Suddenly, I am flying in the air and when my eyes focus, I am heading straight 

to Zao. I fall on him and tackle him to the ground. Without even giving it a second thought, I stab him 

and immediately I stab him 

again, then a third time. By the second stab, he was 

already dead. I dug my 

dagger right into his heart. 

People start screaming and running. I get up and though I stumble, I stand straight and turn my head. 

Ezra’s eyes widen and almost 

burst out of his head when 

he sees me. 

Feeling like a demon is 

taking possession of me, rage 

boils inside of me when I see 

his face. 

I open my mouth to say my next words and as I do, in a 

quick movement, he closes his eyes and puts his arms 

around Sienna–who is next 

to him–covering her. 

“DIE!” I shout. Three to four 

guards that were behind Ezra fall to the ground, lifeless. 

I am surprised. If I am correct, this power did not 

work like this for Warrick. 

And how is it that it is 

working so easily now? 

I hear footsteps behind me and quickly turn. About five guards run in my direction. I put a hand up. “Stop!” They all immediately stop. “Free the prisoners!” 

They don’t even blink when 

they turn and walk in the direction of the barracks and 

cells. 

At that moment, I hear 

something break, a crack, but it is very subtle. I feel little pieces of something fall down my chest. I pick up the 

amulet from my neck and notice that two of the opals have broken and it is starting 

to feel cool to the touch. 

This is it! This is what is 

helping me use my powers, this is why they are so 

strong…but I think I only 

have one more use. One 

more Opal left. 

Bringing my attention back, 

I look for Ezra but the f**ker 

has run. 

“No!” 

I look for him in the 

stampede of people running 

away. 

“NO!” I shout. 

I had him! I f**king had 

him! 

I stumble, feeling a dizzy spell come over me. 

“No! Not this time!” 

I hold myself against the wooden veranda, close my eyes, and shake my head. 

“Wake up!” 

When I am able to get up again, I spot Sheril and the rest of the prisoners fighting the guards but there are just too many of them. I rush towards them and join them. 

“You crazy bitch! You 

actually freed us!” She shouts 

with a laugh as she takes a guard down. 

“We can’t hold them off! 

They are too many!” I say. 

“We need to find a way out!” 

Maribel says. 

Kanda finally joins us. 

“That was amazing!” I hug 

her. 

“A spur–of–the–moment 

thing.” She says. “But now 

what?” 

“Chen will never let us leave.” 

“Chen?” I ask, confused. 

“Zhao’s son. Now that Zao is 

dead, he’ll be taking over.” 

I remember him now. Man, the bad guys just keep 

coming. 

As we talk, a huge fire starts right next to us. Maribel 

threw a torch at the bloodied 

wooden floors of the arena. 

“A distraction.” She says with 

a smile. 

“That…works.” Sheril says. 

“This way!” Kanda starts rushing through the fight 

and we follow her. 

We end up in the market but there are guards everywhere. 

From here we can see the huge gates that lead outside. Guards are everywhere and it will be impossible for us to 

go through there until all the 

prisoners have gotten out and started fighting. 

“In here!” Sheril shouts while 

she rushes inside the dinner 

hall. 

When we get inside, we close 

the doors behind us and 

move the huge table to form 

a barricade. 

As we enter the room, a huge mirror on the wall greets us. It was always there but always too far to be able to really get a good look at myself, but I do now. I look 

horrible. I am very pale and 

there is blood all over the 

side of my face and down my neck and shoulders. It is dark now meaning it’s dry 

and my wounds are healing enough that I am not 

bleeding anymore but I look terrifying. Now with the adrenalin coming down, my head starts to hurt. A spliting 

headache but I can’t let it 

take over me. 

“Now what?!” Maribel asks. 

“I don’t think there is a way out of here.” Kanda says. 

“Yes, there is.” Lia comes out from hiding. “There is a back 

door.” 

“You are safe!” 

We start to hear fighting 

outside. They’ve started. 

She nods. “I was taken to 

Zao’s room for his nightly 

entertainment after the 

game was over.” 

“I…I am sorry.” Sheril says. 

“It is okay. Helped me get 

acquainted with this place 

and there is a back door this 

way.” 

“Even so, how are we going 

to make it out? It won’t be 

long till the guards 

overpower the prisoners.” 

Maribel says. 

“There is a tunnel in the 

brothel,” Lia says. “It leads to 

a bunker. There are other 

tunnels to get there but I 

only know of that one.” 

“And how are we going to get 

to the brothel… didn’t even 

know there was one.” Sheril 

says. 

I follow Lia who leads us to a 

curtain on a wall. “Hiding, 

and if not, then we fight.” I 

say. 

Lia pulls the curtain to the 

side and reveals a wooden 

door. We rush out and head 

to the side of the building, an 

alley. 

“There. That’s the brothel.” 

Lia points to a building 

across from us and in the 

middle of it all, prisoners 

and guards fight in their wolf form, and many still in 

human form. 

I start to overlay a plan. “Okay so-” 

“No more waiting! Let’s do it!” Before I can say a thing, 

Kanda throws herself out 

into the market streets where 

many guards fight, 

overpowering the prisoners. 

“Damn it!” 

We all rush in and start 

fighting. Lia hides behind us, I’m guessing she can’t fight. 

I don’t have my daggers with 

me now so I take a sword from a dead guard on the floor and start swinging. It is a short light sword so it is not that hard to wield. I actually find it surprising that it is so easy to move. I take a guard down, then another. We are halfway to the brothel when 

more men pour through the 

front gates. 

That’s when I see Ezra, it is 

his men. No surprise that 

next to him is the witch 

Sienna but there is also 

another man, It is Chen. I 

remember him. 

I zone in on Ezra. 

“You guys go…I can’t let this opportunity go to waste.” 

I feel my wolf’s will come on 

to me. She detests these 

people and wants to end 

them. 

“Are you crazy? There are 

too many.” 

I don’t answer her. I start 

taking men down. I would normally say that this is luck but no, I am using the skills 

that I learned with Victor. 

Skills that have slowly started becoming much easier since 

I have been here. 

As I am engaged with an enemy, another quickly rushes me through the side 

but he is blocked by Kanda. 

A look back shows me that 

Sheril and Maribel have also 

stayed with me. 

“This is not your fight.” 

“We have made it our fight.” 

Kanda says. 

“Fine. Just don’t die.” I tell 

them. 

I would never forgive myself if they got hurt because of 

1. me. 

One by one, we take down many of the guards but they are too many and start to 

overpower us. 

One look at Ezra is all I need 

to give me the strength to 

keep on going. 

Amidst the loud sounds of 

war, I give an echoing growl 

that gets the attention of 

everyone who stands in front 

of me. 

“DIE!” I shout. 

Within seconds, bodies start falling down. It scares even me the level of power this pendant gives me. For so many people to fall lifeless just by one word. 

Unfortunately, Ezra and many others were too far back. But this display creates 

fear in most of the men who 

witness it. They back away as I take a step forward. I look down at the 

roughly— 

fifteen men whose bodies lie 

motionless. 

That was it. That was all I 

had. I can feel the broken 

shards of the opals on the necklace crumble down my 

chest. The necklace is now 

cold to the touch. But the enemy doesn’t know this. 

I point at Ezra who is still a good distance away. “I will have your head!”