SWNOVELS Chapter 68
Chapter 68
“Atack!” Chen points his
sword in our direction.
The men that remain with
them hesitate but not for
long. Soon they run in our
direction.
They clash with us and the rest of the prisoners who fight on our side. It feels like a dance for me, I dodge as I slash, taking two down. But the enemies keep coming.
Chen’s men and Ezras
combine. Together, they are
overwhelming.
We continue to fight and as I
take enemies down, it does
seem to get easier. The
fighting, the anticipating
their movements; the dodging, parrying, and countering it all gets easier.
“We are not going to make it!” Sheril shouts. “They are
too many!”
“Throw me!” Maribel says to
Kanda.
“What?”
“Just like you did Casseopea.
Throw me, I can take a few
out.”
“I know. Just get me as close
as you can.”
“Alright!” She doesn’t even
give me a moment to get ready. I feel her hands on
my back and then I am flying through the air.
I see Ezra and his image gets
closer but I know I won’t be
landing near him.
I close my eyes and connect
with my wolf.
“You want him dead just as much as I do. So go get him.”
I open my eyes as I am about to land. I shift and
immediately my wolf takes
control.
We fall on an enemy halfway towards Ezra, ripping his throat with our bare fangs.
We start running, trying to doge as many enemies and people who fight. My frustration peaks when it seems like we can’t get to
him fast enough.
When finally we have an opening, we zone in on him.
He is distracted looking in
Chen’s direction and doesn’t
see us coming. Excitement
rises in me, itching to have
his neck in my jaws. Just a
few feet away, I can almost
taste the victory.
“Over my dead body!” The
witch Sienna steps in front of
- us.
She holds a sword up and if not for my wolf dodging just in time, we would have been impaled by it as we ran at the speed that we did.
We turn back to face her and
start circling her.
The sword in her hand
shakes just a little. She’s
scared.
My wolf takes a step towards her but she starts swinging the sword left and right.
There are no skills in her
movements but as she does
this, distracting us, she grabs
a flask from her satchel and
throws it at us. When the
flasks break, a smoke–like
substance scatters
everywhere, engulfing me
and those around us.
Unwillingly, I suddenly shift back to my human form.
“What did you do?!” I shout.
“You can’t shift, it only lasts
for thirty minutes or so but it is enough time.” She
swings her sword. I slide
back but I am unarmed. It is
not hard to dodge her
attacks, she doesn’t know
what she is doing.
“Get out of my way!” I warn
her.
“No!” She shouts.
“He can fight me himself!”
“No, he can’t! Despite him saying how much he wants to end you, deep down, he
doesn’t! He can’t! Because he
is in love with you!”
“Obsession is not love! He is
a monster!” I shout.
“Shut up! He might not love
me but I love him!”
“You fell in love with him
that easily?” I laugh. “How stupid.”
“It did not happen overnight.
We have known each other for many years. He had laid with me many times before
all this started. Back when he
was training.”
“Oh, I see. So you are the
whore he hurt me with.”
“It wasn’t personal, dear. It
was what it was.”
I am furious when I look
behind her.
“You are so loyal to this
man…but look at that…he left
you here to die!”
Ezra is nowhere to be seen.
She doesn’t look surprised.
“He left me because I told
him to.”
“You would die for him?”
“Yes!”
“Why?! What is wrong
you?!”
with
“You know, he told me of
what he did. How he killed
your sister. You deserved it after what you did.” She says.
“…what I did?…what I did?!
You hear half of the story and quickly believe what he tells you! Did he not tell you
what He did!? What he had
done to me all of our lives?!”
I am furious. “And you think that taking my sister’s life is worth what you believe what
I did to him?”
She swings her sword and I dodge again. “Shut up! You will not turn me against
him!”
“If you believe what he told
you, then you deserve to die
with him!”
Without holding back
anymore, I effortlessly move around her. I grab the back of her neck and push her
down. She has no choice but
to kneel. As she does, her
sword falls to the ground and I pick it up.
“You are prepared to die for
him, then so be it!”
She starts thrashing but she only has human strength
and as Honora had told us, a
witch is not really that powerful in a fight.
You really are weak when
you are not hiding behind someone else.
“I–I am with child!” She
screams out.
She is…pregnant. Is this true?
“I don’t believe you.” I say.
“It is his…Ezra’s.”
“… And why tell me this? It
makes no diferetnce.”
“You do not have it in you to
kill me. He told me you were
too good. Don’t let yourself
be tainted by this.‘
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I listen to her but I don’t
agree with anything she says.
I lift the sword up and she
panics.
“Please! I am pregnant!
I lean into her ear. “And so
was my sister when he cut
her head clean from her
body. But you just celebrated that, didn’t you?”
I might regret this later but at this moment, I don’t.
With wide eyes–sensing her
demise and how much she
screwed up trying to plea to my kind side–she stares up
at me as the sword comes
down. With no friction
whatsoever, her head easily separates from her body.
I hold the head by the hair
while the body falls to the
ground. I look back, unable to spot Ezra but I see some of
his men running out of the gates. I follow, leaving the fight behind and once out, I see Ezra in a car. He gives
orders to one of his men
through the opened window.
I stride in his direction,
hoping he doesn’t see me but he does and stops talking when he sees me. I stop and dangle the head in front of
- me.
“If you think that I won’t kill you or that I am playing games, here is your proof that I am not. I will kill you! I
will end you, Ezra!”
I throw the head in his
direction, trying to aim for
the window. The severed
head hits the edge of the window but doesn’t go in. It
falls to the floor in front of
him.
He looks at the head and
then at me as now I continue
to run in his direction. I
swear I can see a bit of fear in
him or maybe is just my
wishful thinking.
His window closes and the
car speeds away.
I take a leap and jump on the two men who stand in my way, falling on top of one of them. I sink my teeth into
his neck and then I turn to
the other as he tries to grab me, twisting his arm and
wrapping myself behind
him. I hold on to his neck
and snap it.
As I stand there, I watch the car speed in the distance. It is
too far and too fast for me to
catch up to it but I do not lose hope. I will kill him.
“You are min, Ezra. Mine to
kill. It takes a monster to kill
another and that is what I am
slowly becoming in order to kill you.” I look at the men I just killed and the witch’s
head. “I have become a
killer.”
Kanda, in her feline form,
stands next to me and shifts.
“It is done. The pack is ours.”
“It is?”
“Yes. Marina killed Chen and
the men put down their
arms. It is done. That pack is
”
ours.”
I nod. “Good but ours whos?”
I ask. “Watch how they all
turn on each other now.
Some of them are going to try and take control.”
“Not while I am around.
Come. Assert your
dominance.”
“Me?!”
“Yes! You told me you are to be Alpha of your pack! Start here! These people will be
lost and many are without a
home…as I am. Come!”
She takes my hand and pulls me back inside where they
all cheer.
“Kill all these sons of a
bitches!” A man shouts
pointing at Chen’s men.”
“No!” I shout. “These men are
mine now!”
I can’t let this go to waste. There are too many of them
to just kill. I am taking a page
out of my father’s book here. They are more useful alive.
“They worked for Zao! They
deserve to die!”
Kanda suddenly puts a
draped fabric over my n*ked
b*dy, to cover me and I am grateful.
“I said they are my men
now!”
“And who the f**k are you?!”
Another man stands
defiantly.
“I am Casseopea! I am the daughter of Warrick, Alpha of the Dark Fang Pack!”
The whispers start and the
defiant men look at each
other.
I continue. “And I am next in
line to be Alpha, unless he is already dead…that would
make me Alpha already
then.”
“You all saw what she did!”
Kanda chimes in. “She tells
the truth! That makes her
the most powerful among us. Do you really wish to have a taste of her power?”
I hope not cause I don’t have
it now.
I touch the cold pendant on
my chest. It has no power.
The man–to my
surprise–suddenly looks down and steps back.
Kanda looks at me and gives me a nod. “Go ahead. Time
to shine and wind them
over.”
Easier said than done. Public
speaking is not my forte.
I put on a brave and strong
face.
“Excluding Zao and Chen’s men, I will not force you to join me.
“Those of you who don’t
have a home, then I welcome
you to mine. You will have a
place in my pack as long as
your loyalties lie with me.
Those of you who wish to
leave and go back to your
families–if you have
any—then you are welcome to. But this place will not exist anymore. Never again!”
Behind, the small arena
burns as the fire that we
started eats it all up.
“So many lives lost for mere
entertainment of those who
coveted power. Let it burn
and take down what
remains!”
Kanda raises her fist and
cheers along with everyone else who copies her.
I turn to Maribel and Sheril. “What about you two?”
“I have some business to take
care of. Someone is going to pay for selling me.” Sheril
says.
“I am going back to my city and find a nice bed to sleep
on comfortably. No more
floors for me.”
I almost laugh. All she ever
does is sleep.
“Well, my pack is always
open to you both.”
Sheril smiles and hugs me. “Thank you. I might come to
visit sometime. Now order
one of these men to give me a car. I am itching to get
these hands on someone’s
neck.” She looks at Maribel.
“Want a ride?”
“Yes.”
Kanda and I see them off. I
wish they had stayed. They
were strong women and I
could use more like them
with me.
“I wish to stay by your side.”
says. “I have nowhere
Kanda says.
else to call a home.”
Watching Sheril drive away, I
smile and nod. “My home is
your home now.‘
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My eyes zone into the
distance where we can see
the brightness of the sun make its way out of the
darkness.
Colt. I am coming home
soon.