Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
There, at one of the other battlegrounds, a new group of spider beasts were sneaking up on one of my guards as he battled against two of the twisted once men. There were three scuttling sneakily behind him while he landed blow after blow to the things in front of him.
Even though his attacks were doing their job and he was about to win, there was nothing he could have done. In an instant the three spider things leapt forward and attacked him.
“Shawn!” I cried out in horror as I saw blood spray from a vicious swipe from one of the spider freaks.
With a lot more force than I intended I loosed my arrows once more. I sent them flying in every direction as quick as I could. Only this time I sent them much farther than before. The arrows were all landing in their rightful places, destroying their targets almost immediately.
But I didn’t care about that. All I could think about was one of my closest friends lying on the ground and bleeding. All I wanted to do was get to him and help him.
“Shawn.” I cried out again as I turned in his direction. I settled on the ground, out of my tornado, and began to run after him. If I had been paying attention to anything else around me, I would have noticed that the ground was icing over with every step I took.
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Joaquin
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Riviana had just done something I never thought was possible. Of all the things I imagined to happen in this fight, that was definitely not one of them. I don’t think I will ever cease to be surprised by her anymore.
I watched as she floated ten feet off the ground and sent thousands of arrows out in several directions at the same time. Each arrow landed with perfect accuracy. The beasts around us all began to fall instantly. It’s amazing the kind of power you find yourself capable of in such dire moments.
After the initial barrage of arrows I noticed that she was calling even more to her. She was gathering so much power in that moment that I didn’t know why. She had destroyed them all. Our field was clear.
But there were other fields as well.
Was that what she was doing? Was she targeting all the other creatures that were too far away for us to see?
As I watched her, I knew my answer. There were a few things different about her appearance. Her skin covered in ice, the bright, sapphire blue glow all over her body. Those things were easy to notice and had not escaped my gaze. But, as I looked closer, I saw something else.
My Little Bunny’s eyes were spinning the way they had done so long ago. It almost felt like a lifetime since I had seen her eyes making those motions that reminded me of a camera lens trying to focus.
If it hadn’t been for the intense look of concentration on her face I would have been worried for her. The last time I had seen her eyes do that, she had passed out in my arms immediately afterwards.
“I hope you know what you’re doing Little Bunny.” I whispered as I just stared at the large number of arrows she had summoned.
Just as she looked like she was about to send the arrows out to attack I saw her head whip to the side.
“Shawn!” She screamed in desperation. Did something happen to Shawn? How would she know?
The thousands and thousands of arrows were sent flying and they all went much further than before. Almost as soon as she had sent the attack she spun and seemed to run out of the tornado she had been riding inside.
Her feet touched the ground, silently, and she was off running before I could even blink. I didn’t even wait to think, I just started running after her. And I nearly slipped doing it.
Everywhere Riviana stepped, the ground turned to ice. Large, thick circles of magical ice began to sprout behind her as she ran. Was it because she herself was covered in ice? I had a suspicion it was.
Watching where I stepped a little more carefully than I had thought I needed to, I ran after her. She was a few hundred feet ahead of me, but that wasn’t insurmountable. I was faster than she was and had longer legs, I would catch up in no time at all.
Or so I thought.
As I watched, I saw that the purple smoke that had brought the enemies was back. This time, only five people stepped out of the swirling purple smoke. But as I looked past the haze in front of me, I noticed that it began to swirl again. This time near my mate.
The problem here was that it didn’t release an enemy at all. Instead, the swirling smoke, or fog, or whatever Edmond called his magic gas, the purple cloud swirled in a circle around my single minded mate. One second she was there and the next she was gone. It had taken her away.
“RIVIANA!” I screamed at the empty clearing beyond the five warlocks standing before me. “Where is she?” I yelled at the one closest to me.
“She’s gone to have a family reunion.” The man’s sneering voice made my skin crawl with anger and nerves.
“Where did he take her?” I demanded.
“You won’t live long enough to find out.”
“Wanna bet?” I growled at him.
I watched as the man who spoke grinned. His long purple hair, like an amethyst, was unnatural enough, but the pure black eyes that dripped venom made things ten times worse. His complexion, which should have been a rich brown based on the undertones, looked sickly with it’s pasty, pallid pallor.
The others around him were just as unnatural looking. Their hair was the same amethyst purple and their eyes were the same lifeless black. The only differences were their skin tones, but they all still looked pale and pasty. In total there were four men and one woman in the group and they all felt powerful.
I knew that I needed to fight them, and none of the others were close enough to help me. That’s fine. I wasn’t named the alpha king and warlock king for nothing. Nehalennia knew what she was doing when she chose me for Riviana’s mate. If I wasn’t up to the task then that would mean the Goddess had made a mistake. I trusted in my Goddess the same way I trusted in my wife.
“Before I rip your head from your body, you will tell me what I want to know.” I snarled at the man in the lead.
“If you can manage to win, then that would mean she wouldn’t need to be saved. It would mean that our master isn’t strong enough to defeat a mongrel like her.
“Don’t fucking talk about my mate like that you bastard.” I snarled again.
