Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Yes. Something seems off. It’s like she is in danger but doesn’t know it. I am guessing that something is about to happen, and soon.”
“Then we need to hurry.” I turned toward the knights that had the animal harnesses in their hands. “The three of you secure the horses then gather the others. We are heading to Queen Gloriana’s private quarters. Meet us there when you are done.”
“Yes, my Queen.” The knights saluted and answered me in unison before heading off with the animals.
“Everyone else, let’s go.”
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Riviana
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The rest of us started toward the castle at a brisk pace. The doors to the large, fantasy looking fa?ade would usually be guarded by Aunt Glory’s soldiers and knights, but there was no one to be seen standing near the doors right now.
“Where are the guards?” Joaquin asked, echoing my thoughts. “Aren’t there supposed to be two to four guards at the castle doors at all times? Where are they?”
“That was just what I was wondering.” I told him as I flung a hand toward the doors to open them for us. “Something isn’t right here. And I don’t like the way this makes me feel.”
“Neither do I.” Sterling added.
“We should have stayed home.” Alloy sounded scared.
“If you would have stayed home, you might have died there. Is that what you would have preferred?” Landon snapped at him. “We will have this settled and you can go home when it’s all over. Stop your belly aching.”
“I wasn’t belly aching.” Alloy whined but shut up after that. That was good, I needed to focus.
The moment we were inside the castle, we found out where all the soldiers were. They weren’t guarding the outside of the castle, they were guarding the inside. The ones that were awake, that is.
“What is going on here?” I demanded of the guards that were right in front of the door.
“Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders.”
Those words sounded like a mantra the way they were repeating them. And the dazed and stupefied look in their eyes told me that they didn’t know what was going on.
“Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders.”
The soldiers were looking at us but not looking at us at the same time. It was like they couldn’t actually see but the magic that was controlling them could see. They didn’t need to use their eyes to find us.
“Stand down, all of you. I do not want to have to hurt you.” The two dozen soldiers that were advancing on us didn’t seem to be paying any attention to what I was saying at all. They just kept chanting their mantra.
“Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders.”
“Stop.” Joaquin yelled at them.
“Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders.” They still weren’t listening to us at all.
“We’re going to have to fight them, aren’t we?” Landon asked with sadness in his voice. “They aren’t doing this because they want to, but we still have to fight them.”
“Incapacitate them, don’t kill them, don’t hurt them. I want you all to keep in mind that they are not our enemies. They are innocent in all of this. I do not want them irrevocably hurt and punished because of someone else’s wrong doings.”
“Yes, Queen Riviana.” Everyone answered me in unison.
“Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders.”
The chanting continued as the fighting broke out. They had us outnumbered but that wouldn’t be an issue. Almost everyone with us was able to fight with special abilities. In an instant, Trevor, Landon, and Vincent shifted into their animal forms. Joaquin decided to take on his Lycan form. Nathair became the giant snake that he had inside of him, a twenty foot long blue Malaysian coral snake; he was frightening to look at. Kayda became a fifteen foot long, powerful looking Komodo dragon that was a beautiful glittering green color. Rahim didn’t transform, but he did let his magic flare around him just the same as I did.
“Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders. Guard the castle. Stop the intruders.” The knights hadn’t even stopped their chanting when they saw the transformations in front of them. They were waiting for us to come for them.
“Try not to kill anyone.” I reminded them just as I lashed out for the soldier in the lead.
I had flung a whip made of light at the Fae that was closest to me. The whip wrapped around him, and I tugged him toward me, pulling him off of his feet. As soon as the soldier had unbalanced and fallen, I let the whip dissipate and closed him inside of a magic cage. I had practiced these cages years ago, and I never truly thought that they would come in handy at any time, but I was wrong now, wasn’t I?
I did my best to pay attention to the others that were fighting around me, but I was also busy fighting as well, so I didn’t have that luxury. Right now, I had three soldiers that were coming at me from different angles, so I decided to let a three stooges type moment happen. I jumped into the air and let the wind hold me suspended in the air. The moment that I was out of the way, the three soldiers ran headfirst into each other and collapsed onto the floor. I sent out my whip again and split it into three. I wrapped it around their feet and lifted the three stooge guards from the floor and promptly dropped them into the magic cage along with the other soldier.
When I looked around me, I saw that Nathair was holding two different soldiers wrapped up in his tail. Kayda had one guard clenched gently in her mouth and another under her feet. Rahim had taken my lead and was using whips to hold the soldiers.
“All of you, put your captives into this cage.” I called out to them. They would be able to push them in through the bars but they wouldn’t be able to escape in the same fashion.
Joaquin, who had one soldier in each hand, started to follow the command without me needing to tell him. Vincent also took the soldier he was fighting and dragged him over toward the cage. It was slowly growing with each man added to the confines of the cage.
Landon and Trevor were having a little bit of trouble not hurting the soldiers that were going after them. They had a natural defense that also worked as an attack. Every time one of the soldiers reached for them their hands would be speared on the ends of the fur that was covering Landon or Trevor’s body. And they were both so much larger than when they initially transformed.
Trevor, who was already almost ten feet tall when he was in his bear form, was now nearly twenty-five feet tall. Landon, whose head was six feet off the ground when on all fours, was now at least fifteen feet off the ground, from head to tail he was at least twenty five feet long as well.
