Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“I’m getting back to the battle.” I turned away from the boulder and toward the monsters and Fae that were still fighting on the field.
“It’s not your turn.” Vincent reminded me.
“I don’t fucking care. I am taking Riviana’s turn on the field since she isn’t here. And as your King I order you to fight with me. Is that understood?” I could tell that I was taking a little bit of my frustration out on him and that wasn’t right, but I didn’t care.
“Yes Sir.” Vincent looked a little pissed off to be spoken to like that, but he followed my orders and started to march into the battle with me. This was how it was going to be until my Little Bunny got back out of there.
All of us, my Little Bunny’s guards, Landon, Trevor, Dietrich, and myself, went back to fighting the enemies. If I couldn’t kill the main baddie here, then I was going to kill as many of her lackies as I possibly could.
There were monsters and Fae everywhere, so I didn’t have to look very hard to find someone to kill. I brought out my weapons and started to attack everyone that was within range. My arrows were flying in every direction, hitting as many targets as they could. I would fling my whip out and wrap it around a Fae to bring them closer to me. Once that Fae was close enough, I would cut their head off then slice through their body to make sure that they were fully dead.
This pattern worked for all the Fae that I encountered but not all of the monsters. When I came across a monster that was too large for my whip to wrap around, I took inspiration from my Little Bunny’s battle that I watched earlier.
I didn’t make my phoenix wings appear, but I put more strength into my legs so that I could jump high enough to reach the back of the monster’s head. From there I would continue to fight, hacking away at the thing until it was nothing but charred pieces of bone and monster flesh. It was the only thing currently keeping me sane.
About four hours or so after my Little Bunny disappeared into the dark Fae realm, I could tell that we were getting closer to winning this battle. I had just leapt off the back of a dying elephant monster and was about to go after a crocodile looking one, but I was distracted by someone’s shouts.
“Watch out, Queen Gloriana!” Vincent was charging after the Fae Queen, putting on a burst of speed at the last second. Gloriana was just turning to see what the problem was and saw that there was a massive viper looking snake monster coming up behind her, its jaws opened wide and ready to attack her. Probably to swallow her whole.
Thankfully, this beast was smaller than some of the ones that were there earlier, it was only about fifteen to twenty feet long and wouldn’t have been able to fit a whole person in their mouth as easily. That didn’t mean that it was harmless, though. The thing was definitely going to be able to cause a lot of problems.
Vincent got to Gloriana in time and knocked her out of the way. He readied his sword and was preparing to attack it but the beast struck before he could do anything to defend himself.
The snake caught him around his chest and stomach. I watched on in horror as its massive fangs pierced him and blood started to flow down his body.
“GAHH!” He cried out in pain just a little when the thing bit him.
“VINCENT!” I roared his name. I knew that he was fighting at his best, I knew that he was just doing his duty as a guard, and I knew that he very well might die because of this battle.
I couldn’t let Vincent die. I just couldn’t. He was the head of my Little Bunny’s guards. He was a father. He was a good man. And he was my friend. I couldn’t let this happen. I needed to get over there. I needed to find someone to save him.
“DAVID!” I called after him. “Find the best healer there is. Get them here now. Carry them so that we don’t have to wait. Go! NOW!”
“I’m already on my way!” He said as he took off running. He disappeared immediately, moving so fast that my eyes couldn’t keep up with him. He was, literally, the fastest person here. He would get that healer here as soon as he could.
While he got the healer, I needed to kill that beast.
I dropped my whip and charged toward the snake. I gripped my flaming sword in both hands and leapt at the thing’s head. While it still held my friend and pack mate in its mouth, I slashed down with the sword, cutting the thing’s head from its body. The head and Vincent both fell to the ground.
“Hang in there, Vincent.” I said as I started to slowly pull him from the thing’s mouth. “Hang in there, please.. Don’t die on me.”
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Joaquin
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I did my best to not hurt Vincent even more as I pulled the large snake’s fangs from his body. The long, thin fangs had pierced him through the center of his chest and right above his belly button. Blood was pouring out of him from both wounds, front and back.
The fangs had pierced right through his body, coming out his back and dripping venom onto the ground that was so strong it burned the grass. I knew that couldn’t be good, the wounds or the poison. Both of them could potentially kill the man and I couldn’t let that happen.
It took me a few minutes, but I managed to pull the fangs from Vincent’s body. The entire time, he just laid there and groaned in pain. He didn’t scream. He didn’t say anything. He barely even looked at me while I tried not to cause him to feel even more pain than before.
“I’m sorry, Vincent. Just hang in there, buddy. I’m taking these out and David is getting someone to help you. It will be alright.”
There was pain in Vincent’s eyes when I looked into his face. With tears wavering in his eyes, I saw that he was trying to speak.
“P..pl..pl..please t..t..tell H..H..Hea..Heather and th..th..the k..k..kids th..th..that I..I..I l..love th..th..them.” With every attempt he made to form a word I saw the pain intensify in his eyes. “A..a..and t..t..tell Rivi..Rivi..Riviana th..that I..I..I’m s..s..sorry. I..I..I’m s..so..sorry th..th..that I..I..I f..f..failed h..h..her.” A tear rolled down his cheek as he spoke.
“You can tell them that yourself, Vincent. I am not going to let you die. I forbid you from dying. Do you hear me, Vincent? You are not allowed to die. Heather needs you. Your kids need you. Riviana needs you. I need you. You can’t die, Vincent, you can’t!”
Dammit. I was getting emotional. I didn’t want this man to die. I didn’t want to see a close personal friend pass away and leave his wife and kids in despair. I didn’t want to see my Little Bunny’s first ally, after becoming my mate, leave her. They have been working together for years now and I know that she will blame herself if he were to die. He was too important to us all to die.
As I was looking into the man’s pain stricken face, I saw something blurred coming toward me. There was no sound accompanying that blur, but I knew what it was already. It had only been about five minutes at most, most likely less, but I knew that it was David coming back with someone to help Vincent.
“I went as quickly as I could.” David said, not even out of breath when he stopped next to us. He had literally just sat down a very disoriented Griffin whom he had apparently carried the entire way here. “Griffin is the best healer I could think of.” I didn’t blame him for thinking that. Griffin had been blessed by Riviana and had abilities that not many people were capable of.
“Th..that was a little, uhm, unique.” Griffin was trying to regain his bearings as quickly as possible. He shook his head a couple of times to physically shake off the dizziness that he must have been feeling from the run. “What happened here?” He asked when he saw Vincent sitting next to me, bleeding like crazy.
“He was bitten.” I told him before pointing at the python’s head. “By that.”
“And I am guessing that thing is venomous.” He said, already on his knees on the other side of Vincent and ripping open the man’s shirt.
“Yeah, the venom was dripping onto the ground. I saw it leaving scorch marks where it touched.”
