Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Fuck you and your wife!” Charles yelled back to Joaquin. “Give me my damn wolf back. I can’t hear him. Did you kill my wolf? You bitch, you murdered my wolf!” Charles began to thrash on the ground yelling while Ralph began to sob with his head bent toward the ground.
“My wolf.” Ralph moaned. “My wolf.”
“You bitch. You will never rule. I will see to it that you never rule our people.”
There was a rush of movement as six men rushed past me all at once. Frustrated by Charles’ constant berating and foul language, Joaquin, Dietrich, and all the guards had moved in unison. Not paying attention to the actions of the others and focusing on their own task, they all six landed a kick on him at the same time. Their feet all landed in various points from his head, abdomen, groin (that one was Vincent) and legs. Charles’ ranting and raving ended abruptly with a very painful sounding cry.
“I told you to watch your mouth, asshole.” Joaquin snarled as he walked back to me and put his hand around my waist.
“I’m not done yet, Joaquin, I need to lock their memories.” I told him, causing him to retract his hand from my waist and instead settle it on my shoulder.
Shane and David violently pulled Charles back up so that he was sitting on his knees again. He was still glaring at me with angry eyes, but this time they were filled with tears and rimmed in red. Was he crying because of his wolf or the pain of six kicks?
After I did my best to seal their memories away, the two men passed out on the ground and everyone around us thought they had died.
“Don’t worry, they are merely sleeping.” I told everyone looking on who had gasped when the men fell over. “I require some volunteers. I want these two men removed from the village and taken somewhere safe. Leave them money and any of their belongings that does not mention the abbey. They will wake in twelve hours.” I felt the ripple of magic that meant the sleep spell would last just that long. “They need to be far enough away that they will not even remember what country the abbey is in.”
Several people offered to help, and the men were removed from the abbey. This was where the scene went into things that I had never seen before. The men were taken to a plane and flown to a small village in Spain that had a small wolf pack. They woke up there with no memories as to how they had gotten there or why.
It was clear that they remembered each other but they couldn’t figure out where they knew each other from. This not knowing actually caused much anger and resentment to form inside of them.
I watched as the men tried to make ends but were struggling since they didn’t have any real-world skills. Unable to provide for themselves, they started to pillage villages like pirates or barbarians from previous generations. During their rampages, they destroyed homes, businesses, and lives. They kidnapped women to please themselves. They held people hostage for ransom. And they killed. They killed a lot of people until the local wolf pack stepped in to save everyone.
The wolf pack could tell that the two men had been wolves but were unable to contact their animals anymore. However, they didn’t take pity on them, they executed the men for the crimes that they had committed. Only then did the rampage finally end.
“Do you see now, Riviana? You sent those angry men into the world to allow them to destroy so many more lives until they were eventually executed. All because you were not strong enough at the time to kill someone. You allowed so many more people to be hurt because you did not have what it took to end it all right then and there.”
“I didn’t want to be a killer! I didn’t want to have their blood on my hands.” I felt horrified by what I had seen. This was devastating, and it was all my fault.
“Things get worse from here, Riviana. Much worse.”
“Please, I don’t want to see anymore of it. Don’t show me anything else. Please.”
“We have a few other things that need to be shown, Riviana. I promise you that it is almost over. Just a few more.”
“Please, no.. I can’t take it. Please!”
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Riviana
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The other me refused to listen to my pleas for mercy. She just put her hand into that bag at her feet with a smile on her face. That smile of hers didn’t falter at all either. Not when she threw the dust into the fire and caused it to surge to life once again. Not when the firelight flickered eerily on her face making her look like some sort of evil creature. And definitely not when the screen reformed for the next crazy ass display.
“This next one is one of your biggest mistakes, Riviana. There were so many lives lost this time, so many people that died because you had not been able to stop your father.”
“When will that stop being something that you torment me with? When will my father’s actions be his own responsibility and not mine?”
“Do you not remember, Riviana? You killed your father. He is no longer able to take responsibility for his actions. And since you are the one that snuffed out his life, his sins now fall on you, since you are his daughter.”
“I don’t want his sins. And I don’t want to be known as his daughter. He was a crazy, psychotic asshole. Don’t lump me into the same category as him.” I was angry at her now. The images on the screen hadn’t even started yet, but I was pissed off about them already.
“I think that you need to see what I have to show you, Riviana. You might just be surprised about what you learn.”
The other me looked at the screen then and the images finally appeared before us. It was time for me to learn about another of my sins from a different perspective.
The screen was showing me the battle that had been waged when Edmond attacked Colorado Springs. There were thousands of people there to aid us in the defense of our city and our pack. There were shifters of several different types such as wolves, felines, bears, and birds. There were more shifters than that in the world, but I hadn’t summoned them at the time, not knowing that they were part of my people as well.
These scenes were from the battlefield. The time when those hideously grotesque looking misshaped monster people had swarmed us and caused us to have such a hard time. These monsters had also been imbued with magic to make them harder to kill.
“At this point in time, not only did you lose people that were fighting on your side, but you also slaughtered all of those people. They had been victims of Edmond’s and they were forced to do what they did. However, you and your warriors slaughtered them without a second thought.” The other me’s words sent shivers down my spine and made me shoot my head up to look at her.
“W..wh..what? A..are you telling me that they c..c..could have been s..s..saved?” I felt bile rising in my throat. Did I kill people that could have been saved and returned to normal? D..d..did I do something so unimaginably and unspeakably horrible? “What did I do? How could I do that?”
“Perhaps yes, perhaps no. I do not truly know if they were able to be saved or not, Riviana. However, I do know that you never tried to save them. Look at these images. Look at how you just senselessly killed them without a second thought.”
Despite her words, the other me was looking at the images with a gleeful smile on her face. She was enjoying what she saw. She was taking joy in the frightening images that she saw before her.
And as I watched on, seeing what made her so happy, I had to fight not to feel proud of myself. I had always looked back on memories of this battle with pride and a sense of accomplishment. We had won, we had saved the town, we had protected the ones that we loved, and we had barely lost anyone in the process.
However, looking at it now. Thinking about it the way that I was now. I had a completely different opinion of the past.
As much as I didn’t want to admit it, the other me had a point. I didn’t try to save any of those people. I didn’t try to capture them and separate them. I just destroyed them because they looked like monsters.
