Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
It was like the recording started in the middle of the man’s sentence. That was frustrating, but I would have to deal with it.
VOICE 1:
“Those filthy nonhumans need to pay. They must beg for forgiveness and let their souls be judged by the those that meet in their afterlife. However, no amount of begging from them will warrant forgiveness from us. We need to stay true to the mission that we have been given. We need to see this through. They must die. All of them must die.”
The man was acting like he was giving them a pep talk or something. He was trying to pump them up for a big game. Or a big fight.
VOICE 1:
“The next attack will happen in just two days. We have scouted the perfect location for the bodies to be laid out. We will be targeting five people at one time. The targets this time will be used to send a message to the others. We will ignite in them a rage that will blind them to what is actually happening around them. This will be the start of the war. This will be the true end of the beginning.”
VOICE 2:
“What will be different this time? How will we make it so that they will send that message to the right people?”
This man seemed to be slightly scared of the leader. He must not be used to him, was he one of the college students? Or was he one of the guys that came here from the last set of kills? I wasn’t sure, but I knew that it wasn’t Clovio or Warrick. I knew their voices.
VOICE 1:
“There will be differences with the way that the bodies are left behind. The words that we leave for those mongrel monsters to find. And lastly, all five of the bodies will be left at the same place. This time it’s not just a serial murder, it will be a mass murder.”
That man was literally laughing about this. He thought that this was somehow funny. He thought that the wanton acts of violence and the senseless loss of life was some sort of game. To him, and most of the rest of the group that was there, they were just taking out the trash of the world. Too bad that their family, and only part of that family, were the ones that thought that way.
VOICE 1:
“We have come to the home of the leader of those animals. Those mongrel monsters have a king and queen, and they live here, in this city. But they are so stupid and clueless that they don’t even know we have started to spy on them. They have no idea that we have a few of our guys pretending to date their daughters. It’s the perfect cover, as long as those guys don’t get too wrapped up in the roles that they were playing.”
I could tell that they all must have turned to look at Clovio and Warrick then. They were the two that the man was talking about. But no one said anything to them. It was just a long and awkward silence that stretched on for several moments.
VOICE 1:
“The declaration of war is just the beginning though. When we pull this off, those monsters will be so lost and confused about what just happened in their own backyard that they won’t even see us invading their home directly. Once this is over, we give them forty-eight hours before we swarm them. Their measly little army won’t stand a chance against us while they are still running around like chickens with their heads cut off. They will fall prey to us like the elders always wanted them to. We will finally make our ancestors proud. We will finally rid this world of all the nonhumans. This will once again be a place where humans can live in peace and harmony.”
VOICE 2:
“YEAH!”
VOICE 3:
“LONG LIVE THE HUMANS!”
“VOICE 4:
“KILL THE BEASTS!”
There were several other cheers, but they were hard to make out with the cacophony of sound that was on the other end of the message.
VOICE 1:
“AND ONCE ALL THOSE MONGREL MONSTERS ARE DESTROYED, OUR FAMILY WILL TAKE ITS RIGHTFUL PLACE AT THE FOREFRONT OF IT ALL! WE WILL DESTROY THE MONSTER AND RULE THE WORLD LIKE WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN MEANT TO! WE WILL PROTECT THE HUMANS AND LORD OVER THEM WITH AN IRON FIST!”
Well, I guess we finally knew what it was that these people wanted. They were after world domination. They weren’t trying to save the world, they were trying to make it their own. I should have known that this was their plan from the very beginning.
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Joaquin
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“Joaquin?” Riley called out to me in a soft voice. Despite how low it was I had no trouble at all hearing what it was that he was saying.
“Yeah?” I didn’t even look at him. I was too busy staring at my phone and processing the words that I had just heard from that voice message. It was good of Warrick and Clovio to make sure that we had it. There was a lot that we could learn from that recording. Most notably, these people that were leading the Jaegan were certifiably insane. They wanted to destroy half of the world’s population just so that they could lord themselves over the remaining half. I mean, it was a goal to have I guess, but it was a shitty ass goal.
“We need to find these men.” His voice was calmly containing the rage that I knew was burning inside of him. He, like me, had a family to protect. We all did. And none of us wanted anything to happen to those families, or to anyone else in our community.
“I know, Riley.” I gave him a look that both burned with rage and radiated calmness. It was basically telling him that I was pissed off, but I wasn’t going to lose my cool over it. I was going to make sure that I stayed in control and went about this the proper way.
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“I say that we follow all the scent trails that lead off from this spot.” Trevor said as he sniffed the air around us. “They were a pungent group, so they shouldn’t be that difficult to follow, even after the amount of time that has passed.” I saw that he was wrinkling his nose against that disgusting undertone to their smell. Or was it an overtone? It was hard for me to figure that out with it messing with my senses the way that it was. It was like it was some sort of plague on my nose.
“That was already the plan.” I looked off in the distance, doing my best to follow the scent trails, to see them with my eyes the way that I did with my nose. If I tried hard enough, it was almost as if I could see a set of yellow lines that led off in three different directions. “I am sure that they left the park in three different groups. Some are definitely heading toward the university. Those will be the ones that are the students there. At least that would be my guess. The others are split between going east and west.”
“So what do you want us to do, Joaquin?” Valerian asked as he followed my hand, looking as if he could almost see the yellow lines as well.