Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!” That was the loudest and most sardonic laughter that I had ever heard in my life. He was acting like a total nutcase. “Don’t make me laugh, bitch. You don’t know what we’re capable of.”
“I don’t think you know what we’re capable of, Claud. Specifically, what I am capable of.” I saw that my wife was pulling magic toward herself. I had been around her and magic for so long that I was able to see this happening. Claud though, he couldn’t tell what she was doing.
“I don’t need to know. I have killed your kind before, and I will do it again.”
Things started to happen really fast just then. I saw that those men were both moving their arms toward the throats of the girls that they were holding, they were going to kill them right then and there.
I wasn’t about to let that happen, and neither was anyone else. I started to run toward them as Shawn and Dietrich started to walk through the shadows. David was moving at his near sonic speed as well. I couldn’t see him moving, but I sensed it happening.
None of this mattered though. By the time that David reached those men, it was too late. Even he hadn’t been fast enough to beat the movement of the other person that was on the move.
My Little Bunny had already formed her plan. And the moment that she sensed the shift in what was happening, she put that plan into motion. The girls were suddenly floating in midair as if they were on some sort of platform, which they were, it was just invisible. The men, though, had long thin cords that were binding them. And not just Claud and the other man that had been holding Ada, but all of them.
As I looked around, I saw that the seven men that were surrounded by the others in the group had been tied up as well. And those long thin cords that were binding them were coming out of the ground. It was like they were all a part of the roots to the trees that surrounded the park. This was all some nature magic that my trinity of a Riviana had tapped into.
“What the hell is this?” Claud’s voice was filled with shock and fear as he struggled to get free. He wasn’t the only one that had been stunned and in awe of what had just happened. I saw David reel in shock as he skidded to a halt in front of the men that had been about to attack the girls. Shawn and Dietrich had stuttered a little in appearance as they blinked back into sight from one of the shadows that they had moved through. And even I had almost stumbled when my eyes had processed what had happened.
Claud wasn’t the only one in their group that had started to protest the sudden appearance of the binding roots that were holding them. I heard several men cursing, screaming, grunting, and just generally yelling as they tried to get free. It was all to no avail though, they weren’t able to get free from their bindings, and therefore, they were no longer a threat to those girls.
“Uh..uhm, I..I..I don’t know what is happening here, but c..c..can we get down now?” Leslie, one of the girls that was floating on that platform, called out to Riviana as she looked down with fear in her eyes. “I..I..I am t..too sc..sc..scared to move.” She was shaking as she looked down at the ground.
“I am sorry, Leslie.” Riviana lowered the girls slowly to the ground. “I didn’t mean to scare you. I simply wanted to get you to safety. Those poor excuses of men were trying to hurt you.”
“Thank you, Queen Riviana.” Ada said as she stepped off the platform onto the ground. “I..I was so scared when things started to happen, but I am fine now. I knew that you wouldn’t let anything bad happen to us. Thank you so much. You as well, King Joaquin. Thank you.” She looked like she was about to cry, but it was in relief not fear.
“It is fine, Ada. Please, step over there with your friends and wait for us. We need to take care of a few things.” My Little Bunny smiled at them and I saw that both of the girls relaxed a little at the look.
When the girls ran over to where their friends were, they were welcomed with hugs. The five of them were now standing there with their arms all wrapped around each other in some sort of comforting gesture.
“You five, and those seven over there, are all coming with us.” I finally stepped forward and spoke again. It was time for me to assert some semblance of my dominance in this situation.
“You can’t make us go with you.” One of the men was shouting stupidly at us.
“Really? Fine, go ahead, try to get away. I will wait.” I gave him a look that told him how stupid it is that I thought he was. “What? Did you decide to stick around? Good. Now, we’re taking you all in. You will be questioned, and you will be answering for your crimes.”
“You can’t prove that we’ve done anything wrong. We’re innocent.” Claud smirked. He thought that they were all going to get off scot-free.
“Really? How about DNA and fingerprints. We have plenty of that to go around. And let’s not forget about witness descriptions.”
“No one ever saw anything.” One of the men in the other group yelled out stupidly.
“I will take that as a confession from you. Also, the victims saw you. And it just so happens that we have someone that can converse with the souls that you trapped inside of their bodies. And they were all more than happy to tell us what their killers looked like.” There was a hint of laughter in my voice as I shared that little tidbit. It felt good to see the shiver run through the collective group. I would say that this was going to be a productive night of questioning.
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Riviana
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Finally! FINALLY! FINALLY! FINALLY! There has finally been a break in the case. This was the best thing that could possibly happen for us. I don’t know how much longer I would have been able to take it if there hadn’t been some sort of change in this whole shitshow. We had arrested a dozen of these assholes. We had them in our custody and we were going to make sure that they were not able to activate those runes on the backs of their necks. If these ones even had them. They were going to stay chained up until the interviews were over. Not only that, but we were going to make sure that those runes were deactivated. Assuming they actually had them. These men weren’t going to take the easy way out. They weren’t allowed to get out of this that easily.
The men that we had arrested were loaded into six different large white cargo vans. They were being guarded in those vans by six warriors that were ready to do whatever it took to stop these men from escaping or ending their lives. None of them really got to fight in this whole rescue mission, so they were all itching for the chance to do something physical. Like beating a murderous asshole into submission.
It was a strangely smooth process, getting all of those men into the vans and back up to the castle. They weren’t being taken into the upper parts of the castle when we got there, but rather the prison-like cells that were in the basement. If you could call the place under a castle a basement. Was it a cellar? A dungeon? A crypt? There were so many things that you could call it, and I didn’t know which one it should be just because this was a castle and not a regular home.
Each of the twelve prisoners were marched away from the vans with two guards carrying them between them, since they were still tied up. Walking with those two guards was another guard in front of them and two behind them. There were more than enough warriors on hand to take care of that set up, and it was a lot more secure for us.
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“I have a feeling that it is going to be a busy night.” Dietrich said as he watched the prisoners being led away. “How are we going to divide up the interrogating?” That was when he turned to look at me and Joaquin. He was right about this. We would need to split it up so that we can get it over with sooner rather than later. We didn’t know how long it was going to be before their friends tried to get them back, or exact revenge. They might have been captured, but this was far from over.
“I say that we split up and interview them all separately, but at the same time. I will go interview one of them, and so will you Dietrich, Joaquin, Shawn, Vincent, Gabriel, David, Shane, Athair m貌r, Trevor, Noah and Riley.” I named off all of the ones that were going to be part of the interrogation group. “We will each take one of the prisoners and interview them at the same time. When we are done with that particular person, we will wait for the others to come out of their interviews, then we will discuss what we have learned. If we feel the need to do so, we can switch it up and continue interviewing them so that we all talk to each of them, but they are talking to different people over that time. This will give them all a dozen chances to fuck up and tell us the truth of it all.”
“That sounds like a good plan to me.” Joaquin nodded. “This way we get several angles to the stories and, of course, Vincent and Gabriel will be able to tell them that they cannot lie to them. They will know that it is a lie the moment that they are in the same room as them.” Joaquin was happily looking at the men in question. I will admit that their abilities always came in handy, especially since they took on the souls of Gods as well. A lot of us had gotten some abilities over the years, but none of them were as strong as the ones that came when taking a god into our bodies. Even Joaquin experienced that when he ascended. He was a lot more powerful than he had been before.
It was time to move on though. It was time to get this all moving in the direction that we wanted it to. That was why I called over the others that I had indicated would be doing the interviews with me. And, unsurprisingly, they were all ready to get right into it. There wasn’t a lot of discussion that needed to take place before we divided the men up between us.
Contrary to what Joaquin wanted, I opted to take Claud first. I wanted to tackle the one that I thought was the worst of them all. Not to mention, from what Talia had told us, he was the one that hurt her in that vision, and that meant that he needed to answer to me personally.
The prisoners were all in cells that were in the 鈥榙ungeon’ of the castle. The cells were set up very much like interview rooms and prison cells combined. There was a cot in the corner that was attached to the wall and floor so that they couldn’t move it. There was a bathroom area that we so politely made sure had been blocked from view so that it wasn’t embarrassing to use the facilities. There was no door though, it was just surrounded by three and a half walls. It also only contained the toilet and sink, as well as soap and toilet tissue. Those were essential.
In the middle of these cells were tables that we could sit at and interrogate them. One chair with chains attached to it so that the prisoners were able to sit comfortably but not go anywhere. There were even rings on the table so that we could chain the prisoners to the table as well as the chair. It made everything a little more secure in my opinion. They wouldn’t be able to activate the runes to kill themselves or contact their family, and they wouldn’t be able to attack us directly if they were deluded enough to think that they stood an ice cube’s chance in hell of hitting one of us.
Being that this was a dungeon, you would think that this place would be cold. That it would make these humans that we were about to talk to shiver just being down here. Well, that would be the wrong assumption to make. This place was not cold at all. It was being kept warm with magic. I wasn’t a cold hearted bitch, so I wasn’t going to make the prisoners freeze to death. As I told the others repeatedly, it was best to present ourselves as kind and caring, even when dealing with these assholes that definitely didn’t deserve our kind treatment.