Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“On three.” My hand was up again. “One.” There was an anticipation building in the air. “Two.” The others seemed to be holding their breath. “Three.” As my hand went down I inserted the key into the lock and opened the door. “Move!”
We entered the rooms with a swiftness that surprised the people on the other side of the rooms. There were two men in the room that I was in, but it wasn’t Clovio and Warrick. So, these men were Aloysius and Gunnar.
“On your knees.” I yelled at the men as Valerian and Rawlynne entered the room behind me.
“FBI, you’re under arrest.” Rawlynne added as the men jumped and almost fell out of bed.
“Wh..who are you.”
“Don’t you listen, dumbass!?” I pointed the gun at him. “She said FBI.” I saw his fear and anger rise as I snapped at him. “Get on your knees and put your hands behind your heads.” They looked like they wanted to resist, but they saw the guns in their faces.
“Why are you here?” One of the men asked as he glared at me. “Why are you arresting us? We haven’t done anything wrong.”
“We know who you are working for.” I narrowed my eyes, but he couldn’t see that. I could see his eyes though, and I saw that they went as wide as saucers at that declaration. “You’re under arrest, Gunnar and Aloysius Jaegan.” I used their real last name, not the ones that they gave to the school. Finally, they looked like they were done resisting. It’s a good thing too, I didn’t want to have to go over there and drag them out of bed. I was doing my best not to hurt anyone. And I had a feeling that if I dragged them out of here, I wouldn’t succeed in my no violence thing.
Finally, the two men got out of bed and dropped to their knees. They were dressed, but not as much as the guys in the hotel. These men were wearing shorts and that was it. It was better than nothing I guess.
Rawlynne and Valerian moved forward to put the cuffs on the men while I pointed my gun at them.
“Someone spilled the beans, didn’t they?” One of the men was glaring at me.
“We thwarted the mass murder this evening and forced some information out of them. You’re all going down.” I was smirking proudly as I told this man that they hadn’t succeeded.
“You won’t stop us. Not all of us. We will keep going. We will destroy the monsters. They will all die.” I am going to guess that he was a true zealot of the family and that he couldn’t be saved. Oh well, that was fine with me. As long as we were able to stop them all, that was all that I cared about. Saving innocent people from being killed was our goal here.
When I left the room, I saw that it was Dietrich and Shawn’s group that had found Clovio and Warrick. They were getting a kick out of scaring Warrick to death. They might one day allow him to be with Alyssa, if she ever takes him back, but they needed this moment. As dads that were not ready to let go of their little girl, they needed this moment of scaring the shit out of the boy that was trying to take her away from them.
Once again, the apprehensions went smoothly. I returned the keys to the quivering guard on the first floor while the others took the eight of them to the trucks. We would be heading to the castle soon. And once we were there, we could interrogate these people until the sun came up. Hopefully it wouldn’t take that long, but we would see.
We just needed to change their runes like the others and start talking. Maybe it should be my Little Bunny that talks to them. She was good at this kind of thing. I mean, she is way scarier than she thought that she was.
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Riviana
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I spent the time that Joaquin was gone building more cells in the dungeon. We needed to have a place to put these people when they got here. I was refusing to believe that Joaquin and the others would fail in this part of their mission. The were going to get all the others, the one sthat Claud had told me about. They were going to arrest them, and they were going to bring them back here. And that meant that we would need to have a place to put them all.
It didn’t take me all that long to build the addition to the dungeon. I just needed to imagine what it was that I needed in this place and use the magic inside of me to make it happen. This type of magic was a lot easier when I was here in the castle. And especially considering that I was underground. The magic that was strongest here, under the ground, was all coming from the Lei Lines that crossed at this exact point of our lands. The Lei Lines were pure magic that kept the world running with no issues at all. And even more than just that, they powered my castle even when I wasn’t here. They made life smooth for all of us that lived in this area, even as far away as Colorado Springs and Riviana Falls. They were all protected and run by the Lei Lines.
It took me all of ten minutes to get the rooms made, but I was able to go above and beyond. I was trying to prove that I was a kind and generous person. That was why I was going to make sure that the people that were already in the cells, as well as the others that were coming soon, would have a decent place to stay.
The rooms were set up the same, but I altered them all just a little bit. I was making the beds and chairs more comfortable. I gave them better lights that weren’t just the super bright ones above the tables. And I gave them simple stall showers. That last one was mostly for me though. If I needed to come back down here, I didn’t want these people to stink to high heaven.
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They had all the items that they needed though, and that was what mattered. I also made several dozen uniforms for the prisoners. This way we would be able to identify them from a distance.
While we waited for Joaquin and the others to get back, I had the guards that were still here tell the dozen current prisoners to clean themselves up and to change into their uniforms. They would be unchained for the time being and then they would be allowed to move around their rooms to their heart’s content. They will not, however, be able to escape or end their lives. Their runes were all changed and there was no way for them to activate the death rune on their necks.
I found those marks strange. I mean, why make it so that your lackeys would be able to kill themselves? Why give them that option? Were the leaders so worried that the lesser family members would betray them if they weren’t able to kill themselves right away? That was just nonsense in my opinion. They didn’t trust anyone in their own group, not even their own killing squad.
Another twenty minutes or so and all the prisoners had been changed and taken back into the rooms. I didn’t want to force the guards to stay in there at all times though, so I needed to make sure that there was something else to help them. Since the prisoners had a private area for their bathing and bathroom needs, I added cameras to the cells. And of course, I put doors onto the bathroom area. They would have sufficient room in there to change and do their business. But since we needed to monitor the people that were in there, we needed to have this last level of defense.
With the cameras in place, and the prisoners informed about them all, I had the guards go into the newly erected security room. They were able to monitor the cells from there, including sound if it was needed. Hey, you know what, I felt like I was being truly understanding and generous right now. Yes, there were likely those that thought this was going too far, but then they probably wouldn’t know what had happened to my people. They wouldn’t know how dangerous these people were.
Oh, and the moment that all of those prisoners had been released from their chains so that they could change, the guards fully searched them and found any and all weapons that they had. We had gotten some of them earlier, but there were a few things that had been missed. So, yeah, I think that what I was doing was fully important. I was just trying to protect my people as well as the prisoners.
After a little while longer, Joaquin and the others came back. They were marching eighteen people into the dungeons with the other guards. All of them were a little shocked when they saw the changes that I had made, but they didn’t say a word about it at all. They knew that, as the queen, I would do what I thought was best in this situation.
“All of you are here because you are part of a murderous cult.”
“WE ARE NOT A CULT!” A woman next to Shawn screamed as she listened to my words.
“Yes, you are. You have been brainwashed to do the bidding of a man that has no true motive aside from running the world. That is a cult in my mind.” I glared at her. “Now, all of you are going to be assigned a cell.” I pointed at them. “They are quite a bit more comfortable than a lot of prison cells, in my opinion. Not that I have ever been inside of a normal prison cell. There are uniforms for you to put on after cleaning up. However, the cells are being monitored. You will need to change in the bathroom, which has no cameras. All of you that just arrived will have your runes changed before you are given a cell to go into.”
“What?”
“No way!”
“You can’t do that.”
“Impossible.”