Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Please, let me help with the battle. Let me be a part of it.”
“Absolutely not!” Dad roared immediately.
“No!” Mom added.
“Over my dead fucking body!” Lex added his own response.
“I am not truly asking.” I looked from one to the other of them. “I am the future goddess of the underworld. I need to learn how to handle these situations. And the underworld is my domain. These people, these Ancient Ones that the gods were telling us about, they are from the underworld. They are just as much my problem as they are Hades, Satan’s, Lucifer’s and all of the others’ problems. I need to be a part of this.” I wasn’t going to back down. They wouldn’t be able to stop me, no matter what they did. I just didn’t want to cause a strife between us when I went to battle against their wishes.
“Talia, you could get hurt.” Lex was the first one to speak after that.
“Only if you fail to protect me.” I pointed out to him. “Do you plan on failing?”
“I would never!” This had seemed to anger him a little.
“Then I will be just fine.” He didn’t seem to have a response to this. He just snapped his mouth shut and glared at me.
“Talia, we could all potentially die in that battle. You saw it in your vision.”
“All the more reason for me to fight. We need to have as many people fighting in this battle as we possibly can. That is the only way to guarantee our success.” She couldn’t argue with me, not without contradicting how serious this battle was. She knew that I had trapped her in with that argument, so she just looked at Dad.
“Don’t leave this on me!” He snapped at her, but it was more playful than it was angry. “If you can’t stop her, do you really think that she will listen to me?” He was right, I wouldn’t listen to him telling me not to fight. And the others had no arguments that could sway me either.
“Why do you want to do this, Talia? What is the real reason?” Mom wanted to know more details, I guess that was understandable.
“As I said before, this is my problem. But that isn’t all. I have been a part of this case since you left for Wales. I may not have gotten the details that you had before leaving, but I have been a part of it all since the beginning of the investigation. And I want to continue being a part of it. I want to see this through until the end. I couldn’t live with myself if I wasn’t there to end this with all of you.”
I saw my parents looking at each other as they seemed to be contemplating the words that I had said. They knew that I was being serious. They knew that I wanted to help, and that this wasn’t just about rebellion or trying to look cool. At least, I hoped that they knew it.
“Talia, if you are out there, if you are fighting in this battle, then I want you to have Alexio with you at all times.” Mom gave her stipulation, but apparently, Dad had one more.
“And either Hades or Lucifer. You need to have one of the gods at your side at all times. They will protect you since you are the ones that they are hoping to have you take over for them soon.” He was right about that. They would likely protect me at all costs.
“Fine.” I didn’t argue. I would feel better with them at my side anyway.
“Fine.” Mom sighed the word as she shook her head. “Then you can join us, Talia. You can be a part of the battle.” She wasn’t happy about it, but she was relenting and letting me be a part of the action. I wasn’t in it for the excitement though. I just felt a sense of responsibility and duty to see this through until the end. It was the right thing to do.
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Riviana
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After we all got some rest, and Talia came to practically demand that we allow her to be a part of the battle, it was time for me to open the doors to the other territories. I knew that not everyone was comfortable with travelling through the dimensional doors, or whatever they were. I knew that we weren’t going from one dimension to another when I opened them, but I sort of felt like we were walking in another one, a different and much smaller dimension, whenever we travelled like that.
I opened the doors to all those that were willing to come immediately. We didn’t know how many Ancient Ones and Jaegan that there were going to be when the battle began. Talia’s vision didn’t show how many people there were, and it didn’t even show how many Ancients were there. The only thing that she knew for the total number of people was from the voices. And she had said that it sounded like there were at least a hundred of them.
I also didn’t know how easy it was going to be to fight against these Ancient Ones. Were they going to be harder to kill than most other people that we fought in the past because they were the equivalent of the Gods? Or were they going to be more like the supernatural beings more akin to humans? Had the loss of their magic over the years been enough to make the enemies that were less of a threat?
I didn’t really think that the last part of that was going to be true. For one thing, if they weren’t a threat to us, then they would not have been able to successfully kill so many of my people. Yes, it’s true that it was the human Jaegan family that was killing them, but they wouldn’t have been able to do that if it weren’t for the Ancient Ones. I knew that these people were a threat to us, and that was all that mattered to me. And whether there were only a hundred of them that attacked us, I was not going to face them with less than five thousand men and women. I was going to make sure that we had all that we needed to annihilate them completely.
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The first doors that I opened went to the surrounding areas. Riley’s pack, Trevor’s pack, Bryce’s pack, even my brother Carter’s pack, they all sent a handful of their warriors to fight with us. I made sure to tell them all that they needed to keep some of their warriors behind. We were told that the battle was coming to us, but there was no telling if that was a trick or not. It could very well have been a ploy to make the other packs vulnerable. They needed to defend their own lands as well.
I opened the doors to the lands that I visited while investigating the murders. The packs in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England, Australia and all of the others. They all sent some of their warriors as well. They were happy to be getting the chance to avenge those that they had lost. I knew that they would want to be here for this, that was why I offered them the next slots available.
When I opened the door to Wales and found that they had all gathered for the trip here and were clamoring for the chance to come through it and into the land of the royal family. I think that they were the most excited about it because they were the ones that Joaquin and I, as well as the others, had stayed at the most when we were gone.
“Cadwal?” I called out when he rushed through the door.
“Queen Riviana!” He exclaimed excitedly. He didn’t drop to his knees and bow to me like he did the first time that we met, but he was still looking more than a little reverent as he stared at me. “We are here to help you, my Queen. And we are looking forward to getting justice for our people who were murdered.” He put a hand over his heart and bent at the waist. It wasn’t a full on kowtowing or genuflecting, but it was a sincere sign of respect nonetheless.
“Thank you, Cadwal.” I held my hand out toward him and encouraged him to straighten up so that he could shake it. “I am happy to have your assistance.” I nodded at him. “I would like to catch up with you after the battle is over.”
“As would I.” Joaquin nodded at him, and I knew what that was about. He was going to talk to him about Westin.
“Wonderful.” Cadwal grinned and blushed. I knew that he was happy that the King and Queen were showing such interest in him. He would probably brag about this later.
The others continued to pour through the door as the time went on. I couldn’t leave all of the soldiers and their leaders just standing around, so I sent them to the barracks that were at the back of the property. This was where the other men, those that were being formally trained by my higher ranked soldiers, lived while they were staying in the compound.
The other Alphas and Coven leaders that joined us stayed near Joaquin and I. That was fine, they were the ones that were in charge and therefore needed to know when to call their men. Not to mention, we would be having a meeting once everyone had finished arriving.
I knew that several of these people were coming when it was very late at night, or likewise very early in the morning. They weren’t the most well rested, but they were able to make do with it at the moment. They were ready to fight, and that was all that mattered.