Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Shit!” I heard the curse as it drifted across the crowd. It was not much more than a whisper, but it was definitely filled with fear. When I looked up to see the man that had spoken, I saw a frightened human that was looking at the DOE member being arrested. He also had a backpack, one that was identical to the other man’s bag.
The moment that I saw him, the human saw me too. He knew that I understood what was happening and who he was. He was also a DOE member, one that had gotten outside of the stadium and thought that they were going to get away.
“STOP RIGHT THERE!” I yelled after the man just as he started to run.
“AHH!” He screamed as I started to chase him. The crowd was parting for him, not to help him, but so that they didn’t get hurt. They all knew that there were likely still bombs in the area and they didn’t want to die.
Jackson and I both started to chase the man. I was following more directly while Jackson was circling around and coming at him from the side. He would take the bomber by surprise while the human was focused on me. It was a good tactic.
There was another problem though. When this man had started to run, so did three others. And that meant that there were at least five DOE members out here. I started after another target, letting Jackson take the first one that we chased. Andrew and Devon, of the local police department and the same pack that I was in, started to chase the men as well.
I caught my suspect pretty quickly, Devon seemed on the verge of getting his as well, but the man that Andrew was after seemed so much farther away, and close to the barrier that we had set up. Hopefully, those that were blocking the perimeter would stop him before he slipped away. I wasn’t able to pay attention though, I needed to cuff the man in front of me and take the bomb away from him.
Once again, there was a need to have as many bomb squad technicians here as possible, because there was no telling just how many bombs there were or how they were to be detonated. These men could set them off remotely, or there could be another man that was nearby waiting to set them off.
In the chaos of arresting the men that were outside, we learned that the guards were all still inside. Riviana was contacted as well, because one of the bombs had been detonated inside of the stadium, either before we arrived or during the commotion. There was only one injury though, and that was a member of the guards that had done all that they could to protect the humans from the bombers.
I was feeling confident about the situation already. We were containing this. There was minimal damage. And no humans had been hurt.
“Uhm, Ma’am.” Someone called out to me, a tall and slender woman with hazel eyes and black hair. “I..I wanted to tell you something that I heard inside. The bombs, the ones that you have there,” she indicated the backpacks in the distance, “they are impact bombs. They explode when they have a severe impact.” I narrowed my eyes for a moment and just looked at her with curiosity. “I..I was there, inside the stadium, when one of them went off. Kiernan was hurt, but they said he will be OK.” She looked saddened now, like Kiernan was someone that she had previously known.
“Thank you for the information.” I nodded at her. “And I am sure that he will be OK. We tend to heal quickly.” I assured her. “Please, speak with the other agents there to clear yourself and get to safety. The situation still isn’t fully under control.”
“Yes, Ma’am.” She nodded at me before walking toward more of the agents in the background.
By the time that I made it into the stadium, it seemed that things were as calm as could be. There were barely any people in there, and they were clearly not the bombers. There was some damage near the edge of the main floor, where Kiernan had landed with the bomb that went off. He was still laying there, Griffin at his side with the healing magic flowing.
There was a group of humans that were still gathered around, perhaps about a dozen or so. The guards were busy checking the building once more for bombs, DOE members, and anyone that had been injured. Those humans that were left all had their phones out though, and they were recording Griffin as he healed the tiger that was laying on the floor.
“Is everything secure?” A voice called out to me. It was Darius, one of the guards from the castle. He was standing with two people that I had not expected to see.
“Why are they here?” I pointed at Ilana and Rowan. The boy was just wearing a pair of shorts and nothing else, which was odd. At least his sister was properly dressed.
“That’s a long story.” The boy said with a smile. “Is everything OK outside? There were five DOE members that made it out of the building.”
“We caught at least four of them. I need to check on the fifth.”
“That’s good.” Ilana smiled. “All is well in here.”
“Seems like it.” I nodded. “This is still going to make the news, and that was something that Riviana wanted to avoid.”
“It was unavoidable. One of the bombers seemed to have lost his cool. It went downhill from there. At least no humans were harmed, and that was Queen Riviana’s main goal.” Darius explained. And at the mention of Riviana, a magical door started to glow in the distance. Riviana was on her way here at this very moment. With her here, things would definitely be under control.
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Riviana
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I had hoped that the DOE would be caught before anything had happened. I had hoped that keeping the FBI out of the stadium would make that happen. No offense to Rawlynne and Jackson, or any of their other agents, but they stuck out like sore thumbs. And the same went for the local police. Devon’s men were good at their jobs, but they screamed the word cop when you looked at them. And I didn’t want to set off the DOE before they could be caught. No one knew what types of bombs they were bringing because they had been making several new ones at the headquarters.
I guess that, in a way, things hadn’t gone too bad. There hadn’t been any civilian casualties or anything like that. The only injury that had been received by anyone was to one of my men. Kiernan had been very close to one of the bombs when it exploded. And the reason for that was because he had saved a group of humans that were the intended target.
The DOE members were captured as well. Well, almost all of them were. From what I had been told, only one of them had managed to get away and that was because there was a small gap in the perimeter that had been set up. The men that were patrolling the area were walking in their lines around the area, but at different rates of speed, so they both had their backs turned when he slipped past them.
The man continued to run with Andrew and now the two guards that were chasing him. The man was apparently very fast for a human, but the only reason they had actually gotten away from them, was because he had slipped onto a city bus that was at a corner nearby. By the time that they managed to stop the bus, needing police cars to flag it down, the man had already gotten off. The bus had literally made one stop before it was flagged down and stopped for inspection. That was all it took. The human had disappeared into the city.
I had men trying to track down his scent, but he was likely moving toward the headquarters already. He wasn’t going to be found, not in time. I gave up on him and decided to focus on the fact that we had gotten fourteen out of the fifteen.
The damage to the stadium was minimal as well. That was good. With the damage that they had sustained the day of the reveal, I didn’t want them to close down for more than they needed to. Considering that all the damage that they had sustained was, in a way, my fault.
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Joaquin and I had done all that we could to help the stadium and its staff during the time that they were under repair. We paid for the repairs, but on top of that, we paid the salaries of all the staff that were forced to miss work during that time. I didn’t want their lives to be affected by the chaos that had started because of me wanting to reveal us to the world.
When I arrived on the scene at the stadium, just minutes after Griffin had gotten there to help Kiernan, I saw that things were fully under control. There was little that I could do, aside from scolding Ilana and Rowan.
“Ilana Summer Green and Rowan Winter Green, what the hell are you two doing here?” I had narrowed my eyes at them. I was their 鈥榓unt’ and their godmother. And on top of that, I was the Luna, the Queen, and just about anything other than their parents that would have authority over them.
“A..A..A..Aunt Riviana!?” They stuttered together as they practically trembled in fear at my tone and words.
“Don’t Aunt Riviana me. What are you two doing here? You both know that you are not supposed to be in this part of the city today. I had made it a point to warn all of you about that fact, but you didn’t listen to me, did you?”
“No, we didn’t Aunt Riviana.” Ilana lowered her head in shame.