Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
As I glared at the man, he swiped out toward me with his sword again. He was trying to cut me as much as he possibly could.
“I will cut you into ribbons, you animal cunt!”
“You truly are a vile person.” I shook my head at him. And it was all because of the words that he was spouting. “Do you ever stop to think about the words that are about to come out of your mouth? I mean, seriously? What the hell is the matter with you?”
As I spoke to the man, I was shifting parts of my body. Just small, controlled shifts that changed my hands into lethal tiger paws, and my legs into that of the large predator. I was going to use the legs to make my jumps a little more powerful, and the claws were for, well, you know. I didn’t have a weapon on me at the moment because I was a weapon, hence the lethal claws that I had grown.
“I don’t need to think about my words. I am reciting the gospel truth that my family had spread for years.”
“Sorry to burst your bubble buddy, but you were lied to. And now it’s time for me to show you what the true power of a shifter really is.”
“NOT SO FAST!” A woman skidded to a halt next to the man. I hadn’t noticed that she had gotten here before the other humans, but I guess she was larger and faster than them. “Take this!”
The woman held up a device and clicked it in front of me. It was the thing that Talia had told us about, the one that was meant to hypnotize us and make us do whatever they wanted. When it didn’t work, just like it hadn’t worked in the park last night, the woman clicked it again. And again. And again. It still wasn’t affecting me at all. And she was furious.
“WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!?” She screamed in frustration as she clicked it nonstop. It was flashing its light, but it wasn’t doing anything at all.
“Well, I am guarded against that, so you can’t take over my mind. You need to see what a real shifter can do. Though, I am a special case. I can turn into just about anything.” I was grinning when I lashed out this time. I swiped my claws first across that woman’s belly and then across the man’s face.
The woman was going to be dead in a matter of minutes. Her wounds were deep and fatal. The man was bleeding, but he could live. He just wouldn’t have much of a face anymore. I wasn’t done though. I was going to make sure that I killed these people as well as the others that were here.
I swiped at the man again. This time, instead of catching him across his face, I raked the lethally long claws down his chest until I reached his groin. I had leapt into the air as I did say, using my bodyweight to drive my claws in and gravity to pull me down. There was absolutely nothing that he could do. He was dead before he dropped to the bridge. Only the bridge was slick with blood now, and the way that he landed meant that he wasn’t going to stay on that bridge for long. It only took him a moment to slide to the side and fall to the ground. He was raining the battlefield beneath me in blood before he thumped to the ground below.
The fighting wasn’t done yet. Not even with just me and the Jaegan that were on the bridge with me. There were still four of them that were running toward me. They watched as I kicked the dead woman’s body off of the bridge, but it didn’t faze them at all. They just glared at me and continued to run at me with their various weapons. They were like brainless zombies that weren’t deterred by anything at all.
I thought for a moment then. Were they actually like zombies? Were they mindless now that the creatures with whom they now shared blood were here. Were the Ancient ones able to control them? Were they able to make it so that the Jaegan, at least the soldiers of the group, had no freewill at all? If that was the case then I hated those monsters even more. I knew that the family had threatened them with death as they tried to take away their freewill, but here comes a group of beings that they shouldn’t even be involved with, and they might possibly have taken away their actual ability to have free will.
The more that I thought about them, the more that I thought that the Ancient Ones were truly the devils and demons of the world. All of the old legends and stories, I am sure that they had more to do with them than the people that actually live in and run the underworld.
I didn’t have too much time to get lost in my thoughts though. I had these people that were attacking me, and they weren’t behaving reasonably at all. They didn’t care if they, or their family died. And that meant that they would do anything for the sake of victory. People like that were even more dangerous than normal people.
I was about to parry a blow from another of the men that were running toward me. I saw that he had a long and gleaming knife in his hand, but I wasn’t scared at all. And I was even less scared when someone leapt in front of me and knocked the knife out of his hand.
Just as a flaming sword cut through the man’s body, Joaquin turned to look at me with gleaming eyes.
“Did you think that you could have all the fun without me, Little Bunny?” He was grinning. I knew that it was just because he was happy that I was OK. His entire body was thrumming with power and battle lust. He was a warrior, more so than any of the others on this battlefield. And that meant that fighting in this battle and protecting what he loved was what brought him to life the most.
“I was waiting for you to join me.” I grinned back at him, though I was still watching carefully for more of the threat that was looming over us. “It took you long enough, didn’t it?” I joked with him playfully as we both prepared to defend ourselves against the remaining attackers. The battle had officially begun.
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Riviana
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As Joaquin and I braced to face the horde that was on the bridge with us, I took solace in the fact that Talia was behind me and safe. I wasn’t going to let any of these monsters get past me to hurt her. They were going to be stopped by me and Joaquin.
There were more of the Jaegan that were fighting like they had nothing to lose, as well as those Ancient Ones, the monsters that looked like true nightmares come to life. The Jaegan fighters had weapons made of steel, bone, and other materials that didn’t look normal to me. The Ancient Ones also had weapons, these ones were black and looked as if they were sucking the light from the surrounding area rather than reflecting it.
The entire scene was chaotic. That was the only way to describe it. There was fighting happening on the ground and here in the sky. The bridge that we were walking on had massively expanded size, both for us and for our opponents. Joaquin and I were running around and attacking anything and everything that was coming at us. We refused to give up. We refused to let any of these people, human or monster, get away with all that they had done.
I was in the middle of fighting three Jaegan at once. I wasn’t having a hard time handling them, not at all. They were only human, even if they had been slightly altered by the blood of the ancient demon looking creatures, they never were Gods. There was a way to describe them. They could have been Gods, they had the potential to be worshipped by the humans, but they hated the mortal beings so much that they never rose to the height of their potential. So now, they were nothing. They were not has beens, they were the group of never was. I think that would be the biggest insult to them, if I managed to come across Olorud once more, maybe I would see how he reacted to it.
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The three women from the Jaegan that I was fighting right now were quite skilled in their combat, but they weren’t landing any hits on me. I was skillfully dodging them and maintaining my position as I returned the hits to them. The women were fierce and strong, but I was more fierce and a hell of a lot stronger.
“Die, you evil monster bitch!” One of them screamed at me. She was perhaps a little upset with the way that I looked. I mean, I did still have those tiger paws, and the legs as well. My pants had even ripped because of the partial shift to the legs. I would be left with nothing but the fabric covering my important bits and the shredded remains of the legs when I shifted them back.
“I get that you see me as a monster, I mean, I am part animal right now, but what makes me evil?” I asked her causally as I parried the blow that she aimed at my head. I really shouldn’t be taking this long to end them, but I wasn’t really taking pleasure in taking their lives. They were just so woefully misinformed and brainwashed that none of this was actually their fault.
“You are a murderer, and you are trying to take over the world. You disgusting beastly woman!” Another of the women said as she aimed her sword at my ribs. I saw Joaquin take notice and start toward me, but I knocked the blow away with the claws. I also happened to take away her hand.
“I don’t want to kill you, but you are leaving me no choice.” I said as I looked at the woman screaming and cradling her stumpy arm. I am very certain that she didn’t hear me. And the others didn’t listen to me at all.
“YOU BITCH!” The other two women yelled at the same time. They were aiming their swords at my neck and heart as they ran toward me. I swiped at them hard with my claws hands. One of them took the claw across the throat, the other took them down the abdomen, but both of them went flying.
The two flying women crashed into the one holding her arm. The bridge that we were on was holding the blood in a large puddle around the first woman, and when the other two hit her, they skidded in that puddle until they too went over the edge.
“I need to stop making them fall.” I said as Joaquin came up beside me.
“Why? It will guarantee that they’re dead.” He shrugged like it wasn’t a big deal.
“Yeah, but what if they fall on someone? I don’t want one of our people hurt or killed by a falling bitch.” Joaquin smirked and shook his head.