Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Yeah, you’re right. Dead by raining cunts wouldn’t be a good way to die. Come on, Little Bunny, let’s get back into the fight.”
He had called me back because there was a fresh wave of enemies approaching. This time it was nothing but the Ancient Ones, or whatever it is that they called themselves now. Disgusting was the name that I most wanted to use for them.
Six of those things were swarming down on Joaquin and I. Four headed his way, and I would have taken the extra to make it even, but I couldn’t get to him at the moment. I was fighting what looked like twin serpents. Only these serpents were those kinds from legends that had a head at both ends. The ones that you saw in the ouroboros symbols. I have to admit that seeing two of them in person, and no less than fifteen feet in length, was not fun or pleasant at all.
There was a difference in these twin snakes when compared to the ones from the symbols. They had wings. Two sets of them. Each head had a set of wings beneath it. One of the snakes was pure black and nearly disappeared in the night, if it hadn’t been for the flashes of magic and the flicker flames of multiple fires, then I wouldn’t have been able to see it. The other snake was pure white, and reflected everything that was around me.
I knew that I needed more to fight these monsters than just my claws. I had, thus far, only relied on my shifted powers, as vast as they were, to fight the Jaegan and monsters that I had come across, but now I needed something more. I needed an actual weapon.
Without even shifting my hands back, I summoned two of my weapons to me. The icy whip was in my right hand, ready to lash out when I needed it. And in my left hand was Frozen Kiss, the special sword that I had, the one that would freeze my enemies with just one slice. They were both very powerful, and useful, weapons for me to use against these monsters.
I swung the whip out as one of the snakes dove toward me. I caught the other snake, the one that wasn’t attacking me just yet and was holding it in place. It was the white snake, and it didn’t take too kindly to being attacked the way that I had just done. The black snake was flying at me with one of its heads. The mouth was open and it was about to snap down on me like I was nothing more than a human sized snack cake. Well, it wasn’t going to get that far, not at all. I swung the blade out and severed its head immediately. The ice that followed the slice moved quickly, covering the rest of the beast in no time at all. Unfortunately, that snake also fell off of the bridge, but it had shattered before hitting the ground, the result was like a fine powdery snow falling to the ground instead.
I leapt toward the other snake and cut off the head that was still free. Tightening my whip was all that I needed to sever the second head. And it too fell to the ground in a layer of powdery snow. That made me feel a little bit better. No one was going to be killed by falling snakes tonight.
I turned to check on Joaquin then. He was wielding his flaming sword, holding it in both hands to give himself a better arc when swinging the thing at his enemies. Those enemies that were starting to drop quickly.
He was in the middle of slicing one, a winged rhinoceros looking thing, with way more horns than a normal rhino would have, and there were three large deadly birds. I think that I would call them more pterodactyls than anything else. There were no feathers on them at all, the wings and bodies of the things were scaley instead. They had two sets of wings though, both with large hands that were tipped in long lethal claws.
Joaquin killed the rhino first. That started to burn to a crisp and was almost immediately turned into ashes. He managed to cut the head and wings off of one of the pterodactyls, sending its ashes to the ground as I started to walk toward him.
My walking soon turned into running though, because in the next second I saw that one of the remaining monsters had gotten behind Joaquin and sank its talons into his back and sides.
“AHHH!” I heard him cry out in pain as well as shock. I saw the way that his eyes instantly started to darken and shine at the same time. That had hurt him a lot.
“JOAQUIN!” I screamed his name as a total of six lethal, sword-like talons pierced his body. I was already running toward him, still screaming senselessly as the two remaining creatures flew off with Joaquin. “NOOOO! JOAQUIN!” I was going to follow him. I had to. I needed to get him back. But that was when two of the devil looking monsters jumped in front of me and blocked my way.
“He is gone now, Mongrel Bitch.” The thing’s guttural sounding voice sneered into my face as it loomed in front of me. “He will be going to the underworld soon enough, and then you can join him. I will see to that personally.”
“Don’t take all of the fun, Vogran.” The other monster said. I was guessing that he was Zarinog. These were the other two Ancient Ones that Talia had seen in her vision. These were the other two that we needed to be wary of.
I didn’t have time to deal with them though. I needed to get to Joaquin. I needed to save him. I had to get my mate back. Though I was the queen, I needed to take care of things here as well. And Talia was right behind me.
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Talia
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I had watched my mom as she went to talk to the envoy from the enemies. There was a man that I knew was part of the Jaegan, most likely the leader that they had been talking about before. The other that was talking and standing in the lead was a monster. That was all that I could say about his three heads, horns, and nauseating appearance. He was hard to look at, but I also couldn’t take my eyes off of him. I was too hyper focused on what was happening with my mom. I needed to make sure that she was OK. I needed to see that she was not going to be hurt by those people.
There had been some talking. Then some yelling. Quite a bit of laughter. More yelling. I thought that maybe, just maybe, my mom might be able to get through to those people. But then the monster man pointed at my mom, and consequently the rest of us, and yelled.
“ATTACK!”
It was at that moment that all hell seemed to break loose. And coming from the person that was supposed to take over the underworld when they graduated from college, I knew what hell was like. The actual torturous part of the underworld that is. The monsters and humans on the bridge all surged forward, storming toward my mom as she readied herself for the battle. My dad, seeing that she was in danger, already started to run toward her.
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The humans that were attacking her stopped at her, but the monsters leapt over her. One attacked my dad. Perhaps that was all that he noticed with his attention on my mom so much, but there were way more than just the one. There had been eight that jumped around and over my mom. After Dad killed the one, it left seven that were coming straight toward Lex and I.
I tried to focus solely on my battle, fighting the monsters that were here for me and Lex, but I was also focused on my parents. I knew that they had a lot more battle experience than I had, which I had none, but I was still worried about them. I could only associate that with familial love and bond. The protection instinct was strong in me as it was with most wolves.
My parents seemed to be doing just fine. They didn’t seem to be taking any damage at all at least. So, seeing that, I focused on the monsters that were closer to me and Lex. It was time for me to fight for the first time ever. Even if Lex tried to tell me that I shouldn’t, I was going to fight.
I saw Lex wielding a large silver sword. It was one that my parents had given him to train with, and to fight with if the need ever arose. This was literally the first time that he had needed to use it in combat. That wasn’t the only weapon that he had though. He had the sword in his right hand, but there was a gun in his left hand. He liked the modern weapon a lot, and was quite the marksmen with it.
I saw that he was first shooting the enemies around him, aiming to wound them and distract them before he jumped on their backs and hacked them to pieces. I knew that he was good with what it was that he was doing, so I didn’t need to focus on him at all. The other monsters though, were my concern.
I didn’t have a weapon. I had never needed one. But I was a weapon. I had magic. And on top of that, I had Angel. My little Dragixie that had guided my mom home all those years ago. Angel, who was usually still that small pink fluffy ball of love, but had abilities that I had never shown to anyone. Angel, who was always with me, even when she couldn’t be seen.
Over the years, I had learned to hide Angel inside of me. I didn’t take her with me to school and places like that. And I didn’t like to sleep with her inside of me, that caused strange dreams, but she grew in power, and so did I, when I called her inside of me.
She had stayed in the castle when I came out here, but I had summoned her the moment that the man yelled attack. It was my first instinct. And I could see her now, flying toward me, that pink little fluffy friend that I had kept for over a decade.
“Talia calls Angel?” She said happily as she zoomed toward me and landed on my shoulder.
“It’s time to help people, Angel.” I told her. “We need to fight.”
“Angel gets power?” She asked as she nuzzled my cheek.
“Yes. And I need to use that power of yours as well.”
I had never fought this way, never even trained this way before either. This was going to be a learning experience for both me and Angel. I didn’t care though, I needed to make sure that I was able to win this fight.