Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
The humans, not knowing that they were safe, started to scream instantly. They covered their heads and ducked down as if they would have had time to dodge the six bullets before they had been shot. They all tried to protect themselves, because they didn’t know that I was already taking care of them.
Finally, the screaming died down. The humans that had ducked and feared for their lives, looked at the air in front of them, where they knew that the bullets would have been. And that was when they saw them.
Floating in the air, held firmly by the barrier that I had put in place, six bullets were lined up in a neat little row. The gun in Orson’s hand had shifted a little with each time that he pulled the trigger, the recoil affecting his stand or something.
“Whoa!” One of the supporters said as they rose to their feet. “Th..they just stopped. The bullets just stopped in the air like that.”
“D..d..did Riviana Gray save us?” One of the anti supers called out as he looked at me. He knew that it was the truth, but he was still waiting for confirmation.
“I couldn’t let you all be hurt.” I told them. “I put a barrier around you all. I knew that he was likely to shoot the moment that he pulled his gun. I wanted to make sure that you all made it through this safely.” It was all spoken so matter-of-factly that I didn’t think about it, but the man that had asked the question looked at me with tender and vulnerable eyes.
“O..o..oh.” that was all that he could say in response.
There was a moment when everyone seemed to be looking at me. The humans on both sides, the reporters, and Devon with his police force. They were still trapped behind the barriers that I put up, so they weren’t able to get to me, but I knew that Devon wanted to end this.
The main issue here though, was that the wrong move could set off something else that was worse than Orson firing into the crowd. He had more people with him, waiting for whatever plans he was wanting to put into motion. If we weren’t careful, we could end up making this situation worse. And that was why Devon wasn’t acting yet. I could sense him though, ready with a connection open between us.
He was waiting for me to tell him that it was time to take the man out.
I took a deep breath, taking my mind off the humans that I had saved and focusing once more on Orson. His gun was still raised, but now it was pointed at me.
“You bitch!” He growled. “You stopped me from killing them! Why!?”
“Why did you want to kill them? Because I had laughed at what you said? That was a stupid reason to kill someone. And I know that you are prone to emotional outbursts that result in people’s deaths. You’ve committed several murders lately, Orson.”
“They were no longer needed. That is what you do with a soldier during war. You cannot let your secrets get into the hands of the enemy. Useless soldiers need to be executed.” He just shrugged as he admitted to killing those people.
“How could you do something like this, Orson?” I heard the voice before I saw the man that had spoken. It had taken me by surprise.
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The man had snuck up on me. That was the only way for me to put it. And the only reason that he was able to do that, was because I was too focused on the man that he had just spoken to. I hadn’t sensed him or the other four people that were with him. Three wolves and two humans in total.
“How could you do something like this, Orson?” The man had said as he walked closer to me. I knew his voice instantly. It was a voice that used to hold authority over Orson, before he had gone off the deep end of the sanity pool and drowned in a sea of crazy chaos.
“What does it matter to you, Glick?” Orson asked his former superior. “You seem to have taken sides. I bet you’re one of them. You’re a monster, aren’t you?” Orson was so focused on Glick that he didn’t see anyone else that was around him.
“No, I am not one of them, Orson. I am very much human. However, I am not a crazy man either. I know that it is wrong to kill people. I know that they are people. They have rights, Orson.
They are just like you and me. And you are not allowed to do this.”
“FUCK YOU!” Orson screamed again, pulling the trigger once more.
This time, I had to erect the barrier on the fly. Glick and the others didn’t have a shield barrier at the moment, so they were vulnerable to the shots. Only for a moment though. I managed to get them shielded after just a moment and they were safe. Once again several bullets stopped when they hit the barrier. This time, there were five of them that were floating in midair.
“GAHH!” Orson screamed in frustration. “YOU WITCH BITCH MONSTER SLUT!” He pointed the gun at me, firing his last round right at me. It was stopped long before it got to me, but Joaquin still roared angrily at the man.
“HOW DARE YOU FIRE THAT THING AT MY WIFE!”
“It’s OK, Joaquin. I was never in any danger.” I patted his arm gently to calm him down.
“Harrison, you need help. You need to stop this.” Dolan spoke for the first time since he had arrived.
“D..Dolan?” Orson was looking at the man that was his second in command. “B..b..but you’re dead.”
“No, Harrison, I am not dead. I am very much alive. I just couldn’t follow you anymore.”
“But you died. I saw the collapsed part of the tunnel. You and some of the others died that day. Those recruits had died. And Barcland. He wasn’t with us anymore.
You all died. They must have brought you back to life. They manipulated your corpses. Those beasts. Those witch bitch beasts.”
“I never died, Harrison. I just couldn’t condone what you were doing.”
“I didn’t die either.” Kirk came walking from the crowd around us. “I don’t want to hurt anyone. I never approved of what my family wanted to do. They are bad people, and I hate violence.”
“YOU PUSSY ASS SON OF A BITCH!” I heard a new man scream. He was leaping out of one of the trucks with about four other men. “YOU TURNED AGAINST US! AND I THOUGHT THAT YOU HAD DIED A HERO IN THOSE TUNNELS!” Those men must have been the family that Kirk had told us about. “I WILL KILL YOU FOR THIS, YOU BASTARD!” There was visible fear in Kirk’s eyes when he heard what his family had said to him.
“You won’t hurt him.” I narrowed my eyes at him. “You are the monsters. You all want to hurt innocent people.”
“They are impure. They don’t deserve to live.” The man screamed back at me.