Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Halt.” His voice was deep and low. Even though he spoke in what seemed to be an average tone, his words boomed around the entire area as if he had used a megaphone or microphone and speaker.
“Is there a problem?”
I truly had thought that Rudy would stutter again, like he had done a few times before already. I was actually quite happy to see that he was being so calm and sure of himself at the moment. That would help us out quite a bit in this situation.
“Who are you? What are the two of you doing here? What business do you have in these parts?”
“I am Rudolphus Desmodius. I am escorting a soul through the Halls of Purgatory.” Thankfully, Rudy still spoke confidently and didn’t falter.
“Tell me why? For what purpose are you taking a new soul to this area of Purgatory?”
“She is not a new soul. She is not even dead.” Rudy did his best to start explaining things.
“That is preposterous. There are only dead souls in the underworld. Dead souls and those that guard it. Not even the Gods and Goddesses that govern these parts come to this place. They take the souls that they punish personally to their own domains.”
“Are those domains not part of the underworld as well? If they rule over this place, should they themselves not dwell here?” I was so surprised by what I heard that I had to say something. Even though I immediately regretted it the moment that I had finished talking.
“Do not speak to me, mortal. I will not be treated like some commonplace mortal.”
“I am not a mortal, nor am I commonplace.” I knew that my tongue was going to get me into a lot of trouble right now. I was a little too keyed up to be calm and civil at the moment. I knew that I needed to be that way, but my body just wasn’t conveying those thoughts to my mouth.
“Really? And what, if you do not mind explaining it to me, makes you so special? What makes you any less common than the other humans that come through these halls?” This man was truly angry at me right now.
“I am not a human. I am a goddess, a queen, a wolf shifter, a Fae, and a witch. I am far from anything that is common.” There was anger filling my voice now. This man was going to learn to respect me, even if he wasn’t one of my subjects. Even if I was technically nothing to him.
“I do not believe that you are a goddess. What reason would a goddess have to be in the underworld? You are not a ruler of one of the hells. You are not an overseer of paradise. You are nothing to the inner machinations of the afterlife. Therefore, what would you, a self-proclaimed goddess, be doing in our realm?” Oh, the amount of sarcasm and spite that he was spitting at me was going to tip me over the edge.
I was getting to my wit’s end. I was through with being here in the underworld. I wanted to get this over with and go home as soon as I could. I didn’t want to be here any longer than I absolutely needed to be. And right now this asshole was prolonging my forced visit to the afterlife.
He may think that he is big and strong now. He may think that he was able to do so much to me. He would most likely think a lot of things about me. But he would be wrong. He would be so wrong that it would cost him more than he was willing to pay. These people, these men, according to Rudy, were alive. And that meant that he could most likely feel pain and receive a punishment. They weren’t beyond the torture that they were inflicting onto the others. They, specifically this asshole, were not above my wrath.
I tried to keep my calm, though. I had already been shown just how my actions affect the things around me, how I can cause consequences. I didn’t want to put anything out of order in Hell, this was not the place to be doing that. Still, that didn’t change the fact that he was annoying the fucking hell out of me.. No pun intended there.
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“I wish I was just a self-proclaimed goddess. Do you have any fucking clue how much stress and pressure I have been under for the last few years? Do you know what I have had to deal with just recently because of who and what I am? I am not here because I wanted to be, asshole! I am here right now because one of your trapped souls is trying to escape. I am here because I need to stop her. All I want to do is go home and be with my family again. But no, now I need to do your job for you!”
The man’s already angry looking face just went purple with his boiling fury. I had said too much. I had caused problems for us. I knew it was coming though. I knew it was going to happen. I just couldn’t stop it. I was too pissed off, too angry to hold it back anymore.
OK. I will admit that this man had nothing to do with the way that I had been feeling. He wasn’t the one that I was angry with. He wasn’t the one that had put me through hell. He wasn’t the one that had brought me here. So, I shouldn’t be angry with him, right? Well, fuck that. I was going to treat him the way he was treating me.
“I told you I would not be talked to like that.” The wind, which had just been a soft and gentle breeze, picked up with a sudden intensity. It was like someone, most likely him, was calling it to life. Ha ha, that’s funny. Calling something to life in the underworld.
“Look, whoever you are. I just want to be on my way. I just want to get to the door out of here and find the person that I am looking for. I will be out of your hair as soon as I can be.”
With those words, I held onto the boys while simultaneously pushing Rudy ahead of me. We had just gotten past the big brute when he slowly turned to face us and bellowed out in his booming voice.
“My name is Alexio Ptolemy. And by the grace of all the Gods and Goddesses, I will not let you escape this place. I will not let you shrink your punishment. You will atone for your sins as you are supposed to. And I will be the judge that drags you there.”
Was it just me, or was Alexio here growing in size? Nope, it wasn’t just me. I could see the look that was on Rudy’s face as he watched the man. He was definitely seeing what I was seeing. And I do not think that this was a good thing either. This was most likely going to be, quite literally, hell for us.
“Rudy, I think we need to get out of here.” I said as I scooped up the boys in my arms. They were almost too big for me to fit them all. Technically they were too big, but I was trying my best here.
“Yes. We need to run.”
Rudy took two of the boys from my arms and held them in one of his. Then, he took my now empty left hand as I clung to Zayden with my right arm. He pulled me along behind him as he ran as fast as he could. I was glad that I was able to move fast, or he would have been dragging me. Actually, I could probably move faster than him.
So, I decided that I was going to move faster than him. I ran faster and harder until I was ahead of him. I started to pull him behind me and made him force his body to keep up with me.
“You aren’t human.” Rudy called after me, marveling at the speed that I was showing.
“I already told you that.” I laughed at him and his absurdness.
“Yes, I know that. However, seeing is believing.”
I wanted to respond to him, but I just didn’t have the chance. We were running for our lives, after all. If I didn’t want to upset the balance of things in this world, I would have just fought him. I couldn’t do that though. I couldn’t risk it.
Running didn’t seem to be working right now though. It wasn’t that we weren’t trying. It wasn’t because we weren’t moving fast. We were doing both of those things, but when your opponent was now almost ten feet tall and covered way more ground than you ever could with each stride, and then add into that the fact that his size did not diminish his speed at all, it was going to be hard to outrun them.
I needed to think of something else. I needed to get us out of this predicament, and to safety, so that we could then figure out how we were going to get to the door. I needed to figure it all out and in the space of just a few seconds. So, you know, no pressure there.
