Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“I will let that slide. Right now, I feel like a bitch that will do anything that I can to protect my family. I’m a Mama Bitch, and I will put my all into eliminating you, Gram Gram.”
The talking was over. Like I had already planned, I was the first one to attack this time. I moved quickly to the side and caught a hold of Hekate’s wrist as she brought her arm back to swing at me. I was moving at a speed that was fast; I was nearly invisible. I knew that this was the case because I had that same sensation that I had once before.
As I moved quickly, I spun Hekate’s arm behind her back and kicked out at the back of her knee. The move caused Hekate to spin and flip in the air at the same time. In a very ungraceful and unladylike manner, she landed haphazardly on the floor of the hall.
While Hekate was momentarily distracted, I reached my hand into the air and called my sword to me. I felt the handle of it, all but invisible as it was concealed in between the folds of reality. With a quick tug and a gust of icy wind, I pulled the sword toward me from the plane of existence that held it while it was not being used.
The comforting feel of it and the familiar way that it looked caused a soothing, happy sort of feeling to flood within me. I was mostly just happy to see that it was in perfect condition right now. I had feared that it might have been destroyed forever after what had happened with the snake that I fought in the Hall of Purgatory. It was once again covered in all the shards of ice and looked lethally sharp and deathly cold.
By the time that the sword was properly in my hand, I could tell that Hekate was preparing to get up. She had rolled onto her knees and was pushing herself from the floor in a very tired and defeated manner. This was going a lot easier than I had thought that it would. If this kept up, I would end this fight in no time at all. All I would need to do would be to attack her a few more times and all would be done. Maybe I was hitting harder than I used to or maybe she was weakened by the fact that she had been in the Hall of Damnation for so long. Whichever it was though, I wasn’t going to complain. I just wanted to make sure that I was able to destroy her. That was my goal here after all.
I didn’t wait for Hekate to get up. I launched another attack almost immediately. I ran to her side and stuck my blade into the back of her shoulder, feeling it slide into the thick meat of her flesh. With a two handed grip on my sword, I lifted Hekate from the floor and flung my arms toward the wall next to her prison cell.
Hekate had stuck to the sword as I picked her up, but now her body went flying in the direction that I had aimed. She landed with a very satisfying thud and an audible grunt of pain.
“Ngh!” That sound was like music to my ears right now.
I knew that I was being a little too zealous. I knew that I was taking a little too much pride and pleasure in the moves and damage that I was inflicting upon that woman. I knew that all of that was true, but I wasn’t really able to stop myself. I just knew that I needed to win. I needed to finish her off.
“Just give up, Hekate. There is no way that you are going to win. There is nothing that you can do to beat me. Just give up and make it easier on yourself. Make this easier on all of us.”
That was when she started to laugh.
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Riviana
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Hekate was laughing maniacally. The sound of it was sending shivers running through my body and made me feel like something cold had just been poured down my back. What the hell was going on? Why was she laughing like that? What was up with her?
I didn’t know the answer to any of those questions. And because I didn’t know the answers, it was making me feel a little vulnerable and weak. That was one hell of a power. To be able to render me weak just by laughing.
“HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!” I tried my best not to visibly shiver and shake at that sound. “HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!” The laughter wasn’t ending anytime soon.
“What the hell is the matter with you?” I asked her, taking a step away from her.
“HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!”
“Stop it, Hekate! Stop with that damn laughing.”
“HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!” She was still just laughing over and over again.
“You’re one annoyingly crazy bitch, you know that? You and that stupid laugh of yours is so damn annoying.”
“HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!” She was still just laughing nonstop. “HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!”
“GAH! I’m going to knock the laughter out of you.”
“HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!”
“Careful, Mommy!” I could barely hear it, but I Zayden was giving me encouragement as I wondered what to do with this annoying fallen goddess in front of me.
“She’s a bad lady, Mommy.” Zander informed me.
“Don’t let her get you, Mommy.” Zachary gave me another warning.
“Stay strong, Queen Riviana.” Rudy was next.
“You can do this, Riviana.” Alexio finished for them all.
“HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! How touching is this? HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! Look at how much they all love you already. HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! Their support of you won’t help at all. You will still die. Your minutes are numbered. HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!”
She was starting to get to me. I just wanted her to stop right now but that wasn’t likely to happen. She was taunting me. I don’t know why, but she was. She had been on the losing end of this fight, but she was the one that was taunting me. What the hell?! What was going on here?
“What do you think you are going to do, Hekate? You were losing. Don’t you remember that? I’ve already stabbed you with my sword. That means that you are going to freeze from the inside out. You have already lost.”
“HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! No, Riviana, you are the one that has lost. You’re so overconfident right now that you cannot even see what is happening right in front of you.”
“And what is that, Hekate? What is it that I can’t see? What is going on that I am missing?”
“Well, for one thing, Riviana, I am not freezing. That sword of yours did not freeze me. I am not in any danger of perishing. And I have been doing nothing but toying with you so far.” Her eyes, pure white as they were, seemed to narrow as she looked at me. I couldn’t see anything else in them, no color at all, but I could see how the shape changed, and that told me that she was looking at me smugly. She was obviously trying to rile me up more than I already was. And the part that pissed me off was that it was working.
“How is it that my sword isn’t affecting you? How can you defend yourself against it?” In my opinion, that was the most important thing that I needed to know right now. “Why are you not affected by it?”
