Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
I followed after my father then, into the fray of the battle. I could see that he was making his way toward one of the dragon heads that was spewing its seemingly endless stream of disgusting water.
I landed on the side wall of the hall, using magic to help me cling to it and run along the solid surface. My father was a few dozen feet ahead of me, running in the same way. His sword was in his right hand, stretched out behind him as he ran.
I was hot on my father’s heels with my sword in both hands. I could hold it one handed, but I got so much more accuracy and power with it in both hands so that was the way that I left it. And not to mention, this made sure that I didn’t drop it in my haste or nerves.
I watched as Edmond leapt from the wall and sliced toward the Hydra’s rightmost head. It cut through the flesh, bones, and everything else easily, and I followed up behind, also leaping from the wall. When I was close enough to the dragon, I shot a jet of fire from my sword.
That fire was hotter than ordinary fire and it caused the dragon to scream and screech again.
“RAWRAHH! YOU BITCH! YOU CUT OFF ANOTHER ONE OF MY HEADS! WHAT DID YOU DO!? HOW DID YOU DO THIS AGAIN? RAWRAHGH! AND WHO IS THAT MAN!? HOW DID YOU BRING SOMEONE ELSE HERE?! RAWRAHGH!”
It was clear that Hekate was not having a good time with what was going on. She was screeching and flailing about as the bleeding from her neck stopped almost immediately. She was now down to just two heads, one of which was still spewing water at the shields that seemed to be holding firm and protecting Rudy, Alexio, Zachary, Zander and Zayden. I was happy that they seemed to be safe for the time being, but I needed to put an end to the blast. I just knew that it had to be scaring the hell out of the three little boys. And the men probably weren’t having that great of a time either.
“Oh, you do not recognize me, Hekate? You spoke to me all the time since I was a boy, but am dead for just a little while and all of a sudden you forget about me? That isn’t very nice at all. How could you do that to me?” I saw Edmond shaking his head like he couldn’t believe what it was that Hekate had said.
“I speak to a lot of people, a lot of my children. You think you were special? You were one of many. You were just a pawn to get me out of hell.” Hekate snapped at him, anger dripping from her voice.
“That may be true Hekate, but I believe that I was the only one to ever get close to freeing you. Something that I truly regret doing, but it is the truth of my past.” Once again Edmond sounded so filled with sorrow and sadness.
“Close? The only one that ever got close was.. was Gannon.” I could see the dragon bitch was trying to focus her eyes on him then. “Gannon Edmond?” She gasped when looking at him. “You’re dead. You’re dead and in a cell here in Damnation. How are you here? And why are you helping the bitch that killed you?”
“Because this is the right thing to do.” A fierce and firm resolve filled his voice when he answered that question. “You need to be stopped.”
“FUCK YOU GANNON! YOU WERE ALWAYS A WEAK DISCIPLE.”
The other head stopped throwing water at my kids and my friends so that it could start to aim at my father instead. I needed to protect him now too, he did save me after all.
As it turned out, I didn’t need to protect him all that much. I was watching on and following behind Edmond so that I could step in if he needed me to, but he was doing just fine. He leapt from the platform that he was on and spun through the air toward the other head. He sliced through it in an instant and called out to me.
“NOW RIVIANA! BURN THE NECK SO THAT SHE CANNOT REGROW THE HEAD! HURRY UP!”
I did as he told me to. I ran along the same path that he had taken and leapt toward the thrashing dragon while it screamed again and again.
“RAWRAHGH! RAWR! ARGH! AHHHH! RAWRAHGH!” She screamed over and over again, thrashing and moving about. It was almost impossible for me to get close enough to the neck without her final head getting in the way.
I did it though, and I once again shot a blast of fire from my sword at her. The fire seared the flesh of the dragon bitch’s neck as it cauterized the wound. I could actually hear the place being burned this time. I could smell it and hear it and neither of those were pleasant to behold.
“HOW DARE YOU!? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME!? I AM A GODDESS!? I AM AN ALL POWERFUL BEING!? I AM HEKATE, MOTHER OF THE WITCHES AND WARLOCKS! HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO YOUR CREATOR!? HOW?”
“You may be the mother of our kind, Hekate, but you would also be our destruction. You would kill all of your children that didn’t agree with you completely. That is a path that I have taken once, and I know how wrong that is. I will not let someone else kill so many innocent people. I will not let that happen to my daughter and her family.” Edmond sounded so firm and pissed off at the moment that he almost sounded like the old Edmond. Almost. Still, he was trying to stop her so that was a good thing.
“I will kill her and you, Edmond. I will destroy anyone who stands in my way. That is something that we used to have in common. That is something that bound us together, but not anymore.”
“Nope, not anymore.” I snapped at her. “He has changed, but you’re still the same old piece of trash that you always have been. Now Hekate, prepare for what you have been threatening me with this whole time. Prepare to die. I am going to end you. I am going to destroy your soul.. I am going to rid the world of your evilness once and for all.”
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Riviana
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Hekate was down to just one head now. This was going to be the final part of the battle. This was going to be the part that brought it all to an end. Finally, we could end this whole ordeal. Finally, I will be able to get home. And, curiously enough, it was all thanks to my father that I had been able to do all of this. Who would have thought that I would be working with him like this? Who would have ever thought that Gannon Cornelius Edmond would have been able to be trusted and relied upon like that? I never would have thought that at all. Not for one second.
While I thought about these things that I basically used to think were impossible, I saw that Hekate was starting to get angrier than before. Her wings were beating faster and faster as she hovered in the air above the hall.
The wind from her wings was nearly causing a whirlwind, that just showed how fast it was that she was beating those giant wings of hers. The whirlwind that she was creating was getting stronger by the second. It was so strong that it was starting to push me around the hall as it twisted below the dragon bitch.
“We need to stop her, Edmond. We need to make sure that she doesn’t get out of here. And, while doing that, I need to make sure that I protect the boys and my friends up there. They cannot be harmed at all.”
“I know, Riviana. That is why I am here. I came to help you. I wanted to at least make up for a little bit of the damage I had caused when I was still living. You may rely on me and tell me whatever it is that you want me to do. I will make sure that I do it all perfectly.”
“Thank you, Edmond. I appreciate your help. And I know that your life might have been different if it wasn’t for your mother and father. You never had the chance to be loved.” I could feel my heart breaking again. I had touched on this with him earlier, and I had of course learned the story from the other me, but that didn’t mean that it was easy for me to accept and process.
As a mother, and as someone who didn’t have either of their biological parents in their life growing up, I knew what it was like to love a child and to be loved by others. All Edmond wanted was love. And that was what he thought he got from Hekate. That was why he dedicated his life to her.
I still couldn’t stop thinking about the fact that Edmond would have turned out differently if he just had a chance at life. It wasn’t that he was bad, he just never knew love. That makes a big difference in someone’s life. A child can’t grow and flourish without love. And without that love, that child might make wrong choices out of desperation. If I could, I would go back to when Edmond was a child and show him the love that he needed and lacked. If I could, I would help to make him into a better person.
I needed to not think about that right now though. I needed to focus on the situation at hand. The boys were more important at the moment. And getting home to everyone else was more important. I could think about my father and all that later, when I had more time and leeway.
Focusing myself, I started to move toward the dragon once more. There was only one head left. Only one head to destroy before this was all over. I needed to get closer to it. I needed to be able to destroy that head as soon as possible.
Yet, the moment that I tried to move closer to the dragon, the more that the wind pushed me away. The more I fought to get closer to the dragon, the stronger the wind became. Every time that I took a step toward the dragon I was buffeted back.
I was literally not able to move any closer to her. That dragon bitch, that fucking fallen goddess Hekate, was starting to piss me off more than I ever thought would ever be possible. I just wanted to end her. I wanted to destroy her soul so that no one needed to worry about the hell on Earth that she wanted to create. If Hekate was given free roam, most of the people on the planet would be killed and there would only be evil and chaos that remained.
