Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
My magic was rushing toward my eyes. It literally flooded into my eyes and made it harder to see for a moment. I was about to snarl out something along the lines of 鈥業 wanted to see more, not less’, but just as I was about to do that, the magic stopped flowing and I was able to see again.
What I was seeing though, wasn’t normal. Instead of seeing the normal colors and images that were before me, I was now seeing things like they were through a lens. Everything around me had a bit of a blue tint to it. And things were appearing to glow.
I knew that blood didn’t glow under lights like these, not without luminol. Still, it was like this whole place was bathed in luminol and ultraviolet lights. It was a cool effect, but also a little annoying. Seeing in a different way than usual made for an instant headache.
I was looking at the scene with new eyes, literally. I wanted to see if there was anything at all that was different with this new way of seeing. I was able to see every little droplet of blood that was splashed around the area, and the pattern that it made.
To see the full pattern I needed to move away a little and get higher up. That was easy for me, even though there was no viewing platform. I literally just walked away from the body while walking on the air at the same time. After I took about fifteen steps or so, I was sufficiently high in the air and far back enough to see the entire area.
Looking down at the glowing pattern of blood, I saw that it was the Valknut rune, the three interlocking triangles that were carved onto the body. This was definitely intentional, and it was definitely meant to be a message of some sort.
I was just about to move on, to look for more clues, but that was when I saw that there was a message written on the wall. Beneath the layers of blood, there was something else that was glowing on the back of the church.
I hurried down invisible steps as I rushed to get closer to the side of the church. I knew now that there was no need to preserve the scene, I would be allowed to wipe away the blood. I used my magic to clear it away, not wanting to dirty myself that much if I could help it. As I stood there, hovering just about a foot off of the ground so that I could see the lettering a little more easily, I read the words that had been carved into the back of the church.
鈥楳onsters hide in the dark,
but that will never stop the light from shining through.
We will hunt the monsters to extinction
and we will free the world from their evil ways.
We will slay the beasts and
we will stop the spread of their
infernal diseases to the good people of this world.
We are the saviors of humankind.
We are the heroes of the light.
And we will not be stopped.’
I felt my blood boil and my heart freeze at the same time. The words that I had just read on that wall infuriated me. I was beyond angry. I was righteously pissed off. And I was ready to avenge the people that this monster had killed.
However, the thought struck me almost immediately. This person called us monsters, called me a monster. That meant that if I just went and destroyed him, and his whole group of killers, then I was just as much of a monster as he thought that I was. I needed to be more restrained than that. I needed to be civilized, because he sure as hell wasn’t.
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Joaquin
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I had watched my Little Bunny walk so that she was standing in the air and looking down on the scene from about twenty feet in the air. She was different than she usually was, that was immediately obvious.
After hearing my Little Bunny whisper something about needing to see more, I saw that her eyes started to glow blue. Actually, her whole body seemed to glow and shine almost like there was a black light inside of it. It was strange, but kind of cool too.
“What is going on?” Cadwal, was scared as he saw something strange happening with his queen for the first time, exclaimed in a hushed voice.
“She is investigating. She is the Goddess after all, she will be able to do things that we would never even think about.” I smiled as I answered him.
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“But how did she do that?” Cadwal still didn’t get it yet. He was still asking for an explanation.
“Like I said, she is the Goddess. She has magic that we could never fathom. Even if we observe her for twenty years, she will still surprise us.” That last part was me admitting that I was still surprised by her on a regular basis.
“I cannot imagine what that must be like.” He shook his head and just watched as my Little Bunny saw what she was up there to see.
After a couple of minutes of me and Cadwal just staring at her and watching her work, I saw that my Little Bunny was surprised by something. She was looking hard at the building that was the old church. She had squinted her eyes but there was obviously too much going on through the glowing of her eyes to make out what she was seeing. Instead, she hurried down from where she was and stood right in front of the wall.
As I was making my way over to my Little Bunny’s side, I saw that she was using her mana to wash the blood away. For a moment I was shocked, because it was evidence, but I knew she had her reasons, not to mention that it was already catalogued and documented so it was fine.
Underneath the blood there were words that had been carved into the wall. The dark, weathered, gray wood of the church wall was different from the lighter color of the letters gouged into it with a knife of some sort.
“What the hell?!” I couldn’t help but exclaim in anger when I saw what was written on that wall. “What the hell is that supposed to mean?” At my loud and angry outburst, the others all came running over to see what was going on.
“What are they playing at? Who are they calling monsters?” Shane was pissed when he saw the words.
“They think we’re monsters, yet they’re the ones that have killed people so brutally. What are they playing at?” Vincent, equally angered, glared at the words.
“So, does this mean that we were right in assuming that it was a human?” Shawn’s words seemed to bring the entire group to a halt. They were now starting to think about the implications of what those words meant.