Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
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.’
“What in the hell?” I was appalled by what I just read. It made me feel sick. What was going on?
“What is wrong?” Lex asked me as he had heard my whispered outburst. I knew that he would worry about me if he had so much as heard me, he was always like that.
“I..I see something that I am guessing the others are looking for. These words here, they were definitely left by the killer.” The words were glowing in pink right in front of my face. In my opinion, there should be light reflecting on my face, but I didn’t think that Lex knew it was there. Just as I was about to explain to him some more, I heard the sound of someone calling out to me.
“Talia!?”
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Talia
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“Talia!?” That deep and powerful voice was also very recognizable to me. And, unfortunately, it wasn’t being hidden by the magic that I was using to hide me and Lex. And ever more unfortunate, was the fact that someone drawing attention to the two of us made the spell cancel itself out. It relied on someone outside of the circle of magic not drawing any attention to us. That was why it was always so perfect. None of them would know we were there and therefore could not draw attention to us.
A magical being from hell was not limited like that though. They were exempt from the spell and were able to find me whenever they were looking for me. And so, now that this netherworld being was looking for me, it meant that everyone in the area would be able to see me. And they did.
I saw mom turn to look at me with shock then anger. She was not happy that I had disobeyed her and followed them into the woods.
“Shit!” I whispered the word under my breath, hoping she didn’t hear me. She was still using that power of hers and there was an eerie blue glow to her eyes.
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“TALIA SERENE GRAY!” She snapped at me the moment that she heard the word escape my lips. “You are too young to be using language like that, young lady.”
“Mom! I am fifteen years old now. Stop treating me like a child.” I rolled my eyes at her just as someone else called out to me again.
“Talia!”
“Either come here or go away, Lucifer. Stop calling out to me though.” I felt annoyed at him now because he had been the reason that I was caught.
“You had to answer me, Talia. So, naturally, I was going to call out to you more. I cannot just assume that you are readily available for me to come to. I need to know that it’s a good time.”
“Yeah, and a mystical voice calling out to me from nowhere is really a good way of doing that. What if there were humans around?” I was angry right now and I was taking it out on him.
“I checked for humans before I called out to you, do you not have faith in me, child? You are being exceedingly rude as well. What has gotten into you?” I was usually on my best behavior when the gods of the underworld were around. In truth, I was usually on my best behavior at all times. I wanted to be the best that I could be and never showed my displeasure or an attitude. In truth, I didn’t know why I was acting the way that I was now. Maybe it was because I was away from home. Maybe it was because I was experiencing so many new things. I didn’t know what was going on with me.
“Talia, take that call from Lucifer and then we need to talk.” Mom was stomping over to where I was standing, her magic still in effect.
“Fine.” I sighed and stepped away. “Come on, Lucifer, tell me what you need. Are you coming through or just talking?” I needed to know what it was that was so important that he would call me out of the blue like this. Most likely, it had something to do with the case.
“I found more of those souls that you were looking for. They had been sent here ahead of the other ones that you called me for.”
“How were their souls released?” I didn’t know what was happening to those people and how they were sent to the underworld and the ones that I came across had not been.
“They had been cremated.” Lucifer’s words were easy enough to understand, but for some reason they made my skin go cold and my brain stop working.
“Th..they were cre..cre..cremated?” I stuttered out the words, and I never stuttered.
“Yes.” A simple reply from him, although it was also very powerful.
“Lucifer, wh..what did they experience during that?” I just knew that they would have suffered. They suffered during the autopsies, and their murder at that. They had been through so much, but this was too much.
“They felt it all, apparently. The souls were trapped inside of their dead bodies. Until the runes that were holding them there had been removed, they could not leave their bodies. And, on top of that, they felt everything that happened to the body. That, in my opinion, is unique in and of itself.”