Kira and Banzai take the opportunity of fireworks to break through, Kira nails her teeth into one of the adults, who roars as she shakes him from side to side over the shoulder. Kira throws him against one of the tents, causing the structure to fall on him, another jumped on her in half transformation to a hyena, this one is much bigger than her, he bites her back when it falls on her back. Kira roars but before she can get rid of her, two others join in her attempt to hold her, putting too much weight on her that barely lets her stand up.
She can see how one of the dwarves, a redhead with a braided beard, approaches her with a silver chain. Kira smiles have not yet recognized that she is a lycan, but with so much weight she can barely move. She immediately feels the tingle of the silver contact against her fur when she puts the grilleted on her.
Banzai rammed into the dwarf when he was tying her up, leaving a momentary space for Kira to be able to break free. Kira only used the same weight of his captors against him, dropping on one side and crushing one of them and another leaving him trapped on one leg; Banzai took the opportunity to free her from the other.
"Let's run, it's many," Banzai growls before starting to run with the momentary distraction when an explosion and laughter are heard in the distance.
"This is fun," Kira says as she follows him still dragging a chain from the shackle and another from his neck.
"I wouldn't call this fun," Banzai rolls his eyes, as they roam the streets behind the shops. "Now what? We won't be able to run forever."
"To get rid of them, they are disorganized, rather lost without the control of the faun."
"I wouldn't say that to be exact."
"What moves your father the most?"
"Make money and live as he wants."
"I can assure you that others do the same, just like your fellow hyenas, believe me when I say I'm worth the attempt to catch me."
"Any werewolf is not worth so much."
Kira can't respond to feeling a pull back, someone took one of the chains she still has tied, when she turns she sees a big, heavy weight man at the muscular level pulling her.
"Bring it, it will be useful," says the faun appearing behind the man, caressing his triangular beard, "nothing better than the blood of the children of the moon goddess, to invoke him and let it all begin. Good job, hyena." looking at Banzai
But Banzai throws himself against the chains and tries to help Kira by pulling it with her, fighting. Kira does everything she can by burying her paws in the ground to put up resistance, her body begins to burn, while a sense of anger and despair fills her. She can barely stop him when Maldey started beckoning, again chains and ropes begin to restrict his movements.
"Get out of here, Banzai, and find my godmother is the only lycan here probably," Kira growls as she was thrown to the ground by pulling her paws.
"Do you want me to leave you here?!"
"Just go! We won't be able to just the two against all of them, she will know what to do! She was by Salvatore's place!"
Banzai growls but obeys by walking away still transformed, running as best he can.
The giant man keeps dragging her, until he has her by his feet and ties her with the chains . The faun walks around her watching her, noticing that the silver chains do not do her the expected harm.
"Who would say it, a young lycan snooping where it shouldn't." Says the faun. "Bring her here, I have the perfect place, I would say she is younger than she looks and virgin still, that's ideal."
The faun beckons his servant to follow him, he only grabs Kira by the legs carrying her by the shoulder like a sack of potatoes, after tying her well from the chains. Kira squirms and bites her shoulder hard, drawing blood from the man but he did not flinch. The faun took them to a new, larger tent where there was a stone inn with what looks like an altar.
"Hold her up, even if it's up her legs, I need some blood," Maldey walks to some boxes that are all the way to the bottom, pulling out of these several knives and a bowl.
Kira looks afraid at the faun, not knowing what his true intentions are, she continues to fight even when she hangs upside down. Maldey approaches her again, putting the bowl next to her fur, but Kira pulls it away as she stirs.
"Keep her still, idiot, or do you think I can do everything if she moves?"
The faun retrieves the bowl while the man holds it better, returns and holds the bowl well, before sinking the knife precisely into the abdomen, just entering a little, making another two on the face and groin, starting to collect the few drops of blood, cleaning the knife he used before he will change for the next, repeating the process in different parts of the wolf's body. Completely ignoring her moans,
Kira shakes her head from side to side, feeling a headache increased by the shallow cuts. Holding the urge to cry.
"Be happy, little wolf, thanks to you things in the world will change, everything will return to how it should be, everything will be a balance." Maldey lifts the bowl with a smile before cutting off a part of an ear as well. "Tie her to the table, we're not done yet."
The servant put it on the table without any delicacy, neglecting the chains.
Kira took the opportunity and stood up suddenly, resisting the uncomfortable and painful cuts, slamming to bury the teeth directly in the servant's face, you just have to make time.
"Hold her, you asshole!" shouts the faun before being hit in the face with the chains she use in her benefit.
Kira doesn't let go of the man's face, scratching his arms with his claws to prevent him from holding him again. She begins to listen behind her, recognizing the Maldey's voice that she seems to recite some kind of ritual.
"By the winds of the north and their icy tides, the spirits of the warriors who live among us and of those who remember very few, listen to my voice."
Kira notices how the fabric walls glow with different patterns of letters and symbols of ancient runes. These marks begin to cover her too when she releases the man and falls to the floor completely bristling. She already feels how her energy begins to drain slowly, her vision changes, seeing how the fabrics become solid almost looking like a completely different structure, look like the abandoned corridors of some building, you can hear the sand and the strong winds crashing against the outer walls.
In the background she sees someone lying down, a big canid who turns to see her with blood-colored eyes. Kira seems familiar, especially as he approaches her, only recognizing the mysterious smell that she once thought she had forgotten. The same one that he had in that vision years ago and that is repeated in a recurring dream.
The wolf is almost touching her, its smell is intense, addictive to her senses, the most delicious thing you ever see sense: dark chocolate, freshly brewed coffee and a new book. She is bigger than her but can hardly tell how much, but she feels captivated with a strange feeling.
But everything began to disappear and diminish until the vision disappears.
"No! What happened!? He must have been here already!" shouts Maldey hysterically.
Kira still seeks to recover by feeling a ringing in her ears, barely aware when her godmother interrupts in the store, attacking the man immediately.
The faun between the mess of roars and blood, knowing that he would have no chance against an adult lycan runs to the back and escapes.
"Kira, let's get up," Banzai growls as he approaches her, "we can't let her escape."He seeks to encourage her to continue, although knowing that it is dangerous that is the most exciting thing she has had in a long time.
Kira growls, still sore from the wounds even if they are superficial, does not prevent her from moving. The floor below her rumbles for a moment as the other wolf finally knocks down the servant, hitting the ground as she tries in vain to get rid of Annie's grip on her neck, her teeth letting The floor below her rumbles for a moment as the other wolf finally knocks down the The floor below her rumbles for a moment as the other wolf finally knocks down the servant, hitting the ground as she tries in vain to get hold of Annie's grip on her neck, her teeth letting her life slip away. , hitting the ground as she tries in vain to get hold of Annie's grip on her neck, her teeth letting his life slip away.her life slip away.
"Go after him, that faun doesn't plan anything good with all this ritual," says Anastasia by the mental bond. "He tried to invoke someone for the kind of ritual that faun tried, I don't know because he didn't get it; but don't let him try again."
The three listen to the other workers approaching
"Go now!"
Kira and Banzai leave the tent, running to beat the counter-clock before the faun disappears completely.
"Now what?" Ask the hyena.
"It should not be far away, especially if he has another plan drawn up, he still has what he brings under that weighted blanket, he could be anything but a cute and friendly kitten."
"That thing has a foul and strong smell, if we find that thing."
"We will find Maldey, let's divide it will be better to find him, anything you know how to let me know."
Banzai walks away starting to look for one of the smells on his own.
Kira does the same, almost immediately catching the subtle smell of the faun. The uproar of the party and the strong smells of the market streets mostly cover it.
"Let's see where you've gone, Maldey, I don't think you're someone who runs away with his tail between his legs."
She walks between the stalls, following her nose, luckily the faun has avoided the crowds, but is still dangerously close.
"So close I was, but everything has gone to hell," kira begins to hear Maldey's voice rumbling in the landscapes between warehouses and shops. "The question is, what happened, because it didn't work."
The voice is deep and bewitching, it reached everywhere but its owner is nowhere to be found.
"Or if it worked, but he is already here on earth, the whole balance is going to be restored."
"You're crazy, faun, who was I trying to call?"
She stops at what looks like a platform and the faun standing in the middle, playing with his long fingers and nails, his long curly horns seem to glow under the light of the fireworks.
"Little, ignorant little lycan, you never hear the ancient stories? The legends of our sacred gods," Maldey continued, extending his arms upward, "the end of time, the great cleansing is approaching, and you whom your race should honor more is already on earth! You saw it! The fearsome wolf of Ragnarok, Fenrir, walks among us."
The faun lets out a loud laugh and hits the ground with his hooves.
"You will be the first in true greatness that awaits you, you and that disobedient hyena."
Banzai came to Kira growling disgusted because the pestilent smell is stronger.
The ground below the two rumbles loudly, lifting them off the ground by the impact. Kira hears something being dragged to the ground, a huge shadow becomes sharper as it approaches them.
Kira sees with horror the humanoid form of bluish-gray skin and at least more than 14.7 feet tall of an adult mountain troll.
"Let the new era begin."