"The man is still hanging there. he is not moving even as the birds pick flies from his thorn body," one of Magnam's told him, Referring to Kogna's body hanging upside down.
"How about Tiana and the cat man?" Magnam asked.
"They have not come out since they went inside."
"The dying man, who is he? Have you gotten closer enough to see him?"
"No, but he must be one of their own. These people are ruthless, Magnam. We can't fight them with this few numbers. We better get moving before they caught up with of our presence around their territory…"
"Our territory, always remember that, they are invading our territory, taking our birth rights from us. They bring their world to our world. They are bringing vessels with materials to build settlements, and when that happens, our world is going to change forever," Magnam hissed to his men furiously.
Magnam's men, knew better than to contest their leader in his fanatical idealogies. They looked at him moodily. Magnam had always been a reasonable concerted break a neck kinda leader.
But something about him was off. He is frantic, and irritant in demeanor since his encounter with the cat-man, the Alpha as they call him.
He took a step away from his men, and I went behind a boulder 4 meters away. There under the cover of the surrounding bush amidst the boulders, he lifted his arm and rasped in pain, exposing the fangs infected punctures under his armpit, where the cat-man had bitten him.
He wipes away the congeal blood and pus, shivering in agony. The pain felt so piecing it reached his heart.
The Alpha had lead him here. Through the bite, he did bonded him to himself telepathically. The compulsion was subtle he doubted it at first, but now its no more.
He could feel the Alpha in a murderous rage, edging him to attack the haram with his men. He saw flashes of their battle in the dark. Who is the devil cat-man? he had him trapped in his psychic web.
He found himself turning against his will power. He heard his men turning as well. In his gorilla form, the pain dissipates.
They were all howling and bellowing in malice. The compulsion was so strong. It was pulling them towards the bevy palace.
An Alpha gorilla was in the vicinity calling out to them. But the only Alpha gorilla they had known with that kind of power had been Magnam.
But this wasn't one of Magnam's feeble calls. This was way too strong and binding. Magnam himself was affected by the compulsion.
"Call of an Alpha from the haram. The soldiers keeping guard at gates had lethal weapons," one of the strongest gorilla's turned to inform his brothers as Magnam emerge from behind the boulders.
His brothers had questions in their eyes Magnam couldn't answer. But they all knew one thing, Magnam leads them not anymore. Whatever that was calling out to them from within the walls of the haram was their new master.
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The pain felt unbearable, but Kuga Let it run through him like an electric shock. Pain from the bite of Tiana. He did hide it from her.
Perhaps she knows about it, she was just so hysterical even in their union one couldn't tell.
Nebulous is dead, he had no emotions for that right, for his own life lay in peril.
He is just so furious. He feels if he reacts he will destroy himself. He need presence of mind. He had witnessed how powerful the mind is. And his mind was getting stronger and stronger as the energy he harvested from the ape woman, Tiana, infused deeper into his brain nerons.
He let his thoughts float seeking the panther maidens. He found them in one of the rooms taking a nap after their long ordeal on the vile poison that was meant to kill them.
They are too week to help him. He couldn't call on them telepathically to come to his aid.
He spreads his peripheral telepathic energies into the court yard, and the front clearing; here, he smell of death, but he was looking for life. He cleave his energies all the way into the woods.
He did led the gorilla rebels here. It's time to reign them in through their leader, Magnam.
He could sense Magnam in the vacinity. His connection with him was insant. He crept into his mind.
The man seems to be an Alpha of sort, because his connection his men had with him was like what he had with his maidens.
This gave him access to Magnam and all his men, susceptible to his psychic intrusion. Kuga the Alpha, controls the turning switch of the gorilla men.
He head footsteps approaching his cell however, and he flipped his eyes open, closing his astral eye.
The steps had seized somewhere in the corridor. A cell gate opened and closed. Then the footsteps continue louder as the person comes closer....
It wasn't long before Kanka emerged. He pressed the red button on the outside and the cell door opens.
"What an industrious man you are, hybrid. I like your vision. You want to build your own legacy. Free from the clan. You don't care until something stands in your way, and right now I am the only one standing in your way and here I come. You've earn yourself that privilege."
So this one too thinks he is the highest of all things. A law that can't be defied by any other law. That's why he did kill the two lords, and would have added this one to the list had Nebulous pulled the trigger. An error in judgement, because it's this very man the had Nebulous head on a spike.
"I will tell you something I once tell a man, who talked to me like the way you are talking to me now," Kuga rasped like a wounded rattler.
"What did you tell him?" Kanka asked in a snigger, amusing himself. The laugh of a man, who seem not to have any problem with dying.
"I told him to do as he must, because I wouldn't blink when I have my claws wrapped around his heart."
"And, have you succeeded in this?" Kanka queried levelly, observing the Alpha closely, before continuing....
"No, you didn't, for saying and actually delivery are two poles apart," he added.
"I will remember that when I am delivering my final blow." The Kuga replied spitefully.
"Sorry, hybrid; I am always the one to deliver last blows. I am the omega, enforcer of the last day of men," Kanka gave a sinister grinned, warming up to well laid torture in store for this man....