The night was shrouded in darkness as rain poured down relentlessly upon the dense, ancient woods. The only sound that pierced the silence was the rustle of leaves, the rhythmic drumming of raindrops against the forest floor and the howls and growls of wolves shifting. It was finally time to end the war. Everyone was ready to attack as the whole battlefield was filled with glowing eyes.
Hearing Freya call Alpha Bayron father, shocked Tessa. She looked over at Freya and saw nothing but hatred and anger in her eyes. Before she could say something, Freya took off toward Alpha Bayron, not waiting for any attacking order. Seeing this, Alpha Maynard gave his men the order to attack and they began running toward Kreed and the others. Not wasting anytime also, Kreed's men began running toward the enemy, beginning the battle.
"Since Bayron's got family issues, that means I'm taking on Alpha Maynard....and rightfully so. I owe him" Damien stated, gearing up to attack.
"So do I. I owe him a lot too" Tessa stated.
"Well then we jump him together. There's no rule in battle. Afterall that's what he's been doing" Damien smiled.
"I guess that leaves me with manbun" Kreed pointed out, holding his side. He could feel the effect of the poison weighing him down.
"You're poisoned, I don't think...."
"I owe him too Tessa. He killed me once, though he didn't succeed. Trust me, even if I am left with just an arm, Derek won't take me down" He smiled at her.
Not doubting him, Damien smiled and then brought his gaze back to Alpha Maynard who was approaching them already. "Let's go!" He called and dashed toward him.
Tessa swiftly pulled Kreed to herself and planted a full kiss on his lips. "Don't die" She whispered to him on breaking the kiss before running off toward Alpha Maynard also.
Kreed smiled, let go of his side and stood upright. He heaved a deep sigh before making his way to Derek who seemed to have a bit of fear in his eyes.
(Freya and Alpha Bayron)
"Father!!" Freya yelled out right before both their arms clashed together midair. They landed on the floor with their arms still against each other. Freya stared directly into his glowing eyes with her hateful glowing ones also. She didn't bother to hide the hate and disgust she had for him. She wanted him to know. As much as the five packs had caused her and her mother pain, she had concluded her father was the real cause.
"You survived all these years, and you awoken Alpha's eyes, unlike your dead brother.....I guess I should have focused on you more instead of wasting years on your disappointment of a brother" He said to her with a little smile on his lips, hoping it would reach her heart.
"It doesn't matter. It's either you die here or we both die" She replied just before she threw a punch he immediately jumped back and dodged.
"I guess your hatred towards me is justified. I'll accept whatever outcome we get here tonight" He shook his wet hair.
Freya closed the distance between them swiftly, her boots hitting the floor heavily as it splashed water everywhere. Few inches from him, she threw her claws at him, slashing through the air and rainfall continuously as he kept jumping back to dodge her relentless attacks.
Looking behind him, he saw a wolf, one of theirs who was engaged in a fight. He grabbed the wolf and immediately hurled it at her. Freya leaned backward all the way, dodging the wolf. Immediately she stood upright, he was already in front of her with a kick. He kicked her hard on her chest, sending her to the wet ground, rolling on the floor.
Alpha Bayron quickly attacked again before she could get back on her feet. He was cautious. Not knowing her strength or visual prowess made him alert, not wanting to underestimate her. Besides he himself was weak. After creating a clone of himself to fight of Adan, he was left weak. Even with the full moon, he wasn't back at full strength yet.
He rushed her, sending more kicks to her on the ground but Freya who was already on her knee, blocked the kick and immediately followed with trying to clear his legs off the floor but he jumped up when he realized, dodging. But what he didn't anticipate was the speed at which she used in leaping off the floor toward him. His eyes widened with shock when he saw her midair, hitting him with one of the hardest kicks he's ever received.
The kick sent him clashing against a sharp broken tree log which pierced into his rib. He growled from the pain, whilst also clutching his chest the kick landed. He looked back at his daughter and saw her slowly approaching him. She didn't seem to be in a hurry to take advantage of the opening, which surprised him more. He forced himself to his feet, holding his bleeding rib. "What? You think this means you've beaten me?" He asked, when she stopped few inches from him. "This is just the first hit you've got on me" He added and immediately grabbed her neck, tightening his grip around it.
"No...but now I've beaten you" She replied, swiftly grabbed his hand that was holding her neck, forced it off and sank her fangs into his wrist. Immediately she bit him, she let go off him.
Alpha Bayron groaned from the pain, holding his wrist. "What...."
"All you've ever lived for is power...." She cut him off. "Mom died cause of that...I did also. Yet, after all these years of seeking power, you couldn't last ten minutes with the daughter you labeled a weakling" She pointed out with a blank expression whilst being drenched under the rain.
"What are you talking about? The fight just bega...." He trailed off with a puzzled look when he began feeling himself slipping out of consciousness.
"This isn't a power of your creation" Freya added and walked over to the broken log he had crashed into. She broke a stake piece and came back to stand in front of him. She watched as his eyes slowly turned from confusion to a plain, blank expression. "It's time to pay for your sins against mother....and against me" She stated.
Immediately his eyes began glowing, she stretched out the stake to him. Without saying a word, he took the stake from her, his soaked clothes clunged against his body as the rain kept pouring heavily. "Bury it in your heart" She ordered and watched as he slowly brought the stake up without protesting or flinching and aligned it in the position of his heart.
Freya nodded and he immediately plunged the stake into his heart. He cried in pain, dropping to his knees and his eyes immediately stopped glowing. He looked from the stake in his heart up to his daughter. He was confused as expected. He felt as though he had blacked out while talking to her and got back to reality when the stake punctured his heart. "Wh....a...."
Freya stared down at him with emotionless eyes. She felt no pity for him. "What you just experienced is my power. A bite from me, places you under my will. It can only be broken by the next full moon or when you're close to death. Well....you can guess why yours is broken" She explained. "How does it feel to be weak? To be helpless?" She asked. Seeing the fear in his eyes was satisfying to her. It was what she wanted to see.
"I...I....I'm sorry Freya...I" He coughed, blooding drooling down his mouth as his heartbeat weakened.
"That means nothing to me" She blurted out, crouched next to him, one hand on his shoulder and the other on the stake. "This is what you deserve for everything you made us go through" She added and pushed the stake deeper into his heart. She held it in, staring directly into his scared eyes as it slowly went lifeless.
She let go and he fell on his back in the puddle of water. She stood up, stared down at him for a while and then heaved a deep sigh just before looking up at the sky even as the rain kept pouring down. She kept staring at the sky, tears rolling down her eyes, mixing with the rain. She felt relief and fulfilment. There was no use holding the tears back.
(Kreed and Derek)
Unzipping his robe fully on getting to where Derek was, Kreed threw the robe on the soaked earth. Standing there in front of Derek, he could sense the fear coming from him and he could tell Derek was Injured too, although he was almost fully healed. "I never got this sense of fear from you before. I guess knowing the difference between us in power would do that to you" Kreed pointed out, trying to ignore the pain he was feeling from the poison.
"You're poisoned. Devil Eyes or not, I think you're too weakened to defeat me" Derek replied, bringing out a dagger from his jacket.
"Dagger and claws. You definitely do not want to take any chances" He smiled. "This isn't a fair fight Derek....look around and see for yourself" He instructed, looking from their men fighting ferociously under the rain to Freya who was fighting with her father, and to Damien and Tessa who were fighting with Alpha Maynard. "There's no way you're winning the war. It's decided already. It's just unfair that you have to face me"
"Not if I kill you" Derek held the dagger in a fighting style, noticing how weak Kieran was. That gave him a boost of confidence.
"Well then, let's see you try" His smile faded.
Derek dashed toward him with his dagger and claws out, growling with his visible fangs. He swung the dagger and his claws at him swiftly, aiming to cut or claw him but Kreed was dodging them swiftly and easily. Derek's speed was no match for his but Kreed could tell he was becoming slow due to the poison. He kept dodging and avoiding Derek's relentless attack.
Being in defense gave him an opportunity to analyze Derek's speed and spot for an opening. He saw both his left claws and the dagger in his right hand coming simultaneously. He swiftly dodged the claw. As he was about dodging the dagger too, he felt his heart tightened and his legs momentarily becoming stiff, making him unable to dodge as the dagger cut across his chest.
Seeing this, Derek quickly followed with a kick to the side of his leg, sending him to his knee. He immediately followed with another kick to Kreed's face, leaving a mark that drew blood. Before Kreed could recover, Derek grabbed his left arm and hurled him over his shoulder, slamming him on the ground. The impact he used in hitting the earth made him cough, spitting out blood, thanks to the poison.
Derek immediately knelt down with Kreed between him. He started with punch after punch and after a while, he swiftly grabbed the dagger tighter. He raised it up and was about to bury it into Kreed's chest when Kreed caught it midair, wrapping both his grip around the blade. Derek kept forcing and the cut from it made Kreed begin bleeding from his palms. He felt himself being overpowered as he was weakened by the poison. Derek thought quickly and then punched Kreed and then immediately used the opening to bury the dagger into his heart.
Kreed groaned from the pain. He watched as relief washed over Derek. He saw the happiness in his eyes. Derek couldn't believe he did it. He knew with him being posioned, he had a chance and there he was, his dagger in his nemesis' chest. A small and fulfilled smile escaped his lips.
Kreed coughed softly, looking up at Derek. He slowly raised his right hand and pointed behind Derek. With furrowed brows, Derek turned and saw Kreed standing behind him, staring down at him with an emotionless gaze, watching as shock, confusion and disbelief crept up on him. He swiftly looked back at the Kreed he just killed and saw it shifting to a dead wolf. "A clone?" He asked with disbelief.
"You should be mindful of your surroundings.....especially when you're fighting someone called Devil Eyes" Kreed stated. "Now let me show you the power of a god" He added.
Derek stood up and immediately dashed toward him with the dagger but froze when he got right in front of him. He couldn't move his body as he stood there, frozen still, staring into Kreed's eyes. Kreed closed the little distance between them. He took the dagger from Derek's grip with his eyes still glowing red.
He knew using that power of his would drain him quickly of his energy, especially with the posion weakening him more. He knew he needed to end it fast. "Why can't I move?" Derek asked with fear in his eyes. Kreed ignored him and moved over to his left side. He grabbed Derek's right hand, he swiftly buried the dagger inside his elbow and pulled it. Derek cried out in pain. But it was nothing compared to the pain he felt when Kreed ripped the arm off fully from the elbow. He yelled out in pain, blood dripping and mixing with the rain.
"That's for being involved with the death of my child" Kreed mentioned and then moved to stand in front of him. Staring directly into his eyes, he said "And this is for ever hurting Tessa". He immediately drove the dagger into Derek's left eye, causing him to cry some more as he pulled out the dagger, his eyeball following it out.
Kreed dropped the dagger on the puddle of water on the ground along with Derek's left eye and left arm. He watched as Derek dropped to his knees, crying and covering his blinded eye with his only arm. Kreed felt strength slipped from him. He was about to fall to his knees when he was caught and assisted on his feet. He looked at who it was and saw Freya. She had her arm wrapped around him, holding him up. "Thanks" He whispered to her.
She nodded and shifted her attention back to Derek. She seemed to have dealt with her father already. "I don't wanna kill you Derek...." Kreed started. "The only reason I'm leaving you alive is because you never truly meant Tessa harm. You were used. But you still have her best interest at heart. That's the grace keeping you alive" He said to him. "She'll need everyone who's willing to look after her after I'm gone" He muttered to himself and then turned to Derek again. "But you should know, for the rest of your existence....you're only alive because I willed it so" Kreed concluded, before walking away with Freya assisting him.
(Tessa, Damien and Alpha Maynard)
"This is it for you Maynard! Your ruthlessness and evil doings comes to an end here" Tessa announced on getting to where Alpha Maynard was, alongside Damien. "You have a lot to pay for"
"You don't get it, do you?" Alpha Maynard asked, smiling. "No matter the outcome here tonight, no one wins. You lost more than I did in this war" He pointed out.
"I personally don't care. As long as you die here tonight, I'm good. For making me kill my people against my will, you'll be joining them in the afterlife tonight" Damien stated with an angered look but also a smirk on his lips.
He turned to Tessa and smiled. "Sure. I'll be joining your people, your parents, your adopted father, your brother, your bestfriend, your unborn child, oh and...Kieran will be joining me soon. I...." His taunts were cut off as Tessa's blow landed on his cheek. Immediately, Damien followed with a kick to his side, sending him stumbling back against his tent.
Alpha Maynard got back his footing and looked up at them. He was surprised when he saw Tessa's glowing red eyes. "Ah...I should have known. You're one of them after all" He commented before dashing toward them again.
He growled loudly, his glowing red eyes, bare fangs and razor sharp claws out for blood. He aimed directly at Tessa with his claws, dashing toward her. He took a swipe at her which she dodged. Before he could take another swipe at her, he felt Damien behind him. He quickly got his footing and tried to take a swing at Damien, but Damien caught his arm.
He punched Alpha Maynard so fast on his face, the Alpha could barely comprehend the speed just before he pulled the Alpha and swung him over to Tessa who immediately clawed across his face. Alpha Maynard grunted from the pain as the four claw marks across his face began bleeding.
He looked up just in time to dodge Damien's kick but he moved right into Tessa's grip. He expertly twisted his arm, freeing himself from her grip and holding her hand instead. He pulled her to him and landed a kick on her chest. He repeated this twice just before Damien jumped into the fray, forcing him to let go of Tessa.
Damien caught Tessa, holding her. "Are you okay?" He asked and she nodded. "Good. Now let me go after him. Just get your fangs ready...you know"
She nodded, understanding what he meant. Damien let go of her and immediately raced toward the Alpha, the heavy rainfall bouncing off him. He got to where the Alpha was in no time, throwing a Jab which the Alpha deflected and then tried to grab him but Damien leaned away from his grip and immediately he got back his footing, he acrobatically threw a kick at the Alpha.
The Alpha blocked it with his arms but Damien kept going and going relentlessly, not giving the Alpha chance to breathe. Risking it, Alpha Maynard leaned back dodging the kick instead of blocking with his arm and then quickly reached for the leg, catching one of them. He was about to use the leg against Damien when to his surprise, Damien leapt off the floor using his hand and landed a kick on his neck with his free leg, sending him to the ground on his knee.
Damien rapidly followed with a barrage of kicks, all of them hitting with precision and sending the Alpha stumbling back and back till he was backed against a huge soaked tree. Damien immediately followed with flurry of punches. Punches so fast the Alpha could hardly follow it and block it.
He knew he was as a great disadvantage being backed against a tree with Damien in front of him. He was experiencing Damien's skills firsthand now and now he could understand what the hype was. Even though he was an Alpha, he couldn't keep up. He was feeling weakened from the punches.
To his surprise, Damien stopped punching abruptly. He took the opportunity immediately and tried to dig his claws into his neck but Damien caught his hand and smiled. "Caught you" He said just before twisting his whole fingers out of position. The Alpha growled from the pain. But that wasn't all. Damien dug his claws into Alpha Maynard's arm, grabbed it tighter and hurled him with it, slamming him against the wet ground.
He raised him up again and slammed him hard against the hard trunk of the tree that you could hear a broken rib. He grabbed the Alpha by his collar and raised him up. He hit him against the tree, immediately grabbed his head and hit it hard against the tree, so hard that his bald head began bleeding.
"Tessa!" Damien called out, grabbed the Alpha and threw him to Tessa.
Tessa who had been waiting for the opportunity the whole time, caught him midair, her eyes glowing red. Without wasting time, she sunk her fangs into his neck. The Alpha growled just before his eyes stopped glowing and his fangs and claws retracted. She pushed him to the ground and he landed on his ass, looking confused. "You must be confused right now....my bite just took your powers temporarily. Not that you'll get the chance to get it back. So as of right now, you're just....human" She said to him with a smug look.
For the first time, she saw a hint of fear in his eyes. That made her smile broadly. She wanted him to feel fear. He was still on the soaked earth, trying to understand when Damien came up beside Tessa with two soaked stakes in his hands. He handed one to her and held the other as they both kept staring down at him as he began to try shifting away from them.
Not having his wolf powers, he felt every pain and injury to the fullest. Being human while being at their mercy struck fear in him for what they might do to him. He kept shifting backward still on his ass, trying to escape from them when he hit something. He turned and saw Freya and Kreed standing behind him. He swiftly looked around the battlefield and realized every of his wolves were dead and the ones Freya had brought that were left alive were all disappearing into the woods. He looked more and couldn't see his son either.
"This is the end Maynard" Tessa stated
"No...I....I....I didn't lose. We all lost. You...." He stuttered but then paused when Kreed came over and stood in front of him. He bent down, staring at him with his eyes glowing red.
Immediately Alpha Maynard stared into Kreed's eyes, he began to panick and cry out. "No! No! No!!!" He cried out, his fear heightened as though he had seen a ghost.
Kreed turned to Tessa, his face pale. He nodded at her. "Do it"
She closed the space between them, puzzled at how freightened the Alpha was acting. Damien joined her and they both simultaneously plunged their stake into his heart. He cried fearfully for a while, slowly and quietly giving up as life left him. Soon he landed on his side, eyes wide open and his heart not beating. "What did you do to him?" Tessa asked, turning to Kreed.
"Made him see and live his worst fear. Thanks to Adan's ability" He replied.
"Interesting"
"The war is over" Damien commented, standing up.
"I can't believe he's dead. He's finally dead" Tessa stated with a look of disbelief and relief as she stood up. Kreed smiled, standing up too.
They looked around the battlefield which was now littered with dead wolves. The rain seemed to be easing up now and the moon slowly disappearing. They had fought all through the night. "Well we did it" Kreed replied.
"Yes. Yes we did" Tessa replied, shifting her smiling face to Kreed. Her smile immediately faded when she saw his eyes slowly turning black. "Kieran?" She called fearfully. Before she could react, he fell down to the ground, lying on his back. "Kieran!!!" She yelled out loudly, running to him.
She knelt down next to him and cradled his head, placing it on her thigh. "No, no no. You can't do this to me. It's over. It's all over. We can go home now. We can be together now" She blurted out, her eyes clouded with tears. She looked up at Freya and Damien but they just stood there with a sympathetic look.
"Why is his eyes darkening? What can we do? What do we do? What should I do?" She questioned, tearfully.
"Hey...It's fine. We knew this was how it was going to end. I was never met to stay for long, remember?" He forced a smile.
"No don't say that. You've achieved your lifetime goal. You took the revenge you all wanted and now you can live peacefully...with me" She cried
"Silly...my goal changed a while ago" He smiled
"What?"
"When we reunited and you kissed me and told me you were going to protect me. My goal changed there and then. I wasn't doing all these any more just to avenge our clan. I was mainly trying to protect you by eliminating anyone who wants to cause you harm. My goal became to protect you and I'm glad I was able to do that" He explained, feeling his heart slowing down.
"I need you with me. I can't bare to lose you again. I can't go on living alone"
"Of course you can" He reached for her hand and took it in his.
"I can't. And you can't leave me now. I think I'm pregnant again. You want to leave me and your child again?" She asked, tears falling freely.
"Silly. How do you know you are?" He paused and tried to laugh. "And even if it's true, as long as they have you, then they'll be fine...and besides they'll have Damien and Freya too. I know I'm living you in safe hands. I'm just sorry I can't be here but it's out of my hands" He coughed.
"We promise to always protect and look after her" Damien chipped in, wiping the tears off his eyes simultaneously as Freya who was surprised tears came out her eyes.
"No...no...he was right. No one won. We all lost the war" Tessa cried, breaking down.
"Hey..." He called weakly. She looked into his eyes and they were completely black now. "I'm sorry I....never said it before.....but...I do...I love you too Tessa" He smiled as his eyes completely blacked out and his heart stopped beating.
"No....Ki....no!" She broke down in tears, burying her face in his neck, sobbing uncontrollably. Damien and Freya both walked closer to her, consoling her. She held him tightly to herself, crying.
(7 Years Later)
"Yeah. After he rescued me, I didn't speak to him for days but he kept taking care of me till one night I snuck away and never came back. I never knew he knew where I was and was always watching me from afar, until years later when we both have gotten our wolves. He came out from nowhere and that's when he asked me to join the group he was putting together. The Black Lotus. He explained what the mission was and it was what I wanted also, so I joined. That was how we both became the first members" Freya explained, sitting next to Tessa on the couch.
"Hmm..so Kieran rescued you as a killer, and did all that?! I feel like I can never fully learn everything about him" Tessa smiled, thinking about him.
"Yeah. But he would have wanted you to you know..."
"He was and is my mate. And I'm not having anyone else, not in this life. Told you countless times" She explained, just before two kids ran past them both swiftly, laughing heavily. Both their white hairs swaying on their heads. "Slow down Kreed and Kieran!" Tessa called after them.
"Uncle Damien is after us" Kieran shouted, laughing.
"He's here!" Kreed yelled out, laughing and running away as Damien came out from the living room.
"I'm gonna get you both" Damien laughed, running after them.
"You're the bigger kid Damien" Tessa teased and they all laughed. She sighed and then smiled, turning to Freya. "He gave me twins. Two boys. I have no reason to want anyone else. He was mine and I'm his forever" She kept on smiling, watching the twins playing happily with Damien.
THE END