~RichardThey were yet to recover from the shock of my revelation. The man I held at gunpoint stuttered through his words, his eyes wide. "You… you are the Lycan king?""In the flesh," James said mockingly."H… how is that even possible?" Alpha Lance asked in fright as he tried to piece everything together. From the look on his face, he would take back every single thing he had said if he could turn back the hands of time."So you think I am scared of Frederick?" I scoffed and watched him swallow hard. His forehead had broken out in a sweat, and he was slightly shivering in my hands."I didn't really mean it that way, Your Majesty," he lied, gritting his teeth together in fear as I trailed the gun down the side of his face and placed it just underneath his jaw."Oh! You meant every word. You can't just decide to change your mind now that you know who I am. I hate men who are fickle in nature. You should say a word and stand on it until the very end!"I loosened my grip on him, and he
~RichardJames and I darted out of the woods just in time to see them reloading their guns. With two guns each in our hands, we started shooting at them, taking many down. Some of our men, seeing we had the upper hand, came out as well and kept shooting at the men.Under heavy attack, most of them left the pathway and fled into the woods on each side. About 18 of them were already gunned down. Some of those who ran into the bush had wounds on their legs or arms as we had fired heavily at them.We pursued them into the woods, not wanting to give them the chance to fully load their guns and come at us again.As soon as we got to them, we rounded the ones we saw at gunpoint."Drop your guns!" I growled.One of them, who was done loading his, raised it up to shoot, and I immediately caught wind of his action and beat him to it, burying two bullets in his head. The others immediately dropped their guns and put their hands up in surrender."Whose men are you?" I asked.They exchanged glance
~ RichardI knew it was time to reveal myself. It was better to do so and get all these over with. We were still a few meters from where they were.Not wanting to be seen just yet, i told everyone to lower themselves and scatter around the bush surrounding the earthen land where Frederick, Nuella and the witch were. About twenty of Frederick's men were with him. I knew right from time he wouldn't be alone, he would have as much protection as he needed, as many human shield whose lives have been pledged to him. Behind Nuella was the bank of a river while behind the witch and Frederick was the bush.My men and I dispersed ourselves. Wanting to be close to Nuella, James and I trailed down towards the bank of the river from the bush. When we got to the extreme, we squatted, waiting for the right moment to dart out of the bush and move close to Nuella who was just about 15 feet away from us.The witch and Nuella were still warring with fire and water, making incantations, when Frederick
~RichardAll eyes turned to me."Your Majesty... what are you doing here?" Nuella asked nervously."Finally! The man of the hour arrives!" Frederick roared as he cocked his gun, pointing it straight in my direction."You ain't afraid of me, yet you have kept yourself hidden all this while," he barked.I glanced briefly at the witch, who wore a wicked smile on her face, then averted my gaze back to Frederick."Don't flatter yourself, Frederick. I wasn't hiding; you just weren't smart enough to take the hints I left for you," I snarled.He exchanged glances with the witch. He was pointing a gun at me, and I did the same. "What is that supposed to mean?" he asked.I cocked my head to the side. "It means you have wasted my precious time for so long. I intentionally left my cloth at the entrance of the other pathway, not this one, because I wanted my scent to lead you to me." I tilted my head, glanced briefly at Nuella and then at the witch."You should let the women do their thing while
~Richard"Be careful, Your Majesty," Nuella warned. She held the barrier in place with her powers as she followed us.Frederick and his men kept firing shots at us as we ran to their side, but the barrier kept the bullets from penetrating.The witch built a massive ball of fire and threw it at Nuella to disorient her and break the barrier protecting us."Protect yourself, Nuella!" James called out.Immediately, the barrier protecting us disappeared. Nuella dodged the ball of fire and channeled static energy toward the witch, hitting her and causing her to stagger. It was a good thing that we were now only a few feet from them; being in close proximity helped a lot.The sounds of gunshots crackled in the air as my men and Frederick's men engaged each other in battle. Frederick was all mine. Despite holding his gun in his hand, I could see it was trembling. I was just a few steps away from him.Having exhausted the bullets in the gun with just silver bullets, he lifted the hand with the
~RichardI fell to the ground with James in full force, my heart beating heavily in my chest. I could hear my blood thrumming loudly in my eardrums."James! James!" I shouted and checked his body for any bullet wounds.There were none.He opened his eyes and looked up, pointing at Nuella, who stood in front of us with her back to us. "It wasn't me, Richard. It was…her."That was when I saw her, clutching her stomach. She had taken the bullet. No one saw that coming. She had pushed us down and got hit instead.She staggered, and seeing she couldn't stand anymore, James immediately reached out for her, catching her with his strong hands before she could hit the floor.My eyes darted to the witch who was still standing with the gun in her hand, she cocked it endlessly at me, but there was nothing inside. She had run out of bullets.I furiously ran towards her with a loud growl. She tossed the gun and tried to run, but her body was too weak to take her far. I dragged her by the hair, pull
~RichardI wondered what it was that Cletus was about to say that made him so excited."Your Majesty… the battle here has ended. We were fighting our enemies when all of a sudden, some men came to join forces with us.""Some men came to join forces with you?" I reiterated and went further to ask, "Who are they?""Alpha Scott and his people. We are now heading to other regions in vehicles to help our men."I knew very well who Alpha Scott was, but what I didn't understand was who put him up to this. I never made any calls asking for help, so how did he get wind of the fact that we were fighting and manage to get his men ready and hit the road to help us?Alpha Scott is one of my three neighbors. We all share boundaries. Despite having met him a few times, we were not that close. That made the fact that he had come to help us an even more difficult pill to swallow."Cletus, where is Alpha Scott right now?" I asked."He is right here with me, Your Majesty. Do you want to speak with him?"
~Richard It took us one hour to get to the resettlement area. We were met with a gory sight. A few houses of members of our packs were invaded by our enemies, and our men, women, and children were killed like mere animals. I rent my clothes in anger and changed to my lycan form for a full-blown attack on our enemies. There was no way I was going to let anyone that crossed my path have an easy death. Killing men was understandable; we were at war. But killing their wives and even children? That was a ruthless act, and they were going to pay for it. We searched and listened as we scanned the area for any sign of an ongoing battle. We found none; instead, all we saw were scores of dead bodies littered everywhere, both from our pack and from our enemies. Four thousand men is quite a formidable number to fight against. My men were outnumbered at a ratio of at least four to one. Those that died fought their best fight; the evidence lay in the fact that the number of dead bodies o