Chapter 10

Minor trigger warning

Cobalt

I had enough. If my human wasn’t going to stand up for our mate after hearing Shadow speak about the direness of their fate, then I would. I made him shrug Rose off as I kept heading toward the dungeon. My human and I had been content to wait for orders, but now he didn’t have a choice. Not if we could possibly find our mate. My mate. I didn’t care if it turned out to be a male or a female. They were already everything I wanted in life, and I was going to have them, even if I died in the process of finding them. I opened the cell doors as I walked by, using my aura to make the people inside follow me. I may be just the Gamma, but they would obey me, or I would make them. I stepped into the last cell, ordering the ignorant cats to form a circle around me. I slowly turned in a circle, glaring at all of them one by one before smiling coldly as I let my aura out stronger.

“I’m not going to mince words. Who here has valuable information about what is going on with the missing people that are being used to recreate the extinct species?”

They all glanced at each other before two men shakily raised their hands. I pointed at the ground.

“Move there.”

They moved across the room to stand against the wall. I moved in front of one of the other men.

“What was your role?”

“I was supposed to break them. We all were.”

“Why?” I growled.

“T-to trigger their mutation.”

I turned my human’s head to glare at the woman to our right. “How did you break them?”

“We beat them and burned them. We almost drowned them.”

“What else?”

He lowered his head. “We-”

“SILENCE!” I turned to glare at another woman. “What else?”

“The Flora girl, we strung her upside down from a tree. We built a fire around her to deprive her of oxygen. The Cobra Wolf, we starved her weeks before throwing rabbits and cats in her cage for her to kill. If she killed them in any way but with her venom, we took the food from her. We would inject her with different toxins and listen to her scream. The Basilisk we were not able to unlock before we had to move them.”

“Why weren’t you able to unlock her?” I turned to glare at the man next to her. “Speak.”

“Because of how we had to do it. She had to kill a person, and she refused. Once she kills someone, she will shift immediately.” He broke out into a large smirk. “Then nobody will be safe. She will kill everything in sight.”

I smirked back at him. “It’s too bad that you won’t be here to see it. How did the two of them escape? Why weren’t they all being moved together?”

“We had to move fast because we knew Harris had been captured. In our limited time, we had to leave the wolf here. We were able to drug the other two, but the wolf would not drink the drugged water. We were told to leave her here to preserve the other two. We can always make another wolf.”

I turned to narrow my eyes at another man. “What other species are you creating?”

“We don’t know. We were only given enough information to handle the three girls.”

“Anybody else have anything that I need to know?” They all remained silent, and I pushed my aura out more, scanning their faces. “No? Okay. Eat each other and do not shift.”

I stepped out of the circle to watch them as they eyed each other. I snapped my human’s fingers.

“Go!”

They all launched themselves at each other, tearing at everyone else with their teeth and nails. Screams filled the air as skin was ripped off and muscles were torn from bones while I circled the fight, pushing people who strayed too far back into the fray. I relished their screams as they continued to duel to the death. As more and more of them dropped to the ground, my need for violence grew. When the last man stood smugly in front of me with his flesh hanging off and blood dripping down his body, I smirked.

“This was not a ‘last one standing, lives’ moment, you cocky bastard,” I said before my hand shot out to wrap around his throat. I pulled him against me, my human’s eyes boring into his as I clucked my human’s tongue. “Tell me, were you responsible for stringing our Luna up?”

“I set the fire,” he said.

“Honesty. I like that.”

I threw him over my human’s shoulder into the waiting hands of my Alpha as I started heading over to the last two men. I stopped in front of the bigger one.

“I would advise you to speak.”

He spit in my human’s face. “Go to Hell!”

I tore his shirt off to clean my human’s face. “You will be there before I am!” I focused all my aura on him, making blood drops well up on his face. “Tell me everything you know about what is going on with the big people.”

“We were tasked with these three because they were sisters. There are 5 more sets of twins out there. Each pair is with a different coven to avoid all of them being taken if one coven gets discovered.”

I held up my human’s hand, silencing him. “Do you know the other covens?”

“I know one other. I dropped some twins off to them two weeks ago.”

“Which coven?”

“Obsidian.”

“What species were they injected with? Tell me about them.”

“I don’t know. That pair are both males. The older one was Link, and the younger one was Minton.”

I growled lightly. “What else?”

“There are catacombs under the dungeon where we keep the human children.”

I narrowed my eyes. “Catacombs? Where?”

He sighed, lowering his head. “There is a bookshelf in the Alpha’s office that moves. Behind it there is a tunnel that angles down.”

“Anything else?”

He smirked at me. “You aren’t going to win. They will make more Cobra Wolves, Floras, and Basilisks.”

I slowly let my human’s lips curl up to reveal my elongated teeth. “That’s what you think.”

I leaned forward to sink my teeth into his throat. I drained him of blood until his heart was barely beating. I let him drop to the ground before turning to pin the other man with my human’s glare.

“Do you have anything to add?”

“I know the next two people that were going to be taken.”

My eyes narrowed. “Who?”

“Gary and Easel.”

“Easel? Like a painting easel.”

He rolled his eyes. “Her parents are eccentric.”

“Hmmm. Hey, Rose?”

“Yes, Keith?”

I glared at her over my human’s shoulder. “Cobalt.”

She grinned, shrugging. “Sorry. You both are assholes.”

I growled at her before tossing the last man at her feet. “Finish up here?”

“Yep. Sure thing. What do I do about that one?” she asked, pointing to the one on the ground.

“Take them both to my mother. They can be food for her coven.”

“Aye, aye, Capitan.”

I met Merlot’s eyes. “Let’s go get the kids.”

He sighed, shoving his hands in his pockets. “Yeah, I think we should. We should get the rest of our family to help. We have no idea what we’re walking into.”