Chapter 23 23
Lucien's pov
Watching the wall by me take in a massive collision with Genevieve's body, It became very obvious that James was having the edge over Genevieve.
"Time to end both of you." Taking his steps slowly towards her weakened body, his razor sharp wolf claws quickly extended out from his hands letting out a smile as he grazed his tongue across his canine.
Genevieve, still on the ground after being body smashed drastically with the wall couldn't help but groan in pain whilst grabbing hold of her dislocated arm. She locked eyes with the 'demon' James as he came walking closer preparing his claws for the gory event with his smile growing more devious.
His projected shadow engulfed her as she laid on the floor helpless.
"I savour this forever." He uttered as he staged his body to lunge against her.
My ego haunted me countless times as I contemplated escape. The idea of leaving Genevieve alone with the shifter strolled through my mind from the fact that we were slightly inferior in combat to James. The body still with battle injuries played a role in convincing my escape, but I had something to uphold.
It was any form of sympathy nor kindness of any kind, it was my pride. I couldn't back out now.
"Die you shifter!" Taking in deep breaths and locking into his position, the ground shook underneath my footsteps as I dashed towards the shifter. My hands gathering wolf claws weaved out to rip his flesh with an immense nature of speed.
Before his instinctive reaction to defend and counterattack seconds before contact I acted within the fraction of a second as I readjusted my position pulling him down and away from Genevieve using my shoulders and arms tightly crossed around this lower body torso sending him down to the ground.
I could sense a sigh of relief from Genevieve as she regained her stamina and a major fraction of her strength as I engaged James pinning him down to the ground.
"Let go of me so I can kill you!" James shouting down from the floor tried a possible means of breaking free. After some time I tried striking him a decapitating blow to his face to buy me some time. Moments before the impact, he swiftly pulled out his hand to catch mine midair before it landed on him.
I struggled to break free from the grip almost losing focus on pinning him down to the floor.
Before any more struggle, I felt a sharp pain swarming through my shoulder as he dragged me lower with the grip and sunk his canines deep into my shoulder preparing to rip flesh.
Losing focus, he took advantage over the opportunity and kicked me brutally off him throwing me through sets of wooden furniture. My back continually clattered with each set shattering it one by one as I crashed down with extreme force.
We had no chance of sealing victory over this beast in any way. He overpowered us In route strength and had enough to kill us both here.
But we couldn't just accept that fate.
In my injured state, I almost missed Genevieve's werewolf moved with lightning speed successfully landing a massive blow on James. Upon defence against the impact as he crossed his arms and reinforced his stance, the momentum of the attack still pushed him across the room.
"Pathetic... none of your attacks mean anything!" He laughed menacingly throwing out of his mouth a spew of blood.
"You'll both die here and so will everyone in this inn!"
Without wasting any more time, I bounced back up and dashed towards Genevieve joining her to fight.
"I'll be going for the attack as you distract him. Try your best to expose his vital points and I'll strike.....let's kill him before he does.."
She looks at me with agreement as we swiftly blast over to him in a two versus one clash off. The battle intensity grew within second shaking the entire room as arrays of blows and kicks were sent out from each side.
The fragile objects in the room couldn't survive the heat of the fight as shattering sounds of glass and ceramic equipments were audible.
The plan was effective a little bit as we managed to lay a few vital strikes on him. Our wolves were worn out to the point were we fought with parts of our body transformed.
"Now Lucien".....
In the heat of the battle, we lost enough energy as we saw James easily deflect our punches. We swiftly backed out to catch our breaths but he caught us unaware striking us both down crashing to the ground without any effort.
We had a morsel of fight in our body left to engage. "This can't be our end."
James let out a shout of victory as we watched in dismay from the floor.
Coughing up blood, Genevieve was severely injured and her healing process grew ineffective.
She tried getting up for another go but her weakened state got the best of her causing her to stumble back to the ground groaning abruptly in agony.
"Watch in demise how I kill you with a smile of victory!"
Preparing his arms and feet to engage in his blood raged slaughter, he quickly lunges his body head on showcasing his flesh ripping canines.
It occurred with lightning speed and precision as a knockout from nowhere flung James through the air and hitting the ground with brute force.
It was Reuben.
"It's ok you two..I'll kill this shifting bastard my self." Reuben prideful remarked as he cracked his knuckles and darted towards the shifter.
"How dare you?...." James flung out his claws while on the floor as he sends the approach of this new combatant.
Reuben in an instant easily out manoeuvres the attack and lands a thrust kick on James head as blood splattered from his face.
The intense kick sends him down leaving a massive crack on the floor with James head engraved inside the cracked space
Marvelled by how Reuben fought, I watched as James laid cold still on the floor as his blood oozed out from underneath his head.
The shifter was dead.
"Alright guys..we have to move and find Elliot and the others."
Genevieve stood from the ground dusting herself as she prepared to join Reuben.
"I'm not coming...I have to check on Lena." I said already making my way to the exit.
"Umm..I don't think so, we have to warn the other heads of alphas about the shifters."
I felt a hand placed on my shoulder as I almost stepped through the door. A wave of surprise hit me suddenly as I tilted my head towards the Reuben with his hand trying to restrict me from moving.
"Get your hands off of me.."
Looking him dead in the eyes, my crimson started complementing the anger written on my face aimed at conveying the idea to him that I wasn't going to comply.
"I've already made up my mind, I'm heading for Lena...you go with Genevieve and look for Elliot."
"Alright then." Reuben, not daring to spike my rage let go of his grip.
"We should leave now..let's get Elliot and the rest."
Reuben said as I left for my pack..
Some time had gone by since the blood battle with the shifter as I walked through the vacant lane. Despite the rustling of leaves and the strong gushing through of the winds, the feeling of being followed clouded my senses as I continued pacing.
The concerns of Lena in danger had its way of quickening my steps and ignoring all occurrences in the lane.
My ears could already perceive a somewhat projectile-like substance being launched towards me. Instinctively acting, I dodge quickly and noticed a small dagger swooshed right through my side and got deeply stuck to a tree.
"Nice reflexes..but I was aiming for your head."
I paused and turned to meet a staggering and bruise filled James. He was indeed relentless as he limped towards me with murder in his eyes.
Without much effort, I quickly grabbed him by his clawed hand and threw him hard on a tree.
He dropped once on the ground in defeat coughing up blood and groaning.
"What are you doing here.. talk!"
My impatience and rage grew through the ceiling as I marched over to his helpless body.
"I said talk!" I slowly pressed my foot down on his chest and heard the wailing of pain increase.
"There's no... saving....her....she'll die with the rest of them." He struggled to breathe as he muttered these words.
I got furious instantly. It was a blissful desire to have his head at the moment but I still needed more information from him.
"What do you mean...speak bastard!"
Gritting my teeth in rage, I kept pushing my foot down on his body but with more and more pressure as he cried out in severe pain.
His cracking ribs were very audible to me as it propelled my mind to go further down til I killed him.
"Answer me...what are your plans."
For a moment, it became noticeable that he wasn't responding in pain any longer as his pulse didn't even give a reading. James was dead