Chapter 110 Chapter 110
\-KATE -
I couldn't believe I was doing this and meeting the moron again, but here I was waiting for Stefan, my long-gone mate.
He walked out of a corner and stopped in front of me, maintaining a bold stance. His stubble was perfectly trimmed and his hair, as styled as ever. He never missed a chance to try to show off his good looks but I cared less about that today.
"So what do you want that you had to call for my assistance?" He asked, his cold yet mocking demeanor made me have mixed feelings about him again.
"Jane. I know you've finally found out about her." I tucked my hand into my coat pockets, slipping out Jane's picture from my pocket and handed it over to him.
"What do I do with her?"
"Don't try to play dumb here. I'm the best person that can be of help to you. Why do you need her? I know how much you've been trying to find her after obviously knowing about her gifts."
He lifted his gaze from the picture with a smirk. "Still a smart woman, uh?"
"There's no time for jokes as there's no time left. Why do you need her? I can be of help to you." I took the picture back.
"Fine, I need her so-called gift to sustain my strength."
I knew it also affected him. We had both made a stupid life- endangering covenant just to prove to be bold and it had affected our health and life span so much, we had to seek help from supernatural forces. Sealing Jane's gift up and keeping her away from her family had been the only thing I needed to sustain myself and my life; if not, I could be dead and Jane would be so powerful and destroy everyone and take control. I needed to keep her weak and close to me and away from the truth, but now that the light of truth had shone upon her, my life was in great danger.
"And how do you plan to get it? What would you do with it?" I wondered.
"Well... I'm with the Ardolfs, we're working on something together and they'll reward me with their daughter."
I threw my head back to laugh, thinking about how I killed their daughter Jess and framed it against little Keegan yet they hadn't gotten over it. "Why'd you ever think they'll reward you with their daughter? You know how much they cherish such things."
"Of course I know. I'm not stupid. They're able to fool Vladimir that he'll have her as his because he likes her and wants her as his Luna. I had to lie to Vlad that I was going to make her his mate but. I don't understand what's wrong with these stupid sons falling for and stumbling overt just for this useless girl." He frowned.
"I definitely know where they got their foolishness from." I scoffed.
He acted like he didn't hear me and resumed his explanation, "I'll need Jane's to-be-discovered gift in order to do that, I'll have to kill her, Vladimir mustn't find out about it at all, else he'll feel betrayed."
"I also need her dead to sustain myself, so we both need the same thing. Do you agree to kill Jane no matter what?"
"Of course."
"Then it's a deal that we'll try to put a joint effort into getting rid of that threat?" I extended my hand to him.
He glanced at my hand for a while before returning his gaze to my face and accepted my hand for a shake. "Deal."
"You know, it's so good to finally see you again and we're cooperating on one thing for the first time ever." He smirked.
I quickly pulled my hand from his grip, not wanting to give off the wrong idea. "Don't be so serious about it. It's just a mere thing."
"Yes, of course," he rolled his eyes. you're Kate, never interested in bonding any family, mostly ours."
"Neither have you so let it stay that way. We'll both just have to kill Jane for our personal benefits and have nothing to do with each other ever again."
"If you say so, then it's fine. I also don't want a relationship with you, so I won't have to put up with your crankiness again."
My face rumpled at him and I took my leave before he could extend the conversation any further.
\- JANE -
Today was the big day for the main attack. The amount of members of the rogue community preparing to go to attack Dark Stone was so scary but of course, Dark Stone guards and warriors were more than them, so that could at least ease my tension.
They did a few more sessions of training then they started grabbing backpacks containing something I didn't have any idea about before. "What's with the backpacks?" I asked.
"Oh, it's just for a little spray.” Mom shrugged
"Spray? What spray?" my heart was beating fast because I hadn't warned Keegan about this.
"Do you have a problem with that? Freya asked.
"Of course not. Why would I?" I showed my teeth with my eyebrows arched as I tried to hide any nervousness or fear in me.
I tried to mind link Keegan to warn him about a kind of spray but couldn't mind link him.
"They should've prepared well enough, an ordinary spray couldn't defeat Dark Stone pack.' I decided to convince myself to Vera, and she nodded in agreement.
We continued discussing the plan and I was glad I had warned Keegan about most of their attacks and he had taken the correct measures to fight against it.
"Okay, let's arrange ourselves now." Dad announced.
Everyone including me started arranging everything we were going to use to fight against them and everyone lined up, according to the already formulated arrangement.
"We want nothing but justice and revenge and we would stop at nothing to achieve that today. It has to be today; we'll maintain our boldness and strength till we come out as conquerors.
"Our main focus is Keegan and destroying his pack. We'll have to take control today and get back what's rightfully ours." He concluded his speech and everyone nodded in agreement..
"Yes, King Don!" Their tone was so rigid and filled with determination that it almost instilled fear in me.
"Everyone, begin taking your leave." Mom ordered and people started walking out according to the formation we had planned.
As I was about to leave at my turn, I was suddenly pulled back. I glanced behind me and about three hefty men were holding me back while other pack members continued walking out in accordance with the formation.
"Hey! Let me go! What's going on? What are they doing?" I asked, staring at Freya and my parents to help me out here.
"Tie her up." Freya ordered.
"What the hell are you doing?" I groaned, trying to struggle free from their grip as they tied my hands with a strange kind of plant and secured me tightly bound to a tree. "Why are you tying me up?! What's going on?" I panted, still struggling to pull my hands free but it was way too tight.
"You can never be free from those plants. Did you think we're stupid and wouldn't find out? We found out that you're the only culprit that fed Keegan with information to destroy our plan and we know how you've been sneaking out to spend time with him. We're not foolish, we're the Ardolfs." Freya said. "Now, all thanks to you, you've made them prepare for a wrong attack."
"Sorry sweetheart for not telling you the correct plan, but you can't betray us like that, it isn't fair." Mom frowned.
"Now we're going to carry out our long-planned attack that you don't know about, and not you, not even Keegan can save him and the pack from what's coming for them." Freya said with a smirk.~
~ KEEGAN ~
The pack members had undergone intense training for the upcoming attack, so we were more than prepared for what was coming our way.
We had all maintained our positions close to the border they were going to be attacking from and the guards standing by to launch the traps to capture them were all also in position.
'Be at alert. This has to be the last time we'll experience an attack from them so we'll stop at nothing to capture everyone of them.' I said in a general link. 'And ensure to protect your Luna at all cost.'
We still remained in position for a while till we started hearing screaming noises quite far away.
'What the heck is that?' Drex wondered.
I started running towards the direction of the screaming with the guards, Mason, Scarlett, Shane, and other pack members and we noticed so many people lying unconscious on the ground as we ran.
We came to a halt when we noticed the Ardolfs and multiple of their companions. There were so many rogues with them this time and they had a backpack on their backs that had an extension they pumped to spray something around with their teeth.
There were so many of them coming out from different angles and spraying everyone. I watched as my pack members all fell down one after the other while a lot of them tried to run and hide or attack the rogue members.
This wasn't expected; it wasn't the plan. Could Jane had lied to me again? It made no sense.
I searched for Jane among the crowd of wolves, but I couldn't find her. If she wasn't here, where could she be?
'Everyone, attack!' I said in a general link to those that were still conscious.
We started running to them to attack them as they headed towards us, spraying whatever it was they were spraying even more.
A few guards tried to fight till they were sprayed and lost consciousness. The air around me was terrible but not enough to make me go unconscious; I pounced on as many of the rogues I could and snapped their heads off. Drex was able to gain dominance over a lot of them due to his size.
The fight lasted for a while and it was only a few minutes till everyone was laying on the ground unconsciously, except Scarlett, Mason, Shane, and their members that hadn't been physically attacked.
They suddenly surrounded all four of us and Mason, Scarlett and Shane's wolf were clearly strong enough to withstand the spray but the weakness in their eyes confirmed that it was probably not going to be that long.
'Just attack them with every strength left in you. We can't lose to them. Kill everyone you touch and spare no mercy.' I ordered then we resumed charging at them.
I was attacking the wolves spraying the gasses, making sure to rip their organs out of their body or just snap their head off.
After a few minutes, I glanced back at Mason, Scarlett and Shane who were still trying to attack the rogues but looked very weary then Shane was the first to fall to the ground.
About twenty wolves gathered around Mason and Scarlett to increase the spray.
I tried my best to attack them, pushing them away from spraying my members but more of them were coming to increase the spray.
Scarlett's wolf's eyes rolled backwards as she fell.
'Alpha, please be safe.' Mason's voice rang in my head till his wolf fell as well, completely out of consciousness.
I glanced around at the large number of my pack members that were on the ground, some of them were even in their human form and the entire floor felt like a rug of lifeless bodies.
Some of their members were also on the ground with their organs ripped out or blood seeping out of their body.
"We definitely know the spray is not going to affect you." One of them said to me then they formed a large circle around me again as a few more members and the main Ardolfs that were standing quite far away, moved even closer to me, yet Jane still wasn't with them.
'Alpha,' I heard a pack member's voice in my head, it was very faint.' I think I'm the only pack member left that's still alive as well as you. I've searched everywhere but no pack member is conscious. I can't even breathe anymore, the spray is so choking. Please stay safe...' he trailed off and the link cut off, confirming that he lost consciousness too.
What the heck is going on? I glanced around and there were about a hundred or more wolves against only me. Something like fear bounced in me as my heart's palpitation increased.
"Attack!" The strongest male wolf among them, Don, barked, and they all started to attack me.
Drex was the strongest wolf alive, of course, they were no match to me, so I said start attacking.
As I attacked them, I was able to knock down a couple of wolves. I did this with so many of them. Despite the amount of times they tried to spray me with their gas, it did affect my consciousness a bit.
Their leaders, Don and Cara, stood quite far away from me as well as a few other people, while their normal members were attacking me. I snapped most of their heads off and scratched them really hard to get rid of their organs from their body with my claws.
I was attacking so many wolves at once and at a point, they all managed to grab me with joint effort, holding onto my paws to try to stop me from moving, but I managed to push them off and fight even more. My strength was way more than all of theirs combined together, so of course I could try to defeat a dozens of wolf at once, panting.
I made sure to attack everyone that came in my way but they didn't seem to end, they were increasing and coming out of nowhere as I killed a lot of them.
I started heading towards Don and Cara where they stood still, just watching me while I killed off any wolf that came in my way.
I was about to run to them when something really large landed on me from behind; the strength and force it landed on me with made me fall to the ground.
I lifted my wolf's gaze to a growling gray wolf above me and it was Vladimir's wolf.
He began to attack me so much and as we fought for a while, he was obviously way stronger than the other and was able to cause multiple injuries on my body as I did to him, he was very strong as well and was so hard to take down unlike the others.
The fight continued with so many scratches, scars, rolling and thumping for a really long time. Other wolves had left us alone and Vladimir was fighting me really angrily.
He drew his mouth into a snarl, clearly really pissed off that he hadn't taken over me and out of his rage, he pushed me off his wolf.
I fell against a rock. It felt like I had broken my bones as I twitched in so much pain, groaning.
Due to my Alpha's blood and high healing capability, the pain washed off immediately and as I was about to pounce on him again to make it the final round, he stepped backwards.
One of the Ardolfs threw something to him and he caught it with his mouth. It looked like a dagger made of wood, steel and iron.
"Now I'll finally have Jane as mine and get rid of you completely." He said in a growl. I was so confused and as I tried to attack him again, he stabbed the dagger into me.
I knew that due to the kind of strength I had as the strongest Alpha, an ordinary dagger couldn't affect me. I had the power to recover from it immediately, but this knife was definitely coated with something because the feeling of its blade in me also had a coldness to it, like something liquid was also placed inside me and it immediately made me feel weak. My vision suddenly became blurry as I lost balance and fell to the ground. The weakness was too unbearable as total darkness overtook me.