Scarred Alphas by Norisha May
Chapter 67

"Kanda...I can't! You are my friend!"

"Friend... Then take up arms, friend. We don't have a choice." "Kanda..."

She swings her axe in the air above her head before she slices at me. I dodge it, it is not hard to dodge her movements. Her body might be fast but that weapon is a heavy weapon. It slows her down just a bit.

As I dodge back the swing, I do not see one of her hands letting the axe go. She grabs me by the throat and hits me with the axe's hilt right on the mouth. She fights like a warrior. She then throws me back,

picks up her axe with both hands and swings down at me. I roll on the ground and manage to barely dodge the blade. The edge of the axe gets stuck in the mud. I take the moment to swing my dagger, cutting her in the arm. This makes her let the axe go but she doesn't move back, instead she sprints forward and tackles me with her shoulder. I fall to the ground and lose my blades but the moment she is on me, I get to my knees and use both my fists, punching her in the stomach. "Uh!" She takes a step back with a gasp.

I wrap my fingers around the blade that is next to me, then I swing it. My blade plunges into her thigh. She screams and falls to her knees.

Wasting no time, I got to my feet. I swing around her, and put my arms around her neck, ready to snap it. But I hesitate. I don't want to kill her.

In a split second, she grabs my shoulders and flings me to the ground in front of her.

She puts a hand on my chest, pushing me down. As she does this, my hands feel the ground looking for one of my daggers. Some paragraphs are incomplete if you are not reading this novel on FindNovel.net. Visit FindNovel.net to read the complete chapters for free.Suddenly, her other hand is on my face, then, she wraps her fingers around my mask and rips it off of my face.

I scream in pure agonizing pain.

I know the crowd cheers but all I can hear is a ringing in my ears. I feel disoriented. I am lifted and thrown a few feet away.

I can feel warm liquid drip down the side of my face. I get to my knees and finally, I am able to focus but I am still in shock.

Kanda grabs her axe and faces me standing a few feet away from me.

"Kanda..." I whisper.

She stares at me-I can see the remorse in her eyes-she looks up behind me at where Zao watches. I am sure he has a huge smile on his face.

She looks back at me. "My friend..." She says.

Kanda takes a deep breath and then to my surprise, she lets the axe fall from her hand. She kneels down, grabs my daggers, and throws them at me. They land in front of me.

"Pick them up!" She shouts.

I shake my head, telling her no.

"Pick them up, or I kill you as you are! Fight! Give yourself a chance."

So those are my choices, fight or just roll over and die...never. If I go down, I go down fighting.

I do as she says and pick up the daggers.

"Kill them all." She mutters and then starts running in my direction without her axe.

I try to move back away from her but I can't seem to react. I am so confused by her words. When she is on me, she grabs me by the leather straps, one hand on my chest and the other on my back, then she twirls around as I dangle in her hands.

Suddenly, I am flying in the air and when my eyes focus, I am heading straight to Zao. I fall on him and tackle him to the ground. Without even giving it a second thought, I stab him and immediately I stab him again, then a third time. By the second stab, he was already dead. I dug my dagger right into his heart.

People start screaming and running. I get up and though I stumble, I stand straight and turn my head.

Ezra's eyes widen and almost burst out of his head when he sees me.

Feeling like a demon is taking possession of me, rage boils inside of me when I see his face.

I open my mouth to say my next words and as I do, in a quick movement, he closes his eyes and puts his arms around Sienna-who is next to him-covering her. "DIE!" I shout. Three to four

guards that were behind Ezra fall to the ground, lifeless.

I am surprised. If I am correct, this power did not work like this for Warrick.

And how is it that it is working so easily now?

I hear footsteps behind me and quickly turn. About five guards run in my direction. I put a hand up. "Stop!" They all immediately stop. "Free the prisoners!"

They don't even blink when they turn and walk in the direction of the barracks and cells.

At that moment, I hear something break, a crack, but it is very subtle. I feel little pieces of something fall down my chest. I pick up the amulet from my neck and notice that two of the opals have broken and it is starting to feel cool to the touch. This is it! This is what is helping me use my powers, this is why they are so strong...but I think I only have one more use. One more Opal left.

Bringing my attention back, I look for Ezra but the f**ker has run.

"No!"

I look for him in the stampede of people running away.

"NO!" I shout.

I had him! I f**king had him!

I stumble, feeling a dizzy spell come over me.

"No! Not this time!"

I hold myself against the wooden veranda, close my eyes, and shake my head.

"Wake up!"

When I am able to get up again, I spot Sheril and the rest of the prisoners fighting the guards but there are just too many of them. I rush towards them and join them.

"You crazy bitch! You actually freed us!" She shouts with a laugh as she takes a guard down.

"We can't hold them off!

They are too many!" I say.

"We need to find a way out!"

Maribel says.

Kanda finally joins us.

"That was amazing!" I hug her.

"A spur-of-the-moment thing." She says. "But now what?"

"Chen will never let us leave."

"Chen?" I ask, confused.

"Zhao's son. Now that Zao is dead, he'll be taking over."

I remember him now. Man, the bad guys just keep coming.

As we talk, a huge fire starts right next to us. Maribel threw a torch at the bloodied wooden floors of the arena.

"A distraction." She says with a smile.

"That...works." Sheril says.

"This way!" Kanda starts rushing through the fight and we follow her.

We end up in the market but there are guards everywhere.

From here we can see the huge gates that lead outside. Guards are everywhere and it will be impossible for us to go through there until all the prisoners have gotten out and started fighting.

"In here!" Sheril shouts while she rushes inside the dinner hall.

When we get inside, we close the doors behind us and move the huge table to form a barricade.

As we enter the room, a huge mirror on the wall greets us. It was always there but always too far to be able to really get a good look at myself, but I do now. I look horrible. I am very pale and there is blood all over the side of my face and down my neck and shoulders. It is dark now meaning it's dry and my wounds are healing enough that I am not bleeding anymore but I look terrifying. Now with the adrenalin coming down, my head starts to hurt. A spliting headache but I can't let it take over me. "Now what?!" Maribel asks.

"I don't think there is a way out of here." Kanda says.

"Yes, there is." Lia comes out from hiding. "There is a back door."

"You are safe!"

We start to hear fighting outside. They've started.

She nods. "I was taken to Zao's room for his nightly entertainment after the game was over."

"I...I am sorry." Sheril says.

"It is okay. Helped me get acquainted with this place and there is a back door this way."

"Even so, how are we going to make it out? It won't be long till the guards overpower the prisoners."

Maribel says.

"There is a tunnel in the brothel," Lia says. "It leads to a bunker. There are other tunnels to get there but I only know of that one."

"And how are we going to get to the brothel... didn't even know there was one." Sheril says.

I follow Lia who leads us to a curtain on a wall. "Hiding, and if not, then we fight." I say.

Lia pulls the curtain to the side and reveals a wooden door. We rush out and head to the side of the building, an alley.

"There. That's the brothel."

Lia points to a building across from us and in the middle of it all, prisoners

and guards fight in their wolf form, and many still in human form.

I start to overlay a plan. "Okay so-"

"No more waiting! Let's do it!" Before I can say a thing, Kanda throws herself out into the market streets where many guards fight, overpowering the prisoners.

"Damn it!"

We all rush in and start fighting. Lia hides behind us, I'm guessing she can't fight.

I don't have my daggers with me now so I take a sword from a dead guard on the floor and start swinging. It is a short light sword so it is not that hard to wield. I actually find it surprising that it is so easy to move. I take a guard down, then another. We are halfway to the brothel when more men pour through the front gates.

That's when I see Ezra, it is his men. No surprise that next to him is the witch Sienna but there is also another man, It is Chen. I remember him.

I zone in on Ezra.

"You guys go...I can't let this opportunity go to waste."

I feel my wolf's will come on to me. She detests these people and wants to end them.

"Are you crazy? There are too many."

I don't answer her. I start taking men down. I would normally say that this is luck but no, I am using the skills that I learned with Victor.

Skills that have slowly started becoming much easier since I have been here.

As I am engaged with an enemy, another quickly rushes me through the side but he is blocked by Kanda.

A look back shows me that Sheril and Maribel have also stayed with me.

"This is not your fight."

"We have made it our fight."

Kanda says.

"Fine. Just don't die." I tell them.

I would never forgive myself if they got hurt because of me.

One by one, we take down many of the guards but they are too many and start to overpower us.

One look at Ezra is all I need to give me the strength to keep on going.

Amidst the loud sounds of war, I give an echoing growl that gets the attention of everyone who stands in front of me.

"DIE!" I shout.

Within seconds, bodies start falling down. It scares even me the level of power this pendant gives me. For so many people to fall lifeless just by one word.

Unfortunately, Ezra and many others were too far back. But this display create fear in most of the men who witness it. They back away as I take a step forward. I look down at the roughly-fifteen men whose bodies lie motionless.

That was it. That was all I had. I can feel the broken shards of the opals on the necklace crumble down my chest. The necklace is now cold to the touch. But the enemy doesn't know this.

I point at Ezra who is still a good distance away. "I will have your head!"