Don’t Go Back

In a moment, Troy suddenly jumped out from the bushes and said, "GUYS RUN!!!". Without even thinking, Lucas and Cory shapeshifted to their wolf forms as they follow Troy. Running as fast as they can, they went in no specific direction following the frightened young wolf who spoke no more words after leading them out. After a few miles where the sound of the falls could no longer be heard, Lucas started to wonder where is the young wolf taking them.

"Hold up! Hey!!", Lucas mindtalked Troy as he slow down.

"Yea, what are we running from?", Cory said as he trudge slowly behind, confused why they were running.

The three wolves stopped in the foggy and marshy part of the forest as they shapeshift to their human forms. Catching their breaths from the quick run, Lucas and Cory gazed at Troy with their knitted brows while the young wolf walk back and forth with fear drawn on his face. Lucas then looked back from where they run from. "What happened back there?", he asked.

Distraught in fear and anxiety, Troy breathe heavily as he anxiously scratch his hair trying to figure out how to explain. "What is it?", Lucas wondered as he could tell something bad have happened. "We should go back", worried that his brothers from the pack might be hurt.

"No no no no", Troy panicked as he disagreed. "Don't go back!!", he widened his eyes in fear.

"Why? We can't just leave our brothers there. You have your pack left in there too", Cory said.

"Don't you get it!", Troy shouted as he face Cory and Lucas. "Something really bad happened and if we don't leave now, we'll end up like all of them", Troy

"What the fuck do you mean? I'm getting tired of this", Cory started to lose his patience as he clicked his tongue.

Dubious with Troy's behavior, Lucas thought he might be possessed. "Cory, check him for marks", Lucas nodded as Cory approached Troy with caution.

Cory checked Troy all over for marks of possession, and yet, he found nothing. "No marks", he confirmed.

"I am perfectly fine!!!" Troy said. "The.. the.. the pack!! They're not them anymore!" he stuttered as he bite his nails. Troy have tremendously feared what he saw in his Alpha and the pack. "Roman… He fed the pack with the meat he cooked then one by one, they all just went down.", he explained

"Down?", Lucas asked in confusion.

"As in head on the ground, eyes shut.. DOWN!" Troy sniffled as he rub his neck. "When they woke up, they all acted strange like it's not them anymore. They were chanting something.. When I noticed Roman saw me, I sprinted out", he said. Then they all heard some strange voices nearby.

"Shhhh", Lucas said as he placed his finger in his mouth. "What's that?", he thought he heard men chanting 'KILL' repeatitively.

"That's them!! We better get out of here! He's an Alpha, we cannot win over an Alpha", Troy frantically said as he was about to leave.

"We don't just leave our brothers, Troy. We're a pack", Lucas said.

"Yea, we can't just let them get in the neck. We can either die from saving them, or die winning this", Cory said with sharp exhale.

Losing confidence to fight, Troy stared at the two wolves who seemed decided to start a holy war between wolves. Then, in one turn, Troy left Lucas and Cory as he run out of the marsh lands.

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"A nagua's coming", as he said as he kept himself hidden behind Scott's runestone. Ofir went back to his rock and waited for Tamara to finally show up.

Then, in between the large boulders, Tamara appeared as she walked slowly towards her prisoners. Surprised, Daniel, who wanted to give the marbles and leave, gritted his teeth after seeing the nagua whom he wanted dead long ago. Realizing that the man stuck on the runestone might be Viktor Lockwood's boy, he kept himself hidden and decided to stay to save Scott from the hands of the nagua.

"The vampire is on its way. While waiting, why don't we start the ceremony?", Tamara said as she stared at the lythari elf. "Let's save the best for last", she gave Scott a wink as she approach Ofir.

"Will you do the honors?", she smirked at the lythari and then swiftly lifted her both hands towards Ofir as she chanted a few spells.

Ofir gave a side eye to Daniel, who's hiding in a safe spot in the rocks behind Scott. Looking back to Tamara who have repetitively chanted a few more spells, Ofir knew that no matter how loud or clear Tamara's chants are, nothing will happen to him since he doesn't have ang powers.

After a couple of more chants, still, nothing happened. "Okay!", Tamara exhaled sharply as tiny droplets of sweat come out of her skin. "It seems like the lythari is not yet ready", she said as she took a glance at the dead moonstone. Just in time, Claudia's restrained body have arrived as she was carried by two Yuxas.