Chapter 18: Versus

Clara's POV

I ran through the forest, rushing to my mate's side. My ears perked up at hearing my mate's voice, it seems that I am near. I looked around and saw clothes for me to wear, I went to change behind a tree and made my way to where the war will be held.

Klaus saw me getting near and smiled at me, I just looked at Klaus. This is the first time that I am facing him properly after he killed my parents. The Klaus that I knew is gone, all I can see is a corrupted wolf, a rogue.

"Why?" I asked Klaus when I passed through my pack members and joined Erik's side.

"Why? Because it seems fun" Klaus answered, uninterested in my question. My heart clenched hearing his answer, he was one of the werewolves that I trusted and cared for with all of my heart and it hurts that we are like this now.

"My parents were good to you!" I said, letting all my emotions out. I've been holding back all of these feelings, now that I see Klaus standing in front of me, I couldn't help myself but feel all the emotions that I felt back then. It was not like this when he was in our basement.

"You were like a brother to me! To us!" I shouted at Klaus, Vincent looked away, not letting everyone see his saddened face. Klaus's eyes grew big and his face turned red, full of anger.

"SHUT UP! SHUT UP! THOSE THINGS ARE USELESS TO ME!! THEY WERE USELESS!!" Klaus shouted, his voice full of anger.

"What did we ever do to you? My parents, the pack and I didn't do anything wrong to you!" I shouted, tears escaping my eyes, Erik rushed to my side to comfort me.

"WHY! WHY! WHY! WHY!" I shouted repeatedly, letting all my emotions out using my shouts.

Third Person's POV

"WHY! WHY! WHY! WHY!" Clara shouted repeatedly, letting her emotions out. Klaus still didn't feel anything, didn't care what Clara was feeling.

"The throne," Klaus said using his serious voice and looking straight into Clara's eyes. That was the last straw for Clara, her eyes turned gold and her aura was out. Her canines are also starting to show.

"You killed everyone, just for that?!" Clara said, her anger coursed through the pack link letting everyone feel her emotions. The pack members growled, feeling their Luna's sadness, pain, regret, and anger. They growled at the rogues aggressively, angry for their Luna.

"You! How dare you! Just for the sake of that stupid throne, you betrayed your own! You betrayed the ones who took you in when your parents abandoned you!" Clara shouted, pointing her fingers at Klaus. The pack crouched, ready to attack anytime, Vincent and Ian prepared themselves to shift anytime.

"As I said, those are useless, sister," Klaus said emphasizing the word sister. Clara's eyes grew big, and clenching her teeth, angry that he called her the way he always called for her.

"I won't forgive you!" Clara said, the warriors advanced slowly, growling at their enemies, feeling their Luna's anger get stronger.

"Kill him, destroy him, I want him dead!" Clara shouted, the pack launched at the rogues, Erik kissed Clara on the forehead, shifted, and led his warriors in attacking.

Clara calmed herself and focused on supporting her pack. Ian shifted, killing everyone who dared to get near his Luna. Clara closed her eyes, remembering the feeling of what she did earlier. Widening the area of her hearing and connecting it to her sight. She looks for the situation of her pack, every whimper she hears, she looks for it, helping them by using her authority to press down the enemies, giving his pack members a chance to retaliate.

Vincent who is behind his Alpha supports his back for his Alpha to focus on advancing to fight Klaus. A group of rogues encircled the two, they turned their back on each other.

"Aren't you supposed to be at your mate's side?" Erik asked Vincent through mind-link while fighting the rogues that encircled them. One rogue attacks and in a blink of an eye, its head is rolling. Vincent did the same to the rogues that were attacking his side.

"You mean Tia, who lived for more than a decade?" Vincent replied, who is also thinking if his Alpha's head is doing okay. He glanced at his Alpha for a second and glanced back at his attacker to kill him. He dodged the attack of the rogue and bit his neck until it was not moving.

"Dude, she will be the one who's going to protect me," Vincent added.

"Right" Erik replied, realizing that what he said was like a joke.

He faced his attacker, which was two rogues, fighting together, trying to take him down. Meanwhile, Klaus is at the back, laughing at the scene, still feeling confident that he will win.

Erik waved his claws to his attacker, the smaller one jumped and attacked him from above. Erik stepped back and bit his leg causing the rogue to fall and whimper on the ground. After a few seconds, the smaller one stood, limping, he growled at Erik, angry that he was injured. The bigger one also attacked and his speed is faster than the other, while being distracted at his speed the smaller one started to attack while limping. Erik jumped back and turned to kick his enemies using his legs at the back. Erik turned again and raised his paw and waved it to the smaller one who got close, the smaller one's eyes got scratched by Erik's claws. The bigger one stood again and ran towards Erik to attack again, seeing that Erik also ran towards the rogue, dodged, and when the neck of the rogue was exposed he bit it until the rogue was not moving anymore. After dealing with the bigger rogue, Erik looked at the smaller one and smirked at his image. The smaller one was whimpering on the ground because his eyes were destroyed, Erik smirked, looking down at the rogue, then stepped on his neck, the rogue struggled, trying to catch some air until the rogue stopped wriggling like a worm.

Erik looked at Klaus who was smirking at him and walked towards Klaus, to fight him.

Tia and Merlin are in the air flying, riding their broom.

"You look awful," Tia said, disgusted at her image.

"You still look weak," Merlin replied, not falling into her sister's taunting.

"First of all, I'm not weak. My powers are relying solely on my strength not stealing and relying on forbidden spells, just to get stronger" Tia replied, almost spitting at Merlin.

Merlin just shrugged and looked at her nails, uninterested in what her sister was saying.

"Lastly, I am stronger than you," Tia said and flicked her fingers causing a strong gust of wind to hit Merlin.

"Ahhhhh!" Merlin shouted, almost falling off her broom, she steadied her broom and combed her hair backward using her fingers. Satisfied at the scene, Tia smirked at her.

Meanwhile, Clara is starting to get exhausted, her breathing became heavy and she started to feel weak on her feet.

"Luna!" Ian exclaimed seeing her breathing heavily. Ian clawed the nose of the rogue who attacked him and bit his neck, ripping out the flesh. Seeing the rogue down he clawed the neck that was bleeding out due to the flesh being torn. Ian made sure that the rogue was dead before facing Clara to check on her.

Clara smiled at Ian while it was obvious that her eyes were tired. "Focus. I'm okay" She assured Ian and patted his head. Clara was about to use her powers again when her feet gave in causing her to fall to the ground.

"LUNA!" Ian panicked and at that moment a group of rogues encircled them. Ian kills the rogues who attack while looking out for Clara who is on the floor exhausted.

Three rogues attacked Ian simultaneously, Clara raised her hand and focused her little power on her hands. She directed her power to the rogues, at the impact, the three rogues are now pinned to the ground kissing the dirt. Ian killed them one by one and rushed to the other side of Clara to fight the rogue who got near her.

The rogues got defeated one by one with the help of Farkas who came rushing to their sides. Clara, still breathing heavily and forcing herself to stay awake is still on the ground sitting.

"I'm sorry," She said, apologizing to Ian and Farkas that she became a dead weight.

Merlin and Tia who are fighting in the air are now on the ground, in the middle of the forest, which is five kilometers away from the battlefield. "Tell me, Merlin, is it you who killed our father?" Tia asked, clenching her teeth.

"Maybe," Merlin said and laughed at Tia. Merlin started to mumble some spells and pointed her finger at Tia.

Tia raised both of her hands into the air and also mumbled some spells. At the hands of Tia that are in the air, something formed into a crystal and turned into a big piece of ice. She directed the ice to Merlin and threw it at her while Merlin cast a thunder spell that hit Tia.

Merling slowed down the ice that was heading towards her until it stopped in front of her. She touched the big ice and the ice exploded. Merlin lit a fire inside the ice causing it to explode. While the thunder is being sucked by a broom of Tia.

"This broom is one of a kind, you see" Tia boasted, caressing her broom.

"Still love doing tricks, huh," Merlin said, rolling her eyes at Tia with disbelief.

"And you? Still, relying on forbidden spells? Can't you see your face? You look like a grandmother" Tia said, teasing Merlin, she held her mouth, trying to stop her laugh from escaping.

Merlin gritted her teeth with anger. "This was all because of you!" She shouted pointing her finger at Tia.

"Me?! You had everything! You chose to travel and after years, you came home just for what?! Just to kill our clan?! Our family?! IT WAS ALL BECAUSE OF YOUR STUPIDITY!" Tia retorted, remembering the scenes in how her clan and parents died.

"SHUT UP!" Merlin shouted and raised her hands, making the stones on the ground fly and directing them to Tia.

Tia made a barrier at the last second, the rocks hit the barrier, Tia gritted her teeth, concentrating on the barrier, it was hard for her to maintain the barrier, rocks kept on flying toward her and hitting the barrier.

Merlin laughed while swinging his arm at Tia for the rocks to keep on hitting her. Thanks to the barrier, almost all the rocks were stopped.

Tia's barrier had a crack, seeing the crack, she mumbled a spell and the ground started crumbling under Merlin. She jumped to the side but when her feet touched the ground it started crumbling again.

In another part of the war, Erik can't seem to get closer to Klaus who keeps on sending rogues at his side. A rogue attacked, Erik clawed his eye out, but him on the neck and ripped off its flesh using his sharp canines.

"How long are you going to hide behind your men?!" Erik shouted at Klaus to taunt him. He grew tired of fighting the rogues, wanting to end this war as soon as possible. He was thinking about Clara, who is feeling weak.

"Why? Is the so-called strongest getting scared?" Klaus said, acting like a kid, playing with Erik. He laughed devilishly and clapped his hands. Erik became furious, he called Vincent back to his side ordering him to deal with the small fries.

Seeing that a path has been cleared for Erik to rush his way to attack Klaus. He ran and avoided the attacks of the rogues, letting Vincent kill them instead. He focused on running toward Klaus who was hiding behind his soldiers. Erik got closer to Klaus and jumped, attacking Klaus while growling.

There's only one thing in Erik's mind, it is to kill the one who is responsible of so many death, the Alpha of Rogues, Klaus.