Chapter 11

Chapter Eleven

Theme: Bounty, part three.

"I don't like suffering, and I don't take bullshit." Dan feud in turmoil, his eyes now changing color. It was now red and blue. Half the transformation of the Hybrid Alpha. "You shouldn't have killed the one who protected me from childhood."

He appeared through the front door, and his body blazed with silver fire, and hair began to grow on his body. He stepped on Delta Logan's head, and it was crushed. A blood split out, and his brain came gushing out.

"I swear on my father's grave, you will pay with your life. All of you, not excluding those stupid beings that call themselves elderly." He seethed in rage.

"I thought you've been boosting since the evening," Joy sneered. "That's my guardian, beat him and I will surrender myself." She said, her gaze now resting on Beta Kyle.

"Guards," Beta Kyle yelled, and the rest of the pack rushed in. "Kill this being, and her." He commands them.

Instantly, the pack transformed into their full Lycan mode. Their loud howling noise pierces the dark knight, and it forces the moon to hide its body under the gloomy cloud.

"Don't kill her," Alpha Malcolm's voice broke into the tense tension. "Lord Darius needs her alive, but the hybrid Alpha can rot in hell."

As soon as he finished his speech, the lycans tightened their grip on the death angel, and the knife made a loud buzzing sound. They squirmed it in their hands and threw it forward and back in an attempt to use it to scare Dan. Nevertheless, he remains unmoved by their demonstration.

"Before you take her, you will have to go through me," Dan said with a sly smile. "Besides, it will take more than a few weakling beings to take me down."

"Kill him," Beta Kyle screamed in irritation.

Before the lycan could comprehend what was happening, before they took a step, two heads came rolling down. Dan had just decapitated two of the Lycan's heads in a swift motion. He dashed towards a lycan with inhuman speed, yanked him up with one hand, and tore him apart.

He howled out in anger at the memory of how he saw Joy's mom in a blood-filled brain. His voice cut through the whole universe, and they made thunder twinkles in the sky.

One of the lycans stabbed him with the death angel knife, and the unexpected happened. Ever since the death angel was forged, it has never failed to kill its victim. It was poisonous to the blood, and no one could survive its attack. Not even the black venom pack.

However, the knife broke as it came into contact with Dan's skin. The Lycan opened his mouth in surprise, unable to believe what he had just witnessed. He was not the only one that was flabbergasted by the scene: Beta Kyle, Alpha Malcolm, and the elderly were also stunned, too…

Dan didn't let him recover from his shock. He opened his mouth, and they grew wider. With immediate effect, he bit off the Lycan's head.

He spins aside on instinct, and a claw swipes past his face. He wheeled back, plunged his claw into the Lycan's chest, and brought out his heart. He dashed at the lycans that were torturing Joy with the death angel, leaped high as he was a few inches from meeting them, then bred his feet on their chest.

The pressure threw them several feet backward, and they went flying across the room. He raised his hand, then slashed the chain that was binding Joy, and it came crashing down like a strand. He grabbed the radar that was placed on her neck and tore it apart with his hand.

Dan felt a tough gust coming towards his face, as he wanted to carry Joy. He raised his hand, and he blocked a blow from Beta Kyle. Before he could react, he felt something hard hit him from behind, and the impetus threw him some feet away.

He swirled around, and he could see all the seven elderly people, including Beta Kyle and Alpha Logan, in front of him. "I love war," Dan said with a smirk. "Ever since my family was murdered, I've been looking for a way to exact vengeance." He said.

"Dan, I'm feeling different," Joy said as the radar that was locked around her neck was removed. "I felt like I could move the universe."

"Kill him, and arrest that girl." Alpha Malcolm screamed. "Or else, Lord Darius won't hesitate to remove our heads."

Without hesitation, they dashed at Dan, and he spun back to avoid a blow from the grey Elder. He leaped out of their midst as they swooped down on him. He swung his body and hit Mrs. Sandra on the neck with his feet. In the same motion, he decapitated the head of a lycan.

"I warned you earlier, didn't I?" Joy screamed in delight. She was now sitting in the grey-haired man's previous position. "Dan the Great Fighter! Dan, my protector! Dan the undefeated!" She screeched in happiness and clapped her hands altogether.

Dan stepped aside as the grey-haired elder attacked him with a long unobtanium sword. Before the man could withdraw his hand, he grabbed it, twisted his ankle, and yanked the sword from its hand. He jabbed the man in the throat, and the man gagged. Dan gored the man's chest and attempted to bring out his heart, but Alpha Malcolm knocked him back.

Before he could regain his stance, different silver knives and daggers pierced his body, and he howled in pain.

"You can be brutal, but you can't beat a pack and their elders," Alpha Malcolm said, as he stood face-to-face with Dan. Their breathing was so rough and hard that one could feel the aura that was radiating from both beings.

Beta Kyle and Mrs. Sandra appear behind Dan and covers him with a flatware net. As it came into contact with his skin, he screamed in anguish. He could feel the net burning his skin, and Dan could guess that it was enchanted with dark magic.

"Never underestimate the power of the black venom pack," Alpha Malcolm warned.

Even from afar, Joy could see Alpha Malcolm closing his eyes, and he was sure that the man was about to transform into their pack power. At first, she panicked and thought of helping Dan. He was the only one left to protect her, and she couldn't bear the thought of losing the only being that was left to insulate her.

She closed her eyes and reached deep down for the strange power that she used earlier in the day. She went deeper, hoping to perform any tricks, or else she would just hear the strange female voice again. Nevertheless, she was empty. After trying for what seems like forever, she gives up. On the other hand, Joy knew Dan couldn't be defeated like that.

Hell No! Dan is a one-man wrecking machine. Besides, he is immune to silver and unobtanium. So, if he was captured by this being, that means Dan was planning something hazardous.

"Let's watch the hybrid Alpha in action." She whispers inwardly and relaxes her back on the lengthy lustrous chair.

"You should have known that your magic is useless to me," says Dan to Alpha Malcolm. "Tell me why you killed Mom and seized Joy before I change my mind." He asked.

"She slaughtered three beings from the black venom pack, and you expect her to go unpunished." The grey-haired elder retorted instead. "Thank the moon goddess that we haven't transferred her case to the supreme council."

"She did not only kill three Lycans, she killed my daughter's." Mrs. Sandra joined the conversation. "She deserves death by the holy water."

"So you take revenge by killing my mom,” Dan said, his voice getting harder with each second.

"You are even lucky to meet her here alive," Miss Donna chirped.

Another male voice retorted from behind: "Kill her, and Lord Darius won't hesitate to ruin you and your generation to come.”

All eyes drifted towards the entrance, and they all opened their mouths ample at the sight in front of them. Nicci, also known as the red widow: was the first to emerge, followed by Duke Thaine, son of Thawing. Behind them are a hundred D'arcy soldiers and Lycan warriors.

"Where is the so-called prophecy half-breed?" Thaine asked impatiently.

"What are you talking about?" Beta Kyle inquired as he approached the new beings.

"You should have shut up," the red widow said. "Unfortunately, it was too late." Before Beta Kyle could decipher what she meant, his head went flying off his head, and blood filled the ground. The remaining body went down like a log of wood. "He deserves that." The red widow said, licking her hand. She had just transformed her hand into a sword. She is a liquid metal.

"Noo!!!" Alpha Malcolm screeched and transformed. Seeing this, the grey-haired elder placed his hand on his shoulder and stopped him from completing his black venom transformation. "State your business here, because you have already caused enough damage." He said.

"I believe you have something that belongs to Lord Darius," Thaine said. "She turned a woman into a night-walking creature without permission, and Lord Darius ordered us to bring her instantly." He elaborated, his gaze now resting on Sarah, who had a sly smile on her lips.

"She is over there," says Mrs. Donna. She pointed towards the elderly seat, and there was Joy, who was hiding under one of the chairs. "If we can't beat her, then you and your men should be able to do that for us."

"Thank you, ma'am!" The red widow replied. "I promise to give you a share of our rewards."

Slowly, she directed her attention back to Joy. "Guards, get her." She commanded.

All the D'arcy soldiers and Duke Thaine swing into action immediately. All of them transformed into their forms, and they dashed at Joy.

Faster than the eyes could interpret, Dan broke all the chains that were used to bind him. He roared out in animosity, and the sky turned darker.

"Not under my watch," he howled, like a wild bull. "Now, prepare yourself." He stomped his feet on the ground, and his full Hybrid Alpha mode surfaced.

With inhuman speed, he dashed at the two Lycans dragging Joy, yanking them up with a hand each.

Although they were strong and big. They couldn't escape Dan's grip. They wriggled in irritation, trying to bite him, but it was futile. He smashed them together, and the two beings went limp. Dan spun back, grabbed another lycan, and broke him apart like parched firewood.

As an arrow was shot at him and he stepped aside, the silver arrow narrowly missed him. Before the arrow could move past his face, he held it, then used it to stab a lycan in the heart. He bent low to escape a lycan claw as it came for his face. In the same motion, he grabbed the Lycan's hand, twisted it, and used it to hit another being.

Another D'arcy soldier attacked him with a long flaming silver sword, and Dan leaped away from his previous position as the soldier swung his sword at him. With his super speed, he dashed at him and brought down the soldier's head with his claw. He was too slow to dodge a fireball that was directed at him from one of Duke Thaine's lycans, and he howled in pain.

Dan spun back, and he was welcomed with a punch from Alpha Malcolm. The man tried to attack him again, but he grabbed his fist in mid-air and headbutted him. The grey air elder blends with the air, appearing in front of Dan and piercing his skin with the death angel knife.

As it came into contact with Dan's skin, the knife broke.

In anger, Dan grabbed the elderly man and tore him apart with his claws. Alpha Malcolm roared in misery and dashed at Dan with his Alpha speed. He blended with the wind, his eyes now blood red, and he aimed for Dan's throat with his long claw.

A few inches away from him reaching Dan's position, he felt a strong hand grabbing him on the throat. Before Alpha Malcolm could comprehend what was happening, he felt himself losing control. His eyes turned from red to black, and he was forced to kneel on the ground.

"What can I do to please my mistress?" He asked abjectly, and everybody stopped dead in their tracks.

They couldn't believe what they were seeing. The great Alpha Malcolm of the Black Venom Pack was kneeling in front of Joy.

"Order your pack to fight against the new Lycan and those D'arcy soldiers." She ordered him.

"As my mistress wishes," Alpha Malcolm replied. "Soldiers of the Black Venom pack, kill those D'arcy soldiers and their leader."

"It's the prophecy half-breed," Duke Thaine, and the Red Widow chorus at the same time. "Activate the upper aisle invisible formation." Duke Thaine ordered his men.

"I guess it was too late for that," Mrs. Sandra replied beside him. Before Duke Thaine could guess what she meant, Mrs. Sandra grabbed him by the neck and sucked his life force. As soon as she finished consuming Duke Thaine's soul, her hair turned scarlet. Her long white robes tore involuntarily, and they were replaced with scarlet robes. Her hair turned scarlet, and it started squirming on her head like a snake.

Her eyes also change to scarlet, while her whole body is now blazing with scarlet flame. She used her hand to draw a pattern, and a scarlet fire emitted from her hand which burned some unlucky D'arcy soldiers and Lycan. Mrs. Sandra chanted, "η φωτιά από την αρχαία κόκκινη μάγισσα," and the remaining soldiers remained motionless.

"The ancient scarlet witch," Nicci and the elderly said in unison. Right in front of their eyes, the frozen soldiers started burning from their legs. Gradually, the scarlet flame spread all over their bodies, and they turned to ashes.

"Why did you betray your people, Mrs. Sandra?" Nicci asked. She took some steps towards her, but she knew well enough not to cross her limit.

"You might know me as Mrs. Sandra, but I have to accompany the prophecy half-breed and the hybrid alpha on their journey. I was sent here by the first king of the middle land to protect and help them until they accomplished their mission." She elaborated.

"So, you are going to nominate an abomination over your people and Lord Darius?" Mrs. Donna asked.

"I will protect them with the last breath in my mouth." She insisted. "Lastly, my name is Ariel Maka Rachel, the first and last ancient scarlet witch. Mrs. Sandra is just a fake identity." She clarified, and everybody opened their mouths in surprise.

Slowly, she walks towards Dan and Joy. She chanted, "ο θάνατός μας δεν είναι σήμερα ερωμένη μου." And the three of them vanished into thin air.

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