Nick's POV
After six days of traveling none stop, we were tired. But we finally got to the cursed mountains just in time to see Black and his entourage arrive.
I had traveled along with Harry, while Simeon and Kyle stayed back to protect the pack and to free all those that have been wrongly imprisoned by Miranda.
I don't know how, but Black has managed to recruit more rogues as the men with him numbered over a hundred.
The untamed beast barked viciously at us as soon as they spotted us. Their eyes feasted on us as prey to their predator.
“So what do we do now,” simeon asked in a shaky voice.
No one needs to be told that Harry has never been to a battle, his trembling and shaking legs give him away so easily.
“I thought you knew everything,” I said to him teasingly.
“Yeah, I do, but you are the leader here,” he said taking steps behind me.
Honestly, the bravest of hearts would faint at the sight of these rogues. They look all ready for war as if someone had tipped them off, that we would become.
Gradually the rogues started marching toward us with some of their hands on their swords, others were carrying various weapons. Even though they do look strong and outnumbered us in every way but I found myself not one bit terrified of their presence.
There was this calm aura around me, it was as if the wind was gently blowing around me, relieving the tension and encouraging me that I could do this.
Just then, in a flash, I saw my spirit guard move unnoticed amid the rogues while smiling at me.
My eyes came in contact with Black and suddenly, all the peace and calmness I was having was quickly replaced with anger.
Intense anger.
A flashback of my grandmother lying in her pool of blood flashed through my mind. Then Peter and how he stood by and watched them sniff the life out of me. Then finally, my father.
He didn't appear to be surprised to have seen me there as he wore a silly smile on his face. He can smile for all that he wants now because by the end of today, the only thing that will be the vultures picking up his remains.
I looked at the men he had come with and wondered what he had told them that they were willing to come down to the cursed mountains with him.
“Look at who we have here, it's the bastard son of the alpha king,” Black roared with a smug look on his face.
“Why do you hide behind this man you call guards, why don't you come and fight me like a man,” I shouted back at him.
“Well, I don't have to, a king does not need to fight their own battle, that is what the army is for,” he said as he points at his so-called army.
“Only a weak king can say such, a king provides and protects his people, not the other way round,”
“Well too bad we both have different approaches to kingship and just maybe that is why I am your king,” he said boastfully.
“You are a nobody King, Black. you are a bloody rogue, a nuisance, a parasite that needs to be thrashed” I fired back at him.
“And yet your stepmother named me as the next king,” he said with a smirk.
“Well too bad she is no longer alive to make that happen,” I said to a surprise-looking, Black.
From his surprise look, one can tell that he is not aware that his strongest ally is long dead and buried.
“So you killed her then,” he said trying hard not to look bothered by the sad news he just got.
“I didn't have to, her evil deeds caught up with her before I did. Moreover, I am not like you. I don't kill old defenseless women, I don't kill old fragile men in their sleep and I don't bring in hunters to murder sleeping men,”
“I know you are not so dumb to think that I did all that by myself, your stepmother ordered those killings and yes it is safe to say that she paid me fully.
She has paid for her deeds and now it's your turn,”
Don't you want to know how she paid me, he asked and pauses as if waiting for me to say something, but when he did not see me say anything he continued.
“She freely gave me access to every inch of her body. It must hurt knowing that the woman your father the King loved so much and kept in his beautiful castle only preferred the dick of a rogue and that is because I hit hard. Unlike your lazy two seconds father. Hope you are not like your father bastard?” he said tauntingly.
I was so angry, as my eyes felt like blazing fire and involuntarily I lifted my hand towards his direction and a blast erupted from my hand.
It sent everyone and everything on its way flying.
The remaining rogues looked around them surprised at what just happened and before I could turn to face them.
They all took to their heels as fast as their feet could carry them.
“Come back here,” he shouted after them.
But, too bad for him, they appeared to like their own life more than whatever he had promised them.
Black was on the ground groaning in pain as I walked towards him. He looked defenseless and defeated, but his pride won't make him admit that he had lost.
“So you think killing me would end your misery? He questioned as gnashed his teeth in pain.
“No, it might not end my misery, but there are people out there that would feel safer with you gone,” I said to him.
He starts laughing hysterically as I walked closer and I couldn't help but wonder why.
“You are the one that fate has played the biggest trick on, you are mated to the daughter of the woman who murdered your father. It is not me you should be killing, it is your mate. She would turn against you when the time comes. Do not be stupid like your whore of a stepmother by killing the wrong people, we could walk together and become formidable to reckon with”
“I don't negotiate with terrorists,”
When he sees that none of his words were getting to me, he changed his tactic.
“So you are going to kill a defenseless man, I thought you were the all-powerful hybrid, let's make this a fair fight,” he shouted.
“Sorry, that offer has ended a long time ago, and for your information, I was never born a bastard. My name is Ivar Owens, first of his kind, heir and the only true-born King of all the Alpha kingdoms” I said, as I stretched forth my fingers and a light went out of them and entered his body.
He kept screaming as the light heated up his entire body, within seconds his body shattered across the field.
After the Black Death, I still wasn't feeling myself as I had this intense need for me to scream and vent out all of my anger.
I took in one long breath before roaring in the woods so loudly that trees fell and the mountains shook.
I felt better after the scream and my heart pricked a bit when I remembered Harry was with me. I turned around and saw him standing and smiling at me.
I wondered how he was still standing and was not affected by my roar. But then, I looked down to see that his legs were buried in the ground.
“Long live the king,” he said smiling.