SOUL'S POV:,
Rogues are everywhere. I am breathing heavily with all the fighting I've done. I look around and see my home...burning to ashes. A feel a hole in my heart growing. These wolves have taken everything from us.
I suddenly get tackled to the ground by a rogue. I grab it and rip it apart. Rogues circle me. I growl and snarl at all of them, "COME ON!" I shout at all of them. And they all jump on me. I fight rogue after rogue. But there are so many. "Noah! I need help!" I shouted. I turn and see Noah fighting his own set of rogues. Damn it! We're gonna be over run.
Some shadow catches my attention. It starts to fight all of the rogues so gracefully. It is quick to kill. Soon,almost all of the rogues that targeted me were dead. I look closer. I know those moves. I've trained with those kind of moves before...but it cannot be. Soon the shadow stand up straight. It's back to me. I stand there as well, just staring. It slowly turns around until I see it's face. I drop to the ground in shock. "Impossible."
The shadow speaks, "We need to get to the woods, before it's too late."
LIZZY's POV:
"Please. I've done what you want. Just let me go."
"No." He said while pacing the ground. The dirt around him has been dug deep from his walking.
"Why not!" I shouted.
He stops walking and turns his head slowly to me. His lips were tight and his eyes stare at me intensely. With big steps, he stomps over to me and grabs me by the hair to pull my face closer, "Because I need you alive for him to see that he will never have you as long as he lives."
My mind is all over the place in confusion, "What are you talking about? Who?"
He just looks at me and shoves me on the ground. I sit on my knees quietly, holding my stomach, "I am not your mate." I whispered.
"You could be if you just stopped resisting. The mate bond cannot fully flourish if you keep rejecting my affections for you."
"Affection?" I growled. How dare he. "Is raping me a part of you showing your affection? Well I am so sorry that I resisted you on that one MATHESEUS!" I yell out sarcastically, "Your mate...is dead! She is gone! Why can you not accept that? My mate Xander, killed her and now HE'S DEAD because of you! You're even now! Isn't that all you want?"
"No, I need him to know that his precious little mate is suffering while with-child and there is nothing he can do about it. His very reason for living will be taken from him."
I dig my hands into the ground in anger, "You're a pathetic excuse for a man...no...a wolf. You don't even deserve your wolf. He's probably begging you to stop right now and with all your strength your resisting. You should be ashamed of yourself. Go rot in a little cave while sulking about your mate that has been dead for YEARS! Go and just die Matheseus! No one wants you and no one ever will!" I scream.
He roars in anger. He back hands me and fall on the ground. He pulls my head back up and punches. I groan in pain. He kicks my back when I role onto my side. I don't even defend myself. I don't care what happens to me. But I will defend my pup. I hold onto my stomach, trying my best to shield my baby. He grabs onto my arm with a bruising grip. I yelp in pain. He moves me to my other side. He swings his leg back, readying himself to do harm. I close my eyes and sob. I'm so sorry little one. I wasn't able to protect you. I take a deep breath. This is gonna hurt like hell.
Suddenly I heard something. A dark, deep, brooding and ancient growl. It was loud as if it was a warning. My heart stopped. No. It cannot be.
"Finally, you have come. You came just in time for the best bit," Matheseus cackled.
"Like hell I'm gonna let you touch her again," he snarled. My heart stops. I close my eyes, "This has to be a dream," I whispered, "This cannot be."
I do not turn around, just in case I was wrong.
"You will regret ever laying your finger on her."
"Who's going to stop me? You? You against me and my army."
"What army?" Suddenly a bunch of shadows appeared behind Matheseus, "Rogues," I whispered. All of them were either crouched in a lunging position or were in their wolf forms, snarling and growling."
"Funny you should say that because, I have an army of my own."
Through my hands and knees, I felt the ground vibrate and rumble violently as if there was an earth quake. With a shaking body, I slowly turns my head and saw a whole army of men. But it wasn't just any kind of men. It was the men from the prisons, they were free. And at the head of them was the one and only, Lincoln. There was also the army from our pack. I saw Soul, Eddie and Noah standing next to Lincoln.
"Charge!" The man shouted.
Hundreds of men run passed, while I am still sitting on the ground in shock. I can't believe this is happening. I try to control my breathing, but I can't. My heart and mind is going out of control. My vision starts to blur. This is literally the worst time to black out.
A warm pair of arms are what brings me back. I shake my head slightly and look at whoever was holding. This is literally impossible. "Xander," I whisper.
He looked the exact same, except he now has a full on beard and his hair has gone kind of crazy. But other than that. It was still the same Xander in the flesh. I held my hand close to his face. But I was scared to touch him and realize that all of this wasn't real. "This is impossible," he takes a hold of my hand softly and guides it to his cheek. I shutter when I felt the heat of his flesh against my palm. This is real. He's alive. Xander's Alive! I throw my arms around his neck and sob, "I can't believe it!" He picks me up bridal style and carries me away from the battle.
After a few minutes walk, he lays me down next the lake, "I'll need to leave soon and find Matheseus. But I wanted to make sure you were okay first."
I felt so out of breath even though I did absolutely no walking or running. "You're here," you whispered, "You're alive."
He smiles at me, "Yes, I'm here."
I touch his face, "I can touch you."
He chuckles, "Yes, yes you can sweetheart."
"Good." Then I punch him square in the face. He falls to his side and groans. I crawl towards him and hit him more and more, "How dare you let me go through all of that pain and grief! How dare you do that to me! Who do you think you are!" I slap him, punch him and hit him whilst he puts his arms up to try and stop me, "I went through Hell because I thought you were dead this whole time you bastard!" I sob. "I thought you were gone! I thought I was going to have to just deal with this gaping whole in my heart while raising my SON!"
Xander grabs a hold of my wrists and stopped me from hitting him. I thought he was going to be angry, but instead he pulled me into him. I cried into his chest and kept mumbling, "You were dead, you were dead, you were dead..." He just help me close to his chest.
"Shhh, it's okay. I'm here, I'm sorry, but I had to do it for your safety. I had no other choice."
I sit up and look at him, "But I saw you die. I saw Matheseus shoot you in the head."
He sighs and shakes his head, "You only saw what I wanted you to see."
I scrunch my face in confusion, "What're you talking about?"
"When you were kidnapped first, I went to an old friend, a witch. She was getting us this potion and while she was doing that I was looking around. I saw this potion that's a hallucinogen. I asked her about it and she said, who ever the holder gives it to will have the power to make people see what they wanted to see. I stole it and put it in our pack's water supply. Then when I was in the prison with you, I escaped my cell and put it in the water supply."
"But the guards wouldn't have given the prisoners that water, they would have given them something unfiltered."
"Exactly. That's why I kicked the water pipes and let the steam into the room so than everyone would inhale the hallucinogen in the steam. From there on out, I pretty much made everyone see what I wanted them to see."
"So how'd you get out then?"
"I made one of Metheseus's guards think I was one of his men and that one of the prisoners escaped and locked me inside the cell."
"Why couldn't you have gotten us out sooner then?"
"Because I needed Soul and Noah to come and make sure you were okay."
For some reason I was getting angry. "So while I was slowly dying because of the loss of my mate, what were you doing?"
In his eyes I can see the sorrow, "I was training the men, but don't think for one second that this whole thing wasn't hard for me. It was one of hardest things I could've done. Some days harder than other."
"Really?"
He nods, "Yeah. I even came to your room after you had that nightmare, but I knew I couldn't stay long, so I made you think it was a dream as well."
"That wasn't a dream?" I whispered.
He shakes his head, "No it wasn't. I was always close to Izzy. No matter what, I was always watching over you."
Then it clicked, "Were you...were you my guard? Did you think you were Soul?"
He chuckled, "Sometimes. Whenever he was on duty at the patrolling I would make everyone think it was Eddie so than I could guard you."
I release a breath of relief, "Thank goodness. I thought this whole time that Soul liked me. Like when Soul...I mean you, said 'my pup' when I was in the early stages of a miscarriage."
I see his eyes slowly flood with pain, "I was going to give up my plan at that point. I thought I almost lost you as well as our son. That was the scariest moment of my life."
"Why didn't you?"
"I knew you were going to be okay afterwards. You wouldn't have done anything to risk the pup's life."
I nod my head, "So how'd you know-"
I was cut off when we heard twig snap. We both still. Xander crawls closer to me and guards my front. His eyes turn black as he scans the area. Another snap of a twig. "Xander?" I whispered.
"Shhh. It's okay." He whispers. But I know for a fact...its not okay. I grabs a hold of his arms that are around me and squeeze.
I growl echoes from the trees. Xander looks at the wolf in the eyes and growl back, warning him not to come closer. But the wolf does anyways. Xander stands up to his full giant size in front of me, "Stay back," He snarls. But the wolf keeps walking towards us. Xander launches into the air and shifts. He lands in front of the wolf, fully ready to protect me.
XANDER'S POV:
I circle around this wolf, waiting for him to attack. Whenever I am in a position like this, I always make sure the opponent attacks first because you can get so much information about your enemy just by the first move. I can pin point their weaknesses, their strengths, their strategy, their tactics, everything. So we just circle each other.
I feel my wolf smirk when our opponent makes the first move. He launches himself in the air. He bares his teeth, aiming for my neck. But at that very moment, it seemed like time almost stops. He launched on his right leg which mean he favours his left. If I attack his right side, he will be left vulnerable. He also seems to be quick to think, he doesn't calculate moves which will make it easier for me to kill him. I see a thick scar on his left hind leg. It seems skinnier than the other three, which indicates that he is weak. I smile on the inside. This is gonna be a peace of cake.
I deflect his attempt to bite my neck and instead launch myself under him as he is still in the air. I extend my sharp fangs and clamp that down on his weak leg. I feel blood drip into my mouth.
I land on the ground fine, while he whimpers and yelps in pain. He has weakened significantly now. I go in for the kill and bite his neck. The wolf's body went limp. I drop him to the ground. Well that's done.