The Howl of Claim | COMPLETED

XLIX | F r e y a R u t h

Leal ( F a i t h f u l A n d T r u e )

They say a female will always be below a male. The male will always overpower her. He is the stronger, females can never be above them. Can never do things the way males did.

I think, yes. Maybe they are stronger, maybe we can never do the things the way males do, that's because we are different! We are not males. We are born to be different. A female decides who she wants on top of her, she holds the power, not the male. The male is not a man if he forces a woman into doing things she does not want to.

But then, some males value equality. Who give female a little share of their power and not make them feel how inferior they are to them in strength.

Like Darius.

Well, sometimes, but when he does, it makes me happy.

We females do things our way, we don't necessarily have to follow the way of the males to survive.

Who are 'They?' who say these types of things?

They are all the people who tried to bring me down and failed. They are all the people who thought I was weak and mad but I proved them wrong by being the second strongest Alpha in the entire country.

I showed them, they just watched in surprise.

Satisfaction like that was what I lived for.

More pressure is applied on my throat and I fight for my life. I fight the person who is supposed to take care of me.

My heart ached.

I raise my legs, locking them around his neck and trying to pull him away from myself who just woke with her heart in her throat.

"Marco! Avalon! Come, hurry!" I screamed through the mind link as I try to twist myself from under Darius.

What happened!? What went wrong!? What happened in a matter of a few hours!?

"Dai-rius- what the fuck are you doing!?" I finally decided to punch him in the face in hopes of getting him out of his daze but his head only snap to the side and he recovers while I watch wide eyes.

He never took off his hands from my throat.

I am unable to focus on the surroundings because Darius decides that it would be awesome to roar in my face.

His small drops of spit dropping on my cheeks and I shut my eyes tight.

I roar back when he stops while pushing my claws out and showing him a form of a warning.

"You guys want me to die! Come the fuck on!" I shout through the mind link once again since I didn't get a reply before.

"Yes, coming." I don't know which one said this - from Marco and Avalon - because I was too focused on getting Darius' claws away from me.

He would be the death of me - literally!

"That's it!" I say loudly and scratch my erasthai's chest and finally pulling him back from my legs, causing him to drop on the ground.

My scream and scratch caught him off guard.

Suddenly the door of our room opens and Marco stands in his disheveled state followed by Avalon who looks no different.

They just woke up.

"What in the wor-" They are cut off as Darius lunge at me and I am slammed on the - thankfully - carpeted floor.

A grunt escapes me and the two men standing in the doorway come to their senses.

Marco and Avalon are immediately in action and start to pull Darius away from me.

The second he gets off, I get up and hold the back of my head.

Fuck, it hurts!

"What happened!?" Avalon asks while holding back a struggling Darius who was about to explode at any moment.

"I was woken by him strangling me! I don't know what's wrong with him."

"I'll kill you!" Darius roared and my eyes widened.

The hatred in his eyes was loud and clear - he really wanted to kill me.

"Run Freya! Run!" Marco shouts at me while grabbing Darius harder and I quickly run around them and out of the room. I keep running until I am out of the packhouse.

What just happened! What in the name of moon goddess has gone wrong with him!?

The cold nipping air of the night angrily brushed against my skin and sweat trickled down my spine.

"I told you I would be having fun with you." My eyes snap up on the tree from where he jumped down.

"Kendrick." I myself hear the venom in my words.

"Holding grudges, are we?" He sounded smug and I wanted nothing more than to kill him at that moment.

He was the cause of this!

"I will never forgive you!" I say and lunge at him but he steps away smoothly.

"Are you really going to attack a man with one arm?" He was right, Darius had ripped his arm out before. Thank god he did not magically regrow it.

"Any doubts!?" I jump again this time finally getting a hit on his shoulder before he himself jumped away.

"What did you do to him? Tell me!" I shout but I am cut short when one of the windows of the packhouse behind me shatter and a beast jumps down from there.

Darius.

I stare back at him and then back at a smirking Kendrick.

"I wish I would've done this sooner, but then the spell required a target and I deem you as the perfect one."

No!

"The witches? They are a part of this?"

"Duh." He stated as a matter of fact and I didn't know what to do. Right now, Kendrick was controlling Darius like his puppet.

My eyes moved back to Darius who stood tall on the ground like he owned the place. He fucking did!

I looked for wounds but he had none, Marco and Avalon were no match for his strength.

"Now, I have an ultimatum for you." I removed my eyes from Darius and moved them to Kendrick.

"You come with me willingly, mate with me, reproduce for me or fight with Darius till death and-" Kendrick stopped for a moment and assessed me, "- Let me just remind you, if you die then so will the life inside of you so chose wisely."

Life inside of me.

I had a hunch, who am I kidding - there was a ninety-five percent chance that I was pregnant considering that I mated with Darius in my heat.

Fuck me!

"You will kill my child anyway if I come with you." Placing my hand on my flat belly, I glare at the man in front of me.

"True." He shrugged and my anger increased by several bars.

"I will kill you!"

"Oh no no, you can't kill me." I looked back when a pair of feet come running out. Bruised Marco and Avalon were helped up by Kamri and Klepto.

I looked back at Kendrick to find him also looking at the four of them, Kamri to be specific.

Murder was written across his face at her sight.

"As I was saying, you can't kill me because if you do, your mate there will go on a killing rampage." I couldn't tell if he was lying or not. If he even was lying, then he was a very good liar.

But what were the odds that he was lying!?

"You decide while I pay my respects to my sister." With that, Kendrick jumped above me and right in front of Kamri, grabbing her by the neck with the one arm that he had.

"No!" I move towards them but Darius stands in my way. I look back at Kamri to find Marco holding Kendrick by the neck.

I hope he doesn't kill him though, but this was the only time I wanted Marco to stay true to his ego.

I am pulled back by my thoughts when Darius takes a step towards me and growls.

"Darius," I whisper at him.

"Please, come back to me. Don't do this." He did not listen, he did not care.

My eyes snap towards my right when Kendrick lands on a tree. Marco was doing a big number on him.

"Darius my friend, attack her!" He croaks out while standing back up himself and I immediately take a step back.

Friend? My arse.

I look behind me to find the Lycans of the pack out of their homes and watching us.

A spark of hope ignited in me - against these many Lycans, Kendrick wouldn't stand a chance.

I looked at them expectantly but when they all drop to the ground, my jaw drops as well.

"What!?" I mutter to myself.

I sickening laugh comes from a tree and I snap my eyes towards it to find a female sitting there and watching with keen interest.

"Hello, Female." Another sickening laugh escapes her, and she jumps down but she was in the air when Klepto slams headfirst into her, tossing her a mile away.

I only watched wide-eyed.

"I got her." Klepto smiles at me and I am only able to nod when Darius decides that we have had enough chit chat and I am pinned on the ground with Darius on top.

"Darius, don't make me hurt you. Please." But it's as if he doesn't care because he starts to strangle me again.

I cough and claw his arms but he does not stop.

I am strong! I can do this! I am strong!

This time again, I lock my legs around his neck and use all my energy to flip him around causing his face to slam on the ground.

I immediately get on top of him and start punching him.

"I guess by punching, you might come to your senses." I punch again and again but it's as if Darius has had enough of me as well when he claws both my shoulder and slam my head on the ground.

I grunt.

He quickly gets up and kicks me on my shoulder causing me to roll away.

I suck in big puffs of air inside my lungs because everything was starting to get dizzy suddenly.

Darius slowly starts to walk towards me and I look around, Klepto had pushed the witch on the ground and was about to rip her head off while Marco was bloody trying to protect Kamri who had been knocked on the ground.

I looked back at Darius who is about to kick me in the stomach - something that I could not allow to happen - when Avalon decides it's best to jump in and flip Darius and slam his body on the ground.

Darius falls with a thud.

"Come on, quickly let's go." Avalon was quick to lift me up and help me move to someplace until Darius grabs Avalon by his hair and kick him hard.

Avalon drops his hold on me and quickly gets to his feet again.

He was not going to go down without a fight that easily.

Avalon immediately shifts like everyone else and jumps into action to fight him but it was clear he was not going to win.

But he still didn't back down.

I look towards Klepto who is frozen, I for a moment get confused but when I see the witch about to kill her, I realize.

"No!" I run fast - like never before - and ram my head in her stomach, making her fly and I immediately turn towards Klepto who was still frozen.

"Klepto," I whisper but she doesn't move an inch and my anger grows so much that I shift into a Lycan, my clothes ripping instantly, and run towards the witch who had her eyes widened.

She mutters something and wolves made from rocks rise, my eyes widen.

So this is how she wants to play? Fine by me.

Nothing that I haven't done before.

I start with the first one who lunges at me easily break it apart by simply smashing my clawed hand towards it.

Bruh, rocks hurt!

The rest go just like that and I step closer to the female.

Grabbing her by her hair and I growl furiously in her face and then finally pull her head clean off her shoulders.

Blood. Satisfaction. Kill!

Klepto who was frozen starts to move again and I sigh in relief but it is short-lived when I spot Avalon about to get his head smashed by a heavy rock.

Everyone I spotted was about to fucking die!

Klepto screams and immediately breaks into a run towards Darius and I follow.

We had to save him!

I jump at Darius from the back while Klepto pulls Avalon out of the way.

Darius shrugs me off violently and I fall on my side. "Fuck-"

Darius is in the process of turning when I sweep his feet from under.

I quickly get on my feet and am about to slap Darius when I am stopped.

"Enough!" A voice shouts and everyone looks at Kendrick who is bleeding from the bruises caused by Marco, Marco in the same situation.

Kendrick was on the brink of death by how much blood he had lost.

"I have had enough, Meredith!" He shouts and the ground starts to rumble.

I try to balance myself so I lower my body towards the ground. Cracks form in the soil and the ground partitions.

My eyes widen.

From in between the cracks rise a female - Meredith - probably another witch with a dozen more werewolves and several Lycans.

No.

Judging by everyone's state, we were going to lose like this.

"Gather them!" Kendrick shouts and the army of supernatural that just landed, run towards us. My eyes widen.

"We will fight till our last breath!" I say through mind link to Marco and Avalon since Kamri and Klepto were still not part of the pack.

A few circle Marco who was unable to protect Kamri anymore. Kendrick took that moment and walked towards Kamri who had just gotten up.

He was planning to kill her.

I start to run towards them but wolves and a lyacn surround me as well, Darius quietly stepping back and watched me, hiding by his eyes, he wanted to see what I did.

He was watching me, waiting for his turn. He knew I would neat all of these creatures, he was saving himself for last.

- Hot.

Fucking creature in my head.

My worried eyes move back to Kamri who was now being strangled by his brother.

"Kendrick!" A loud manly voice shouts and a flying Keith comes and punches his brother in the jaw.

If he is here then it means.

I turn around to find Ace and Asher with their own army coming to our rescue. I hope rises in me.

I turn to my own batch of enemies.

A feeling blooms inside my heart - everyone was fighting, playing their roles. I had to too.

Time to dance.

One after another, I ripped the wolves apart, relentlessly - they didn't stand a chance against me.

But then came the new Lycan. Forcefully shifted by a witch probably.

Darius growled beside us, causing my eyes to meet his cold gaze, attentively watching us. I looked back at my opponent and lunged first, scratching his chest open.

Noob.

A punch is landed across my face and I take a step back.

Shouldn't have messed with me, I am now going to go batshit crazy on your ass!

I go crazy and insert my claws in his lower abdomen in one fluid motion, pulling them up, ripping the Lycan in half.

Blood smeared on me and I growled in satisfaction.

"Fuck yeah." I lose my footing for a second but I regain my balance, taking a powerful stance.

I turn towards Darius who had a smug expression on his face.

He was waiting for me.

I was his prey.

My fight with him.

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