The Alpha's Temptation
The Alpha’s Temptation – Scene 417

“Calamine’s horns!” Alphard spat. There were three male faes who were standing out there and had created the magical invisible wall.

The Hydra General knew that no matter what he did, he wouldn’t be able to break this wall. “Look upppp!” he shouted to all his men. “There are faes!”

There was a ripple of shock in the army as they all looked up. Some of the men who had shifted into wolves, shifted back to their human forms.

Half-moon dazzled the sky and against that dazzling light were three, winged men, looking at them.

“Shoot your arrows at them!” Alphard shouted the command.

A unit of soldiers quickly knelt on the ground and started shooting their arrows at the faes. But the faes flew higher than the arrows could even reach. They flew to the border of the kingdom where the Hydranians had broken down large parts of the stone wall. All the shooters turned to that side and started shooting in the air.

“Are you all f****d up! Bloody idiots!” Alphard shouted at them when the arrows fell on the fellow Nyxers. There were g****s and curses and cries when some of the arrows missed the targets and fell upon the army. When the shooters didn’t realize and continued to shoot arrows in frenzy, Alphard roared at them. “Stoooopp!”

The shooters stopped themselves and looked at their General for the stupid command he had given, little realizing that they had injured their own men in the conundrum that followed.

“Run to the boundary wall and take aim at the fae over there!” he barked at them. “But I want half of you to stay here!”

Half of them got up and rushed to the boundary wall while the other half stayed. Alphard knew that the faes were too clever. They thought that he would send all his shooters after them? They were true idiots, he thought. When they would come again this side, they wouldn’t get a chance to recover when he was going to order his men to shoot arrows instantly at them. Even if one arrow out of the thousands met its mark, it was going to be worth it.

As he had predicted, the faes were hell bent on creating chaos. Well, he was prepared. As soon as he saw them flying this side, he shouted an order to his men to shoot at them. His men shot a flurry of arrows at the faes when suddenly he smelled smoke and heard something crackling.

Alphard snapped his head to the back and saw that there was fire crackling on the sides of the invisible wall. He narrowed his eyes and a smile came to his lips. The faes were unable to hold their magic. The wall was crumbling. He ordered his men to be ready for the attack because they were about to enter Aquila.

Many of them came to this side with loud cheers that the magic was breaking. And it was mostly because the faes were getting tired of all the chase and play. Alphard’s tension morphed into excitement as he watched the wall burn.

Burning. Burning. Burning.

The crackle started to eat up the magic. Alphard could have asked his men to enter from the sides, but he was wary at the moment. The faes had now gone on the other side of the invisible wall. Even when they were watching the wall crumble, their expressions were unreadable.

“As soon as the entire magic crumbles, I want you all to march in!”

The soldiers stomped their spears on the ground and several shifted into their wolves out of excitement, snarling and howling that they had defeated even the faes.

The fire around the wall shrank in size, tuning into a giant ring of fire. Alphard watched it shrink bit by bit, but it turned into a giant fireball. It was as if a mini sun was floating in the air in front of them. He peeked at the faes, his sixth sense telling him something was terribly wrong. Why wasn’t the ball disappearing? And that is when he saw the faes moving their hands forward.

They chanted something and white lights curled around their hands. As soon as the lights reached their fingertips, they hurled them towards the fireball.

“RUUNNNNN!” Alphard roared at his men, turning his horse around.

The giant ball was about to explode. The faes had turned the invisible wall into a ball of explosion.

His men scattered, the wolves jumping over men, horses rearing riders and some trying to get out of there as soon as possible. But everything happened in a split second. The ball exploded with a thundering noise into tiny fireballs which hurled out of it with a great speed. Each of the fireballs found its target and exploded upon contact, ripping the bodies into pieces of flesh and b***d and bones.

There was complete pandemonium. Cries, b***d curdling screams filled the air. The fireballs attached themselves with werewolves and as soon as they sensed b***d, like a ticking bomb, they exploded.

Alphard jumped from his horse, the moment a fireball attached at its hind leg. He leapt in the air and shifted into his wolf just in time to save himself from the explosion in which his horse died.

Panicked and nervous as hell, he made his way through the wolves that were being killed or injured. He had to get back to his king to tell him about the trick that the Aquila Kingdom had used. He couldn’t believe that three faes were more than enough to create such havoc upon his army that contained thousands of men. What would happen if they actually came across an army of faes.

He had to remind Felis that it was no use pursuing his goal, because things had changed drastically. King Eltanin had allies across Araniea and also had support of the faes since his own wife was a half fae.

Alphard leaped over the wolves and falling bodies to reach his king. He saw that almost everyone was trying to enter the large holes in the boundary wall of Aquila and that created huge congestion. He snarled at his men to give him way, afraid that the fireball would come and hit him. However–