Their forced luna
Chapter 68

Zale

I tried to keep my focus on the battle but that was turning out harder than ever when all I wanted to do was confront Amanda and replace out if it was true.

Could she be carrying my child? Or was it a bastard whelp from her past?

But that's not how it felt to me. Once the words were given form, I believed them without a doubt.

My mate was pregnant with our child. A future for my people was already established.

A vicious growl came from one of the hounds and it opened its mouth unleashing a stream of orange flames straight at my mate's kidnapper. Killing him once would never be enough. I needed to pull every bone out of his body and stab him through the eyes with it.

Once the flames hit, Aren was knocked back like he'd been struck by a sledgehammer. He hit back first into one of the trees and grunted, his body falling forward like a rag doll.

I would be the one to end this pathetic creature's life. It was my woman he'd taken. My life he'd tried to ruin.

"Pull it together, Zale," Ares snapped. "Focus. We need to stop him, teach him a lesson for every touching what is ours."

I owed him for hurting Javier too. There was no way I was going to turn around and just let him get away with his crimes. I flung myself at him, darting in to bite his stomach. He held out a hand and I ran face- first into a shield of wind he'd thrown up at the last moment.

Damn it. I wanted to rip his guts open.

"Back away, Prime," the one known as Tyler demanded. "I've got to get Raul out of there. It'll eventually kill both of them."

I turned my attention to the wind prison where Raul and Luke threw themselves against each other in a flurry of claws and teeth. They'd stopped using their powers and relied on their physical strength. Despite Raul's will, it didn't look like he could win this battle. Blood trailed from several spots on his sleep coat and he held a paw up from the ground.

"Out of my way," I snarled. "We kill Aren, we stop whatever that prison of his is."

Jesse snorted. "Easy to say, but he's not so easy to fight. He's blessed by the Goddess."

"Zale," Amanda whispered. Why would she still fear for me in a situation like this?

I dashed in again and this time when Aren threw up the shield, I jumped over it and slid around the tree he was using for support. My fangs sliced through his shoulder before he could react and bitter blood flowed into my mouth, stinging it like acid.

What the hell was with this creature? This didn't taste like a demon either, a wizard's revolting taste perhaps?

"Idiot," Aren whispered to me before his palm made contact with the top of my head. Ares tried to spring away, but we were too close. A giant wind bubble appeared around us cutting us off from those outside of it. With Raul stuck in the other bubble I had no choice but to try to fight my way free.

The air tore at my fur, lashing out at me and slicing into my skin. Ribbons of blood trailed from a dozen injuries in a second.

"Fool," Aren laughed at me again. "You willingly came in here. You will never be able to stop me."

A fresh set of wind struck me, pushing me down against the ground like a giant hand flattening me. More cuts sprouted over my body and I grunted with each hit.

"Do you want to know what my plans are?" he asked with a smirk in my direction.

It didn't matter what they were. I'd kill him in the space of a few seconds.

The pressure increased and I snarled at the rough treatment. My bones creaked in protest. A nick near my throat bled hard and ruby red droplets sprinkled all over the grass.

"Going to try to ignore me? That's fine. I'll be sure to keep you alive a a slave. I'll drain enough blood to knock you out and once that's done I'll ask the Goddess to trap your mind away in that worthless body of yours. You'll be able to watch me take her over and over again until she becomes completely mine as the Goddess has promised."

Why he'd gone on and on with his diatribe, I'd crept closer and closer to him. It hadn't been easy with the heavy pressure from his attack but the more he got into his visions of torture, the easier it was to move.

"Alessa will be my bitch, and I'll keep her belly filled with my spawn."

I gathered my paws beneath me and relying on Ares' strength, I jumped a final time. He was still cackling when my fangs gripped his throat. He threw up his wind shield in a desperate attempt to get me to give up. The pressure around me increased. My bones cracked from the pressure.

Fine. If he wanted an all in attack, I could do that too. I focused every bit of power I had on my mouth just as the hounds did. A white hot flame gathered and it blinded Aren. He was forced to cover his eyes in a vain attempt to escape the burning glow. He screamed and the wind that protected him blinked before fading out of existence.

I didn't waste time. The flames struck him full in the face and I buried my teeth in his throat, going for his lifeblood and only when I felt his spirit leave his body did I pull away.

The wind was gone not just from me but for the other battle field as well. Luke sprung away from the injured Raul and stared between me and Aren. "What?" he demanded, his voice cracking.

"Traitor," Raul hissed at him. The hound snarled and sprung to pin the smaller one down when Jesse's full weight hit Luke and knocked him off balance and to the ground. He fell with a heavy thump and Tyler went for his throat, ending Luke's life in the exact manner that his master had been.

I lifted my head to the sky and howled.

The battle was ours.