Chapter 78. War 3

Dimitri

“They are in, brother." Mikhail mind- linked me.

“Okay. I grinned.

"The enemies have crossed our borders.” I announced. "In the next ten minutes, they will be inside

our homes.” My voice boomed in the courtyard of the Pack House.

"The seventy five enemy wolves coming from the Western and Northern borders will straight up run

to the Pack house to kill everyone in it to symbolise that the Rogue Pack has fallen. In fifteen

minutes of them crossing our borders, they should reach the periphery of the pack house.”

Alpha made a red arc around the pack which covered the west and the south area of the pack

house.

"Will we let our pack fall?" I asked.

"No!" Everyone roared unanimously.

"Will we let a single intruder breathe one more second on our lands?" I asked

"No!" Everyone roared again.

"Good." I lowered my voice. "And that's the energy I want to see in every one when we are on the

battle field. It's kill or be killed. And I prefer to kill.” A grin started forming on my face, "in fact, 1?

love?killing. Do you?" I growled out my question.

"Yes!" They all growled back.

"Good. Take your positions. They will be here in ten minutes.” I commanded and everyone ran.

I too, went to my position which was on the terrace of the Pack House. Everyone were already lined

up on the west and north walls. They were sleeping flat on the floor with their guns in front of them,

ready to aim and shoot on my command. This way, everyone was hidden from the view.?

I heard a twig snap before I heard wolves running and I too, laid flat against the terrace and placed

my gun in front of me.

"We will only have fifty men to defend the Pack House. For the last phase, that is Phase Four, I want

all of those men on the terrace of the pack house. Each man will have a gun and bullets. Once the

fast arriving enemies enter the shooting range, you will start shooting.” Alpha made arrows

depicting the enemies entering the open area around the Pack House. "Kill as many as you can."?

And then made crosses in front of it.

I saw wolves, dozens of them emerge from the forest line and all of them were making their way

here. Fast.

“Aim.’ I commanded through our mind-link and then waited for them all to enter the shooting

periphery. I waited till every single wolf was near and was in line of fire. Hardly a fourth were in

shooting range when they stopped and I heard a few low, angry growls.

My skin prickled and I knew something was wrong.

And then the grey wolf leading them looked up and his eyes caught mine and then widened.

'Fire!'’?l commanded, before he could turn around and started shooting left and right. A fourth of

them dead before the war is better than none. Wolves were falling felt and right before all of them

turned around and started running away. We killed about twenty wolves and that was enough.

Mikhail and Andrei should be here anytime and we can hold our own. But I cannot afford a single

wolf running away and hiding in the pack.

'Stop." I ordered just as they stood outside of the line of fire. My eyes met a grey wolf's again and he

growled loudly.

I stood up and gave him a shit eating grin. "We love to treat our guests. Please do come in our

homes."

He shifted to his skin and glared at me. "I did not know that firing at your guests is a way to treat

them. Throw those guns away and come here fight like real men.”

My grin widened. I just loved pissing the fucking out of people. "Real men?" I mocked. "You mean

trespassing the borders of a pack with the intention of massacre is called being a real men?"

He only growled loudly.

I laughed. My wolf was craving for blood shed and who am I to deny him that? My eyes caught

more wolves shooting out of the forest and my grin widened. I saw Mikhail leading the group.

Waiting time is over. It's time to play.

"Once your bullets will get over, you will abandon your posts and attack the reminder of men." Then

Alpha made a blue arc between the previous one and the Pack house. "By that time, Mikhail's team,

which was spread across the western and southern border will arrive and corner them so no one can

escape. We will not let anyone get away.”

"I will show you what being a real man is.” I growled. "Attack!" I growled and jumped, shifting into

my fur in mid air and ran towards them in full speed.

I'm going to fucking kill them all.

They were more than us in numbers but Mikhail was approaching with his team quickly. We will

make it work.

We engaged in a full blown battle against a force that was larger than us.

I caught Mikhail's team and they started engaging themselves in a fight with some other wolves.

And I saw Andrei in the mix. Did Phase Two not go well?

What the fuck?

I concentrated on fighting my war.

I caught an enemy wolf over powering one of my wolves and I ran towards them bit into his neck

before throwing him away. Rick nodded at me gratefully. I nodded back. We both joined the fight

again.

I would not say that we were winning. But we weren't loosing either. We were just holding ourselves

up. Which was not fucking enough.

I caught the sight of the grey wolf tearing into one of my pack members and I growled loudly at

him.

He raised his head and licked his canines when he saw me. We both started running towards each

other and pounced. I got a good chunk of his face and ear and he got a chunk of my shoulder. I

hissed at him before attacked him again took another swipe at his injured face. His eyeball dropped

on the group and I grinned.

I growled in challenge and tilted my head.?Whatcha' gonna do pup?

He growled and ran towards me to attack me and I ran at him again but then a weight on my back

sent me crashing down.

I tore the wolf on my back off my back and threw him off but I got tackled my the leader.

'Status?'?Alpha growled.

I kicked him off with my hind legs, making him fly back. “Not good. Mikhail's men are engaged in a

different. I'm guessing Phase Two did not go well." I growled. Fucking Andrei. "We are holding our

own but come fast." I gritted and fought against the two wolves together.

"We're on our way. He growled.

I first attacked the leader and took advantage of his partial sight and bit into his neck from the side

he did not see me coming. I vigorously shook my head, hearing him whine and whimper under my

hold before I tore his motherfucking head off his body.

I focused on the other, apparently traumatised wolf and ran to attack him. He was so frozen in

shock that he didn't even register me approaching him so I detached his head in a single move.

That's when I realised he was hardly sixteen. Fucking Gonzalez. Bringing children into war.

Without wasting more time, I joined the fight again, killing every wolf that I crossed paths with.

Unlike usual, I didn't waste time?? I went straight for the kill. I didn't need to dominate them right

now, I needed to save my dwindling team members by killing as many enemies as I could. They

were all my responsibility and I would never let anybody get hurt if I could do anything about it.

"By the time all of the enemies at the pack house are dead, Ava and I will arrive with our twenty

special guests.” Alpha said and crossed the '30' and made an arrow that led the 20" to the pack

house.

"We will engage them in a fight but not kill them. When Andrei arrives with his team, we will

surround them and they will have no where to go. I want to see the terror on their faces. I want

them to see their death looming over them. I want to see the fear of death in their eyes. But we

won't kill them. Oh no. We will take them captives. And then torture them to death.”

I couldn't help but think that the plan has gone up in flames.

No one from our pack was supposed to die. This wasn't supposed to happen. It was supposed to be

an easy win.

A thunderous growl reached my ears before the ground beneath my feet shook.

Alpha and Luna are here.

But then so are the additional twenty men. Who are the best fighters of Montana Pack.

Avalyn

'We are about to reach. The moment we get there, you will get off my back and climb up the tallest

and nearest tree you can find. Make good use of your powers and stay out of sight. Anything

happens, you mind- link me. And Avalyn?'?His speed increased tremendously and I after a couple of

minutes, I could hardly see the twenty wolves that were chasing us. That meant Nik was holding

back all this while.

“Yes, Nikolai?"

'If you get yourself killed, I'll be very... displeased.’ His voice reverberated through my head.?’l do

not give you the permission to let yourself get hurt. I don't want to see a scratch on your body. Do

you understand?’

'Yes, Master." My lips lifted up in a smile at his unconventional way to tell me to be safe.

My eyes widened a bit when I saw a blur of wolves fighting. I did not realise that it would be this...

intense. I had never seen a real battle.

“Good girl, now get off." His steps slowed when we reached a thick tree and I jumped off his back.?

"Stay safe. Love you.” I whispered before I dashed up the tree, using my werewolf strength to push

myself off one branch and then land on another till I reached in the middle where I would stay

hidden but still be able to see everything.

When I looked down, a shiver shot through my spine when I took in the sight in front of me. I

shouldn't be surprised to see the brutality in front of me but I was. I had never seen anything like it.

Every where I could see, all I could see was wolves and vampires fighting and fangs and claws, and

dead bodies and blood. Oh god, the blood. The smell of blood was so thick in the air that it made

me nauseous.

Suddenly my eye caught a pair of two fighting wolves and I caught the enemy wolf overpowering

my pack member.

And just like that, my anger surpassed my shock and I flicked the wolf off the pack member before I

snapped his neck, making him fall on the ground with a thump, dead.

The pack member looked confused but then shook it off and ran to fight another opponent.

Just like that, I started snapping the necks of every enemy wolf I laid my eyes on. It was intense. I

needed to concentrate hard or else the wrong wolf could end up losing his life. This was hands

down the most difficult way I have used my powers.

While 1 also let my pack members fight their fights, I helped them a bit if I found out that they were

about to loose. I killed a total of thirteen wolves, yes, I counted, before things started looking a bit

better.

Then my eyes fell on a particular mid-night blue wolf as he fought his way around the wolves, killing

everyone around him.

No, I thought as I watched him further. He did not made his way around them.

He?hacked?through them.

Nikolai fought like he did everything else?? with the utmost confidence and with total

concentration. His every move, every strike was precise and deadly. Not a single muscle of his

moved without some use.

Nikolai's presence was bold on the battlefield. Wolves feared to cross him. The ones that weren't

busy fighting him were busy being killed and those who weren't busy being killed were busy

running away or busy being dead.

It was enticing to watch him dominate the field like that.

Unlike Nikolai who was silent and deadly, Max and Dimitri were?wild. They?laughed?as they killed.

Almost like it was fun for them to take lives. Like they fed off of it. Like they thought it was funny

that anyone even dared to assume that they would be able to kill them. Their dark, rambunctious

laughter dominated the field.

It was Max more than Dimitri. It was almost as if the devil sat on his shoulder and whispered funny

ways to torture the wolves before he could kill them.

A shiver went down my spine when I watched them kill their opponents. I daresay they were

almonds as good as Nik. While my mate was goal oriented, these men looked like they were here to

play. And this battlefield was their playground. They clearly were in no need of my help. And I'm

pretty sure that if I did help, they would feel bad that they didn't get to kill more people. They

would be upset that I took their chance away.

And then I saw Natalia and Mikhail. They fought together like a well- oiled machine. Whenever

Mikhail was fighting off a wolf, Nat had her back and vice-versa. They weren't just best friends, they

were partners in crime, ?literally. Natalia fought better than any woman I had seen, hell, she fought

harder than most men. Now I knew why Nik had chosen her to go to Emilio’s club in the beginning.

I shouldn't have been worrying for her, I should have been worrying for those who were her

enemies. It made me realise that she was holding herself back in that little spar against Sofiya.

Natalia was one badass woman.

Both of them, together were fighting a total of six wolves. A wolf pounced on Nat's back while she

bit into the belly of another wolf. Mikhail bit into the wolf's leg and pulled him off her. Nat spun

around and attacked the wolf that was about to attack Mikhail. I used my power and killed one wolf

who was about to attack Mikhail. By this time, they had killed their opponents and two remained.

My heart thudded as I wondered if I should intervened. Suddenly, wolf began running towards

them, and was clearly about to pounce. Nat crouched down, and Mikhail ran, jumped on her back

and Nat jumped to, giving him a push. Mikhail landed on top of the wolf who had pounced and

Nat's jump landed her on top of the wolf. And both of them tore apart their enemies at once. They

were a force to reckon. They didn't need my help anymore either.

Then Andrei caught my eye. He was fighting four wolfs together. He, like Nik, made a quick a clean

kill. He didn't play around. I killed two of the particularly nasty wolves he was engaged with. Three

against one is hardly fair. Without even blinking once at the suddenly fallen enemies, Andrei fought

against the one wolf. Like he knew it was me, like he knew I was looking out for all of them.

The entire pack fought hard. They fought for their Alpha and Luna, for their pack, for their freedom.

It wasn't just for their own lives. Now I knew what Nik truly meant when he said that the rogues are

more wolf than human. They were wild. They killed without flinching and fought like they had lived

in their fur longer than their skin, like the wolf part was better than their human part.

But like always, Nik had my unparalleled attention. His deadly grace compelled me. Him fighting

was a sight to behold.

I killed a few more wolves. There were hardly any enemies of ours left alive. We were over powering

them. It was a ratio of of five to one.

My heart started swelling with pride.

It worked. The plan actually bloody worked!

I was crazy to even ever doubt Nik. Seeing him like this now, I realised that this wasn't his first time

in a battle, it wasn't even his tenth time. I can’t going through so many gruesome battles to get to

where he is today.

So much so that he fought like he breathed. It was like a second nature of his. He had so much

experience that he planned everything to the dot. It didn't go as he had planned but most of us are

at least alive. It was much more that what I could say for our enemies. And they surpassed our

numbers by a hundred.

Suddenly, a hand shot around my waist and I was pushed against a broad chest.

My heart dropped when I realised who it was.

"Gotcha." He whispered harshly against my ear and jumped.

I squeezed my eyes shut as we made a fall off the tree. He landed on two feet and them held me

tighter. Tears filled my eyes.

"Stop!" He roared and then everyone paused.

I saw dread in everyone's eyes as they realised what just happened.

I felt a cool metal pressed against my temple. "No one moves or the slut is dead.” He growled.

Nikolai growled, having shifted into his skin now. I could feel the dread he felt through our bond.

But outwardly, he remained calm. "Gonzalez." He hissed.