The Rogues Who Went Rogue -
Chapter 55
The moment this person came into view, Lucianne sighed in frustration and spoke exasperatingly, "Seriously, why can't you rogue Alphas just die?"
Xandar stood in front of Lucianne, blocking her as much as she allowed him to. He didn't know who the h*ll the bare-chest six-footer was, but this one had definitely pissed off his wife before. Former-Alpha of Fleet Wood, Draxon, declared, "That's not very nice, Lucy. And, for the record, Jake really did like you. Idio-"
Xandar growled at the mention of Jake, and pounced on Draxon. Draxon didn't avoid the king's attack fast enough, so Xandar caught his leg, broke his limbs and was cracking his neck slowly. Draxon howled in pain before he whimpered and scratched Xandar's hands to loosen his tightening grip, but to no avail. Then, a gust of the wind from behind Xandar nicked the left side of his arm. Another gust came from the front and nicked the right side of the same arm.
Before he knew it, his arm lost strength, and Draxon was dropped before something invisible threw him across the river. Lucianne dashed to her husband's side and examined his arm. Grey lines started appearing, and she felt his arm weakening. It was getting numb, and Lucianne was about to rush him to the pack clinic before she felt him healing through their bond. The numbness diminished, and the grey lines disappeared even before reaching his elbow.
Lucianne didn't trust her eyes despite no longer feeling the sting and numbness through the mate-bond. With furrowed brows, she traced his forearm before stepping back to see if any other part of his body was affected. Before her eyes were done scanning every inch of Xandar's exposed skin, Xandar pulled her into a hug and pecked a kiss on her hair as he said, "I'm fine, baby. You healed me. Our bond healed me. I'm okay now. Thank you."
She sighed in relief, thanking Goddess that her ability to heal from poisonous substances was now shared with Xandar after they mated and marked each other. It was fortunate that the vampire venom was so little that his immune system fought it and won within seconds, like how Lucianne's own blood neutralized minute amounts of silver when she first ingested drops of it as a child.
"YOU IDIOTS COULDN'T STOP HIM SOONER?! I COULD HAVE DIED!"
Draxon's voice grabbed everyone's attention once more. Lucianne's angered eyes turned sapphire blue, but before she could do anything, Draxon warned in a taunting tone, "Ah ah ah. Don't even think about it, Lucy. You have no idea how many amigos I brought with me. You wouldn't want everyone here to get vampire venom by accident now, do you?"
Lucianne registered the strong scents of chrysanthemum and pine leaves, as did everyone else. As if through silent agreement, everyone started subtly sniffing out the individual scents on top of the general vampire odor, in order to count how many were surrounding them, and where their exact positions were.
Lucianne, Xandar, Christian and Greg smelled six in front; Toby, Tate and Margaret could detect another six on the right; the warriors counted only five on their left; and everyone else behind knew that there were about twenty behind them. The vampires were outnumbered. If the wolves and lycans acted fast, they could kill every single one in no time. But their aim had to be very, very precise. They only had one shot.
"Get on with it, Draxon. What do you want?" Lucianne decided to engage in nonsensical chit chat with Draxon to buy her friends and family time to pinpoint the exact spot that each discretus was standing at. "It's really simple. Just stand where you are while we do a test run."
"Of what?" She continued as her allies took small steps towards their targeted opponents.
Draxon pushed his shoulder-long blonde hair behind his ear as he stated matter-of-factly, "Controlling you, or killing you, depending on what works."
A rumble of ferocious growls were thrown at him, and the ones who stood closest to Lucianne were about to cross the river before Lucianne's outstretched arms stopped them. Thankfully, too.
Those in front smelled vampires creating a barricade between them and the river. One more step forward and one of the lycans Lucianne stopped might have been attacked or nicked, maybe even both. Lucianne felt a presence directly in front of her. In fact, she felt the creature glowering down at her. She threw a sharp glare and emitted a low growl into the air, and felt the creature take a step back.
Lucianne's sights shifted to Draxon again when she said, "You know, Draxon, if you still can't make up your mind on whether to control or kill me when you're just across a river in a territory that I'm very familiar with, you're even dumber than I remembered."
Draxon was offended but he was controlled, and scoffed darkly to shake off the humiliation. "Keep talking, Lucy. That mouth of yours might have gotten a lot of creatures to kneel at your feet, but not me. Trust me, when the dust settles, ALL OF YOU will be at MY feet." It was Juan's turn to scoff. "Us? At the feet of someone who doesn't even have the balls to be on the field ready to fight his opponents? One who had to use another species just to get an upper-hand, and even then, still chooses to stay eight feet away because he's too afraid to die?” Those on Juan's side were chuckling but then they heard hisses and growls before ten vampires appeared from behind Draxon. Juan linked every other warrior in Blue Crescent. Once his eyes cleared, Draxon noted with a sinister smirk, “Linking for help is a big mistake, Juan.” Lucianne spoke in her brother's defense, "How about you think about the way your Beta kicked your a*s and claimed your title and pack before you tell my brother what to do as an Alpha!"
"Lucy. Lucy. Lucy. Still so presumptuous. My former Beta was NOT better than me when he took my title. He couldn't even keep his own mate and pups safe when my amigos stormed in. Weak, like I always said he was."
The realization shook them. They knew Fleet Wood was decimated by rogues, but they didn't know it was Draxon's rogues. Margaret gasped a little too loudly, drawing attention that she didn't want from her former mate. Draxon threw Margaret a bored look when he said, "Yeah, I saw you back there. Still not worth my time. But your parents died a quick death, I can tell you that."
"You killed them?!" Margaret hissed angrily as her eyes glistened as her animal howled in pain at their loss. It had been thirteen years, but she still missed her parents every single day. Tate held her by her shoulders when he growled at Draxon.
Draxon explained casually like he didn't order a massacre of his own pack, "Well, no. The people I hired killed...everyone, really. Whoever said revenge wasn't the answer should really get a reality check." He chuckled darkly and declared, "It felt really good."
Lucianne hissed, “Enough of this!" Her claws extended in an instant and plunged through the vampire in front of her. The discretus shrieked and came into view before he fell onto the ground and the rest got the cue to start attacking. One thing good about harming vampires - they won't recover. They don't have the quick healing abilities of wolves and lycans.
Lucianne's eyes turned sapphire again and she was compelling Draxon to kneel and stop breathing as he choked out in a hoarse voice, "Do...it."
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