The Desert Alpha's Mate

CHAPTER 21-HALFLING

"KILL THEM!" Alpha Allister roared through their mind link. Ashraf didn't need to be told twice. He wanted blood too, watching these two despicable creatures toying with the remains of their brothers was enough to make him see red.

He growled and jumped at the two creatures shifting into his wolf midair. He had startled them, giving no time for them to react or dodge him before he landed on one of them, making it lose its balance from the impact. It fell to the ground sprawled under him. Its chest was exposed to him, and Ashraf didn't waste any more time as he dug his claw into its exposed chest and pulled. The disperser whimpered, then howled in pain, he heard the other one howl in despair and then growl at him.

Ashraf remained alert. He didn't take his eyes off the other disperser wolf that was circling and assessing him. The disperser under him tried to fight back, tried to claw and bite him. His reflexes were fast enough to dodge it. Deepening his claw into its chest, blood oozed from the wound he created in the disperser under him, it was reeking with a foul odor. But the smell didn't bother him anymore. He was blinded with too much fury to care.

The other one circled him and growled menacingly. He growled back and bared his fangs at it. Daring for it to attack him. Ashraf had fought numerous dispersers attacking their clan since he was able to know what fighting meant, so he was well aware of what a disperser could do. They may be stronger and faster if given a chance, with their sharp long claws and fangs, they are deadly. But since Ashraf was digging his claws into its chest, he already had it at a disadvantage.

Or so he had thought. He had miscalculated his advantage. Ashraf felt pain in his hind legs, when his eyes checked what hit him, he saw the spiky tail of the disperser under him whipping at him.

Distracted, the other disperser wolf that circled him charged. Aiming to bite off his neck, it ran fast and jumped at him. He tackled her to the ground, its long claw aimed to slash at his belly. He was barely able to dodge those attacks despite his fast reflexes. They were both fighting for their lives, snarling, biting, and clawing at each other. Aiming for the fatal spots, they were both aiming for a kill.

Ashraf was wounded and so was the other disperser wolf, as it charged again. He saw his opening, faking a move that he was trying to dodge its attack by ducking under it. The disperser bit at his bait, it attacked him from below, allowing him to bite its exposed neck. Before it realized what was happening, it was already too late. Ashraf had already dug his sharp teeth and fangs into its neck. His bite was fatal because he aimed at its jugular. He bit at it so hard that the metallic tang of its blood permeated his mouth, and added its foul odor, but Ashraf didn't care one bit.

When the creature stopped moving and whimpering, Ashraf let it go. Blood oozed from his mouth, and his body was full of wounds. He looked at the unmoving body of the disperser wolf with disgust. The dead body of the disperser slowly changed back to its human form, and that's when he realized it was a woman.

He howled despairingly when the realization hit that he fought and killed a woman. He took no pleasure in killing women. Fighting one and killing one leaves a hole in his heart, whatever their races were.

As he shifts back into his human form, he hears steps running toward him. The two warriors that were with him earlier came. Frey gave him a robe to wear, "Where have you two been?" he asked, glaring at them.

"Oh, we were just over there, watching you fight," Shaka answered him with a grin. While pointing at the rock where the two of them stayed behind and watched.

"You fool!" Ashraf roared at them. "We could've captured them and questioned them had you both come to help! I wouldn't have had to resort to killing them both. We could have gathered new information on dispersers if we had captured them alive!" he thundered at the two warriors, which made the two cower in fear as soon as they saw the shift of color in his eyes.