Breaking the Madness

Nineteen

Jaiden POV

The soldier wolves quickly defeated the rogues dispelling them from the village. As I arrived most of the fighting was over and the town was descending into chaotic misery. There was houses still alight from the fires that had started. As the flames died the sobs of the mourning and the screams of those in pain echoed into the evening air.

I clenched my jaw as I bent over to check the pulse of a young boy who lay on the ground before me, eyes closed. I prayed that I would feel something, anything, but my prayers were for nothing.

I felt nothing.

I curse as I closed the child's eyes as my own eyes filled with tears, it wasn't fair. What kind of monsters would do this to a child? To an innocent child? Screw the term 'victims of war', there shouldn't have to be any, this wasn't 'casualties', this was murder. They did this on purpose, they targeted this place, a place where there is no soldiers or politicians or any significant personal. They were all civilians.

I was angry, so angry, my hands shook as I stood to my feet and drew a knife from the belt around my jeans. I wanted them to pay, I was going to slaughter every last one of them for what they did here.

I wanted revenge.

I stalked through the ruined homes, helping those that need help and destroying the remaining rouge wolves. I did this growing more and more angry as I saw the devastation before me. The dead and injured men, women and children broke my heart.

What kind of leader was I, if I couldn't even protect my people? Even if they were not entirely my responsibility, I still had to do something for these people, I needed to save them. I fell to my knees in despair.

War was on the edge of my tongue when I heard hushed sobs and gentle reassuring coming from a pile of rubble across the broken street. Crawling to my feet I approached the rubble, my eyes widening with what I saw.

Anna and Ben were on the ground naked, obviously they had just changed back from their wolf forms. But it wasn't the fact that they were naked that made my eyes widen, Anna was curled into Bens chest as he held one of his hand against her neck and shoulder and the other hand was on his leg. Both were bleeding profusely.

"Shh Anna, it's gonna be okay. Someone is going to come and they're going to come help us, Okay? We are going to fine," Ben hushed her.

Anna tried to nod but her neck was so bad that she whimpered instead.

"Benji, I'm scared," Anna cried.

Ben looked around them desperately, he new that Anna was in a bad condition. His eyes landed on me and they filled with hope.

"Jaiden?"

I quickly came to his side and he handed me Anna gently and I took off my jacket to press the cleaner inside to her wound. She let out a sob at the movement, barely letting go of Ben. She was shaking, terrified.

"Go get her medic, quickly. I'll be fine, it's just a flesh wound," Ben ordered looking me in the eyes. I didn't want to leave my best friend alone, vulnerable and injured, but his pleading eyes made me pull Anna to my chest and carry her bridal style out of the wreckage.

I knew that the medic they had sent to the ruin wouldn't be able to give Anna the help that she need to I started to run as fast as I could up to the estate where I knew the best medical help could be provided.

I started to puff as exertion began to kick in.

"Do you know what?" Anna's quiet voice entered my thoughts.

"What Anna?"

"When I first saw you I thought you were my guardian angel. I saw you and  for the first time light entered my life. I was so happy. But then you went and pulled my heart from my chest, so that you could crush it into the ground. You broke the pieces of me that I had fought so hard to glue back together over the years. And now I'm here. Dying. In your arms, and all I can think about is that you are still the light in my world," her eyes welled with tears and she looked down.

I couldn't believe her, here I was trying to help her, and all she could do was keep lying to me. Lie after lie after lie. I was about to tell her what I thought, but her eyes slowly closed.

And my heart stopped.

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A/N

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