The Alpha King

Chapter 60

I could scarcely sleep for the few days after our argument. The worry and the fear of my power kept me up along with the fact that I didn't sleep in Xaviers and I's room. I slept outside in the tent with Aura and her children. It was always so busy and so I didn't have much time in the day to dwell on my thoughts, thoughts of him. But at night when I lay in my cot in silence with nothing but the darkness I thought of him and I thought of the future.

It weighed down on me like a blanket made of steel. My afternoons and evenings were spent with Killian. He knew something had happened between Xavier and I but he didn't ask. Every lesson I tired my hardest to hone my power and get control of it. I tired to project it and extend it and after every lesson I improved but not by much. I still wasn't near where I think I had to be in order to be prepared.

Time was not on my side.

The Spell casters we're getting closer to our boarders everyday. They had already attacked our first line of defence and once they got through the second and the third we would be at war.

Xavier didn't bother to seek me out but sometimes I swore I could feel his gaze on me. When I practiced with Killian and sometimes when I walked back to the tents and last night when I was asleep. I think it was all just my imagination.

"Luna, Luna, look what I found!" Jacob, one of Auras sons said excitedly. Jacob was seven years old and the cutest little boy. He had the biggest childlike eyes that just sparkled whenever he looked at you and especially when he was exited about something like right now. He held a little light green stone in his small mud covered hands.

I bent down to his level and looked at the stone closely. "It's beautiful Jacob, where did you find it."

He licked his lips and then said excitedly, "I was playing hide and go seek with my friends in the forest and I hid behind this really big tree and then I looked down and I saw it and I took it." He smiled and his missing teeth were all on display.

"Well, aren't you a lucky boy." I said smiling back.

"I want to give it to you Luna."

I touched my heart, "really? Why not give it to your sister or your mother?" I asked.

He shook his head, " Lara is a meanie and I gave mamma flowers that I found." He held the stone out to me and I took it.

"Thank you so much for my beautiful gift." I said, tucking it in my jean pocket. I hugged him and he squirmed in my arms. I laughed and placed a kiss on his chubby cheeks. He immediately bust out laughing.

"Luna, kissed me!" He screamed as he laughed and ran out of my arms. I laughed after him as I watched him run away he was just a few steps away from me when he fell to the ground. I blinked and my heart dropped to my stomach as I saw the arrow ledged into his back. I blinked and then I saw the blood begin to pool around him. His little body, face down on the ground, an arrow in his back!

"Jacob!" I screamed blue murder as tears sprung to my eyes. I ran to him, everything around me was descending quickly into chaos. I ignored it all as I ran to him and fell down besides his body. My hands shook as I touched his back. The arrow stuck out like a sore thumb. The blood from his wound and his batman t-shirt stained my hands. I checked for a pulse but there was none. His body was still warm but he was dead.

I heaved and my entire body shook. I couldn't think but one thing was clear, I could not leave him here. I picked up his little body and ran to the nearest tent I could find amongst all the chaos.

Everyone was running around and grabbing whatever weapons they could find. I noticed Spell Casters sweeping in, they all wore a dark red cloak, the colour of blood, the colour staining my hands.

Some of the werewolves had shifted already and were tearing through the Spell Casters. Their teeth ripping into their flesh. Some were fighting in human form, axes, swords, guns and every type of weapon in their hands.

The air felt static as the Spell Casters used their magic. Some werwolves just dropped to the ground no physical wound present. Others ran around like a headless chicken. It was their disgusting magic.

I quickly rushed into a tent and laid Jacob down on one of the cots. I sobbed as I laid him down face first. I couldn't find the strength to take the arrow out. As I looked at him one last time, I reached down and closed his eyes. I would never see those big brown eyes sparkling again and nor would his mother or his sister or his brothers. I cried even harder and then I let my senses over take me and I let he screams of the battle fill me with rage. Pure blinding rage.

I will kill every last one of them for this.

"Victoria, answer me right fucking now!" Xaviers deep voice invaded my mind.

"What," I snapped back. I didn't have time for this. I need to get out there.

"Where are you? Why didn't you answer me? I know you are mad at me but I thought something had happened to you!" He was panicked and angry.

"Xavier, I am outside the palace grounds. I am fine don't worry." I said as I looked around the tent for a weapon. I dug around and through some bags and was lucky enough to find two switch blades wrapped in brown cloth. They were beautiful and soon they would be cutting through flesh.

I walked out of the tent and immediately I sensed a Spell Caster to my left. He was about to try and stab me when I swung around and took his head clean off. It rolled a bit, I looked at it, it's dead wide eyes staring up at me and I felt nothing.

I didn't stop, no one did for I don't know how long. There was only me and my enemies and the sounds of the battle droned out the longer I fought. Someone along the way had managed to cut my arm and it was throbbing and bleeding out. I some how in all the chaos found a spare moment to tear a piece of my t-shirt off. I wrapped it around my arm to stop the bleeding but it bled through it.

There were bodies everywhere, I tripped over too many to count. Things were getting blurry and my movements were getting slower and slower. My body felt heavier and heavier and then everything went black.

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