Fated Enemies

Desertion

Darkness surrounded them, as the moonless night sky was upon them, they heard the main army clashing against the Northern walls, arrows, flames, and swords, metal armor and screams of the wounded ripped through the night, and they were sitting still, waiting, for the attack that would come from the south, the real trouble was here, where the war could be decided, for better or worse.

Edwin looked one last time to Alexa as if he wanted to memorize every tiny detail of her face showered by the light of the torches. Alexa noticed the stare and looked at him, smiling, as if saying that everything was going to be well, Charles had been relocated to help Elia, Patricia, and Schirouca, Truman, and Flora remained with them, as it was Michel team, just in the shadows, waiting to attack.

The battle on the North wall was going on for a while, making everyone in the south wall jumpy and second-guessing themselves, "what if they wouldn't attack from the south wall? What if they changed the plans last minute? What of the deserters were counter informants?" every single one kf this questions plagued Alexa's mind when she heard sharp metal craving in the stone wall, she knew it had to be them, everyone fell silent and immobile. Three people were the first ones to jump from the wall, then another five, and at last eight people, sixteen people had hiked the wall and jumped inside the castle, Rufus was one of the last, he made the signal for the others to go ahead, but Alexa whistled, making the signal everyone was waiting for, they left the dark shadows of the walls and encircled the intruders, "do you thought you could come to my castle, and we wouldn't know, we wouldn't be prepared for this?" She asked, crossing her arms.

"Attack! make me proud!" Rufus ordered his men, even if they were at a disadvantage, he wouldn't accept defeat, Alexa's men didn't wait for the order as they unsheathed weapons and defended themselves.

Edwin and Alexa looked to Rufus with a grin, she unsheathed her sword, and they began a dance, a mortal one. Edwin was lulled away to help one Claire that was having some trouble taking care of a wolf. Alexa took the first swing at Rufus, the swords clashed each other, they were immersed in a battle of wills, they didn't say what was going on around them, just the opponent, and the swords clashing, Rufus went for her head, she dived and kicked his legs, making him fall on his bottom. Rufus rolled to avoid the sharp blade of Alexa, and stood up, "Is that all the heir of Zulcan can do?" he asked, trying to take her out of her mind and made a mistake.

She grinned, "Do you need to talk and fight, brother?" Alexa asked lacing the last word with sarcasm, making a move for his flank, he defended making the swords clash together.

"Oh! I can be quiet, but with a pretty girl like you should be giving pleasure not fighting!" He replied, with venom on his voice, it was his turn to attack, he went for her legs, but she jumped, hitting him with her elbow on his chest, in the corner of her eyes, she could see that almost all the wolves that were with Rufus we're defeated, but a shadow appeared in front of Edwin, from nowhere, and that made her lose concentration on the fight and Rufus attacked her in that instant, she tried to escape.

But a sharp pain on her arm told her that she wasn't successful in avoiding his hit, she also hears the voice of Flavius talking something to Edwin, "Now, you will watch her die and you can't do a single the about it!"

She was baffled, where did he came from, what had he done, she focused on Edwin and saw an orange light like chains, all around him, like he was some kind is magic prisoner, again that distraction cost her a cut on her leg, she screamed from the searing pain and rage that went through her veins, "Let's end this like it should, the time for a child plays is over!" She declared, tossing her sword away she turned into the white wolf and howled to the moon.

Rufus smiled mocking, "As you wish, sister!", making the same move to toss his sword away, Rufus turned, into a pitch-black wolf with red eyes, he looked ferocious, but Alexa was already in a position to attack, they couldn't read each other's minds, as they weren't from the same pack, but she could feel Edwin with her, telling her that everything was okay, Flavius had pitted a barrier between the four of them and the rest of the Castle, and had an amulet with him, when he broke it, an orange light engulfed him and bound him, he couldn't move.

Alexa jumped towards Rufus' neck, but he flees the spot, making her jump in vain, he gathered the opportunity to bite in her side, making her whimper in pain, she scratched and bit him until he let her go, red blood stained her white fur, but a growl was on her throat, and she circled him, attacking like a flash, whenever she could, he was larger and heavier, he didn't move like her, he tried to jump to pin her down, but was never able to do so, and it was frustrating and tiring him.

In a turn of events, he stopped right in front of her, showing her the teeth, he jumped to grab her neck, but she turned last second and turned again to bite his neck instead, with a powerful bite, she snapped his neck, he howled, and all his pack howled back, showing that they heard the last howl of a dying wolf, their Alpha, now they were her pack.

She didn't turn back to human, looking at Flavius who was looking at her delighted with the course of events.