Blood Moon Pact: The Werewolf King and the Immortal Caged Bird

Chapter 1: Wolf Tooth Breaking the Night (2)

"Kill him! The elders have ordered that he live!"

The remaining three vampires formed a circle, and the silver blade shone cold light in the moonlight. Kane crouched down, with a threatening growl in his throat, his tail stretched out like a wire about to break. He knew he wouldn't hold on for long and had to finish quickly.

He suddenly charged at the vampire on the left, made a sharp turn at the moment he swung his sword, and his fangs bit hard into the throat of the man on the right. Black blood gushed out and splashed all over his face, with a rusty stench.

The last two vampires looked at each other and suddenly ran deep into the silver mine, Shouting as they ran: "Lead him to the mine!" There's a silver sand trap there!"

Kane wanted to catch up, but found that his hind legs were already a bit uncooperative. The silver poison had spread to his limbs, and his muscles were as stiff as if frozen. He shook his head and forced himself to look at the wooden boxes piled up in the corner - with vampire skull marks on them, which contained explosives.

He bit open the lock of the box with his teeth, and the explosives inside gave off a pungent smell. He picked up a fuse, touched the flint with his PAWS, and with a snap, sparks splashed onto the fuse, instantly igniting a string of small flames.

"Hurry up!" He said to himself, turning and running towards the door.

The sizzling sound of the fuse burning was particularly clear in the empty mine, like the countdown of death. As Kane rushed out of the iron gate, he saw the last two vampires disappear at the corner of the stone path, Shouting "Elders!" The Wolf King has fallen for it!"

He ignored them and ran with all his might towards the secret passage to the east. The pain in his shoulder had numbed, replaced by a strange coldness that spread from his fingertips all the way to his heart. He felt as if he were running through water, with every step unusually heavy.

Just as he was about to rush into the secret passage, a deafening explosion came from behind him. The heat wave, carrying debris, blew him in, sending him flying and crashing heavily into the rock face.

"Damn." He cursed, his vision went black and he almost fainted.

From the secret passage came Buck's cry: "Alpha! Is that you?"

Kane struggled to his feet and was about to respond when suddenly he heard a familiar sound of wings - louder and heavier than the previous swarm of bats. Looking up at the hole, he saw the vampire elder hovering in mid-air, his black robe flapping in the wind, and clutching the kidnapped boy in his hand.

"Run fast, Wolf brat." The elder laughed with sharp teeth showing and his nails pinched into the young man's neck. "Unfortunately, you can't escape."

The young man suddenly raised his head and shouted in Kane's direction, "Blow up the secret passage! Leave me alone --"

The elder snapped him around the neck, and the young man's face turned purple in an instant. "It seems your people are more sensible than you." He looked down at Kane as if he were looking at a dying ant. "The silver poison has reached the heart, hasn't it? How does it feel? Is it like there are countless ants gnawing at your bones?"

Kane didn't speak, just slowly straightened up. He knew he was running out of time, the silver poison was devouring his consciousness, and that mysterious warmth, though still there, grew fainter and fainter like a candle in the wind.

He suddenly charged towards the elder, not to save the young man, but to break through the stone door of the secret passage. As long as the stone door was closed, the aftermath of the explosives would not hurt the people inside.

The elder, clearly not expecting him to do this, was stunned for a moment and then swung his hand, which was wearing a silver ring, at Kane.

"Bang!"

The silver ring struck Kane hard on the chest. He felt as if struck by a heavy hammer, flew backward and landed heavily at the entrance of the secret passage. A mouthful of sweet and sour, he spat out a mouthful of black blood, which splashed on the stone door like a strange flower.

"Alpha!" Buck and Lila rushed out of the secret passage and, upon seeing the scene before them, their eyes instantly turned red.

"Close the door." "Don't let..." Kane said with his last bit of strength, his vision already blurring. "They come in."

Buck gritted his teeth, tears mixed with blood streaming down the corners of his eyes. He turned and grabbed the handle of the stone door, pressing down hard. Lila rushed to Kane, licked the blood on his face with her tongue, and sobbed like a wounded young beast.

"Let's go..." Kane gave her a push, but looked far away - in the direction of the warmth, deep in the Shadow forest, where the moonlight seemed brighter than elsewhere, "I... "Go over there and wait for you."

The stone door slowly descended with a heavy rumbling sound, cutting off everything outside. Kane watched as the stone door closed completely and finally let out a sigh of relief. He felt his body getting lighter and lighter, as if he were about to float.

The silver dagger on his shoulder had fallen off at some point, and the black blood at the wound had congealed. He struggled to his feet and walked towards the warmth. With each step, his consciousness blurred a little, but he dared not stop - he knew that if he stopped, he would never wake up again.

The wind in the forest, carrying the fragrance of grass and trees, blew on his face like a mother's hand. He saw a few fireflies flying out of the grass, circling around him and giving off a faint green light.

"It turns out... There is light in the night of the shadowy forest, too." He muttered to himself, a faint smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

He had no idea how long he had gone, nor how far he had gone. Until he saw an open space bathed in moonlight, filled with that familiar scent that was ten, a hundred times stronger than before.

There was a suspended tower in the open space, and there seemed to be something glowing at the top of it, like a imprisoned star.

Kane's footsteps involuntarily moved towards the tower. He felt the warmth coming from there, so gentle as if it were going to melt him. The pain brought by the silver poison was fading away slowly, and the strength in his body seemed to be returning little by little.

"Almost there..." He said to himself, his PAWS making a rustling sound on the grass.

The tower was getting closer and closer, and he could see the cage at the top of the tower - a cage made of moonlight, and inside it seemed... There was a person.

His heart suddenly missed a beat, not because of the silver poison, but because of an inexplicable throbbing, as if something had awakened in the depths of his soul.

He raised his head and looked into the cage at the top of the tower, his gaze passing through the moonlight barrier and landing on the figure curled up in the corner of the cage.

It was a girl.

Kane's breathing suddenly became rapid, not because of pain, but because of some more strange throbbing. He had never seen such a human before - long silver-blue hair, as if crushed by moonlight, spread over his shoulders, skin so white it was almost transparent, and even the curled-up posture gave off a kind of fragile fragility. But when her gaze came over, that vulnerability was suddenly shattered, leaving behind a bottomless coldness like a lake that had been frozen for five hundred years.

"Here to snatch blood again?" The girl's voice was soft but prickly, every word as if fished out of an ice cellar, "the old man's new dog?"

Kane was stunned. He had seen human beings scared out of their wits by vampires, demon hunters fighting to the death, but he had never seen anything like this - even though they were in cages, their eyes looked like they were looking at ants from the clouds. He subconsciously tried to bared his teeth, but the low growls in his throat turned into indistinct sobs, and the wounds on his shoulders began to burn again.

"Mute?" " The girl raised her eyebrows, and the chain on her wrist was gently shaken, making a fine jingling sound. "Well, I won't have to hear your barks."

Kane suddenly realized that he was still in the form of a Wolf, a silver-gray giant Wolf crouching under the tower, baring its teeth at the human in the cage - the scene was probably funny. He tried to tuck in his mane, but because of the remaining strength of the silver poison, his front legs gave way and he almost fell down.

"Whoosh." The girl chuckled, a laughter that had little warmth. "It looks like a dying dog."

He raised his head sharply, his amber-colored vertical eyes staring at her. How dare this man laugh at him? Alpha King of the Wolf Race, Ruler of the Shadow Forest, when did he ever get treated like this? But when he saw the faint marks of strangulation on the girl's neck, the roar that reached his mouth suddenly got stuck.

The marks were very similar to those on the legs of the young in the stone prison, both worn out by chains and embedded in the flesh in circles, even in the shape of scabs.

"What are you looking at? The girl noticed his gaze and suddenly drew her neck into the shade like a frightened bird. "Never seen a person who has been confined for a long time?"

Kane didn't speak. He just slowly lowered his head and rubbed the stone of the base with the tip of his nose. The stone was warm, with the same warmth as the girl, and the stiffness of the silver poison was fading away. He suddenly realized that this was not an ordinary tower, but a magic barrier, and that the girl was the heart of the barrier.

"Hey," the girl suddenly spoke, her voice a little lower than before, "your shoulder is bleeding."

Kane raised his paw and touched the wound, where the black blood had turned dark red and was no longer seeping out. He shook his head to indicate that he was fine, but his gaze couldn't help drifting back into the cage - the girl was picking at the moonlight on the cage wall with her fingers, and blood was seeping from the nail crevice, also silver.

It was like a star shattering on a finger.

"The old man says my blood can cure the silver poison." The girl noticed his gaze and suddenly laughed, laughing a little crazily, "Do you believe it? He sent people to draw my blood every day, saying he was going to make some medicine, but what happened? It's not that I've been locked up here for five hundred years."

Five hundred years? Kane's ears pricked up abruptly. His grandfathers' grandfathers didn't live that long. How could this human be...

"Don't believe it? The girl stretched out her wrist, where the needle holes were dense, new and old, and "look, these are all evidence. They put my blood in a crystal bottle, like a bottle of red wine, and said it was some kind of 'moonlight nectar'." She suddenly moved closer to the cage wall, her voice very low. "Actually, I knew they were afraid I would run away. My blood can not only cure the silver poison, but also..."

Her words suddenly froze, her eyes staring straight behind Kane. Kane turned sharply and saw three black-robed vampires coming out of the forest. The leader was carrying a crystal bottle in his hand, the bottle swaying and the liquid inside shining silver.

They were the ones who had just escaped from the silver mine.

"Found it! That's the Wolf the elder was talking about!" A shrill voice rang out, with an excited trill, "And this prisoner bird is just right to take back together!"

The girl's face turned pale instantly. She stepped back abruptly and crashed into the other end of the cage, with the iron chain making a shrill noise. "Don't come here!" "Stay away from me!" she shouted, finally with fear in her voice.

Kane instinctively stood in front of the tower, his silver-gray wolf-like figure swelling a little in the moonlight, his fangs exposed, and a threatening growl coming from his throat. He himself couldn't explain why he did it, perhaps because the girl's blood had saved him, or perhaps because the way she had just laughed was too much like the broken eagle he had picked up as a child.

"Oh, still want to protect her?" The shrill vampire sneered and raised the silver arrow in his hand. "A dying Wolf deserves to snatch food from us?"

The silver arrow pierced through the air, with the sound of the wind, straight into Kane's eyes. He veered his head away, and the arrow brushed past his ear, hammered into the base of the tower with a sizzling sound - the silverware hit the barrier and gave rise to white smoke.

"The barrier is breaking!" Another vampire shouted, "The elder's spell is about to fail!"

Kane suddenly realized that the barrier was sustained by the girl's blood. The silver bloodstain he had just seen was not accidentally broken by her, but deliberately torn to reinforce the barrier.

"Catch that Wolf!" The leading vampire ordered, "Don't hurt the prisoner bird, the elder will live!"

Three vampires pounced at the same time, and the silver swords drew three cold streaks in the moonlight. Kane turned to meet him, flicking a knife with his right paw and biting the other's wrist with his fangs, instantly splattering black blood all over his face. But he was too slow. The old injury on his left shoulder suddenly flared up, and the intense pain made his vision go black. A cut was made in his waist, and the silver blade made a circle in the wound.

"Aow!" He howled in pain, his body trembling violently. The silver poison and the new wound combined, he felt as if his bones were melting.

"Kane!" A sudden roar of Buck came from afar, accompanied by a dense howl of wolves, "We're coming!"

Kane looked up and saw more than twenty giant wolves rush out of the forest like a silver tide, instantly drowning the three vampires. Buck ran at the front, his PAWS still smeared with the black ash of explosives, and his eyes were red as if they were about to bleed when he saw the wound on Kane's waist.

"Alpha!" How are you?" He rushed up to Kane and bumped his head against his neck. "I knew you weren't leaving!"

Kane shook his head, indicating that he was fine, but his gaze involuntarily drifted to the top of the tower - the girl was peeping down from the cage wall, her eyes wide open, with the images of the wolves fighting in them, as if watching a play that had nothing to do with him.

"Take the cage apart." Kane suddenly said to Buck, his voice hoarse.

Buck was stunned: "Ah? But..."

"Take it apart." "Bring her down," Kane repeated in an unquestionable tone.

Although Buck looked confused, he still immediately called two strong werewolves and asked them to use their claws to scoop up the moonlight on the cage wall. The moonlight seemed soft but was as hard as iron, and the Wolf's claws made a shrill scraping sound, sending sparks flying.

"Don't touch it!" The girl suddenly screamed with unprecedented panic in her voice, "That's the moonlight barrier, and touching it will burn you!"

Sure enough, as soon as one of the werewolves touched the moonlight, white smoke rose from its PAWS and it howled in pain.

Kane frowned and walked over himself, gently touching the cage wall with his uninjured right paw. The moonlight was warm, like a girl's hand, and did not burn him. He tried to pull hard, but the moonlight was torn open by him.

The girl was stunned: "You..." Why are you okay?"

Kane didn't reply. He just kept tearing with his claws, and the opening grew wider and wider, big enough for one person to get through. He stepped back and looked up at the girl, his amber-colored eyes carrying an emotion he himself couldn't describe.

"Come down." He said.

The girl froze, looked at him, then at the werewolves and vampires fighting outside, and suddenly laughed, laughing until tears came out: "Who do you think you are? A hero? So what if you save me? Bring me back to your pack and suck my blood like an old thing?"

Kane wagged his tail, a little annoyed. He doesn't speak nice words. There's no "salvation" and "promise" in the language of wolves, only "possession" and "protection". He suddenly leapt up to the base of the tower, and then again, he jumped straight into the cage and landed right in front of the girl.