The Alpha's Keeper

XXXIII: Never Easy

Seraphim grinned and trudged across the ground, and she said, “Impetu!!”

Just as Seraphim said that she jumped at full speed, she used another strength spell to rise and fall on the platform in front of the vampire, this attempt hit her, but the young woman with her hand stopped the blow of the vampire, whose strength had increased a lot.

“This is going to hurt! Cayon!” She said with an evil grin.

With force, the arm of the vampire shattered in the air when the young woman approaching touched his legs and repeating the same spell tore them apart as well.

The vampire fell helplessly to the ground, and with speed, the woman put her hand on the vampire’s chest only for Edith to release the spell of the sand, and Ira could ascend only to be pierced by Joshua’s spear at the same time as the heart Veru was shattered by Seraphim.

Both vampires disintegrated, and Seraphim looking at them with a smile, said, “Seriously, they were very weak! They didn’t even have the anti-magic mark!”

The girl turned to see Edith and Joshua, and she watched as the werewolf’s wounds calmly healed. She smiled when on the pedestal and behind her, a stone door opened.

Joshua got up and, carrying Edith, jumped with all his strength to reach the platform. When falling to Seraphim’s side. He called his spear, and the three of them were standing right in front of a door.

As they advanced, a voice said eerily, “You didn’t think it would be that simple, didn’t you?”

On the other platform, another vampire appeared. This one had corroded clothes and shackles in his hands that dragged two huge balls on the ground.

“That door in front of you is not the exit!” The man said while looking at them.

And lifting one of his balls, he threw it with force at the door behind him, and this entered a strange portal leaving through the door that was in front of the group.

Edith saw how the ball was going towards her head when Joshua, moving her, tried to catch the ball with his hand, but the power of it ripped his arm from the root of it.

The ball returned to the vampire, and Joshua, with a gasp, fell to the ground with his severed arm as his blood ran on the ground. The werewolf touched the ground completely stunned and watched as his arm landed next to him. At that moment, he felt intense pain.

“My arm!” He screamed in agony when Edith leaping behind him, reached his body and looking at him, and she saw how he tried with all his might to contain his transformation.

Seeing him, Edith worried. She tried to assist him, but Joshua turned in all directions. His severed arm was still by her side, and his transformation into a wolf was inevitable.

His skin began to peel off when the wolf hairs began to come out all over his body. The wolf howled loudly. He jumped from one side to the other, colliding with walls until he could not stop it.

When the transformation was complete, Joshua, with red-hot eyes look at how his arm to one side of Edith bled with speed. He went to him and took it with his mouth and sticking his arm to the side of his body and waited for the wound to heal.

The man sitting on the platform smiled when he said, “The regenerative capacity of wolves is different from ours! They cannot regenerate full members. They can only stick them to their body, but it is difficult, and when you tear off a member, their primary instinct attacks.”

Seraphim from the platform looked at Joshua frantically, trying to join his arm to his body, and his wolf form looked different from the one he used before, and without understanding what was happening, Edith tried to get closer, but Joshua let out a roar that made the catacomb rumble.

“If I were you, I wouldn’t get close! That feeling he has for you is the human part of him! That which you see there, he is a wolf, without a trace of conscience. Actually, girls, you should kill him at once. When his arm sticks, he will need to eat to restore energy… and only you are in this place!”

With those words, the man in the shackles got up and calmly entered the portal behind him, and disappeared. The doors closed again, and on the sandbar, Joshua was trying hard to reinsert his arm into his body.

Edith, completely stunned, looked at him when she said, “Seraphim, you must go get that guy now... I’ll take care of Joshua!”

The girl looked at Edith and disagreed, but she calmly took Joshua’s spear and asked with a deep frown, “Are you sure you’ll be okay?” Seraphim could not help but stare at Joshua as his body contorted.

Edith looked at him with worry as well. She nodded through gritted teeth before she replied, “Yes, I will! Go!”

Seraphim nodded and, turning her face, saw the door in front of her and said, “Impetu!”

With force, it hit the concrete door, and it shattered, revealing a path that the witch had to follow.

Taking a last look behind her, she looked at Edith, and before leaving, she pointed at her and cast, “Celer!”

Edith’s body shines, and she was smiling, nodded in the direction of Seraphim, who was entering the door at that moment, leaving the wolf and the witch alone in the pit. Edith was breathing hard as she looked at Joshua

“Joshua! Calm down. You’re fine. Your arm is next to you again!” Edith yelled in worry. She felt her heart in so much pain by just seeing him like this.

The wolf stood up to all his stature, and his still sore arm was already scarred on his shoulder.

 Joshua looked in all directions, and when he saw Edith, his saliva began to flow from his mouth, and placing his hands on the ground, he howled like a wolf that found his prey.