The Alpha's Keeper

XCVII: Reasons to Kill

Joshua got up and, seeing Maximiliano, said, “Do you agree that that garbage becomes a witness to the one, just for killing me?”

The werewolf smiled and calmly said, “Nothing is more important than that I become the definitive Alpha… you wouldn’t understand. I killed my best friend for that. Do you think I’ll stop after your father, my brother is dead?”

Joshua felt anger and saw how his men and his mother’s men faced an army much larger than them and were forced to retreat.

Everything was against it, but at that moment, it was not the time to think about those misadventures, the man who had killed his father was right in front of him, and this time he would not let him escape.

With speed, Joshua threw himself with force towards Maximiliano but without transforming into a wolf. Maximiliano smiling, he waited for him, and Joshua, with force, gave two punches in the face of the wolf. He fell back and threw a strong blow that Joshua stopped with great effort.

Holding Joshua Maximiliano’s shoulder, he lifted him into the air and threw him out to the ground. Joshua landed on his feet but saw at that moment how Maximiliano came right in front of him to hit him in the face.

Joshua, jerking his head backward, dodged the blow but felt how Maximiliano’s hand pushed him to the ground. His sword hit the ground, and it cracked, but Joshua, far from surrendering, raised his foot quickly and kicked the chin of his uncle.

Hitting him quickly, Joshua delivered a strong combination of blows that made Maximiliano recoil. With force, Joshua tackled his opponent’s legs and threw him to the ground to subdue him, but with only his arms, Maximiliano strangled Joshua until he lifted him into the air and tightened his throat.

Joshua had difficulty breathing, he held his uncle’s hands, but he had much more strength than him, he did everything possible to kick him or use his tricks, but at that moment, he was completely controlled and tightening his neck. Joshua felt his head go to explode.

In his mind, becoming a werewolf first indicated Maximiliano’s superiority, but the truth was that Maximiliano was much stronger than him. There was no other option but to fight with all that he was.

Transforming into a wolf, he buried his claws in Maximiliano’s wrists and, with a swift movement, cut his enemy’s chest twice just before killing him so hard it sent him flying through the air.

As he rose and landed, Maximiliano transformed into a werewolf. He was huge, bigger than Joshua, and the wounds on his chest were regenerated.

Once transformed, he roared, “There are the claws and fangs of the Alpha, and you still have them. I want them!”

Maximiliano was stronger than him, and not by little. His roar was more powerful, his skin was more resistant, and his overall strength was superior, but the claws and fangs were on Joshua’s side, and so he would win that fight, use his advantage, and he would finish off the man who killed his father.

Throwing forward, he did not foresee the speed of Maximiliano, who was already taking his face with his considerably larger hand and crashing him to the ground.

Joshua used his claws and attacked Maximiliano’s ribs, worse the cuts that were superficial, with his leg he was he bent and pressing the chest of his enemy managed to free himself from his grip only to see Maximiliano twist his torso to launch a terrifying punch.

Joshua could barely avoid it, and with his jaw, he bit into Maximiliando’s fist, the blood came out of his hand, but with the other, he hit Joshua’s stomach, making him release his grip, and then with both hands, he clapped right in Joshua’s face, crushing his face between your palms.

Joshua felt a sharp pain, and then two more times, and with a kick to the chest, Maximiliano threw him to the ground. Joshua fell from transforming into the ground and seeing Maximiliano howling non-stop, he thought he was victorious and Joshua, smiling, said, “First-generation werewolves are strong... especially if they eat each other!”

Maximiliano calmly walked towards him and said, “Using the force that took your father away to defeat you is ironic... but it must be so!”

Joshua sat looking at Gerard. His face was confused, but his father was about to achieve his goal, but Joshua did not stop smiling. He calmly looked at Maximiliano and said, “Dad! Be careful, and he’s planning something!”

Maximiliano gave a huge laugh when he said, “Of course it is! That’s what he does, plan and think, just like his father… that’s why they are both weak. That’s why I was able to beat him!”

Joshua smiled and said, “I thought you beat him by attacking him from behind, like this!”

Maximiliano heard Joshua’s voice, but behind him, a huge wolf was biting his neck. Joshua was pulling his spear towards him, and with a smile, he advanced until he stabbed Maximiliano’s abdomen and said, “I have more tricks than my father!”

And the wolf at the back of Maximiliano released them to join with Joshua and return to the wolf form of him. Maximiliano suffered from a wound to the abdomen and a powerful bite to the neck.

He was not in a position to fight when Joshua said, “This is for my father!”

But at that moment, Gerard transformed into a wolf bit him from the back, Joshua shaking his enemy with force, saw him fall only to turn his face and feel the powerful blow that Maximiliano hit at his face.

Joshua lost his transformation and fell to the ground on the verge of unconsciousness when Maximiliano howled called his men.

The wolves surrounded him when the man said, “This is the end, here his line ends, and mine begins!”

Joshua watched Maximiliano approach before the expectant eyes of all the wolves, the end was near, and at that moment, Joshua heard the voice of his father.