The Alpha's Keeper

XCVIII: Just to Win

The voice of his father sounded in his mind, and with it, time stopped. He was alone in the dark, surrounded by enemies and death. The one that always accompanied him was surrounding him. All movements stopped when the voice of the one who taught him everything sounded loudly in his mind.

“Everything is there! Stop you, my son!”

Joshua knew that his father was dead, but listening to his voice was a gift that someone gave him, and looking at the sky, the moon that was mightily rising saw him. She was the one who opened the power of his father to speak to him even if it was him, the only one who listened to it.

“Your heart has recomposed. It is better than when I left, I love and hope to have done fantastic jobs with you, but you are not ready yet. At this moment, you want to kill Maximiliano out of hatred, out of revenge, because everything he has done has caused you pain, and that is not the true goal of an Alpha.”

Joshua understood his words, and seeing Maximiliano in front of him, he said with a tear in his mind.

“How can I forget these feelings? How can I forget what made you father?”

The voice was silent, they were difficult questions, and his weight plunged Joshua’s soul deeper into his own despair, but at that moment, his father, with the answer he needed, said, “Forget my son! Forgetting is not the answer, and you cannot forget the changes that his actions brought on you. No, you can only understand that the past is a guide and that anger and hatred will consume you, as they have done until now.”

With those words, Joshua could feel his father’s hand on his shoulder as this paternal spirit said with his glowing soul.

“Your job is to protect our people from all harm, keep them safe, and lead them to the happy destiny that we can aspire to, that is your job, and you cannot do that if you are consumed by fear, hatred, and anger.”

Joshua looked at the ground, his father was always a guide for him, and at that moment, where he needed him more than ever, he did not fail him.

Looking up determinedly, Joshua said, “Father, but how can I win? He is much stronger than me!”

But his father for sure said, “If force is what motivates you, my son! You would not have come here, and you still have two links to climb, don’t lose faith and fight, as only you can fight!"

At that moment, the rain began to fall, and Joshua knew that his father was gone, he was alone again, but he did not feel alone, he was defeated, but he did not feel defeated, in front of him a huge amount of hatred was manifested, and now I could see it clearly.

His wounds were deep, but the pain could not stop him. The rain was falling, and Maximiliano, seeing him, spoke to all the wolves that surrounded them.

“This is the day where I Maximiliano take the mantle that corresponds to me!”

Saying that, the werewolf raised his claw and tried to cut Joshua’s throat, who was just a man.

Yet, Joshua, in the last second roll onto his back in the soft mud and fell elsewhere, smiled as he said, “Do you think I won’t fight anymore?”

Maximiliano saw him completely weak and frustrated, and he said, “Why are you doing this? Die like a wolf, and you can’t even transform yourself. How good are you?”

Attacking again, Maximiliano threw another blow to end Joshua’s life, but he was rolling on the ground again to avoid it. When he got up, he left his knee and his right hand in the mud, and smiling, and he said, “Can’t you kill a decayed wolf? That’s sad for an alpha, don’t you think? “

Maximiliano angrily transformed, his huge body looking at Joshua, smiling, calling him with his left hand without lifting his right off the ground.

Maximiliano pounced on him to finish the job. And Joshua raising his hand with a lot of grabbed mud, he threw it in his eyes, Maximiliano was blind for an instant, and Joshua only transformed his fingers because he no longer had the strength to transform anything else, he made a deep cut in the abdomen of his uncle.

Maximiliano, seized with pain, threw his hands to his wound and turned his head to see Joshua, but this with the transformed fingers cut from his face, slicing his eye. The cuts from those claws were deeper than normal and healed much more slowly.

Maximiliano let out a shout, and Gerard positioned himself behind Joshua, prepared to attack again. Joshua pulled the spear from him. He had never lost sight of him and turning it hit him hard in the face making him go back.

The rest of the embarrassed wolves held them up, and one of them said, “If your father needs help to be the alpha, then he is not a true alpha!”

Maximiliano looked at Joshua with his good eye, and this one in the human form of him was holding the spear. He was still deeply tired, and fighting in that way would undoubtedly be challenged. Maximiliano threw a strong claw, and Joshua, interposing the spear, received him.

The blow was so strong that it lifted him off the ground and made him fly unceremoniously. He passed through the crowd until he crashed into a hut and entered it, Maximiliano laughed uproariously to finish the job, but before jumping, Joshua’s spear flew at full power until it buried itself in the werewolf’s knee.

Maximiliano’s howl was tremendous, and using his power Joshua pulled his spear back, running attacked Maximiliano with it in hand. The wolf was waiting for him, he was one-eyed, and his mobility was reduced, but never someone in human form would defeat him. He streamlined his senses, and Joshua, throwing the spear forcefully up to his chest, tried to finish him off.