The Alpha's Keeper

XIX: Ice Terror

She smiled at the sweet taste of his lips and nodding, and she started off. Joshua, who wasted no time, began to jump hard to move faster. Eleanor guided his steps while a huge cloud covered the sun. A blizzard was approaching.

“Can you beat and ice terror, Joshua?”

Joshua gave a wry smile before answering, “I guess we will find out very soon!”

A child looked out the window. Paying attention was complicated, especially in that boring subject, it was better to see the sky forming the clouds or perhaps the people passing by in the street, what he did not expect to see was undoubtedly a huge creature of white hair running at top speed towards them.

A powerful roar bath all over the place, and the teacher looking out the window, felt her heart descend towards her feet.

There was no training capable of preparing her for that when the terrible creature jumped to enter the room through the window.

Joshua ran at full speed and jumping hard. He reached the second floor of the school where a window was shattered, in the corridors of the same great screams were still heard, and the whole environment had a gloomy feeling. The walls leaked and gave a frozen appearance.

While looking around, Joshua asked, “Eleanor, can you hear me!?”

The girl responded with the sweet voice that characterized her.

“Yes! What do you need?”

Joshua left the classroom, and the hallway showed the same appearance as the classroom. He asked carefully, “Is this ice terror different from the others?”

“Yes! It is an older creature than the ice terror, you know. This one is bigger. It has sharp claws and a tail. The tail not only has a stinger, but it can also throw a cryogenic substance that freezes everything it touches. Also, the horns of its neck can throw them like stakes, and it is very dangerous!” She replied seriously.

Joshua took a deep breath listening to Eleanor’s warnings. Running down the corridors, he followed the screams of the monster’s victims.

When turning in a corridor, he saw a child fall back on the ground, while the monster looked at him with interest.

His fangs showed a great eagerness to bite the child. When the child closed his eyes, he hopes that the beast would not bury its enormous fangs in his body.

The roar of the monster appeared, and with force, it leaped to bite the child, it opened its jaws to everything they gave, but when he closed his jaw, his teeth missed their prey.

The boy opened his eyes and saw the face of the monster trying to reach him, but it was not enough when the boy looked at the side of the monster a man was holding the beast by the tail and using the superhuman force he threw it to the other side of the corridor.

Joshua looked at the boy and smiled, and he asked with concern, “You´re okay!?”

The terrified boy waved his hands as the monster stood up again and, roaring with all his might, began to throw stakes in his direction. Joshua moved at full speed and taking the boy off the ground, and ran to hide behind a corridor to avoid all the shots from the monster.

The monster chased him at full speed and leaping over the walls to turn more effectively, continuously throwing stakes in Joshua´s direction. The werewolf did his best to avoid the impacts of those stakes, but one of them reached him in the shoulder, and him letting out a scream. With speed, Joshua ran towards a window and, jumping through it, landed on the ground.

After peeling the stake from his shoulder, the wound closed bur instantly, the pain remains, and placing the boy on the ground, he said.

“You better seek refuge now!”

The boy nodded and began to run when the beast jumping out the window landed right in front of Joshua. He was looking at it firmly, the bag on his side still had some things from the hunter, but Joshua did not know if any of that would be useful.

Taking it off, he threw it to the ground and determinedly prepared to transform when the voice in his head said, “Stop! If you transform, your pack will know where you are!”

Joshua thought for a second and seeing the beast roaring.

“They are inside Edith’s barrier! It does not matter!” He said while walking from side to side.

But Eleanor said, “Even if it is like you said! It is not good to reveal your identity in front of so many humans!”

Around him, many humans took photos and recorded videos from their phones in the adjacent buildings, and taking a deep breath, Joshua took the hunter’s short sword and said.

“Good! I will try to use my powers discreetly! “

The monster looked at him, felt inside the presence of the werewolf, and his instinct led him to retreat, but at that moment, he opened the stinger in his tail and began to throw a substance that conjectures everything around him.

The temperature around the schoolyard dropped drastically, but this did not affect Joshua in the least, who quickly ran in the beast´s direction. It threw several stakes from the ones it had in its torso, but Joshua jumped high and dodged the attack to try to cut it with the sword.

The monster backed away with speed and, sticking the legs to the wall of the building, and it begins to ascend while it used the stinger to shoot the substance that was freezing.

Joshua evaded with lateral movements when throwing his sword this attempt to embed it in the body of the monster that, jumping with force from the wall, fell right in the back of Joshua.

The monster threw the stinger and buried it in the werewolf´s arm who, feeling a strong wave of pain, used that arm to attract the monster to his direction and turning only his hand into the claws of the wolf, he ripped the entire face of the creature making it fall down.

The wound on Joshua’s arm healed instantly, but his hand felt the cold of the attack, and the pain increase for a moment, but his werewolf powers gave him a great advantage over his enemy, who, injured, fled.

The monster began to escape, and Joshua behind him tried to catch up with him. If he were transformed into a wolf, he would surely have reached in it a fraction of seconds, but in its human form, it was difficult to catch it.

The monster entered the school gymnasium, and Joshua chasing it enter too. He was walking calmly through the darkness of the building, trying to smell the scent of his prey, but the monster had used its sting to spread the substance and freeze several places in that place, thus hiding his smell.

Looking in all directions, Joshua said with a frown, “I can’t smell it!”

Eleanor, in her mind, thought for a second and said, “Be careful. His jaw bite is quite dangerous!”