Stronger

Graysons POV:

I waited at the top of the wall on Darrens land. James on one side, Charlie the other.

They were coming, the air was too restless for anything else to happen. I wanted this done. I wanted to be home. I wanted their alpha head on display above my gates.

I held a bow and waited for them to trickle in I had no doubt they were inching toward if Darren was a smarter mant he’d have cut down the trees near his walls so that an enemy couldn’t hide. Im sure he’s seen that issue now.

His wife and newborn were inside these walls. Heavily guarded by guns with silver bullets, but I’m sure he saw every flaw in his defenses right now and was praying to the goddess the enemy didn’t.

I know how I felt. I know I wished I had put sentries out to guard my outer land so they couldn’t make a camp near my wife and unborn child. I knew I wished I had ordered silver bullets so that my family was safe.

**I’ll be home soon

I could get their scent on the air they were too close. I scanned the trees they had to have been hiding behind.

One of them poked their head out and I drew back. Waited for him breathing in and out, in and out letting loose my

arrow.

It hit and he fell to the ground lifeless. More arrows flew and their warriors were falling. I looked at the tree three over and shot someone in their knee and then Charlie shot their head as they went to grab the arrow.

After a relentless couple of minutes for them with arrows barraging them like waves someone on their side gave the call to charge.

It was the most I’d seen of them. A good number more than I would have liked ran out from the tree line.

I shot arrow after arrow hitting a chest, a shoulder, and a throat. Killing and wounding as many as I could. They had injured people fighting already though.

I could see the marks of our small skirmishes on these wolves, they had to fight us al over again knowing the end result.

Some of them were attempting to shoot us back. Darren’s walls had slits for archers. They obviously weren’t the

smartest.

I shot one of their would–be archers in his jaw and watched him make it ten times worse as he ripped the arrow tip back out.

I looked down at the lower per of the wall a few standing there calling for ladders. I took an arrow tip dipped it in the oil, lit on the flame, and shot it down.

Darren and I had dry hay laid down at the base of his stone walls. It’s hard to climb over the fire.

I shot it down and the hay lit up, the little man beneath me screamed and squealed brushing his legs. Belongs to (N)ôvel/Drama.Org.

The more I watched them the less guilty I felt. I didn’t care for their pain, their senselessness, their blind faith that they’d win. All it did was enrage me.

They brought the ladders out and some of them attempted to put them up but they were met with arrow tips and spearheads.

But they were undeterred falling back for a short bit and letting the fire burn itself out. Relentless.

I growled at their strategy. Someone with brains was in charge.

Jaime shot next to me and hit one of their warriors. Charlie hit another and then I shot and hit one

Still, they stayed. We must have halved their numbers but they refused to quit. All over some typos sigma who behaved

like a jackal.

I felt my blood boil at their sense of righteousness over this entire thing. I had done my duty and I had sent them their b*dy. They thought they had the right to be angry with me, to hunt my wife, to threaten my mother. All for protecting a member of my pack.

I was so angry before I knew what I was doing I had jumped down from my spot on the wall

I wanted them to know how useless this fight was for them. They had no alpha blood and we had it tenfold.

“Come on,” I whispered. One of them shot me with an arrow. I grabbed it from my shoulder and tossed it to the

ground.

A spear aimed for my head and I grabbed it mid–air throwing it back at one of them and pinning them through their

stomach to a tree.

They had no faith I would not shatter today.

A few more arrows came for me but I ran from them heading into their tree line and grab one of them and tossing him over my shoulder.

Another I tossed out into the open. Hide in your shadows, claim false innocence, and feign your dignity. I’ll show you the truth clear as f**king day.

One of them climbed on my back as if that ever had ended well. I reach over digging my claws into their shoulder hitting the bone then piercing the bone.

I wrechend them off of me stepping on the shoulder and slamming a boot down feeling the crunch.

I heard one of them turn and run from me, a smart wolf amongst imbeciles. I stalked forward one of them pulling a sword out as if that would help them.

It did appear to be silver. I suppose that was supposed to scare me. I danced with her as she twisted her sword looking

for a moment to strike.

She went to jab my stomach and punched her arm holding the sword. She flinched but spun and tried to slice my other side. I kicked her and she stumbled away.

The arrogant confidence oozed from her.

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“You’re not special,” I explained to her and she charged me swinging down and I blocked and kicked her in her chest again knowing the air out of her and leaving her gasping-

I took the sword from her. “Who’s in charge?”

The fear I saw made me smile, she inched away from me, or at least attempted to

I grabbed her arm squeezing just enough. “Who’s in charge,”

She tighten her pursed l*ps. I traced the top of the sword over her collarbone.

“Who,” I was tired of her silence.

“Leave her alone!” Some male tackled me off of her and she scampered away.

“Tackle the alpha with a silver sword,” I sighed. “Not smart.”

He gulped and put up his fists facing off against me.

“For goddess sake,” I rolled my eyes grabbed him slamming him into a tree taking one hand and punching him knocking him out.

They’re just kids. They’re stupid. Relentless. Naive. They all think they’re fighting for some stupid noble cause.

I took the sword and begun cutting them down one by one. One of them would charge me and Id slice them open.

I cut one of them on their thigh the artery and I heard the unseating of another sword.

I turned. He wasn’t any form of a high–blooded wolf, but he was big. There was a trace of something in him for sure.

“You shouldn’t have come down,” He sneered.

“You all think you’ll actually win,” I shook my head grinning. “What a sad day for all of you,”

He

swung would.

down at me I knelt blocked, and punched him in his ribs and then his nethers. He crumpled as any man.

I circled him letting him get up. If he was to learn this lesson it would have to be taught slowly.

“Come on I’m waiting,” I drawled.

More of our men had come down by this time to fight hand–to–hand. Wolves transformed around me as we began to truly beat them.

The wolf I faced pushed off the ground and yelled charging at me with ferocity. I sidestepped him and sliced his buck

just a bit.

He hissed and spun getting into position and swinging again. I blocked him and pushed back on his sword and swung to his opposite side before quickly moving back and slicing his ribs.

“AGH!,” he let out a frustrated grunt.

I took this time and sliced over his shoulder. The thought of taking down that other wolf those weeks ago in a similar fashion entered my head.

That time I hadn’t been able to get back to her. This time, this time the message would be sent loud and clear.

He stood back and squared off with me again. He seemed to wait this time for me to strike up learning at least something.

But I wasn’t going to b this point.

nice any longer. The silver had no doubt started to affect him truly, he’d be beyond hazy by

I swung again slicing depose this time across his entire torso in a diagonal.

I kicked him square between the ribs and knocked him to the ground. I brought my hand back and punched him. feeling his jaw pop as the blow went through,

He wheezed bloody in his mouth, eyes wide and delirious. He grabbed around at the earthen floor grasping for his sword that was three feet away. 1

When I knelt down on his chest and took the sword tip to just where his heart should be he rested his head back and met my eyes with the dawning realization that he had no way out.

“Do you still think that you will win?” I

asked him.

“I know what you’ll lose,” he smiled in that deranged fashion of a man beaten.

“I don’t lose,” I plunged the sword through his bones and into the soft tissue of his heart.

Then to prove my point. I grabbed his hair dug the blade into his throat and sliced it this way and that cutting his

head off.

I grabbed it off the ground, holding it high in the air and waving it around. “Look!” I shouted and the fighting closest to me stopped.

“LOOK?” I demanded again.

The warriors clashing all ceased and looked up at their leader.

“This will happen to all of you. I’ll do it myself. Leave now! And never come back!” I looked over and rolled it to the nearest wolf of theirs

“You show this to him. You knew which one I’m referring to. Tell him the same thing, and if he still goes on that,” 1 pointed with word tip to the head and walked up to the small wolf bringing the sword to his n*eck. “Is what you are

worth to him,”

They all fled after that, the small one took the head and bolted. Darren’s men walked them back out of our lands.

He knew to set up sentries and guard towers, and he intend to keep them well–supplied with defenses.

I got up into the helicopter that she sent for me with her brothers. Not a single scratch on one of us.

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