Chapter 28

I stood in the middle of the training grounds as the warriors circled the edge of the make-shift arena. I could tell the warriors were all linking with each other, probably to decide on their best possible strategy. I crouch down into a fighting stance, ready to lunge, as I keep my senses open for the first move from the warriors.

I was going to let them make the first move. I am hoping my strategy works. I know some of the warriors, such as Garrison, get sloppy when he gets mad. I plan to get them worked up, toy with them, if you will, so they will start making mistakes. Once they start making mistakes, then they are mine. They are easier to take down when they are angry, as long as I can stay in control of my emotions.

Justin is the first one to lunge at me. I quickly dodged to the left, just as Gael lunged at my other side. I quickly ducked down and swung my left leg towards him. As my leg connected with Gael’s feet, he loses his footing and falls backwards, his head slamming to the ground. I focused my attention on Justin. He throws his left arm, aiming for my face. I dodged at the last second and grabbed his arm. I caught his arm, twisted it behind his back, and threw him away from me to the ground.

I heard someone sneaking behind me and I spun around and flipped Jessica over and threw her to the ground. Gael got back up and I aimed towards him, he aimed to kick me in the chest, when I slid between his legs and got up behind him. I pressed two fingers onto the right side of his Adam apple. Gael yelped in pain before spinning and grabbing my hand before I could move it. He roughly squeezed my hand before twisting it behind my back. I screamed in pain, hearing several of my bones break. I break free from his hold, just as Garrison joined the fight.

“Look who finally came to play,” I said to Garrison. I aimed my fist at his face, going straight for his nose. I made contact with his nose and heard the audible crunch, just as blood spurted from his nose.

‘We have to start getting some of these warriors out. I am going to tire quickly if I continue fighting all ten of them at once.’ I said to Skye.

‘Let’s prepare for the shift. It might be easier with a broken hand. I can heal us quicker in wolf form.’ She said.

I shifted just as Elias, Amir, and Liam joined the fight in their wolf form. I was surrounded by the three wolves. The three of them ran at me at the same time and I jumped into the air, aiming to land behind them. They were not able to stop their running in time to avoid colliding with each other.

Ouch, that must have hurt.

I dodged out of the way just as Jean joined the fight. Jean went to jump on to my back when I spun around and latched my mouth around his left arm and squeezed him tightly. He screamed in pain and I heard a few of his bones shattered. I tossed Jean’s body and I stalked over to him. Just as I was about to knock him out, Jean bares his neck to me, submitting to me. Well, that was easy, he did not put up much of a fight. One thing I learned about Jean was his left arm was his weakness and his pain tolerance in that arm alone was very low.

One down…nine to go…

I heard cheering from the crowd as one of the nurses made their way to wear Jean was to get him off of the field.

The last two warriors, Aziel and Caleb, finally joined the fight. Aziel shifted into his magnificent black wolf and Caleb stayed in his human form. Caleb jumped on to my back and entangled his hands in my fur as Aziel aimed to attack my left side. I barely twisted out of his grasp, as Caleb wrapped his arms around my neck, effectively cutting off my air supply.

I tried to shake Caleb off my back, but he had an iron grip around my neck and it was proving to be futile. Aziel continued to attack me from one side, just as Garrison joined the fight, as did his wolf from my other side.

Fuck…

How do I get out of this?

I had to do something quickly before I completely lost all of my air supply. Garrison jumps and aims to attack my left flank. His teeth wrapped around my flank just as I lunged towards Aziel. I knocked Aziel back and aimed for his right flank, ignoring the pain from Garrison on my left flank.

I heard a low growl coming from behind me…I did not want to think about who it came from, so I pushed it far out of my mind.

I let go of Aziel’s right flank and pushed him back again. My air supply was slowly running out and the pain in my left flank was reaching unbearable heights…I lunged at Aziel again, this time aiming for his neck. I wrapped my teeth around his neck gently and squeezed him. He slowly shifted back into his human form and bared his neck to me.

Two down...eight to go.

Now to find some way to get out of Caleb and Garrison’s hold. I had the perfect idea. Hopefully it worked. It could end badly for me if it did not work.

I quickly shifted into my human form, which caught both of them off guard. I felt Garrison’s teeth slip from me and Caleb’s hold loosened enough for me to slip from his grasp.

I limped out of the way and shifted back to Skye. I pushed Skye forward and pushed myself backwards. I was too injured and in too much pain to focus on my surroundings, so I let Skye take control while I watched and if I needed to, then I would jump in.

Justin and Gael looked at each other.

“Fuck,” Gael mumbled, “She let her wolf have control. Now we are fucked.”

I guess he heard the rumors about Skye. Skye was vicious when left to her own devices. The warriors used to hate training when we had to train with our wolves because sometimes, I would push myself to the back and let Skye have complete control over me.

Gael quickly shifted into his wolf before lunging at Skye. Skye quickly jumped out of his way, placing her weight on the three paws that were not injured. We had a big limp from where Garrison tore into our flank and it hurt like a bitch. Gael quickly recovers and lunges again, knocking Skye to the ground. Garrison joins with Gael and lunges towards me and tears into my left side before Skye can recover from Gael knocking me down.

I pushed myself forward to be with Skye, just as she let out a loud whimper.

Gael stalked towards me and then lunged at my throat, but before he could latch on, I heard a loud growl followed by someone growling, “MINE!”