Chapter Ten
Alaric
Ten beta soldiers moved ahead of us in formation. They appeared to have been stationed in a nearby building close to the wall. They were large, for beta soldiers anyway and outnumbered us two to one.
Nikki, the others, and I slid to a stop.
Finally, it was about time for a goddamned fight. I felt like I hadn’t had a good one in ages and I was really craving it. This whole war was the most exciting thing that had ever happened to me and I couldn’t wait to see how it turned out. I couldn’t wait to see the look in the betas’ eyes when they realized that they were going to lose.
It’s why I got involved in this whole fucking thing in the first place. I was bored out of my mind in the wilds. Nothing ever seemed to fulfill me and when I’d been invited to the Central Gathering, I’d gone for sheer amusement. I hadn’t actually cared about the omega objective, or the fact that more alphas had been forced out into the wilds then. In fact, that part had been rather amusing in a way. None of the banished alphas had known the rules of the wilds or any of our ways. They’d been from the city. Inexperienced and unchallenged, but at least many were trained in the ways of battle. That had made them at least mildly interesting.
But I’d gone along to the Central Gathering anyway. Volunteering had seemed exciting even. Sneaking into the city and training the omegas to fight for themselves had been fun, but then something had changed.
I’d met Nikki.
I discovered the silver-haired omega, a sweet, little courageous thing who would do anything to save those she led.
I’d seen it.
I could see it now. My eyes glanced to her icy ones, the ones full of feisty bravery, the ones lacking any sort of fear whatsoever. She was prepared to fight. She was going to get her omegas out of Tharia, no matter what it took.
I’d seen everything that made her who she was and with the others, I’d decided to claim her as my own. She was my mate for life. And that meant that I’d never let anyone hurt her. They’d be lucky if they even got close enough to have a chance.
I grinned though. Nikki wasn’t one to shy away from a fight and I wasn’t about to stop her. Should it endanger her comrades, she’d rush into battle, just like I loved to do. We were similar in that fashion, which only served to prove that she was perfect for me in every way.
A loud crash sounded outside the wall and many of the betas turned away to see what it was. Nikki took advantage of that moment of distraction. She attacked.
I watched her move with fluidity and grace as she rushed toward the ten soldiers, not even looking back for our protection as she drew both a knife and a gun from her waist belt. With the precision of many years of training and preparation, she leapt from the ground and landed on the shoulders of one of the men turned toward the wall. She wrapped her body around his waist, gripping her legs tightly around his torso. Her arms surrounded his face, her fingers digging into his eyeballs and he cried out in pain at the sudden, unexpected assault. Another soldier sprinted to grab her from the right-hand side, but she was too quick for that. With a swift twist, she shot the man rushing toward her point blank in the forehead with the gun in her hand. He didn’t even have time to defend himself before he dropped straight to the ground, his eyes already glazed with death.
Next she took the knife in her hand and swiftly dragged it across the throat of the man she’d initially attacked. He struggled and tried to pull her arms away from him, but it was far too late. With grace, she dropped to the ground easily, landing on her toes as the man collapsed to the ground beside her. A grisly pool of blood grew beneath his twitching form.
Gods. She was fucking flawless.
“Well, are the four of you ready to fight with me or what?” she goaded with a smirk and I chuckled just as she caught my eyes. A daring grin poked at the edges of her lips and I decided that she was utter perfection.
“More than ready, omega. More than fucking ready,” I replied.
I ran forward, pulling my favorite weapon free, a sword. I bent my knees and rushed toward the remaining soldiers. They were wholly unprepared for such a weapon and instead rushed to pull out their guns. They hadn’t even loaded them yet.
What kind of fighters were these? Not even a fucking challenge.
I swung my sword overhead and then shifted to the right, toward a man that was trembling as he held his gun. He attempted to load it one bullet at a time, but his hands were shaking so hard that he dropped more on the ground than he actually loaded in his gun. I whirled the blade over my head and brought it straight down, resulting in a decisively killing blow right between his eyes straight through his skull. When I pulled my weapon free, he dropped like a stone. Dead. Battle count one.
A war cry sounded behind me, but the deafening sound of a bullet silenced the yell immediately. I looked to the side to see what the commotion was and saw Damiyen grinning, his gun level with my foe. I looked down. Another beta soldier down. I laughed heartily and tore into another unprepared soldier, all while Ethan and Viktor subdued their own combatants.
In very little time at all, the five of us had demolished the small beta group, leaving a grisly, bloody trail in our wake.
I quickly wiped my sword free of gore on one of the dead betas before the five of us made for the break in the wall once more. Behind us, I heard sounds of similar skirmishes occurring between the Omegaborn and the beta army. I prayed that their fights went as successfully as ours.
We’d planned for the difference in strength between the betas and omega by keeping their groups large, by teaching them stealth and maneuverability and that guns should only be used if they had no other options. Knives and swords were silent and just as deadly as a gun, more far more undetectable, if they were careful anyway.
Right now, thousands of omegas should be making their way through the city to the broken wall. Thousands of them vying for freedom and we were going to give it to them.
We ran the last bit toward the wall, no more than a block in distance. We met no other ready groups of betas on our way to the wall. They hadn’t been prepared for this kind of attack. None of them had even remotely expected that we might break through the wall, one that would require teamwork between both those in the city and those outside of it.
We’d caught them off guard and it had worked just as perfectly as Damiyen had anticipated. Now the battle would truly begin.
I was so fucking ready.