Alpha Nocturne"s Contracted Mate

Alpha Nocturne’s Contracted Mate by A E Randell

Chapter 152 The Most Dangerous Opponent

The ground beneath them seemed to erupt as vile, twisted creatures emerged as far

as the eye could see, bringing with them a stench that was so overpowering a

mult*itude of hands flew upwards to cover their faces with the masks of their attire as

they gagged violently.

The rotting flesh of the gargantuan beast that seemed to detach itself from the

mountainside rippled disgustingly as it lumbered towards them, vile fluids oozing from

the open sores and dripping down onto the ma*s*s of creatures swarming below it.

Title of the document

The entire convoy seemed to freeze momentarily in pure, unadulterated terror as the

scene that looked as though it had been ripped straight from a horror movie unfolded

before them.

In seconds, the Enclave’s guards sprung into action. Those that couldn’t shift readied

their weapons and offensive magick as the sound of breaking bones whilst the shifters

changed filled the air. An eerie symphony rippled through the landscape, filled with the

cacophony of grunts and otherworldly shrieks, punctuated by the snap of bones and

hum of magick in the air, the only human sounds were the hastily shouted orders and

the manic laughter that seemed to spring incessantly in their ears.

“With me!” The lead guard roared as he rushed forward, his glaive glinting

dangerously as it arced through the air in a murderous rampage.

The guards rushed forward, engaging the a*s*sailants head-on, the predatory shifters

savaging those that dared to come within reach as bursts of magick were fired

overhead, decimating the ranks of the creatures that swarmed them.

The drivers scrambled down from their positions as the beasts began to panic, lunging

that came close to them whether friend or

unhooked from their burdens they charged headlong into the

everyone in front of

before them as they surged forward, tossing

their tusks. The unfortunate victims that

attention or simply weren’t fast enough to

grotesque mess under the

flicked across to where the beasts forced

him and saw that

the gargantuan beast

whistled to a few of the men closes and immediately they switched their

headlong down the gap in

dangerous opponent

they could dispatch the most obvious threat on the

off the stragglers. The smaller

them were only an issue because of their numbers. His heart pounded loudly

his breath was beginning to come in ragged

and as they launched

chunks and the beast

doing, a deep sense of dread

down at the tiny figures

lifted his leg and swept it sidewards, knocking 2 of the guard

soaring above the enemy before landing

as they were

avoid the first sweep and roared in fury as

redoubled his efforts.

flew past rapidly now, narrowly

their efforts on bringing

the body as

irritated with their attacks, swatting at the figures

a lazy swing of its gargantuan arm, the enormous

one of the smaller creatures that

the guard enough for the second swing to connect

air, before crashing into a broken

floor, his body now lying

intensified from within the

to see them safely to their new prison where they

slowly, but surely, whittled down until only one driver

of the cart, gripping his concealed dagger tightly as

beast lumbered towards him and came

curiously.

enough you rotten S*hi*t…’1 he grumbled as

stepping over the dead

lumbered after the tiny figure

their way to the cages on the cart and the driver looked back