My Alpha’s Betrayal: Burning In The Flames Of His Vengeance by Moonlight Muse

35. A Futile Attempt YILEYNA My eyes flashed and it was almost as if we moved as one. Both Theon and I raised our hands,Theon's glow swirling around his sword as I raised a wall of ice.

The Naga slammed into it, before the ice was cracked by Theon’s sword slamming through and into the Naga’s stomach.

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My heart thumped.

His move shocking me.

Sure, the barrier was not the same ice that I encased the castle with, but for him to breakit so easily...

He was strong, and it confirmed that he held back during our training too…

I shook my head, looking for a way to get closer.

If I could encase his body in ice…

"Yileyna!" Hunter shouted just as the Naga's tail slammed into me.

I went flying as Theon sliced its tail off and I flipped in the air, landingon my feet.

I touched the sludgy water with my hand, sending ice through it and letting it wrap around the Naga’s tail, he hissed shoving Theon off him.

He was injured but it wasn’t fatal.

"Stop." I commanded, raising my hand and creating a shield of ice.

"We are not here to kill." I wasn't sure it'd work, Hunter and Theon were both holding their swords ready, their eyes flaming and theirauras blazing around them.

"You do not venture into the lands of Naran, where you are not welcome.” The Naga hissed.

It was the first time I had heard one speak.

His voice was deep and raspy, and his cold, sinister glare was trained upon me as he struggled against the ice that encased the tip ofhis tail and spread upwards.

"We would not have if we had any other choice." I replied firmly.

His lips curled maliciously.

"Then you will die here!" "They hold no compassion; they are more monster than human.” Hunter warned coldly.

The Naga smiled and turned his attention to him.

"We like the kill..." His voice was darker and more sinister, and then he suddenly lunged at me.

"Don't!" I said to the men, raising a barrier that the Naga smashed into.

“You will die!” He hissed, slithering around the barrier.

I stepped back as he stretched to his limits, his lower body frozen in the ice as he thrashedaround.

He roared, venom dripping from his fangs as he lunged at me once more, not caring about the damage to his tail.

I was ready for him.

He ripped free from the ice, his body bloodied, but before he even reached me, Hunterand Theon attacked, decapitating his head and piercing his heart.

I closed my eyes as his deep greenish blood splashed across my face.

"Do you men think killing is the only option? I was trying to talk to him!” I said as the Naga’s body dropped into the sludgewith a thick splash.

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“He isn’t one we could have talked to.

Look at the mark on his neck? He has been deemed a criminal by the empire itself.”Hunter said quietly.

I sighed, wiping my face and staring at the green blood.

I was trying…

I exhaled but said nothing.

"You don't plan to ask the Naga Emperor for this pearl, doyou,

plan was to sneak in and simply search

I frowned.

on trying

know that we were not all

wrong to wish for that? I looked at the

bringing me from my

He walked towards me.

his hand, he brushed my cheek with his forearm, removing some more

I looked into his eyes, unable to hide the pain

isn’t the answer.” I

my hands, even if refusing to kill makes meseem weak." I was ready for him to tell

face, forcing me

really isn’t so hard for me.” His voice was quiet, his eyesemotionless

knew I should argue I didn't want him to kill anyone either, I couldn’t

my heart soar, my chest

hope of ever being together

harder? Why are you showing me the you that I always wanted to see? “It’s only

his actions that were getting to

brown hair flicked in front of his

slowly, forcing myself away from him and looking at

killing is the

Hunter sighed.

a cursed species, one that is more beast than human.” We carried on walking, and I didn’t know how to

with that when I knew that already, but then why did

was clear, and I knew that he knew far more than I about the dangers that lingered

not to travel at night, no matter

a place to stay, and although we hadn’t come

contained did not look pleasant, and I wondered how theland

them from afar as they devoured the raw meat of the

they had

now signalled us to stop and we all froze, making sure to keep

of laughter reached me, and I peered out through the trees, only to

were barely older

waist up they looked entirely human, save for their green-hued

They wore black shirts.

and the other had short

was their laughter that made me think that they were not entirely

way one starts to think that makes one

and compassion, Nagas didn't need to become the hostile monsters they

hatred for werewolves? Why were they as they are?

girls as they chased each other unknowingly, the way they chattered and tumbled onto the ground,

Everyone deserved a chance.

was no way for us to move on unless they left, but they didn’t seem

right, often Naga slept during the day and awakened at night,

their poison fatal, and their

to follow, spotting a narrow path around the denser trees, and

to rest and find a place to lay low

too many things in

I create a fog?” I

glancing through the trees at the darkening

little, but

we'll be resting tonight..." Theon added, both Hunter and

were glowing gold as he

red eyes that were watching

I warned, focusing on my siren side, calling upon my

to show him who

saw the tips of my hair change, the shimmery hue that my skin took

or

I wanted to glare at him but I stayed staring

are you and what do you want here?" His

see him, apart from his red

darkness.

lifted,

for an audience with your Emperor.” I stated, holding