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.

ask the Naga Emperor for this pearl, doyou, Yileyna? It won't

sneak in and simply search for it, right?” Hunter

I frowned.

trying to negotiate

that we were not all

looked at the body of the Naga on the floor, wondering if

bringing me from

He walked towards me.

he brushed my cheek with his forearm, removing some more

I looked into his eyes, unable to hide the pain I

isn’t the answer.”

don't want the deaths of so many on my hands, even if refusing to kill makes meseem weak." I was ready

face, forcing me to look up

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

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

heart soar, my chest pounding

ever being together

harder? Why are you showing me the you that I always wanted to see? “It’s only one Naga,don't

realise it was his actions that were getting to

brown hair flicked in

myself away from him and

killing

Hunter sighed.

is more beast than human.” We carried on walking, and I didn’t know how to reply, insteadremaining

that when I knew that already, but then why did it still feel

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

made it clear we were not to

and although we hadn’t come across any moreNagas,

look pleasant, and I wondered how theland and

as they devoured the raw meat of

slowly edged away, lucky that they had been far

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

out through the trees, only to spot two young Naga females, giggling and chattering

barely older

they looked entirely human,

They wore black shirts.

had long hair, and the other

think that they were not entirely monsters,

one starts to think that makes

can still teach love and compassion, Nagas didn't need to

werewolves? Why were they as they are? I couldn’t help but

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

Everyone deserved a chance.

left, but they didn’t seem to plan on going anywhere and instead settled

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

senses were keen, their poison fatal, and their strength far

spotting a narrow path around the denser trees, and we did, slipping through the trees only to hear soundsfrom

and find a place to lay

far too many things in this

I create a fog?”

the trees at the darkening

a little, but do it gradually." He replied

we'll be resting tonight..." Theon added, both Hunter and I looked at himsharply, but he

gold as he stared far

spotting the silent pair of gleaming red eyes that were watching us through the

me." I warned, focusing on my siren side, calling upon my

to show him

the tips of my hair change, the shimmery hue

to get him to go away, or not try to kill us.” Theon

at him but

you want here?" His dangerous

from his red eyes,

darkness.

my fog lifted,

I wish for an audience with