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.

don't plan to ask the Naga Emperor

was to sneak in and simply

I frowned.

planning on trying

know that we were not all

for that? I looked at the body of the Naga on the floor,

bringing

He walked towards me.

he brushed my cheek

let's go." I looked into his eyes, unable to hide the pain I

killing isn’t the answer.” I

meseem weak." I was ready for him to tell me it was the duty of an Alpha to bear the burden, but it

my face, forcing me to look

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

I didn't want

made my heart soar, my chest pounding as I

of ever being together was

making it harder? Why are you showing me the you that I always wanted to see? “It’s only one Naga,don't feel bad." He

were getting to me? His handsome face, even

coppery brown hair flicked

slowly, forcing myself away from him and looking at

don't think killing is the answer."

Hunter sighed.

but Naga are a cursed species, one that is more beast than human.” We carried on walking, and I didn’t

but then why did it still feel sowrong? ----- Hours passed

I knew that he knew far more than I about the dangers

made it clear we were not to

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

that the land contained did not look pleasant, and I wondered how theland and its inhabitants

devoured the

away, lucky that they had been far too engrossed

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

trees, only to spot two young Naga females, giggling and chattering as they talked insnake

were barely older

up they looked entirely human,

They wore black shirts.

and

think that

starts to think

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

the enemy? Was it the hatred for werewolves? Why were they as they are? I

as they chased each other unknowingly, the way they chattered

Everyone deserved a chance.

they left, but they didn’t seem to plan on

often Naga slept during the day and awakened at night, which meant the moment darkness falls,this place

keen, their poison fatal, and their

follow, spotting a narrow path around the denser trees, and we did, slipping through the

need to rest and find a place to lay

far too many things in this forest

create a fog?” I

the trees at the darkening

may help a little, but do it gradually."

added, both Hunter and I looked at himsharply, but

glowing gold as he stared

both turned, spotting the silent pair of gleaming red eyes

warned, focusing on my siren side, calling upon my

to show him who

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

going to get him to go away, or

wanted to glare at

what do you want here?" His dangerous

him, apart from his red eyes, there was

darkness.

my fog lifted, I couldn’t see

I wish for an audience with your Emperor.”