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.

killing the answer to everyone's issues? "You don't plan to ask the Naga Emperor for this pearl, doyou, Yileyna? It won't work." Theon asked

was to sneak in and simply

I frowned.

was planning on trying to

them to know that we were

that? I looked at the body of the Naga on the floor, wondering if he had

came, bringing me from

He walked towards me.

my cheek with his forearm, removing

eyes, unable to

killing isn’t the answer.” I

weak." I was ready for him

me to look up at

here to do the killing and carry that burden, which really isn’t so hard for me.” His

knew I should argue I didn't want him to kill anyone

my heart soar, my chest pounding as I leaned into

hope of ever being together

that I always wanted to see? “It’s only one Naga,don't feel bad." He said quietly, staring down at me, his fingers gently caressing

actions that were getting to me?

his coppery brown hair flicked in front of his

slowly, forcing myself away from

killing is

Hunter sighed.

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

that when I knew that already, but then why did it still feel sowrong? ----- Hours passed and darkness was

and I knew that he knew far more than

we were not to travel at

stay, and although we hadn’t come across any moreNagas, we had

little water that the land contained did not look pleasant, and I wondered how theland and

them from afar as they devoured the raw meat of the alligator made me

they had been far

all froze, making sure to keep our heartbeats

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

barely

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

They wore black shirts.

hair, and the other had

laughter that made me think that they were

way one starts to think that makes one

Nagas didn't need to become the hostile monsters they

Was it the hatred for werewolves? Why were they as they are? I couldn’t

the way they chattered and tumbled onto the ground,

Everyone deserved a chance.

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

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

and their strength far greater

trees, and we did, slipping through the trees only to

need to rest and find a place to lay low for

far too many things

I create a

frowned, glancing through the

little, but

resting tonight..." Theon added, both Hunter

glowing gold

both turned, spotting the silent pair of gleaming red eyes that

on my siren side, calling

to show him who I

hair change, the shimmery hue that my skin

get him to go away, or not try to kill

to glare at

what do you want here?"

couldn't see him, apart from his red eyes,

darkness.

my fog lifted, I

and I wish for an audience