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.

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

and simply search for it, right?” Hunter

I frowned.

planning on trying to negotiate with

that we were

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

voice came, bringing me

He walked towards me.

hand, he brushed my cheek with

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

killing isn’t the

the deaths of so many on my hands, even if refusing to kill makes meseem weak." I was ready for him to tell me it was the

face, forcing me to look up

do the killing and carry that burden, which really isn’t so hard for

should argue I didn't want him

words had made my heart soar, my

of ever being together was

showing me the you that I always wanted to see? “It’s only one Naga,don't feel bad." He said quietly, staring

it was his actions that were getting to me? His handsome face, even dirty, was incredibly

brown

myself away from him and looking

still don't think killing

Hunter sighed.

one that is more beast than

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

I knew that he knew far more than I about the

clear we were not to travel at

currently looking for a place to stay, and although we hadn’t come across any moreNagas, we had

not look pleasant, and I wondered how theland and its inhabitants

afar as they devoured the raw meat of the alligator made

that they had been far too engrossed

we all froze,

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

barely older

looked entirely human, save for their

They wore black shirts.

had long hair, and the

was their laughter that made me think that

way one starts to think that makes one a

didn't need to become the hostile monsters

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

way they chattered and tumbled onto the ground, it remindedme

Everyone deserved a chance.

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

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

were keen, their poison fatal, and their strength

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

rest and find a place to lay low for

many things in this forest

a

frowned, glancing through the

may help a little, but

be resting tonight..." Theon added, both Hunter and I looked at himsharply,

glowing gold as he stared

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

I warned, focusing on my

enough to show him

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

away, or not try to kill us.” Theon murmured, making Hunter snicker despitethe

at

and what do you want here?" His dangerous

from his red eyes, there was nothing

darkness.

fog lifted, I couldn’t

wish for an audience with your Emperor.” I