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.

to ask the Naga Emperor for this pearl, doyou, Yileyna? It won't work." Theon

sneak in and simply search for

I frowned.

was planning on trying

to know that

for that? I looked at the body

came, bringing me from

He walked towards me.

my cheek with his forearm, removing

looked into his eyes, unable to hide the pain I

killing isn’t the answer.” I

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

forcing me to look up at

I'm here to do the killing and carry that burden, which really isn’t so hard for me.” His voice was quiet, his eyesemotionless as they stared

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

heart soar, my chest pounding as I

hope of ever being

to see? “It’s only one Naga,don't feel bad." He said quietly, staring down at

that were getting to me? His

strands of his coppery brown hair flicked

myself away from him and looking at the dead

don't think killing is the answer." I

Hunter sighed.

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

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

was clear, and I knew that he knew far more than I

were not to travel at

we hadn’t come across any moreNagas,

land contained did not look pleasant, and I

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

edged away, lucky that they had been far too engrossed

now signalled us to stop and we all froze, making

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

barely

entirely human, save for their

They wore black shirts.

hair, and the other had short

me think that they were not entirely monsters,

the way one starts to think that makes one a

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

fear of the enemy? Was it the hatred for werewolves? Why were

as they chased each other unknowingly, the way they chattered and tumbled onto the ground, it remindedme of Charlene and me from

Everyone deserved a chance.

way for us to move on unless they left, but they didn’t seem to plan on going anywhere and instead settled down

the day and awakened at night, which meant the

their strength far

around the denser trees, and we did, slipping

need to rest and find a place

many things

I create a

the

may help a little, but do it gradually." He replied

Hunter and I looked at himsharply, but

gold as

gleaming red eyes that were watching us through the

I warned, focusing on my siren side, calling

show

change, the shimmery hue that my skin took up and

isn't going to get him to go away, or not try to kill us.” Theon murmured, making Hunter snicker despitethe

glare at him but I stayed staring

you want here?" His dangerous

his red eyes,

darkness.

lifted, I

wish for an audience