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 for this pearl, doyou,

sneak in and simply

I frowned.

on trying to negotiate

to know that

I so wrong to wish for that? I looked at the body of the Naga on

voice came, bringing me from

He walked towards me.

he brushed my cheek with his forearm,

eyes, unable to hide the

isn’t the

to kill makes meseem weak." I was ready for him to tell me it was the duty of

cupped my face, forcing me to look

and carry that burden, which really isn’t so hard for me.” His voice was

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

made my heart soar, my chest pounding as I leaned into

ever

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

not realise it was his actions that were getting to

his coppery brown hair flicked in front of his

nodded slowly, forcing myself away from him

killing is the answer." I

Hunter sighed.

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

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

he knew far

made it clear we were not to travel at night,

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

that the land contained did not look pleasant, and

devoured the raw meat of

had been far too engrossed to even

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

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

barely older

they looked entirely human, save for

They wore black shirts.

long hair, and the other had short

me think that they were not entirely monsters, not

is the way one starts to

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

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

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

Everyone deserved a chance.

way for us to move on unless they left, but they didn’t seem to plan on going

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

fatal, and their strength far greater than that of

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

need to rest and find a place to lay low

too many things in this

create a

the trees

but do it gradually." He replied

Theon added, both Hunter and I looked at himsharply, but he wasn't looking

gold as he

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

I warned, focusing on my

to show him

change, the shimmery hue

prettier isn't going to get him to go away, or not try to kill us.”

glare at him

you want here?"

see him, apart from his red

darkness.

my fog lifted, I couldn’t

wish for an audience with your Emperor.” I stated,