My Hockey Alpha

Chapter 286: The Luna’s Ultimatum Nina

As I came to a painful stop at the bottom of the steps, the battle around me continued to rage on. Luke fell beside me, motionless after his tumble down the stairs. I slowly pushed myself up to my hands and knees and looked up to see that the Luna was walking toward me.

And behind her, Lori and Jessica were suspended in the air by magic.

“Let them go!” I growled.

The Luna just laughed. “You and your little friends are putting up quite the fight,” she said, her voice low and almost sultry sounding. “It’s such a shame that I can end all of their lives with a single snap.” She raised her hand and twisted her wrist. The battlefield fell silent. I looked up frantically to see that all of my friends and recruits, and even the rogues, were frozen in time. Behind me, Enzo stood frozen as well. He was still in his wolf form, and was stalking toward the Luna with his teeth bared. Now, the only things moving were his eyes.

“What have you done?” I asked, scrambling to my feet. “Why are you doing this?”

“Don’t you know already?” the Luna said, walking further down the steps to come face to face with me. “Do I really need to explain it again?”

I shook my head, trying to stay strong beneath the piercing gaze of her red eyes. “You won’t get away with this,” I whispered. “Let my friends go, or I’ll kill you.” I pulled the knife out of my boot that I had been hiding and brandished it, pointing it at the Luna’s face. But she just laughed again and swatted it away with an unexpected amount of force, causing it to clatter to the ground. My hand and wrist rang out in searing pain where she had hit me.

“We can make this easy, you know,” she whispered. “I have a proposition for you. A proposition to end this all… to save your friends.”

steel, and she gripped me so tightly that my skin burned beneath her touch. I cried out in pain

forces with me, I promise I won’t hurt your friends. The town of Mountainview

She seemed desperate for my help… Or maybe she was afraid of

“No,” I snarled.

as some sort of magic was keeping their mouths closed. But I could still hear their groans of pains through their closed lips, and I

to me?” I said, gritting my teeth through the pain of the Luna

a valid question,” the Luna replied with a bit of a wry chuckle. “But it doesn’t matter. You have two choices: help me end the human race and your friends will live, or don’t help me and

“I’d rather die than let you take over the world,” I snarled. “Someone will stop you. You can’t go on

Luna scoffed.

was burned into my flesh. The skin bubbled up around it, still burning. Beads of blood started to fleck on the surface, but I didn’t care. All I saw was the Luna walking back up to Lori and Jessica, and with a flick of her wrist, they writhed in even more agony. Not just them, but everyone. Even the rogues. The battlefield became

eyes, Enzo trembled and groaned with pain. He tried to stand, his eyes still fixed unwaveringly on me,

bear it any longer. If I didn’t do

shouted. “Don’t kill

was a sick, twisted smile on her face as the screaming around us continued. “You changed your mind, then?” she said, looking down on me from where she stood on the steps. Her all-white, calm