"Whatever happens don't use your elements"
"What?"
We both look at Lanna as though she's lost her mind
"Just do as I say, your dad doesn't want anyone knowing what you can do"
I look around and can't see any way for us to get out of this situation, by this time the rogues have all started moving forward,
"I don't think there's any way for us to get out of this" I whisper,
Acre looks at me before whispering back
"Were gonna have to fight"
"Hmmm yes but don't transform"
"What so we cant use the elements or transform?" Acre spat
Lanna rolled her eyes "just follow my lead"
"Follow you're... are you joking?" I start to say but its too late, Lanna has already gone up to the lead rogue, all we can do now is watch,
"Hello young man, Im Lanna?
"Seriously old lady I don't care"
"Hmm, your very rude," Lanna says making my eyes bug out if my head
"Oh great, she plans to get us killed" Acre whispers,
Before the rogue can reply Lanna carries on
"Now tell me was it you who blew up the bus?"
"And what if it was?"
"Well then you would need punishing, won't you young man," Lanna said making me and Acre both groan,
"What? get back inline old lady, if anyone getting punished, it's you and ya know what your quite a little hottie for an old lady, maybe my boys will want some time with ya before I kill ya",
the colour drains from our faces at the thought of what would happen to Lanna if we didn't get out of this but Lanna smiles and holds up a finger saying
"hold on a sec" before she starts rummaging around in her handbag.
We are all shocked at the audacity of her that even the rogues are silent
"Ahhh, here it is" Lanna finally says pulling out a foldable walking stick which she then snaps together before standing toe to toe with the rogue leader while everyone including me and Acre watches on,
"Now young man, I'm giving you one last warning to get yourself and your mutts out of here"
"Haa Haa" Lanna looks so comical that all the rogues are laughing at her, if the situation wasn't so serious we would probably also be laughing, but Lanna didn't seem to care its almost as if she expected this
"Fine, have it your way then young man, ill let you watch then ill kill you last"
Still, the rouges were laughing but the laughter soon stopped when Lanna's walking stick spun through the air and whacked the lead rogue down
"You bitch" he spat before adding
"kill her".
The rogues all came forward as one, as me and Acre are about to run to her side a flash of silver spun through the air and we watch as Lanna spins and twists, cutting down the rogues, it almost as if she is doing a dance, one by one we see the rogues dropping, Acre leans into me
"Did you know her walking stick was a sword? ha asks confused
"Dude I didn't even know she had a walking stick, but she sure knows how to use it"
"Yeah bro, she's most definitely badass".
OnceLanna has finished cutting down the rogues she turns to the leader
"P p p please, don't hurt me" he cries with snot dripping from his nose, Lanna actually does look quite scary, although she has just cut down seven rouges she had somehow managed to not get a drop of blood on her but her hair well the only way to describe it was that she looked like Medusa from Greek mythology, the woman with snakes for hair,
Acre starts laughing and when I look at him I see that he is clearly reading my thoughts, I snap into his thoughts
"Haaaa haaaa Medusa, so funny haaa"
"Yeah well she looks scary as hell, I wouldn't take the piss out of her now, leave it for parties"
"Your right bro, she's scary as hell right now".
Lanna is leaning over the rogue
"I told you I would let you watch, didn't I?"
"Who are you?"
"It doesn't matter who we are, tell me, why are the rogues coming into the open, why are you attacking people?"
"I I I just follow orders, someone contacts us and we do as we are told"
"Who?"
"I I don't know"
"Of course he knows Lanna he's their leader," I say sweeping my arm around indicating the rogues dead around me,
"No no im not, I was told to pretend to be the Leader, so our actual leader was more protected and hidden"
"So where is your leader young man?"
Pointing the rogue points out the rogue that was standing right beside him,
"Hmmm you were used, your life was worth less than your leaders to he put you in the front to be more exposed, ok thank you for your honesty," Lanna says and you can see his moment of relief turn to shock as her blade sliced through his neck.
"Acre quick put the bodies in that dumpster," Lanna said pointing
I help pile them in while Lanna watches leaning on her walking stick, once done she commands
"Set it alight",
We burned the fire hotter than usual to melt event the bones down so there wouldn't be any evidence that the rogues were even here.
"Come on quick, let's get out of here and back to the hotel"
As much as we wanted to find our mates, Lanna was still quite scary so we followed her without any arguement.
Four children ran around gasping at the huge lion statues eating m and ms, "There amazing aint they Gregory?" "Yes, they are" "LOONEY LOOPY LANNA, LOONEY LOOPY LANNA" one of the children started singing as they were running around, "SHUT IT" Gregory roared at the little boy, "Hey, come on enough, Logan leave Lanna alone," I say walking over to Gregory and Lanna, Acre right beside me. "Hey, beautiful" Acre bends down to his little girl whose eyes are sprinkling with tears, "Ya know you were named after a very special person, I used to take the Micky out of her, she ended up being so special to me, she saved our pack" "And, and her name was Lanna?" wiping her tears Acre smiled "Actually she was queen Lanna and Gregory," he said looking at my son who was agog at the revelation, "He was her mate and protected her no matter what" "Haha so you have to protect me Greggy," Lanna said with a huge smile,
A loud cheer went up by all toughs around me and as one they all turned and aggressively took the fight to the attackers while I fought to reach Desert, I was vaguely aware of Gregory beside me trying to get to Lanna but I was too focused on getting to Desert but I knew deep in my heart I wouldn't make it in time. As I ran Gregory let out a roar beside me and I noticed Jimmy attacking Lanna who was dodging his attacks and landing a few hits of her own I left Gregory to jump on the stage and engage Jimmy in combat while I dove under the stage to grab Desert and cut the rope around her neck, a howl ripped from me as I held Deserts lifeless body to me. I carried her out from the dirt to see Jimmy wielding a silver blade that sliced through the air in an arc and slashes blood from Gregory's throat, he stands there momentarily shocked, "Lanna" he whispers as his body slumps into a heap, flames leap into Lanna's eyes and Jimmy is fearful for the first time, he turn
We are all marched to the gallows and pushed forward, I cant see a way to escape and am just hoping Acre is trying to come up with a plan. Just then a car up and a finely dressed man steps out of the passenger seat, he has a smirk on his face as he climbs the steps of the gallows and turns to us all, "Welcome, welcome everybody, it's so nice to see you all, now let me introduce myself. my name is Jimmy and well I like it here so I have decided to stay, now I know most of you are rogues and well I'm here to set you all free so if you would like to be a part of my new pack you will be very very welcome or you could be apart of the pack your standing amongst and you will be treated as one of them, it's your choice." A hand from one of the rogues that had been marching with us shoots into the air, Jimmy smiles and says "yes, good man, what is it?" "Err well err what if the rogues don't want to be part of either pack, can we just leave?" The rogue
I pushed everyone as hard as I could, I knew there wasn't time to spare. I had filled everyone in on what was going on, we all had people in the pack that we loved so we all moved as quickly as we could, "What I don't get is why the rogues as so determined to get to this fight," Acre said as we marched along, it was Donny's voice from behind me that answered "We may just be rogues but believe it or not most of us just want peaceful lives, most packs leave us alone if we leave them alone but if these mutt rogues take over then even us rogues are not safe, we will be used as slaves, made to harm innocents, turned into wild animals". "Don't you want to be a part of a pack?" Donny thought for a moment before replying "Some do, I was happy as a rogue until I met my mate, I would walk heaven and earth for her, so she wants me to be part of a pack, so I become part of a pack but my sister, I want her to be part of a pack, Brie is strong but I
Oceans p.o.v. Gregory doubled over as if in pain, before I could react he had transformed into his shaggy brown wolf and was howling to the sky "Gregory, what's wrong?" "Ocean, it's Desert and Lanna they went into the forest and didn't come back and now Sky cant contact Desert" fear settled deep in my stomach "I'm on my way" I rush over to Gregory "Gregory, come on we need to go, Lanna and Desert need us" "Sh sh shes dead" Gregory stuttered once he had managed to calm down enough to transform back into a man "Who is?" I ask fearing his answer "La Lanna shes she's gone" "Come on, we need to find out what happened". Acre and Sky are waiting for us by the tent, grandma and grandpa were standing by the trees of the forest with people around them "What happened, wheres Desert?" I ask a tearful Sky
We set off earlier this morning when it was still dark, everyone was apprehensive about what was to come, most people were quiet thinking about what their futures would hold or their loved ones that had been left to wait for their return if they were to return, Lanna was acting strange well stranger then normal, she was humming a tune with a vacant expression on her face, Gregory kept looking around clearly unsure what to do until he could take it no more, "Lanna, honey are you ok?" "Hmmm, oh yes, yes im perfect" "Bu but you keep humming that tune" Lanna looked around at us all and smiled "Yes, I'm humming with the moon goddess" "What, you can hear her?" I ask "Yes, shes humming with me" We all look at Lanna as though she had gone mad but she just keeps humming with the same smile on her face as though she had never been interrupted. By late morning we were making good time so decided we would eat and rest now b
By the time we had gotten up and ready most of the tents had been taken down, as we stood watching the commotion for a moment a wolf came up to us, "Good morning sirs, madams, your breakfast is waiting over there by that fire," he said pointing "Oooo breakfast," Lanna said pushing her way over to the food, "Errr well, yes ill be taking your tent down before we all set off," the wolf said snapping his fingers to get the attention of two other wolves, he then bowed to us and got to work taking our tent down. We spent the best part of the morning trekking through the mountains, everyone was getting tired, Gregory had taken to carrying Lanna and Sky was leaning most of her weight on Acre, I looked at Desert and although the fatigue was clear on her face there was also a determination not to be weak which made me smile, "What are you smiling at?" she asked glaring at me but before I could answer movement in the rocks above caught my attention, noti
Grandpa leads us to a big tent amongst the other tents and leaves us to rest for a while. Food is sent to us and for the next few hours, I spend time in a soft blanket holding my mate who is sleeping soundly in my arms. "Ocean?" The whisper of my father mind linking me alerts me "Ocean, can you hear me?" "Dad?" "Yeah son, are you ok?" "Yeah I'm fine, what about you, mom, the others?" "We are all fine, don't worry, I don't have much time, we are all being watched but I need you to know, there's a rogue, I've marked him" "Donny, yeah I know" "Ah so you've met him" "Yeah Shannon met us at the airport" Its silent for a moment before dad comes back with "Shannon?" "Yeah she's the one who helped the rogues take over the pack years ago" "That Shannon, she's still alive, how, why? I don't get it" "Grandpa and grandma set her up in a place to keep an eye on things,
We decided to camp for the night as everyone was tired. Acre, Donny and a few of the rogues went to hunt some meat so we ended up feasting on deer. Desert wasn't talking to me so I waited until everyone was getting ready to bed down for the night before I said "I'll be back soon, just some business to take care of" before I strolled over to Desert and hoisted her over my shoulder and stomped through the trees leaving the sound of everyone's laughter behind us. "What are you doing? put me down pig" I smacked her bum just to annoy her "Don't call me pig" "Pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig" chuckling I finally let her down and pin her against a tree, "Now sweetcheeks, when are you gonna stop being mad at me?" "Never" "Thought so," I said as I moved her hair away from her neck and start kissing her, "What are you doing? stop" "No," I said kissing and nibbling along her jaw until shes breat