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ELEANOR
The rage, the pain, the torture, the hatred, the torment, and every bad thing that had befallen me since the moment I stepped foot into this cursed place as a slave, all came crashing down on me. This overwhelming mix of emotions must have been the push Alpine needed to wake up from her slumber, too, as growls began to fill my head.
“Kill! Kill! Kill him. ” she continues to chant. If I wasn’t so enraged too, I’d have thought her to be crazed, but I could feel every bit of her anger, too. She didn’t even have to say the words over and over again. I’d made the journey here with just one thing in mind.
“Grant me all your strength, Alpine, every bit of it!!” I ordered, and she succumbed.
“You have it all human, now kill that bastard and get rid of him,” she urged almost immediately, and my claws elongated as a snarl escaped my lips, alerting the bastard of my presence.
The moment he pulled away from her, I saw Clara’s eyes widen before falling shut again seconds later. Relief washes over me as I could feel her heartbeat stabilize. She was safe. I was glad I got to her on time.
The rage returns as my gaze shifts back to the guard, who snarls at me, taking on my uniform and growing enraged at the interruption from a slave. In a matter of seconds, he was charging towards me, with the intention of killing.
A smirk graces my features as I accept the challenge, charging towards him, too. At the collision, I made an uncontrolled arc across his body with my claws and watched as he groaned in pain. I could feel Alpine jumping for joy, excited, and egging me on to inflict more pain and drag out his misery.
With a fully-toothed smile, I made him stand still before driving my clawed hands into his chest, his screams bringing immeasurable satisfaction to me. Wrapping my fingers around the organ that beat erratically in his now open chest, I pulled it out, his heart taking its last struggling pumps in my palm before I crushed it, throwing it to the floor and stepping on it while his body crumbled uselessly on the floor.
I was lost in the rage that had consumed me, the rage of seeing my pack destroyed, the rage of watching my family get killed in front of me, the rage of being tortured, raped, and used by Zane, who was doing everything possible to kill all hopes of me ever breaking free.
The thirst for vengeance was the only air I was breathing as everything went blank. When I came to, I found Clara crouched down in front of me, her fingers snapping in front of my face, and as my vision cleared, the stench of blood struck me hard again. My eyes widened in shock as I processed the image in front of me. The dismembered body parts of the guard, lying in a giant pool of his own blood, and my hands…
I screamed when I saw my claws were out, and they had some particles of the guard’s skin on them.
I remembered Alpine’s voice in my head, I remembered piercing his chest, I remembered holding his heart in my hand and ripping it out of his chest. That was when everything spiraled into darkness. Had Alpine taken over my body? I remember I felt the rage, the urge to tear him into shreds.
“Snap out of your trance, Eleanor. we need to get you washed up and think of a way to get rid of this body before someone sees u -”
A scream suddenly ripped through the air, gaining both of our attention, and we turned to see the slave girl I’d met on my way here, holding a weapon with some of the other slaves behind her. She must’ve gone to gather some girls to try and stop the crazy guard, but how did she even pass the rest of the guards without getting caught and how did they make it here without being seen?
I was still occupied with those questions when their footsteps pulled me back to reality. I watched as the slave girl and the others made their way closer to me. I was sure I wasn’t mistaken when I saw her lips twitch into a small smile before going back to neutral as she squats in front of me.
“D-d-did you do that, did you kill that bastard?” She asked, and I nodded, unsure of how exactly I was supposed to reply, and she broke out laughing, startling me and Clara. Just then, Jasmine ran onto the scene, and a gasp escaped her lips as she gasped at the sight in front of her before fixing her gaze on me.
“Oh no Eleanor, what have you done, what the fuck have you done!!?” She yells, hand going over her mouth.
“She did nothing wrong, she just saved some of us from his torment and I’m happy. She rescued her friend and us too from being assaulted by him. She is our hero” the slave girl said, and the other girls nodded their heads in unison.
“And who might you be?” Jasmine asked with a brow raised.
“I’m Aurora and my pack was raided too, and ever since I came here, that bastard has almost never missed a chance to try and have his way with me, and whenever I refused he would beat the hell out of me. I was going to go call the other girls so we could deal with him since the other guards are off to rest while we work ourselves to death. I’m sure his absence would not change anything. He will be tagged as a spy or something,” the slave girl, Aurora explained, and Jasmine scoffed.
“Yeah right, and how do we get these body parts out of here and get Eleanor washed up all before the other guards return?” She retorts and Aurora chuckles.
“Leave that to us. I will protect Eleanor because of her help and for letting me hold on to what’s left of my sanity.” She answers, proceeding to take off her clothes and handing them to Clara, “Although she is taller than me, I believe our body structures are almost the same. There is a river over there that supplies water to the field. You can go wash up there.” She pointed in the supposed direction of the river and Jasmine and Clara thanked her.
“W-w-what about your clothes? They would suspect” I asked, unable to shake off the feeling that they would be in danger and maybe die because of me.
“I will give her mine. I came to deliver food for the slaves. I would give her mine and then sneak off without being seen. We have no time to waste, hurry to it.” The other girl chipped in and I said a small ‘thank you’ before letting Clara and Jasmine lead the way.
I couldn’t stop thinking about what I had done all the way, but the only thing that was keeping me from loosing my mind was the fact that Alpine was back to me.
“You are dead Alpine, no apologies will save you,” I threatened through the now working link and I could hear her laugh. That filled me with an unimaginable amount of relief. She was back and I was currently lacking the words to describe just how happy I was, “You have some explaining to do Wolfie, and it had better be good,” I finished.
“Eleanor, here, strip and start washing up. Do well to retract your claws while you’re at it too, please,” I heard Clara say, and I smiled, mumbling an apology before doing as I was told. I knew the conversation with Alpine would be later and I was looking forward to it.
“Do you think those ladies would be able to do as they said or did we just endanger their lives and ours too?” Jasmine finally breaks the silence and Clara sighs.
“Let’s have some faith in them. They have been here longer than us and I want to believe they would do an excellent job at covering for us. I have faith” I told Jasmine, following that with a reassuring smile even though my stomach was in deep knots due to how nervous I was.
I rushed my way through scrubbing the blood off my body and Clara handed over the clothes to me which I wore quickly while Jasmine helped with getting rid of my blood-stained clothes.
Afterwards, we all ran towards the site where I had killed a guard and was surprised that everything had been cleared. All the slaves gathered at the scene having conversations as some ate. Aurora had changed into the other girl’s outfit and when she saw us she smiled before handing over our share of the food.
“Wow… how did you do it?” Clara asked in awe.
“We got help from the rest of our kind. I think we are not the only ones who want these guards dead, thanks to you Eleanor-”
“That’s Alpha Eleanor to you,” a girl said from the crowd, cutting Aurora off, and I immediately recognized the girl who spoke and my eyes widened in shock. Before I could get to her, Clara was already hugging her tightly.
“Diane!!!” Clara gasped as she pulled her closer to her chest.
Diane was one of our pack members and she was just fifteen years old. I clenched my hand at the thought of her going through horrible things at such a tender age.
“Y-y-you are an alpha… y-y-you have an alpha wolf?” Aurora stuttered and I nodded the affirmative. Everyone gasped in shock at my revelation and Aurora knelt down with the rest of the girls except Jasmine, Clara, and Diane.
“Please save us!!! Please save us!!!”