Fighting by Anaya Phoenix (sci fi books to read .TXT) 📖

and crushed her bones, then looked at her face. There was nothing, if anything she looked angrier. She let gof my wrist before punching me in the jaw, sending me to the floor. With the slightest grunt she lifted herself and roundhouse kicked me in the back of my head pretty damn hard. There were huge black spots in my vision. She kicked me in the gut before raising me in the air by my neck. I opened my eyes and let my wolf out, applying an element while grabbing her forearms an lifting her over my head and slamming her into the ground. She groaned and growled, bringing her own element and lifting me in the sky before cacooning me in a rock. But that didn’t make sense, she shouldn’t have two. You only had two if you were a twin. With a war cry, she slammed the rock down, breaking almost every bone that I had. I was healing fast, but it still fucking hurt. She stormed to me and grabbed my throat, squeezing slightly, before leaning close. Her blue eyes were milky, and enraged.

“Pinned.” She growled before letting go. She backed up and almost instantly her body sagged, her wolf gone and her body exhausted. She looked at me, bloody and banged up and, most likely, twisted up and gasped. A hand went over her mouth as tears flew to her eyes. She backed up slowly, shaking her head before running out of the room.

“Carmen!” Her mate roared and her friends yelled, wanting to go after. They weren’t allowed to because we had made it so that it was an alpha’s order to stay. They would break themselves to go after her. I broke it and let them go, and instantly they all rushed after her. I grit my teeth as the other victors walked to me looking in amazement.

“Did you see that?” Filly asked and I growled at her, a nice and proper growl.

“I felt that, dickshit.”

“Do you want one of us to put you under?” Ursula asked, the magick already on her hands.

“God yes.” She put her hand on my forehead and put me in a healing sleep.

 

 

 

                I woke up damn near five hours later, and stretched. A few pops and cracks were heard and I shrugged out the rest of the kinks. I turned in the bed and came face to face with Ander, his eyes open and bright with humor.

“Shut up.”

“You had eighteen bones broken, Luna.” I mocked him and crossed my eyes, he laughed and stuck his tongue out.

“How’d the rest of training go?”

“Smoothly, you’ve still got about twenty people left, for some reason people seem to think I’m your bloody keeper or something. ‘When is Luna getting better?’, ‘When will she wake up?’. Why do they think I have a direct link to you?” I raised a brow pointedly and her rested his forehead ontop of mine.

“Shut up.” He said with a smirk. My hand reached up and stroked his cheek, feeling his stubble over his strong jaw. I traced my hand up to his nose and his brow line.

“Why are you so perfect?” I whispered and his lips twitched.

“Says the girl who never got a pimple.”

“I just never ate oily foods.” He raised a brow.

“You ate literaly all foods.” I shrugged and smiled.

“Be a hater, then.” He laughed out loud and watched me. He raised his hand and put it on my hip, my body reacted and warmth surged through me.

“This feels right.” He whispered. I bit my lip and moved closer, draping my leg over his and put my hand on his side.  My head rested on his chest and I heard his thick heartbeat.

“This feels more right, though.” I said, closing my eyes and just enjoying him. He smiled and inhaled deeply, I shivered at the feeling and closed my eyes. For a moment, blissful and peaceful, there was no war. I had been with him for years, from birth. We were together and we were happy. And then I heard a war cry, and the moment was shattered. Ander moved out of the way to avoid being pushed and I ran to the where the sound came from, knowing that Ander would trail after me.  It led me to the dining hall and I stopped, knowing Ander would stop too, to avoid knocking in to me.  Izzy stood on one of the tables, holding the Sword of Tears. And she had it pointed directly at a shifter. I pushed my astonishment aside and took a step forward, trying to understand. She looked at me, rage and desperation in her eyes.

“Iz-” She cried again, taking the sword with both her hands and slamming it into the table she stood ontop of, cracking the wood. The shifters stood back, protecting themselves and any person they were in charge of. I looked around, wondering and searching for a catalyst. I saw only shocked faces, except on one face. Amelia stood, regret and sadness laced on her face. I looked to the shifter and saw fear, smelled fear. It stank, even from this distance.

“Filly, one of yours got out of hand.” I said through the link, knowing she was somewhere in the room.

“But she’s your responsibility.”

“As are the cats yours, if one of them gets out of hand and she gets angry… that’s on the cat. Not her.” I heard a huff before a wall of water seperated the shifter and Izzy. I knew I would have to get involved, because she didn’t move. Izzy stood there, both hands on the hilt of the sword, just staring. I groaned internally because I would have to get beat up twice toay; that didn’t seem fair. I used air and floated above the group of people that had circled around them until I landed behind Izzy. I said nothing, did nothing.

“Uh oh.” Filly groaned through the link, about the same time that Amelia reached for me.

“I’m fine, honestly.” I looked at Amelia and grabbed her hand, searching for what happened. I got a fuzzy view, as I always did with humans, but I knew what happened and knew I was definitely gonna take an ass wooping.

“Your shifter will have to be punished, take her and hide her. I’ll deal with this as best as I can.” I said beore shooting a look to Ander.

“I’m about to do something stupid.” A smirk lit his face and he nodded once, knowing he’d have to join me.

“Run!” I yelled out, the surrounding shifters followed my advice; wanting to evade the shit storm that was about to go down. Ander, Alissa, Jesse, Anna, and Amelia stayed with me. The water wall fell and revealed the shifter was gone, something I imagine Izzy already knew. Her shoulders stiffened and her grip on the hilt got tighter. Izzy wasn’t herself now, she was but she wasn’t at the same time. She had strength, she wasn’t a regular human, anymore. She’d been welcomed into the animalia pantheon, and with a bang. The sword she held was infinite proof of that.

“Izzy, I’m gonna need you to drop the sword.”

“Nothing but kind.” She mumbled, slowly turning around and dragging the sword with her. I shut up and stayed my ground, if there was one person I was scared of that wasn’t my mom; it would be Isabel McReery.

“I have been nothing but kind, to all of you. I have defended you against thousands of people. my family has been blacklisted in the real world. And this is how we’re repayed.”

“Izzy, I’m fine. I swear!” Amelia squeaked, moving to go to her ister. I held out my hand and stopped her. First mistake,

                With deadly silence her face twisted and she raised the sword, I pushed Amelia back, even though I knew it would never make impact. Izzy was reckless, but not that reckless. She sliced my wrist, pretty fucking deep too, and I hissed. It was silver, and strong. Clenching my fist and calling my wolf to the surface so I wouldn’t bleed out I kicked her in the gut, pushing her back a little. She only dug her feet into the dirt and stopped herself. Taking out my claws I walked to her, as she did to me, When she raised the sword, I sliced her arm and kicked her in the side. Not needing my signal, Jesse charged behind her, his footfalls silent and his gaze set. She frofroze before swinging back and slicing his chest open. With a snarl Anna ran from the other side, only to be punched in the gut with the hilt of the sword. I looked to Ander before running towards her. I grabbed her ankles and he grabbed her arms, right after the sword sliced into my back.

“Alissa!!” I screamed, knowing Izzy would stay still for only so long. I could smell the water she was forming, going that way was tricky but safe. As soon as the water was formed Izzy screamed, a long enraged screamed and head butt Ander. He grunted and let his grip slip. She elbowed him in the head and got a stronger grip on the sword, but Alissa still tried. She grabbed my hair with the free hand that she had and threw me at Ander. He caught me in the most technical way possible. The sword was slowly wiggled from Izzy’s grip, which only set her sights on Alissa. Alissa licked her lips and raised the sword higher, until Izzy grunted a small cry and the sword stopped. My mouth popped open and Alissa stepped back. Izzy raised her hand and twisted it, the sword moved with her hand. With a sharp point of her finger the sword flew the air, Alissa wouldn’t make it in time. Panic flew threw me and I scrambled up, knowing even if I did move fast enough I wouldn’t make it. I would heal from that, Alissa woulnd’t. I would just have to move faster.

“ALISSA MOVE!”I cried, froming several layers of rock to hide her. She was stuck, in shock and fear.

“Jesse!!” I panicked and willed my legs to move faster. He was closer, he could move her. He wasn’t healed yet and he struggled to get up, Anna got up and stormed to Izzy. She punched her in the back of the head, hoping it would disorient her. The sword stopped and Anna smirked before the sword had sliced her stomach open. She fell to the ground, holding the deep gash that spread over her whole stomach. Jesse yelled and Ander snarled. He ran and shifted, going head first at Izzy. She turned around, the sword poking out bravely. MY rage consumed me and I shifted, my wolf already charging at her from the opposite side that Ander was. I didn’t know all that her powers were, I didn’t know all that she could do. But what she woulnd’t do, was hurt my family anymore. With a howl I picked her up in my mouth and threw her against the wall. blunt force would stop any person. Strong, or not. I panted and watched her, soft growls coming from her. Alissa and Amelia had went to Anna’s aid, although Amelia kept looking at her sister. She was torn, I could tell. When Izzy hadn’t moved for a minute I turned and padded to Anna sniffing the wound. It stank of silver and Anna was in pain. They all were, they were all touched by the sword. I licked her wound, putting magick into it. Before I could lick and heal ayone else, a soft keening sound hit my ars. I turned quickly and saw Izzy kneeling and crying. I changed back to human, ignoring my nudity, and walked to her. She was my friend, she always had been. She was always strong. It made sense that she was chosen.

                I touched her shoulder and squeezed lightly. Second mistake. She gripped my forearm and I cursed mentally. She lifted me