Chapter 0298
I sat frozen as I watched Judy fly in the air. She had no parachute, nothing to catch her… if she fell, it could possibly be the end for her. But at the last minute, she shifted into her wolf form. I had never seen her wolf before it stirred something inside of me that I couldn’t seem to sluke. My wolf wanted to be released, which was odd for him. He never fought me for control before. At least he has ‘t in a really long time.
I couldn’t remember the last time he had done this.
Judy was much smaller than the others, but she wasn’t incompetent. She fought with all her might and speed, and she ended up on top at the end. She managed to defend herself and get a few really good blows in herself. She had a good technique, the element of surprise. She could see them, but they couldn’t see her until she wanted them to see her.
But still, the thought that something could have happened to her, my chest was aching by the end of it.
“Who is that girl that went flying through the air?” One of the Lycans, Mica, asked from his seat.
There were 4 Lycan chairmen in total, me being the strongest of them. There were others of Lycan blood around the world, but only the chairmen attended these events. The Lycans were pretty much the judges of these events along with a few appointed judges to help with final decision–making.
“I believe her name is Judy Montague,” Jeremy, the other Lycan, said, his eyes never leaving Judy’s wolf. “She’s quite talented. Her professors praise her and even Levi said he was impressed with her skill set.”
Mica nodded.
“We’ll have to keep her in mind,” Mica said thoughtfully. “What do you think, Gavin?”
“We’d be stupid to not pass her to the next round,” I said without a second thought.
“Really?” Mica said. “Do you think she’d survive it?”
“Of course, she would. If I were to bet money on anyone surviving, it would be Judy,” Jeremy said with a laugh.
Suddenly, my blood went cold. I turned to face them; they were both smiling as they watched the ongoing fight. The timer was still ticking down and any minute now it would go off, indicating the fight was over.
Neither of them noticed my cold stare.
“What do you mean survive?” I asked. “Death is against the rules.”
Mica glanced at me briefly before fixing his eyes back on the fight.
“Only for the first week,” he told me.
“What?” I asked again, this time louder and with more force in my tone, making them both look at me with wary expressions. Even fellow Lycan chairmen knew when to not push my buttons because it wouldn’t end well for them..
“The second and third–week death isn’t penalized,” Jeremy explained, narrowing his eyes at me. “You’d know if you attended the last competition we had a decade ago.”
“Or the one before that two decades ago,” Mica said, shaking his head.
“He was a newly appointed Alpha at that point,” Jeremy laughed.
“True,” Mica replied, turning back to the fight.
“What are the rules for the next rounds?” I asked through my teeth; my impatience was evident.
Mica sighed and glanced back up at me.
“They can choose to die, or they can surrender,” Mica explained. “They don’t have to lose their lives… but if they don’t submit and surrender, their opponent can take their life without being penalized.”
“It doesn’t have to be a fight to the death,” Jeremy chimed in. “But if they are stupid and stubborn, which clearly a few are, then it will be.”
My blood went cold…
The buzzer went off, drawing my attention to the arena. Everyone started to shift back into their human forms; they were all naked and piled into the locker rooms.
I saw the small wolf that stood in the middle of the arena, she was staring up at the sky for a moment, like she was thanking the stars, or maybe talking to the Moon Goddess. She was waiting for something; she looked back at the crowd of shifters that were returning to the locker rooms in their naked forms, and she held back.
Her eyes found mine and held them. She stared at me for a long while, and then she turned and started to sprint in the opposite direction of everyone else. My heart raced… I had a strong urge to follow her, and I didn’t think I was going to be able to resist it.
