The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

[HAWI]

The skies grew dark as over fifty portals were created on the shores of a land no one knew yet. They were precise, each with coordinates that would determine how successful the rescue mission could be.

Hawi looked at her mate and her protector, the two other souls who were left on the shores of the waters. They looked ready to cross over to see for themselves what the fuss was about on the islands without a name.

It was really crazy what everyone was willing to do for the sacred island, not to mention the temple, but then as the portals the other protectors created got too close, the three knew that they had to make a way for this to work for them.

It wouldn't be easy, but then it wasn't like they were asking for the skies to open up and give them any sign of hope right? They were already past all the traces of hope and were on the battlefield, the one place that shit would either go so right or so wrong.

"Ready?" Hawi asked as she looked at the remaining Savasci knights. She could see the determination on their faces and the desire to put an end to this. It would take them a while to make it work, but they had to.

They had to try and make it make sense because otherwise there was nothing that would be left for them to fight for or even over. They had to make sure that they did their final touches with one big blow to the enemies without a soul.

"As we could ever be," Ruru said softly. She had taken charge and made sure the protectors understood what was at stake and the rules. But here and now, left with Malika and Hawi, Ruru was intelligent enough to know this wasn't her forte.

Granted, she would make sure Hawi was safe and protected, but that was all she could do. The mission was for Hawi and Hawi alone and they were just tagging along to make sure Hawi made it to the end successfully.

Perhaps it wasn't what anyone in their right mind would offer to tag along to, given how crazy things had gotten in the past few years, but then there had to be a reason for every sing and right now. Ruru was choosing to believe in her love for Hawi.

Maybe she was a little too feeble-minded to think of it like that, though time was something they may have had, but then they didn't have the pleasure of letting the Russels grow strong, or not to mention the fact that they had to find one of their own.

Jabali Lihle.

"Let's do this," Hawi said and Malika created the portal that would take them to the sacred temple. There was no telling what, or who they would meet there, though they were certain that this was the final battle in the great war.

But was it though?

If they conquered the sacred island and secured the sacred temple, would that be the end of the road for them all and they could go back to their home? Would that make their lives a little bit easier or would it just remind them of a life they would never have?

Oh, there were so many questions, and so many speculations that hung in the air. They had to work this out, the same way they had been trying to fix everything that had happened over the years. Perhaps this time, they would really win.

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As they went through the portal, holding hands as if they were worried there was some magic that would hold them back, Hawi hoped to the goddess that all of this would be worth it in the end.

They were all broken in one way or the other, desperate to fix each other, while they hoped to get the answers to the things that haunted them for the longest time. They had to hope, because without hope, they had nothing, literally.

"Shit," Ruru said when the portal closed and they found themselves at the borders of the sacred temple. The energy here was intense and wanting. It was like there were so many things that were kept off the island.

Funny how the Russels had gotten there and there was nothing to stop them. Perhaps the barriers were meant for other creatures and not the bastards who had really fucked them up this time.

"It is magnificent," Hawi let out, taking in the sight around them. It was like they had come for vacation and were being introduced to the best side of the island. This was what heaven was supposed to look like and even the heavens were no better.

"It really is," Malika added, like she had never come here or even that she hadn't seen how perfect this place always was. It seemed so warm, so inviting, and like the world was just another place for them.

This place felt like the safest place for anyone to settle in and now it all made sense why everyone who had made the journey west had either not been heard of again, or had come out talking about the prettiest place in the entire realm.

Well, to be fair, the only people who had ever gone through the whale-infested waters and made it through, never made it to the island. The waters were too harsh the deeper they went in and the closer they were to the island.

This was the most protected place of all time and now they were where, on their own, and hoping to find one of their crazed family members and get the justice the universe had so denied them in time.

"Let's get to work, the Russels are somewhere around here. Also, we need to find Nikolai first. He should be the first reminder of whether what we saw was an illusion or if it was true and there really are replicas of the entire Savasci Knights team somewhere in the realm.

"We need to be fast too, because time isn't really on our side here,'' Hawi said and they looked at her in understanding. They had a lot of things to do and they had the most powerful obstacles standing in their way.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

So together, the trio walked through the bushes that the portal had led them to, and headed towards the temple. The sacred temple was a beautiful old temple that stood on a hill on the island.

It had so many steps and it would take a while for them to get there, seeing as there were over seven thousand steps. No one was allowed to portal to the temple because it was impossible and the magic there could turn the person who tried that into crisp.

"Isn't there a shortcut up this damned hill?" Ruru asked with a whine when they got to the hundredth step. They had walked up the stairs in silence but right now, there was just too much.

The stairs were not just many, but they were wide, with the distance between the lower step and the higher one being almost fifteen inches. This was a walk of hell, but then weren't they here to make sure the hell they weren't the last road for them then?

"Nope. Come along, just sixty-nine hundred steps left," Malika encouraged and Hawi gave her the stink eye.