THE WITCH AND THE SHADOW WARRIOR
This situation would get out of hand if Raine didn't make a decision quickly, thus she stared right into Aeon's eyes and said. "If he makes even a single move that threatened any one of our lives, you can kill him right away," Raine declared.2
If she didn't do this, those Alphas would continue questioning her and their time was ticking, the longer they spent arguing over this matter, the more dangerous Torak situation might become.
Not to mention Raine wouldn't know what she would face later or what she should look for, the moment they were brought inside that strange bar.
Raine just knew that she was needed to go there as soon as possible.
"Will you take this?" Raine asked Aeon. "If you make a move that will risk any of my pack members, then I will not come in their way when they tried to finish you."
Raine wanted to make it clear from the beginning, she needed to make Aeon and the rest of the members of the pack to understand where she was standing.
Aeon held Raine's gaze firmly before he said. "Absolutely."
Upon hearing Aeon's acceptance, Raine turned around and faced her pack members. "Any objections?" She wanted to make sure that she and the rest of the members were on the same page.
All the Lycans there looked at each other, it was a big risk to bring Aeon with them, but Raine had promised them her words.
"Is it necessary to bring him with us?" Alpha Rodrigo, apparently, still couldn't accept it.
"Yes," Raine nodded firmly. "We will need every help possible."
There was an awkward silence that followed until Raphael took the initiative to saynot to waste their time anymore.
Raine had told him about the firebird and the little bird had become even weaker as they came here. It made him nervous for some reason.
"Let's go now," Raphael put his hand on Raine's shoulder when there was no more objections from the Alphas.
Now, Raine was slightly confused about what she had to do next, she looked at Serefina who avoided her gaze. The witch despised the idea that she had to work together with Aeon, regardless, Raine still thanked her for not contradicting her words in this situation which would make it even more awful.
Her attitude was always one of a kind
Because Serefina didn't want to help her, Raine turned her attention toward Aeon.
As if sensing Raine's discomfort, Aeon inched closer to her. He stretched his arm to grab Raine's wrist, but was held back by Calleb. The Gamma then glared at him threateningly.
"You can lead the way." Calleb talked in a warning tone.
Aeon shouldn't touch Raine carelessly, especially under those Alphas' watchful eyes. Once they got the wrong idea, with Torak wasn't around, Raine wouldn't only lose their trust, but also her life.
Despite of the Alphas' declaration that they had pledged their loyalty to her, but Raine's position was not yet secure enough for her to make unnecessary mistakes.
One wrong step, and there would be another Alpha Ryan from those five Alphas. They couldn't risk that.
Fortunately, Aeon didn't refuse and after he took another glance at Raine he walked out of the house. "Over here."
In the front yard, where they had cleaned up all the carcasses of the traitors as they burned them all into ashes, Aeon stopped and looked at Serefina when all of them were already outside.
"Come here." He waved his hand at Serefina and immediately offended the overly sensitive witch.
"What!?" Serefina started to bark. "I think you will do it all by yourself!"
"Stop acting so arrogant, you know how this works," Aeon scowled at her attitude. "You don't have much time," he added when he noticed that the witch was feeling reluctant.
Left without any other choice, Serefina grumbled as she walked closer to Aeon and stretched out her hand, which was held by the shadow warrior.
"I really need to sanitize my hand after this." Serefina, once again, made a snarky remark that made Raine's heart skip a beat. She didn't want this to break out into another fight.
Yet, Aeon just replied casually. "I can always chop off your hand if they bother you so much."
"Okay, can we start now?" Raine approached them and cut off Serefina's comeback as she glared at the witch and spoke out of frustration. "Not now."
Raine was so lucky that Serefina was in her right state of mind now as she swallowed her protest.
"Okay, that's enough. Stay away from me." Serefina then stepped back and walked away from Aeon with an unsightly expression on her scowling face.
Raine was about to ask; wouldn't they need to join forces or something to enforce some spell?
But, before Raine could complain there was a wave of sound of people gasping in surprise and then murmurs spread around her.
What happened?
"That is the bar." Aeon's figure came into Raine's line of sight as he pointed at something behind her back.
As Raine turned around, she could see a building, painted in light brown color with high roof and a welcome sign on the front door.
Raine didn't even notice when Aeon and Serefina had teleported all of them here.
But, Raine wasn't the only person who was confused with their sudden change of environment, almost all the people teleported were gasping in surprise, because one moment they were in their territory and now they were standing in an unknown place.
"Luna, where are we?" one of the Alphas approached Raine as he threw an unfriendly glance at Aeon. "Why are we here suddenly?"
"Magic of course." Serefina replied with a 'duh' tone when she had done washing her hands from the water that she had conjured from thin air.
Raine wished she could do something as magical as that.
The Alpha ignored Serefina as he asked another question. "What should we do now?"
Raine skimmed her surroundings briefly, apparently, Serefina and Aeon managed to bring them all to the front of a house, which Aeon clarified as the bar in her vision.
"We will go in there." Raine nodded at the house in front of her. She reached her pocket and felt the little bird's shallow breathing.
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