32. Vivianna
VIVIANNA
“Little wolf, you have no power here. We are the kings, and our army will destroy you,” Vadik pointed out.
I let out a little chuckle. “You really believe that, don’t you? Funny thing about being at the top of the food chain… you fall so much farther.”
Before anyone could guess what I was doing, I released the full strength of my alpha energy and brought everyone to their knees, except my mates and the brothers.
I felt Vadik wince as the power hit his personal barrier, which was doing its best to block me, but I could feel it buckling.
“Your rule is over, boys. Time for the queen to step up and fix what you’ve fucked up. ”
Shifting into my half form, I charged at them, my mates hot on my heels, also in their half form.
Those that were loyal to the rebellion fought against the guards trying to attack us as we converged on their leaders.
Vadik shifted to his hulking half form, but Jason just shifted into a massive wolf that was about the size of a horse.
It seemed that even though he didn’t have this alternate version, he still had an advantage over that of a normal werewolf.
Ignoring everything else going on around me, I was focused on the two men who singlehandedly ruined my life as much as they changed it for the better.
Without them, I never would have found my mates, but I also wouldn’t have suffered all the heartache.
Now that I had them both right in front of me, I didn’t know who to kill first. Vadik seemed the obvious choice, but Jason had done so much damage to this world and our species as a whole.
Trusting my gut, I altered my intent at the last second and landed a punch right into Jason’s face.
He yelped at the hit, staggering back a step, but he shook it off a second later and charged me.
Instead of dodging out of the way, I moved into him, dipping low so my shoulder met his chest and tried to flip him over on his back.
The sheer weight difference between us didn’t allow for that to work, leaving me stuck with his paws ripping into my flesh as he scrambled to get a better hold on me.
Before I could figure out a plan, Jason was yanked away from me, revealing Orion dragging him across the floor with a hand around his back leg. Snarling, Jason rolled onto his back, kicking out with his free leg, getting Orion in the jaw but that just got him a dick punch from Okami.
“Fucking prick, calling me an animal. I’ll show you what an animal does to its prey when it tries to steal from him.
” Eyes fully blacked out, his muscles expanded even more now that Okami had taken over full control of Orion’s body.
Okami took a long talon and sliced up the inside of Jason’s leg, exposing the muscle and bone.
“Bet they never mentioned what kind of demi-god I am, or who my father is. I feel like it’s more fun to show instead of just telling—there’s no fun in doing it the easy way. ”
Pain seared through my calf, making me turn to find a guard with his gun pointed at me. “Time to die, bitch.”
Okay, like I get we are female and a werewolf, but what is with the lack of creativity in the name calling? Like, what about twat, cunt, shrew, cow, or my personal favorite, twatopotomus. There are so many better options.
Are you done or can we kill him now?
Fine, fine, it’s not like I’m going to get the results that I want anyhow.
Laughing, I darted forward, slashing the gun right out of his hands, and making him scream as I dropped him to the ground.
“Looks like you’re the one who’s gonna die.
” Slitting his throat, I left him there to bleed out as I searched the space to find Orion still locked in battle with Jason, both of them bleeding all over the place.
Part of me wanted to help him but I noticed a wave of guards rushing my mates, allowing Vadik to escape from them and run out of the cafeteria.
Vadik wasn’t one to run from a fight, so that meant whatever he was going for was important.
Too important for the rebellion to have or know about, which meant I had to find out what it was.
Dodging guards, and killing those I could easily, I made my way across the space swarming with people and wolves fighting.
It would seem the guards were a mixed bag when it came to being werewolves, but silver bullets put in the right hands made you an equal threat.
Emerging out of the battle, I found the hallways empty, so I shifted back to my human body and took off down the hall, using my nose to follow his scent.
I was impressed with how fast he was moving, and silently, but I was catching up.
That is until I reached a door that needed to be opened with a handprint and a code.
The door was double interlocked steel, so I knew even in my half form I wouldn’t be able to get inside.
“I need your help with a door. Can any of you let me in?” I asked my three inside men.
“What door are you at? They should all have a letter and number in the top right-hand corner,” Tyler answered.
Scanning over the door, I spotted what he was talking about. “RR-001.”
“Dama, I would love to help you with that one, but only Jason, Vadik, Dr. Faulk, and two others are allowed in there. It’s even on its own system from every other section of the facility.”
“Who are the other two people? Did they get sent up with the others?”
“Not that I’ve seen, but it’s a madhouse up here, with more people pouring out of the elevators as we speak. Your people are heading down each time, but it’s slow going.”
Frowning at the door, I paced in front of it, trying to figure out how the hell I was going to get in, when the doors opened and a stunned man in scrubs looked at me, eyes wide in shock.
Before he could make a move, I dove through the door and tackled the man, shifting my hand so the claws dug into the skin around his throat, making it clear I wasn’t fucking around.
“Where is Vadik?” The man gaped at me like a fish, his breath coming in frantic pants as if he was about to have a panic attack.
Shaking him violently, I slammed his head against the hard tile floor, trying to shock him out of his panic—and it worked.
“Answer me and you might live to see the outside world again, or don’t, and get ready to take your last breath. ”
“The garden,” the man blurted. “He… he’s in the garden.”
“Where is that?” I pressed.
“Down the hall, take your first right—no a left—a left, I meant left, and you can’t miss it with all the windows,” he stammered, his whole body shaking with his panic.
“Please let me live. They have my wife and daughter locked away down here somewhere. They said if I did the work, they would let them live, and once they got the results they wanted, we could leave.”
Standing, I lifted him with ease. “What were you working on?”
“Cloning… we did it. We cloned and grew a child that was perfect in every way, but for one, making it a failure. But before we could try again, the body we used the DNA from was stolen,” he blathered on.
“I mean, so what if it can’t reproduce? We created life in a test tube and didn’t need a womb to carry it.
This should be earning me a Nobel Prize, not a death sentence for my family.
The kind of thing we are doing here is well beyond what anyone else has been able to do, but it’s not good enough for them. ”
Abruptly, I dropped the man and he landed on the floor with a grunt.
“Because of your family, I am letting you live, but if I ever hear a peep about cloning being possible, I will hunt you down and kill you. Life should happen naturally or not at all. Humans should never play God. It only leads to trouble. Now leave and don’t look back. ”
Before he could answer me, I was running down the hall and took the first left, which led me to a set of glass automatic doors that I entered through.
It was an airlock system, and the chamber was suddenly filled with a sanitization mist coating my body, as if I was entering a clean room.
Once that was done and the sensor flashed green, the second set of doors opened, and I found myself in a different world.
Plants grew everywhere, but the likes I’d never seen before, which made me all the warier.
Vadik and Faulk both have had a thing for wolfsbane and if they are at the point of creating something like me, they could easily create their own version of poisonous plants for werewolves.
Making sure not to touch anything, I wandered deeper into the jungle, until I came to another set of doors that led to a lab, where I assume they created all these plants.
The doors opened with a whoosh, as the warm air of the garden met the cool air of the lab, making me shiver. Nothing about the lab seemed all that interesting, other than the large glass front fridges filled with little vials of sample strains of the plants they built off of.
Then I caught a whiff of Vadik’s scent, leading me down a walkway that I assumed was just a way to view the garden without going inside, but I was wrong.
Entering a room off the walkway, I found myself in a medical room with every type of surgical tool you could ever need, along with an operating table.
The sight of the room made me sick to my stomach, just imagining the horrors that happened here and the innocent victims they were done to.
Backing out, I kept moving until I reached a large window that showed a nursery, and where I found Vadik standing with a baby in his hands.
He gave me a cruel grin as he held the baby up for me to see and I almost fainted at the sight.