"We won." Someone whispered in the middle of the field.
"We won!" Someone else said, loudly. And another one screamed to the farthest. The cheering roar carried like a wind, and everyone started howling with joy.
"NOT YET," Leon announced. He'd mind linked with all his fellow werewolves. "It has only begun." Leon looked at the marble stairs stretching to the hundred sets of steps leading to a giant door.
From here on, Leon decided to fight—alone. Before turning around, he saw his father and gave an affectionate nod, and Xander couldn't be more proud of his son. Then Leo looked at Jeremiah and Mickey. He then scanned his eyes over to others, taking a deep breath—he vaulted up the stairs two at a time, never looking back.
~*~
When he reached the first staircase, standing at the arch of a giant door, Leon took a step, but something blocked him from going further.
"Leo, what brings you here?" Simons asked.
"I'm going to wreck you alive, tear you apart piece by piece, and make sure you suffer a great deal of pain when I get my hands on you." Leon spat the words of hate. His eyes were glowing red with rage, his canines ready to taste the blood, his claws promise to rip and kill.
"Some lovely words you got there, Leo." Simon chuckled, and the doors creaked, slowly opening to the nothingness that began to come alive with building walls, brick by brick, forming the arch of windows. The pillars began to line up in a row, supporting the colorful tiffany glass roof and the beautiful mural paint on the wall. All were becoming more and more real, but Leon had no interest in admiring. He was only here to capture the demon.
~*~
Now Leon had to be very careful going about his plan to capture Simon or go for the direct kill. Because Simon may have planned to strike at any instant, he needs to be fully aware of any definite possibility of the things that could occur, like getting attacked by a mutant or a freak or the devil himself.
But Simon appeared at the farthest part of the room, Leon breathing out an animal growl. The phenom transformed into prodigies—Theo.
Simon stared at him, thirsted for his blood. He phased into a big grizzly bear and snarled viciously. Their rivalry went from wild to extremely violent.
Theo didn't hold back with the threat before him. Red eyes glowed as bright as the fire, his talons extended.
The large bear carrying the promise of death in its wake started to run with a heavy thump on the ground and jumped at Theo with a wide jaw, to sink his canines to bite Theo's head off. Theo advanced towards the bear, then leaped like a frog and flipped in mid-air, above the bear, and touched down with perfection behind him. It was Leo's smart parkour moves. Theo didn't waste time, grabbed the dumbfounded bear's legs, and pulled them to make him fall on his face before landing on the ground.
The angry half-demon bear growled and snarled, but Theo didn't show any mercy, kept him under his foot, and pushed him down while he thrashed beneath him. Theo applied more pressure and kicked him to the floor indiscriminately.
"This is for taking Aries away from me," he jabbed in the ribs with the front of his foot. "And this one for kissing her, you bastard." He stamped his foot on his face.
The bear vanished from underneath his feet.
Theo gave out his own frustration growled when he lost sight of Simon, searching for him frantically. "Show yourself, coward!"
When Thoe was curious, Simon jumped out of his hiding and jabbed a punch straight to Theo's face, hard enough to make him stumbled back, but he managed himself to balance. Theo suddenly saw red, at the beast in front of him in tooth and claw as he growled and moved towards him.
The bear charged, and they rammed into each other and started fighting again, exchanging body blows and punches as they brawled.
When one has deigned to take the advantage, the other has clawed it back with the roughest of the rough hits. The blood feuds continued, so did the clash of egos. The uproar quickly grew into full-blown violence.
~xXx~
CHAPTER 23
He expressed his thoughts and feelings, and it sends my heart to a brutal race. My emotions went flying all over the place. All along, Leo always had reminded me of how selfless, and forgiven, and incredible of a person he is. The true love that he has for me will never fail or change.
'LEO JUST KISSED ME.'
'KISSED!'
'Does this mean everything now forgotten?'
"I'm going away, only to come back to you, and when I do, I'll marry you ..., and I'm not asking you, but telling you. I'm going to make you my beloved." Leo took a moment before he continued. "I love you so much, Aries, always, and forever." He pecked another kiss.
'LEO JUST PROPOSED TO ME.'
'PROPOSED!'
'I think my heart is going to burst out of my chest.'
Hearing him say he loved me and wants to marry me, his words showing true feelings, showing amazement and some emotion. My heart couldn't take it anymore. I wanted to show him my appreciation, but here I was trapped in my own body. I was still rocklike from the stiffness, and it made it difficult for me to move.
"Jedrek, is everyone gathered and ready to leave?" I heard Leo say.
'Where was he going?'
"Good." Leo said after, then I heard some rustling sound, metals clicking together, "I'm coming for you, Simon." Leo growled.
'SIMON' My intuition twisted with terror. Thousands of questions started to swim in my mind.
'Simon, he's dead. I'd burned him to ashes, how could he be alive?'
My skin crawled with fear. My mind riddles and rationalizes the many possibilities at how Simon determined to succeed despite the impossibilities. And
