Destined To Be Greatness novel Chapter 28

"It must have been when that bimbo challenged us," venom was laced thick with my words.

"Where is she?" A gruff voice shouted interrupting me from my thoughts.

"W-w-we don't know who you're talking about," the little boy stuttered.

"You know damn well who we're on about!" The person that I now know is the leader shouted. "Where is Jay?!"

"I-I don't know." They both answered shrinking away from the man.

"They're protecting us," I said in awe to my wolf.

"Yeah, but it won't be long until they kill them." I held back a growl. How could anyone murder innocent children?

I watched the scene before me with narrowed eyes and ears pricked waiting for the right moment to strike. The leader of the group walked around the children in a circle, running his hands through his hair with frustration, stopping in his tracks he let out a deep sigh. He walked back over and stood in front of the children that were clinging onto each other as if they were each other's life lines; he stared at them for a while before grabbing them by their arms and throwing them towards the bush that I was hiding behind.

"Kill them."

I didn't need to think twice. I leaped out from behind the bush and stood protectively over the children growling, showing them all my sharp, long canines. The rouges in wolf form made a semi-circle around us, growling back at me.

"Jay?" The children whispered so only I could hear them. I nodded my head with a snort in response keeping my focus on the danger in front of us. If they attacked me I wouldn't be able to fight back with the children around. I need to get them away from here, now how am I going to distract them?

"Kids I'm going to distract them so you can get away. They started to protest. No, I can handle these guys. I want you to run as fast as you can back to the pack house and get help. Can you do that for me?" I mind linked them. I turned my head slightly so I could see them out of the corner of my eye as well as the rouges. They nodded. I slowly backed up so the children were closer to the bush so they can escape that way. Hopefully, that will stop the rouges from going after them and will confuse them.

"I want you two to scamper through the bush and run when I push my back paw at you, got it?" I ask. They nod again with worried eyes. I turned my full attention back to the rouges and found the leader stood just in front of the wolf rouges.

"Over my dead body." I kicked the children with my hind legs pushing them into the bush. I positioned myself with my hackles raised and my body lowered to the floor ready for an attack. I held the rouges attention with my snarling so they didn't even notice that the children were gone and that if they paid close attention they would hear their little footfalls in the distance.

"Are you sure you don't want to reconsider?" The leader smiled at me as the rouges began to close in on me.

"I would never go with you!" I sneered.

"My dear Jay, I'm afraid you really don't have a choice." He looked at me and then to his men. "You know what to do."

One by one the rouges advanced towards me with their lips curled back and growling at me. I've been up against a large amount of rouges than this but I had a feeling that these guys aren't ordinary rouges.

From my right the first rouge attacked. He went for my back but I easily dodged him which sent him face first into the dirt, I let out a wolf's equivalent of a chuckle. The muddy brown wolf stood up and shook himself sending dirt flying, this gave me time to analyse him. He was slightly favouring his right front leg meaning that his left leg wasn't really of much use to him, this could be caused by an old injury and when he came at me it probably triggered it. He came at me again jumping for the back of my neck. I slid under him holding his left leg in my jaws, he yelped in pain and dropped to the floor whimpering. One down six to go. The next couple of wolves attacked individually and I was able to locate their weakness and take them down. I didn't kill some of them as I could tell that they really didn't want to be here. I had just finished off the last wolf that attacked me when I heard a number of running paws coming from the direction of the pack house.