Sous

Chapter 15: Jacob's Arc: One



WHACK!

Jacob fell out of the chair on the floor, blood spilling from his mouth. Diamond shook his hand as if in pain. Zhiliary picked Jacob up and plopped him back in the chair. Doureena leaned on the edge of her desk with her arms crossed. The four of them were in her private office within the city hall of the Apex Pack. She sighed at the situation while Diamond and Zhiliary came to her side. 

"Jacob, why are you having this drag on? A scout reported to us they saw you conversing with those across the train tracks." She paused, walking closer to Jacob as he struggled to breathe with the blood steadily flowing into his mouth from a wound that developed from a tooth being knocked out. "Who killed Deacon and the assassin?" 

"I DON'T KNOW!!" Jacob screamed. 

Doureena slapped him. "Don't yell at me," she said. 

Jacob thought back to when he told his friends about the plan to murder them, he thought back to when he ran into Deacon who was holding a blueberry pie with Kara by his side, he thought back to seeing the Omegress running across the tracks as well. Omegress-

He looked at the Alpha wondering what would happen if he mentioned he saw the Omegress going toward the field and the sewers. He bowed his head. He wouldn't do that to the Omegress if it truly was her that killed Deacon and the assassin that would mean it was her that rescued Sous. He about bursted into tears when he saw Sous was alive at the council meeting with the vampire. To have her be the sole survivor, to him signified there was some hope. 

"I don't know," he whispered. 

Doureena nodded her head and just as she did, there was a knock on the door. When Zhiliary opened it, Jacob's parents stepped through, astonished by what they saw before them. They ran to their son, holding him. 

"Jacob, you told them we were coming to them, didn't you?" The Alpha asked. She watched him nod his head. She patted him on the back and looked at his parents, the wolf Alpha and the human woman. She didn't know too much about them except for the wolf wanting to move up in the ranks but he could only go so far since he was married to a human. 

She smiled at her two elites and went to her desk. She picked up a kanai and handed it to the father of Jacob. 

"Kill him. You can have another one and this time, you can raise him right." 

Jacob kept his head down, watching the blood drop onto the floor. He heard the footsteps of his father coming to him but then he saw the body of his mother step in front of him. 

She touched her husband's face, warming up, trying to make him see this was his son. 

"Tsk." Zhiliary rolled her eyes at the interaction. 

The wolf didn't have the heart to tell his wife that he killed Jacob or all three would be killed. It was true. With Jacob dead, they can start over and do it right. He pushed his wife to the side, her slamming on the floor of the office. He took the kanai and stabbed it into Jacob's chest. 

"DAAAADDDYYY!" 

His mother got off the floor and slammed herself into her husband, fighting over the weapon. He didn't want to hurt her but she was over taking him, her own strength. He transformed into the werewolf that he was and pushed her against the wall, knocking her head against the back, putting her unconscious. In his full form, he slowly turned to his son. 

Doureena smiled. She turned to look at Jacob with her back leaning on the edge of her desk. "Run."

Jacob got up out of his chair and ran out the door. He ran through the halls; he burst through the city hall doors and fell down the stairs. He struggled to get to his feet but he continued to run. He didn't know where besides the train tracks. 

On the front entrance of the city hall, Doureena, Diamond, and Zhiliary transformed into their werewolves form. It was Doureena who let out the first howl followed by Diamond and Zhiliary. 

The entire pack heard this howl; it carried over through the population and this specific howl meant one thing. All wolves of the pack were to kill the betrayer on sight. 

He huffed and heaved his way toward the tracks. The wolves were on his trail and they were purposely playing with him. They could have taken him out by now but they laughed at him. They scratched at him. They knocked him down only to watch him cry. They kicked him, they punched him. They threw him in the air, having him land roughly on his leg, breaking it. They walked behind him as he crawled to wherever he was trying to go.

Kara sat on her bed…she never heard such a howl. 'To kill the betrayer'. She got off her bed and walked down to the living room. Monica sat on the couch looking into space. Abel and Derrick both sitting on the floor. 

When Kara walked to them, Abel looked at her and smiled. "Derrick has a crush on Jacob."

"Shut upp!!" Derrick slapped Abel. 

"Boys!" 

Kara climbed onto the couch to sit next to her mother. "Mommy…" she started. "Who is the betrayer?" 

"Let's not talk about that right now, Kara." Monica said, regretting she couldn't protect him. She took her daughter's hand thinking back to the words Shadow gave her. Wishing for her to find her voice, the voice she had when she was in Nadia. She would lose everything if she were to stand up, including her life. 

For the wolves who haven't transformed into their werewolf form began just as Jacob managed to touch the track trains. His father stepped forward in front of all the other wolves. It would be him that did the final blow. He jumped toward his son-

Shadow appeared in the air and pulled out his shotgun. He aimed and shot the wolf in the head. Dead. Sous landed next to Jacob and helped him to his feet. She saw his face, his body, and his broken leg. It was rough to see her friend in this condition but she would rather him be alive and fixable than dead. 

The plan was to get him to her shack while Shadow would take care of the wolves. Prior to their trip back to Red Woods, Sous studied hard to learn many of the basic spells within her book. Gladius, the ability to turn the wand into a sword. Aqua Sanere, the ability to heal a wound using the water element. Ignis, the ability to set something on fire. Eludere, the ability to parry an attack. And thanks to Clarence's alchemy kit, she was able to create two potions: a stamina potion and a healing potion that could be used prior to battle. 

She placed her wand in her mouth and did her best to get Jacob to shelter. She wasn't sure how Shadow was holding up but she continued to hear the gunshots rang out the deeper she got in the woods. Even still, she smelt the wolves coming to her and they eventually caught up to them. They jumped from tree to tree following them. Sous quickly got the wand out of her mouth and pointed it at the first wolf to pounce at her. 

"Ignis!"

The spell was basic but it didn't seem that way to Sous. The spell quickly locked onto its target, setting it aflame but Sous didn't have time to watch the wolf succumb to fire. Another wolf soared her-

"Eludere!"

The shield popped up, preventing the wolf from hurting Sous or Jacob. The push back caused Sous to slide back on the ground with Jacob still holding onto her for balance. Sous barely had time to stand up all the way when the same wolf struck her. 

"Gladius!"

"ACK!"

The sword pierced through the chin of the wolf from above. The blood spilt on Sous and Jacob, getting in their mouths even. She paused for a moment, allowing herself to take in deep breaths. She took the sword from the wolf's chin, watching it fall to the ground. She looked up at the trees to see even more wolves standing on branches, watching her. She glared at them. No, she couldn't take them all on at once offensively but she could absolutely defensively. 

"I'm ready for all of you," she said. 

All at once, the wolves came down from the trees and came toward her. 

"Inundatio!" The ground flooded while Sous continued on with the spell by holding the wand up in the air. "Electricitas!"

The wand locked on to the wolves, hitting them each with an electricity attack that sent them into the water that surrounded them. Sous took the wand and aimed it toward the ground, shouting the spell for fire. The fireball pushed her and Jacob into the air so as to avoid getting hurt by her own magic. 

They landed on a tree, with Sous setting Jacob down on a thick branch. Changing her wand back into a sword, she jumped out of the tree, thinking of the sparring sessions she had with Shadow. She twisted herself in the air and locked on each of her targets. She went from wolf to wolf, stabbing each of them in their necks, hearts, and cutting the heads off of many of them until she stood in the middle of them-breathing hard. The sword in her hand was covered in blood, even herself, she was covered in blood with dead wolves surrounding her. 

She was no longer that child that ran away crying after getting her arm chopped off. Now she had magic and she was no longer weak and it showed that the most basic magic spell could take out the strongest of the wolves. She would become Alpha of this pack!

Moans came from the tree branch and Sous jumped up to lean Jacob a hand. She took out a potion bottle from her sack and placed some liquid in his mouth, his lips chapped, and the blood dry on his skin. 

She brought him to the ground and landed him on a tree. She took a deep breath. This would be her first time doing the healing spell on someone so she hoped she did it right. 

"Alright, here goes," she started. "Aqua sanere!"

She placed her hands over his leg; slowing moving her wand up and down his leg to get the spell to work throughout the entire region. The blue hue mist came from the wand and she heard the snapping of his bones and the moans coming from Jacob. She hoped this was working. 

Once done, she leaned back against the tree with Jacob next to her. He was nodding off to sleep and she noticed his wounds were healing and the bruising was going down. She smiled knowing the potion worked. She used her hands to bend his leg and saw it was also moving the way it was supposed to. 

"YES!" She yelled out then covered her mouth when she remembered she was trying to help Jacob, not get him killed. She quietly laughed and hugged her friend. Sous was just so happy she was able to save someone…finally…she was able to save someone!


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