Chapter 52
Chapter 52
"You broke the shield?" Damon asked.
"Yeah.It's broken.The outcasts can get out." I tell him.
But he d pulled away from me and lowered his sword.He looked around at the burnt down forest and he looked like he was ready to cry.He started shaking his head and looked back at me with a disturbed look on his face.
"They came for Stefan.They captured Stefan and Layla and I r escaped. The rest of the outcasts were killed." Damon says looking away from me.
"Damon.I am so sorry.I knew that I should have come back ; straight away." I say.
"No.You got out.You needed to.But we chose to stay.We didn't know that Eric would stoop to this." He says.
"And Vincent.There's no way that Vincent doesn't know about this." I say looking around at the forest.
This place was visible from the castle.
Vincent had to have even seen the battle and the forest on fire.He had to be apart of it.He was more evil than I thought.He let his men slaughter innocent people who were just trying to live their lives outside of the King's rule.
I know that's not ideal in a Kingdom, but they weren't plotting against the King.
They weren't a threat.
They weren't anything.
I couldn't understand how any King could do this to his own people.
And I was trying really hard to stop the tears from falling down my face.I needed to stay strong and brave for the people following me.
"We have to move.While it's still dark." I say.
"What are we doing?" Damon asked.
"We're getting Stefan and Layla back And then I'm taking you home. Back to your mother." I say.
"Our mother died 12 years ago."
Damon says looking at me like I didn't know what I was talking about.
"I talked to your mother the other day. You father stole you and Stefan from her and told you that she was dead. She's not. She lives in my pack. She's half fae, half werewolf. Which makes you part werewolf. I bet you didn't see that coming." I say smirking at him.
"How do you know that Stefan is still alive?" He asked.
"Because he's been calling to me.I've heard him.He's been using whatever energy he has to call to me.Asking me for help.And that's what we're going to do.But we need to move now.While it's still dark." I say.
"Their going to have a lot of guards out." Damon says.
And I turn around to show him all of my wolves walking through the shield and he started nodding his head like he was impressed.So we started walking through the burnt out forest and towards the castle.
There was no lighting in the clearing between the forest and the castle, so we could run across there easily and get to the woods that led up the hills to the castle.
But I still wasn't in fit shape, so I jumped on Jackson's back and he got me up the hill to the castle.
When we got up there Damon stayed close to me and we crept around the front of the castle while the wolves surrounded the rest of the castle.
The warriors would mind link us every time they would take out a soldier.
And they needed to make sure that they were quiet about it.We couldn't let those soldier's alert anyone to us being here.We needed the element of surprise.
At least I did.
Because I was in really bad shape right now.But I refused to sit this one out.
The wolves don't know the castle like I do.
There were two soldiers at the front door and Damon and I turned the corner and they looked at us just as we shot energy balls at them and knocked them to the ground unconscious.
We then walked over and opened the doors.
But we were careful when we walked inside the front door.
We needed to make sure that the hallway was clear and we didn't see anything.
Jackson and Wyatt stayed with me and Damon.
I knew that Jackson wasn't going to let me out of his site.
But I walked through to the armoury room and there were no guards in there either. I thought the whole set up was a joke.
So far, it was like they had no idea that they could be breached.
They had hardly any guards on at all.
They obviously thought that they had won whatever battle they were fighting.
But were they in for a rude awakening.
I grabbed a bow and arrow and made sure that I had ample arrows and extra's on top of that and I walked out of the room with the bow in hand and an arrow in place ready to be shot.
"When did you learn the bow and arrow?" Jackson asked in the mind link.
"While I was locked in the tower.Stefan bought them to me and I would practice shooting targets across the room.And finally I would start shooting targets outside, and they never knew where the arrows were coming from.I took out a lot of guards doing that.It was a lot of fun." I replied to him.
His wolf just shook his head at me when he heard that and I smiled at him and we started down the hallway towards the spiral stairs that led to the tower.
There were always guards posted on the stairs if there was a prisoner in the tower.
So that's what we needed to beware of.
Damon went ahead of me and I covered him.
The wolves were behind me but I was watching every direction in case we were being snuck up on.I wasn't giving any of them the opportunity to attack us.
The rest of the wolves were outside the castle, waiting for the word to invade.
Like last time.
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We rounded one part of the stairs and Damon shot an energy ball and the guard fell to the ground but there was another one just on the other side of him that Damon didn't see.
And I raised my bow and arrow and shot him straight in the heart before he had a chance to make a sound and alert anyone to us being there.
We got to the top of the tower and we found two locked rooms and Damon used his power to break the locks and I walked in and saw Layla lying on the ground.
She'd been beaten and she looked really weak.So I helped pick her up and I put her on Wyatt's back.
I told her to hold on tight.
Sometimes, wolves can get a little bumpy.
And she did exactly that.
I went to the next cell and Damon was helping Stefan to his feet.
He was worse than Layla.
His whole face was unrecognizable.
He had been so badly beaten that he couldn't even talk.
And I knew that we needed to get him out of here to see a doctor.
I wasn't even sure if he was going to make it out alive.
We managed to get to the bottom of the stairs, but when we got there we were stopped by a dozen soldiers holding swords and Eric and Vincent were standing at the back of them.
Hiding behind their soldiers.
I shouldn't be surprised.
They were both spineless bastards.
"You came home." Vincent says.
"Don't count on it.We're leaving and we're taking them with me." I say gesturing towards Stefan, Damon and Layla.
"That's not possible.They broke the law and they need to be punished." Eric says.
"They were living a peaceful life away from the Kingdom.They weren't hurting anyone.You just wanted to kill them because you could.Their coming with us." I demanded.
And Jackson came and stood next to me, and even as tall as I am, Jackson's wolf was almost as tall as me while standing on all fours. He crouched slightly and started growling.
"You're not going anywhere."
Eric insisted.
So I looked at Jackson and nodded.So he mind linked the warriors outside and they gained entrance to the castle, the same way they did last time.
They smashed through every door and every window to get inside and that was all we could hear.
Smashing all around us.
The soldiers standing in front of us were definitely distracted by that and they started looking around and weren't paying attention to us so I gestured for Wyatt and Damon to get Layla and Stefan out of the castle.
It was fine outside.
There were no guards.
They were all dead.
So they slipped out while everyone in front of us were distracted by the barrage of noises coming from all directions.
And then there was growling that echoed through the whole building.
The guards tried to regain their composure and they straightened up and pointed their weapons at us again while Eric and Vincent stayed to the back, near Vincents office.
I could see that they were starting to back up, trying to get to the safety of his office so I waved my arm in the air and I slammed and locked the office doors so that they couldn't escape from us.
Wolves then started appearing out of every doorway and joined the stand off that we had with the soldiers and I could tell that they were nervous.
Extremely nervous.
One of the soldiers got a little too nervous that he lunged forward and tried to attack me with his sword when Jackson pounced and grabbed ahold of him and ripped his throat clear out.
That's when the wolves didn't hesitate.
They all attacked at the same time, straight into the wall of soldiers and there wasn't much of a fight there.
The soldiers and their swords didn't stand a chance against the wolves and their fighting skills and their strength and size.
They were dead within minutes and then there was just Eric and Vincent standing at the end of the hall and Jackson was in the lead, approaching them slowly, baring his teeth, ready to attack.
But Eric started laughing.
"Don't you think you should tend to your mate before you kill us?" Eric asked.
And Jackson turned back to look at me.
I was still standing at the back of everyone holding my stomach.
Blood pouring out onto my hand where that soldier's sword had stabbed me through the side of my stomach.
I fell to my knees and Jackson ran over to me and shifted back at the same time and managed to catch me before I hit the ground.I knew that I was seriously injured.I could feel the life draining from me and I reached up and touched his face.
"I'm sorry." I choked out.