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Layla quickly sat up upon seeing this demon in human form smiling at her. The smoking red iron rod levitating scared her too.
"Strip, Layla!" Oceana commanded but the teen was unwilling. She kept retreating.
"You can't escape. Stop trying so hard."
Ice chains came out of Lavana's hands and coiled around Layla's neck.
"Do you want me to motivate you first?" Oceana asked, tightening the ice chain around her neck.
Layla was choking and tears flowed down her face. "I... Cough... Cough...I'll..obey. Obey!" she said with difficulty.
"Now, start stripping!"
Layla struggled to rise and tore off her clothes fast.
"Now turn around and crouch."
Layla quickly obeyed. The levitating iron rod immediately went through her butt.
Layla's eyes widened. She wanted to scream but couldn't as the chains around her neck tightened. Many of her precious organs were crushed, and even her heart was injured.
Thora took over and the ice chains vanished, but Layla wasn't relieved. The seething rod in her body was too much to endure. Her body was still wet and when Thora's ball of lightning made contact with her she convulsed. As she curled, the rod pierced her heart through. She vomited a large amount of blood and died of resentment. The other teens were barely alive after fainting.
Pamela took over and fireballs appeared in her hand. "You need to smell good when they find you. She launched fireballs at the teens, burning all their flesh away, leaving only their bones.
"Someone's coming. Let's leave," said Thora.
"Got it!" Pamela caused Lavana's body to become invisible and gave control back to Lavana.
"Chap, get into the stream now. I need you to escape from here. This is your only chance." Oceana ordered.
"Alright!" Lavana replied and started running out of the place.
A minute after she left, a pack warrior came to check on the teens' progress with torturing that damn Omega.
He was shocked to see the cage open, a stove still lit, shredded clothes, blood on several spots on the ground and three skeletons. He immediately alarmed the Alpha with telepathy.
...
Lavana successfully got into the stream. She took one last look behind her and dived into the water. She transformed into her merform with no injury on her skin. Pamela took control and started swimming fast, away from the area.
She swam past the place where Lavana stopped to rest after escaping from the pack earlier before being recaptured. She faced east and later turned west. Lavana noticed that Oceana's body was trembling, but she stubbornly remained in control. Thora had suddenly gone back to slumber, along with Pamela.
"You don't have to push yourself so hard. We're already far away from there. Please let me have control. I promise to take care of myself for you guys."
Hearing this, Oceana gave up control and went into a slumber.
"Thank you!" she said to them and continued swimming forward.
...
Back at the Ralton pack, Alpha Chase was angry after hearing the news and seeing for himself what that damn Omega had done.
"Alpha, either she's the child of a wolf and a witch or she had a witch help her in doing all this evil and escape," said Finn, the newly appointed Beta.
"Find her and bring her back. This time, I must make her wish for death. Find her!" he growled.
The pack warriors nodded and chorused: "Yes, Alpha! We shall carry out your commands!"
They then ran off in different directions in twos. Alpha Chase clenched his hands into fists and gritted his teeth. The families of the deceased teens were in sorrow.
"Don't worry, she'll be brought back and you can punish her however you want. I'm sorry fo your loss." he said before leaving with his Beta.
2 days later.
Neylie's pizza.
This restaurant made the best pizza in Dollemorz town.
It had a parking lot for its customers. Many were either going into or leaving the restaurant with beautifully designed nylon bags.
A black jeep had just parked, and the four doors opened. Five people- two young men, two young women and a little boy alighted from the car dressed in casual clothing. But one could tell that their outfits were worth a lot. They were chatting as they headed towards the entrance of the restaurant. When they entered, they chose a table at the extreme of the VIP section.
"Mummy, can I get sunglasses?" the little boy with red hair asked.
"Oh, you wanna look cool like Uncle Mel?" his mum, a lady with curly, short black hair, asked with a raised eyebrow.
"No, it's not like that. There's this girl in my class..." the other young lady interrupted the little boy.
"Wow!" she applauded with widened, sparkling eyes. "You already like someone?"
"Aunty Regina, it's not that way. She challenged me. She said I look girly. That I'd look manly if I wear sunglasses to school tomorrow." the boy explained in distress.
"Gina, stop teasing my boy. Hun, look here..." She took out her phone and showed him the picture of a little boy with red hair.
"Is that... daddy?" the boy asked with doubt.
"Yes, of course, my boy." replied his mum.
"Oh, let me see!" Gina snatched the phone and saw a chubby kid.
"Oh, he is so fat as a kid. Let me send this to my WhatsApp. I'm gonna bully him. Hehe!"
Unfortunately, the boy's mum snatched back the phone.
"Carmelia, you're no fun at all," Regina complained with pouty lips and folded her arms.
"Aunty Regina, you are eating your words. Didn't you say a month ago that bullies are bad people who feel insecure inside? Could it be that you are insecure? Maybe you weren't pretty as a kid..." Carmelia instantly covered her son's mouth.
"Shush, that's enough. Don't anger your aunty."
"No, he's right. It's not nice to bully people. Blackmail is what I do best." Regina removed Carmelia's hand from the boy's mouth and drew the boy closer.
"Hun, you are the sweetest kid I know. I can never be angry at anything you do. Just keep in mind that when you have a mate, I'm gonna black..."
"Ladies and gentle boy, we're back." one of the young men who had brown hair declared.
"Pizza, Daddy please gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme..." the little boy stretched out his small hands eagerly with shining eyes.
The other male, who had red hair, chuckled.
"Ladies first, Pedro," he said, and the boy put his hands down, looking wronged.
"Oh, don't give me that look. You know Daddy can't resist it." he gave him a plate of pizza.
"Thank you, Daddy." the boy accepted it and started eating it with a fork and knife.
The man, who was obviously his dad as they looked similar, shook his head and smiled. He placed a large plate in front of his wife and sat beside her. The other man with brown hair sat beside Regina.
"Honey, let's dig in," he said after kissing her cheek, causing her to blush.
"Aunty Regina, your face is red." Pedro pointed out.
"Kiddo, can you not be so honest?" Regina said as she cut out a slice and put it in her husband's mouth.
"Delicious!" he praised. He also cut a small slice and fed her.
"Delectable!" she exclaimed.
Pedro looked at his parents.
"Dad, Mum, why aren't you feeding each other? Or could it be that you're embarrassed? Don't worry, I'll pretend not to see anything. I won't consider you as shameless as Uncle and Aunty." the little one continued to eat.
His parents' mouths twitched.
This kid!
"Pedro, how can you consider us shameless? We are being affectionate to each other. This is what grown-up men and women do when they love each other."
"I disagree. Once I caught Dad kissing Mum's neck and he started coughing while Mum started arranging the bedsheets. Though that was a year ago."
His parents felt exhausted. Yes, smart kids were blessings, but by the time they show their annoying side, the headache resulting could even defeat Mt. Everest's height.
"Okay, okay!" his mum cut a slice of pizza and brought it close to her husband.
"Say 'Ah!'"
"Ah!"
She fed him the pizza slice, and he did the same.
"Are you happy now?" Carmelia asked.
"Yes. But when are you getting me a little sister?"
His parents cleared their throats.
"Hun, getting a sister isn't easy as you think. Do you know where babies come from?" his dad asked.
"Of course I do. Babies come from father and mother, not from the sky as you told me when I was a year old." the boy replied.
The other couple were trying not to laugh, but their trembling bodies betrayed them.
"A sister isn't easy to get, but we'll do our best to give you one soon. Alright?" Carmelia patted her son's head.
"It might be too late when I'm already 20 before I could get a sister. Aunty Regina, Uncle Mel, how about you do the favor? Get me a playmate whom I can call sister too."
"Eh, about that. Let's be patient. You'll get a sister and playmate from us and your parents. What do you say?" asked Regina.
"Okay. I expect results 10 months later," he said and continued eating his pizza.
"You started this. How dare you two exhibit your love here?" asked Carmelia with mind link.
"You worsened things, displaying your awkward love and asking if he knows about babies source. That boy isn't your average kid, you know." Mel replied with mind link.
"Our display wasn't awkward." Rolandro, the boy's dad, defended telepathically.
"Oh. It was terrible then." Regina teased.
"You... Stupid couple." Rolandro cussed unhappily.
"Big boy, remember when I said no curses?" Carmelia pulled his ear after mind linking.
"Ow! That hurt. I'm sorry, honey. I won't do it again." Rolandro petitioned, and she let go of his ear.
Pedro watched his parents with interest.
"Dad, you're too submissive. Mum, I like you fierce though," he remarked.
A smile appeared on his mum's face.
"Thank you, my son." she put her hands around his neck, bringing him into a hug.
"Eh, mama, you're choking me here," he complained.
"So what should I do then? What also should you do?" she asked with a purposeful smile.
"Daddy is fierce too, but not romantic enough."His dad frowned, but quickly regained his disposition.
"Ahem.. But compared to many couples I see out there, you two are graded with an 'A' by your beloved son." he said with a smile.
"Good boy." his mum stopped hugging him and returned to eating pizza and feeding her husband.
"So what do you grade us by?" Mel asked.
"'S!'" replied Pedro.
"Oh, you consider our love superior?" Regina asked.
"Nope. I graded my parents as 'A'. 'A' means Affectionate, 'B' means Bold and 'S' means Shameless." he explained and drank water.
"You are very good." his dad gave him a high five while the other couple rolled their eyes.
"Jokes aside, the triennial competition is two months away and we don't have anyone who is strong enough to compete. We've lost two good times. If we lose again, I'm afraid, more people will leave our pack. A pack that gives one a sense of security is what's worth staying for. Unfortunately, we aren't. We were originally small, to begin with. We are lone wolves who came together to form a pack with no Alpha. Everyone is equal. But we'll need an Alpha and that one must be acknowledged as having won one of the top ten places in the final round of the competition." said Mel.
"Sigh If we're destined to disband, let it be. Let's enjoy what we have for now." Carmelia said and fed Pedro a pizza slice.
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