Chapter 3 - The Pack

"I knew I'd break you." Mistress said. "I finally broke you after so long..."

Break him? He never needed breaking. He was always hers, wasn't he?

"Now, Kyran: do you wish to please your Alpha?"

He nodded frantically. Nothing would please him more.

"Do you really?" she asked.

He whimpered slightly and nodded his head faster.

"Then get to work." The strap was taken from his mouth. He wondered what he'd done to earn it on him... nothing too offensive to Mistress, he hoped... he could smell her pussy slowly getting closer to his mouth... he stuck out his tongue to taste it...

A loud crash of wood rocked the place, followed by a loud female scream. "GET AWAY FROM HIM!"

That voice. That utterly alien yet somewhat familiar smell. Something inside Kyran's mind awoke.

"He's not yours. He never was and he never will be." A second, deeper voice replied.

"He will always be mine! Always!" Mistress answered back.

"You've earned his service, not his loyalty." The second stranger replied. "You'll never get to hear his soft moan when you say he's a good boy. Not like I do."

Good boy...  Kyran vaguely recalled feeling a woman scratching behind his ears while saying that... a woman who wasn't Mistress... his heart stirred...

"Well, you're too late." Mistress told them. "I've broken him. Even if you kill me, you'll never get him back!"

"Then you're no better than a slaver! I'll turn you to ash just like one!" The second stranger told Mistress. He heard the crackle of lightning magic being ignited.

They were going to kill her... Kyran struggled to get free of his bonds. He had to protect Mistress. She was his world... But the bonds did not give...

"Come on, then." Mistress told the two. "Seeing how he's mine now, I'll put you out of your misery."

The first stranger shouted "You're going to regret the day you fucked with my best friend and Eleanor Bear's lover!"

El...

Eleanor...

... 

!

"ELLIE!" he cried, as all the memories of times spent with her flooded back. "Trix! Get me out of this thing! I want to kill this one myself!"

He felt a bolt of white hot energy surge past his head and suddenly the chain around his arms was broken. Kyran pulled off the blindfold and wrested his legs from their restraints. He stood up and glared at the female wolf. He'd felt anger and rage before, but this corrosive hatred burning his veins was something else.

"Kyran-" Feral began.

"No. This is my kill." The finality of Kyran's voice dissuaded Feral from saying another word.

"No! You cannot kill me! This was to be my victory!" the female wolf shouted.

"People like you don't deserve victory." Trix's voice had changed. Whereas before it was like a clap of thunder, it was now as silent as a single raindrop. Kyran wasn't sure which was scarier. "You are a slaver. Nothing more, nothing less."

Trixday raised an open hand to the sky and a bolt of lightning crashed through the ceiling. The female wolf narrowly dodged it. She cast a ball of fire back at the goblin. Ellie blocked it with a blast of ice while Kyran manifested an orange spear of Ki energy. He threw it with all his might at the wolf, but she rolled to the side. 

Kyran ran at his enemy, pulling back his right fist. She blocked left and Kyran internally smiled. His left fist sunk into her side before his right punch, charged with Ki, connected with her muzzle. She stumbled backwards and Kyran shifted to the side. Behind him, Trix let loose a bolt of lightning that singed the fur on the wolf's ear.

Ellie threw an icicle that the wolf managed to melt with an outward burst of fire. But she wasn't ready for Kyran's vaulting into the air with a spear before slamming it down in front of her. She was blasted back with the explosion of energy that Kyran let out. Charging energy into his fists, he ran at her as she stumbled to her feet.

Kyran ducked her blow and his lust for vengeance overtook him. "DIE!" Kyran screamed. He slammed his fist against her chin and lifted them both into the air. He pushed his fist upwards, surging into the sky and held a palm open to the heavens. A bolt of lightning crashed against the Ki he held in it and he felt the energy crackle all around his body. "This place will be your grave!" He shouted, descending rapidly. He slammed his charged fist into the side of the monster's head and the two crashed into the earth. The wolf blasted the lightning-charged Ki into her skull and after a jump that forced her whole body upwards, she flopped against the ground, dead. 

Kyran pulled his fist up and got to his feet. He could hear Feral roaring in triumph.

"Amore have mercy on that monster, for nobody on this plane will." Ellie said.

Kyran and Feral spoke together: "Amen to that."