Untamed: The Alpha

184 CHAOS

Zuri forced herself to get on her feet or at least roll her body to the side when all of the people there were stunned at the sight of the flames that came from beneath the lake.

All of them were silent, but it was a silence before the storm, because no longer after that, when the fire burned all the heavy machinery that they had and turned a man into dust, the clamor started, as they were trying to escape from this site.

At that moment, Zuri could no longer see what was happening around her, she could only hear them shouting at one another to back away, as she hid inside one of the tents.

Zuri didn’t plan to stay there forever, she was just waiting for an opportunity to come out from her hiding place, without being caught, either by Liam’s pack members or Arhchie’s men.

However, she immediately learned that she needed to run along with them if she wanted to survive this.

“Apparently you want to join me in the afterlife so badly,” Hades said. He appeared all of a sudden, perched on one of the tables inside the tent, while staring at Zuri with curiosity in his yellow eyes.

Zuri wanted to curse at him out loud, but she needed to save her energy. This man could at least help her by not appearing before her eyes. His disappearance was already helpful enough.

“Fuck off!” Zuri hissed.

“Oh! Finally you are acting accordingly!” Hades clapped his hands together, because finally Zuri acknowledged him. “You need to get out of this tent, because it will soon turn into ashes.”

.....

That was a stupid advise, even a blind man would be able to know that!

But in Zuri’s case, she couldn’t move as fast as she needed to because she couldn’t shift into her beast or run quickly as her body ached so badly.

She was finally able to take a small breath when she entered this tent to hide, but then if she walked out of here now, she would be toppled to the ground by those people.

However, when she watched how the tent started to burn, she knew that she had no other choice.

Zuri tried to stand up again, pushing her body to her feet, but then she found herself staggering before she fell to the ground.

“If you need my help, just say it, but I will count it as you accept my offer.” Hades didn’t budge from his sitting position, though the flames had burned everything behind him.

Zuri didn’t want to know what kind of offer that Hades wanted to give her, but it was enough for Zuri to know better to not engage herself with creatures like him.

The flames then burned the table Hades was sitting on and the god of the underworld as well, but it seemed the flames had no effect on him.

He looked calm and serene with red flames surrounding his body, which didn’t manage to hurt him even a little bit.

“Now, will you accept my offer?” he asked, opening his arms widely, as if to welcome Zuri.

If the flames had reached Hades, it meant it was only a matter of seconds before it burned Zuri to ashes and even if she wanted to run now, she wouldn’t have any chance to survive. She was too late.

In the end, she gave up trying and sat there, waiting for her death to come. Probably this was for the best. She would no longer be in pain and she could forget about everything that she had gone through. The pain was still afresh in her mind, she could feel it in her tender heart.

It would be best for her to leave this way. If she was going to die, let it happen when there was some of her still left.

“I don’t like the look on your face,” Hades said gloomily. This was not the girl that he liked. He loved to see her being snarky and how her hazel eyes burned with hatred, but not this one. She was empty.

“See you on the other side?” Zuri said to Hades, as the flames reached her and burned everything around her.

The tent that hid her was no longer there and all the things inside it had turned into dust.

The flames reduced all the things into ashes, destroying everything, except her...

At first, Zuri thought she would feel the heat that slowly roasted her, creasing her existence to nothing, but then she realized something strange.

The fire consumed everything, ravishing all the things in its wake, but not her... she was untouched. Not even a single hair on her was harmed.

It was not only Zuri, who was stunned by this fact, but Hades as well. He watched in surprise how Zuri could survive this fire.

He knew about this fire. This red fire did not come from this realm. This was the fire that burned in the hell, but to see Zuri was perfectly fine, he was speechless.

“What the hell is Chaos up to...” he muttered to himself, only to feel a hand wrap around his throat and he vanished without even having a chance to see who it was.

And yet, he didn’t need to see to know that it was that abomination creature, who had done that.

On the other hand, Zuri’s eyes caught that figure, the man who was walking toward her, his scent hit her before she could see him clearly.

He walked from inside the flames, crushed Hades’ neck, as the god of the underworld disappeared and then proceeded to approach her.

His long black hair fluttered in the wind, danced with the fire that surrounded them, which had turned the night sky into day.

Zuri felt her heart leap to her throat when her lips moved to say his name out loud. “Chaos...”

His eyes were no longer blue, but black, as black as charcoal.

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