She woke up to sit in the bed.
She recalled before she fainted, she was badly injured, especially her hands and she lost consciousness on the floor.
She tried to move her hands and her body to see how much she would be at a disadvantage during the challenge, to her surprise she seemed fine like wounds didn't exist to begin with. For how badly she was injured how come healed only after she woke up? Then her mind clicked with the question how she was in bed.
'I smell danger' said Elaine
'We are going to life and death obvious you should feel danger. The wounds ...'
'There no such thing gain power since we never lost. I don't know either why healed in one night'
She moved her eyes around the room but there wasn't anyone nor changes. She tried to test her spells if was the case but nothing worked. Then how she healed?
But she didn't have the luxury to think too much because today was the day of the tournament. Whatever happened she had to thank for healing her.
Thinking that she walked to the bathroom.
She glanced at herself through the mirror. Her fist tightened whenever she saw the face which reminded she was in someone's else body and weak with no idea how to get her powers back.
Not long she came out of the bathroom and started preparing herself.
Her brown hair tied in a plait and put on shirt and a trousers. When she finished she left.
She walked toward the arena for minutes and stopped when someone blocked her way. She raised her eyes to see Rowan deep furrowed face. She heavily sighed cursing her luck for letting her meet with him.
He badly searched for her but couldn't find her anywhere. She didn't have a house then where she slept. He glanced at her hand and his eyes narrowed when he noticed was doing fine.
"Cancel this tournament" he flatly said and added "You won't win"
She ignored and walked past him. Rowan grabbed her hand to stop her "What gotten to you? Since when you were so eager to be in charge of the pack that you would rather die? Have you gone mad?!"
Radella tried to pull her hand but she found so tightly. "Yes I have gone mad!" With anger, she shouted
"What?"
She used all the strength and pulled her hand then headed to the arena as Rowan watched her in shock than surprised.
Not so long she arrived and glanced at the audience never expecting to be many people.
The certain man stood at the podium and greeted the audience before he read the rules of the competition. The winner would be determined if the other side wouldn't be able to continue the fight.
'Radella'
'mmh'
'Are you sure we can win?' Elaine asked
'Silly questions'
She went forward and jumped to land on the fighting ground looked cool as she exposed herself to hundreds of stares. She glanced at the place Harrison sat and knew he didn't take the fight seriously and was here only to declare her fall.
Harrison's deepened eyes gazed at her. He hated the confidence in her eyes. He raised from his chair and made his way to the arena which confirmed to fight her.
Viola watched in silence. She saw Nala changed in a couple of days but enough to fight Harrison was another story. However she wished her to win only if she was the Luna, she could use her to control the pack.
"I won't shift. This will be the last thing I do for your parents" he said
"Well" Maybe this was what she wished.
She pulled out two daggers from her thighs and held in both hands and were daggers she found in demon's mansion.
She charged toward him without hesitation and threw the strikes as fast as she could and he avoided them effortlessly. And when he attacked he was faster that she barely escaped.
He took steps backward and watched her taken aback how skillful she was. He didn't take her seriously and let her take the first move each round.
She changed the way she held the dagger and rushed to him, this time she increased her speed of playing with the dagger.
Harrison's eyes flinched from the change. She passed the knife near his chest and succeeded in tearing his robes. He took her lightly and he was surprised by a small tear on his cloth.
No one expected she would be capable of that even Harrison swore not to take her easily again or else his dream to eliminate her might fail.
He charged first. The fight continued and she was deadly worn out and injured unlike him who seemed as if he just started.
'Radella' Elaine called softly 'If we die here... I won't regret'
Radella little surprised from those words. Was the first time Elaine didn't regret the decision she made.
'We ... won't die'
All werewolves sunk in silence as they witnessed how Radella refused to admit defeat even if she was on the verge of death. Her body failed but not her eyes which burnt with the same determination to win.
Harrison wanted to finish her for all but stopped. What the point of killing her? He already got what he wanted. There wouldn't be no one to challenge his authority soon.
However, Radella spat the blood and got up with shaking legs. Then, she forcefully rushed toward him only her neck to be grabbed and choked unmercifully.
"You did well" He complimented her sincerely "It's a pity you were born useless"
Radella's eyes reddened as Harrison lifted her in the air. Alas when he kept hurting her, Radella's eyes turned dark losing all the white so suddenly.
Harrison's eyes widened by those horrific eyes and before he could think of anything he was thrown aside by an invisible force sending him further and hitting his body again and again as he skidded on the ground till he remained still.
Radella knelt coughing after she turned back to normal. She raised her eyes to Harrison and had no idea how that happened. No, was her powers.
She always asked herself would her powers return in a verge of death? Her pain paid off.
When the audience made chaos not understanding what happened she remained on her knees and watched her hand. She tried to summon her magic staff but failed.
"At the end was temporary" She bailed her hands in anger
'Radella!' Elaine called her 'You won'
She raised her feet 'We won'
But she didn't make even three steps when she fell. She held in for so long but reached her limits.
Rowan who stood near his father so worried because he didn't seem to wake up anytime soon pounded what powers helped Radella to hurt his father like that.
He turned his eyes to her to see she collapsed on the arena. He was ready to run to her but before he took any step, a Long auburn-haired man appeared on the arena, who shut the audience with his presence.
He walked towards Radella and slowly lifted her to his arms then he walked away not caring his fellows gape.
Rowan's expression turned uglier witnessing her in someone else's arms, especially from Neleva. He clenched his fists enough to pierce his palm and growled
"she is mine"