Fighting by Anaya Phoenix (black books to read txt) 📕

“He’ll pull through.” Anna whimpered and I didn’t look at her, knowing I’d see the pain there. I could feel her omega seeping out and trying to help her brother but he was too far gone. He fell to the ground and curled up in the fetal position, his limbs still stretching and bending how they saw fit. I watched as my mate’s heart stopped beating and his body seemed to sag, all while still moving. Everything was quiet for a second, the whole world had hushed to hear my scream a second later. I fought against Jesse’s arm to go to him but he was still changing. Suddenly his body erupted into a mass of spit and fur. I stopped fighting and looked at the big black wolf that had taken place of my mate, it’s eyes his green eyes and his fangs ready to tear into Jesse. Jesse, knowing the warning clearly, let go of me and backed up into his own mate.

“Ander?” My voice squeaked as I looked up into the monster of a wolf that stood in front of me. He was at least two times bigger than his actual wolf, the muscles were large and bulged underneath his fur and even I was scared. His eyes were angry and scared, but mainly angry. I reached up and cupped a hand over his ear. With a deep breath and a silent thanks to Lupa I smiled greatly.

“Change back now, I think it would do us all some good to have regular Ander back.”

~Present~

                He’d gotten better at it, and it came as naturally as changing into his regular wolf now. His uber wolf stood at nine foot tall and still looked as lethal as it did before. The rage in his eyes was alive and thriving as he snarled at Matt as he watched Matt fully turn into his lycan form. Ander’s uber wolf could take down any wolf, even me and the victors, as could a lycan. This was a fair fight, even though the odds were a little more on Ander’s side, Matt could still give a strong one. Matt stood on his legs and stood out longer until he was around Ander’s size. Ander huffed and started circling around Matt. Everyone that was in the training room now backed away from the mammoth wolf, watching with wide and terrified eyes. Matt watched Ander wearily, the muscles in his body twitching and jumping as he anticipated any attack. With a resigned sigh I stepped back and crossed my arms. I had trained both of them, and they both had been trained by others besides me. With my skills alone they were lethal, but I knew from both of them the combined skills was a scary enough combo. Filly appeared next to me, her eyes aware and curious.

“You’re sending off sparks like crazy, what’s wro-“ Her words cut off as she saw uber Ander and lycan Matt squaring off.

“Oooooh. Want me to round up the rest so that we can actually pull him off of Matt at the end of this.” With a deep sigh I looked at her.

“Is it bad that I kinda want this to happen.” She pursed her lips and looked up for a second before looking at the duo who still were just circling each other.

“Not at all. Ander will put Matt in his place, then you guys’ll have the best claiming sex ever.” My cheeks went red and I glared at her. She simply rolled her eyes and crossed her arms.

“Go ahead and act like that’s not what’s gonna happen if you want to. Fighting brings out the naughty in guys, that’s just a fact. Especially if it’s for a claim.”

“I know this, I just hate you.” We looked back to the duo and watched as Matt roared and rushed Ander. I’d trained him, I knew he thought that because of Ander’s size he would be slow but he was anything but. Ander dodged out of the way and grabbed Matt’s body in his jaws, biting deep and piercing flesh, and threw him into the wall making the floor shake. I looked to the few shifters that were there and nodded my head toward the exit. Nodding they scurried away in self-preservation, moving faster as Matt howled. My eyes narrowed slightly and I discreetly sealed off the entrances and exits.

“If I didn’t know you any better, Mattypoo, I’d think you were calling for help.” I did good to keep the snarl out of my voice, but Ander growled low and deep in his throat. Blake ran into the barrier, her eyes beastly and her fangs out. She analyzed the situation and with an eye roll relaxed herself and crossed her eyes.

“Seriously? This again? We’ve been here barely a week Matthew!” She said in absolute disgust and walked away. I shook my head and glared at him, even though he didn’t care. He circled around Ander, his eyes angry and calculating, a scary mix of human and beast. Honestly, Matt would’ve been able to pull himself out of whatever cloud he was in… but then, because my mate is MY mate, Ander sat down and huffed before laying down and putting his head on his paw.

“Jesus.” Filly hissed through her teeth and summoned her elemental weapon. Matt howled with one of retribution and went to grab Ander by his scuff,  blinded by anger, but Ander simply bit down on his wrist and yanked ripping his hand from the wrist. Matt growled and reached around with his other hand to grab his scuff and take him off. Ander let go of the severed appendage only to bark out a wolfy laughter and use his paws to push away and scratch Matt’s chest. Matt snarled and let go, being pushed back several feet even with his feet earing into the ground. Ander shook out his fur and rolled his shoulders, his eyes turning icy with pure rage and strength. Matt was injured bad, blood pouring out of him and onto the surrounding floor too quickly. He would pass out from exhaustion if he continued, and I needed him to be at his maximum peak. I stepped forward to stop this before someone got hurt beyond repair, I could fix a hand I couldn’t fix dead. As soon as I stepped forward fully Ander looked back at me, his eyes glaring into me.

“Stay, he has to learn.” Ander said softly, his voice a complete contrast to the beast I saw in front of me. He wouldn’t let it get too out of hand. I trusted him. With a short nod I stepped back, groaning at Matt’s idiocy as he tried to attack while Ander’s back was turned. With a lethal growl Ander grabbed him by his torso in his mouth and ran toward the wall, ignoring the good hits that Matt was putting in. Once he was against the wall, Matt took his claws and gouged out Ander’s right eye laughing with wolfish glee that would haunt me for the rest of my life. If Ander felt any pain he dind’t let it show, only moved back a little with him still in his mouth and crushed him slightly between his teeth only letting go when Matt roared. He threw Matt’s body in the air and across the field. With a grunt he shook his head, flinging blood everywhere and a part of me wanted to end this before they started doing irreparable damage to each other.

“One of them has to submit to each other for that.” Filly whispered softly, still holding her elemental weapon just in case.

“I know the rules.”

“And you know these boys. So how long will this go on before someone submits to the other? How many more punches do they have to get in for this to officially be squashed?” She never looked at me, but she didn’t need to. The scars on my back tingled slightly and I knew what I would have to do. Matt stood, slightly hunched on account of his multiple wounds, and Ander looked at him through his one eye. They stalked toward each other slowly before rage consumed them both and they ran.

“Wish me luck, and help me if something goes down you scag.” She rolled her eyes and I ran toward where they would meet, embracing my wolf and shifting into my furry skin. Just like last time, they didn’t see me. They were too engrossed on each other to even acknowledge my presence right in front of them. Sighing I sat down and, regretting instantly what I was about to do, I howled loud and high. They both seemed to see me at the same time and stopped before scratching or biting at me. They stood, Matt panting and Ander glaring quietly as blood quietly dripped from his eye.

“This is not to the death, I don’t know where you silly males got that idea from. You weren’t supposed to inflict serious bodily harm to another.” I let my wolf speak through the link, since both of them were in their most wolfy state and she could get it across better. Ander huffed in laughter and I inwardly scolded him but otherwise said nothing.

“I’m ending this match, because neither of you are any less alpha to submit. I’d rather not be here all day, my human has soup to eat and I was quite enjoying it too.” I stood and walked towards Ander, locking eyes with him and looking down to show my submission. I walked to him until we met nose to nose and I ducked my head, my nose digging into his neck before I bit into him. He growled gently at the pain and I stopped, licking the bite before stepping back slightly. I craned my neck slightly to the right and only winced slightly as his teeth pierced me, he growled at the wince and the smell of pain and licked my mark softly. I knew he kept his eyes on Matt and I knew my heart would break when I looked to him. Not stepping away from Ander, I turned to look at Matt and saw his eyes glaring at the dirt and I felt wave after wave of pain tear into me.

“It’s over now. I’ve chosen, and I know you both respect me enough to respect my choice. Ander is my mate, regardless how complete our mating is.” My wolf’s voice was strong in the link but I knew all she wanted to do was whimper and hide in a hole. We both had the same connection with Matt and, had we not had Ander, he would’ve been our mate.

“Eat.” Ander whispered softly into the link and I nodded, noting how much of an alpha he was at this point. To disobey him now would be the highest disrespect and would probably lead to another fight. I shifted back into my human form and looked to Filly. She nodded and walked with me, still keeping wary eyes on the two males, walking me back to my cold soup so I could finish the rest in peace.

                My soup was finally finished, I had to gulp it all down at once because cold it wasn’t great, but I still had to do rounds and heal the idiots that had injured themselves. I went to the infirmary and winced at the tension in the room. Blake sat next to a sleeping Matt and watched him with disdain. Anna sat with her legs crossed next to Ander who was sitting up and glaring at Matt’s sleping form.

“It’s over. You should be resting too.” My voice was soft and filed with genuine concern as I walked closer to him. Anna watched