Chapter 173
All eight of them bobbing around in the water swam to the side when debris and large rocks from the cliff began dropping into the water, loud splashes wetting their hair and faces.
Liliana’s face lit up on seeing the pack warriors swimming towards them. Apparently, they weren’t warned about the fire, but on hearing the loud explosion, they had taken to their heels and fell down the cliff into the lake without a single thought.
“Come on.” Joseph ordered everyone, glancing around, content that they were all safe, including the ones that had shifted who were trying to paw their way through the waves of water. He smiled. “Let’s find land p>
With that he began swimming, the rest following from behind.
Hakura groaned as she groggily opened her eyes, feeling excruciating pain all over her body.
“That b**ch.” She murmured as she lay back there with her head along with her body, something cold behind her as she remembered how she drifted off into unconsciousness.
She calmly sat up after a while of just laying there, waiting for her aching back and bones to ache a bit bearably. Her head instinctively turned to the cell gate and she scoffed, realizing they had locked her in.
Just outside the gates, hanging alongside the dungeon key was her bag full of herbs, bulging.
“A**holes p>
Whoever locked her in here must be really stupid.
Her eyes turned a shade of bright yellow with a dark red slit in the middle as she morphed into a large python, crawling out of the cage with ease.
Once she got out, she morphed back, panting as she held the wall. Due to loss of blood and strength, shifting was hard as she thought, almost impossible for a witch in this state, but she was special, and determined to help the others. She didn’t think she could shift again.
Prying her bag off the wall, she took the keys, sure she might need them since it looked like it might open the other dungeon cages around, and Daniel might not be able to get the others out without it.
Staring at the cage again as If she was missing something, she ran off, passing rows and rows of dungeon cells, keys tightly held in one hand, the other bag hung across her shoulders.
They had already digged down to eight feet, and it was already night; they could tell from the moonlight that seeped into the dungeon cell from the small window above their heads.
If anyone happened to pass their cell, they’d only see a wide span hole, and heads which looked like they were growing from the hole.
“I think this is just ridiculous.” Cardin puffed out, red in the face like the others from having to dig so much, non-stop for many hours. “We’re literally burying ourselves p>
No one said anything, but Talia and the rest looked to Koan and Nancy for answers since they didn’t have a clue to why they had to dig.
Koan pointed forward to a wall of soil blocking their path.
“We’re moving forward now. I remember the way they had brought us in. If we can follow this path, we might be able to go outside of the palace and look for another way to infiltrate the enemy’s territory without being caught this time p>
“We just needed to dig enough space down to enable us stand as we already are.” Nancy concluded.
Talia collapsed on the ground and Brittany pushed her head up on her twin’s body, sighing. Their faces were completely stained with dirt and their daggers were blunt from digging into rocks.
Cardin threw his dagger down, moving to another far corner to sit down, resting his head against the wall.
Koan and Nancy exchanged glances.
Their true fears were coming to reality.
Were they finally tired?
Were they giving up?
Was this it?
Was it over?
“Guys come on… ” Nancy said, and the only person who managed to even look up was Talia. She just shook her head slowly, eyes drooping weakly before settling her head down.
“Are you all joking? Because I can’t take you seriously right now.” Koan pointed out, glaring at every one of their faces. “What happened to sticking together… I didn’t ask you to be here, did I? You all came here of your free will, and now you’re giving up? You’re tired p>
“We’ve been digging all day Alpha Koan. We’ve not eaten… we’ve not had a rest for even a single minute. This is pointless.” Brittany blurted out.
“Pointless?” Koan chuckled. It was dark and painful. “Saving Naomi is pointless? Helping Daniel is Pointless? Saving the entire werewolf existence is pointless p>
“Koan… ” Nancy tried to touch him but he pulled away from her, stepping forward and turning so that he could see everyone. Talia and Cardin got up.
“You… you want to give up, don’t you?” He turned to them, including Nancy who shook her head, tears in her eyes on seeing the accusing look in his.
He turned away, hands fisting in his hair.
“You all act like you’re alone in this. You act like you’re going to die If you don’t just push yourself further. Well, you aren’t doing enough!” He yelled.
Nancy held her chest, fisting her cloth in her squeezed up palm as tears dropped down her cheeks.
“You sound just like my father… ” She whispered painfully, and Koan’s anger vanished like a mist in his eyes as he stared at her. Talia hugged Nancy to herself, glaring hard at Koan before turning to comfort her friend.
“Nan… ” Koan stretched a hand out to touch her, but the next second, the ground underneath them began shaking, rumbling due to the constant weight gathered above it, and it opened up like a hole, swallowing everyone in and they fell deeper into the ground.
Bwuoohhh!
The sound of a large heap of black soil falling onto another dry land echoed in the place, and everyone groaned in pain, dust rising in the air.
While everyone staggered up from the ground, raking soil off their hair, coughing from the dust still rising in the air, adjusting their eyes to the new environment, Cardin, yet to rise from the floor, noticed that something… actually someone broke his fall.
His eyes on meeting with large olive colored eyes, widened.