Erick
The silence that followed the end of the duel was almost deafening.
The roar of the Arena, the chants, the shock, all of it seemed to have been swallowed by the weight of what had just transpired.
Alan, my Beta, my friend, the boy who had once fought at my side before we even knew what power was, lay broken on the ground.
His chest rose in shallow, struggling breaths.
The proud, reckless gleam that had burned in his eyes only hours ago had been replaced with the glazed stare of a man slipping between worlds.
The warriors began to chant my name again, their voices echoing off the stone walls of the Arena, but I didn’t hear victory in their tone.
I heard fear.
Their voices trembled from fear.
Fear of what I had become. Fear of the monster I had unleashed to protect my th
