Both Marie and Olivia had their hands lifted above their heads, blocking the wind from hitting their eyes. With their other hand, they were holding tightly onto the grey fur.
It was incredible—they were riding on top of Kai’s wolf form. His large body could easily take the two of them, but what was actually more impressive was the speed at which he was moving.
It was faster than both Marie and Olivia could muster in their werewolf forms.
Turning their heads, although with their eyes they were unable to see the cars, Olivia was able to hear the sound of the engines in the distance.
“If they put their foot down, they might eventually catch up to us, but don’t worry, I’ll try and stop them,” Olivia said.
It was easier to deal with the cars; hitting a tire or the side of the door and forcing them to crash off to the side would stop their pursuit, and the cars were the only thing they had that could keep up with them.
The One Gang in their Altered forms had no chance of catching up, and she was starting to realize that this was a better option to fight in more ways than one.
“Are you going to be okay though? Isn’t using this form going to use up all your energy? What if you have to fight after this?” Marie said, concerned.
As she and Olivia would be just fine. In a way, this was a gamble on Kai’s behalf to try and avoid fighting.
“We’ll be fine!” Kai answered, but soon started to slow down his stride. The strong gust of wind felt by the two women also slowed, and lowering their hands they could see what was up ahead.
“That’s the car!” Marie said.
“And it’s not just the car, but that’s Park fighting as well,” Olivia added.
Not only was Park fighting, but it was quite clear he was having a hard time. He had transformed, black fur covering his body, but around him there were several Altered—around eight of them—with one on the ground hurt.
Park was on the roof of the car and had just avoided a strange vine from one of the Altered. He then leapt from his position, landing on top of the gang member, and went to swipe his hand.
Before he could, another Altered from behind had grabbed onto his arm, stopping his swipe. Then a smaller Altered jumped in the air and bashed into his chest with their horn.
Park flipped and skidded on the floor. When he finally figured out where he was, he could see a flying bird Altered diving towards him.
“I hope I managed to last at least long enough for Gary to reach the stadium. I don’t even know how long I’ve been fighting for,” Park said, knowing full well that the beatdown would continue.
As a werewolf, he had great endurance and even managed to defeat one of the Altered while facing so many at once, but he had perhaps reached his limit with this.
“Screw you, bird man!” Park shouted as he went to take a swing, but when he did, it had hit nothing but air. Looking at the bird man, he saw it being dragged off in a completely different direction. However, Park couldn’t focus on the bird man as the small Altered had already caught up with him and was ready to use its head to crash into Park’s stomach again.
“I don’t know if I can take another hit from the small man!” Park braced himself and was ready for a few bones to be broken. Before the little man hit him, he felt a sharp pain in his back.
Turning his head, he was surprised to see the claws of a fellow ally.
“Marie!”
“Just brace yourself!”
A surge of power was felt in the entirety of Park’s body. Newfound energy and strength filled his body. The small Altered crashed into the centre of Park’s stomach but fell back onto the ground.
It was the first time this had happened in the fight, and Park, with a smile on his face, looked down at the small Altered.
“Come here, you little shit!” Park said as he swiped, picking up the Altered by its neck and then throwing it and slamming it down onto the ground.
The other Altereds didn’t come close after what had happened. Just like that, two Altered had been defeated—the small little rock-type Altered as well as the bird man.
Now standing by Park’s side was Kai in his wolf form, Marie who had aided Park, and Olivia dragging half of the bird man’s body with her whip. Eventually, she swung the whip, hurling the body over to the other Altereds.
When it landed in front of them, they looked at the ground in disgust at the body.
“Is Gary okay?” Kai asked.
“Yeah,” Park answered. “When we ran into the blockade I told him to keep going. He continued to run, and at his speed I don’t think he’s going to have any trouble.”
“Good,” Kai said as he reverted back to his regular form. “You did a good job, Park, and made the right decision.”
The One Gang was looking at the four werewolves, all of them partly transformed, standing side by side.
“You can hear them, right? The cars—they’ve caught up with us,” Olivia said.
“Right, but I also feel something else,” Kai said.
Now that they were with the pack of werewolves with more around them, the strength was rising in Kai due to his special trait, and not only that, but for a moment all of them felt a surge in energy. Their eyes glowed for just a brief moment.
“What was that?” Park asked, touching his chest.
“That was Gary sending us his support,” Kai answered. “Looks like a change of plan. Right now, it’s the best time to fight!”
The Alpha’s howl has been used, and the werewolf pack working together were stronger together.
It was time for a small pack of werewolves to go against the Zodiacs, who were possibly the strongest group of Altereds currently in existence.
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