Get Back The Abandoned Luna (Scarlett and Alexander) novel Chapter 77

Scarlett’s POV

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The forest at night was never silent–It should suppose to hear the rustle sounds of the leaves, the birds that was chirping and the crickets. However, it was too odd that the forest was too still right now. It feels like something was wrong right now and my instincts were also telling me to be careful.

“Be careful. I feel that there’s something going on in this forest right now.” I said, staying vigilant to the surroundings.

Five warriors nodded their heads solemnly as they followed me. They tighten the grip of their blades, as if they were ready to fight if there’s something going on.

Garrick walked just behind me, his voice was thunderous, breaking the silence of the forest. “You shouldn’t have come with us. If the Alpha knows that you sneak out to join us, he will kill us.”

The other four warriors nodded their heads as if agreeing with Garrick.

I glanced back, arching a brow. “Why not? Do you see me as weak?”

Garrick flatly shook his head. “It’s not because you’re weak. It’s because your Luna.”

“What’s wrong with being Luna?” I asked back.

“Council’s halls, strategies, speeches–that should suppose to be your place, overseeing the pack and making sure that its sun smoothly while using the warriors to guards the pack. This-” he gestured to the darkened woods. “-are our tasks.”

I helplessly looked at him–them. “I wasn’t born to stand behind the walls,” I said, steel in my stone. “If I am to lead Nightshade, then I’ll bleed with it too.”

Nami gave a short, approving nod. “She’s right. Just let her do what she wants.”

Joren, the youngest of the group, grinned. “Honestly, I feel safer with her here. She fights like she’s been starving to fight for her whole life.”

I shot him a faint smile. “Careful, Joren. Keep talking like that, and I’ll expect you to keep up with me.”

His grin faltered. “I’ll…do my best.”

The six of us chuckled at his reaction. however, our laughter died as the air shifted.

The hairs along my neck prickled. Something’s going on.

“Something’s wrong, be alert.” I murmured, raising my hand.

The words barely left me when the shadows split apart. Shapes lunged from the trees, snarls ripping the night

open.

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Fuck!

“Ambush!” Garrick roared.

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Steel clashed as a dozen rogues crashed into it at once. Their movements weren’t wild like usual. They were sharp, precise with the intent to kill. I could clearly tell that they weren’t ordinary rogues—or probably they were hired to act as a rogue in disguised to kill someone.

I suddenly remembered Kane’s reminder.

Fuck. Lucien would surely be furious if he knew about this.

One blade came straight for my chest. I hurriedly blocked it with my staff, the impact jolting my arms. I took a detour, spinning, as I drove the end into his stomach, forcing him back–but another was already behind him.

“They’re trained!” Nami shouted, parrying two strikes at once.

“They are coming straight to Scarlett! Protect her!” I heard Garrick shout.

I swung hard, the staff cracking againse’s jaw. He staggered, blood spraying all over the dry leaves and

in his clothes. I immediately stepped back to avoid the blood.

After I finished the one, there’s aways another one. It feels as if there’s no ending to this.

“Leave one rogues for me to interrogate!” I shouted hurriedly.

Just when I was about to stab another rogue, when I heard Joren cry out as one caught his shoulder. I immediately reacted, using my foot and kicked across the attacker’s back before he could finish the blow.

“Stay on your feet!” I barked.

“I’m–fine… thank you!” Joren’s voice was shaky, but he raised his blade again.

The largest rogue barreled toward me, his teeth bared in a wide grin. “The Luna herself…” he snarled. “Easy coin.”

“Try me,” I coldly spat.

His blade stuck with brutal force. I blocked once, twice, each hit rattling down my bones. I swung for his ribs. however he caught the staff wrenching it sideway. His knife flashed upward-

“Scarlett!” Nami’s scream tore through the chaos.

I gritted my teeth, twisting, barely throwing my shoulder back as the knife skimmed past, slicing fabric instead of flesh. My pulse thundered. I thought it was just that when he suddenly changed the direction and directly stabbed me on my right shoulder, making me hissed as I dropped my staff.

Damn it.

I saw him smirked, driving forward again and this time, he wasn’t aiming at my shoulder–he was aiming

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straight to my heart. However, I wasn’t able to move as his movement was fast, precise, as if he had been doing this as practice to use it on me.

“Fuck! Protect Scarlett!” I heard Nami cursed as she tried to overthrow the three rogues that keep fighting with her, while the others were also occupied with the seeming non–ending rogues.

I clenched my fist, using my upper body to move, when a silver shape tore through the dark.

Lucien.

His sword cut clean through the rogue’s guard, sending the man stumbling. In the same movement, Lucien plunged his blade into his chest, yanking it free in a spray of crimson.

Seeing that he was dealing with the rogue, I hurriedly took my staff and stood up, readying myself to fight another one.

I glanced at my bleeding shoulder and there were still knives buried there. I gritted my teeth and pulled it out without changing expressions.

“Form ranks!” Lucien’s voice boomed, commanding the night itself. “Cut them down!”

Reinforcements poured in behind him, Nightshade warriors rallying with a roar. Shields locked. Swords flashed. The tide surged.

–

Lucien was a storm precise, lethal, unyielding. His blade found throats, hearts, every strike final. A rogue lunged at me, but Lucien’s sword met him first, cutting him down before I even turned.

“You’re reckless,” he growled, shoving another attacker aside.

“I held them off before you came,” I snapped, staff cracking against a skull.

“You nearly died! What if I didn’t come?!” he snarled back, eyes flashing silver.

“I’m still standing! Besides, you still came and that’s what’s important!”

“Barely. Let’s talk later about how you sneak from me after this.” His blade drove through another rogue; the words sharp as steel.

The battle raged on. Garrick fought shoulder–to–shoulder with Nami, both bloodied but relentless. Joren stumbled but rose again, his blade finding its mark with newfound fury.

One rogue caught me off–guard, blade grazing my thigh. Pain flared – but I whirled, slamming my across his temple. He dropped, twitching.

“Fuck! Scarlett!” Lucien’s voice barked, his hand shoving another attacker back. “Stay with me!”

“I don’t need-” I started, breathless, but another strike forced me silent.

staff

Together we fought, the rhythm of survival binding us tighter than words. His sword flashed, my staff spun, each of us covering the other.

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At last, the final rogue fell, his weapon clattering to the din. The forest rang with heavy breaths, the groans of the wounded, the stench of blood

One rogue yet lived, writhing on the ground, a gash spilling crimson down his side. Lucien knekt, pressing his blade against the man’s throat

“Who sent you?” His voice was cold, deadly,

The rogue smirked. “Who knows?

Lucien’s eyes darkened. Without saying, he directly slammed the knife that was used to stabbed on my right shoulder–stabbing it on the rogue’s right eye, earning a painful cry from him.

Just when Lucien was about to get the knife from his eyes and stabbed it in his other eye, when the rogue hurriedly betrayed his dealer.

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