Hunters moon

26: Victory?

Just as before, Quintin's rage was dwindling, he could see past the red again, all around him stood black werewolves, but they had more wolf like ears, and red eyes. In front of him, a white werewolf, he then looked at his hands, he held an arm, but only what was left of it "Did... Did... did I just eat this arm!?" He yelled "O f**k! I'm a cannibal!"

The group of wolves around him looked at him confused, this enraged animal suddenly freaking out about something that was normal to them.

"You!?" He looked at the white wolf, she turned to him "You fed me an arm!?"

"Get yourself together cat, were on the front foot here, almost done" She smiled. Quintin looked up but fell when he saw the helicopter hovering closely above "f**k! That's too low! Tell that asshole to pull up!"

Naomi heard all of Quintin's words, her ears sagged, he didn't change after all, not by much at least, her heart in sorrow now, how could she attack the man who gave her everything she ever needed.

"Naomi?" Devonte asked "Are we going to attack or not?"

"Seriously Devonte, we are outmatched, let's retreat" She said sadly.

"No! Were attacking! Cleopatra was wrong about you! You're too weak!" He roared and waved, the remaining members of her pack charged forward, but the Rooivalk came forward and started firing it's second set of rocket pods, and those who managed to evade by jumping, got a hailstorm of lead from the machine gun, it wasn't long when Devonte staggered back past her "f**k!"

"Told you"

"I'm out of here!" He yelled fleeing, but the machine gun from the helicopter took him down effortlessly. Now Naomi stood, as Quintin stood against her, alone against the odds.

"Naomi" Quintin said approaching her, she smiled at him.

"You won Quintin"

"Does that mean you'll come with me?"

She shook her head "I can't, regardless of how much I love you my loyalty will always be with Cleopatra"

"Oh come on Naomi! This is bullshit!"

She readied for attack but the Rooivalk let out another hellfire, she decided to end it there, another plume of smoke as the explosion erupted, blowing the sand into the air again.

"Is she dead?" Michael asked coming next to Quintin, Quintin paused before answering, he knew she should be, but secretly he didn't want her to be.

"I'm not sure, that trick she uses is beyond me" Quintin said.

"It's the realm jump" Michael said "She draws her body into the shadows, hiding there nothing in reality can touch her, and she can attack there from out any shadow, even the one that clings to your body, this is why shadow elementals are some of the most dangerous assassins, and of all elementals the hardest to kill"

Quintin looked at Michael, then at the helicopter which came down nose towards them and landed, the rotors powered down and the cockpit hatches opened, Quintin saw Frits and Koos inside.

"You?"

"Yes Frikkie, howz-it feel to be one of them?"

Quintin looked at his claws, how high above the ground he stood, he was even bigger than Michael, who was the biggest werewolf there "Weird"

Koos and Frits laughed, but something caught Frits's eye, he drew his pistol but was too late, Claire came into his face and soaked him with her tongue.

"Fok! Am I really being licked by a werewolf right now!?" He panicked defending as best he could.

"My name is Claire and you two saved me! I will forever be grateful!" She said shifting to Koos, he was laughing as well until he saw the pink tongue.

"O fok!" He defended but she easily parted his arms and made his face wet as well.

"Blleaag! Ok ok! It's our pleasure! Forfucksakes!"

"It seems you two just found a new pet" Michael laughed.

"Shut it Michael! I'm no one's pet! I'm just showing my gratitude!" Claire snarled.

"What is this thing?" Quintin asked looking at the Rooivalk.

"It's that Red Buzzard Ezbar was working on, we found out Cleopatra had built one to help with this battle, but then we stole it" Koos said, not wanting to climb out between all these werewolves.

"Sly b***h!" Quintin growled.

"That wolf we tried blowing up, was that Cleopatra?" Frits asked.

"No, that's Naomi"

"Your girlfriend?"

"Yes, well, was"

"I'm sorry boet"

"It's ok, so? What are you going to do from here on?"

"Were busy with upgrades for the Ratel, were going to make it a little more effective, And you?"

"Return to Ezbar I guess, and wait"

Koos nodded "We'll stay in touch boet, see you later" He said as Frits started the helicopter up again, the wolves stood back and watched it rise then turn to fly south.

Michael started laughing "So they did come to help after all, in a weapon they stole from Cleopatra! That what I call good luck for us"

"Yes, it was those three who killed off Naledi's pack, guess they made up for that now" Quintin said.

Michael looked at him stunned "F... f**k, rather be on their good side right?"

Quintin agreed "So, the war is over for you lot now, where to next?"

"A vacation! dammit!" Michael answered "With most off Cleopatra's pack down, we can rest easy for now, come Dianne, lets go" He said walking off with his pack.

"Now we can enjoy this victory by ourselves" Claire said looking at Nina, who nodded a smile in return.

Quintin was happy for them, six years later, their war comes to an end, or did it just start? Who knows, he felt a tingle up his spine, then his skin crawled almost visibly on his muscles, it was that bloodlust feeling again "MOVE!" He roared and leapt up high, but Claire and Nina didn't make it.

***

"The... cursed... wolf... this is what we call a human, who became a wolf through a bite or blood transfer. We call it a curse, because the human will never be able to fully control the wolf, without the master being close, the master being the one who bit him" Cleopatra said slowly walking around Naomi.

Naomi knew a harsh punishment laid ahead of her, thanks to her lead, the main pack was now dead, all but a few Anubis members remained.

"But what do we call you Naomi?" Cleopatra stopped in front of her.

"A failure"

"More like a mistake!" Cleopatra hissed and continued walking around her.

"You were given the opportunity to make a name for yourself, instead you caused us the greatest defeat in years!"

"All odds were against us my Queen"

"Then why not withdraw!?"

"I... I have no excuse"

"Then what am I to do with you? As much as it pains me to say this now, executing you will still be a loss to me"

"I will accept any punishment deemed necessary my Queen"