Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 83

Chapter 83: THE FIRST MURDER
FIRST LIFE

(((ZENITH’S POV)))

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This was not the first time it happened to him. Zenith was tired. The world that he was seeing was not the same like what other people saw.

He had been made aware of his ability since such a young age, but recently he felt the turmoil in his ability and he was having a hard time to differentiate the spirit and the living being, normal people. Some of them looked the same in his eyes.

His mother helped him with his ability, since she had the same power, but it didn’t help much because it was very obvious that their constitution was very different.

Zenith was having another burst of power and every time it happened, his world was spinning, he had this strong headache and his beast became more feral than usual.

People said it happened to him because when his mother was pregnant with him and his twin sibling, she was exposed to black magic and unfortunately, he absorbed some of it.

His twin was fine, it only happened to him and not many people knew about his unique condition.

Zenith would be more aggressive whenever he was having this episode and his mother was the only one, who could calm him down.

However, the queen was away for two days and Zenith couldn’t risk other people’s safety if he was nearby.

Therefore, before he completely lost it, he shifted into his beast and rushed away from the capital city. He didn’t stop until he felt tired and his beast wouldn’t be able to hurt anyone, but of course, it wouldn’t last for long. He would quickly regain his strength in no time.

Zenith didn’t know where he had gone, but when he gained a little bit of clarity, he realized that he had headed toward Moonlight pack.

Just in case, he needed to stay away from the pack and stay hidden in the forest, until his episode was done.

Zenith was only thirteen years old, a very young boy, but a mature one. He knew what he had to do and the gravity of his situation.

However, in the evening, his beast became even more unrestrained, he felt this anger and rage that he couldn’t explain, he tried to keep calm, but it was hard.

All the intrusive thoughts flooded in his mind. He wanted to kill, torture someone. In the past, he could satisfy this thirst for blood and violent with hunting.

Hunting down the monsters were the only way for him to release his murderous intention, but there was no monster here, instead, he caught a smell of rogues. There were many of them.

Zenith tried to fight back his urge to approach those rogues, because he knew the result of it, but he couldn’t. His instincts became very sharp and he couldn’t get a control of his beast.

The next thing he knew, he had dashed toward this bunch of rogue and killed some of them, chased away the rest, but it was not enough.

The sound of their painful wails and breaking bones were a music to his ears. He wanted more. His beast wanted more.

The feeling of when he ripped their limbs from their body and when his claws sunk into their flesh was heavenly. This feeling was an addiction for Zenith. His beast not yet had enough.

Zenith was only thirteen, but his beast looked bigger than any young shifters around his age, and also stronger.

In no time, he managed to kill four of them and scare the rest to leave the area.

Still, Zenith’s beast wanted more, but the only thing that left was this little girl, who was crying, asking for her mother.

She was around Zaya’s age, his sister, or probably younger than her.

Her chubby cheeks turned red, as she cried so hard, calling for her mother that obviously had died during the rogue attack. The little girl was covered in blood, but from the look of it, it was not hers, but Zenith couldn’t say for sure.

It took everything in him to calm down his beast and get rid of his intrusive thought to kill this little girl. He could forgive himself if he killed the rogue, but not an innocent child around the age of his sister.

Zenith suppressed his beast’s murderous intention and shifted back into his human form. Bead of sweats covered his forehead, his body was trembling when he exerted so much control over himself.

That little girl was still crying, but this time she looked at Zenith. She looked terrified, as if she was unsure whether Zenith would harm her or not. Her eyes turned red like a rabbit. She clutched her mother’s dress.

Zenith approached the little girl and looked at her mother’s condition. He took a cloak from the ground and covered her dead body. It was too late for him to hide this sight from this little girl, but at the very least, this was the only thing that he could do, before he picked her up.

“Mama… mama…” The girl wrapped her arms around Zenith’s neck and cried. Her small body was trembling in fear and this, in sickening way, helped Zenith to stay focus.

He couldn’t let his intrusive thought wound and killed her. Because it was very easy to snap her neck and ripped her little body apart.

“Mama… Mama…” her cries were very pitiful and Zenith could only hold her, waited until someone came and saved her.

He waited until night fell and the little girl was tired of crying and fell asleep on his shoulder, while Zenith sat under a tree, leaned his back against it.

This was the first time he killed someone during an episode, no, in total he killed five rogues. Yet, Zenith didn’t feel anything. He was not sure whether this was a good or a bad sign.

He patted the girl to sleep and thankfully, his beast had calmed down significantly when the night fell.

But, he was on alert again when he heard a few footsteps of beasts and there were many scents permeated in the air, it seemed, there were people came in a large number.

Zenith hugged the little girl and hid behind the tree. He needed to see whether this was this girl’s pack member or this was another attack of the rogue.

A big wolf appeared first and then shifted into his human form. Zenith recognized him, he was alpha Tony from Moonlight pack. He fell to his knees when he saw the dead body of the woman that this little girl called as her mother.

Only then, Zenith was sure that this must be Dawn, alpha Tony’s only daughter and the dead woman must be his mate.

Zenith happened to see alpha Tony a few times, but he had never met with his daughter, but due to how bad the attack of the rogue, he couldn’t recognize the luna.

“Take care, little one,” Zenith said, he put Dawn’s body under the tree and made a noise to attract their attention.

Alpha Tony immediately went to check the noise and approached the tree, he then found his daughter, but Zenith had gone.