The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

[SICARIO]

"Hawi didn't send me home… It was…" Rukiya trailed off, as she racked her brain and the impossible realization. She had to be wrong, because there was no way that she was thinking like this. But what if it was true then?

"Malika," Hudhayfah concluded, making the women turn to look at him. He had portaled into Mbali's room and with him, was beta Adolf, Rukiya's very dead best friend, or rather the one person she thought she would never see again.

Rukiya Greyson had mourned Adolf for an entire year. She had been in pain and had blamed herself for his passing. She had gone crazy and tried not to show it because the mission would always come first.

She had been suffocated inside, not being able to have her best friend black, but each time it was like she would never be truly happy. Hawi was the love of her life, sure, but she had felt the void that Adolf had left and it broke her even to this day.

Even when she had seen him in the dungeons, he had refused to accept the truth because there was a chance she had been hallucinating.

However, looking at him standing there next to Hudhayfah, dressed in the normal clothes he always served Rukiya with, the Greyson alpha wasn't sure if she needed to be happy that it was real, or mad that she had been kept in the dark for over an entire year.

They did her dirty, but was it worth it though?

"Why would she send me home? It doesn't make any sense. And if she wanted to send me home, why not Greyson, why here?" Rukiya asked and they sat down as they struggled to make sense of the chaos.

There had to be a relative explanation because otherwise, this was insanity they were living in. but at the same time, this wasn't going to be the first time all of this happened. So, what changed this time?

"How bout we get the facts straight because at this rate my head will blow up?" Elodie said as she grabbed the nearest seats for Hudhayfah and Adolf. She wasn't able to handle any of this anymore.

She needed clarity.

"Mbali is alive, Adolf is alive, Rukiya is in Sicario and the sailors came with Mbali's body, and the ship blew up. Is there anything I'm missing?" Elodie added as she stared at them like there was more but she had forgotten about it.

"That's pretty much it. But it doesn't make any sense why Mbai would be here or Rukiya or even Adolf. So, what now?" Hudhayfah said as she looked at Mbali who was clearly healthy and undead.

She looked like she had had enough too. Hell, they needed to be on the battlefield and they needed to make things right for the realm. They couldn't sit by and watch as if this was some sort of circus that they were waiting for things to be right for them.

"You really don't see it, do you?" Adolf spoke and they like to him as if to ask what he meant, when he had been in the dungeons for an entire year and never once came out of there to tell his state.

"What is it we don't see, Adolf?" Rukiya asked and Adolf let out a sigh of relief. He had missed hearing Rukiya call him by his name, but now that she did, he felt a little relieved because to him this was a step in the right direction.

It showed that the Greyson girl wasn't eliminating him from her life. White that was something that wouldn't matter to many, it was a reminder of heaven for Adolf and he hoped to never get to the wrong side of Rukiya again.

"All of this. It's so evident. The history books have always talked about the white wolf fighting the seven. Sure, she has her protector, but she always fights the Seven on her own.

"And then here we are, the five of us, a team that is willing to burn the world for the sake of this particular wolf. But we are not going to war with her because she is the white wolf. We are not loyal to her because she is the white wolf.

"Hell, we don't love her because she is the white wolf. We adore her and serve her on our own volition, because she is our friend, and family and she means something to all of us, something beyond her being just the alpha of a pack that shunned her;

"…Or even the girl who was betrayed by the universe one too many times. We love her because she is Hawi, or Awuor Sicario, and not because she is the white wolf. That's why the protector devised everything to get us back to the safest place in the realm right now," Adolf said.

Hudhayfah watched as if reality was suddenly hitting him too.

All of this was fucked up in was more than once. If only it was just as easy to understand the shit that was happening around them and the way the war was getting more complex and forcing them to use their brains instead of just their weapons.

It still didn't make any sense as to why Malika would bring them back home like that. They had sworn fealty to Hawi and that wouldn't change, even if she was the girl without a rank or powers or whatever the hell was at stake right now.

They were here for her and that was never going to go away.

"Still doesn't explain why we are all here. If she is protecting us then that's the dumbest thing Malika has ever done. We are capable of protecting ourselves and fight battles to the very end. We never lose," Mbali said and Adolf laughed sadly.

"You still don't understand. If the white wolf wasn't Hawi, would you still go through all these just to see her ascend the royal queenship? Would you do everything possible even if it cost you your lives?

"Would you live for that white wolf like we all live for Hawi?" Adolf asked and they glared at him collectively with accusing eyes. However, deep down they knew the questions that had been missing were that.

They had sworn fealty for Hawi and were fighting this war as any family would. But that didn't mean that there was an ounce of loyalty to the white wolf. They are here for Hawi and not her position.

They obviously didn't care for what position Hawi held and that was the question Malika was giving them this time.

"Well, that doesn't matter right now, does it? It ain't an excuse enough for my sister to tell the truth is all back here when we could help win the war," Mbali argued and Adolf facepalmed as she looked at them.

"We're all able to live without fear because of Hawi's power. Because we feed off her energy. We are here because her magic keeps Sicario safe, her courage keeps the soldiers going, and her determination makes her a leader worth following.

"Her magic has us stable, but what if we didn't have her magic over us? What if we were just plain wolves and Lycans and healers, would we still want to join the fight? That is the question we are all needed to answer," Adolf said as he looked at them.

He knew this wasn't the easiest question, but it was so they needed to answer because otherwise they are going in blinded by their loyalty to Hawi.

The war was more than just Hawi and it was somewhat ironic that the man who was making them see sense was the first one to meet Hawi in the free lands and send her to Greyson.

But perhaps that was also how fate worked. No one ever really knew what tomorrow we would like and they all just had to live their truths, right?

"Absolutely."

"I fought beside her long before I knew she had magic."

"Even without the mate bond, I would fight for her."

"She's power even without the power she has as the white wolf."

"She has proven herself to be a worthy leader. Even if she wasn't the white wolf with so much responsibility, I would trust her with my life," Elodie concluded with pride as she threw back to the woman she had loved like a sister.

It was obvious how far they would go for Hawi, with or without her powers. It was something either stupid or very brave, seeing as she had protected them all in ways that no one had ever been protected.

They had been loved by her and kept safe by her because she was the girl scared of losing. And subconsciously, they had all let her protect them without releasing that what she needed were people who would fight beside her, regardless of the risks.
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People who would remind her that they didn't have a reason to fear anything. That they could do this together, even if it meant that they would eventually die. They were warriors and the battlefields were their gravesites. It is all just a matter of time anyway.

"Then we all have our answers," Adolf said just as the Sicario bells began ringing a little too loudly. It was not something they had expected and the surprise on their faces as they looked at Adolf was obvious.

"That's not my doing," Adolf defended.

"What's happening?" Mbali asked.

"The protective domes are coming down," Elodie stated in surprise.