Chapter 0699

Enzo

My eyes locked onto the enormous bear that was now thundering toward me, six-hundred pounds of snarling fury and dagger-length claws. The deafening roar that escaped the bear's throat almost seemed to shake the very stone beneath my paws.

Every instinct screamed to brace for impact as the grizzly charged at me.

"What the hell?" I thought to my wolf. "How—"

"Don't even question it," my wolf commanded. "Just don't get killed, dammit!"

My wolf was right; there was no time for speculation or awe. There was a wild beast hurtling toward me, reading to kill. Taking in a sharp breath, I lunged out of the way just before the bear collided with me. Up above, the vicious cries erupted from the crowd and caught my momentary attention.

"Rip his throat!"

"Flay the mongrel!"

I didn't know which one of us they were cheering for-me or the bear.

Nonetheless, I filtered out the madness of the crowd, my frenzied thoughts strategizing escape routes desperately feint left then sprint right for the gate, which was still open? No, I could never outpace this monster in this wide open

arena.

"Kill him! Kill him!" the crowd cheered menacingly.

row of sharp teeth. There was only one hope

the enraged grizzly bear whirled around closed in for the kill, outrage roared through my soul at being cornered for bloodsport. If Mila

enormous claws. Then,

hijacked any rational thought-no, I didn't want to kill. This wasn't

an inch from fur as the

me across the blackened floor. Agonized gasps echoed from the spectators above, but

his maw wide open and dripping with saliva. He

endless flurry of claws and fangs, offense versus defense in a frenzy to simply survive. My strikes were fueled only by frantic desperation while animalistic bellows assaulted me from

"Blood! Bathe the

its metallic tang coating my muzzle until I

blood from deep lacerations. My vision swam as the pain mounted beyond anything

disembowelment by the tireless beast intent on destroying me. And if I had any chance, even a flicker of a chance, at getting out

be the one who destroyed him

cries prodded at my overflowing fury: "Fight for me!" she cried out. "Prove your

skidding past me. Before it could regain

easily within my jaws. I felt its sinew shred between my canines. The grizzly's choked bellows rang out, matching the spectators' fevered screams... And then its immense body crashed down, twitching before it finally

raggedly, I knew I had survived the impossible clash. But at a devastating cost that was now carved

me had

shifted back into my human form and fell to my knees, the tiles warm and damp with blood now beneath my palms. What little strength I had was gone now; my wolf was spent. The cries of the crowd faded into a hum, into

needed to see

me began to ripple, blurring until it became a bloodied naked man splayed out on the tiles. Of course this was no regular bear; he had been

body destroyed beyond all belief by my unwilling attacks. Hot revulsion bubbled up in my throat as I stared into those lifeless,

from the corners of them, although I didn't know what it was;

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