Chapter 39

Jungkook's POV.

"Let go of us!" I cry out. Yoongi staggers behind me while the Blood Pack wolves ruthlessly drag our bodies.

It was all very sudden in the morning. One moment I was dead asleep and the next I was restrained with my arms behind my back. The wolves do not say a single word to retaliate against our objections.

"Y/n is gone," Yoongi silently mind links.

My head whips back around to meet his eyes, "What?" Yoongi bares his teeth from the painful pressure put on his wounded leg.

A gasp leaves my lips, my feet tripping over themselves while I am continuously shoved forward. The rotten smell of blood almost suddenly reaches my nostrils. I lift my head up to see the sight of blood around two dead wolves who were guarding Y/n's room.

My eyes are unable to look away from the violent bite marks that appear to have drilled holes into their bodies and the torn limbs that are separated at the joints. Their faces are no longer faces now—just a disfigured corpse of meat left to rot away.

A nauseous growl rises in my throat as I push back against the wolves holding me.

"It wasn't us! We didn't kill them! Y/n didn't kill them!" I fight back against the arms struggling to force me to submit.

"Jungkook!" Yoongi pleads, "They'll bring out the wolfsbane if you resist! Please, for heaven's sake Jungkook, restrain yourself!"

My body stills. Not from what he says but from how terrified Yoongi sounds. A hand pushes my head down and I follow mindlessly to the hell they wish to drag us to.

I notice the stone floors and the darkness creeping around us, the presence of wolfsbane creating a fiery burn in the back of our throats.

"Where the hell are we?" Yoongi asks me.

Even my voice through the link is unstable, "The..this..we're in the dungeons. Y/n and I snuck in here before."

"Do you think she's in here?" His question is delayed.

"I hope not."

There is a growl that echoes from the deep cavern of the dungeon followed by yelling and shouting. We stagger closer before being pushed and kicked into an empty cell coated in the sickly purple poison.

"Are you okay?!" Yoongi keeps my feet steady but even he struggles from the suffocating feeling.

"My wolf...hyung my wolf I can't feel my wolf!" I gasp for air.

Yoongi holds my wrists tightly, trying to stop my hands from trembling, "You're okay. It's going to be okay. Your wolf is still with you. Trust hyung, okay?"

I nod my head with vigor, both of us leaning on each other to prevent us from collapsing to the stone-cold floor

"I guess... all Shadow Pack wolves are a bunch of runts."

Our eyes fall on the wolf standing outside our caged cell, "The amount of wolfsbane in these cells is harmless," the Luna remarks.

Her eyes look heavy and blunt. She stares silently at the both of us, her appearance barer than her usual glamour.

"...Where is Y/n?" She asks. Luna Seoyeon narrows her eyes, darkening to their faint yellow glow.

"How the fuck would we know!" Yoongi rasps, "You took her away from us!" He staggers closer to the edge of the bars. Close enough to reach out and touch the fabric of her clothes if he wanted to.

My eyes wander around the space we are trapped in. The faint violet poison creeps over the concrete and stone slabs. The air burns and my eyes water in response.

A few guards stand idly across the room, their eyes shifting between us, the Luna, and a dark figure in the back.

My breathing stops while following their gaze. "Alpha Namjoon..."

Like a shadow emerging from the floor, the Alpha heaves and hacks blood from his lips. His skin is stained bloody red and his eyes remain completely distant and black. The Alpha doesn't appear to hear my words.

The Luna's eyes glance to the side before she huffs disgruntledly to herself.

"What did you do to him!?" I cry out, "Alpha! Please, get up!"

Luna Seoyeon stirs, her fangs showing at my fruitless cries. "He cannot hear you," she seethes, "Namjoon is gone. What's left of him is that bloodthirsty demon from hell."

The body on the floor begins to chuckle earnestly, although his laughs are interrupted by another fit of bloody coughs. The Luna stares for a moment, spacing out for just a moment before she returns to us.

"He's speaking with you..." Yoongi remarks carefully, watching the interaction between the two.

Her lips widen to a long bitter smile, "His wolf has been in my head for four years, Beta Yoongi. Four goddamn years! I have been suffering from whatever nightmare that wolf was born out of." Her lips tremble as she speaks.

"I've tried again and again and again to save him! No matter how many times I gave him more wolfsbane to digest, his wolf kept refusing to die. Those damn Silver Pack wolves lied to me! They said it would cure him but it didn't. All that remains is this monster."

She presses her foot against the Alpha's throat. He glares up at her through his hooded solid black eyes. A deep growl resonates from his chest, challenging his mate into submission.

The Luna is unfazed by his Alpha voice, in fact, she even presses harder on his bare throat.

"Shut up!" She hisses back, "Even in this state you cannot help but harass me and my thoughts. Shut up, I said! You think you deserve to speak after what you did to Namjoon. I gave you more wolfsbane last morning and you couldn't help it, right? Your human vessel is DEAD. You KILLED him. Of course, you don't care, do you? You never cared for anything, you demon."

"Luna!" Our heads turn to the voice racing down the steps, "What is the meaning of this?!"

Beta Seungri slows to a stop, first noticing the Alpha, bruised and bloodied on the ground, and then the Luna stepping over his throat.

"You're hurting him, Seoyeon..." He finally shifts his gaze to notice both of us locked in a cell.

"We're way past hurting him, Seungri. We both agreed to kill that wolf of his and look where it got us! I can't feel Namjoon anymore!" She nearly screams at the body slightly squirming on the ground.

Seungri's eyes widen, "Namjoon..is gone?"

"His wolf is living inside his corpse. You have to kill him, Seungri, and take his blood. Alpha Namjoon's reign was over the moment we tried to save him. A new Alpha must be reborn"

Seungri hesitates, staring into the dead black eyes of the Alpha. "What about Jongyul?"

"Beta Jongyul is a traitor. He refused to take part in our plan to save Namjoon and as a result, I had to kick him out of the palace. He does not deserve to become the next Alpha."

Luna Seoyeon finally lifts her foot off the dying Alpha and strides over to Seungri. "What are you hesitating for! His blood is yours for the taking! I have no heirs to claim the throne. That Alpha..."

She gestures to the body on the floor, "...that Alpha is no longer the Alpha you knew. It is your duty to ascend the throne, otherwise, the pack will shatter into pieces."

"I can't..." Seungri whispers soundlessly, "I can't kill him, Seoyeon. Not when he's still breathing and alive. And I won't murder him to simply take the throne. There has to be a way to bring him back! We did it once, we can do it again, Luna!"

Her eyes burn like acid, nearly frightening the Beta into submission. "You're weaker than I thought Seungri."

The Beta lowers his head and caves his shoulders in, not knowing what to do.

"If you won't kill him...," She calls for one of the guards who brings her a thin plastic tube with needles on both ends, "Then I will."

"Wait! Seoyeon!" Seungri shouts.

Chaos erupts in the dungeon. Guards hold back the Beta from reaching the Luna. Yoongi tries his hardest to break through the metal bars, his eyes burning desperately orange. Finding a fist-sized rock, I try to break the lock on our cage but nothing prevails.

Luna Seoyeon inserts one needle into the vein of Alpha Namjoon's arm and the other into her own vein. A few wolves hold him up, allowing the blood to flow freely down the plastic tube and into the Luna's body. The Alpha's body twitches but does nothing to stop what is happening.

"Fuck!" Yoongi releases the metal bars from his hands. Bright red burns are visible on his skin, showing the indentation of where he was holding.

Just as I turn my head back to the lock in my hand, the stone I am using breaks into two, crumbling right in my hands and falling to the ground. The pads of my fingers sting and swell with redness.

The Luna blinks her eyes several times. Each time she opens her eyelids, her pupils strain to a deeper and darker color. Yellow turns to amber. Amber turns orange. Orange turns brown. Finally...brown turns into a fresh and bright red.

She growls for the first time, feeling the intense power of the Alpha voice, now in her chest. My head throbs from the sudden display of dominance in the room. Seungri pushes against the wolves holding him back while crying for the dying Alpha.

My heart pounds in sheer fear watching Luna Seoyeon turn into the new Alpha of Blood Pack. In an instant, she shifts to her wolf that has grown considerably in size and strength.

Her jaw hovers over Alpha Namjoon's throat, clamping down ruthlessly and crushing his frame until the body stops seizing. The black eyes of the Alpha drain away, returning Namjoon's normal brown helpless eyes as the Luna crushes his throat with ferocity.

There is a sudden snap of bones and flesh

Yoongi pulls me behind him, terrified for his life. His hand tightly grips my arm. I watch over his shoulder as the new Alpha releases her jaw, and lifts her head above her now dead mate.

Her wolf form licks the remaining blood off her own chin and I can swear I see a blissful smile plastered onto her face.

She turns to her human form and then stalks over to the Beta that weeps for the dead Alpha. Seungri falls to the floor, unable to look away from the last remnants of Alpha Namjoon.

"Stand Beta," Seoyeon commands with ease as if she is meant for the rank she has obtained.

Seungri's body moves mechanically. His legs sway and his head hangs low, but he returns to his feet nonetheless.

"Maybe this turned out for the best, hm?" Seoyeon says rather sweetly. Her hand cups underneath the Beta's face, lifting his chin up to look into his eyes, "Your heart of gold wouldn't have been able to harbor his darkness," she motions towards Alpha Namjoon's dead body.

She continues, "I, on the other hand, have been poisoned by his wolf for years now. Now that my mate is gone... I can finally hear the beautiful voice of my own wolf. She's free and happy, Seungri."

The Beta doesn't say a word. His thoughts are muddled and confused, but he smiles at his Luna's happiness.

"You all will address me as Alpha now, Alpha Seoyeon," she says to the wolves around her, "Prepare a formal gathering to announce Alpha Namjoon's death and a bounty for Alpha Y/n. I want her alive and in my hands. She wouldn't dare to abandon this pack and her Betas."

She looks at us, huddled fearfully in the cell. Her red eyes glow with a familiar hunger that I've always noticed in Y/n's eyes.

Yoongi stands frozen in front of me, unable to utter a word. I growl from behind, angered by all that has happened, "You can't lock us in here! This is an act of war against the Shadow Pack! You're a coward for locking us up here! Fight me without all this wolfsbane that you hide behind!"

Seoyeon glides away from our cage. Beta Seungri glances at us sorrowfully before following his new Alpha's heel. Lastly, the palace guards follow suit.

I grab Yoongi by the shoulders, forcing him to face me, "Hyung, there has to be a way! She must be able to hear through the mind link!"

He shudders after glancing back at the dead Alpha still on the stone floor outside our cell. "I should've listened to Y/n," he murmurs. His eyes avoid mine.

"Stop blaming yourself!" Anger rises in my throat. Normally my wolf would be able to speak through my voice, but all that comes across is a pained whimper.

He looks into my eyes, a hopeless look written on his face, "I'm sorry, Jungkook-ah."

My mouth dries from his words.

"Apologize later. We first need to get out of this hell." 

AU Fact: Note that not all wolves can mark one another. Omegas lack the jaw structure and lymphatic nodes to actually mark their mates. Any attempt at marking from an Omega will be unsuccessful. Because of the genetic differences, it is a tradition in many packs for the higher-ranked wolf to mark their mates. It is taboo when both mates have marks (assuming both are Deltas or a higher). Additionally, almost always female wolves bear the mating mark and male wolves do not. Recall that the majority of males have the base Delta or base Alpha genetic makeup (Betas are included but adhere to a genetic combination of the Delta and the Alpha). The majority of females have the Omega genetic makeup. 

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