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Chapter 23 - Disparity in Equality

Written by **EYRAM**

Eventually, she was surrounded, and Seraphina made her way to her sister wearing animal hide, that strangely actually looked stylish, her skirt was made from the hide of a lion, and her shirt a tiger, and over it all a bear coat. 

And as she walked through the flames they parted for her, and that confirmed Serena's suspicion, her sister made an attempt on her life, she put down the heavy armor in her hand, and starting dancing ballet while balancing the little girl in her arms, smirking Seraphina asked

"Is this your last-ditch effort? The last thing you do before your tragic death? I can already imagine the wors what a shock? or gone too soon on your funeral banners"

But right in her twin's trajectory, she did the splits and dis it mid-air at that, creating quite some distance between herself and her twin, then on will Serena moved the flames, then while carrying the girl at lightning speed she managed to reach the bag and picked up her armor, this time she was in a much more favorable position, it was all so fast paced and Seraphina dd not have time to react accordingly.

And that was the time Serena used to gap them, the armor was heavy and hence slowed Serena down, so with there being hope to bridge the gap Seraphina was after the duo, Serena managed to get close to the house and right when she was about to be caught by her sister, in a crucial moment, her power expanded and she was able to make her father think of coming to her location.

But he was a tad bit too slow and by the time Jack arrived Serena was drowned in flames, the little girl on the floor and Serena taking the armor saying,

"You put up a fight, but unfortunately for you, it did nothing but burn extra calories for me" the red in her eyes hair and skin suddenly making her look much more ominous and much less approachable, she could feel her skin burning and right when she thought all hop was lost Jack for the fist time displayed his power for his daughters to see.

He opened his arms and blue-black shadows filled the area, upon contact Serena's flames were turned to nothing, already weakened Serena fainted on the spot, and as for Seraphina after seeing Jack she tried to run but after jack gestured the shadows solidified encasing them completely, but all one would see looking in the direction was a shadow. Jack shouted,

"Seraphina, where have you been, this entire time I have been s looking for you, Do you have any idea how worried I was, I thought I might never get to see you again, and it broke me, I tried to make myself believe you were being held hostage but what I see here today proves all of that wrong and you know what? Letting you take more priority to me than the love of my life was the worst mistake I ever made, If I could trade your life for Anne's I would, do you not get tired of making so much drama"

Then she laughed, and slowly it turned into a cackle, and at the top of her voice screamed

"Vince" then upon short notice the werewolf from earlier was upon them, his fur pitch black and his muscles much bigger, he howled far louder than anything they'd ever heard and under the full moon, the Alpha of the Black Moon Pack Vincent Black was at his peak.

Jack, this time unfazed if not vexed by the wolf's presence made some writings on the hardened shadow floor, then both girls were transported to the house, Seraphina in basement while serena to her bed and the little girl next to her. Jack then said to the wolf

"I am done feeling guilty for what happened to your kind ions ago, you just used my daughter and now I'll show you no mercy" Then Jack rubbed a black ring on his index finger turning it blood red then out off it came fresh blood, after drinking a bit color returned to his skin and he looked much younger, and more vigor coursed through his blood but then he swung his fingers and blood pillars descended upon the wolf.

Screaming the wolf tried to close the distance between the two but literally moving the shadow they were standing on Jack kept the wolf at his maximum attack range which was worlds apart from that of the wolf, the wolf being familiar with melee attack while Jack specialized in ranged combat.

In simple terms, he was at a position where he could attack the wolf endlessly without being attacked back but the wolf quickly noticed this and instead of retaliating it focused on defense reducing the effectiveness of Jack's tactic.

But then the wolf's fur begun to grow longer and shred off it's skin each becoming a sharp needle aiming at Jack, and Jack vehemently invested in dodging neglected counter attacking, eventually allowing the wolf to bridge the distance between them.

While those two were exchanging blows craters were formed in their wake much bigger than anything on all of Ravensville, and the killing intent released by hose two was far greater than even the mayor could exert at that moment.

"You could've killed me jack, but your mistake attempting it on his day going just according to my plan would lead to your downfall, It'd the full moon or you would have succeeded with your one-sided massacre" then after its taunts the wolf bit Jack, clean on his shoulder then scarred his chest.

But before he could incur more injuries jack created distance between them even larger than his attack range and made armor for himself out of blood then after drinking blood his shoulder regenerated, but he knew that after eating anything that possessed power a wolf would grow stronger, and right now he was at a serious disadvantage.

The longer the fight was dragged the more so that statement would hold true, so donning the armor he combined the blue-black shadows with the hardened blood red substance and went all out, frantically sending all sorts of weapons made of that substance, and since the wolfs fur was just scratching his armor, the wolf was pushed to the backseat of the battle.

Seeing how things were going the wolf tried to retreat, battered and bruised all over, but Jack moved his shadow closer to him and at a crucial moment the wolf ran in the direction of jack getting in attack range the wolf went all out, with an attack a wolf could only use ten times in their lifetime, because every time they did it they would lose a nail, and it would never grow back, according to the ancient text.

The wolfs nail chipped off, and at that moment the wolf also became smaller, it's fur reverting to its regular dark color, as it aimed to run away, the chipped nail, disintegrated his armor, and covered him with bleeding open wounds, that if not tended to might actually kill him then later on he fell unconscious, the shadows he made turning into nothing, and at that moment his life was hanging on a thin line.

That was when a woman, who upon closer inspection was none other than Elaine Light came out of the shadows and took his body, then sent it to her mansion.

The next morning, Serena woke up to loud sounds of knocking inaugurating from the basement door, feeling extremely drowsy until the memories from last night surfaced in her thoughts, but she still did not know how she ended up on her bed, and the sounds from the basement, that must be the tapestry she thought, it was her voice, Seraphina's as well and that of the tapestry it was hard to distinguish one from the other.

She directed her attention to the little girl sleeping next to her, and her mind spun into overdrive trying to figure out what to do about her wound, Serena was tired and overwhelmed by how fast paced the whole thing got. She decided to look for her dad and that was when she realized she was home alone, even the staff were nowhere to be found.

At first, she saw it as a golden opportunity presented to her to make her favorite food, but after cooking and eating the worry begun to sink in and she was left clueless not knowing how to handle the entire situation.

Meanwhile…

In the very prison that kept the sisters, but this white room was empty with a much smaller vent, way too small for a human to use to get out, something done after the sisters' escape, but this room was lighted all over which could make one lose their cognition of texture then in the center of the room amidst all that was Jack, awake but wishing he could sleep through the psychological punishment he was being given by Elaine Light.

Jack wanted to escape but he knew trying while he was under surveillance was suicidal and decided to instead wait till the voice talking to him from every direction stopped and Elaine was probably in bed.

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