My Hockey Alpha novel Chapter 491

Exchanging a quick glance, the panther and I weaved through the mayhem, our eyes locked on our ultimate target— Mila.

She rose from her throne, her expression twisted into a mask of fury as she witnessed her carefully constructed facade crumbling around her.

“Fools!” she screeched, her shrill voice cutting through the chaos. “You think you can defy me? I am your queen, your ruler, your goddess!”

With a feral roar, the panther leapt towards her, his claws extended. I followed close behind, my jaws snapping, ready to tear into her flesh.

But Mila was faster.

In one fluid motion, she drew a blade from her silken green skirts, the wicked metal glinting in the torchlight. The panther’s momentum carried him forward, straight onto the tip of her knife.

A guttural cry escaped his jaws as the blade sank deep into his side, right between his ribs. I skidded to a halt, my ears flattening against my skull as I watched him crumple to the ground, blood pooling around him faster than I thought possible.

With a strained grunt, Mila pulled the blade from the panther’s side, using her foot on his now-limp body as leverage. I felt my stomach flip as I watched the blood, a sickly greenish color rather than red, dripping from the tip.

The panther was dead. Just like that. He didn’t even have a chance to close his eyes, which now stared lifelessly up at the blackened abyss above our heads.

Mila’s gaze snapped to mine then, her yellow, slitted eyes narrowing. “Traitory,” he hissed, her words laced with venom. “After all I have done for you.”

Then, with an evil snarl, she held the knife up… and she licked the panther’s green blood from her blade.

Something changed then.

A tremor ran through Mila’s body, and suddenly, her skin began to ripple and shift, scales erupting across her flesh. With a deafening roar, she rose to her full height, her body twisting and contorting until a massive green and yellow dragon towered over me, its yellowed, cracked talons crushing the obsidian beneath her feet.

Screams filled the air as people saw their tyrant queen in all of her glory. A few dropped to their knees in front of her, shrieking and begging for forgiveness.

She paid them no mind, and merely scooped them up in one of her great claws, tossing them into her mouth with a series of sickening crunches.

With a twist of her body, she brought her tail around, the massive appendage slamming into me with the force of a battering ram. I felt the air leave my lungs as I was sent hurtling backwards, my body crashing to the ground in a heap.

Stars danced across my vision as I struggled to rise, my bones aching from the impact. Through the haze, I watched as Mila unfurled her wings, the powerful gusts of wind nearly knocking me off my feet once more.

With a final, earth-shattering roar that shook the very foundations of the mountain, she launched herself into the air, her massive form bolting up, up, up, until…

She crashed through the very top of the mountain, showering an earthquake of rocks and blinding sunlight down on

us.

I could only watch, helpless, as her screeches filled the air.