Checkmate

Angel POV

I slowly awake and feel the warmth of Seth behind me. I turn my body to face him as I watch him sleep peacefully. I gently put my paw to his face.

"If I ever lost you." I say quietly kissing his cheek. I softly grab his arms and unwrap myself getting up and stretching. I make my way out of the den and try to meet up with Kate.

"Hey Angel!" I see Kate making her way towards me.

"Hey Kate!" I say back smiling. We continue to walk around for about an hour or so before finding our way to the little lake Seth likes to go to.

"It's a nice spot." Kate says slowly emerging herself in the water.

"Yeah every time I'm here I think of him." I say thinking of how he looked sleeping that morning. The thought of him put a smile on my face.

Kate laughs and tells me to join her in the water. I slowly emerge my self. The water was painfully cold but after a couple minutes I was adjusted. Kate and I splashed around and also relaxed for about 2 hours before we thought it was about time to get out.

"Man I really needed some time to relax." Kate said shaking herself off.

"Yeah I guess I mean I usually just get relaxed when I'm laying down with Seth." I say starting to miss him.

"Angel if you want we can go back, I can see the expression on your face you miss him." She says smiling at me.

"I'm sorry I just love him so much." I say feeling a little bad that I can't hangout with Kate more. As we turned around to start our walk back a group of three wolves stood in our way, It was Ratchet and 2 new generals.

"R-ratchet?!" I say shocked. I stood in front of Kate wandering what their intentions were. Ratchet said nothing he just turn his head from me.

"Ah Angel..." I hear a familiar voice say. I freeze in my place, The look on Kate's face was pure terror. I could feel my body beginning to shake as I slowly turn my body to see Blake.

"B-blake, what are you doing here?" I ask terrified.

"You should have known I would come for him, and you..." he says walking towards me.

"Blake stay back." I say trying to keep Kate from the others.

"If you just come with me peacefully I won't have to kill your little friend here." I look to Kate terrified.

"Angel don't even think about it." Kate says to me grabbing my arm. I stand still debating whether to go or not.

"Always have to choose the hard way huh?" He says walking towards me. He grabs Kate's arm and I try to rip his arm off her but he was too strong. He bites the top of her neck and she begins to scream.

"Alright Blake stop! I'll go!" I yell running to Kate. He drops Kate and I hurry to her making sure she is ok.

"P-please don't go with them." Kate says grabbing my arm. I softly smile at her and grab her paw.

"Don't worry about me, I'll be fine." I say slowly pulling her paw off my arm.

Blake looks to Ratchet and tells him to pick up Kate to take her back the the pack main area. Blake kept me in his grasp the entire time.

"You know Angel I trusted you...I thought that it would be me and you till the end." He says looking saddened.

"You never cared, all you tried to do was mate me." I say shaking my head.

He smiled and shook his head.

"If that's all you ever thought of me then I am very sorry." He says looking away from me.

"Why are you doing this? This is wrong." I say looking back to see if Kate was alright.

"I see my brother has gotten to you. I know about the romance between you. It will only make it easier for me to kill him." He says smiling.

"Blake how could you say these things about you own brother." I say thing back of when I found Seth. He must of saw the expression on my face and was amused by it.

"Poor Angel, you already know what's going to happen don't you." He says to me. I'm instantly reminded of how I found Seth after their first battle.

"If you think he's scared of you then your fucking stupid." I say shaking my head.

we began to see the pack grounds. Their entire group began to howl causing the entire pack to turn their attention to them. Our pack began to howl as well. Winston and all the higher ups came out to see what was going on.

"Quiet down everyone! What brings you here?" Winston asked not knowing who was starting in front of him.

"I know of a wolf you are sheltering here...You are the pack leader yes?" Blake says shaking his fur.

"I am. And if you have come for one of my pack members I am sorry but I will not give up any of my fellow wolves." Winston said beginning to understand the situation.

"He is not one of you!" Blake yells stomping his front paw on the ground. This statement even confused me.

Seth POV

I finally woke up not feeling the warmth of Angel but after talking with Humphrey I knew where she was, I hung out with Humphrey for most of the day either training or having fun joking around but I had to admit without Angel I felt...blank like a part of me was missing. We both decided to head back to the pack grounds since we both wanted to see our mates. Off in the distance I could hear howls and it had me wandering what was wrong. Humphrey and I didn't think anything of it at first but once it went quiet we heard another set of howls which alerted Humphrey.

"That's the call for all wolves to come in." He said looking worried.

"Is it a bad call?" I ask confused.

"It goes both ways, either Winston wants to announce something or something bad happened and they need all the wolves in the area to come in." He said looking around for other wolves.

"Let's not waste any more time and get there, just in case." I say beginning to run in the direction of the howling.

After about 10 or so minutes we had made our way just to the outskirts of the main pack ground. There was some sort of scuffle going on and and all I cared about was finding Angel. I kept looking around until I saw a rather large figure with Winston in his grasp yelling for him to tell him where I was. I also saw Angel and Kate both being held captive behind him. Humphrey immediately ran towards him, I tried to stop him knowing who the figure was but it was no use. He made his way to Blake and jumped on his back.

"Get off him you son of a bitch!" Humphrey yelled biting the back of his neck. Blake had no reaction.

"You disgusting piece of lesser trash." Blake called out grabbing Humphrey slamming him into the ground. Humphrey squealed in pain but it was short lived as Blake kicked him in the face and threw him next to Kate and Angel.

"Learn your place." Blake said looking to Humphrey shaking his head.

"Are you satisfied yet?" Ratchet asked Blake looking around.

"No, we are not leaving here without Seth." He says looking around. As soon as he said this statement I knew whether I liked it or not I had to fight him again. After some self debate I knew that whether I won the fight or got caught it wouldn't be the same here on out.

"Good thing you don't need to look any further." I said stepping out of the place I was at. Blake immediately turned his attention to me.

"So you did survive." He said smiling.

"Yeah, couldn't stand the thought of dying in the hands of a low life like you." I say cracking my neck. The pack around Blake got ready to attack when he called them off.

"You stay here and guard her." Blake says pointing to Angel who was looking at me with terror in her eyes. I softly smiled at her and nodded my head.

"Alright, round 2 what do you say?" I say shaking my self off.

"This will only hurt you in the end." He says making his way towards me.

His walk turned into a sprint quickly, I stand in a defensive position ready to take an ass beating of my life. He lunged toward me for a tackle but I quickly dodged and used my momentum to send him into a tree with a kick. He quickly picked himself up and shook himself off.

"Looks like it won't be that easy this time huh." He says cracking his neck.

"Give me all you got." I say gesturing him forward.

We both ran at each other. He threw a scratch which I blocked with my fore arm. I tried to throw a counter scratch but he kicked me away. I use the momentum of his kick to roll my self back up and was met with a breathe taking tackle. We both hit the ground, I got one foot under him and kicked him to the side. we both got up and stood ready to go again. I had a weird feeling almost like I knew his moves as he was throwing them. He tried to bite my leg but I easily jumped up and kicked him into the ground landing on top of him. I used as much power as I could to nail my elbow into his head. I knew it was a good blow as he squealed from the pain. I tried to repeat the same move but was grabbed and thrown into a nearby tree. The pain cause me to wince and clench my teeth.

"It seems your finding your power." He says shaking his head. I spit some blood on the ground and looked up ready to go again. We both approached each other, he threw a punch with his right paw which I countered with a punch of my own. He landed a punch to my body which sent me to the ground. It was crazy the amount of power he had. I put a paw on my ribs knowing a few of them were broken. I started to get up when one of his legs came across my face. I started coughing and looking up towards him.

"Even with some of your power unlocked you still won't be able to beat me." He says breathing heavily. I looked over to Angel who had tears in her eyes. I knew she was scared.

I used every bit of my power to punch him in his leg shattering it not without consequences though I knew my arm was also shattered. He fell to the ground, I slowly got up looking over him.

"You talk to much." I say kicking him as hard as I could. He was sent rolling a couple times hitting a rock and stopping.

He let out a few coughs before letting out a laugh.

"If only you were on our side..." He says looking down.

"There are no sides Blake, I'm just doing what's right." I say looking down to my arm.

"Did you think I would come all the way out here without any support. As soon as he said this I heard Angel scream watch out. I turned my head and was met with a punch that sent me flying. My body felt paralyzed, I couldn't move, no I didn't want to move.

I turned my head to see Humphrey and Kate holding each other and Angel crying. I coughed up blood and tried to get up but didn't have enough energy. Some wolves from our pack made their way to me and told me to gain some energy while they bought me some time. They fought with strategy and if they were as good fighter as me they would have easily one but they were no match. Who ever this big ass wolf is, he knows what he is doing. He grabbed one wolf by the neck and snapped it. One wolf bit his neck and started ripping and it just to be met with a ground slam killing him instantly. The two left were terrified but kept trying one of them went for his legs and the other went for his chest, almost at the same time the bottom wolf was kicked into a tree snapping him in half and the top wolf was punched breaking his jaw. Even with the condition he was in he kept fighting but was thrown to the ground and a rock was slammed into his head killing him. I felt horrible but I knew that this was the only way.

"Are you going to give me a proper challenge now?" he said looking around, as soon as he said this I used a rock from the ground and slammed it into his head knocking him to the ground. I kept pounding it over and over again before I was thrown off by Blake.

"God dammit, you killed another one of my generals." Blake said almost with a laugh.

"Maybe get ones who can actually fight." I say throwing him off me. We commenced in close combat fighting for about 15 minutes constantly resulting in a stalemate. He threw a low punch which I blocked and he did the same for a high punch.

We stood there for a minute just testing each others strength. I threw his low paw down causing him to go lop sided on the ground. I heard struggling and turned my head to see Ratchet trying to kill Kate and Humphrey. I immediately kicked Blake to the ground and ran over to them throwing Ratchet to the ground. We wrestled for a bit before I stood over him bashing his face in. I took one final look at me before picking him up, turning him around and breaking his neck. I got off him and looked up to Kate and Humphrey.

"Are you guys alright?" I ask looking at them.

"We're ok, thanks to you." Kate says, Angel was a couple of feet behind them but her face went from a tired one to a terrified look.

"Seth behind you!" She screamed. As she said it I turned around as Blake grabbed one of my unbroken arm throwing it out of the way and sent a sharp rock into my chest.

"Seth!" Humphrey yelled running towards us. He tried to grab Blake's arm but was met with a punch and he was done. Blake grabbed my head and forced me to look into his eyes.

"I-I told you that y-you weren't gonna b-beat me." He said falling to side.

Breathing was getting hard and my body felt weak. I Looked to Angel, Kate and Humphrey and saw their shocked faces.

"Seth Don't do it." I heard Angel say. I looked at her and looked back down to Blake who was looking at me and struggling to get up. I took the rock in my chest and pulled it out instantly falling to my knees, I used the momentum of me falling to stab him in the side. I raised my self up a little bit then fell to my side.

"Baby! No!" I hear Angel scream running to me.

"Seth hey, hey you're gonna be ok." I hear Kate say grabbing my paw. My breathing was starting to slow and I was starting to fade in and out.

"Baby, You gotta get up, Please! Seth I need you!" I could hear Angel yelling, I opened my eyes and saw hers, I softly smiled while grabbing her paw.

"L-love y-you." I say softly before shutting my eyes.

Alright that's gonna be the end of this chapter. Not as long as the other's but I will have a shorter release for the next chapter because of that.