Aurora frowned- Yet still perplexed, looking at the soldiers as they were pulling her with the rope that was tied on her both hands, to the crucifixion stand along the townlet.
She put on ragged clothes, her hair looked scattered and unkempt, she walked with her barefoot, blood was flowing down, wherein she sustained an injury from the flogging she received earlier before death was passed on her.
She looked unstable, starving, and fragile, she tried to conceal her pains to the people of Uruk, who were gawping at her with deep hatred on their faces.
She knew how much they hated her for their Alpha death- Her crying won't stop her death, knowing this, she hide her pained and showed a steady expression. Moreover, she was trained to be an impenetrable brick wall.
However she hated the fact that she was dying, somewhat she appreciated the death she will face soon, it would stop the relentless pain in her heart and her everyday restless night.
She has been in the prison for the past five months, since the day the late Alpha died, her death has longer than she expected, she thought she would die the second day she was caught with Alpha's dead body, but she realized the new Alpha wanted to be crowned as the Alpha before he condemned her dead.
Murmured aroused by the people of Uruk who saw her steady expression, they became furious, seeing no remorseful in her expression, many of the town people rushed home to bring stone, egg, water etcetera
The soldier leading Aurora and the other soldiers to the crucifixion ground heard the murmured of the passengers, of Aurora's steady expression, he looked over his shoulder to confirmed the whispered of the pass by, his face fell on Aurora's steady face with a grin plastered on the face.
His face looked dreadful instantly, he halted the movement of the soldiers, he turned around and moved to Aurora, he punched Aurora hard on the face and aimed an uppercut punch just below her jaw, Aurora's head jerked downward as pained sent chills to her spine.
He waited for her to face him, she raised her chin defiantly, then he punched her as hard as he could in the nose, blood gushed out from Aurora's nose relentlessly and she fell to the ground.
She had a blurry vision, as she fell to the ground, the soldier didn't stop, he started kicking her hard on the stomach, as she laid flat on the ground, a sharp pain escaped Aurora's mouth.
She felt weak and tired already, she wished the death will come quickly, she was tired of the abuse, she couldn't hide her pain anymore as tears flowed down to her cheeks, she spilled blood as the soldiers kicked her harder on the stomach.
He stopped when he saw tears flowing down from her eyes, he tilted her chin up, stared at her with cold eyes, and whispered to her ear
"I will make you beg for death before I slaughtered your head," The soldier, whose name was Jericho said to her ears, his face looked deadly, Aurora couldn't bring herself to look at his face.
Jericho was the new Alpha's stepbrother, Aurora knew how much the late Alpha adored him, he will hate her with passion, facing the person who killed his father.
"If she ever walked slowly again, let her feel the tortured, the soldering iron can Inflicted on her body" Jericho roared to the soldiers.
Immediately the soldier pulling her, enforced more grasp on the rope on her hands, she walked with tingling feet as she carried each footstep to the crucifixion ground.
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Alpha Malik was sitting on his throne, he had been silent for a long while after he condemned Aurora to death, his right man Jaguar was in his presence contemplating whether to ask him what was wrong, he was supposed to have retired to his room, or his training ground.
Something in his guts wanted to ask him, but recalling how harsher he had become since the late Alpha death, he dared not open his mouth and speak when he was not ordered to speak, his head might go for it, so he changed his mind and remained mute, waiting for his Alpha to speak.
Alpha Malik was contemplating whether to do as the whispers in his head suggested.
"Can torture be more painful than a quick death?" he said in his head.
As much as he wanted Aurora's head to be slaughtered from her body, he wanted pain than quick death for her.
He wanted her to beg for death, he wants her to be abused physically and emotionally, he wanted her to beg for tears but won't see.
He wanted her to experience the kind of anguished he felt, the day he saw his father's dead body in her hand.
He rose suddenly and looked at his right man's eyes, with the coldest eyes you had ever seen.
"Is there any punishment greater than death?" He asked Jaguar with his coldest eyes staring at him.
Jaguar couldn't understand his question, but he knows better not to waste Alpha's time, he answered him hastily.
"Yes Alpha" he answered with a bit of nervousness in his tone.
Without saying anything, Alpha Malik strode out of the throne room, with his dangerous aura trailing after him.
His appearance can make people pee on their pants.
Jaguar sighed deeply, as he left his sight, he felt like a yoke was removed off his shoulder.
Jaguar walled out of the throne room to the training ground. Whenever he felt tense training make him lose off the tense a bit.
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Sounds of eggs and stones were heard as people of the Uruk community flung at Aurora.
"You are despicable, you felt no remorseful for killing our late king"- Murmured among the villages as they flung the stone.
Jericho looked elated saying the villagers inflicting pain on Aurora, this is what he had wanted, he wanted pain and anguish for her, before he will slaughter her head.
He ordered the villagers to stopped after the villagers accomplished his wishes on Aurora, he made Aurora kneel with her bruised ankle, he raised his cutlass, to slain aurora's head- but he halted when he heard the sound of an approaching saddled horse, he glanced in the direction and saw a man on a horse riding to their direction, a displeased looked crept into his eyes, as he saw the Alpha personal guard waving his hand to him, as he saddled the horse nearer.
TO BE CONTINUED
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