Untamed: The Alpha

239 ATBIKAI

When Damon didn’t back down, Liam patted his shoulder. “Let him do whatever he wants,” he said calmly, a smirk playing on his lips when he saw this, since it was not something new for any one of them to see the beta pick a fight with the young lycan.

However, the way Liam dismissed it, didn’t sit well with Damon. “What?!” He stood up. He had had enough of this spineless Alpha, who would approve of everything that Eros did. Damon then glared viciously at Liam for what he said. “I had enough of this!”

Hearing that, no one had the appetite to eat their breakfast, as their attention was completely on the three of them.

“What do you mean?” Liam asked. He leaned his back against the backrest and looked at his beta languidly. He was too calm and this aggravated Damon.

Damon stood up from his seat and the chair screeched painfully against the floor when he did so, but what shocked them the most was what he said after that.

“I want to challenge him!” Damon said, his voice was ice cold while he pointed a finger at Eros. “I am challenging him to an Atbikai!”

Atbikai meant fighting until death.

Usually, this ritual only occurred when there was someone challenging a shifter of higher rank, like when someone wanted the alpha’s position, they would use this method because they were not an alpha by blood.

However, to force a thirteen year old to accept an Atbikai challenge when he didn’t even hold any rank in this pack and was just a trainee as a warrior was a little bit petty and absurd.

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Yet, Damon didn’t think that way. He was very upset at the mere sight of Eros and also with the way Alpha Liam always took his side and gave into him despite him being nothing, but a cursed creature. A lycan.

They shouldn’t have brought him to this pack along with his human companion five years ago.

“Damon, you are going too far,” Colton, the gamma of the pack, hissed at him and pulled at the corner his clothes, so he could sit down again, but Damon swatted his hand away, as he continued to glare at Eros.

On the other hand, Eros didn’t even flinch when he heard the challenge, he looked straight in Damon’s eyes coldly instead.

He knew what Atbikai was and the result entailed; one of them must die to claim the glory. It was simply sickening and the last time Atbikai happened was when Alpha Xerxes challenged his brother to fight for the alpha’s position, since he was the second son.

By some small miracle, Alpha Xerxes came out as the winner, but the death of his brother was always on his hands.

“I want Atbikai,” Damon said again, firmer this time and this created a commotion in the dining hall.

Some of them thought the beta was going too far by challenging a thirteen year old boy, while he had a lifetime experience in battle.

However, it was up to Eros to accept the challenge or not. But if he backed down, the law of this pack said that he would be banished from the pack. He should leave and not come back again.

That was what Damon was aiming for, though it would be nice too if Eros was so stupid to accept his challenge.

Damon smirked, he should have done this sooner, saving him from all the headache and irritation because of his attitude.

“Alpha Liam, I am challenging him to an Atbikai. But if he rejects, as per the rule, we need to banish him.” Damon turned around to Liam, since Eros said nothing.

If Eros was no longer there, no one would care about that girl. She would leave with Eros too, or else, she would be an easy prey in a den of werewolves and Damon would enjoy every second of tearing her apart.

Liam raised his brows. He didn’t expect this move from Damon at all. He didn’t even remember there was such a rule until he mentioned the Atbikai to his face.

But, despite what he felt, Liam didn’t show it on his face, he looked cold and nonchalant when he asked Eros.

“You know the rules, so what do you want to do?” Liam asked the boy languidly. He had grown so much in the last five years and was already as tall as Damon now, though he was very sure that he would grow even taller.

Eros shifted his attention from Damon to Liam, before he looked at the beta again and answered his challenge.

“I accept,” he said. His voice didn’t tremble at all and as if nothing had happened, he continued speaking to the young female omega in front of him, who was very silent the entire time, trying to minimize her presence as much as she could. “Bring the healer to my room,” he said and the omega nodded immediately, she left after that.

On the other hand, hearing his answer, a commotion erupted. They were so excited to see a fight of Atbikai. This was not an event that would happen everyday or every decade, thus to witness an Atbikai was something thrilling for them.

Meanwhile, Damon was surprised when Eros accepted his challenge. He should have just up and left this pack!

“Okay!” Liam stood up and clapped his hands. “It’s decided. The Atbikai will happen a week from now in the Arena. Are we clear?” He looked at Eros and then Damon. “But, remember, if you lose, it means Eros will become the new Beta.”

Damon smirked triumphantly when he heard that. It didn’t matter to him. He had been in real battles countless times before and compared to this teenager, he had nothing to fear. He could finish him off within minutes.

“You should back off when you have a chance, boy,” Damon said to Eros, he hissed viciously. “Or, you will only get yourself and your little human killed.”

On the other hand, Eros glanced at Damon one last time before walking away as if this commotion was nothing to him.

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