The Arena novel Chapter 18

My search for Tana is on hold again. As desperate as I am to find her, I am also desperate to make Troy pay for what he did to my pack.

I explain to Bastian what the arena is. Now, the underground tunnels make much more sense. This is how they are getting the supes into the cells without drawing attention to themselves.

We take the rest of the day to study the map, deciding who will go with us to fight the humans and rescue the supes and who will stay to protect the pack. Bastian and I agreed that if Troy gets away, the first thing he will do is try to come back and take over the pack. Therefore, I leave Bastian behind to guard the pack with half our warriors, and I take the other half as we begin the trek to the new arena.

We run for three days. When we get close enough, we find our trackers and begin searching and watching. I know better than most what to look for, so I see it first when what looks like a Keeper exits an area near us.

“What day is it?” I ask my warriors.

“Thursday, Alpha.”

“We have a day to prepare. We need to take them out on Saturday morning.”

“Why Saturday?” one of my men asks.

“Because that’s when the fighting happens. Tomorrow, we’ll watch to find out where the other entrances are. We’ll need a strategy to kill them all while releasing the supernaturals that will be in cages under the ground,” I tell them.

That night, I sneak into the underground tunnel. I make my way to the cages and find a similar situation to what Tana and I were living in before. I hand out the food I brought with me, hoping it will be enough to help them get stronger for the breakout.

“Who has been here the longest?” I ask, coming into an area full of supes.

“Me, Alpha,” a wolf shifter says. I sniff, and I can tell he’s a Beta.

“How long?” I ask, needing to know if he has enough information to help me.

“Only a month, but I think I was one of the first ones here. It seemed like it had recently been created when I got here.”

That would make sense. They would have had to rebuild the arena after we had burned ours, leaving it in ashes.

“Do you have any idea how many shifters are here?”

“No way to tell.”

I tell them the plan before moving around the arena. This one is smaller, thrown together quickly after ours was destroyed.