Isidorus could feel a shiver down his spine when he heard Vikra. Daughter-in-law vs father-in-law? That meant that Dmitri's father was alive! He stared at Vikra with eyes wide as the jungles. He didn't know how to react. If Dmitri had been here, he would have lost his mind. Imagine both his wife and his father being held captive by this creature? He wanted to kill Vikra then and there but he was waiting for Dmitri's sign who hadn't come back till now. It was almost twenty minutes.
When Vikra saw Isidorus' reaction, he felt satisfied. Tilting his head, he said, So would you like to see the fight between the two of them?"
"Vikraaaa!" shouted Isidorus. "You have gone insane!"
Vikra only laughed more.
"Release Adrianna now!" ordered Isidorus.
"No…" he hissed.
Mihr was completely confused. He looked at Isidorus and asked, "What fight is he talking about?"
Isidorus couldn't answer him. He had kept the secret that Adrianna was the rogue werewolf and that she was being held captive and now being thrown in front of Pierre. It was just too complicated for him to explain. At that moment he wanted to go out of Vikra's cave and order his army to attack the neotides instantly and he also wanted to stay back because he wanted to get Adrianna.
Suddenly, Vikra snapped his fingers and all of them found themselves in front of a cage with iron bars out in the open, which was surrounded by hundreds of neotides who were shouting and cheering. Isidorus, Mihr and the Mozias looked around at all of them with shock. They saw that Vikra was walking towards his place of seating, which was on a higher ground while they were quite near the cage.
Vikra went and sat down in his chair. It was one of the most interesting days of his existence. Soon the arena was filled with neotides who wanted to watch two werewolves fighting each other.
The arena was not very big as it was built in a small clearing, which had huge rocks and boulders around it. The audience didn't have proper chairs to sit. They had to stand or sit on any rock or boulder they could find. Right in the center there was an iron cage where the fight had to take place. The cage was big enough for the two werewolves to fight with each other. Vikra knew how powerful the two werewolves were hence the bars of the cage were extremely sturdy.
The guards had brought Pierre outside the arena. He was walking in chains that clattered around him making a loud clanking noise. He looked at the familiar gathering – the neotides who enjoyed watching him fight. He spat at them as his face turned red with fury. The guards pulled him inside the arena and then after removing his chains, he was pushed inside the iron cage. Pierre rubbed his wrists when the chains were removed and looked around. He saw Vikra sitting in his high almighty chair that was carved in a rock.
Suddenly the iron cage turned dark and a full moon appeared out of nowhere. Pierre was shocked. He went and held the bars and shouted, "What is this nonsense?"
He could hear Vikra's hissed laughter. "This is for the werewolf who has to fight against you. You see Pierre, I need to be fair to my newest guest."
"But I can hardly see anything," shouted Pierre back. "How is this fair?"
"Then adjust your vision," replied Vikra coldly.
Pierre became irritated at him and shouted back. "You cheat! You said that you would give me a chance to fight for my freedom and now you have put me in this dark place where I wouldn't be able to see my target!"
Vikra didn't reply.
Everyone could see from the outside what was happening in the cage, but due to magic it was pitch dark inside the cage. Isidorus saw that Pierre was holding the iron bars and his eyes were wide trying to adjust to the darkness. He started walking around the cage to measure its dimensions. All of a sudden Pierre heard neotides shouting and passing snide remarks loudly.
"Here comes the queen!"
"See, how pitiable she looks."
"Kill her Pierre!"
"Or get killed by her."
There was evil everywhere around Pierre.
"Queen?" he said in a low voice to himself. He had to fight with the werewolf. Where has a queen come from? He heard the door of the cage open and someone was shoved inside.
He looked around to adjust his gaze in the darkness, when suddenly his eyes met with bright golden yellow eyes.
Outside, Isidorus, Mihr and Mozias could see that a huge werewolf had entered the cage and it was about ten feet distance from Pierre. Isidorus' blood drained and he became pale. Adrianna was facing her father-in-law. He was scared of the outcome. Where the hell was Dmitri? His nervousness increased all the more. When he looked at Adrianna, he could feel the attraction for the child and felt like going in the cage himself. He started walking towards the cage when suddenly he was thrown back by a jolt of lighting. Mihr ran to help him get up and together they looked at Vikra.
"Don't," he hissed. He had created a magic field around the cage.
Isidorus punched the ground under him. Helplessness shrouded his being.
The spectators watched the two inside the cage.
"Fight! Fight! Fight!" they started shouting.
Pierre looked at the golden yellow eyes and slowly started retracting his footsteps.
The audience started cheering the two of them and then all of a sudden they saw that Pierre who had retracted to the end of the cage started running towards Adrianna at a great speed. However, midway he shape shifted and growled as he leapt in the air and attacked Adrianna.
Adrianna growled back and attacked the werewolf in front of her. They met in the middle of the air and growled so loudly that all the neotides stopped shouting. It was blood curdling to watch the two dangerous werewolves in action and especially when one of them was the strongest being on earth.