I knew I should’ve waited to tell them.

I’m so stupid. Why did I tell them, I should’ve waited till afterwards. Rose is going to destroy their vocal chords. Although that’s not really the issue. I may well have killed everyone in the whole city. Luckily the floor isn’t cracking yet, that was a good sign. I sighed, looked at Mattie and pointed in the direction of his room, it was likely that Rose told him to get ready to go.

He rolled his eyes, but obeyed. Well, at least he knew not to make Rose anymore angry than they already were. Unfortunately, they’re already angry, so there’s almost nothing we could do about it.

I was about to turn away when Rose stopped screaming. They looked up at me and locked eyes with me. “It’s, i-it’s not your fault, don’t blame yourself,” They said with a deadly calm, and I realized shit was about to hit the fan. The entire place was gone. “There are some thing’s that no one can control, not even me.”

“Rose! Whatever the hell your planning to do, don’t. Please. Don’t.” I begged, fearing for the worst. Last time they got like this, we were in the outback of Australia thank god. There was a crater two thousand miles wide and a thousand miles deep. Along with about half of the world’s military power gone. After that, the UN decided to just let us be, horrified of what Rose could do.

Rose smiled, pulled out their gun’s and said “The outback situation was meant to scare off the UN, it was intentional ya know. Don’t worry, it’ll be fine.” No, no I did not know. They should’ve told me. What the heck.

“Yeah, I should’ve told you.” They laughed at their own words. Before she turned away I saw tears streaming down their faces.

They walked out onto the battlefield that was now clearly visible since, well, there wasn’t a building here anymore. I couldn’t see it, but there was definitely a grin on their face. They cackled and said “So, there’s werewolves in this shit hole of a world too. Guess I shoulda looked into this magic beast thing when I had the chance.”

“Ah, you must be the famed White Rose. So, you figured out our secret. I guess it wasn’t so hard once we entered combat, but, regardless you still figured it out.” Said a man standing next to a wolf, who then ran at Rose.

When it was mere inches away from them, it shifted back. It was Austin. He must’ve set this up. He whispered something into Rose’s ear.

Those were his final words.

With a scowl, Rose shot him, three times. They then pulled out a pair of scissors from around their belt, and cut his cheek, widening the gap between his lips, and he screamed.

“Shut the hell up.” Rose said, pulling a scalpel from a sheath in their boot. They then proceeded to cut out his tongue before doing anything else.

Everyone was paralyzed with fear, I took this chance to prevent the werewolves from escaping by encasing the entire perimeter with fire. If a spectacle was what Rose wanted, then that’s what they would get. Although, I think there are better ways off doing it. They were likely gonna ask everyone of those mutt’s about Austin. Maybe one or two, but likely all of them.

One werewolf transformed back into a human, pulled a glock from their pocket and put it to their head. Wow, they didn’t want to die at Rose’s hands that much. Well, suicide was not an option I could give them. Before they could pull the trigger I burnt the gun to a crisp. It likely burnt some of their hands off as well. Oh well.

They screamed, looking at their hand, which was cooked like a very well steak. The other werewolves looked at them in horror. I turned back to Rose, who was currently gutting out Austin’s arm. He was screaming, well, he would be if he had a tongue. His tongue was being twirled around in Rose’s hand.

I looked back to where the main force had gathered. Some looked at Rose in horror, probably deciding never to defy them. Other’s looked on, not caring about the torture since they’ve seen it done. Other’s cringed, but stayed vigilant. One or two lied dead with a gun in their hand. They had probably killed themselves. I would not take my comrades freedom. They could commit die if they wanted.

“Listen up,” I said loudly so they could hear me. “Reconnaissance squad get ready to go, meet me at the top of the San Dia’s. Don’t let anyone follow you. Wait for the Intelligence squad to join you before joining. Livvy, your in charge.”

She mutter to herself, but agreed.

Then the earth seemed to explode right at that moment.

I turned around quickly, fists ablaze, to see a hooded figure. They were tall, lanky, but looked strong. He raised his arm and the earth around us started crumbling. So this was his doing. I heard Livvy say something about leaving. She was shy, but at least she was assertive when needed. “Everyone, leave here. Livvy’s still in charge.” I said without looking behind me. Mattie was hurt, but he could fend for himself so I wasn’t worried. But, I wanted to be safe so I added, “Mattie’s in his room, he’s injured, take him with you. If he resists, tell him it’s an order from Rose.”

He might be stubborn, but when Rose gives an order he very rarely disobeys. Really it’s the only way I can get him to listen to me.

But I couldn’t think about that right now. I needed to focus on this figure.

Rose looked up from the guts and blood that was currently Austin, and sarcastically said “Is, uhm, is that supposed to be scary. Oh no. O. M. G. You dare throw rocks at me.” The person lowered their hood, revealing a rough beard, a grey and fading hairline, and wrinkles. Lot’s of wrinkles. He couldn’t be over thirty years old, he just looked, sort of tired. My guess is that he’s been fighting most of his life, and unlike Rose and I, he doesn’t enjoy it. I felt sorry for the guy. “Ahem! Cough cough. Look at me.” Rose said.

“Rose stop being a jerk.” I said, “He hasn’t made a move on us yet, let’s see what he does.” But, I was too late. Before I knew it, he had fallen to his knee’s and he was touching the ground and the earth erupted into motion again. I heard rumbling behind me, and turned to look as Livvy and everyone she was leading was entrapped in a cage of rock.

“Alright, Rose start being a jerk again.” I said, turning back around, fists ready to get into a fight. But he was already gone. So was Rose.

I heard crashing as the surrounding buildings started falling. Great, absolutely fantastic. The local government doesn’t care about whatever happens at The Flower Garden. But when it comes to everywhere else, were screwed. And with Rose in a brawl with a mysterious figure, we were gonna have a real problem on our hands.

I needed to get everyone out of those rocks, and I can’t melt something with an insanely high melting point. Mattie would have to create something to blow that sucker up. I ran to where his room was,

He needed to rest, but we didn’t have that as an option right now.

I heard the sirens and knew something was about to happen. What it was, I couldn’t say, but something big was coming. And I don’t think we wanted to be here when it happened.