Episode 16: Ceasefire
I’ve led a battalion, soldiers of vengeance and retaliation. And now, the war has started. Of the scenario I have long projected in my mind, it is now the phenomenon that my eyes are witnessing. The werewolves of Abberant pack… is now suffering the agony of killings and loss. Of desolation and grievance. Of misery and affliction.
“On my signal, set the soldiers for code seven forty-four,” I instructed Khael which he quickly delivered to Samara and Tyler who holds control of the military squadron and over the fifteen cannons.
“Is this what the Senate wanted me to do?” I asked in a mocking voice. But Samara just laughed and deflected the way, gathering a portion of the cavalry directing east.“Maybe.” She shrugged. “It was up to you to reflect. It wasn’t me who is enchanted by an enemy.” Their squadron parted, forming an organized array. Veering towards my position, Samara rested her right arm across her chest and dropped her head. “We will take our leave from this distance, General Gaia. Our Pinansey-angan kingdom looks forward to our future diligences and also to the formal marriage alliance.” With that, she smiled and galloped her mount off.“Bring
‘Flora of the night and mists,Of flaring teal cyan.Thy petals that cast rhapsody,Of ocean peace and silence.’ I dallied the azure orchid glowing at my fingers. The servants may have forgotten to remove these flowers at bloom. Perhaps, every room here always has a space occupied for rare flowers and vines that are only native to this territory, lucky for me to take a glance at this mystic creature. Azure orchids’ buds detonate toxic pollens that can cause temporary loss of consciousness. Maybe this was here for a reason
“Three of the same ones, General. But to our source, she said they escaped Daghum on the third one. So, I thought we can enter on the fourth—” “Enter if you can,” a pitched voice interjected. Our heads then instantly turned to the malnourished tree by the tunnel to where that tiny voice come from and saw a pygmy-winged lady. “You are?” The pixie answered with her nose and lips pointed out. “A pixie as you can see. And I say you will only pass through the gate if you answer three of my riddles.” She carries this green vibrant pair of eyes, a strange floral mark on her forehead, and a band of weaved leaves around her head. Wearing all in lim
Reaching the inside of the palace, Deianira opened six doors by the corridor. “Apologies for talking too much. But I guess it’s about time. These rooms should be enough for all of the envoy, and enjoy the rest of the night,” she blurted out and quickly rushed away. Her arms were shaking, sweats started to drop, and a strange haze emerges from her body that she started to cover up as she walks accelerated away. “Enter by five as soon as possible. Secure locks, protect yourselves!” Mayari commanded when I gave her the signal. In a click of a second, I pulled them inside the room. Ear crashing bell ringing sound thundered across every inch of dust floating in the air. And the dome sheltering the palace ignited with a sea of flames.
“You are the Abberant Alpha’s mate and loving him is such defiance costs great penalty. But you are not the only creature in this world that had committed the same mistake ” My eyes were blandly darting daggers of prudence towards the empress. The smile on her face widened as she pace forward closer to where I am. Taking a sigh, my arms then trip over and released the neck. “Who?”“Let me tell you a story then,” the Empress uttered and stretched out her arm. “May you have the time to listen?”&nbs
“How’s the General?” His mocking voice echoed in my head, steps starts to hasten and every stride became serious. “What do you need this time?” I uttered. With my armor and clothes soaked entirely under that river, chilled water drops and marks every step I tread. The shaking in my hand… the sudden pounding of my beats and unusual breathing. The unexplainable feeling arousing every time he’s around. “I don’t know, maybe this lady ahead of me.” My feet began trembling, receding back towards the high-end cliff. Diego might have no plans to stop, he continued to step forward. Causing me to pull out back, nearer the tip-off. Down th
“Amalia! Camilla!” My lips let out a scream the moment half of the dagger was buried rashly inside of me. The chains that were restraining me in captive clanged as I hauled it in pain. To the sudden voice that popped out of the opened door, it was another being. “Just in time, Gianni. You nearly missed the fun,” the girl in a dark shortcutted hair chanted, talking gaily delighted. “Where is the Alpha?”“They’re out, off the pack borders. Have less enough worry, Camilla. Didn’t the Alpha already had cut the bond between him and this mate of his? We can do whatever we want.”
“It’s always been her after all these years. Why don’t you get it even at this time? This stupid mate link connecting you two leads to nothing but periodic pain. You aren’t getting tired of enduring the same kind of heartache over and over again. Why don’t you let her go?” “It’s a matter,” Diego muttered, not drawing his eyes away from the lady lying down on the bed. “Between me and myself, not on you.”“But what about her, Diego? Her pain and ignorance of the situation between you and her. You keep on repeating and forcing that forbidden love imprinted between you and her making Adira the greatest fool in this trap. She may have forgotten the past but it was never lost in history. I know she was again attracted by the link, cut it.” Edith tapped his shoulder as her legs stro
Death… is never evitable. Life has started the sprout. And then when it blossoms and reaches the end, they’re sent to death. That’s why they called them best of friends. “What would you want to be your reward, Gaia?” His voice reverberates inside my head. It still sounds euphonious even if it’s only a memory. “Balaraw. Hand me a dagger that is winged with a symbol of nobility and a warrior. I want it to be finely-worked with precious metals and ivory.” A tear fell down and blotted the cream color of the ivory handle. My fingers simply glided it away as I pulled the blade off from its sheath. &nbs
Adira’s POV“How many had Sinandaya sent?” I asked Tyler, Sinandaya’s second-in-command, while I stand on the military camp reserves’ portion.“Five platoons under His Highness’ order,” he answered with his hands crossed behind him. Right, from the moment Sinandaya has been brought back on Claveria’s map and its existence to the other territories’ eyes, Felipe Homura finally was crowned as the prince regent and should’ve been formally Sinandaya’s Emperor if it weren’t because of me who pulled another war. If it weren’t because of Tyler, I couldn’t have known the reason why Felipe left abruptly.“Does it in
Third person’s POV The blasting of the cannons, the yells and screams of bleeding hearts full of strong desire to grasp justice and stability, are all gone. The field that had once grown vast seas of dandelions now was covered in crimson blood. Cruelty, deceit, and wondrous bloodshed. Killing and rivalry had never left the world. His eyes were like raging seas, his every step closer and nearer to where the subject is was like thunder meeting the ground. The fire had been ignited and there was no turning back.“We met again,” he spoke. Amidst the dark skies with only the shine of the
“I’m not gonna shut unless you tell me what happened at the field,” I irritatedly replied when she again yelled at me to shut up. But still, she didn’t answer what I ask for and darted me a glare before taking it back to the tiny creature he was holding. “I’m not a good storyteller. Just do ask your good friend when he comes back later.” My eyes automatically rolled and lay my back on a standing pillow as I sip from a glass of blood. Then she suddenly talked, starting a decent conversation perhaps.“Do you have a name for him?” I shook my head and flung a plain stare at the sleeping baby in
Third person’s POV*Sinandaya; A week before Diego had left Abberant pack for the convocation in Shadowstone“It seems like you want to find something.” Snow is falling so hard. The windows are all shut tight except for the door that slammed open from the outside. In came a woman zipping her leather jacket. Her hair was untied and messed up flowing with the wind.“I know you,” blurted the man sitting on a single-seater couch facing the lighted fireplace. Her hair with a streak of crimson red settled on her shoulder when she tied it slowly as her feet approaches the man with a tied dark brunette hair.“So, you get cold too? Didn&rsqu
“What? They’re declaring what?” I almost tip over when one of Mayari’s team suddenly flashed down from the front carrying a sealed letter. And Pinansey-angan’s attack was stopped unanticipatedly.“Ceasefire, General. They want to pause temporarily.” My brows furrowed even more that I snatched the letter from her. But instead of a decent group of words, what’s written was a bunch of meaningless ones. ‘The Senate’s judgment.’“Why should I care about the Senate’s judgment?” I muttered irately with my fist clenching the piece of paper.
“The princess regent of Daghum committed the most ridiculous thing during a war. Hmm, never have expected that,” Marco casually commented as his eyes travel meters towards the enemies’ side. It’s almost set. Only a few more hours and the sun will be buried in the east, the signal for them to attack.“For now, we should leave her case for tomorrow. We have a problem that much needed our attention than hers. Do you two have something in mind?” I questioned them. Mayari talked and pointed Daghum’s army on the far corner of the frontier’s first line of defense. “What happens to them? I don’t think they will be under our control, now that their commander had left.”
Being told about my pathetic chronicle, Mayari shut silent about the Abberant’s side and didn’t ask any more questions. Except these two; the current beta of Sanguine and the princess regent of Daghum, trying to crack the shell.“I am warning you, Lady. If you dare step in my way, I’m gonna kill you.”“Oh, really? As if you can approach me, not even an inch, lowl!”“What? Do you think you’re that difficult to slit?” Since these two entered the tent for the convocation, they’re like cat and dog trying to kill each other in quarreling. One’s defending Abberant and the other against his side.
“Gaia!” Mayari blurted, eyeing the black stallion I’m in. Edith’s right, they’re all in here. Abberant’s main frontier, specifically in the fallen first and second lines of defense, was now retained by three divisions; Daghum, Sanguine, and Mayari’s platoon.“I need the plan,” I opened. Leaping down the horse and walking towards Mayari. A sword was on her side and attached to her leather-like chest plate were clusters of tiny daggers and blades, and if I would guess, it was not only secret weapons that were resting inside every clutch but of other useful things like pieces of cloth and perhaps tablets. “The&mda