Chapter 9

Night had fallen when the maids of the Gothic palace had the body of the breeder that had her blood consumed thoroughly cleaned and placed in a sack awaiting Darian Stormrider's orders.

As per the norm, he would journey out at night and go meet his spies from the Werewolf realm and give them the body.

Even though they were humans too, that didn't bother them anymore as they were not in the same rank as the breeders.

They preyed on it. Vampires consumed blood while the werewolves fed on the body, and as a fee for them helping him out as his spies and take tellers from the adversaries kingdom, he always brought the dead body of whatever breeder that had their blood consumed to them.

Werewolves had stopped hunting for their human preys ever since the Demon hunters killed one of their own that hunted a human once and wanted to prey on her body.

Since then, they had sticked to hunting wild animals of the forest and bushes for consumption.

Feeding on the body of a human was a luxury that existed for werewolf kings countless years in the past.

But for the Vampires, they had a bustling empire of breeders.

They had human suppliers who were ready to sell their fellow humans to them for diamonds and other gems.

Some sold themselves by themselves for the money. Some sold themselves as searers of the new breeds for the money. But so could not be said for the werewolves.

Sentinel Darian Stormrider, rode out in the night to the deep forests, journeying through the wild.

He had the sack tied behind him on the horse he took.

He reached their meeting point and mounted down from the horse and proceeded to untie the body and move into the deep wild with it.

"Just like I foretold, the mate that was betrothed to our Alpha Heir did not come from the already known pack. No one knows whom she is and the leader of the werewolf warriors has been entrusted with the task of finding her. According to the moon goddess,she hasn't wolfed out yet" came the voice from Echo, one of the men that were already seated on the leaves awaiting his arrival.

"The leader of the pack has also been enlisting people that would follow her to the human realm to find the Heirs mate, she has made other vampires keep their eyes out for spies" Slate added, a friend to Echo

" That means that it would be hard to hear from us anytime soon" added Raven, Echo's sister.

"Very well then, thank you for the information" Darian Stormrider said and dropped the sack he had on his shoulders onto the floor.

They meant to rush to it but he scared them off by showing off his fangs in an instant.

" We won't meet up but you family should devise a way to communicate further with me anytime something new happens. I need to know everything happening in your realm, especially if it has anything to do with the vampires or war" he added before leaving.

He watched as they scavenged over the sack as he left, lost in thoughts in the deep of dark.

The werewolves and the Vampires had not been enemies in the past.

It had not been more than a few centuries already since the feud started.

In the past, Vampires and the werewolves coexisted together. They fed together too. The bodies the vampires sucked their blood was given the werewolves for consumption.

The werewolves always took the blood of their preys to the vampires the same way the vampires took the body of their preys to them.

It went on like this until one day when the beloved of the Vampire King was in labour.

She had gone out and there was no one to assist her. While struggling to return to their kingdom and loosing her strength, she had encountered a Werewolf who wanted to help her deliver her babies but in exchange for them. He wanted to have the babies to himself.

Legends say that one werewolf had eaten the body of a vampire in the past and he had become undefeated, the most powerful creature in the land.

So he has requested for the offspring of the vampire so he'd consume and be powerful.

When she saw right into him, she had killed him by sucking on his blood, which have her strength to reach the gates of her kingdom.

When the werewolves had discovered the dead body of one of their kind and the marks left on his neck by the fangs of a vampire, they had felt angered feeling that the Vampires wanted to show off by claiming superior.

So they marched out into the vampire territory to avenge their fallen brother.

They walked into the vampire queen who had just delivered off her triplets.

They stabbed her countlessly to death and tore her Into shreds with their claws. They had also used spears to stab at the triplets she had delivered. This had made two of the triplets die, leaving behind only Lucien who was able to survive the attack.

Because the werewolves had attacked them when they least expected war, they were able to destroy many things they held dear.

When the Vampire king realized the sort of attack the werewolves had carried out on them the night before, he had severed all relationships they held with the werewolves and declared them their enemies.. while he was still alive, he had single handedly killed all werewolves that trespassed his land and had requested for a new land from the werewolves each time he got a new batch of breeders, since when they were in good terms, he had given them most of his lands as they were majorly wild animals hunters.

When they seemed not to yield to his land request, he went to war with them, killing and Maiming all werewolves that could be found at sight.

Lucien had survived the multiple stabs he got at birth at the surprise and thanks of his father who was beyond happy that one of his heirs were still alive.

For as long as he had lived, he has made see to protect him as he seemed weaker than most of the other vampires who grew with no injuries.

The Vampire king had died after living a few hundred years at war against the werewolves and had entrusted his son to Darian Stormrider, his most trusted Sentinel. He had given him the task of raising him to avenge their kingdoms lost to the werewolves.

And true to the promise he made to the late King that night, he was really raising Lucien to avenge their loss at the hands of the werewolves who seemed to not have had any major impacts from the war they caused again.