There’s a mystery going on here… lol. But relax. We’ll unravel it soon. For now, Ciril is saved… but then there’s the Ivanka hazard… See yA!
{Ciril’s POV}I was allowed to go freely. In fact, I was abandoned in the Throne room— as once Princess Anne came and said that I was innocent before leaving again, everyone went after her. She had been unconscious, but suddenly, she was awake and somehow she found her way to the Throne room and stopped the unnecessary bloodshed just when it was about to begin. And so, the Alpha Queen and the Generals with her raced after Princess Anne. Prince Landon had gone after them also but he had dismissed me first.“Take that side door and find your way to your room. Stay there and I’ll meet you there soon.” He had told me before trailing with the crowd. And just like that, I was free. Moments ago, everyone thought I was guilty but there was no better vindication than the Princess herself saying I was innocent. I got up to my feet now and I sighed heavily before giving the rest of the warriors and Sentries around a nasty look. Minutes ago, they all wanted to rip my heart out and now, they w
{Ciril’s POV}“You didn’t miss your way. You’re right where you’re meant to be.” The random eerie voice said to me before the face of Princess Anne was revealed.I trembled at the sight as my heart started to race.I saw that it was her but I was creeped out to the max so that I started to run away. But then Princess Anne said something that stopped me in my tracks.“You have a lot of questions and Lyon and I know that I’ve been the only one willingly answering them.” She said and I halted. I halted with a heaving chest and then I slowly spun around to look at her. The air was a bit inky now and the only source of light around us was the crescent moon above. I stared at her face and noticed that her face was directed directly at me even though she had lost both her eyes. “Do you have any questions?” She asked me now and I took deep breaths to calm myself down. That had been a good fright.“Yeah.”“Three.” She said and I nodded.“My Princess, are you totally blind?” I asked her as sh
{Ciril’s POV}Ivanka started walking towards me and I tensed.And then she walked right past me— not uttering a word or executing another action.She just continued on her way like she hadn’t seen anything or seen me. And even though I was thankful for her non-involvement, I was still frightened by her ignorance.— their ignorance.Both Ivanka and the Alpha Queen have been ignoring me a lot lately even when it’s obvious that they want to mess with me. I continued on my way now and I had to wonder if Ivanka had truly seen me or not because when it comes to Prince Landon, she doesn’t mess around and now she let me go.Why?After a moment, I let go of the thought and continued on my quest to inform the esteemed mistress about her husband’s impending demise. I did and while I was returning, I decided to stop at Anika’s room to check on her and know how she was fairing. I had told myself that I wouldn’t make any new friends after Vera in order to ensure their safety but now I was forced
{Ciril’s POV}Just when I feel like I have my mindset straight.Just when I feel like I’m beginning to have things under control, something pops out of nowhere, scatters everything, and leaves me in top confusion.I was going back to RawHowl with Ivanka.Why is she taking me along?I do not know.What is happening in RawHowl?I have no idea… and at the same time, I couldn’t ask her because she wouldn’t give me an answer.We paced through some hallways now and I realized that I recognized the path. We were headed for the Throne room.I groaned inwardly. As we went on now, I realized Ivanka wasn’t in a very smiley mood. I realized something must have happened so I made myself alert for any flying words. We got to the Throne room now but we didn’t get in as I saw the Alpha King strolling out of the room with a heavy envoy of Generals and warriors.Ivanka immediately called his attention. “My King. She’s the one. I think she can be of help. If there’s anyone who knows RawHowl better than
{Ciril’s POV}I was confused.I had no orientation anymore. As if my going on a mission to RawHowl wasn’t muddling enough, Princess Anne had come to add more puzzles to my predicament.I didn’t understand a word she said and couldn’t find any meaning to it and with that, I was supposed to leave for a dangerous mission now. Balif, Taka’s brother, led me towards the Palace gates now. Apparently, the army we were going with was already outside and ready to leave.I was to be a part of that army. I shuddered at the thought of that. Think of things from my perspective.I will serve as a strategist to give the warriors a layout of RawHowl in order for them to reclaim it from the Ferals— but reclaiming it from Ferals would mean that the warriors would have to fight the Ferals as they obviously can’t negotiate with them. And fighting the Ferals would mean bloodshed.And bloodshed would mean that a fellow has to defend himself or herself from having his or her blood spilled— which meant th
{Ciril’s POV}We paced towards RawHowl cautiously now. We had timed ourselves in a way that we would be storming the Place when it got a little bit dark in order to disrupt the Ferals— they wouldn’t see us coming and wouldn’t be able to detect our ambush on time before it hit them.Good plan. But I personally think that it’s a bad plan because things can rebound and the odds can suddenly be against us. What if we aren’t able to spot the Ferals clearly because we can’t see clearly? What happens then?By ‘we’, I mean me.I had bad eyesight so I was trembling now. We got close to its borders and I summoned courage and took control.It was time to be the strategist. **RawHowl had a sloped topography— an uneven one, so I took the bulk of the army to the higher ground area where they would storm the place from. And for the rest of the army, I led them into RawHowl through a secret allway and we took shelter in buildings that were unoccupied.— note: I did all this with a ruggedly pour
{Ciril’s POV}I had been frozen in my fright— too scared to move.However, someone broke me free— but then that someone ended up being a dead beast with dead flesh and rotten blood. I was slammed hard on the ground and my breath was punched out of me. I cried in pain but then that didn’t matter, as my voice only contributed to the pool of agonizing voices reigning all around me.There were bodies everywhere as the warriors fought off the Ferals that had attacked. It was meant to be the other way around— we attacking them, but thanks to Timtu, we had become the victims.But all that didn’t matter now. What mattered was survival.After my groaning, I opened my eyes and saw the bloody teeth of the Feral, who had speared me to the ground. It was coming swiftly at my head.I screamed and shifted away timely and missed the fangs only by inches. Fortunately for me, the Feral not only missed its attack but also smashed its head into the floorboard in the process. It got stuck.And that bought
{Ciril’s POV}I had been frozen. I think I owe my life to that random warrior that had yelled for us to go into the bell house because I didn’t think I would have snapped out of my panicky otherwise.We raced into the bell house now and started climbing the stairs to go higher. The building was like six stories high so our aim was to get to the top and shut the door… and then wait for what would happen next. We had gotten into the building timely before the second wave of Ferals hit us. We could hear screams now as we raced upstairs. It was a massacre out there and I didn’t want to imagine it. Retreating had been the vindicating idea before but now, hiding was.We heard crashing noises below us now and then we heard growls. The Ferals had sniffed us out— well, maybe they only sniffed the King since I was smelling like one of them now, but then they were coming for both of us now. We continued to rush up the stairs, the King leading the way. For some weird reason, it was only the Al
{Ciril’s POV} ~ Three Days Later ~ I was standing in an open space. It’s been two days since that incident at that Neighboring Pack, Grayvel and I haven’t stopped thinking about it.— Or feeling good about it.Lives had been lost but it felt good knowing that I had made a difference.Yeah. Another thing to feel good about was the fact that I was beginning to make improvements in my training…“Okay, Ciril. Are you ready?” Clord asked me as he stood before me in the open space, wearing so many layers of clothes to the extent that he looked like a fat mannequin. He couldn’t even move properly. He was scared of me and emotionally scarred by me and Rowan had bid him to train with me today so that I could gain his confidence by not losing control and killing him once I went into the Celestial State. I was learning how to control myself. After almost killing Feryt and realizing I might mistakenly kill someone else in the future, I made it a must to have control of my powers so Clord
{Ciril’s POV} It started to rain… and it took me a moment before I could register this.I was panting. I was panting hard.And then I was raging. Nothing was happening anymore but I had a sea of anger bubbling within me. The water started to splatter on my skin now and I threw my gaze up to glare at the skies like I wanted to attack it… but then I realized that it was just rain so I calmed down, and then I sighed.I poured out a heavy breath and stared at my body as the rain started beating me more furiously, washing all the blood that bathed my skin and clothes. I was still heaving and my claws were still out, but soon, with the chill of the rain, I calmed down and my eyes went back to normal. I blinked. I looked away from my claws now as I retracted them and I looked up to see all the dead bodies of Ferals before me— presented as disintegrated rotten flesh, splattered at random points on the ground.I drove my eyes about the scene as I took the sight in and then I heard voices s
{Ciril’s POV} I didn’t want to go… but I had to.People were in danger. And even if I wasn’t the Reignile Champion, going to help people in distress was the right thing to do, so this was the reason why I got up.Clord?Closed felt like he had no reason to go. He was strictly hesitant until Feryt poured on him one of her death glares and threatened to come to him. And so now, we were all darting through the woods, being led by Rowan towards the Pack in question. As we drew close, I started to hear screams that made my heart quicken its pace at once as I realized how serious the situation was.We took some turns and soon the Pack came into view. My heart…I saw people racing helter-skelter and then I saw some other people dead so that I tensed in fear. Clord, Rowan, and Feryt were several paces before me now as when I had caught sight of the scene, I had slowed down and started pacing slowly instead.I was overwhelmed with the sight.I knew I was to do something to help but at the s
{Ciril’s POV} I saw Abasha and I instantly trembled. She was someone I would never expect to see out here, but there she was standing at a fair distance away from us, smiling. My heart started to race…… and all the traumatizing memories of my doleful past started to come back to me.Fear claimed me.— Its chilly claws seized my lungs as I stared at her instead of helping Feryt or checking how badly she was injured. She rose up to a sitting position some seconds later before I realized that I had totally forgotten about her. “Feryt. Are you okay?” I promptly asked her now, forcing my gaze away from Abasha but still conscious of her presence.“I’m not.” Feryt complained while I helped her up, my eyes now back to monitoring Abasha. I didn't pay attention to what Feryt had just said and I ended up letting her go untimely as my entire focus was on Abasha. I had a scowl on as I stared at her but then my heart was really racing fast. Abasha soon noticed this as she stood defensively b
{Ciril’s POV} ~ The Next Day ~ A little recap from yesterday’s emotions hunt around RawHowl…Once I got into the Alpha Mansion, I tore it down.-End Of Recap-Sigh…Yesterday's events had put me through a lot.The first day we had come here to RawHowl, I hadn’t experienced any emotion that disconcerted me but then yesterday, as we started to go deeper and towards the more sensitive parts of RawHowl, things started to get more twitchy… and when we had gone to the Alpha Mansion, I had exploded.Literally. I had told Rowan that the Alpha Mansion was the most sensitive place to me and I had been right. I had been breathing crazily fast and waves of anger had stormed me once I stepped foot into the wretched place.And now, it was crumbled to the ground— All 10,000 square feet of it battered to dust. In addition, I had almost killed Rowan, Feryt, and Clord in my raging. I had almost buried them along with everything else in the Mansion but fortunately, the three of them had managed to es
{Ciril’s POV} Tears bathed my eyeballs as we went around RawHowl to see how broken and destroyed it was.This was the second day of doing this. We had gone around yesterday, and nothing in me was triggered so Feryt decided that we went around today also. And now we were doing just that. We were going deeper into the heart of RawHowl, towards the area where the Aloha Mansion was situated. And as we went now, something was beginning to happen. — while the others saw how broken down RawHowl was… I only saw how much it broke me.I was getting flashes from every angle and they scourging my being. If I didn’t know Feryt as a good friend from my childhood days, I would have definitely misinterpreted things and thought that she purposely brought me here to scourge and punish me.I was pushed to the back of the line now as I was walking slower than the rest of them. I didn’t want to do this.RawHowl was torn down by the Ferals— it was turned into a ruin due to the Feral’s rough and Britis
{Ciril’s POV} ~ Two Days Later ~ “What are you guys doing?” I asked as I came out of the cave to see Clord, Rowan, and Feryt chattering around the sitting wood blocks. It was morning time and I was apparently the last one to wake up from sleep. Even the Bears were up before me. Did I mention that those two Bears were now staying with us?Yeah. For some strange reason, they hadn’t left us since they followed us back to the Cave two days and for some stranger reason, they were now acting like pets rather than the Ferocious beastly creatures they were— especially to me. They were very drawn to me.“Nothing serious.” Feryt responded now as she got up to her feet to face me. “Clord was just explaining the details of how he thinks we could get you to enter your Glowing State.” She explained while I brushed my fingers through the dense but smooth furs of the Bears as they both strolled before me in a form of greeting. They rubbed their bodies on me as they went by before going to lie arou
{Ciril’s POV} “Feryt?” I muttered, not believing my eyes.And then my eyes told my brain that I was in a new environment so I proceeded to not believing my brain also.I grew very confused.I impulsively looked to my left now and saw Clord and Rowan standing there and looking at me in a weird way. That was strange and disturbing but then I looked to my left to meet an even more disturbing sight. Bears…Two Bears were positioned there.Two mighty black Bears— not attacking but just snarling and staring at me. It was all they did but it was all I needed to be more jumbled up.I didn’t understand this scene in the slightest and to make it even more confusing, standing before me was the person of someone I doubted I would ever get to see ever again.“Feryt?” I said her name again, contemplating if she was real, and with that, she started to pace closer to me with tears in her eyes and a matching expression of doubt and confusion. Instantaneously, she looked fearfully to the side where the
{Feryt's POV} Two fortnights (four weeks) ago, I didn’t ever think I didn’t ever think RawHowl could get worse than it already was.I grew up in RawHowl and grew up under the cruel rule of Dolores and her hateful husband as the Alpha and Luna of our Pack. To make things worse, I had a best friend who I watched get tortured every day of her life until she was eventually sold off to slavery at the Palace.It was slavery but I knew it was a better fate than RawHowl. Hence, I was separated from my best friend in that manner and was left with the oppression of Dolores and her husband to deal with. I thought both of them were demons until the Ferals attacked RawHowl and took over RawHowl.It was then that I experienced real misery as everything went into disarray at RawHowl. Fortunately, our cruel Alpha had been killed by those monsters and although this was good news, I also lost people of my own…I lost my entire family to the Ferals.My father, my mother, and my two kid brothers— they h