Damn, writing this chapter gave me so much goosebumps… I hope it did you too… And I hope you all remember Princess Anne’s Prophecy at the end. I believe it makes more sense now… The real King, Landon’s father had been slaughtered by the Alpha Queen while the one that fell off from that bell tower was… Well, you’ll find out who the Bloke was soon enough. Yeah. Oh and Browse the meaning of the name Ciril and note what you see. You’ll find out that it was all destined from the start even when the Hencher Mistress did not know anything about it… lol… See yA! :) {And apologies for the jargons at the end of the previous chapter - chpt 98 - . I mistakenly pasted the end twice}
{Prince Landon’s POV} We were in the Private Quarters. By we, I mean my mother, Abasha, Ivanka, Dylan, Anita, Balif, and some other guards. Weirdly, Anne was here too and I wondered what she was doing here since I had gotten used to her weird absence from our lives recently. But then I didn’t really care. Thinking of how strange Anne had become was the last thing on my mind. We were all together, and there was a momentary silence but then the uneasiness on everyone’s faces was screaming. There were also periodical bouts of outbursts.“How? How is this possible? It doesn’t make sense.”That was Abasha’s bout of outburst. “That slave doesn’t deserve it.” “Yes, you’re right. She must have done something to influence the process. She’s too wretched and filthy to be chosen! I mean, she’s a fucking slave!” That was Ivanka responding to Abasha. “This is bad, man. This is really bad” That was Dylan— standing before me and trying to get me into the conversation.I was seated on a woo
{Prince Landon’s POV} I was in my chambers now.Two days had passed and I hadn’t gone out. I was supposed to be out deploying scouting troops to go to distressed packs and help them with the Feral situation— especially now that they are growing in numbers, but I didn’t go. I didn’t feel like doing anything so I had instructed Dylan to take over that duty and similar ones for the time being, because…I was confused. I was disturbed.But I was mostly angry. I was angry at fate for doing this to me. It didn’t make sense to be angry at fate but then I couldn’t help it. I had to blame someone or something as I couldn’t blame myself. I was clean and ready on my part. I had made myself righteous for the moon goddess and she had freaking embarrassed me in front of the people of the Reigns— made a fool out of me. I slammed my fist on the stool next to me now. That was the fourth one I was breaking over the past two days. Thankfully, I had so many more stools in my Chambers. They were
{Prince Landon’s POV} I walked up to the man they were pulling towards me and then I realized he wasn’t really struggling. The warriors were just being extra dramatic. Nonetheless, I didn’t mind, or didn’t care. They dragged him and stopped him before me and I gave him a head-to-toe glance before looking at his face. “Leave us.” I told the warriors who were around us and they all bowed and left. But Balif, he’s been acting very prompt and faithful recently so I’ve grown a bit fond of him so that I’ve made him one of my escort guards. Lately, I’m easily piqued and don’t need entourage Guards who would annoy me when I issued them commands, and Balif was forthcoming in that aspect. “Walk with me.” I told the Seer as he straightened his cloth which the guards had roughened and soiled. He had a pure white cloth in his hand but he didn’t use it to clean his body. He only used his other hand. And then he promptly started walking with me after making a gentle bow. “What is your name?” I
{Ciril's POV} I was wrapped in a robe from head to toe, with my face scarfed.And then I was experiencing the hunger for three stomachs. I was very tired too but then all these things combined weren’t the most disturbing things to me at the moment. There are some other things. Strange things and stranger things have been happening to me recently. I don’t understand them, that’s why I’ve tagged them as strange.Let’s start with the strange.Strangely, I’ve been getting memory flashes of a scene. Well, maybe not memory, but I’ve been getting these flashes of a particular night— probably the night of the full moon when I had been with the Hencher Mistress.I was getting flashes of my eyes glowing and me looking very furious while killing someone. In these flashes, I don’t see the face of the person being killed by me as my hands are always placed on the person’s head… before I would smash the person’s head. It was unsettling that I was murdering someone— that brutally. But it was mor
{Ciril’s POV} Of all the visible things and people in the Reigns, I didn’t expect to see Clord. Heck, I didn’t expect to see anyone that I knew out here. But now I had seen Clord, and I was doing his bidding.We were running like a mad dog.I didn’t understand a single bit what was happening but then I was doing as Clord had said because considering everyone that was about me now, he was the one I knew to an extent. He was before me as we darted furiously out of the FogHoulst Pack and back onto the sandy paths that led to the forests and other locations. But then we headed for the forest. Clord was running so fast that it was hard to keep up with him— he was the madder dog. Meanwhile, I was getting tired now so I turned to see if the few people who had been chasing us had stopped chasing us and returned to being the people I had been admiring in the market area.I made a quick head swivel and what I saw next made me tense, even while running. I almost tripped and fell.The number
{Ciril’s POV} “Follow me!” I bellowed to Clord now as I started towards the fairly big hole I spotted in the rocky walls. We were running away from the Ferals and not looking back. Mad Dog round 2.“Where are you going?! Do you know where this hole leads to?!” Clord quizzed me loudly as he trailed hastily after me. The Ferals were just behind us.Their guttural and harsh growling allowed us to keep track of this. “I don’t.. I don’t know!” I yelled back. “But just follow me!” I voiced and he yelled back.“We are going to die!” He bawled just as we jumped into the darkness of the tunnel path. I could understand why he would think that. This could end up being a dead end… where we would be trapped and serve as food for the crazy bunch of Ferals.They were tearing up the tracks behind us and this ended up being a dead end, there would be no escaping for us. I knew this but I still wanted to risk it.. and for some strange reason, I trusted the risk. The tunnel-way was lined with glow
{Ciril’s POV} “So tell me how you knew there would be a Steam lake back there when we were still in those tunnels?” Clord asked me now.It was a new day and we had left that cave to go and search for something to eat since I was almost dying. And now he quizzed me even though he knew I was tired and famished.“And how were you so certain of where to go in those tunnels?” He asked me his second question when I didn’t respond to the question.I had my hood on and a scarf over my mouth so that while I looked at him now, he only saw my eyes. “I don’t know.” I responded. “It was more like a feeling I got.” I explained and he grew a slight frown. “That means that you guessed.” He muttered. “You’re a hypocrite. You know that?” He said to me and I grew confused. “Earlier yesterday when I guessed and landed us in that pond, you criticized me for almost killing us if I had guessed wrongly and landed us on rocks, but then you also did the same thing yesterday. You guessed when you ran throu
{Ciril’s POV} “Okay. This is not entertaining anymore.” Clord started to complain now. “What is he talking about?”I looked away from the clouded skies and back at the kid. I couldn’t lie to myself. I was somewhat confused, but then I wasn’t buying any of the things he was saying. “Who are you?!” I quizzed him now.“I’m just a boy as you can see.” He said with a friendly tone. I was frowning at him. “Well, It’s not me who is doing that. It’s just that time of the season.” I said to him logically.“Nah. It’s you. And the more you argue with me, the more the clouds will keep getting darker, and then it will get to an extent that you might provoke rain to pour down again. And if you still don’t stop your vexing, the weather will keep becoming fierce.” He said back to me. “You’re crazy! And I’m not angry!” I retorted at him. He was a child but he was really pissing me off, hence why I was using harsh words on him. “And even if I was angry, I don’t freaking control the weather. Nobody d
{Ciril’s POV} “Bring me her head!” “Check over there!” I heard Dylan’s voice… and I tensed. I couldn’t mistake it. He was my first mate ever and because of this, I had familiarized myself with parts of him during that little moment before he had rejected me that day in the Alpha Mansion’s grand Hall here at RawHowl several months ago.And one of the parts I had familiarized myself with was his voice… and so I was sure to my bones. Rowan, Feryt, and Clord panicked now. I could see it in their expressions and in their movements as they raced about the room, contemplating the next move they would make and measuring how dreadful our predicament was.I just stood there, motionless in the middle of the room… and I clenched my fists. “Ciril!” Feryt came up to me and poured on me her dread. “What are we going to do?! They are burning the whole place to the ground and will soon get to us!” She voiced in her trembling.“We can’t hide here! We are going to die!” Clord joined in the compl
{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 h
{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