As the dining room became empty of all the pack members, Edwin took a seat right next to Alexa, and Diego took his place right behind her, Lucius snorted some mean comment about how precious the Queen was now to have two vampires guarding her even in her castle. Charles avoided contact with the queen's eyes, "What is it, Charles? What did you found that's making you afraid to tell me?"
He looked at her, finally, seeing her brown mixed with green eyes, like it was reading his soul which sent Charles in a rubor, "I broke down the door for the forbidden library!""All right, did you found anything useful, of what I've asked you to?" She asked getting straight to the point."Yes, I've found many things, some of them I even wished I haven't found," he began and stared to Alexa, who gave him the courage to keep going with just a look, "Well, for starters, a hybrid is born out of a vampire and werewolf couple, which makes the vampire a Lycan, I believe it hRage was cursing for him, everyone made its way to flee his path, even his second in command had hidden after telling him the news, Rufus hadn't been able to control himself and had punched him in the face.A howl escaped from his mouth, relieving all the anger, Patricia had fled, Schirouca had escaped and on top of all, he had Morgaine on his tale bickering about the team of vampires that had been destroyed.Flavius was nowhere to be seen and everything was resting upon him, they had overconfidence they had underestimated Zulcan's pack and the harm had been done. With the rage of this realization, he trashed his tent, right in time to see Flavius entering, "Where have you been? We are being crashed here! I have two wolves missing, weaponry destroyed and Morgaine has a team of scouts ambushed the other night! And you've been playing hide and seek with the Queen and the Prince!"Flavius looked at the enraged man, with an arched brow, making the werewo
The night was calm and the full moon high in the sky, but every single creature in the forest hid in fear of being found by the biggest predators that roam the forest. Its footfalls made no sound as its wicked claws patiently coiled waiting for the best moment to attack and sink its sharp fangs into some flesh and tear it apart. Multiple eyes shone in the forest as they searched for the thrill of catching prey.This specific forest was surrounded by a high wall, so no creature could come or go while the big iron and silver gate was closed. Just in case, outside guarding it were two soldiers making sure nothing would leave. They trembled in fear when the howls came but didn't dare move a muscle to leave their post, because that would be treason and the sentence would be death. Worse still if they were to leave and something would escape the forest they would be held accountable. They couldn't live with themselves knowing they caused a massive slaughter, so they s
Even if Morgaine insisted that Edwin take some soldiers, the two thousand year-old general decided to leave alone. He picked up some supplies and left before the sun went down.When the sun touched his white skin he remembered to check if he was taking everything he needed. The blood-red cloak that covered his body hid what his hands touched under his clothing. When the verification movements had finished he had already crossed the frozen forest and reached the Emerald River. The point where the frozen sun, the great legacy of Vladimir ended. As he dismounted at the river Edwin remembered his father, who had sacrificed himself so that the vampires would no longer suffer from the presence of the werewolves.The icy sun was built beneath the earth with Vladimir's blood. A spell, cast by a merchant. Every werewolf who stepped on this earth would instantly be killed. Not to mention that the abilities of vampires under its light wer
Alexa spoke without thinking, but as soon as the words came out of her mouth a conviction seized her. She knew she could not let anyone else run the risk of accompanying a vampire. She did not know if any member of her pack would have enough willpower to not attack the vampire. It was also not known how long this journey would take. If caught out under a full moon, none of the others could maintain human form, especially with a vampire at their side.Edwin looked at her, disbelieving as if he thought the woman in front of him would not be up to the challenge. He thought she was crazy to leave her kingdom without a queen and go on a journey with no end. His lips formed a thin line as he tried to unravel what was in Alexa's head.He looked away, with a smug smile, "Your Highness, not to disrespect you, but have you lost your mind? Will you leave your kingdom without a leader? Not that I have anything to do with it, but it sounds too risky!"
Alexa set out with him on the journey to find out what was going on, which was an idea that he didn't like very much.Since she was a woman, and Zulcan's queen, he thought it would be wiser to send a warrior werewolf to that.His arguments were not good enough to convince her.They decided to keep it a secret, for the time being, their union could cause even greater rebellion, than the one that seemed to be happening.He stopped near a stream and sat under a tree to rest, although he was a creature that could stand for days without sleep and rest, unfortunately, he had spent a lot of time in the place where the heat emanated in the kingdom of Zulcan had affected him in a very negative way.He bent down and wet his fingers in the water. He had made the same route, not long ago and the temperature change had already made drastic changes. The water that had to be chilled almost to the point of frozen was already only fresh.
Alexa climbed on her dark horse, along with her travelclothes the only colorful thing in that scenario was her blond white hair in a braid and the silver pommel of her sword. By the corner of her eye, she could see Charles and with her sight of a werewolf, she could tell the disapproval on his crossed arms in front of his chest, the line that his lips made, and a wrinkle on his forehead. She didn't want any goodbyes so they wouldn't alarm the villagers or the rest of the kingdom. As soon as she crossed the gates into the open road she motioned her horse into a gallop until her castle was nothing more than a blurry point in the horizon behind her she let the horse calm down to a quick pass without anyone to talk to during her travel Jax became an excellent confidant.Her thoughts were a mess about the decision that she had made, she still had doubts if it was the right one never before in all the history of the kingdom a move like the one she had made were ever attem
Edwin felt nothing as he passed the Barrier. He had a very strong body and over time learned to control the pain he felt when he crossed the border. And it seemed, from what he had seen last week, more vampires had learned to create this force and were crossing the border to kill humans. He was not sure yet if Morgaine was consenting to all that, but at no time did she denied her involvement. It worried him because she was the only person he could trust after his father's death.He approached Alexa, looked at the horse she was bringing, and then into the woods behind her, "Where should we go?" She asked.Edwin stared at her intently and his attention flew to the tips of her right hand that were in a purplish tone, "did you try to cross the Border?" He asked, pointing behind his back, where he had come from.She became visibly bewildered and hid her hand behind her back, which meant a great weakness in front of him, "even though this is my part of the
There was no better feeling than freedom, as she galloped with Jax, even though she had a vampire, over her head, leaping from tree to tree. As she had feared, he had spent the brief moment when they were talking insulting her, or at least trying, nothing very serious, but her inner wolf did not like it very much, she knew that if the offenses climbed, she might not be able to control the wolf but she also didn't feel comfortable with Edwin, to give him the volume she carried with her, wrapped in a leather and velvet bag, trying as much as possible to keep it away from her skin.The night gave way to the day and although Alexa did not want to give the weak part to Edwin, Jax was beginning to show signs of fatigue and would be reckless to continue pulling him, so she stopped the horse and waited for Edwin to realize that she needed to stop, a thing he made, just a few trees ahead, going back over the land he had a smug smile on his face when he said, "So, Queen,
Rage was cursing for him, everyone made its way to flee his path, even his second in command had hidden after telling him the news, Rufus hadn't been able to control himself and had punched him in the face.A howl escaped from his mouth, relieving all the anger, Patricia had fled, Schirouca had escaped and on top of all, he had Morgaine on his tale bickering about the team of vampires that had been destroyed.Flavius was nowhere to be seen and everything was resting upon him, they had overconfidence they had underestimated Zulcan's pack and the harm had been done. With the rage of this realization, he trashed his tent, right in time to see Flavius entering, "Where have you been? We are being crashed here! I have two wolves missing, weaponry destroyed and Morgaine has a team of scouts ambushed the other night! And you've been playing hide and seek with the Queen and the Prince!"Flavius looked at the enraged man, with an arched brow, making the werewo
As the dining room became empty of all the pack members, Edwin took a seat right next to Alexa, and Diego took his place right behind her, Lucius snorted some mean comment about how precious the Queen was now to have two vampires guarding her even in her castle. Charles avoided contact with the queen's eyes, "What is it, Charles? What did you found that's making you afraid to tell me?"He looked at her, finally, seeing her brown mixed with green eyes, like it was reading his soul which sent Charles in a rubor, "I broke down the door for the forbidden library!""All right, did you found anything useful, of what I've asked you to?" She asked getting straight to the point."Yes, I've found many things, some of them I even wished I haven't found," he began and stared to Alexa, who gave him the courage to keep going with just a look, "Well, for starters, a hybrid is born out of a vampire and werewolf couple, which makes the vampire a Lycan, I believe it h
The throne room was barely lit, everyone was waiting for Flora and Patricia to reach with the men that stole the horses, they should've been there by that time. Elia looked to Andrew, who was pacing on the room, almost making a hole on the ground, "Could you stop that?"Andrew stopped and stared at Elia, with a pensive expression, "I should've gone with them, what if something went wrong? What if they were caught by the vampires or the other wolves?""Flora knows how to handle herself, and I observe Patricia earlier with Truman, she also can hold her own in a fight. Everything will be fine, you'll see, any minute now, they'll be crossing the doors of this room and we will know everything that happened!"As if saying some magical words, the doors of the throne room opened to present Flora with sparks of blood all over her body, Patricia went last but didn't have as much blood on her than Flora and the three men that camera in between them, but what se
It was morning, the sky was filled with birds chanting, people were happy, even though they were preparing to war, everyone just woke up with a feeling that it was a good day to be alive, a feeling that the pack knew all too well, something stirred up their emotions, they sensed their queen was close to the Castle. Alexa was indeed reaching the village, but before she approached any further, she turned, making her traveler companions stop, right before her, “Is anything wrong?” asked Diego, alert. “No, we are close to the Gates of Amora Castle, and I don’t want to frightened anyone entering the village in my wolf form, running from a Lycan, who no one knows that exists, and two vampires, is best if we kept to walking until we get there!” Everyone agreed even Lucius who looked annoyed to have to travel this way since the beginning of the journey. They keep walking side by side, in silence, only with some complaints from Lucius about the weather, the road, and
"We need to go to that camp immediately!" Snaped Lucius, his voice thundering with authority. "That's not the best course ofaction!" Alexa reasoned annoyed that they were having the same argument and they still didn't cross the White Castle's gate. Edwin and Diego had gone to the stables, trying to find some horses that they could use. "You don't tell me what to do!" Lucius snapped, appearing to be a boy throwing a tantrum. "As soon as we get there, I'll call my warriors back, the war is over before it begins and I'll deal with Morgaine, on my way!" "Well, if what it's being said it's any true, I doubt anyone would follow you, you rule by fear, so if presented with a better and kinder leader they will change their loyalty and you'll find yourself alone!" Reasoned Alexa. "They can't, they are bound to me by blood." "Morgaine didn't seem affected, maybe she found a loophole that allowed her to poison you and to kill you
Flora arrived at Arya's room, in the West Tower, from there she could see the blue line of the sea and Arya said that it was the best place if she ever needed to contact the Merchant Council because it was a straight line until the other shore, where supposedly stood themerchant council. "Did you asked for me?" Flora asked, stepping inside the room, spheres were laid around the room, white chalk drawings on the ground, and up to the columns beside the big window that was in the direction of the ocean."Yes I'm going to need your help, and maybe someone else to, I'm going to try and contact the Merchant Council and Elder Evra to tell them what is happening here and how to fight Lucius.""Everything that you need, maybe Patricia would be interested in participating, I know the others have their assignment and are working no stop.""Could you talk to her? I still need to prepare somethings." Arya told her, holding some feathers and placing them in places that
At the beginning of the night, Flora was called to the stables, for a servant boy. The stables were a big house in the southeast corner of the castle leaving to a big field with paddocks, many horses were living there, trained to be able to withstand the odor that the wolves emanated. "What's the issue?" Asked Flora, to the stable boy. "Jax is back, my Lady, and three horses were stolen tonight!" He answered a little afraid of her reaction. "Which ones were stolen?" Asked Flora, with a feeling on her mind that she knew who did it. "Miara, Anedosia, and Travesco." The stable boy said. "You've said it all, it was Josh, Rob, and Michel! They were begging me to go on a scouting trip to the Plains, to get an idea of the field!" Flora said, crossing her arms. "Prepare me Fiora I'll go after them, also prepare Corvus, I'll invite someone to come with me, I need a steady horse for beginners." "It'll be done in a minute." Flora turned her back
Iron clashing against iron was the main sound in the camp as new weapons were being forged by the smiths the fire burning hot leaving a trail of black smoke. Rufus called a meeting with all his pack members and was waiting to see everyone in front of him, his second in command came closer to him "Everyone is here except for Patricia, no one has seen her since last night when the vampires arrived." he told Rufus on a low voice, almost whispering."Which one is Patricia?" Rufus had to ask, in the same tone of voice."She was one of the first females to join us, we had much fun with her, it is the one with that mark on her ass.""Yes, I remember now. You say no one saw since last night, it might be that our new friends found her as amusing as we once did. I'll ask Morgaine once this is finished!" Rufus told the other guy with a smirk, then he looked to his pack and lounged a growl that left them on the ground. "We are close to our objective! Now we let Zulcan know
"You need to turn Alexa, we need a little bit of fur and blood." Said Edwin, drawing his blood to the container with the blue concoction.'I know... But I'm afraid my wolf will not control herself between so many vampires.""I'm here Alexa, right next to you. I'll not let anything happened, trust me" Edwin told her, pulling her into a hug."Okay, I'll do it." Alexa closed her eyes, the crackling sound of bones breaking and rearranging sounded so loud, white fur covered her body, and instead of a standing woman, stood sited a white wolf."Impressive!" Sounded Diego, right next to Edwin."I know, mate! Now, Alexa, I will take a few strands of fur."Alexa could feel his cold hands on her skin and heard the blade cutting through the fur "Now, this is done. You can turn back to human."In the blink of an eye, Alexa transformed from the wolf to the human body, she was smiling, as if something was funny."What is it?" Edwin asked her.