Yeah yeah yeahhh… Cayden Vs Korr No big deal… Wrong! It’s a big deal. A very big one! Haha… It’s finally time for those two to battle!!! Who’s side are you on? Me? Boggoth… — oh, his dead. Shit! Lol… (I know I sound crazy today, but that what your characters do to your brain overtime) I know that still sounded crazy, so I’ll shut up now. Lol See yA!
{Isla’s POV} Korr heard his name and he stepped out into the circle dripping with confidence and ferocity. He was indeed a powerful Lycan. The crowd knew this, and he knew this. He stopped some distance away from Cayden and hovered over him with his height. His form was threatening but that’s not what Cayden thought. I knew Cayden well enough to know that it would take more than ten huge and deadly Lycans to scare him. And in front of him was just one. The look on the Dwarf commander’s face revealed nothing but pure pride and trust and the crowd of Lycans and a few Rogues mirrored those feelings as they were bobbing with gleeful shouts. They hailed Korr and they neglected Cayden. An unfortunate mistake right there. “Korr!” The Dwarf commander’s voice shot into the air, claiming the crowd's attention, and Korr’s. Korr turned to look at his commander and they both stared at each other for a while before the commander started to speak. “You’re out here to only do one thing. Tra
{Isla’s POV}The Dwarf commander had shot up his feet in his annoyance, but so far, he hadn’t said anything.He was just standing there with his short form, pouring his glare on Cayden— who was unmoved by it. At a corner, Korr could be heard screaming like a distressed toddler as he was being carried away by his fellow Lycans. If I were to be in his shoes, I would have ended my own life. The sight of him with such a broken and fucked up neck was not friendly in the slightest.With the momentary inactivity, the crowd’s murmuring started to grow once again. They couldn’t contain their bewilderment as Cayden had defeated probably the most praised Lycan in the Hold. He had gone from being a punching bag to being the punching gloves.Don’t know if that analogy makes sense but you get my point. Anyway, Cayden’s sudden switch made me wonder what had been at play during their battle. Was it an intended act of Cayden’s or did the tables really turn?The latter doesn’t seem feasible to me. Ca
{Isla’s POV}Things grew scary. The Dwarf Commander was being nice to us.He had provided Lily, Cayden, and me a good Shelter for us to rest in for the night and had ordered his men to bring food for us. Loads of food. Meat, salad, sauce— name it!On second thought. Don’t name it.They only brought meat, salad, and sauce. That was it. But the quantity was mighty and overwhelming and this made me suspicious. However, I seemed to be the only one that was concerned about the Dwarf commander’s kindness as Cayden was just carelessly feasting on the huge chunk of food and not saying anything.Maybe he was suspicious too but was hiding it. Either way, I needed to find out.“You don’t find this fishy?” I said, interrupting Cayden’s huge bite on a meat length.He turned to look at me and I realized one of his blue eyes was still stained with blood. It was the same eye that was injured last time but unlike then, this injury seemed to be severe as the eye wasn’t healing.“Find what suspicious
{Isla’s POV}For the first time in my life, I felt like my eyes and ears were lying to me at the same time.Standing before me in flesh was the Dwarf commander.And he had just said the words, “Your Highness.”Our pretense was over.Our schemes were uncovered.Our disguise was compromised. He knew who we were. He knew who I was.Cayden and I shot up to our feet simultaneously now. We stared helplessly at the Dwarf commander who gloriously strolled into the Shelter.He wasn’t hiding the fact that he had heard us. No lie could save us.“Well well well.” The Dwarf commander said as he made himself comfortable on one of our stools. “The Alpha Queen. In my Hold? Wow!” He exclaimed and cackled a bit before turning to face the entrance.“Can you believe this?” He asked openly as his escort guards trooped in to surround us. I felt Lily grip my leg tightly.“Sound the horn!” **We were dragged out to the open grounds, bound in heavy silver chains and manacles.I have never been squeezed so ti
{Isla’s POV}The once gleeful crowd turned into a panicking and horrified one. No one seemed to know comportment anymore as everyone was racing around wildly now. The Lycans were being attacked.But by who?Cayden and I were still very much glued to our mighty wooden pillar friends and although we were immobile, our eyes could grasp the chaos happening all around us. And just then, my eyes fell on Emkay. She was at the far end with some other Rogues and she was throwing out commands as they all scattered into the chaotic mix.What is she doing here? I told her not to come!“Take them around and lock them up in the underground Pound. I want heavy guards on the Pound and more men outside it!” The Dwarf commander bawled and immediately a heavy group of Lycans surrounded Cayden and me.We were detached from the wooden post and bundled up by the Lycans as they took us to wherever they were taking us. They blindfolded us on the way and dragged us roughly onward.All around me, I could hear
{Isla’s POV}I bit Cayden’s blindfold off and glared at him as he blinked and adjudged his eyes to the tone of the atmosphere. “We’re in a cave.” I helped him out, still training my eyes on him in case he looked at me. He turned his gaze to look further ahead and studied the cave. “I’m not going to look at you Isla.” He said.“Well, I don’t trust you.” I rejoined.“So, you’re just going to keep looking at me?” He asked, now studying the writings on the Boulder we were chained to.“Yes, Cayden. Yes!” I scowled at him and watched a smile grow on his face.“What’s amusing you?” I asked.“You’re acting funny. You still have clothes on, Isla.” He said, still studying the weird scribblings.“I’m not acting funny! I’m being serious! … and my clothes are torn. I look like a freaking ragged stripper!” I voiced but he was still smiling.Why is he fucking smiling?“Okay, Isla. Why don’t you come over and help me take off my shirt so you can wear it?” He suggested.What?!“And then you’ll be str
{Isla’s POV}What’s wrong with my eyes? This has to be a trick of some sort.I gazed at the face of the Praised brother standing before me more intensely now and I was still arriving at the same freaking conclusion. I was staring at Shrill-voice. The face was a little bit rough but it was still him.“What are you doing standing so close to him?” I heard Cayden’s voice and then I felt his hand push me away from Shrill-voice. “You’re into Muscle Rogues now?” He asked, glaring at me. My gaze was still on the figure so Cayden turned to look at him too. He inched away once his gaze rested on Shrill-voice. He was also dazed.I needed an explanation. I needed to fucking understand things before my brain burned up, so I stepped closer to him.“Shrill-voice?” I said again but the figure who was Shrill-voice only bent down to pick up his mask. He attempted to put it on but I stopped him, holding the mask.“Hey! Talk to me. I’ve already seen your face. I know it’s you. What’s going on?” I said
{Isla’s PoV}“Why are they dressed like that?” “Animal skins?”“No furnished houses?”“What are those markings on their bodies?”“Why are their skins so dry?”“Why are all the males shirtless?”Cayden and I were standing at a point not far from the border entrance of the Pack. And since we were there, I had been bombarding him with random questions from my confusion pool, while he just stared at the scene before us. No one had noticed us yet.“My goodness. It’s the Queen!” A high-pitched voice yelped beside us. Oops. Spoke too soon.We turned around to see a very young She-wolf standing there with a big grin on her face. But then the grin vanished. “You are the Queen, right?” She asked me, studying my body right. “I mean, you look like her, facially. But royally, not that much.” She observed, noticing how tattered and dirty I was.I looked at Cayden and then I looked back at the girl. “Yes. I am the Queen.” I said and the young girl grew back her smile and started jumping.“The Quee