"I guess you are having a birthday party after all."
Kitty didn't even have to turn around to recognize the smirk in the voice rose behind her --
Prince Charlie.
"Are you behind this?!" Kitty wheeled on him with a furious look.
"Wow, you think I have the power to order the Queen around just to make you have a birthday party?! I'm good, but not that good." Charlie held up his hands as a surrender.
Erebus stood on the side, watching Charlie and Kitty without a word.
Kitty squinted her eyes at Charlie with suspicion: "Then why are you so cocky about this?"
"Hey, that's so horrible a word!" Charlie protested with a grin, "I'm HAPPY, that you are getting a huge party, because you deserve the best."
"Haha." Kitty said the word in sarcasm.
"I mean it --" Charlie frowned at that. Why was Kitty so against his "kindness"? If it was any other girls, they would be burst of happiness right now.
"You mean it?" Kitty said, "Do y
No matter how reluctant Kitty was, it seemed that the Party was gonna happen.Charlie had been the most active in the arranging, but Erebus was nowhere to be found. In fact, if it was possible, Kitty wanted to be out of the sight as well.She used to like sitting in the corner of the bar on the roof top with the whole city's view right at her left hand with a glass of wine in the other, but --"Hey, do you like rose or lily?""How about a huge seven level cake at exact mid night?""What do you think of the dish?"After too many detailed questions about a party that Kitty didn't want in the first place, she finally sat up and asked in the gentlest way that she was capable of: "I didn't know that princes do birthday party hosting.""It's okay, no need to feel guilty about it." Charlie said with a huge grin on his face. It was hard to tell whether he heard the sarcasm in her tone, "It's my pleasure."Kitty sighed and left for the
He should have figured that something was wrong when he couldn't find Kitty the moment he got back!Taken over by remorse, Erebus hurried up and down in the hotel, trying to find Kitty, but she was nowhere to be found.By the time Erebus got back to the dining hall where the main party was taking off, the Queen was already there, sitting at the top of the room with a gentle yet elegant smile on her face.Erebus felt a hit in his stomach -- he got a bad feeling for this weird day.Suddenly, Charlie began reciting with a low voice as if some ancient song:Protected by the power of the ocean,She was born to be the queen;At the fall of the kingdom,The price for her freedom was paid.The prophecy?Erebus squinted his eyes at this sudden "ritual", not sure what Charlie's plan was, but the bad feeling just got stronger --Of course, Charlie's target was Kitty.But what about the Queen? She should not wan
The excited mumble among the "guests" there that night was actually genuine. Guess they weren't all puppets of the Queen, but it didn't make it easier for Erebus to get out of this dilemma."I'll leave the stage to them now," The Queen stepped aside, "And hopefully that they would like my gift to this special day."Charlie took a step up to the edge of the stage with Kitty's hand his, and he turned Kitty asking: "Would you like to tell us what happened on that day?"Kitty hesitated for a while, and then turned to point at Perses: "I saw him killing all the village people."A quirky smile craw on Perses's lips as his vicious eyes fixed on Erebus, filled with hunger as if a predator spotted a prey.Erebus had already come to the edge of the stage. He stood under there, looking up to Kitty without paying any attention to Perses.But Kitty didn't turn to look at him."That's right." Charlie said. The Queen was already seated at this point
"Hahaha!..." Perses burst out in laughter so hard that he almost fell on the side. Charlie and a lot of guests jumped at his sudden outburst, but not the Queen, Kitty nor Erebus.Perses was not laughing as if he succeeded on something, it was just amused laughter, as if he just saw something funny.Erebus gave a bitter smile as he tried to stand up, on hand held on tight on his stomach, but Charlie won't let him. He pulled Erebus up on his collar and kneed him hard before he threw him on the floor.Blood oozed out from Erebus's temple.Kitty just stood there, watching in silence."Have you any idea how horrifying a crime you have commited?" Charlied yelled at Erebus, not at all worried about the wound."No, I'm not." Erebus said slowly as he stood up slowly again."What?!" Charlie had now a genuine horrified look on his face, "You wiped out a whole village! Not to mention, a village that used to be your apanage not too long ago! And y
Erebus put Perses in prison was only to save Perses from doing more damage to himself. By that point, Erebus was sure that Perses was put under spell, most likely by the Queen, or even by Allura.But he couldn't explain that to Kitty.He thought Kitty was mad at him only because the misunderstanding Charlie put in her mind, but she was actually mad at him for taking Perses's side on this one.He doesn't blame her.Under a spell or not, Perses killed her whole family, let alone another thousands of lives taken at the village, or God knows where else.But Erebus just couldn't leave him to die either.But it wasn't like he could explain any of this to Kitty anymore.He was taken to the castle.Perses was not.The Queen released Perses right there on the party, and put him the Lord of the city with a reason of "Being tricked by an alpha with understandable actions".But this Erebus knew only after he was taken to the
Erebus fell in silence."If what you are trying to do is try to make us believe that you don't care about her, then it's not working." Allura fixed her eyes on his, "I have seen how far you are willing to go for her.""I'm not." Erebus sighed. And there was nothing more out of him on this topic."I don't understand you." Allura shook her head slowly in confusion, "Then why?""Would you tell me if I ask?" Erebus sighed in defeat as if he was really tired.He WAS tired of the conversation."Yes.""Okay." Erebus shrugged, "How is Kitty?""Do you have any evidence that's ill to the Queen?" Allura asked.Erebus laughed in a low voice: "That's the most important question you wanna ask?""..." Allura frowned.This interrogation was NOT going as her planned at all."Yes." Allura suddenly answered."Why? You already arrested me. Whatever I have to say won't make too much a different for her." Erebus si
Erebus frowned at that question.No, he had never thought about that before.Yes, all human wonder where the human come from, just like werewolves. But it wasn't like there were ever a "one true answer".Legends have them coming from the space, from the core of the earth, and from some ancient species."Any guess?" The Queen smiled, "I have high expectations on you.""I don't know where the werewolves came from." Erebus said honestly."Ohh, no, no, no. You misunderstood my question." The Queen waved her hand, "My question was, where were the werewolves, before the final fight?""Neutral." Erebus frowned, thinking about the meaning of this question.There was NONE legends about the werewolves before the final fight where they saved the descendant of magic, and he had never found that weird until today."Good." The Queen nodded, "And we know that the marking IS a spell. So, my second question is, how could a spell influenc
"That's why you have been investigating me, right?" The Queen hinted at Erebus, "You were right all along. I did kill her."Having that suspicion for so long, Erebus felt as if it was all a dream when the Queen just openly admitted it out of blue."Just so you could control the King?" Erebus murmured, "Why did you have to say that she was exiled instead of died?""It's less trouble, don't you think?" The Queen shrugged, "Won't you want to examine the body if I told you she was died? You see? No one even dare talking about her knowing she was exiled. People would put themselves before anyone else.""Why did you have the royalties in the first place, then?" Erebus closed his eyes and took a deep breath before he started again, "You could have just made the human into werewolves and let them fight for you.""That's so smart!" The Queen said, "Why do you think the human would suddenly fight for us after we made them into werewolves? We were nemesis to
"What do you think you are doing?!" The Queen snapped at the wolf who flung himself at her: "Get off me you stupid dog!" "Kitty!" Didn't know where he found the strength, but Erebus managed to stand up, catching Kitty in midair and fell on the ground again -- At least she fell on him. "Ouch!" Kitty curled in his arms with her eyes closed shut. She was so sure that she would die -- being hit by the spell of the Queen. "What the --?!" The Queen waved her wand and the wolf over her flew backwards with a whine. Kitty was alright. There was no blood hole on her body, and she seemed all fine except a bit shocked from what happened a second ago. "Are you alright?!" Allura's voice came, and Kitty couldn't even respond to that. Erebus coughed under her. "Erebus!" She finally snapped out of the shock and got off his body to prevent more pressure put on his wound. "Are y-you alright?!" He managed to
"Thanks for bringing them to me." The Queen smiled viciously at the three, and before anyone could even do anything, a beam of green light shoot out of the Queen's wand --"Kitty!"Kitty only heard that word coming from Erebus before he dashed himself between Kitty and the green light, and all she managed to do was to drive Phosis into motion by instinct.Two cracks rose.Phosis was hit first and cracked into two parts, flying in the air; and Erebus flew backwards when the second crack rose and Kitty froze right where she was at that.It finally happened.Phosis broke, and Erebus was lying on the ground, bleeding."Erebus!" Kitty threw herself over him, but no healing spell she knew was seeming to do the trick."He was an annoying little wolf, wasn't he?" When Kitty looked up to stare at the Queen, the Queen finally smirked at her --She had been watching as if it was a play."You evil witch!" Angry curse burst ou
"You, are in trouble."By the time that voice rose behind Kitty, there was already no time for her to get away from it while avoiding the light spear coming at her afront.She knew someone was coming from behind, but she was hoping that she could make it.Guess not.Dissolving the light spear, Kitty wheeled on the voice, all prepared to be attacked in all sorts of way but --She saw Erebus curved lips in front of her."!" Kitty rose her hand and lightening rose in her palms before it rushed towards him."It's me!" Erebus dodged in the last second, rising both his hands to show that he wasn't hostile."Impossible!" Kitty stared at him with suspicious eyes, "It's such a stupid lie --""Phosis IS powerful," Allura came near them, "But the ring is AS powerful. They are in balance, remember?"Kitty stared at Allura in disbelief."You expect me to think that you just got the ring that easily?!" Kitty took a step
Silence.Then she took a step back with a wry smile."When did you know?" "Allura" -- Theia -- asked."About the time when I saw you standing here." Erebus didn't even move a bit, looking at Theia with a light smirk.Theia hmphed: "You didn't know I was the mole for all those years."She stressed on the word "mole" as if insulting herself could somewhat reduce her guilt before she bit on her lips hard as she stared at Erebus."That's true." Erebus nodded slightly, "You don't make much move. But I guess it's the one time you move that matters.""And yet here you are, right where we want you to be." Theia sneered at him."I don't know about that, but I do have something to ask you." Erebus glanced at the dark forest behind her, "Do you really have no love for Tartarus?""Isn't it a little too innocent of you to ask such a stupid question?" Theia frowned but she turned to look away from Erebus.He signed."I'd
"You are here."It took a long time for Erebus and Kitty to finally find Allura on the party.It seemed as if ALL the werewolves in the country came to this huge event, and even a lot of strange faces that no one seemed to knew."What's the plan?" Staying by the side of the window, Kitty asked Allura as Erebus took a sip of his drink, as if they were just three normal guests, talking in a relaxed way."Like how we discussed." Allura said in a way of trying to not to move her lips, "She is going to give me the ring on the ceremony. But...""But?" Erebus asked."Nothing..." Allura mumbled with a frown, as if there was something bothering her."Does it have anything to do with the fact that the Queen doesn't have the ring on her hand right now?" Erebus said before he took another sip. His eyes were not even on the Queen."What?!" Kitty wheeled at the direction of the Queen to check, "How could she allow that to happen?! And how di
"Where are you taking me?!" Kitty finally stopped, panting as she dragging Erebus to a stop."You need to exercise a bit, baby." Erebus laughed as he stopped, noticing that she was really not catching her breath."You are a werewolf!" Kitty yelled even though in doing so it was even harder for her to smooth her breath."Haha!..." Erebus burst into laughter as he turned to look around --It wasn't as easy for him to tell the direction in a forest as in his wolf form. He had to pay attention if he didn't want to get lost."Why in such a rush anyway?" Kitty bent over to catch her breath, "You are acting really weird --""Come on!" Erebus took her hand and got on the way again laughing."I can't!" Kitty sat down on the floor with her hand in his, "You might as well just kill me now! Instead of such a horrible death! I would rather die than going any further --"Before she could finish her complaint, Erebus shifted right there in fr
"Why are you still going to the Alphas?" Kitty asked, sitting on the edge of the bed, watching Erebus dressing up in front of the mirror."We both don't want to control them with Phosis," Erebus said as he stretched his shirt, "But we still need them. It would be great if they would be willing to help us at their own judgement.""Can we trust that though? We'd be in even more of a danger if they betray us in the battle." Kitty said in a low voice, hesitating."I'm aware." Erebus nodded, "But like I said, there is nothing absolute in the world, not even loyalty from the most loyal. We have to take this leap of faith. Besides, they don't have too much motive to help the Queen either."Kitty pursed her lips without a reply."Besides," Erebus turned to her and knelt before her feet, "I didn't stop you from casting the spell on them WAS because I wanted to make sure that they won't be on her side if they were to make that choice.""You mean, if t
"Kitty?" Erebus held her by the wrist and shook her, looking for a response --Kitty froze right where she was with a horrified look on her face, seemingly too shocked by his words so she basically shut herself down..."Baby." Erebus pulled her in and kissed her on the forehead, "You are okay, please don't scare me like this.""I'm not scaring you." Kitty mumbled like a robot, replying with only instinct."Babyy..." Erebus sighed lightly and picked her up into his arms, carrying her to the bed, "Let's sit for a bit, okay?""I don't want to sit." Kitty stook by the side of the bed in a stiff motion, "You...you...""Yes, I already know." Erebus stroke her on the arm, trying to sooth her, "And it's okay, I understand --""It's not okay!" Kitty shook her head violently, and Erebus let out a light laugh:"Yet you did it anyway?""..." Kitty bit her lips, staring at Erebus with tearful eyes."The Queen has got basically
Waking up, Kitty flinched at the finding of herself being naked.She turned around in panic, and realizing that she was already back to their bedroom in the hotel with his arms around her.He was still in a sound sleep --Well, his eyes were still closed.Kitty had no idea whether he was awake or not --In fact, she had no idea about whatever his thought might be these days.She couldn't keep her secret from him any longer, and she knew he was just waiting for her to confess first. Otherwise, why would he took her on such a "date" all of a sudden?At that thought, Kitty slipped out from under the sheet, and Erebus didn't move in anyway even though she lifted his arm from her body.She needed a shower to cool her head, and she wouldn't want to see the love in his eyes extinguished while she was naked.It was a serious talk.Determined her mind, Kitty slipped in the bathroom quietly, and Erebus opened his eyes at th