The temperature in the apartment dropped suddenly, thin sheets of ice began crawling around the corners on the walls and floor. Walter looked around in alarm then took a step back. What the hell was happening?“What was her name?” the mysterious man asked, staring hard at Walter.Walter hesitated for a few seconds.“Lissa. Melissa Lance,” he answered. That was his mother's name before she died, the name she took after she married his father.“I need her name before she met your arsehole of a father,” the man spat out venomously. Walter frowned even deeper. He hated today. He had been so happy to see Lois after awhile but he had only been frowning nonstop since the evening.“Answer me!” the man barked. Ice swooped into action, covering his floor and walls. He was beginning to freeze. He who never felt cold despite the winter.The mysterious man's hair began to swirl slightly, as if its own tiny wind was hovering over it. Terrified was an understatement to what Walter felt.“Wayne,” the
There was nothing that could be said that night. Alpha Knight wanted their discussion on a calm basis because he himself reasoned awfully when he wasn't in his right mind.“If you have unfinished business, take care of it as soon as you can. Because you're going with us to Balendin Pack,” he said.“Balendin... Pack?”“Someone explain what a pack is to him,” Wayne said with a scoff. Olive walked to Walter.“A pack is a community of wolves. A wolf pack. We're wolf shifters that belong to the biggest pack in the country. This is Alpha Wayne Knight, leader of Balendin Pack. I am Luna Olive Knight, his wife and mate. That's Beta Jake Gurner, you can see him as the deputy of Alpha Knight. The young guy is Shem Knight, Alpha Knight's younger brother. And that very quiet gentleman is Crusoe Scott, he's one of Alpha Knight's Elite.”Walter nodded appreciatively.“So this world of yours works just like wolves hierarchy? A pack, an Alpha and... Do you have omegas?”Walter had no idea people like
Before Shem could reach the entrance, a force pushed him backwards abruptly and sat him in his chair.“This is not time for your jokes,” Alpha Knight snarled at him with a pointed finger.“Since when did I have a timetable for jokes?” Shem asked and huffed at his brother.“You both are very unbelievable! You just freaking heard that Walter is not only a pure blood wolf but also your full brother and you both just ignored it?” Olive nagged.“He's still my half brother though,” Shem said with a shrug and laid back, giving Walter a fake hard stare.“Two minutes ago he wasn't even your brother. Now he's been identified as a Knight. You share the same father. You share the same blood!”Shem made a funny face.“Don't nag me anymore, Mummy. Fine, welcome to the family Walter Knight. I must warn you not to be deceived that Wayne stood up for you earlier. He will make your life a living hell but will accept you when you're about to give up,” Shem deposited and flashed a smile at Walter.Olive
Gia followed all the directions and instructions Jonas gave. She was sceptical about that wolf, he seemed insane. Or rather, he had a personal drive and he only told her the direction because she was useful to him. But she didn't care, as long as she had her own way.Finally, she found the massive palace-like cult ground on a mountainside. It was built exactly like a Japanese hirayamajiro, very secure and impenetrable. Only the gate was its entrance, and no one could enter except they belonged or they were masters bigger than the cult.Who was she? She used to be the Chief Female Army Commander, Lady Gia Kalif. But even then, she wouldn't dare barge in on the cult. But now that she was a disgraced wolf, she was daring to barge in?Nevertheless, Gia approached the cult headquarters with poise. But as soon as she was within 100 yards of its gate, an abrupt force knocked into her like a hard kick and she yelped, finding herself several feet away on the dusty ground. She got up immediatel
Dolly and Vanessa were so shocked to find out they had a brother out of the blues. A grown ass man at that.Dolly was must shocked because she was a huge fan of Walter Lance and often sneaked out to watch his games in the human world. She was so excited he was her full brother that she hugged him very tight and went on and on about how talented he was.She only stopped when Wayne was beginning to look at her like she was in-sane.After the crew concluded they would be going to the human world to meet Walter's human father, they spent the night before the trip in The Circular Cabinet. Everyone else acted like Walter was a part of them except Wayne who was so stiff with him. Walter had learnt to totally avoid his newfound big brother like he was a plague and peace reigned.The next day however, they had to work together. Olive stayed behind to brainstorm with Ami and Mufasa over The Great Agate Library. Dolly resumed work that day after staying off for two whole months. Everyone was bus
If Alpha Knight was surprised at Dr Lance's statement, he was doing a good job of hiding it. But Walter felt he saw a muscle flicker in his jaw before it turned rigid again.Walter turned back to his father, his heart thumping hard against his chest.“Mother... Mother said he would come?” he asked.“Melissa said a lot of things. Most of which I know you've forgotten or never thought mattered because she was...” he trailed off and shook his head.“Yes, your mother always mentioned to me that her first child would come. I just didn't' know why or how.”The silence in the living room after that statement was deafening. No one moved, or made a sound.Dr Lance looked back at Wayne whose eyes never left him.“What do you want?” he asked.“To know everything there is to know about the side of my mother only you saw,” Alpha Knight answered, his voice raw and menacing.“And what do I stand to gain from telling you about the only woman I've ever loved?”Something contorted in Alpha Knight's fac
Silence in the room again. Until Dr. Lance began to move using his stick again.“I was determined never to let you both go, because there was something that drew me to Isabella. I don't regret keeping you.”He looked at Walter and there was shrouded fondness in his eyes, one he was trying hard not to show.“After she put to birth, she begged me to take care of you. That she had to go until it was safe to bring you over. I was heartbroken she was leaving but a part of me was content I had you, a bit of Isabella. I was so in love I didn't care you belonged to a different father. I loved you and cared for you until you were four. And your mother appeared in a gasping and breathless scene, right on my front porch one night. She was so pale. So white and ashen. Her neck was punctured deep. She was dying but I knew what to do. She had warned me and taught me what to do if we were at the verge of death.”“The replenisher,” Walter breathed and Dr. Lance nodded.“She had brought it that first
“Damn...but...is this fire wolf supposed to be as real as Wayne's wolves? Like physically?” Shem questioned as they all had their eyes glued to the last picture.“What's her wolf like, Wayne?” Walter asked, ignoring the shock that his brother had three wolves. Three!“She's grey. She's just regular. But we haven't shifted since she began to wield fire,” he answered.“There's another book. This was the last one she created before she arranged everything in place. But she kept this in a different place. Here. Check,” Dr. Lance said while approaching them with a tiny book. It was red, orange and yellow all mixed-up. Wayne received it and opened it. Each page was plain white with just one word on each. Wayne opened it and read them aloud one by one.“To...learn...more...about... Wayne's...mate...and...how...she...completes...the...puzzle...visit...the...Great...Agate... Library...with...Walter...as...the...password,” it said.“To learn more about Wayne's mate, and how she completes the pu
“I half expected you'd not give me back my dagger,” King Xandros joked as soon as he stepped out of the forest, the way he had done two days before. Only Wayne and Olive were standing there to meet him. The others had mostly returned to Balendin Pack earlier. “I just finished one war with a vampire, I'm not quite ready to start another,” Alpha Knight joked in the same light.The vampire king laughed. It was so soft and innocent a stranger could fall for it. If he didn't see the fangs that is.“Wise of you. Very wise. Well, thank you for bringing it back.”He lifted his hand and the dagger lying on the soil rose to meet it. King Xandros looked it over, examining every crystal on it and the way the moon's glow bounced off the sharp blade.“It's not a fake. It's the very same knife,” Olive declared. King Xandros smirked.“If it wasn't the same knife, I'd have known the moment I stepped foot on the ground. I'm just... wondering how it felt like to have plunged into Prince Valerik's hea
Olive woke up abruptly after a nightmare. She saw The Baron touching her again and her Firewolf hadn't damned the bloody dampeners this time. She exhaled and rubbed her neck, right over her physically hidden mark. She looked around her and realized she was in a very cosy tent. The walls were icy. Literally icey and as she looked around with compression, she realized her mate had iced the entire tent.Why?“Burning hot you were. So hot you could have barbecued us all from fifty metres away.”Olive looked up to see Mufasa threading carefully towards her on the ice ground. She smiled brightly but couldn't bring herself to hug him. She had no strength.“Beautiful to see you back with us, my dear. Believe me, life without you is not worth living. Especially as your mate took it upon himself to personally see to our premature deaths.”Olive laughed at this. “Here. Drink this all up. It's the Ethe Orbs but for a different purpose for you. You need strength.”Olive gulped it all down but ma
The Baron smirked and Olive would have given anything in the world to just smack it off his face. “That one is very dear to me. He came in two days ago, two days after you came. You both are very dear,” he drawled. “Let him go. Don't you dare hurt him. Or any one of them!”“Sssh now. I said I wouldn't keep them if you complied. I'll free them if you strip.”“Never.”He shrugged.“Well then. I'm very sure this suit doesn't stop them from getting a brain rush. They can stay upside down for as long as it takes for them to choke on their own blood.”Olive exhaled and shut her eyes. She tried to summon something, anyone, anything. But she was blank on the inside. She looked at the manacles around her ankle and gritted her teeth. She knew what they were. Special Vrek Cult punishing tools. “I see you recognize the dampeners. Good. You will remain helpless for as long as it would take to get you to cooperate.”With this, The Baron flicked his hand and darkness clothed the cave again. His c
The safety edge was drawn up again for the third time in two weeks of nonstop fighting. This time, however, the Unbidden Army seemed to be dwindling in their numbers. Hopefully, they would soon run out of all unbidden warriors and The Baron would show himself for the final battle.Alpha Knight's hair was chin length now and he had it tied to the back of his head in a small ponytail. The effect of using his powers was shown in the growth rate of his hair.He was now standing in one of the tents, receiving reports of the war and how the people enclosed in their safety facilities were faring. A huge frown was on his face as he listened to a new report.Some of his soldiers were missing and they had last been sighted while fighting.“It's extremely strange. Even their mind links have been silenced. Nothing from them, as if they are dead,” one of the commanders revealed.Alpha Knight shut his eyes and traced them. He felt their auras and followed the trail. It kept going and going and goin
The suits were ready in two days. They were this full-body, extremely fitting like-a-second-skin, midnight blue, superhero-like suits. They clung to the bodies of the soldiers like wet polyester and were as tough as metal when struck from the outside. However, they weren't heavy neither did the soldiers feel like they were wearing the toughest and strongest uniform on earth. Impenetrable. After training with the new uniforms and suits for a whole day, Alpha Knight called the next day a day of partial rest then the following day they would move out to war. A pathway had been created from their park to the hideout location of The Baron by the joint work of Ami, Lutz and more Alchemists. All they had to do was march through the massive pathway only the Alpha family could control and they would wage war on the side out of the blue. The partial rest day had already begun, soldiers were milling around fully dressed, weapons strapped in and ready for war. But they were laughing and jesting
The hustle and bustle in the pack was evident even to a napping baby. The entire pack had more tension than the electrical tension wires around the pack. Pack members were growing nervous and fearful, with all the rumours of war and vampires flying around. Some were trying to leave the pack but Alpha Knight ordered that no one left. At first, it seemed like a tyrant command. But it soon became clear to them that if they had left the pack and were attacked, what would they do? None of the packs had the security that Balendin Pack had, and surely they wouldn't even accept them in. The human world was out of the question for those who had never left their realm. If they fled Balendin Pack at the moment, they would just be rogues—not accepted in any pack and not able to return to their own pack. There was also that fear surrounding the rumours of disappearing rogues. It could be anything. Alpha Knight had summoned his generals and commanders, ordering them to get troops ready to be depl
“Gia's head!” Olive gasped, a chill running down her spine at the revelation.Wayne nodded, his jaw locked tight.“That's what it looks like,” he affirmed. “What's the order, Alpha,?” Jake inquired, his face just as rigid as his Alpha's. “Send orders to get her detained at the border. She shouldn't step foot on our land. Send word to General Kalif to meet me at the board room in five minutes.”Jake nodded and bounded off immediately. Olive crossed her arms.“What are you thinking?” she asked. His thoughts were quite jumbled up she couldn't understand a thing.“Wondering why he went this extra length just to send a message,” he answered and began to walk. They followed after him. “Wayne, what if it's a trap?” Shem asked.“That is also crossing my mind,” his brother answered.Olive exhaled as they got into the elevator. Her heart was racing. If that was truly Gia's head, then The Baron had just used her and now disposed her off. Typical villain behaviour. She never liked Gia but she
The camp was empty safe for a massive building that was like a stone tower. There was a huge field surrounding it, cleared clean of trees, shrubs and plants. Calor could smell it.“Damn, it that's foul!” Olive sneered and gagged. “The Unbidden Army. They smell dead,” Astra explained. “But where are they?” Wayne asked, looking at the camp through Astra's vision too.“Underground, in that building. Laying low,” she replied. A few men with thick leather hoods were stationed outside, and there was an occasional movement of other people to and from the tower. A few tents were pitched on the field and they contained a few people.“How can we attack and besiege this place? It doesn't look impossible but...I kinda feel like there's more to this place than any we see,” Olive noted.“You shouldn't even be seeing this place in the first place,” Calor communicated. “Why?”“Because it's warded. Heavily warded to be simply invisible. No one should see or access it. But we can. And by that, I me
The van parked in front of the castle and they alighted. The fresh air hit their faces and Olive took in a deep breath. She was home. Oh, she missed home so much. She couldn't wait to see the guys. Alpha Knight came around her and sneaked his arm around her waist.“How does it feel?” she asked, looking up into his face as he gazed at his magnificent castle. The sun was setting already and the glow illuminated the building.“Feels like peace,” he answered and looked down at her.“I thought you felt at peace wherever I was?” Wayne chuckled.“I feel at home wherever you are. But I feel at peace when you're home with me.”Olive rolled her eyes.“You're just good with words,” she muttered and he laughed. “Are we heading in or gazing at the castle like it's a new building?” Jake asked as he made his way towards the entrance. Olive chuckled and followed after Jake, with Wayne right beside her. Her Guard followed behind them and they entered the castle together. Guards nodded pleasantly at