“Pack your things everyone. We’re heading back to the West.”The warriors of the Black Wolf Pack woke up with a jolt. They had been preparing all night for their invasion of the North the next day and it came as a shock to all of them that the very person that had been on their toes, expecting them to be hyper prepared for the D-day was backing out of the plan at the last minute. Jimin, Rhea and Layla were the most shocked at Xavier’s sudden change of plans considering the fact that he had not spoken about it with any of them and Jimin frowned at Rhea wondering if she was somehow the reason they were having a change of plans.“Don’t look at me like that,” Rhea complained. “I had absolutely nothing to do with the sudden change of plans. Ask him whatever.”Jimin ignored her and walked over to meet Xavier. He tapped Xavier on the shoulder and Xavier turned and smiled at him.“Hello, Beta,” Xavier smiled. “Trust you had a good night.”“Yeah,” Jimin muttered wondering since when Xavier beg
"How sure are you that he would be turning back to the West?" Ghost grunted over the phone in his usual grumpy voice."I can assure you of it," Elder Obada smiled. His voice was full of excitement because for the first time in years, he could see his plan begin to take shape. Everything was going perfectly, just the way he wanted it to go."So what are you asking for now?" Ghost grunted. "Reinforcements," Elder Obada replied quickly. "The warriors he left behind would not be enough to take on him when he gets back. I need more. I need to make it a clean job this time, and when he dies this time, you can tell your witch friend to leave him dead for good.""That's part of the problem we have here," Ghost frowned. "The only reason Calisté brought him back to life is because she has an ego twice the size of her brain. She claimed me killing the family wasn't enough vengeance for her. She wanted to do it herself. She wanted to see the look of horror on Xavier's face when he was dying and
Rhea stared at the lifeless body of Mork on the floor. He had been her personal guard for as long as she could remember and he had always been good for her. It was sad that when she needed him the most, he had turned on her for personal glory, and now he was dead.“You shouldn’t have killed him,” Rhea frowned.“What should I have done with him?” Calistè grunted. “He wasn’t going to give us any useful information.”“He was always good to me,” Rhea muttered.“That was before he became over ambitious,” Calistè frowned. “Mork didn’t really care about you anymore. All he wanted was to harness Steve’s power.”“And what about Steve?” Rhea asked. “What would we do about him now?”Calistè looked over her shoulder at the long line of graves that were ahead of her and she shrugged. “I would say we dig through all the graves in St. Jacques tonight but I’m standing with a princess who can’t get her nails dirty.”“I don’t even have nails,” Rhea muttered, staring at her fingers. “I can’t be here all
Rhea and Calistè turned to look at each other.“It’s got to be in here,” Rhea said. “Let’s go in.”Rhea walked ahead of her and pushed the gate open. It creaked loudly as it opened and Calistè frowned seeing that the gate had been open all along. They could have just pushed the smaller one and went in rather than going through the stress of opening the whole gate.They walked in and Rhea assessed the bottom floor quickly. It was empty.“Nothing there,” she frowned. “Let’s check up.”They took the stairs up and stopped at the entrance of the building. The place was dusty and Rhea coughed as they walked in.“Mork had to come all the way here to hide a dead body,” Calistè growled as they walked in. “How smart of him.”“You couldn’t have found this place without my help,” Rhea grunted. “We should be happy that he decided to go with the usual riddles. Let’s look around quickly before the ghosts come up.”Rhea took the first floor and scanned the building quickly. There was a freezer at the
“What..what..what do you mean?” Rhea stared at Calistè. “Someone else is already in control of Steve?”“You heard me right,” Calistè nodded. “I don’t know how he managed to do it but it’s been done already. All the necessary spells have been cast. The only thing left is the body. It needs time to regenerate and get its form again.”Rhea ran her fingers through her hair pensively. All her efforts over the past week to get Steve was now futile. Someone else was one step ahead of them and it was most likely going to be Mork.“How long until his new form is completed?” Rhea asked.“Normally, it doesn’t take more than an hour or two,” Calistè shrugged. “Depending on how long this spell was cast, he would be waking up any time soon and searching for his master.”“And if he doesn’t see his master?” Rhea asked.For a second, Calistè went blank. She had not considered that before as it had never happened before. “I’ve never thought of that,” Calistè frowned. “I guess it would remain there, wa
Jimin frowned. He wasn’t happy about the prospects of his father discussing with Calistè. As far as he was concerned, they had absolutely nothing to talk about. Calistè was a bad influence and as long as he had feelings for her in the past, she was going to use it against him. It would affect their decision making process greatly.“You shouldn’t speak to her,” Jimin muttered to himself. “She would want to convince you to go ahead with whatever evil plan she has.”“I want to,” Tae replied inside of him. “Allow me just a minute or two with her and I’ll be gone again.”“You didn’t show up when I was going through a lot,” Jimin sighed. “Lately, the pack has been faced with a lot of threats and I didn’t see you for a minute giving me a word of advice, but here you are, about to talk to her.”“I know what I’m doing Jimin,” Tae replied quietly. “Just trust me and give me control.”Jimin sighed giving up. There was nothing he was going to say that was going to stop his father from speaking wi
Xavier woke up with a terrible headache and to the realization that the worst might have happened while he slept. Standing up from his master bed, he stared at his reflection in the mirror that hung on his wall, directly in front of him. He noticed that he had grown a bit taller in the last few weeks and his hair was getting fuller. He ran his hand through his hair and washed his face with water. It was the morning of their mission to the North and he knew that this particular mission would be the highlight of his reign as the Alpha for a long time to come. He had not spoken to Rhea since their little quarrel the other night and Jimin too seemed to be disappointed with him. He turned towards the door and pushed it open. The room opposite was Jimin’s and he was surprised to see that the door was still open. Jimin loved to sleep with his door closed for privacy so for his door to be open, it could only mean one thing - he was not in the room and as much as that seemed to be the only pla
Less than five minutes after his alarm, the corridor leading up to Rhea’s room was filled already. Everyone was looking for Jimin and Rhea. Layla was also present but she barely said a word. She turned around and searched Jimin’s room thoroughly, not even giving any attention to Rhea that was also missing. All she cared about was Jimin. Her Jimin.“If I found out that your girlfriend did something bad to the Beta, I wouldn’t be taking your permission to slice her head off her neck,” Layla breathed down Xavier’s neck. “And trust me, this won’t be like the last time. I would do a clean job this time.”“You wouldn’t need my permission to do that if it’s the case,” Xavier frowned. “But this doesn’t look likely. Rhea would never hurt Jimin. Ghost has to be behind all this.”“It’s definitely not Ghost,” Layla shook her head in the negative. “Think about it. What business does he have with Jimin? If he were to send anyone here, it would be to kill your and probably his daughter that betraye
“Rhea? Helping? After all I told you about her?”The disgust on Jimin’s face was pretty much obvious and Xavier knew that it was going to take more than mere words to convince his Beta that the Lycan kings daughter was actually on their side.“She’s helping out with Calistè,” Xavier frowned staring at Jimin. “She saved my life and i really think we should give her a chance.”“Well I don’t think we should,” Jimin sighed. “After all that she’s done, but if that’s what you want, who am into argue with you?”Jimin turned around immediately and stormed out and Xavier watched as he left. He turned to face Jaime and Layla who had been quiet all the while and he stared at them.“What’s with the look?” Layla frowned. “Come on let’s go help your Luna. I want to be an aunty very soon.”Xavier smiled and blushed and bolted towards the sound of the clanking swords. He was happy that his sister had gotten over her hatred for Rhea and he knew that with her on his side now they were going to defeat C
"Hunny! Did you miss me?" Calistè gave a smug smile while Xavier stared in shock."You…yo " he tried to speak but what befell his eyes was greater than what his mouth could speak out loud."Yeah. I understand" she made a mocking face." Now! Are we going to fight or what?" She grinned big time and whistled to her beasts.He beasts all came after the others that stood in the room, Layla immediately changed to a wolf, her teeth snarling and her roar as clear as crystal.Calistè raced towards Xavier, her sword in hand as she raised her arms and swung at Xavier.Xavier missed it by a beat and she smirked hard ."Oh, much I've waited for this!" She screamed and charged at Xavier again, her heels hotter than the very earth as she kept off.Meanwhile kycans began to climb the walls and started to hit the windows."Jimin! The windows" Jamie screamed while trying to fend off a beast who looked at him as though he was nothing more than food.Before jimin could think of anything else, the shatte
Jimin watched as Layla rallied the group together in the small study, the space getting filled up immediately with eager faces ready to fight for their Alpha, for their kingdom. Jimin turned away from the group, striding into the main study and shutting it close behind him. When he turned around, Xavier was staring up at her, his hands frozen untop a map that he'd probably been gazing at before Jamie entered."You know you can join your sister and help with the planning. Instead of being all by yourself, worrying, like always." Jimin was satisfied with Xavier's severe frown, his forehead wrinkling. Xavier ignored him and went back to his perusal of the map. Jimin drew closer, his head tilting down to take in the almost real picture of their kingdom. Xavier had placed pins around the boarder, and was currently swirling one in his hand while staring at the map in concentration.He stuck the pin at a place that didn't make sense and let out a grunt of frustration. Jimin was confused and
"You can't believe you can ever defeat me, right?" Calistè said with vigor and a growing grin coming up on her face."Just wait till I smack that stupid grin off your face" Rhea said, her brows nearly touching from anger."Make me?" She challenged.Rhea rushed at her, her hands holding two daggers now, her feet swift on the ground and her stance defensive even though she was the attacker now.Flames went up in different directions and Rhea glanced quickly to see that Layla had her hands on Xavier as he steadied his breath to catch his breathing and stop the bleeding that was now obvious.Rhea got even more angry as she dodged the attack on time, her face nearly been dissected by calistè's sharp sword."You know how I got this sword? Huh!" Calistè boasted and struck again, missing Rhea immediately from her swift and tricky movements."I have a feeling you're going to tell me anyway, so do" Rhea said and took another stance.With two of her fingers she gestured for calistè to meet her a
Xavier looked from jimin to Layla with so much surprise."How did you know that?" Jamie asked the man in question but he didn't reply.He gestured to his fellow elders and they all went to take their various seats at their high tables."So tell us, Xavier. Why have you come back?" The eldest elder asked again.Xavier who was still managing to recover from how they knew about Rhea snapped out of his head and stepped forward in the council."I have lead this kingdom for a while and everybody can see my works" Xavier began and some of the elders nodded their heads to what he said but not Marcus."I have been away for quite some time" he looked intently at everyone" And I bring you news from the snowy mountains and others... Calistè is alive and well" the elders gasped in shock." And what's even more? — he paused Ashe examined each and everyone one of them including Marcus — she has beasts of her own"Gasps rang out from every corner and Xavier liked the fear it impacted on them, it was
The fight took a lesser time to finish as they had gotten that source of information, blood and splatters of beast remains stained them and the very earth that they walked on. Layla couldn't help but feel very dirty about the whole scenario that played out in front of her."We've got to help the women and the children Xavier" she said while Xavier turned back into his human form.Xavier didn't utter a single word as he walked past her and back to where a horse had galloped to."Xavier!" She called for him, her feelings out on a platterXavier stopped walking but didn't turn to look at her."I'm talking to you. We should help them out Xavier" she said, her voice sharp and firm and this got Xavier turning to look at her square in the face and Layla was able to see just how much anger resided in his little orbs of crystal clear darkness."No" he said, a Huff if air coming out of his nostrils with his finality."What?" Layla asked, baffled by what the heck he could mean."You heard me rig
"Calistè?" Jamie asked, astonished.layla didn't know what to say or how to respond, the whole world felt like it went silent and collapsed."She gathered up every last woman and child and took them with her alongside some beasts" a man spoke up." You've got to help us sire. You're our only hope now" the first man said. Xavier came out in front of jimin, his hands still placed on the scratch he had obtained."We journey to my Homeland, the black wolves" people began to murmur." We plan on taking back our Homeland and we plan on defeating calistè once and for all" Xavier said with an air of finality.The crowd stopped murmeeing and cheered a bit." Can we come with you?""Oh... Let us come with you!" Another said." Let him rest folks, wherever he goes, we go. We pledge our loyalty to you sure" the first man said again. Xavier didn't know what to make of all of these information and all of these kinds of response. He just gave a Curt nod and that was it. The men dispersed out of the h
"What did you find?" Layla said with all seriousness. Jamie had so much excitement in his eyes as he jumped up and down." I found a shelter and jimin found food, we could make a camp fire later tonight" Jamie replied. Xavier nodded his head in agreement."Lead the way" Jamie was more than happy to do so.They walked together under Jamie's direction and lead, he would lead them to a path that had a sheltering , like a makeshift house but with tents. Jimin was bent over a hurdle of stacked sticks and on closer inspection, he was currently striking two stones together in order to produce fire."Jimin, let me help you with that" Layla said and walked ahead of the men to help jimin, in seconds she had done that which jimin had struggled with.With food on the raging fire, each of the flame licking a bit of the left over meat, night had quickly fallen on them."I have a question Xavier" Layla suddenly said, everybody's attention focused on her , the illumination the fire casted around the
There was an obvious change in the air the next day, Xavier was calmer and for the first time, so was Layla. They had both had time to think, mostly Layla.Jamie had appeared out of nowhere, map in hand as he suddenly cleared their breakfast off of the table that had seen more of the good life than the ugly.He spread the map evenly and Xavier glanced at Layla just in the nick of time to see that same excitement he couldn't deny made him feel a spark." Xavier, lead the way" Jamie said as he stepped away from the map. Xavier who had been seated stood up and so did the rest. With their necks outstretched, they gathered around him like a flock of flightless birds in need of direction."We go through the Rocky mountain which should take a day but now that we have no means of flight or how to get there asides from our obvious walking, we'd have to take nearly two days to get there," he said, pointing at some steep and yet pointy figures that made its way to the map."What about going arou