As Beta Joe neared the podium where the council of elders and Jimin sat, the crowd shifted away allowing him to pass. “Oh my God!” someone said. “That Lona?”“Oh yeah!” another man laughed. “She been fucking the Alpha. Never heard?” Beta Joe turned, furious and his eyes quickly picked out the person that said it. He walked up to him and with one hand, he held him up and squeezed him by the neck. Everyone watched in awe as the Beta raised him up high in the air. He struggled to breathe as Beta Joe’s huge arms were choking him.“What did you say about my daughter?” Beta Joe snarled at him. The choking man struggled for breath under Beta Joe’s grip and the angry Beta squeezed harder and harder till he crushed the man’s windpipe. He fell to the floor, badly wounded and struggling for breath and Beta Joe turned to the council of elders. “Xhang!” he called. “I have come to report to you first before taking further actions.”Elder Xhang stood up and walked towards the angry Beta that was i
“This has to be a dream. You can’t be serious!”Xavier rolled his eyes as he heard the same words he had been hearing for the last seven hours. “It is serious, Jimin,” Xavier frowned. “You do realize that you are the only person I can fully trust here right? And besides, you’ve done a lot for me already. You deserve this.”“Good heavens!” Jimin exclaimed, staring at the high walls of the pack house. “I’m going to be living here. That’s hard to believe, Xavier. This means a lot to me.”“You’ve not yet accepted,” Xavier frowned. “I know you would miss your role as a Sentinel and your former comrades but I really need you here in the pack house with me. I can’t trust a soul here.”“Say no further,” Jimin smiled. “I didn’t particularly enjoy my role as a Sentinel. It was more of a forced duty. I would rather serve you here.”“Much better,” Xavier smiled. “Considering the fact that I know very little about our history and culture, you would have a lot to do.”“I would gladly do all it tak
“My ears are all yours,” Xavier said sitting up straight to hear what the Elder had to say.“And you too Jimin, listen as carefully as possible,” Elder Xhang said turning to face Jimin. Jimin frowned and looked away.“I’ve heard that story a hundred times and over,” he said. “One day I might throw up.” Elder Xhang ignored him and continued.“Your father married your mother against the wishes of the moon goddess,” Elder Xhang continued. “It was an insult to us all seeing her in our pack. We couldn’t technically call her our Luna considering the fact that she was a human, pure human. The Elders then were unhappy with Dan Damon for marrying her and my father, Elder Xin spoke openly against him, calling him a traitor and a betrayer. Eventually, everyone followed suit and soon, the people lost faith in the great Dan Damon. The only person that stood beside Dan was his beta, Tae Kong. Kong was very loyal and a few times, he helped your father escape the wrath of the pack. Dan Damon started
That was not enough for me of course,” Elder Xhang continued. “I cried my eyes out at the sad and sorry sight of my father sprawled on the floor, covered by those vile creatures.”“I’m sorry you had to pass through all that,” Xavier said. “I wish I was there.”“You were,” Elder Xhang laughed. “Have you forgotten that was the day you were born? You were just too little to do anything. I stared at you in anger that day. I was convinced you were an evil little thing, a beast, the first of its kind and I was determined to be the one to end your life. Saying it now in front of you, I feel a little bit ashamed but that was exactly how I felt. Your father, Dan Damon was confused. He didn’t have an idea what was going on. Everyone was chanting Maya! Maya! Maya! and he walked in confused with me. He asked to know what was going on and the people there replied him that Maya Richardson had single handedly stopped the band of vampires and lycans that were coming. He didn’t believe it of course an
Sebastian stared in delight at his new room. He turned to face Jon who seemed like the only one who shared his excitement with him.“How do you see it?” he turned and smiled at Jon. Jon did not even reply. He was too busy with his camera taking pictures of everything in the room. “Amazing,” Jon muttered. “Just amazing.” He took a shot of the outside view through the window and he smiled to himself. “Guess who’s got over a thousand likes on Instagram now?” Jon smiled staring at Sebastian. Sebastian shrugged and turned away from him.“You can have all the likes on Instagram,” Sebastian scoffed. “All I care about is all these cool sheets and weapons. Nothing’s better than a good sleep and an even better fight after waking up from that good sleep. Don’t you agree?”“I’m not the biggest fan of fights,” Jon frowned. “But those weapons look pretty cool. They might need a shade of pink around some corners though. I could help you with that yeah?”“Everything doesn’t need a shade of pink,” S
Sebastian turned to face Jon and both of them and the look on Jon’s face told him that they were both thinking the same thing.“You have to do something about this,” Jon spoke up finally. They had both been quiet for over a minute.“What exactly?” Sebastian frowned. “What do you want me to do about this? Like I said earlier, it wouldn’t be nice if we just went ahead to tell Xavier all about it when we are not sure yet.”“Tell me what?” Xavier smiled at them. They looked up in shock to see that Xavier was there, staring at the two of them and smiling. “Are you two already planning to unseat me?”“No, not at all,” Sebastian mouthed and curtsied immediately. “What are you doing here my King? We didn’t hear you walk in.”“Beats me,” Xavier frowned. “You know that you have to be more observant now as a Sentinel. A lot of vernim is waiting outside the pack and you’re the best chance we’ve got before the warriors. You would do your duty well Sebastian.”Sebastian was not sure if that last pa
“What did he do?” Sebastian asked again. “Tell me Dan. I would talk to him and we would be able to settle all our differences like a family. Bad blood between us is the last thing that I want right now.”“But we don’t have a choice, do we?” Xavier smiled, staring at Sebastian. “I like you, young man. You are loyal. You have love for your family and as much as I want to tell you that you are safe, the honest truth is that you are far from safe. You might find yourself suffering for your brother’s crimes eventually.”“Not if I can remedy the situation,” Sebastian smiled. “You know I heard a lot about you growing up as a child. Dan Damon the great, the king of kings, Alpha of the Black Wolves pack, vampire slayer, the dread of the Lycans You had all the impressive names and pretty much every kid wanted to be like you.”“Every kid?” Xavier stared at him.“The males at least,” Sebastian shrugged. “The she wolves all wanted to be like a human, your wife. Every single soul in the pack adored
Sebastian was more than prepared for his first new challenge as a Sentinel, not just an ordinary Sentinel but as the leader of the Sentinels. He knew very well that it would be nothing like what he had faced before in the dungeons building new cells and carving out new structures for Alpha Jaime. Everyone had always talked about how strong he was and how he could handle whatever role was given to him, even the role of a warrior but he knew that it was beyond just words. It was far more difficult than they said it was and he had to have a knowledge about what he was getting into before getting into it. He decided to stop by at Jimin’s first before going out for his night duty. It was already 11pm and Sebastian had picked eight of his best friends from the Revolution, strong and daunting werewolves that he trusted could keep watch with him. They would be watching in groups of three but they would stay close to each other. He had mapped everything that they were going to do that night bu
“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