“Exactly what I expected from you, Xavier Damon,” Rhea laughed. “Of course you would be tempted to play hero and save her life. But let me quickly remind you that you’re outnumbered.”“You can’t kill me,” Xavier said looking her in the eyes. “You would have made a brave king,” Rhea shrugged. “Too bad my father is already interested in that title. You have to bow before him and he would want to have the daughter of an Alpha. It would be a good bargaining tool for him eventually. I’m pretty sure Alpha Ferran loves his daughter.”“She is a person like you,” Xavier said. “You’re not any better than her. She is not a bargaining tool.”“We’re all bargaining tools, Xavier,” Rhea sighed. “The earlier you realize and acknowledge that fact, the better it would be for you. If I were to mistakenly wander into the North unguarded and without my father’s command, do you think Alpha Ferran would allow me walk free there? Of course not. He would take me as his prisoner and do what with me? He would
Mork side stepped just in time and Ozark ran head on into a rock that was in the middle of the cave. He crashed into it and fell head first on the floor and Mork walked up to him slowly. He stared at him from above and shook his head in pity.“You don’t go against your future queen,” Mork shrugged. “Even if you don’t lose your head now, you would lose it later on. You can’t win this fight.”Ozark mumbled some unintelligible words on the floor and Ozark lifted him up. “Ready to bow before your queen now?”Ozark spat in his face in defiance and Mork turned away. “Wasn’t expecting that.”Mork turned angrily and as fast as he turned, his claws dug into Ozark’s flesh and tore it apart. Ozark howled and fell to the floor and there was a huge rumbling in the cave as he fell. Mork stared at him on the floor and shook his head before turning again to face Rhea.“Spare him my queen,” Mork frowned. “He is but a young warrior. He does not understand any of the concepts of war. Allow him live and
Xavier walked up to Alpha Joharres and the Alpha’s claws sharpened immediately.“There is no need for that, Alpha Joharres,” Xavier frowned. “Let us be smart and avoid certain doom, all of us. Leave your ancestral home and live. Stay and die. Which do you choose?”“I would rather stay and die fighting for what I know is mine,” Alpha Joharres grunted back. “It’s a coward who would run away at the first sight of danger and I’m not one so if you’re here to convince me about giving up, I’m sorry you’re wasting your time.”“You are not giving up Joharres,” Xavier replied, his eyes fixed on the Alpha. Joharres stared at him wondering what he meant and Xavier whispered in his ears.“You are not giving up by deciding to leave a piece of land behind. I left mine to come and help you. I left it almost totally unguarded. Do you think I didn’t have a plan when I left it?”“I trust you did,” Joharres grunted sarcastically. “And what is this your master plan all about huh? I would really love to he
“I don’t like the sound of that,” someone said from the crowd. “You sound just like your father. You want to use us to win a battle that is not ours.”“I sacrificed my sister’s life for you all to live,” Xavier said, not even bothering to find the exact person from the crowd that had made the statement. “I would not have any of you bring up doubts about my integrity. No one was forced to be here. If you don’t want to be under my jurisdiction, you are very free to become a rogue. You can leave us if you like.”They all remained silent and Xavier turned to Jimin. “Lets get going. We have to hit the second pack before daylight.”Megan murmured something and Xavier could guess that she was complaining about having to cover such a long distance over the night but that wasn’t his concern. Jimin’s face was clouded and he knew that there was something that his Beta was not telling him. “You have something to say to me, say it now,” Xavier whispered in Jimin’s ears and watched as the latter t
Elder Obada sat on the throne with a bored expression on his face. What he had expected when he was subtly taking over the throne from Xavier was very far from what he was seeing and if he had known that things would eventually go that way, he would not have opted for the throne. He would have remained content with his role as the Leader of the Elders. He had managed to convince Xavier to go all the way to the East to fight against Lycans and bring all the werewolves together, thinking that Xavier would die in the process and then he would take over as the Alpha but things were not going as planned. From the report he had received earlier from Xavier, things were going perfectly. Xavier and his warriors had managed to convince the Lycans to leave the East and they had taken over the Mountain Ghost pack and were now regrouping with them towards the South. On the Elder’s ends, things were not looking as rosy. His new subjects were proving to be very difficult and he was having a very ha
Plan B was a simple one, simple but deadly enough to do the job well. Elder Obada knew very well what it meant and he was ready to take the risk as Rhea had double crossed him. As he walked down to his private quarters, he considered it again, wondering if it was really worth it, selling off the pack where he had grown up as a boy for a little bit of power. Power was something that was very important to him. He had grown up from a poor family, one that was downtrodden by almost all the families of the Black Wolf Pack. His family was like the underdog and he had not enjoyed his childhood one bit. His father had managed to rise to fame however at his death. His father had saved a fellow werewolf from a Lycan back then and he was handed with the honorary title of Elder. It was just a decoration of a title however as he was not even allowed into the meetings for the Elders. They all felt he was not close to their league and if not that they were all scared of the Alpha, Dan Damon, they wo
“What did you say happened to Xavier Damon again?” Ghost asked, his eyes fixed on his daughter, Rhea. As smart as she was, she couldn’t figure out why he asked. Rhea did not suspect that her father knew what had transpired back then. She knew very well that Mork was on her side and the rest of the Lycans had sworn their fealties to her first. She was as dangerous as her father was and as such, they could not even dare to think about double crossing her to tell her father. If they dared it, the worst her father would do would he to punish her for a week and when she was back to her position, she would be able to get back at the people that told on her. That was the major reason Rhea was confident that her father did not know what had happened, but with the way he kept asking about how Xavier escaped, she was sure that he was suspecting foul play.“Xavier Damon fights better than most of us think, father,” Rhea said. “He ambushed us at the East when we were fighting against the Mountain
Rhea stared at her father in shock.“Father?”“Don’t you dare father me!” Ghost thundered and turned immediately to face Mork. “Commander Mork, take the princess captive and keep her in the dungeons. That would be her new home from this day until the end of the war.”Rhea flashed a quick gaze at Mork that Ghost did not fail to take note of. He could see very well the look of fear in Mork’s eyes, that brief hesitation before moving towards Rhea at his second call.“So you not only go behind me to do your will,” Ghost frowned. “You also make my soldiers do as you wish.”“Father!” Rhea said walking up to meet Ghost. “Look at who I got you. Layla Damon, the daughter of your enemy and the servant of the moon goddess. She is far more important than Xavier can ever be. I know what I am doing.”“And I do not know what I am doing huh?’ Ghost stared her down. “So let me get this straight. You ran into Xavier Damon at the the Mountain Ghost pack and you made a deal with him. You let him go free
“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