The entire crowd went death quiet the moment Rhea spoke up. There were staring at her with a mix of emotions. Some had disbelief etched in their expressions, others had wariness, fear, or downright shock. The warrior let out a wry smile, taking a few steps forward.“Lycan, you do know that you can’t use your wolf in here, right?” He grinned in a smug voice. “After all, what else can you do in here, princess?”“Be respectful to her, or you’ll have to answer to the Alpha. And trust me, you don’t want to get Alpha Xavier mad at you.” Jimin thundered from where he stood, crossing his arms. Then he looked at Rhea, “Are you sure about this? Unless you are completely defeated, no one can pull you out of that ring except the Alpha. And he is not here.”Rhea raised her chin at him. “I am sure.”Chloe’s eyes widened. “What are you doing? That guy is a brute.”She turned back to face Chloe, green eyes twinkling. “The only good thing about being a lycan, is that everyone can fight. Even as a pamp
Rhea doubled back immediately she heard those words, raising her hands. “What? I don’t want to fight you!”Jimin glanced at Layla with his eyebrows furrowed and blue eyes narrowed, wondering what the hell she was up to now. Layla placed a hand in her hip, arching a thin eyebrow at Rhea. “Why don’t you want to fight me? Do you think I’m not strong enough?”“No!” Rhea’s eyes widened. “I just don’t want to fight Xavier’s sister, okay? Not after you let me into your pack, I don’t want things to get violent, okay?”She was close to panicking, wondering why Layla would want to do this. Rhea had no desire to fight with her, and she was sure Xavier would also be upset of he heard that she and Layla fought. And this was not even a friendly match.The winner of this fight has to make sure their opponent can’t get up. That’s brutal.Layla smiled slightly, walking forward towards Rhea. “Well, too bad. You can’t choose who your opponent is or isn’t . That’s the burden of being a winner around here
In the Alpha’s training room, Xavier twisted around and threw a dart straight at the target on the wall far across the room. It hit bull’s eye, but only by some stroke of luck. One wrong movement when he threw it, and it could have missed.“Woah..”“Oh..”A couple of low hoots cane from the few male warriors around who were training with him. He turned around, brushing his back hair back with one roughened hand, and shrugged, “What can I say? I’m talented.”“Some talent that is.” A bored voice intoned from the entrance to the room. “You almost fucking missed. Even the nurses could aim better.”From the playful jab combined with raw sarcasm, Xavier knew exactly who would dare talk to him like that. Jimin Kong. His fucking beta.The warriors snickered from Jimin’s words, and some misfortunate person accidentally laughed out loud, but quickly choked on it before he would incur the wrath of the alpha. Jimin walked into the room, his toned and muscular arms crossed in front of him, and his
Rhea could sense someone coming towards her through the foliage, but the wind was blowing in the opposite way, so she could not even rely on her senses to tell who it was.She heard another snap, and she shifted, staring at the spot it had come from. For a moment if she wondered if she should hide or prepare to fight the mysterious person causing a rustle in the trees. After the incident at the fighting grounds yesterday, Rhea felt like she had somehow made things worse.After all, Xavier got mad at Layla in front of everyone. And the pack members loved Layla, meaning, they had more reason to dislike Rhea now. So could someone be crazy enough to try to get back at her.The rustling sound got even closer, until a blonde hair came into view, and Chloe popped out, brushing some leaves off her hair.Rhea let out a loud sigh. “It’s you. Thank goodness, you got me scared for a second there.”Chloe smiled, stepping closer to the rocks by the spring. “What are you doing all the way out here,
The chief warrior ran his finger down the large, round war strategy table, with Xavier, Jimin and the two other werewolves following his every movement intently.“So this is where we will invade from.” The chief warrior tapped a spot on the table. “And—”The door flew open, slamming against the wall with a loud crash that startled all the occupants in the room. A sweaty and wide-eyed werewolf stumbled in. “Alpha! Ghost spies are causing trouble at the western borders. They are trying to capture the Lycan Princess, and it appears that Chloe led her straight into an ambush.”“What?” Jimin exclaimed, and Xavier was a blur of speed as he breezed out of the room, yelling, “Fuck!”*Back at the border, Chloe had beaten the first three werewolves that attacked her, into a pulp. Now that her cover had been blown, she was trying to escape out into the next territory, but more werewolves kept pouring out of the woods, charging straight for her to prevent her from going any further.A couple of
Tae Kong was alive.He was right there, across the fields, in that confident, manly posture of his. His back was as broad as usual, showing the powerful disposition of a skilled fighter, and leader. A more capable leader than the Alpha king could ever be.Caliste smiled in contentment from just watching him, but of course, she was never a woman who was easily satisfied, so she was never truly content. She always wanted more of everything, till they was nothing else to take.Brushing her crimson red hair back in the blowing breeze, she slowly made her way through the field towards the love of her life.Her light red dress floated along in the breeze as well, exposing her milky pale thighs with every step she took. Tae Kong glanced at her, with those beautiful blue eyes and flowing black hair.He was handsome. So handsome, her dark witch heart was held spellbound.She was the witch. But she was the one bewitched.But as she walked through the fields, neither of them noticed, the grass
Layla was adamant on not letting Rhea on the fighting grounds, because it made the warriors wary and distracted. And she found out that some warriors had seen her fight Chloe, and according to the gossip, they thought she was a living weapon.To Layla’s dismay, Rhea was beginning to have fans among the ranks. They should be training hard, not gawking and whispering about a certain white haired Lycan princess. She gloomily told Rhea, “Still. You should stay away from the fighting grounds. Alpha Xavier might misunderstand and cause another scene.”Rhea immediately got what this was all about. Layla was still pissed off about the entire incident back during the fighting match. Softly, she stepped closer to Layla, sighing. “I understand how you feel, Layla. Losing your parents in the worst possible way, and watching your brother fall in love with the daughter of your parents’ killer…”Layla flinched from Rhea’s words and abruptly looked away, frowning. Rhea softly continued. “You hate me,
When the footsteps in front of the cell retreated, there was silence. Syke slowly moved his bruised and bloody head sideways to look at Top agent, sprawled against the wall. She was not even moving at all. He could not even tell if she was breathing under all that blood.“Hey. Did you hear what they just said about Ghost?” He asked in a hoarse whisper. “I think a serious war is brewing.”Silence met his words, and he slowly blinked at her, trying to find the outline of her face under her matted blonde hair turned brown. He said again, “Hey, I don’t have the strength to keep repeating myself. Are you even alive?”“I feel dead.” Chloe let out a raspy chuckle that sent more blood out of her mouth. Syke jolted and the sudden movement cost him so much pain.He hissed in pain and annoyance. “Oh, you fucking look dead, alright. I wish you could fucking see how pathetic you look right now. The best werewolf spy in Ghost’s ranks, all beaten up by a pampered princess. Next, some amateur torture
“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