*Caleb*I grin as I feel her shiver, each time my lips brush a part of her skin, she moans softly and goosebumps arise on her silked skin; I love waking her up like this.I sense trouble just seconds before Alex knocks on our door. Meadow wakes up completely with her eyes wide, striking me in their beauty even though I know I should focus on the urgency of a new situation. She gives me a scared look, I take her hand as we both walk down to meet my second."This better be important Alex..." I said with the most used line of all times, but it is truly what I feel. I was enjoying my time with my future wife way too much to feel any less irritated by his interruption."Alpha, they are hundreds, so many. Cornelius sent a first wave to attack and they got caught in the border, struggling under the effects of Queen Isilwen and her kind's powers. They did not retreat, the bulk of them are waiting, they haven't sent more but our outside contacts confirmed they are there, waiting..."I grow
*Caleb*Minutes later, when we arrive to the meeting, Aeneas is frowning to what one of his pledges whispers to him. He bows his head in acknowledgement of my presence and I do the same, a mutual agreement to show each equal respect in front of our people."Rowen, they started a couple of hours ago and we are only being notified now? Why are we being kept away from this?" He asks as he moves towards me slowly.I look at Alex and he lowers his head. 'Explain, now.' I command.'Queen Isilwen thought she could handle them and scare them away but as the hours went by she noticed it wasn't going to be as easy as she had expected. The confirmation of our outside informants of Cornelius being there with more fighters still has made all of this more difficult. It became clear to the Queen that she needed to let us become involved at this time .' As Alex passed the information to me and Meadow, I looked at Aeneas who was becoming a little calmer."We are just finding out about this now as
*Meadow*I am happy I didn't have to argue much with Caleb for this, he didn't want me in the field of battle but he also was aware that Cornelius was smart, and he would think of a way to get to me just to get to him. If I was close, his chances were almost nule to take me.We are finally established in the woods; I can see Queen Isilwen not far from us and her powers are strong. I see several wolves on the ground howling in pain. Caleb takes my hand and walks amongst our people, most of them shifted except the scouts on the top of the trees. "I am going to ask Queen Isilwen to let them go, this will encourage Cornelius to push and attack. Demark's people are a few miles ahead ready to aid the drows taking them to a safe distance. That is when we enter, our first line works as a shield, they will stop his first wave. The second one is the punch, we will strike back. The last one has the deadliest warriors, and me. I will need you to take an important role here Princess..." He says t
*Meadow*After minutes of silence, they didn't move; many of them laid exhausted for the physical and mental manipulation from the drows and wisps. I felt my throat dry, I was nervous, expecting the unexpected. Then I saw it.It was a line of darkness that approached us with an incredible speed. Shifted wolves that ran towards us bloodthirsty; their eyes red, their canines out and threatening, their growls chilling. I shivered and had to force myself to remember this was the moment that would define our future, mine with Caleb and also our people, and probably the world. Because, if we can't stop Cornelius, no one can, and who would stop here when they could take the world?Caleb's plan got into action; the first wave got caught on our first line. Everything happened so fast, it was surreal. I heard the sound of each of our warriors and felt their rage and pain all together. It made me restless, I wanted to do something, I wanted to help them. I was about to shift and head their way
*Meadow*I felt disgust watching his cocky smile while he stood a few meters from me. To be honest, I was never a violent person, but it made me want to punch him with all I had. He shifted and walked slowly closer to me."Well, well... the Princess is now trapped in her own paradise..." his voice caused me chills, the worst ones. He spilled venom with his tone of voice and I felt like I wanted to crawl into a space and hide. Why did I ran? Why didn't I stay where Caleb told me to? Oh Goddess, why was I so stupid and left the safety of his eyes? Now I regret everything I did, I wanted to be brave and instead I think I just ended up messing things up.I held the tears and instead I replaced them with nothing. I looked back at him with lack of emotions. He chuckled to himself and looked around. "Very nice place, is this the place where you met him?" He asked and I just stared back at him, I didn't want to confirm nor deny anything and let him elaborate more on whatever he was planning
*Meadow*"I knew you were following me Vampyr... I knew you were chasing my tail... I always knew you were... admit it, you didn't see this one coming, did you..." he mocked and teased Aeneas between laughs. The bodies of the two dead vampires were quickly disintegrating on the ground. "You took my Luna away from me... now I am taking yours... give her to me..." Cornelius spoke, this time, with no hint of amusement.I knew I hadn't like Camilla from the start, the vibes she sent were always different. But betraying her blood, her maker? I never expected that. Rage started to fill me and I was struggling not to give in. My wolf was snarling to come out and bite some vampire's flesh."You won't make it alive this day, demon. I give you my word on that." Aeneas words were cold and calculated, still I saw us cornered and them with advantage. I wanted so bad to have Caleb here."You have balls, vampyr... you are outnumbered and still manage to threaten me? Big balls..." Cornelius laughe
*Meadow*It was clear that Aeneas wasn't going to let him get away with his plans, he was fighting admirably with everything he had. But nothing could have prepared us for what happened when he sank his fangs into Cornelius skin.The scream mixed with growls that came out of him were unnatural, and then his fur started to break. I half closed my eyes but forced myself to keep looking. His skin torn as if something was breaking it from the inside. It grew, Aeneas watched with anger in his black eyes, a vile huge creature broke free from inside what once was Cornelius' wolf. A huge tall creature stood in front of him, leaning on two hooves that were dark red and sank into the ground, it doubled Aeneas' size in both height and width.I gasped as the personification of evil presented to us now, the real demon who was behind the horrors Aeneas claimed had been happening for centuries. Exaggerated muscles and a disfigured face, he had only one big eye slightly more to the left, and his ha
*Meadow*I tried to find Aeneas but he was too far from me, I couldn't check if he was alive or not, between us three we could probably kill it. I took several deep breath and followed my instinct, I crawled to the water and took a dip. Whatever it was on the lake quickly started to heal me, I felt my swollen limbs recover and my pain subside; I looked towards the cave and those haunting glowing blue eyes seemed to get closer. I shifted and turned around to see Caleb bite and tear a part of the creature's arm, causing it to scream and try to hit him.This was delusional, I needed to help my mate, he was the strongest warrior in the land but I didn't know if he was strong enough to defeat a demon, a creature of myths and legends. "Caleb!" I screamed and he jumped just in time to avoid a punch. He looked at me and that distraction caused him to be hit by a second punch from the beast. I gasped and covered my mouth, I was being a distraction instead of helping him. 'Pull him to the wate