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2024-10-29 19:42:56Ambrose and Gavril stared at one another in silence as the King processed the information he has been given. Yesterday she woke up an only child, now she had two brothers?
"You're lying. Saoirse would have told me if our son was still alive.""She would have if she had been made aware. Marius ordered me to take him to one of the witch hunters who would dispose of him. Instead, I hid him somewhere he wouldn't be found. My promise to protect your children wasn't just for the twins.""Alexander, come in here, now," Gavril bellowed towards the kitchen. "I want you to tell me if he is lying. Go ahead, tell him what you told us.""Their firstborn child is still alive."The teacher's eyes doubled in size as he listened to the words. Looking back and forth between the two of them. He wasn't lying, she could tell."Not a lie. You mean he has been a
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"Sir, I can assure you my behavior is the stress getting to me today. I am more than capable of doing this job. This won't happen again.""That is not a decision for you to make."A bright white light appeared between the two, cutting off the discussion. A seemingly young woman with pure white hair became visible as the light dimmed around her. Slight hint of annoyance in her eyes.Everyone in the room except Saber and the man he believe to be his father bowed. He may have been imagining things, but for a brief moment, he thought he caught anger in her eyes when she realized the two of them didn't bow."Why are you here, Gavril? I told you to wait until the ceremony tonight to speak to the children."The woman glanced at Saber. Must be talking about the party. Didn't remember them saying anything about any ceremony though."Clearly I am getting updates faster than you are. Genevieve was kidnapped. We believe Marius is
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Saber's POV"Iknewthings were going togetinteresting and fast, but I didn't thinkitwould be the next morning," Theo lazily leaned against the wall, watching everyone run around."Who's Ambrose?""He works for the guy who killed your mother.""Why is he at Genevieve's house?" Saber questioned, a little afraid of the answer."Your guess is as good as mine.""Maybe you should be a little more concerned one of The Four got this close to one of the twins, Theo." Davina appeared far less bored than her stepbrother."Hey, I am concerned. But my focus is supposed to be on protecting Saber,
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Genevieve's POVThe last thing Genevieve remembered was being loaded up into an ambulance. Between hitting her head in the car crash and going through a table, she was surprised she had stayed awake as long as she did.The room was quiet except for the beeping of the heart monitor. Her head was throbbing and moving any part of her bodyfeltlike a bad decision. The light stung her eyes as she attempted to open them."Gen, honey, don't try to sit up.""Dad?""Yeah. Mom ran out to grab us something to eat. You passed out on the way to the hospital. Had to take you back to surgery because they couldn't stop the bleeding. Lost a lot of blood but the doctors made sure you were all stitched up. More worried about the blow you took to the head.""Everything hurts. What time is
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Saber's POVAfter driving for almost an hour, they finally pull into the parking garage of a small office building. A little underwhelming. Although Saber was aware the Constellation was both secret and underground, part of him expected something a bit more interesting."This is one of several entrances. The New York base spreads underneath most of the state as well as part of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Try not to draw too much attention to any of them."Gavril made no attempt to leave the vehicle as the security guards got out."Anytime higher-up personnel enter or exit a checkpoint, security does a sweep of the area. Making sure they weren't followed or someone isn't waiting for them when they return. We wait until they give the all-clear before heading in.""Makes sense."One of the guards waved to the driver to let them out.The inside of the building was less remarkable than the outside. Everyone was dresse
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Gavril motioned to the guards, and they pushed open the enormous set of ornately carved wooden doors. Beyond the threshold was a beautiful, lush forest. Sun shone down through the trees, birds were chirping, and a breeze blew into the room a faint floral scent he didn't recognize.Never in his life had he been proven so wrong so quickly."Yeah, I think we fixed your nature dilemma."Saber nodded, following them out of the white room towards a horse-drawn carriage. His attention is stolen by everything as he struggled to comprehend how everything was real, and he hadn't fallen asleep."Saber, over here." Gavril waved from behind him. Distracted so easily by his new surroundings, he hadn't realized he walked right past the carriage."You will have the rest of your life to wander in these woods. Right now, we have an important meeting to call. Remember?""Right, sorry. I
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Ambrose's POVAmbrose had no idea what would be waiting for him as he pulled up to the compound. Sure his family wouldn't harm him, but he was unable to say the same about Marius. Unsure if his siblings would be around to stop the man if he did try something.Walking in, the house was eerily quiet. Wasn't even noon yet, more activity should be going on around the place. Figuring out some kind of lie to explain why he was here, he found his way to Marius's office. Slightly surprised, when he knocked on the door and the man answered."What are you doing here? You are to be finding out what the girl has learned this weekend.""She was in an accident this morning, and they took her to the hospital. Probably staying overnight. Where is everyone?""The Collective wanted to borrow some people for a rather large nest they found. Therefore, half of them are off training with whoever needed the help. The rest are either out on assignments
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Saber's POVAfter Gavril had introduced him to everyone, they had sat around for almost forty-five minutes waiting for this Alucard guy to show up. So they decided to start the meeting without him and catch him up whenever he arrived."Your eldest son having been working outside of the Constellation and the Alliance, there could be a chance he made connections with the shadow dwellers." Ronin, one of the council members pointed out."An equal chance he hasn't met anyone outside of Ambrose who has any knowledge about our world,"Noxcountered."If I may interject,"
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Saber's POVSpent most of the rest of the day being shown around by Nox. Hard to believe everything was underground. By the time they returned, Nox had requested a long list of books to be delivered to Saber's room. Figured they would help answer many of his burning questions. Read through about half of one before he realized how tired he was and decided to go to bed.As he drifted off to sleep, he found himself back in the forest. Unlike every previous visit,itwas storming. Squinting through the rain and barely making out the treeline, he quickly started running, trying to take cover. The rain, like needles on his skin, took over where the fog disappeared. Making finding his way nearly impossible.The rain almost instantly stopped. Found himself looking at a cave learning into the side of the mountain with the forest behind him. Nothing about this place made
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Saber's POV"Destroys the foundation? What an exaggeration," the pale white woman rolled her eyes at his words."The line you are attempting to cross with your pursuit of Ms. Blackheart is enough to nullify the entire collective agreement of the Constellation's Alliance. Do you honestly claim to not remember the terms? Each royal faction agreed to live as one as long as they retained their own power over their kind with no power above them."Whispers amongst the others erupted at the implications. Clearly, Saber needed to learn a lot."You should mind your tone when you speak to me, dragon." Her icy gray eyes bore into Cadmus's crimson orbs but his low threatening growl silenced the room."Before you are two choices, witch. Either drop the one singular charge of escaping lawful detainment, or end your alliance with the fae. The latter inevitably causes war amongst every intelligent species in the human realm. Your choice."His sister's face had grown almost as pale as the woman threat
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“Now, since we have two new members, including the accused, I am going to go over the procedure for this meeting,” an unfamiliar man announced as he stood in front of them all. Everyone sat around a crescent moon table as the man stood facing them. Behind him was a massive plain oak chair. “Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cadmus of the Aracar Dragons and our kin serve as an authority of law and unbiased middlemen in these meetings.” Did he say dragons? Saber didn’t look as surprised when she glanced his way. The man did stand at least eight and a half feet tall. Dressed in a long black overcoat and pants. A pop of color appeared only in the crimson dress shirt that matched the color of his eyes. Thick chestnut locks cut just below his chin that he frequently pushed out of his eyes. “First, the ruling member of the wronged will state their order of arrest. This statement includes the laws the accused is suspected of breaking, a detailed account of the incident, and a
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Genevieve’s POVThe King moved them quickly into the castle, refusing to give any further details out in the open. After stumbling several times, Saber rushed to her side in an attempt to keep her on her feet. Every racing heartbeat pounded in her head as the beautiful hall blurred in and out of focus. As her knees grew weak, the floor disappeared from underneath her and her head was now laying on her brother’s shoulder.Silently she begged for sleep to take her, only to force open the heavy lids. Fearing where she may wake up. If she would wake up. She felt it. Before the bright white light illuminated the room, a massive weight pushed down on her body. Saber did too as he struggled to hold her up.“You have no right to be here,” the full authority of the Vampire King’s voice echoed across the room as the light dissipated.“Clearly, you forget your place and who you are speaking to. She broke the law and attacked her own people. As per the law, she is to be taken into the custody of
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Focusing on Alyssa, he caught the color fading from her face as her sight fixed just below his left shoulder. Glancing down he realized the heat was coming from his sister. Her normally green eyes glowed slightly red. Anger built up on her face as she stared down her childhood friend."I'm pretty sure he asked a question. Don't try to tell me men coming towards me with cuffs is somehow none of my business," Genevieve spat as the temperature surrounding the twins continued to rise."Everyone wants the situation to go as smoothly as possible is all." Oliver didn't take his eyes off Saber as he answered the question."Treating me like a criminal is not the way to accomplish your goals. What other lies are we going to have to deal with going further?""Nothing else. Our orders were to have you contained before bringing you to the Sacred One." Oliver was lying and she didn't need her powers to see through his blank face."Here is the problem. I no longer believe a word spoken from your mou
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Gavril's POV"What the hell happened?" Gavril burst through the doors into the Sacred One's office in Draíocht Tower. The one room in the building attached to the balcony overlooking the courtyard."His death is still being investigated as it only just happened. I also do not answer to you, or have you forgotten?"The arrogance recently caused a lot of tension between the Sacred One and the rest of the Constellation. Everyone looked to her for guidance and leadership only to be met with overbearing criticism. Seeking help while being chastised for needing it. Only gotten worse since he took over the throne. Or maybe he was simply waking up to it."I haven't forgotten. However, my brother-in-law dying mere days after my daughter turned eighteen and refusing to be a part of our world may be something I need to know about.""When we have information to share, you will be informed. Now leave my office, I am clearly busy.""Try not looking so inconvenienced by the death of such a high-stand
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Ambrose's POVAmbrose stepped into the small bathroom to make the call. A little unsure how the conversation would go once he got the message. The man may be their brother, but he has his own safety to worry about."What do you need, Ambrose?""I didn't expect you to pick up.""Well, you caught me at a good time.""Genevieve and Saber are looking for help outside of the Constellation. Something is going on and they aren't sure who to trust with whatever the information is. I told them I can ask you but not to get their hopes up.""You think I won't want to help my brother and sister?""More that you may not be safe doing so. The two of them have only been a part of this world since Friday. If they are already worried about their safety they wouldn't be the only ones in danger. I informed Gavril you are alive.""Figured you would tell someone eventually.""R
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Saber's POVSaber was unsure of what he was walking into as Genevieve's watcher opened the door to her hospital room. A confused teenage boy sat across from Genevieve and her mother who were both visibly concerned."Sorry, am I interrupting something?" Her mother turned to him as he cautiously entered the room."Not until your father comes back with any answers. We don't exactly have an understanding of what's going on. This is Ambrose. Apparently, he may be able to make himself invisible.""Wait, doesn't he work for...?""Yes. He is also Gen's boyfriend. Things are a little complicated right now.""Oh, okay.'" Saber shrugged, not knowing what else to say.The entire situation was already awkward without the fact he didn't have any connection with anyone here. Standing awkwardly in the middle of the room with no idea how to approach the topic of why he came to visit.Hey, sorry y
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Gavril's POVA Cosantóir?The four of them having these abilities means they weren't being protected, but protecting someone else. Or being trained to.They were all under twenty-five at the time, so they would still be learning.Which means their parents were protecting someone.The werewolves' domain was hidden in a corner from all the other factions in the Constellation. With such sensitive senses, they prefer to be as far away from everyone as possible. Spending all day tracking others takes a toll after a while.Most don't like coming here. The wolves don't exactly have a hierarchy or someone considered to be in charge. All decisions are made collectively. Meaning nobody can be bought or bribed into doing something against their code.The Sacred One had never liked the wolves. Called them inconsistent and unclean. In the years he had been fighting beside them he had learned the behavi
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A nurse entering the room noisily broke her concentration from her boyfriend, pulling her attention towards the door. Glancing back to the chair, Ambrose was no longer sitting there or anywhere else in the room."How are we feeling in here today? Some alarms were going off a few minutes ago. Your mother said everything was fine, but we wanted to come in and check for ourselves.""Yeah, we had an argument." Her words trailed off as she checked around the room in search of the place he may have hidden so fast. Finding nothing."Are you alright? You look like you lost something.""My boyfriend was sitting here when you walked in, now he's disappeared.""You were the only one in the room when I opened the door.""What? No, he was sitting in the chair.""Nobody was in the chair when I walked in. Maybe I should go grab the doctor.""No, can you send my mom in on your way out?""Alright." The
