Chapter Forty-Nine – The pack he should fear.
The father of the family turned out to be a runaway soldiers who didn’t return to the Dark Dynasty as he’d be killed for failure.
Scott understood better what the Ministers had said that day when he had suggested a pact. The dark dynasty people where also really suffering.This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.
Rogues wolves never allowed them go an inch out of their border, making it impossible for ‘interkingdom’ marriage and trade.
Also, they live in fear wondering when the werewolves would attack their land and shred them apart.
Scott was almost having second thoughts on raiding the kingdom. People were always victims of their rulers stubbornness and poor decision.
“We ran farther when the young Prince hijacked the remaining clan of the dwarfs. We knew dark dynasty won’t be the same” the father admitted.
“You mean right now, the dwarfs are under subjectivity to the King, erhh, Prince?” Alpha Red asked.
The man nodded, “They are. And one day they’d revolt. That’s what I am scared of. Those little creatures have vicious teamwork”.
This was a new development to their strategy. Having vengeful dwarfs. As much as Scott wouldn’t want anything to do with dwarfs.
But if they were having a common enemy, he’d just have to play deaf to their noisy selves.
“We stayed here, close to the Red Mountains. They’re aren’t bad like our royalties preached. They protect us from wild wolves once” the mother pointed south to where the wolf pack stayed.
Scott exhaled, finally, the ancient route led them right.
Alpha Red nodded understandably, “Sometimes we shouldn’t believe what people say till we experience it firsthand”.
The oldest daughter nodded strongly in agreement. The Alpha smiled at her.
Then came the hard part. How to leave the family and continue their journey without the family knowing they’re leaving.
If they’d know they’re werewolves it could breach trust since Alpha Red had said they were travelers from Galdrish.
And disappearing wasn’t ideal and would be deemed rude. Kyle was already dozing off on the mat laid for them.
“We can leave them a gif, promising to return” Alpha Red snapped his fingers, “Maybe those dead wolves, they can use for meat”.
Scott dismissed the idea. It would raise questions on how they were able to kill the wild wolves when only the Red Mountain wolves could do it. Thereby selling themselves.
“Arh, or we can just tell them we’re werewolves” the Alpha fell on the mat tired of racking his brain.
“Then also the them that the reason we are heading to the Red Mountains were to get reinforcements to raid their Kingdom?”
Alpha Red plopped up after Scott said that, “Then we’d tell them we’re continuing our journey to get Ortis plant, for Han’s pills, they’re around here. We’d use that as excuse” he fell back on the mat.
Scott shrugged. That could work, if it worked.
(The dark dragon dynasty)
Princess Anya ended up being locked up in her room while Chan was sent to a different cell.
The maids likened her to a maiden taken away from her lover as she had barely spoken to anyone.
However the main gossip between the palace maidens were speculations on who the King could be wanting as his ‘bed warmer’.
News had gone around hinting on a lady who was his ‘catalyst’ and most seemed treasure of the Queen.
The new style amongst them were dark hair with short bangs as it was said to be what the catalyst’s looked like.
The only person not excited about the catalyst was King Gerard himself. His dark energy had become relentless and dull.
Like it was waiting for the presence of it’s catalyst before it’d spark up with life. And him, he had lost excitement in everything.
Even in training his men. And with Chan in prison, he had no one else to train them than the general. Who’s still angry since the last meeting.
A bird came perching on his window, snapping him out of his daydream. He sighed. He always hated windows closer to trees.
But now being King, he had to take over his father’s room which is said to be blessed by their ancestors.
The bird had a letter on it’s leg tied to it’s leg so he let it in. The letter had blood marks. It was a message from his border soldiers.
A fight had broken out between his soldiers and Blue Moon’s border farmers.
And a female wolfess had been injured a female, she was rumored to be the wife of a warrior whose husband.
Due to this, the pack Luna had seized three soldiers, ordering for the border to be cleared or else the soldiers die.
Gerard folded the message and threw it into a fire. That wasn’t his problem. Blue Moon pack wasn’t his problem at all.
According to the knowledge Chan shared with him about the werewolves, Blue Moon were the weakest pack amongst the Pack Trinity.
The packs he should be worried about where The Forbidden Forest Pack, which his father and mother fought hard to send to extinction.
They had a mythical connection that helped them control animals.
And the Red Mountains, which had for some reasons, stayed clear from this part of their world.
They’re rumored to be descendant of the Moon goddess herself.
The King laid back on the bed after sending the bird back with no reply. Someone banged loudly on his door, interrupting his new peace.
“Your highness, there’s been a rebellion at the prison house. And the attack it targeted at the palace!”.
He jumped to his feet, grabbing his sword. The soldier that called had an injured arm and Gerard could only guess how bad things looked.
At the entrance if the prison house, his soldiers were fighting hard to keep the prisoners in. Most werewolves and some were bird hunters.
“When did this happen? Who released them?” Gerard shouted as his eyes went dark and the prisoners’ weapons flew out if their hands.
In their state of confusion, the soldiers went back to beating them to the ground and dragging them back to their prison cells.
“It was the dwarfs, headed by Lu. Some prisoners escaped already” the soldiers replied. Gerard smirked. Why was he surprised?
“Chan didn’t escape, surprisingly. He hadn’t even moved when I went to check on him” the soldier added.
Gerard heaved a sigh of relief. The dwarfs had started with their tricks again. “Find Lu. I don’t think he needs his head anymore”.
The soldier bowed and immediately deployed soldiers to find Lu.