The hallway was not only weirdly long. It was too dark for an afternoon.Alpha Nolan kept walking carefully. The silence was deafening. His footsteps echoed back at him on every steps.He was sure Baldwin wouldn't have brought him here to kill him. He knew he just wanted to manipulate him."Stop right there!" Baldwin voice said sharply.Alpha Nolan stopped immediately. "Turn around!" he commanded again.Alpha Nolan turned as he was directed. A burning torch lit up. He could see Baldwin accompanied with his men. They were more than a dozen.Alpha Nolan smirked. He believed Baldwin must have had a bad plan prepared for him."I don't think you brought me here to kill me" Alpha Nolan laughed loudly."Do not panic. Nobody is dying" Baldwin assured him."Are you sure?" Alpha Nolan looked round at Baldwin's men. He checked them out. They were all armed. "This is a hallway full of armed men. You might think you give them command. But the real thing they are obeying is the money. They will f
"What do you think Alpha Nolan's planning?" David asked curiously. "We just have to remain on high alert" Alpha Jones slammed the arm of his throne and the sound echoed through the whole throne room.It had been a while they had been expecting Alpha Nolan to attack after he had secured the plague. But he had not shown up and everything seemed strangely calm."He must have been planning something differently. We have to think outside the box so we don't receive the greatest shock of our life" the Mage was actually supporting David's idea."The plague is his best shot. That is what I will do if I were him" Alpha Jones insisted. "Don't let us run out of patience. So that when he comes, he will meet us ready. We should not divert from our outlined plan" he blurted out."The plague is what we know him to be possessing. He might have another thing we know nothing about" David posed."Like I said, there can be never be anything more threatening than the plague. We stick to plan" Alpha Jones
Sophie was having a hard time to get sleep. She was busy thinking about what Tonia said earlier. That was going to be a lot to take in for her. "You are not sleeping?" Alpha Jones' voice startled her.She looked up, Alpha Jones was already sitting up beside her. His voice was sleepy. She didn't know he would wake up that fast."I'm trying to get it but it... Don't worry about me" she waved her hand once and pretended to be okay."What's bothering you?" Alpha Jones insisted."Tonia said I will have to kill her to steal her power" Sophie let out."That's what's bothering you?" Alpha Jones chuckled. "Are you feeling guilty? That you want to kill a friend just to save others?" he asked rather than consoling that Sophie expected."We are not really friends. We are at each other's necks most of the time but having to kill her now, it's unbearable" Sophie shook her head.She would have loved the whole situation if there was another way to go about this. The problem was she didn't know much
The Mage pulled the lever in the last cell in the basement. He had always thought there was something beneath the place.All the times he had pulled it. He always found a wall. He would go back after that.But now that Tonia had confirmed that there were soldiers buried in there. He had a motivation to go in.The wall would need to be moved by some spells or symbols. Whatever that would be, he believed there would be clue to follow.The door opened and as always, there was the wall."How do you move?" he muttered and rubbed his hand over the wall.Luckily, there were inscriptions on the wall. But they were not understandable."Am I supposed to just read this or they are instructions to be followed?" he kept asking himself to ponder.He traced the signs and symbols with his finger.The signs glowed some light and he felt perched all over his body."What? Do you want blood?" he couldn't believe it, but that was the likeliest way out of this.He rubbed his finger on the wall until he sta
Some days later. Tonia came into the throne room again. She looked dejected and frightened."They are coming. They are on their way here" she spilled. "You haven't told us anything to do. You just keep telling us how close they are. Do you just want us to keep panicking? " David asked uninterestedly."What to do? There's is nothing else to do than what I've already told you. She kills me and takes my power for you to win" she pointed to Sophie. "Does that sound like a plan, to win a war?" David snorted to fault her. "Anyway, it might be a plan. Maybe it is just yours while we are the one being played" she scoffed."That's ridiculous. How am I to benefit after I have been killed?" Tonia shook her head. She seemed bitter by the comment."Benefits, yes. You won't have any benefit helping the people that kept you incarcerated. So why would you just decide to help us?" Alpha Jones added to her woes."You all have trust issues. Even putting my life at stake is not enough to convince you I
Confusion. In a degree that she had never experienced before. Sophie didn't know whose side she should be.Tonia or David.She crept back to the gate of Tonia's cell."I have tried my best. I don't know what else to do" Tonia said immediately seeing her."I trust you, though I don't want to kill you. But I don't think there's any other possible way to go about it" Sophie said remorsefully."You don't need to think of other ways. There's no other way. The way that I am proposing will only work if properly and intelligently executed. There's no room for mistake" Tonia seemed to be speaking from the bottom of her heart."I will keep finding another way. If it doesn't really exist like you said. I will consider this option that time" Sophie let out a heavy sigh."No. It does not work that way. This plan needs to be conceived and repeated in your mind till you will be perfect with it" Tonia shook her head. "You have to be determined, there should be no hesitation or everything will fall ap
"The Fourth, why do you remain behind this bars?" Rhine shook the gate of the cell vigorously."I need help to get out. I don't understand how that happened" Tonia panicked."Now get out here" Rhine commanded.Tonia moved some paces and stopped. "I can't risk coming close to the gate anymore. It keeps sending me back" Tonia said tearfully. "Maybe I should just remain, the First" she gulped a lump."Now come out here. I've broken every thing that can hinder your movement out of the place" Rhine assured her.Tonia knew that was the time for her to come out. Staying further would just expose all her lies."Are you sure?" Tonia placed a leg across the gate and hesitated before finally coming out."She is a liar. She lied to us" Golad murmured but Tonia could hear him clearly."Why did you choose to stay when you could have just come out easily?" Rhine challenged her."I couldn't, not until you break the spell or whatever was holding me back" Tonia defended herself."The thing is, I break
"Stop!" Sophie yelled suddenly. She turned back to face Alpha Jones. "He should just go back" she said to him."Who?" Alpha Jones asked cluelessly."The Mage" she pointed to him. She had been thinking in both ways for a while and the best way was to leave someone behind.The Mage was the most appropriate."Why me? We are going to face some people that have been existing when our forefathers were not yet born. If there should be a criteria to choose who should go, it should be age" the Mage said slowly and walked to the front."I guess she uses the same criteria and she thinks you are too old" David smirked."I am the oldest, inarguably the most experienced" he let out a sigh."This is a war with a higher propensity of getting defeated. We need someone to survive" Sophie insisted."I know you are the one calling the shots. Actually I'm tired if living and this is possibly the last war in this Manor, it will be a pleasure to die during that" the Mage retorted.Alpha Jones walked Sophie