“Alpha,” Aton barged into the hall and glanced at the man standing by the window. He quickly walked up to him and reported, “the rogues are here again.”
“Then we do what we do best, we fight them,” Alan replied without as much as looking away from the window.
“The warriors are already on it and from the looks of it, we are winning, as always,” Aton responded.
“Any casualties?”
Aton sighed at that and nodded. “Three men has been bitten. We already have them restrained.” Alan didn’t say anything and Aton sighed. “Do you think it will ever end?”
“There is no cure for the infected ones, the rogues attack us twice or thrice in a week. So, I don’t think it will ever end, I think that they would keep attacking us and infecting us until we are all like them, slaves to whoever that is controlling them.”
Aton licked his lips. “Do you think they are okay?”
Alan knew about who he was asking about immediately and only then did he look away from the window to his loyal beta. “I don’t know. I just hope that now Alpha Damien would have realized that he should have listened to me instead and not to some witch. Something tells me that if he was still alive, this would have ended for he would have found the instigator in other to protect my daughter and his son. But then…” he sighed and shook his head. “I don’t see this ending Aton, I think this is going to be a norm for us now and the only way we can evolve is teaching our warriors how to avoid being bitten during the fight. The women and children must always be inside the pack and no one is allowed outside ever again.”
“Are you saying we should withdraw our search?”
Alan exhaled and glanced back at the window, “what do you propose we do?”
“We can’t give up Alpha. Luna has never left her room since the fight, Emily, although she tries to stay strong but I know she misses her son. I miss my son and I know you miss your daughter. Then talk about my daughter in law, she will be putting to bed any time soon and there is no news about her mate. So no, we can’t give up. If it’s not for you, I will be out there looking for them myself.”
Alan didn’t say anything and Aton continued. “The pack will never be the same without them, we will never be complete and you know it alpha.”
“I can’t leave without Damien coming after me, you know what I can do Aton. I just…”
“Alpha,” a voice barge into the hall, interrupting the men. “You have got to see this,” the young boy announced. Alan and Aton glanced at each other and run out of the hall, the boy leading the way. Once they got outside the big gate that shields their pack and where the fight was going on, the boy pointed at creatures hanging on the trees and watching them.
Alan frowned, “are those…?”
“Nightwalkers,” the boy filled. “Yes, they just showed up and apart from looking like they always do, you can see their eyes are white instead of red.”
“Wait, are you saying that they are…” Aton was saying but the boy interrupted again.
“Deranged, yes. Looks like it,” he nodded. “They have not attacked yet but you can see their venoms drooling from their mouth. If they attack, it would be fatal on us alpha, that’s why we had to call you. At least, with the rogues, we only have to worry about the poison infecting us but it’s a tale as old as time how dangerous a Nightwalker’s bite is to us. This time, I don’t think we only have to worry about being infected, I think those that are bitten by them would die before the infection takes over.”
“Shit,” Alan cursed, his eyes not leaving their sworn enemies who would be more dangerous now that they are not with their senses. “How about the rogues?”
“We are almost winning the fight but like always, their bodies vanish after they fall.”
“Alpha,” Aton called worriedly. “You don’t think the reason they have not attacked is because of the sun?”
Alan glanced up at the bright sun and cursed the more. Of course, it was the only thing keeping them away which means they are only taking shades from the trees. Once night fall, it’s going to be a big fight. “Aton, get the women, the children, the weak and old into the panic room. No one and I mean no one is allowed to leave there until we come for them. I think we are going to have a bigger fight tonight.” He ordered, his eyes going to the Nightwalkers that were just watching them, “a very big one.”
***
“My Lord,” a man knocked violently on the door, “my Lord, you need to see this,” the knock kept coming until the door was thrown open and an angry Malachi was standing there. “I am sorry to disturb you my lord, but we are under attack.”
“What are a few rogues that you cannot handle them?” Malachi asked.
“It’s not rogues my lord, it’s Nightwalkers,” Gregory replied.
“What?” Malachi asked and quickly dashed out in a sprint, however, he stopped a few miles from his door and crouched down, feeling an immerse pain shoot up from his waist to his back.
“My Lord,” Gregory rushed to him and helped him to stand up, “should I send for the healer?”
“What can he do, hasn’t he been working on me for months? Come on, I need to see those imbeciles,” he thundered and stood straight, however, he avoided running too fast this time.
Once they got to the front of the council, they saw a sight they never thought would happen in their whole existence: Nightwalkers fighting Nightwalkers. Although Malachi knew that had already happened when they teamed up with the High Howlers to kill their prince, but it was different. This time, there are at least about one hundred Nightwalkers with white eyes and fighting the servants and guards of the high council. Two high chiefs have already joined in the fight and even though they might be winning, the fight made him sick in the stomach. Guess, the time has finally come for him to respond to Damien’s letters for he knew that if the deranged Nightwalkers were attacking them, then they must be attacking the Night Howlers.
Making his decision, he jumped and impaled his claws on the neck of a walker, ripping the throat out and the body crashed on the ground. His eyes flashed red and his fangs elongated as he went on a killing rampage. However, the more a nightwalker fell at his feet, the bigger the whole in his heart for killing yet another of his kind.
***
Kaiden paced around his room and when the door was pushed open, his black eyes went to it and seeing the white-haired witch, he roared, “where is he?”
Melissa sighed and closed her eyes. She knew she can’t continue lying. She has been lying to him for the past three days that they have a hook on Rasmus but the time has finally come to say the truth otherwise, she fears he would go berserk and might even kill her before she tells him the good news, however, she has to take her chances. “There is something I have to tell you, Kaiden.”
“How many times will I tell you, it’s My Lord to you,” Kaiden yelled, hurling a vial at her and it hit her on the forehead. A drop of blood sipped out from the tiny cut on her forehead but she didn’t flinch neither did she wipe it away.
“My Lord,” she bowed her head softly. “I apologize but we lost him.”
“You did what?” Kaiden growled, growing five feet extra and his deep brown almost black eyes turning yellow with black lines just like a serpent’s and his face turned red as he roared like a beast. “How could you?” he asked in a distorted voice.
“He may be only seven hundred years old but he is smarter than most older nightwalkers. Also, he has a pure blood witch with him. Irene had concocted a potion that hides his nightwalker’s stench and thereby, he escaped and we lost him in the woods. I don’t need to tell you how fast they are on their legs. But before you kill me, you should hear what I have to say,” she added just before the man landed a fatal blow on her. The force from his blow blew her hair up but she didn’t blink, her blue mixed with green eyes looked up at his yellow and black ones. “I sensed strong magic in a neighborhood in the human realm. It is either they fought someone with magic or Irene was careless to leave such energy hovering around in the street. I bet my life that they are hiding somewhere in one of those old rickety buildings. A perfect place to hide their scents.”
Kaiden put down his hand and he returned to his normal size, however, his eyes were still ferocious looking. “Then why are you telling me, why aren’t you there a ready.”
“My Lord, I will be busy fighting Irene but they also have a nightwalker and a Beta alpha, I cannot handle them alone. My sisters are not around at the moment so I was wondering if you can go with me, we will stand a chance at catching them, don’t you think?”
Kaiden thought about it and a smile spread on his face soon after. “Very well Melissa, you have indeed proven yourself. Summon Cedric, we leave in an hour.”
Sean paced around the window and constantly stopped to peek through the blind blades. He would sigh and continue pacing again and then he would repeat staring out the window once more. A knocked on the door made him jump and he glanced at Rasmus who was lying on the floor to see the man’s red eyes on him. Rasmus shook his head at him and he nodded, they could already tell who was at the door by their scent and so Sean cleared his throat and went to open the door. He wasn’t surprised to see Milly there and she was carrying the bunny he had given her four days ago. “Milly, what are you doing here?”“I came to say thank you properly and also,” she glanced behind her and it was then that Sean saw her mother. He cleared his throat and stood erect, “mom wanted to thank you too.”“Where is your mother?” the woman asked.Sean cleared his throat once more and glanced at Irene and Aliyah’s bedroom. Ever since that night with the mysterious woman, Irene has hardly climbed out of the bed. She had
Edward kept pacing around, waiting for the voice to come to him again. Now that his memory was back, he couldn’t stop his worry of how Aliyah is doing. He had been weak when he carried them away with the tornado but he doesn’t know if he succeeded in taking them to safety. Did the rogues catch up with them? And the demon king and the witches, did they find them? He thought of the High chiefs and the High Howlers, he had purposely left Malachi alive with only inflicting a wound he knew he would never heal as a second generation because he wouldn’t want him chasing after Aliyah but Damien had escaped him with just pure luck.Now as he thought about everything, he just wished he could burn this whole place down and go back to her. He thought of the look she gave him that day, the pain and fear in her eyes when he was falling. He failed his promise, he knows that now and the pain of not knowing how she is was deriving him insane. “Where the hell are you?” He yelled at the smoky clouds. Sh
Edward glanced at the three strange doors and gulped. “Why only one shot?”“Because, you will enter the one you chose and only when the door closes behind you can you know where you are. When any of these doors closes, none of them will ever open for the same soul again.” Selene explained.Edward gulped once more, there was nothing to even give him a clue or something like that. “Can’t you give me a hint, I mean, how can I know which is which?”“Edward, how many people are given back the chance to come back to life?” Selene asked and when he couldn’t answer, she continued. “This is already a hint as it is because you are given a second chance to cheat death. If you really want to be alive, your conscience would guide you. Anywhere you find yourself, is where you are supposed to be and there is nothing I or any other god can do about it. I really want you to be alive Edward, because only you can save my creation. But it doesn’t matter if I want you to if you don’t yourself. What is tha
Aliyah frowned on seeing the black hair and black eyes before her eyes took in the form of the boy in front of them. ‘Steven?’“There is no time. The rogues will be here soon and so will the High Howlers warriors. I have seen them, just the two of you will never win. Come on,” Steven said, turning his back then to walk away.Aliyah glanced at Sean who in turn turned to her as well, ‘Should we trust him?’ she asked.Sean shrugged his big head, ‘he spared my life, I guess so.’“Sean,” Rasmus called as he wanted to know the boy’s decision having not met the other wolf boy before. Sean nodded at him and he nodded back, reaching down to pick Irene up again.“Come on Sean,” Steven called, having realized that there weren’t following him. Sean moved first and the rest followed.‘You think this is a good idea Sean, remember you said High Alpha told him to make sure you didn’t leave the pack. What if he found out that he had spared you and so told him to find us if he wants to redeem himself?’
“If we raise the barriers here, I am sure that it would stop the nightwalkers from jumping inside, at least for enough time for us to show up,” an Elder said, pointing on a draft book he had made some drawings on. “That would give us an advantage over them for some time.”The other elders nodded and Alan stared at the plan book, thinking. He was still wondering how they would be able to get that ready before the next attack when he heard in his mind, ‘oh my God’ his eyes widened immediately as he recognized the voice as his daughter’s. He has never heard her again since she left the hall that day with Prince Edward and now he could suddenly hear her? He concentrated his energy and realized that he could feel her. What is she doing? Could she be coming home?“Alpha?” Aton asked seeing that the man hasn’t said anything since the elder finished his presentation.Glancing at Aton, Alan remembered Sean and he quickly searched for his presence with his daughter’s only to discover that he wa
“Where are they?” Kaiden yelled when he saw Melissa walking up to him.Melissa sighed and shook her head. “We lost them, are you sure they came to the woods?”“Are you doubting my efficiency?” he growled.“Of course not,” she shook her head. “I just want to know because we followed them immediately and yet there is no sign of them.”“My energy told me where they were and I am telling you now that they are in this realm, we just can’t find them yet. Oh but I will, I really will and when I do, I will make them pay for stressing me this long. They can always run, but they can never hide, who is going to protect them from me? Absolutely nobody,” he smirked despite the anger he feels. Glancing at Melissa, he scoffed, “I still don’t understand how your own daughter can be stronger than you despite being way older than her.”Melissa rolled her eyes, “adopted daughter and besides, she is a pure blood and I’m not, so what do you expect?” she scoffed and walked away.Kaiden snickered, he knew r
Genevieve stormed into the conference hall and her red eyes went to Damien immediately. “Care explaining the meaning of this rubbish?”“Genevieve, calm down,” Malachi said from his seat and sighed. “We can’t solve anything with a fight.”“What do you mean by we can’t solve anything with a fight? They started this, so by right they should provide us an explanation. Only the rogues were turned before and they didn’t give a damn because the rogues are the rejected ones but what about us, no nightwalker council is rejected but every second of the day now, a council leader reports that their citizens are being turned. Malachi, they are bigger than us in number and reproduce more than we do and even earlier than us, if this continues then very soon nightwalkers will be history, don’t you understand it?” Genevieve demanded.“I understand what you are trying to say lady Genevieve, but you are forgetting something. Night howlers are not the ones that made Nightwalkers deranged,” Damien said.“
“I strongly believe that this is not a good idea,” Steven said to the boy following behind him as they made their way in the tunnels underground.“Please, it’s been nine days since I last talked to her and with Irene still unconscious, I don’t know how many days will still pile up by the time she wakes up,” Sean said.“I have never snuck into Blue moon pack before. I only know the tunnel that would get us to the front gate but I don’t know the one that would take us inside. And before you say I should take you to the front gate, know that you can never go inside without being spotted. The front gate is crawling with High alpha warriors.”“I don’t need to sneak in, I just need to get close enough for her to hear me,” Sean replied and Steven shrugged.“If you say so,” he replied and they continued down the tunnels silently.‘Sean, what are you doing boy?’ Sean gasped when he heard Alan’s voice in his mind.Steven turned to him with a raised eyebrow, “you okay?” and Sean nodded.‘Alpha,’