Chapter 4
"Mother?" She pushes the door open to see her mother staring straight into her soul, her lips stretch into a smile as she casually walks into the room, closing the door behind her, "good morning.""Good morning to you too Arcadia, If you're here to get your birthday gift then please walk out the door and go disturb your father." She replies like a modern day customer care service recording and this makes Arcadia burst into a fit of laughter,"You know father would say the same thing and I haven't seen him all day, and since I'm here now I guess it's best I trouble you for it." She sways majestically, "give me a hint mother.....what would it be? What could it possibly be?" She hugs the Queen from behind while swaying her gently, "would you give me a riddle to solve just to get it out of you?" She tickles her sides and her mother reacts."Calm yourself princess!!" She coughs loudly as a nasty blush crept up her lips, she hated being tickled, "I won't give you a riddle because it would be too easy for you to solve." She adjusts her hair and goes for the door. Arcadia simply follows her as she skips."But you can't hide it away from me forever you know?" She wants to tickle her again but she protests with a simple hand gesture,"Touch me and you would be sleeping outside." She threatens but this didn't even seem to cause the slightest worry to Arcadia, "I can't hide it forever, your birthday is in two days, just wait till then." She gives a logical reason and smirks at her brilliance."But I want it now." Arcadia demands and the smirk is wiped off Queen Octavia's face, "can't you do this much for me mother?" She pulls her infamous puppy eyes with that cute dog whimper but Octavia is harder than stone."Wait till then, I'm done discussing this matter, there are more important things." She clears her throat, "I've been hearing rumors, you've been skipping classes with Xerxes, and I've confirmed it myself." Her death glare made Arcadia sweat a thousand bullets."I think father is calling me mother, I would just—" she tries to bail but Octavia grabs her by the loose strands of her hair that she could never manage by herself, "you're hurting me mother!!" She whimpers loudly as she held her scalp in pain,"And you're disobeying me. You're royalty and you need to act like it, you need to learn to defend yourself, what if a war breaks out? How will you protect yourself and your land?" She chastised out of affection, images of her dream flashing before her eyes, "I can't be there to protect you all the time, it's only a matter before I die and—""Why did you change the topic? You're nagging me not talking about your death!! You're not dying anytime soon!!" She screams back at her mother with the same amount of tempo. Octavia's nerve cracks."And how dare you raise your voice at me?!" She bites back.And this is where they show similarities. Both women were proud and loved to be heard first, often times it didn't make them see eye to eye."I already told you that I don't like certain topics but you always keep crossing the line mother!! I'm not mentally prepared for things like this!!" She begins to walk away after she lashes out,"For the love of the goddess!! Arcadia!! Arcadia!! Will you stop this instant!??!" She begins to jog to meet her strides, "Arcadia I said stop!! That's an order!!""Order my ass!! I'm not talking to you!!" She goes down the extravagant stairway with rapid speed, one of her super abilities as a werewolf princess,"Where are your manners?! Insolent girl!!" She's near the stairs and begins to go down them, "you took too much of that good for nothing boy." She grumbles to herself, she had no idea why she decided to have a child for him in the first place, "Arcadia i—" she slips off a step.Arcadia turns back to see why she was suddenly cut short, but she was already falling, "mother!!" She superspeeds to her and someone also copies her motion, they both hold Octavia before she fell into a mess which was the bottom of a very very very long stairway.They both stare at each other for a second before raising the Queen to a standing position,"Is this how you treat your mother? Making her run after you??" His eyes are wrinkled in annoyance and she couldn't look into his dazzling blue orbs, "are you okay my Queen?" He asks with utmost care and she nods until she winces in pain. They both look down at her ankle,"Oh dear, looks like a Sprain," she heaves a very heavy sigh, "Arcadia you know I'm not as youthful as I used to be back then, look at what your stubbornness has done now." She bonks her daughter in the head and the man does the same,"Why do you both have to hit me so hard?" She holds her aching head, they always did that to punish her unnecessarily. Now she would have a headache for no good reason. Well, it was her fault anyway but her mother started it."What did she do that led to you having to chase her? A whole Queen?" He turns his gaze to his student before knocking her head once again, and this time she breaks down in comical tears, "let me take you to your room. Arcadia meet me on the training grounds. Easy there." He swoops the queen into his arms and takes her back to her room slowly.But Arcadia turns back only to see her mother blowing raspberries at her, she gives a silent gasp, "that lying Grandma!!" She stamps her foot like a spoilt brat and superspeeds to the training grounds before she got into more trouble with her Master.Chapter 5"Are you sure you're okay? Do I need to call a doctor or something?" He continues to ask her over and over again and the Queen kept resisting treatment,"I'm fine Xerxes, you know how she can be at times, make sure you don't spare her during her session, she needs the workout." She laughs out loud, "I can handle myself.""You still haven't told me about the dream you had, have you found out what it means yet?" His brows crease for a moment before relaxing again."I'm working something out and to be honest it's not a laughing matter. Please, train my daughter's she needs to be able to fight, things aren't going to be easy anymore, especially for her." She takes his hands into hers and begs him with big eyes.He bends to give her a quick kiss,"She's my daughter too, I would make sure she's the best warrior in the kingdom. Whether she likes it or not." He slowly let's go off her, "rest well Octavia." He leaves her through t
Chapter 6"Mate?" Arcadia is genuinely confused, "what's so beautiful about a Mate?" She snorts before returning to her tart, "I thought you were GOING to tell me SOMETHING better but instead you mentioned MATE." she snorts once more before filling her mouth up. Xerxes laughs at her innocence,"What's wrong with a mate? It's a beautiful thing you know...." He is lost in thought,"Oh please!! This whole mate thing is just a scam the elders make, there's no such thing as falling in the love with someone because it's destiny." She laughs at the stupid myth,"And why do you say so?" Xerxes is indeed intrigued, "please do tell me more!!" He mocks her by mimicking her action,"Master have you ever looked at mother and father.......do you really believed they're mates?" She directs her face to the sunset and into his endless blue orbs to search for an answer,"Well—" he begins with the same answer he has told her for years,"Be
Chapter 7"I found them in Magnus' wardrobe, he knows we have an affair." She smiles a bit and this further confuses him, "they were with me until yesterday, so he must've found them and his nose-y attitude got the best of him." She laughs a little."Octavia are you serious right now? Is this a prank?? The king knows about us and you're laughing like nothing is wrong! You do know he can decide to kill us if he wishes to." He hurriedly arranged the letters until he sees one, a very familiar one, "does he know about Arcadia too?" His eyes widen in fear.The Queen of the kingdom nods like a happy child, she was enjoying the way the situation took a turn for the worse."You can't tell me you're not the slightest bit worried love?" His eyes are wide in fear, he must've fallen in love with a mad woman. She bends to move close to his ear,"In fact at the moment we are being watched," her eyes sneak to a tree and he sees one of the palace
Chapter 8"You're looking too beautiful today Octavia." The Queen praises herself as she did her hair, smiling at her mirror, her smiles disappears when the door to her room opens and she sees her husband staring at her with a grim look, "why welcome Magnus, you don't look too good? Are your ambassadors fighting again?" She laughs at her corny joke."Octavia I never expected this from you." His arms are crossed and he decides to close the door, she notices his gesture and she pulls her fan closest to her,"Neither did I Magnus, but if you can lie then so can I." She rises from her seat to look him straight in the eye, "I will not hide anything from you anymore but I will warn you, I will not hesitate to hang you on a tree if you do anything to my daughter or Xerxes." She snears at him."Don't you feel ashamed of yourself? You're a married woman and you're having an affair with someone who is younger than you with over 10 years, you're cheap and disgusting." He th
Chapter 9There was merry and laughter, her birthday preparations were in full swing, Arcadia would be 18 tomorrow and everything needed to be perfect. And apart from a birthday party there would also be a wedding. She was also getting married.Three men entered the palace looking like hot devils, all clad in black armour and welding heavy swords. One was particularly blond, almost a white blond, resembling Xerxes of some sort, his golden orbs were enough to take the light out of the room and his aura was cold and deadly.He was slender and built, he carried himself with a charisma that seemed to attract eyes to him, he had all the maids drooling, he must be the alpha she was getting married to.He sees the king and goes on his knee, "your majesty." He greets humbly and Magnus is delighted,"Czar, a wonderful surprise, I didn't know you would be so Early!" He lifts him up to embrace him, they both had wicked smiles on their faces,"A wonderful occasion
Chapter 10"Not one of us, but our master." They nod at each other, "he would be most happy to take you in, maybe then you would learn to keep your moth shut." He burns and his lackeys snicker at his comment,"I'm not surprised that something like that would escape your mouth, you don't look like the smartest anyway." She fans herself and one of the maid accidentally trips on hearing her statement, all of them gasped but quickly ran to do their work before they got fired.He was beyond embarrassed, and she has the proudest smirk on,"It's always good to know your place Arcadia, you're just a woman after all." He reminds her of her status in the wolf community, women are treated as objects, gifts, toys, that can be used anyhow the men please,"And I should remind you that a woman birthed you, and if she wished she would've killed you. We have the power of life and death, and if we want we would kill all of you." She smiles at them,
Chapter 11"Answer the question Magnus, what is the difference between a man and a woman? A paid of organs?" Her joke makes all the soldiers laugh, they have always known the Queen to be a very funny person, "cat got your tongue Magnus?" She smiles at him as she reaches the bottom,"And who are you to interfere in this matter Octavia?" He snorts at her,"I am the Queen of this Kingdom and Arcadia is my daughter!! Without me you wouldn't have built this Kingdom to where it is, show me some respect!" She commands it and there is a chill in the atmosphere, "she doesn't want your lame alpha, she would marry who she wants to marry and be happy with who she wants to be happy with." She stresses the last part for Magnus to know that she doesn't regret her actions. She doesn't regret Xerxes."You let your women run wild, giving them too much power, that's your mistake your majesty." Czar rolls his eyes,"Wolves like you fear unnecessarily, if you're as strong as you
Chapter 12Czar barges in and he is a walking volcano about to erupt, both men are concerned,"What is it czar?" Loki is the first to ask, "why are you so angry even though you're angry all the time?" Loki tries to soften the atmosphere but it wasn't working."It's Arcadia, that good for nothing princess just, she just, gahh!!" He kicks a chair off balance and they knew something was wrong,"She what? Does she already belong to someone?" Mace wanted to know, "tell me what happened to her??!!" He didn't want anyone to have her, she was his."She rejected you."The only thing that could be heard was the gasp that came out of a mouth, it was a maid that was bringing the food, she couldn't believe her Master had been rejected. Their eyes turned to her snd she quickly put the food down and ran back to her position, she was rather young, about 14, but she was going to be the one that would spread the gossip,"Are you s