Hiii. Sorry, I didn’t upload yesterday. As an apology, I made this chapter longer! I hope you enjoyed it!… because it’s a preface to tomorrow’s chapter where a hint of the truth will be revealed. — that’s if Ciril doesn’t die. lol. Oh and Ciril and Prince Landon’s relationship is about to experience a bit of a muddle…lol See yA!
{Ciril’s POV}“Are you here to quiz me again? Force answers out of me?” The timid girl asked me. She randomly found me at her door the next morning and I had knocked but she had refused to let me in. “No, I’m not here to quiz you again.” I told her. “You told me everything I needed to know yesterday… but I have one more question to ask.” I said. “Will you answer?” I asked.And she sighed. “I will have to. What choice do I have? If I don’t answer, you’ll probably beat me and force me to.” She responded with a sad tone and I frowned a bit at that.Why does she always think I’m a bully or I want to beat her?I can’t even shift into my werewolf form, meanwhile, I know she can, so if there was any fighting, she would definitely win.“What’s your name?” I asked her and she looked up at me since she had been looking down before. Her timidity was out of this world.“Anika.” She responded and I nodded and motioned to step forward but she stopped me with a gesture of her hand. I stopped back a
{Ciril’s POV}“Yes, I am, mistress. Let’s just hope that my dead friend, Vera, doesn’t rise up from the dead and come for all our heads …”Those were the words I said that made all the amusement in the room vanish. At once, all the gases at the table were thrown at me and they all turned to glaresSo many pairs of eyes glared at me now— except for some that conveyed shock and confusion, like Prince Landon’s and the little Princess’s expression.Princess Anne didn’t react. She was the only grownup who hadn’t said anything since the dinner started. It was weird but it was the least of my concerns right now. The Alpha King was the first to break the silence. “What did you say?” He quizzed me with a growl escaping his lips. He hadn’t been interested in me up until now that I had said something this triggering. I calmly repeated my statement. “My King,” I started slowly. “I said, let’s just hope that my dead friend, Vera, doesn’t rise up from the dead and come for all our heads.” I said
{Ciril’s POV}I immediately shot up to my feet And my heart seemed to make that motion with me as it threatened to break out of my chest with the way it was beating against it now.Abasha was in my room and she had seen me with Prince Landon. She had seen us together. It was a live and an unquestionable sight. I started to tremble.With her smile still on, she casually walked into the room now and I started to panic. She had caught me with her husband and mate-to-be— once he marked her, but she didn’t look angry because she knew it was over for me. I turned my weary gaze to look at Prince Landon. I wanted to know what he taught about what was happening. I wanted to get a glimpse of what was going through his head and I met him scowling.He looked angry… and seemingly, he was directing that infuriated expression to Abasha.— who didn’t seem to care.“So,” She started to say calmly.” Are you two just in love… or are you still mates?” She asked Like did you lie to all of us about bei
{Ciril’s POV}I don’t like kneeling.I’ve been kneeling all my life but I still haven't gotten used to it. Well, I shouldn't, because it’s an uncomfortable process. I knelt down now… or I was thrown to the ground so that I landed on my knees— Any way you want to put it.The Sentries, happily led by Taka, had hauled me through the Palace common grounds— as they have done in the past, and they had brought me to the throne room where the Alpha king and Queen and their Generals were seated. Some of their council members were around too and I was resting on my knees before them now.The air was quiet and tense and they all looked not-happy and this filled me with dread. But then, it didn’t end there as on my right was where the orchestrators sat down. — Abasha and Ivanka.It was a full house— they had all come to witness my misfortune. I saw a cruel smile on Abasha’s face— as expected, and then on Ivanka’s face, I saw a scowl— also as expected. I drove my gaze away from them and bowed
{Ciril’s POV}“But arrest my son first.”I tensed with that statement and I looked at the Alpha Queen in my terror.I didn’t think I would ever hear her say something like that. With her utterance, not Sentries, but Warriors started pouring into the Throne room and surrounding us on every side. I couldn’t count them. They appeared scattered and uncountable. I gazed around in shock and confusion. I still couldn’t believe this was about to happen. In my swiveling and staring, I caught Abasha’s face and caught her smiling. Ivanka, who was beside her, looked tense by the switch of events but Abasha seemed to be fancying this outcome. But just as I realized this, her guise changed and she jumped up to her feet, looking troubled.“Oh. My Queen, please no. Don’t do this!” She pleaded in sudden tears and I stared at her in disbelief. What the fuck?!“Abasha, stay out of this!” The Queen commanded and Abasha halted her pace. “The Prince knew the consequences when he challenged me!”By this
{Ciril’s POV}“Now… Kill her.” I heard those words and I couldn’t believe I heard them correctly. But then the Alpha Queen was glaring at me and it served as a form of evidence that those words had truly been said by her. Prince Landon tensed as she turned to glare at his mother.“What?!” He bawled at her and tried to get up again but the warriors around still held him down, coupled with the silver chain that was wound around his arms and legs. The Queen responded to him rather calmly.“I said, kill her.” She told Prince Landon without a hint of emotion and the grip of the warriors around me tightened before they started pulling me back towards the point where Dylan was standing. “But. You.. you gave me your word!” Prince Landon said with a rising volume. “Y-You said you wouldn’t kill her if I rejected her!.. and I’ve just rejected her!”The Alpha Queen smiled at him and looked over at me. I was being placed before Dylan and held down on my back by the warriors in preparation for my
{Ciril’s POV}He was a feral.I saw his dead body the other day and he was standing and walking. I trembled away in horror.And so did everybody around me— including the warriors and Ivanka who had been one second away from striking me dead.They were all seeing what I was seeing so they reacted the way I was reacting even though everyone around was much stronger than me.No one would see fifteen supposedly dead bodies walking towards them and not tremble. — especially since these fifteen dead bodies were fast and brutish. One of them picked up pace and lunged at the warrior closest to them who was acting all bold and valiant. The Feral ripped his right leg away before pouring out his intestines.Fuck bold and Viliant.With that Feral’s attack, Bedlam broke loose and I tried to scurry up to my feet and make a run for it. People truly trembled now and the Alpha King started yelling in his alarm.“Get more warriors in here! And get me General Matthew. He didn’t burn the dead bodies li
{Ciril’s POV}I walked now like I was being hunted.I slept now like I was being monitored.I ate now like I was destined to be eventually poisoned. I was cautious with everything.In everything I was doing, I did carefully.Why?Because I didn’t feel safe. Prince Landon had agreed on a conflicting deal in order to save my life but then I had to be careful on my end because the truth was that I didn’t trust these people. Ivanka, Abasha, the Alpha Queen— I trusted none of them.So far none of them has done anything harsh or touched me— which is good but also very disturbing.It’s unusual and odd. And it makes me scared at every point of the day. I carried on with my days, working my shifts at the Hencher, serving in the Kitchen, and presenting the Warriors with their food at the Garrison, and it was oddly peaceful that I got no interference. But as disturbing as that was, it wasn’t as disturbing as the fact that I hadn’t seen Prince Landon for some days now. I mean, I had seen him
{Landon’s POV} I couldn’t rip my attention away from the fact that I had just seen her. That I had been standing so close to her.She was gone now and we were currently surrounded by doom in the form of fierce and breathing dead bodies. They were storming the Palace and tearing it down and still my mind was ruminating over Ciril. She had been so fearless— so majestic and I just couldn’t stop thinking about her and the things she had done here today. I sound crazy. She had killed a lot of my warriors today. Heck, she took my mother away but then I wasn’t angered by that. I was only hurt.— hurt because I couldn’t have done anything to make a difference— hurt because I truly deserved all that had happened. I had tried to apologize to her but then she had made it strictly clear that she didn’t want to hear any of that. She had made it clear that she wanted to kill me instead— and I had seen it on her face that she had meant it.That she had truly wanted to kill me. It was hurtful
{Ciril’s POV} I was the first one to see them because I had gone into the Celestial State and my sense of vision had been heightened. But about some seconds later, I didn’t need the sense of the Celestial State to see them— Everyone could see them now and realize that a huge wave of Ferals was the cause of the earth's trembling.But even with the realization and the dread that claimed us, we were all frozen. Our feet were glued to the ground and we remained staring like that because we were stunned.The Ferals weren’t coming from just one direction.They were coming from every direction— racing towards the Palace in wildness and brutality, giving no room for the slightest hint of sanity.I could already hear screams of the inhabitants around filling the air and Landon’s men were equally befuddled as they were all panicking and contemplating their next move. No one was on their knees again. My heart was beating fast and I was struck with the highest measure of confusion and shock.
{Ciril’s POV} My guise switched at once.If I wasn’t furious before, I was furious now. Landon was walking towards me with an army behind him and all I could think of was ‘kill’‘Scourge’‘Rip apart.’I had no other longing. My growling grew louder as he got closer and Feryt and the others joined me in readiness since they knew I was preparing to attack. Landon should be crawling on the ground before me— shedding blood and tears after all he has done to me.My countenance became more fierce now and I was heaving furious in my pending attempt, but just as I was about to storm at him, he raised his hands slowly in the air and halted.“Ciril.” He said my name.He said my name and I was momentarily distracted by the sound of it as his voice and intonation sounded like how he used to regard me calmly once upon a time. And so, my scowling disappeared for a moment but then when it returned, it came with an aggressive pump of energy.I trudged up to Landon with ready claws in order to wip
{Ciril’s POV} [TRIGGER WARNING: This Chapter might be a bit too violent and Gory… maybe.]The night was here and the crescent moon lit up the skies— along with the fairly numerous Palace lights.The wind was in the air and there were random cries of agony being heard. And I felt good.I had three hands with me instead of two and it felt amazing. Dolores's hand was in my grip and I stared at her now as she cried in pain. It felt so satisfying knowing that I was with the body part she once-upon-a-time used to smack me, pull my hair, punch me in the face, and so on.Just this body part— her hand, had caused me so much pain and tears at nights when I would go to bed bleeding, and now I looked at it with such amusement seeing that it had been this fragile all along.“You’ll.. you’ll suffer for this!” Ivanka yelled at my face now as she poured out heavy pants before me. I took my gaze off Dolores’s hand and looked at her.“You’ll pay if you hurt her or me!” Her voice came out even louder
{Ciril’s POV} I lunged at the Alpha Queen, wanting to grasp her and begin her own sequence of torture but then these idiots jumped in the way. These weak idiots who swore their loyalties to her. Her warriors.In her defense, a whole lot of them stormed at me even though it was pretty obvious they didn’t want to. They were scared but did it nonetheless and I saw it as bravery.I was impressed by it but then I was going to teach them a lesson for it.I bashed some bodies to the ground with two arm swings now and then I growled as more warriors came at me meanwhile the Alpha Queen was escaping. She ran further away towards the Alpha building. I hadn’t thought this through. I had wanted to scourge the Alpha Queen but then I had forgotten that I was greatly outnumbered and would have to kill my way through.Well, I’m not complaining.Killing has recently become my new and persistent hobby. The warriors surrounded me now and were spread out over a great distance, and taking in the sight
{Ciril’s POV} “Hi.”You know, I once quivered anytime I spoke to the Alpha Queen or Ivanka or any other esteemed bitch in this Palace… but now?I’ve never felt so confident. It felt amazing knowing that they dreaded my presence and not the other way around. It was a really incredible feeling. It felt amazing seeing Ivanka, the same vile Cunt that always reigned her devilry and aggressiveness upon me— it felt amazing seeing her tremble before me now.One word, “Hi” and I felt all their pulses rise. I decided to be as slow as possible in order to enjoy the moment to the fullest. I decided to take my time.— go to them one by one.I rested my gaze on Ivanka now, and I smirked. My first specimen. She was scowling at me and breathing heavily in her attempt to hide her uneasiness. She looked stupid. I wished I could tell her that. Oh, wait. I could.“Hi, Ivanka. You look stupid.” I said now and she tensed at me addressing her before she scowled.“You think being the Champion means an
{Ciril’s POV} I spilled blood and I reigned chaos… .. but then I was only just getting started.Weirdly, there were only a couple of warriors left for me to kill— a litter of about fifteen of them after I had just killed dozens. It was weird because I expected the Alpha Queen to send the entire Garrison after me since she knew I was here.Anyhoo…I punched my claws into the throat of one of the warriors just as he tried to attack me, and with the force of my bashing, his head instantly separated from his body and just stayed there on my claws.I used it to smash into the head of another attempting Cunt— skull collided with skull and they both cracked.“AHHH!” I heard the yell of a new warrior who was trying to be brave as he raced toward me with every aggressiveness he could offer. He got to me but just as he swung his blow for my head, I bent down and swept him off his feet with my hand grabbing his leg. I held him up in the air and growled at the rest of them so that they tremble
{Ciril’s POV} “Woah.”“Oh my...”Those, among several others, were the comments from Clord and Feryt. It was a few hours past midday and the once-clear clouds had suddenly gone dark… because of me. I was raging as I focused my eyes on these very walls that had caged me with gloom and torment. I was heaving now and as a result, Clord and the others knew that the sky’s fury was my doing— a reflection of my grief and rage. It was thundering loudly now and the wind all around us was beginning to grow wilder. I reveled in the pending ChaosI was about to resume my trail towards the Palace but then a voice stopped me. “Ciril?” The voice said beside me now and I instantly veered my gaze to the side to see Feryt. She trembled slightly with my gaze.“What do we do now?” She asked me. She spoke loudly since the wind was getting more fierce by the second and crowding the silence as a result. The skies thundered again.“Stay here.” I said now with my scowl evident on my face. “Stay here until
{Ciril’s POV} I didn’t say a word.I didn’t say a word to any of them. All I did was walk, trek, trudge— all of them. And this made us go faster.At the pace we were going, I calculated that we might actually get to the Palace in a day— or not. After some hours of my ignorance and my fast traveling, they stopped me.By they, I mean the democratic bunch— Feryt, Clord, and Gordius. Feryt was their leader or representative this time around and she crept before me to prevent me from moving forward.I scowled at her when she suddenly appeared before me. “Ciril, we need to talk.” She told me. I shifted to the side and slipped past her, continuing onwards but then she was stubborn so that she trailed after me and blocked my trail again.“Ciril, stop! Just stop and listen, okay?!” She said with a stern tone and was immediately joined by Gordius on her right and Clord on her left. As usual, Gordius was annoyingly confident with his old face while Clord looked frightened by me but then the