Chapter 43! What do y’all think¿lol See yA!
{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
{Ciril’s POV}I don’t like kneeling but once again, I was on my knees. I don’t like getting into trouble— nobody does, but once again, here I was— in trouble. I was in trouble for a crime I wasn’t sure how I committed it. Once again, I was in the throne room but then this time around, instead of panicking or trembling like I had been doing the last time I was here, I was just staring into space.I was scarred. I really didn’t understand what had happened yesterday evening. It was just too sudden and too odd for me to comprehend. Too gory for me to fathom.Princess Anne was in the Palace clinic being treated but from the report we had gotten and from how the Queen was raging, it was obvious that Princess Anne had lost both her eyes. She was fully blind. I was so confused and anytime I tried to make meaning of that scene from yesterday, I became even more muddled.But then, there was one good take from all of this. Prince Landon was finally talking to me. I’ve been on my knees for mi
{Ciril’s POV}I was allowed to go freely. In fact, I was abandoned in the Throne room— as once Princess Anne came and said that I was innocent before leaving again, everyone went after her. She had been unconscious, but suddenly, she was awake and somehow she found her way to the Throne room and stopped the unnecessary bloodshed just when it was about to begin. And so, the Alpha Queen and the Generals with her raced after Princess Anne. Prince Landon had gone after them also but he had dismissed me first.“Take that side door and find your way to your room. Stay there and I’ll meet you there soon.” He had told me before trailing with the crowd. And just like that, I was free. Moments ago, everyone thought I was guilty but there was no better vindication than the Princess herself saying I was innocent. I got up to my feet now and I sighed heavily before giving the rest of the warriors and Sentries around a nasty look. Minutes ago, they all wanted to rip my heart out and now, they w
{Ciril’s POV}“You didn’t miss your way. You’re right where you’re meant to be.” The random eerie voice said to me before the face of Princess Anne was revealed.I trembled at the sight as my heart started to race.I saw that it was her but I was creeped out to the max so that I started to run away. But then Princess Anne said something that stopped me in my tracks.“You have a lot of questions and Lyon and I know that I’ve been the only one willingly answering them.” She said and I halted. I halted with a heaving chest and then I slowly spun around to look at her. The air was a bit inky now and the only source of light around us was the crescent moon above. I stared at her face and noticed that her face was directed directly at me even though she had lost both her eyes. “Do you have any questions?” She asked me now and I took deep breaths to calm myself down. That had been a good fright.“Yeah.”“Three.” She said and I nodded.“My Princess, are you totally blind?” I asked her as sh
{Ciril’s POV}Ivanka started walking towards me and I tensed.And then she walked right past me— not uttering a word or executing another action.She just continued on her way like she hadn’t seen anything or seen me. And even though I was thankful for her non-involvement, I was still frightened by her ignorance.— their ignorance.Both Ivanka and the Alpha Queen have been ignoring me a lot lately even when it’s obvious that they want to mess with me. I continued on my way now and I had to wonder if Ivanka had truly seen me or not because when it comes to Prince Landon, she doesn’t mess around and now she let me go.Why?After a moment, I let go of the thought and continued on my quest to inform the esteemed mistress about her husband’s impending demise. I did and while I was returning, I decided to stop at Anika’s room to check on her and know how she was fairing. I had told myself that I wouldn’t make any new friends after Vera in order to ensure their safety but now I was forced
{Ciril’s POV}Just when I feel like I have my mindset straight.Just when I feel like I’m beginning to have things under control, something pops out of nowhere, scatters everything, and leaves me in top confusion.I was going back to RawHowl with Ivanka.Why is she taking me along?I do not know.What is happening in RawHowl?I have no idea… and at the same time, I couldn’t ask her because she wouldn’t give me an answer.We paced through some hallways now and I realized that I recognized the path. We were headed for the Throne room.I groaned inwardly. As we went on now, I realized Ivanka wasn’t in a very smiley mood. I realized something must have happened so I made myself alert for any flying words. We got to the Throne room now but we didn’t get in as I saw the Alpha King strolling out of the room with a heavy envoy of Generals and warriors.Ivanka immediately called his attention. “My King. She’s the one. I think she can be of help. If there’s anyone who knows RawHowl better than
{Ciril’s POV}I was confused.I had no orientation anymore. As if my going on a mission to RawHowl wasn’t muddling enough, Princess Anne had come to add more puzzles to my predicament.I didn’t understand a word she said and couldn’t find any meaning to it and with that, I was supposed to leave for a dangerous mission now. Balif, Taka’s brother, led me towards the Palace gates now. Apparently, the army we were going with was already outside and ready to leave.I was to be a part of that army. I shuddered at the thought of that. Think of things from my perspective.I will serve as a strategist to give the warriors a layout of RawHowl in order for them to reclaim it from the Ferals— but reclaiming it from Ferals would mean that the warriors would have to fight the Ferals as they obviously can’t negotiate with them. And fighting the Ferals would mean bloodshed.And bloodshed would mean that a fellow has to defend himself or herself from having his or her blood spilled— which meant th
{Ciril’s POV}We paced towards RawHowl cautiously now. We had timed ourselves in a way that we would be storming the Place when it got a little bit dark in order to disrupt the Ferals— they wouldn’t see us coming and wouldn’t be able to detect our ambush on time before it hit them.Good plan. But I personally think that it’s a bad plan because things can rebound and the odds can suddenly be against us. What if we aren’t able to spot the Ferals clearly because we can’t see clearly? What happens then?By ‘we’, I mean me.I had bad eyesight so I was trembling now. We got close to its borders and I summoned courage and took control.It was time to be the strategist. **RawHowl had a sloped topography— an uneven one, so I took the bulk of the army to the higher ground area where they would storm the place from. And for the rest of the army, I led them into RawHowl through a secret allway and we took shelter in buildings that were unoccupied.— note: I did all this with a ruggedly pour
{Ciril’s POV} People had been dying around me, but then I had no other choice than to escape. I had to save the people I cared about— the people that mattered to me.Plus I had been holding my mother in my arms, someone who was barely breathing so there had been nothing else that was more important to me than her life.We had raced towards the north gates of the Palace and I had gone into Celestial State after handing my mother to Feryt for her to carry. I had done this so that I could break down the gates that were never open.I ended up breaking through the thick Palace walls as brick was easier to punch through than metal. So I successfully created a path and we all escaped, but not before I had killed a fair number of Ferals that had sniffed us out. Afterwards, I had sent the group running and had stayed back to make sure no Feral would follow us. Fortunately for me, the Ferals around that axis weren’t that many so I was done dismantling them in little time, but then I remembe
{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