Behind Schedule

Nadia sighed deeply as she opened her eyes, slowly regaining her consciousness. Her view was blurry at first, but in a few moments she could see the weird human faces that were looking down at her. She blinked for a few moments trying to remember what had happened prior to this moment.

As soon as she had started to recall frigments of the events that had led to her capture, a slight ache dangled it's way around her head.

"Ouuch!" She muttered as she tried to sit uprightly from the floor where she had layed placing her left hand on the aching head. A huge frown formed on her face as she seemed to have completely remembered what the witches who had kidnapped her had said about not knowing who Selena was.

"Look, guys I'm so..." She was about to say something when Selena walked into the place where the strange witches had laid her. "What is going on? I thought you said you didn't know who she was?"

The witches ignored Nadia's outburst which seemed to them as a rhetorical question. They had been toying with her when they said that they did not know who Selena was but at this moment, Selena was standing right in front of her so they could not help but wonder if it was necessary to answer her question.

"Peace offering!" Selina stated as she stretched forth something that was wrapped in a cloth towards Her.

Nadia tried as much as she could to peep through the cloth that was being handed over to her, she couldn't really see what was in it, but she grabbed it anyway. Then she hurriedly opened the clothe which was used as a wrap.

"Conscider this as an apology for the way my witches treated you. We needed to make sure that you were not being followed. I know you must be hungry from the whole stress, so I brought you food." Selena added as she saw Nadia staring weirdly at the roasted yam and vegetables that was inside the piece of clothe that she had given to her.

"So, you asked be to come here, if I wanted to know more about the kind of person that I am. So here I am. I want to know everything." Nadia stated as she forced a piece of yam wrapped with some vegetables into her mouth, it did not taste as bad as she had imagined.

Selena smiled as she watched Nadia munch hungrily on the food that she had given her, the princess must have been starving indeed. She sighed.

"I'd assume that the fact that you are here means that you have finally accepted the reality that you might be one of us.." Selena stated.

" Maybe.. just go ahead and tell me what I came here for." Nadia muttered amidst the food in her mouth.

"Well, you are going to have to learn how to control and use your powers because Camelot would eventually find out that you are a witch, and you need to be ready before then. I'm the only one that can train you, so I need you to bring me and a few of my crew into the palace, it would be safer to train you from there as no one would have to suspect you since you are not going to have to keep sneaking in and out of the gates." Selena replied with a smirk on her face.

Nadia thought briefly on what Selena had just said, but there was no way that she could let selena stay in the palace without raising any suspicions.

"I can't bring you into the palace, but I would sure find a way to bring you into the City. I can handle the palace guards, but I cannot say same about the ones at the City gate." Nadia stated and then froze momentarily as she looked at the sky and saw that the sun had started to rise slowly from the east she must have stayed throughout the night.

"I need to go home now, The Queen might find out that I am missing anytime soon." She stated as she hurriedly stood up from the floor and turned to go away. Although she had told Brianna and Annie to cover for her with her mum, she knew that even if they had done so successfully throughout the night, her mum would definitely defy all odds just to see her this morning.

"Wait.. there's something that I need to give you first." Selena stated as she moved closer to Nadia and held her hands.

**

(At the kennel).

It was quite early in the morning and calm seemed to have been restored in the area. Alex, The leader of the white wolves, who was the oldest of all the Alphas was now in charge of the kennel. He was the one that had initiated the attack against the brown wolves, causing the other packs to fight by his side.

Now that he had conquere and his pack was in charge, he thought that it was best to put the brown wolves in their rightful position which to him was far lower than the rest of the packs, the best way that he could think of was to make them work hard in the dungeon.

The cock had hardly crowed completely, but one could see Sam and the rest of the brown pack already scrubbing the grounds and walls of the dungeon in a bid to remove it's eternal stain that had seemingly refused to reduce by an inch.

"This place can never be clean, these guys are just trying to make us suffer unnecessarily." One of the brown wolves whispered to Sam.

"I know, we just have to keep doing this, as long as we are alive, I'm sure that Derek would return in no time to release us" Sam replied calmly as he continued to scrub his portion of the dungeon.

He was still at it when they heard footsteps approaching down the dungeon, they raised their heads to see who it was and was sholed to see Alex walking in with some of his brown wolves with a smirk on his face

"Hey you. You must be the Beta." Alex stated pointing at Sam as soon as he had set his foot on the dungeon. Sam was silent.

"I can sense that you are indeed. So tell me, where is your Alpha?" He asked as he walked in circles around where Sam stood.

"I cannot tolerate silence, so you must answer me, I said where the hell is your Alpha?" Alex asked again, this time his voice was louder than the first time.

"I don't know, and even if I did know, you'd be the last person that I will tell." Sam replied spitefully.

Now sam's statement seemed to be more provoking than his silence, Alex angrily threw a punch at him causing him to stagger a few distance backward.

"Make sure you double their portion, make the clean as twice as much as they clean daily." Alex stated to his men who were in charge of giving out portions of the dungeon that where to be cleaned. Then he turned towards Sam still breathing heavily. "Make sure you beat him up until he passes out."

He turned around to go but stopped and smiled broadly as he heard Sam shout in pain because the white wolves had started to beat him up.

**

Nadia had finally made it back into the city, but she seemed to be very tired and thirsty, since she had walked all the way back her eyes felt a little beat heavy she. She arrived at the market area, her disguise did more harm as the veil on her face helped to increase the taste in her throat. Despite all these feelings, all she needed was to get home on time before it was too late.

"You look famished, perhaps you should rest here while I get you a cup of water." A young handsome looking guy stated.

She shook her head negatively as she couldn't risk wasting any more time, she made to keep moving but she was too dizzy that she could hardly move her feet. Momentarily she slipped and fell on the arms of the young man that has asked her to wait for a cup of water...

Meanwhile at the palace the queen was impatient and needed to see why her daughter had not come out from her room since the party.

"She's still sleeping ma'am, I told you that she was just tired last night and all she needed was rest." Annie stated vehemently in order to try to convince the queen not to enter the room.

But Gwennive seemed to be fed up with all the excuses that she was getting. "Step aside Annie. I'm coming in Right now."

" But your majesty..." Brianna wanted to chip in from behind Annie but they where interrupted by the queen.

" No buts!! Step Aside..." She ordered as she watched the two sisters stare at themselves in horror, before bowing and moving out of the way, for her to come in...