THE LYCAN CITY. THE HIDDEN WOODS SYLRIA Two days, just two days until I get to kill Deron. The trees were my obstacles, I teleported through shadows striking the trees with my Bo staff. I was fast, the ankh on my neck fuelled me with its magic and I felt invincible. I swing my staff for a tree but someone blocks it with their hand. I only took a second to register it was Papa before I lash out on him, staff and feet attacking from every direction. He effortlessly blocked and dodged my attacks, shifting into the darkness and appearing behind me. I tried teleporting to the next shadow but someone he has snatched the ankh from my neck. I whipped my head around, squeezing my face when I saw his fist speeding for my nose. But he did not punch, he stopped just a centimetre from breaking my face. My breath was heavy and thick, I had put myself through this routine since morning only for someone to easily disarm and practically kill me. He stepped away, tossing the ankh back to me with a l

THE LYCAN CITY. SACRED FORESTSLYRIAI had expected to have a very normal day, training routines and generally preparing for the Queens introduction. I had never expected to run into a peculiar someone but it was safe to say that she startled me a lot more than I had startled her—if I had startled her at all.She had zoomed in faster than a streak of lightning and I was lucky to have found a large shaded spot under a tree to conceal my identity. I stayed still, my heart beating fast but not because of fear— because the face I stared was the same face I had printed on a bounty and tucked inside a drawer in my cabin, Valerie Mo’monte!I can’t believe it, I had been searching for this girl, even put my life at risk and here she was frolicking in the middle of nowhere!‘Deron would be pleased to hear…’ I stopped, not allowing my thoughts to run too wildly. There was no Deron any more, he had left us and I was alone. But what do I do? Capture her? She was a fugitive after all, plus her hea

THE LYCAN CITY. LUKKAR CASTLEVALERIEMaids flocked around me like termites around a candle light and their happy faces were a complete opposite of the glum face that stared back at me from the mirror. It was my day, I would finally get to be one with Lukkar, why wasn’t I happy?The air in the room held the fragrance of several different perfumes and face powders, all of which blended together to give a rather pungent smell. When the chattering and occasional dabbing on my face with make- up brushes started to bug me I stood up. They all went silent, most of them were younger than me anyway.“Excuse me I… I think I need some air.” I walked out of my room, my face half painted with power and I proceeded to the garden. I instantly spot Reila, she was with a watering can attending to a small bush of roses.She spoke once I got close to her, “I knew you’d come to find me here…”I shrugged my shoulders. “I’m just not really feeling it…”She turned to face me. “You? Or Valerie?”There was n

THE LYCAN CITY. UNKNOWNFUGITIVE DERONCertain memories flood back into my mind as I stared into Sylrias’ brown eyes. Her body was just highlighted by the moon perfectly but what concerned me most was the imposing staff she held tightly in her left hand. She did not wear any smile, just a nasty look and I could easily spot her ankh so black it would make a shadow seem bright. Why would she bring an ankh and a staff? This was a friendly meet but the glare on her face made me think otherwise.It hadn’t been too long I saw her, but seeing her like this made me question if she still saw me the same way or if she looked at me and all she saw was a stranger.For a moment we both said nothing, I waited for her to make the first words but she seemed to be waiting for me to speak up first too.“Sylria…”“Deron!”We said each others names at the same time.x x x x x x x x x x x x x x xThe streets were more busy than they had ever, everyone in the kingdom spoke about the Queen to be and the fea

THE LYCAN CITY. LUKKAR CASTLE. CASTL E CELLARSFUGITIVE DERONThe cold from heavy shackles weighed my hands down, this was not the kind of fate I was expecting to have. So far no one had said a word to me except for the Warrior that had plotted all this out with Jharad and by his gloating expression he had achieved whatever it was he had wanted to accomplish.A cold bowl of what I thought was supposed to be dark porridge sat beside me in this dirt cellar, I knew it would only taste twice as bad as it looked.Why hadn’t I jumped with her? I still had the ankh on when I saw the glint of the fired arrow but somehow at that only moment I had forgotten about the dark magic that I had in form of a cross hanging from my neck and instead took the poison arrow. Foolish.Still, one question me, who had tried to kill Valerie and why? I was still not clear on what her status was in this kingdom but from the looks of things she indeed was the Queen, the Alphas mate, his Luna. I still remembered h