Mage Master was the first to speak after seeing the old human maid in agony. In an astonished tone, he declared, "Stay away from her. She has been poisoned." The young maid cried from beside her mother, "Who would poison a maid and why?" Iris asked the Mage Master, "Master Aakis, Are you sure?" The elderly mage nodded, "These are the effects of my own poison. It is how its low quantity would react in a human body. The magical poison is spelled to kill slowly and painfully. I created this on Alpha Elijah's orders during the Great War. I haven't used it in a very long time. I had almost forgotten it was in store." Iris took deep breaths trying to calm herself down and think rationally. Lily, on the other hand, had slipped unnoticed out of the room. It was clear what had happened and she was terrified of the results of her actions. Today everything was going the wrong way, none of the plans had worked. She had no idea how her family would react if the truth came out. Iris asked, "How

"If you were sorry, you wouldn't be trying to escape after attempting to kill my child!" Spoke a cold grave voice from behind the hugging figures of Elijah and Lily. They were surrounded in seconds. Dom felt like he was hallucinating his sister's betrayal but he looked like he was ready to take a couple hundred lives with his bare hands. Iris was right beside him and looked just sad at the unfortunate turn of events. She was ready to control Dom in case things went out of hand. In her mind, Lily deserved to explain herself. Even though it won't excuse what she did, it would help to put things into perspective and Dom also needed time to calm down, or else he might end up doing something he would regret for the rest of his nearly immortal life. "Please tell me you were not in this with her, Father," Dom spoke gravely, barely in control. Elijah raised a brow, "Are you really going to ask your father, the predecessor Alpha, if I had a hand in the killing of innocents of my own race, p

It was a fine morning. Waai knew there was something in the air. He was feeling a bit weak as he limped his way through the tunnels of his sanctuary. When he reached his destination at the fork in the tunnels, he pulled the fire lantern burning in the middle to reveal a hidden third passage into a dark tunnel, infested with photophobic weeds and webs. The old witch worked in the corner surrounded by strange odors and materials. The cave walls had drapes all around, swallowing the place in a strange atmosphere. She didn't acknowledge him as Waai entered her workspace but coughed rather loudly when he tried to curiously pick a random skull from one of the dirty shelves. After a minute she turned to face him as he smiled sheepishly at her, "Just came to get my glittery potion, you know it's that time of the month, Mage Ved'ma." The old witch rolled her eyes and without a word entered an adjacent tunnel that led to multiple cavelets filled with so many weird things, animals, plants, and

[Warning: This chapter consists of gore and details of the live murder of innocents. Reader discretion is advised.] Waai was shocked at the sight of the people he thought he had left to guard the hostages and probably be gifted with some new ones on his return. So, he roared, "What the hell happened?" One of the younger witches, Lydia, answered, "The dragons came for their hostages." Y's eyes flared, "So what? We were prepared!" He looked accusingly at Mage Ved'ma who had been clutching her right side where Master Aikis' last offensive spell had grazed her. She hated the way Waai looked at them and spat at him, "You think you were the only one prepared? That they were idiots who wouldn't know they were walking into traps?" Before he could retort, she sinisterly dropped the bomb, "The crowned king destroyed my lab. Your potion with every ingredient is gone. There aren't going to be any more dosages of your glittery potion!" That made Y shoot out of his seat and march toward the in

"We didn't do anything. Your brother did! When we came, he had already done what he wanted to whomever he wanted, after your husband attacked our home. My grandma paid the price." Young Lydia spoke firmly. She knew she couldn't use her magic since the dragons were near, but they were standing inside the very Temple of the Supernatural and there anything was possible. Iris didn't need veritaspell to tell her that the young witch was telling the truth. She was grieving, but these were times of war and grief was in the air. So she didn't waste her time on chit-chat and went straight to the point. Standing tall, she spoke confidently to the witches, even dragons could hear everything from the outside. "I am Iris McBlaze, previously Iris Hanson, the so-called adopted sister of your so-called ally Akuma Waai." She took a deep breath and made brief eye contact with every witch, male and female, and continued, "I am the crowned Queen of all shapeshifters under the blessings of Şekileus, the