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3RD POV.
The wood suffers from the powers of the witch, the trees are broken, and nature has fallen into imbalance. In the middle of the hurt are the brothers. Kade groans as his hands rub his head and he sits up. He’s still trying to recover from the effect of the push from Kaya when he sees the armies coming their way.
Their cries heighten his senses, and hastily, he alarms the connection between him and his brothers, calling them to consciousness too.
“What the fuck happened?” Kyle whines as he grabs a nearby branch to stand up before he notices their enemies coming for them. They have successfully ambushed their kingdom, and the brothers are stunned. It has never happened before.
They are losing, and more importantly, they’ve lost another part of them, a part of their being, Kaya.
“Stand with me, brothers.” Hastily, Kade calls Kieran’s and Kyle’s attention. The both of them hurry to join Kade, positioning their backs against his. A few of their men, who are still alive in the aftermath of Kaya’s invincible push, also prepared themselves for the attack.
The brothers hurl into the wind, soaking in the powers of the moon right before the attack commenced.
Quickly, Kade has dashed into the scene, cutting any limbs that he could before he’d use his fangs to tear off the arteries that, unfortunately, get sucked into his mouth, and then he’d leave his victim’s body gushing out blood as they look up at the moon right before death knocks on their door.
Screams fill the air. Kieran and Kyle aren’t backing down either. In fact, they enjoy the thrill of the kill. They love how easily they capture their victims. How they yank their heart out of their chest, throwing it into the face of another, disassembling the other before then, then disassembling someone’s body parts.
Kade, on the other hand, also uses his alpha aura, commanding some of his victims to even fight on his behalf. He’s turning the soldiers of the other pack against one another.
By the time the menacing sound of roars finishes in the air, many are dead. Only the triplets and two of their men remain. And little did they know that that was only phase one.
“We need to get out of here. It’s too open for us to be attacked. We must get back inside the palace.” Kade tells his brothers, and while they proceed on that, Kieran quickly mind-links Chester.
“Where are you?” His tone is hasty and hurried.
Without wasting Kieran’s time, Chester quickly replies too. “My Lord, at the battle field. We aren’t seeing you. Should I be worried?”
Kieran scoffs at his tease. Chester knows better than to be worried about the triplets. He should rather be worried about himself and their subjects in battle. And also the protection of people in the lower town and royalties.
Before Kieran could say anything, more war chants soars into the wind before the revelation of more men from the five neighboring packs.
“Oh, fuck…” Mumbles Kyle. He fixates on a fighting stance once again, as does Kade.
Just before Kieran cuts off the link, he commands Chester, “I need you to track Kaya for me. She’s been taken by Olivia. As soon as you know where she is, inform me.”
And the war begins again. The brothers go another round, leaving pools of blood on the ground beneath. The blood of these men washes the earth as though that would be the end of sin and suffering. As though their sacrifice was worth anything.
Indeed, it doesn’t stop anything because more would still die in the same spot once again in the future. The killing cycle won’t end. At least, not until there’s a balance.
“My Lord, they are out of our territory. We can’t find them within our bridges anymore.” Immediately after Chester gives the information, Kieran slams his mind against him, sending Chester into a blankness.
“She’s fucking gone! That bitch… that fucked up… fuck, Olivia!′ Kieran jabs his fist into the air. In a flash, he dashes to the front of a tree, where there’s a half-dead soldier. His life on this earth is so thin that even a blind man knows better than to think he could survive.
Kieran squeezes his face in annoyance before he grunts, hitting through the soldier to the tree. The soldier’s intestines dropped to the ground as his flesh mashed into Kieran’s fist.
“Ew, that’s nasty.” Kyle shrugs at the sight.
Kade clears his throat. “What do we think Olivia wants with Kaya?”
The brothers hurry back to the kingdom, much more alarmed at what’s now happening.
“Where were you?” As soon as Emilie’s eyes settle on her sons, she hurries to them, but Kade doesn’t give her too much of a face. While he walks over to meet Chester, Emilie cups Kieran’s face, her eyes shifting between Kieran and Kyle. “I was so worried. I thought something happened to you.” She adds.
“We are fine. We got caught in the woods.”
As Kieran is having a discussion with their mother, giving her a highlight of what’s happened, obviously not including Kaya’s situation to it, Kade and Chester discuss it too.
“Chester, what do you mean?”
“My Alpha, the packs are receding. We have no idea why, but they aren’t fighting us anymore.”
One of Kade’s brows raised. “But there is a but, isn’t there?”
“Yes, sire.”
“Then, speak.” He uses a raised tone at Chester, who raises his hand up, as he gazes at Kade through thick lashes of his eyes.
“Yes, sire. I have two thoughts, as do the two commanders.” Chester’s eyes shift to the two commanders. “It is either they are retreating just so they could attack us later in the future or they came for something that they’ve gotten.” Chester’s face is slightly tilted to the left, pulling at a hint from Kade with his words.
“Indeed. We don’t know where they’ve taken her.”
“What?” Jared jumps into the conversation just then. Everyone seems to be on their heels; their monster seems to be at its peak, hence pulling them into the very rip of snapping out of anger.
Kade repeats, “they’ve taken Kaya.”
“Then that’s good news.”
“Maybe, except she’s emerged as a witch. Her powers have grown. She can command the wind with just her mind. And if Olivia had gone directed for her, passing through the shadows, then they must need her for one thing…” While finding it hard to complete his words, Jared does.
“To destroy us. She was exactly the right breed. Through your foolishness, you have bred a dragon, and now it’s grown and gone wild, and she would be back now-with enemies we would have easily won against-only to destroy us all. You caused this.”
“Uncle, you cannot blame us.” Kieran argues back.
“Oh, yes. I blame the Alpha in the pack, who had put his feelings over his duties to this pack. He had allowed his fear to overcome his task, and when he even had the chance, he didn’t use it well. He only created a evil that he can’t control.”
Jared is stopped midsentence by Kade, who turns to his back and points his finger at him. “You will stop this nonsense now.”
His blood is boiling so much that beads of sweat form on his forehead, and his monster is almost crawling out of his skin to shun his uncle. Right now, Kade is pissed, but he must keep his calm if he’s to think of a strategy.
“We must find a way to uphold this kingdom. We cannot fall. This is a pack of freedom. That’s why we don’t have a label. We aren’t falling. Brothers,” Kieran and Kyle pay attention just then, “we are finding Kaya, and this time around, we are going to meddle our ways.” And he means what he’s just said.
Jared frowns, “unbelievable. This is more reason to destroy the witch.”
His behaviour is starting to get out of hand and is drawing attention from many eyes. When Emilie notices this, she goes to meet him and taps him on the shoulder. “Won’t you like to rest now, brother?”Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.
“Ooh…” He huffs and leaves with Emilie, whose eyes glare at Kade.
One thing that’s certain about the brothers is that they’ve grown so attached to Kaya that she’s awakened a soft part within them, and they would stop at nothing to make sure she was back in the kingdom, next to their side.