Chapter 4
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Chapter 4
***CEREBUS***
"Queen Esmeralda's giving birth right now!"
Amadeus, the Royal Family's trusted guard bear the news to us Dires in the middle of the night.l riding his black horse.
"I should come see her!" I told them but Blaire stops me by putting her hand on my bare chest.
We all woke up in the middle of the night by Amadeus.
Nine months ago, when Gwynedd told me the news about Esmeralda's pregnancy, Both of them decides to resides in Paris for a while for safety purposes because The Wargs shouldn't know that the Royal Family is having a new innocent bloodline coming.
The Wargs believes that when a innocent royal family was born into the world and they had the chance to taste the innocent sweet blood, they will become even more powerful than Zeus.
That is why The Wargs caught up with the endless war from the Royal Family for years now, and that is why The Royal Family wanted The Dires protection.
The Dires are more powerful and strategical than the Ravenous Wargs.
"I don't think she wanted to even see you, Cerebus." Blaire reminded me.
Nine months ago, Esmeralda left Whales without even talking to me.
That was Nine months ago when I decided to marry Blaire and she left her own Family in Salem just to be with me.
Blaire didn't even do black magic since then.
She became one of us. She exist more because of me. She became a loyal wife, a loveful subject a perfect half of me.
"She's right, Son." Dad chimed in.
Nine months ago, After I married Blaire. I became the New Alpha King of our Pact.
Not after I defeated Brandon, The one who challenged my position.
So, technically, I can say that I earn this position.
I deserve to be the Alpha King of The Dires.
"But I have to protect her daughter." I roar.
Amadeus whilst riding his horse nodded in agreement. "I think you should try. For months, The Queen has been reporting some Wargs sighting near the Paris' Castle."
"What? And why am I only hearing this news now?" I snapped.
Amadeus sighed "The Queen strictly instructed us not to tell you anything, Alpha."
"f**k, Esme and her stubborn Ass!" I snapped as I growl."
"Cerebus." Blaire was trying to calm me.
"She knows f*****g damn well what can happen when the Wargs get hold of the Royal blood! And she chose to understand her anger and pride against me?!"
I didn't even realized that I am now in my huge, gray monstrous wolf form when I am growling at everyone right now.
I don't know, but everyone kept on saying and telling me that I am different from any other Dires when I am in my wolf form.
They told me that I looked like an evil kind into a wolf form.
Huge. Gray. Monstrous. And strong built Wolf.
I am much larger than the very first Werewolf that is my Father.
You can even compare how huge I am to a giant moose.
"I think I should go see her." I growl.
No one even protest when I run faster and faster nearing Esmeralda and her child.
--
"The Queen strictly instructed us for you not to get near her at this moment, Alpha King." The Royal Guard told me as I am trying to get inside the Castle in Paris from where she's residing now.
I missed Esme.
I missed her.
I wanted to see and look at her.
I wanted to know that she's doing well, alive and healthy after the exhausion of just giving birth to a human being.
"It's okay, he came to meet me."
Gwyn's voice from behind the Royal guards stopped all of us.
He beemed me his stupid wide grin that I missed do damn much.
God, I missed my bestfriend too.
I wasn't able to talk to him for Nine Months after King Apollo's passing, after he bacame the New England's Royal King.
Gwyn took me to his office and gave me wine.
"How is she?" I asked him in between hard breathing for running an extra mile just to get here.
He sat down on his office chair and nod, and took a sip of his scotch "She did an amazing job."
I chuckles, I am so proud of Esme for doing that. "She did?"
I look at Gwyn's eyes beaming with honor and pride and such extraordinary happiness.
And I wonder how is he feeling right now having to see another you in this world.
Blaire and I have been trying for months to have our own too, to no avail.
I know Blaire was put in a pressured position to give me an heir for the Pack.
"Damn, she looks just like her!" He wipes his happy tears and chuckles.
And I chuckles just the same. "She? A daughter?"
He nodded "She named her Briar Rose."
I nodded "Briar Rose--" I huff in between breathes.
And when I mentioned the child's name, I know damn well that I will also protect the young princess with all my life just like how I did to her Mother.
The thunderbolt heavy doors of Gwyn's office bolts open greeting us with a very scared and bloodied Royal Guard.
In instict, Gwyn and I stood up from where we're sitting.
"The Queen's dead, King! The Queen's dead!!"
Those are the only words rings inaide me that in just one second I transformed into my wolf form and growl out loud that the walls and the rocks of the huge castle shakes and vibrates between my howl.
"The-- The Wargs killed her." The guard says, Gwyn cast his sword and looks up at me.
"Protect the Princess, Cerebus! Up to the very attic of the castle that is where the Princess is!" Gwyn told me.
I don't need to be told twice as I run faster to get to the Castle's very top attic to protect the young princess.
When I reached the attic, I walked closer and slowly near the The Princess' crib and saw her beam her brown dark eyes looked at mine.
And suddenly, all I can ever see is her future, our future, her laughter, her screams, her pain, her happiness and her entire life.
Far from what I have seen to Blaire Nine months ago.
What is this?
"I see that you are imprinting to the young princess, Dires Alpha." A growl snap the head out of me from behind me.
I put the young princess under the bed for protection and came face to face to the Wargs Alpha, Bratvae.
He looks old but ravenous.
He looks small against me but the blood all over his body says otherwise.
"I cannot be inprinted as I have been imprinted already, Warg." I growl.
He laughed manically, "This is getting more and more interesting, Dire. I can't believe how easily fooled you are son of the world's first werewolf."
I kept pacing the bed, protecting what's underneath it.
"You have no business to be here." I growl.
"I do have one more business to do here, Son. Royal blood tastes so good, if you know who I'm talking about?" He teased. I knew he was referring to Esmeralda. And I couldn't help but see the blood all over his body and think that it was Esmeralda's blood. I couldn't think of anything but how much pain Esmeralda felt, if she was calling my name, if she fought just to live. And while thinking about all that, anger prevailed in my heart and blood to kill the Warg in front of me now and all the Wargs in the whole world.
"I swear I would f*****g kill you!" I growl.
He laughs "Before you kill me, I want you to remember how stupid and blind you have been for nine months. Your wife Blaire, you were never imprinted by her. You seem to have forgotten that she is a Salem Witch and she studied for a long time how Imprinting works and when she finally did, she came to see you to start her plan. And how do you think we can find out where the Royal Family is hiding?" He laughed as if what he's seeing smused him, he likes to torment and he likes entertainment. "--she conspired with us because your Dear wife was the first to know your destiny is with the young Royal Family, Son. You have been betrayed, you have been fooled. And you calling yourself the Alpha King?" He torments while laughing. "--I want you to watch while I eat that young blood, and have you miserable for the rest of your life--"
He was about to rush to get Briar but I stopped him. Bratvae is bloody and difficult to fight given that he has been a hunter for a long time and has been doing it for a long time. But I am full of anger and I want to do nothing but kill him with my own hands and fangs.
When I managed to bite on his neck deeply he whimpers and run as fast as he could to jump of the attic's window.
I am bloodied, mine and Bratvae's.
if I can't kill him here, I will kill him somewhere. It's better that he got out of here and I wounded him deeply. At least for now he is far from young blood. I managed to get the young blood safe for now.
I was about to get the young blood underneath the bed when the door opened.
It's Gwyn. Bloodied and miserable.
He run towards the crib to see the Young blood wasn't there but the crib was full of blood.
"You betray me?!" That's what he said and I couldn't even understand what he's saying.
"She's--" I was about to growl when he cast his huge sword and it touches my neck.
All I could feel is the sharp shred of his sword into my neck, my blood dripping and the last thing I see is the Young Blood's brown eyes looking at mine from underneath the bed frown where I kept her safe and sound.
Before everything turns dark.
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