The Crown in The Abyss

Chapter Ten: Aramis POV:

18 Years Before:

6 Years Before Banishment:

“He’s a monster, why would you raise a wolf like that, HE’S A BLACK LYCAN,” my so what called mother shouted. I was outside the tent

“I KNOW FOR f**k SAKE,”my father broke a glass. The beer splattered everywhere. I knew I shouldn’t had showed them wolf form. I walked away before things got worse. I kicked the sand. I was mad at myself. Everyone was afraid of me even my own pack.

“Ooo look it’s fierce black Lycan wolf,”my older brother teased me.

“LEAVE ME ALONE TORIN,”I exclaimed. I threw sand at him.

“Oh no he’s going to wolf out,”he started laughing.

“Let’s put a muzzle before he spreads his rabies,” Raden who was a year older than me said. Torin smirked.

“Might as well, dad said he was going to leave him the desert, so we do have the opportunity to you know finish him off,”my other two siblings were laughing with Raden and Koen. Arzhel was one of them. Torin was the oldest he was twelve. Arzhel was 9. And then Calen was Torin’s twin. I backed away and tried to run. But Arzhel grabbed my ankle.

“STOP PLEASE,”I was crying.

“Look at him how could this crybaby be a the mighty black Lycan wolf,”Raden said. They dragged me to a rock. I grunted. My stomach was getting burned on the hot desert hand. I tried wiggling myself out. Then father came.

“RADEN,ARZHEL, CALEN, Torin, let him go,”he snarled. My brothers put their heads down and ran to the other side of camp. I got up by myself. I walked to my father trying to hug him but he slapped me hard that I crashed to rock.

“I wasn’t coming to save you, nor to console,”he has a mad look. He stood far away from me.

“DON’T forget it boy, I only brought you here because I felt petty for your mother, your brother Torin, Calen and Raden are my true sons, they were born lucky,” he walked away. I sat on the rock and my cheek was bleeding. I got up and walked to my tent and laid on my cotton soft chiffon sheet mattress. I slept alone for who know who knows why. I sniffled. It was a day before Christmas Eve. Then I heard a bell.

“THE ROYAL BABY IS HERE,”my father’s beta yelled. I got up to hear. My stepmother got out.

“WELL what’s the gender?” she asked. I peeped out of my tent.

“It’s a healthy little girl,”they were so overjoyed of some baby.

“I’m glad the baby and the mom are safe,”my stepmother chuckled.

“And best thing of all it’s not a black wolf with Lycan blood,imagine a BLACK wolf Lycan ruling over us,”the beta laughed. My mother laughed with him.

“The queen almost died from birth I guess her little girl must of been born with a lot of luck,”she said.

“It’s rumored that she’s Selene’s vessel,”my mother looked at him intrigued.

“I think Raden would have a great opportunity with her,”she smirked.

“AH imagine my son being a royal,”she laughed as she walked with the beta. Maybe that was my opportunity to get accepted by everyone if I married her. I decided to draw my plan out. But as I was trying Kenzo got in tent and tackled me.

“Come on let’s play Aramis,”he started tugging my ear as he transformed. I pushed him off.

“No Kenzo, your mom got mad at me for playing with you,”I sat up and stored the paper under the mattress.

“Plus I need to head to the Arctic,”I explained. I needed to get Antártica. I started packing my toys.

“Is it about the new baby princess,”he looked at me. He was naked and I gave him a shirt and shorts. I felt uncomfortable when he was naked like that.

“Yes, that’s the only way I can get accepted by dad and my stepmother,”I explained.

“You know a princess can marry you if your prince,”he explained.

“What?”

“Yea it’s like the main law of storybooks, princesses only marry princes, I think,” I sat down and felt the need to cry.

“Why does no one love me Kenzo,”I said in a muffled voice.

“Well I like you as a friend,” Kenzo hugged me tight. Then we heard Raden complained.

“BUT mother I don’t want to go meet a baby.”

“YOUR going to COME ON let’s go,”my stepmother left with him. I wished I could ask her but my father would give me a beating if I wished to be interested in family businesses. Last time I scared a lot of people and caused a huge chaos.

“Well your brother is going to suffer,” I looked at him.

“I guess,”I laid on my bed.

“You really don’t want to play?”

“I don’t want to get you in trouble,” I hugged my pillow.

“But still being here in the tent with you I can still get in troub-,”he tried saying as some yells interrupted him. Ever since I transformed everyone avoided me except Kenzo. Wasn’t transformation something to celebrate for? Even my older brothers haven’t had their beasts yet. Me and Kenzo were early boomers.

“KENZO,”his father yelled.

“Ugh I have to go see what father wants,”Kenzo’s father was a beta but I doubted Calen or Torin would let him become a beta like his father.

“Bye Aramis,”he walked away. I wonder how my real mother would of treated me. She died at my birth. She was a Arctic Omega. I saw the sun leave and bring in the cool night. I decided to fall asleep, the other wolf pack members would bite me if I tried grabbing their dinner. Luckily I ate the leftovers they left yesterday. I hugged my pillow tight. I sang myself nightingale a song I heard from somewhere I couldn’t quite remember. I cried for the wound my own father made. I slowly drifted in a deep sleep.

As I woke up. My back burned as they would’ve put hot stones. I saw the camp was gone. The sun was bright.

“HELLO, ANYONE,”I look around.

“FATHER,”I ran all over the place.

“KENZO,”I fell onto my knees and cried. I was alone. I walked and walked till I could find a find a village. Then the cold night came. I was tired but I knew I had to find civilization or I could die. So I walked till I saw a small town. I found a fountain and started drinking frantically. Then a farmer came and hit me with a stick.

“GET OUT,”he yelled. I was scared. I was alone and without a pack. It was my fault for sleeping in. I ran out of there as soon as I could. I was back in the stupid desert. I sat behind a huge rock. I cried to myself.

“Wow look here a Lycan, hazel eyes hard to come by, but look he has black midnight hair,”it was rogue and I was shaking so much. I was trying to keep the beast in. I clench my heart.

“Whoa buddy I’m not going to hurt you, I want to help you, I think your pack went to the caverns up southwest,” he explained.

“Your not going to kill me?” I asked him.

“Why am I going to kill you, when you could join me,”he explained.

“Who are you?” I looked at him.

“The leader of the Rogues.”

Present:

“Aramis?,” I could barely hear Estella’s voice echoing. I jumped and shook the memories. I remembered Draven’s father. He found me as kid before I got banished from the pack. I got banished because I accidentally killed someone.

“Hey are you ok,”her eyes met mine.

“I felt your heart pounding,”she explained.

“I-it’s nothing,” I gasped barely.

“You just went blank on me and only said one word,”she stroked my hair.

“Well to be honest I never been loved by anyone, people just,”I looked away.

“Like I told you once you don’t seem like a monster, your just a big puppy with your multi colored hazel eyes,”she kissed me on the cheek. I leaned against her.

“So you never told me how old you were,” she explained.

“Well I’m going to be 23 this year,”she looked stunned.

“Well I’m a kid compared to you,”she laughed.

“Well I was four when they announced your birth,”I looked away.

“Let’s go to sleep,”I told her. She nodded. I knew she wasn’t going to be in mood since Elio died. She soon fell asleep. I got out the bed and went out for a walk. Kenzo was outside too. I walked to him.

“When are you going to tell her,”he asked.

“You have no right of bringing it up,” I growled at him.

“Your not going to tell her the truth?” He looked at me.

“I NEED TO WIN HER HEART KENZO,”I screamed.

“You know I joined them because everyone banished me,”I sobbed.

“I feel that the beast is taking over each day, I-I thought I could get rid of it, BUT nothing’s working, NO ONE accepts me,”I wanted to rip my hair out. I yearned that acceptance.

“You know you have me and Estella right?”

“Kenzo I’m about to be KING Alpha, the Clans looked scared at me, they never showed fear to my brothers, they hated my family for some reason,”I just wanted to hide.

“But she has right to know,” I looked at Kenzo.

“The rogues killed her family, they killed her mother, her father committed suicide, that’s how she became a Queen Alpha at age six,”I explained to him.

“How could I possibly tell her, hey look I joined the murderers that murdered your family?,”Estella would never talked to me.

“Yet stayed with them till you were 18, you knew that they hurt other packs to pleasure themselves, they vow to defy the crown,”he said grimly.

“It did pleasure me at one point, but everything changed when I saw humans more closely, I also saw Dreyden’s pack how closely they were, I blamed the crown and my pack for doing me wrong so long, I can’t believe they were right,”I sighed. I felt Estella was getting cold and she would wake up any moment from now. I also wondered how the leader of the rogues got my blood. Draven was just around. Some drunko took the leadership, he was kind of stupid but he was strong.

“I have to go Estella is getting cold,” I explained to him.

“Well congrats on your engagement,”he chuckled. I smiled at him and hugged him.

“I always wished you were my brother,”I hugged him really tight.

“Brothers don’t have to be by blood remember? Your always will be my older stupid brother,”he said in a playful tone. Kenzo only had four years like me being Beta. I let him go.

“Another thing guess who called?” He didn’t looked to pleased to tell me.

“Who?” I really needed to head back but I wanted to know who called.

“Your stepmother,”he brought my nightmares come true. I couldn’t believe that witch was alive.

“She’s coming to the ball and your wedding,”he explained. Great another thing I had to deal.

“We’ll talk about it later,” I started to walk back to room and me Estella were staying. I could see she was awake.

“Are you alright,”she looked at me with those ice cold eyes. I sat next to her and nuzzled her neck.

“To be honest no,”I explained to her. She stroked my hair.

“You want to talk about it?” I cuddled myself near her. I felt calm around her. But I could feel her pain the illness caused her.

“When I was five, my pack left me on my own, I found them after a year,” I explained to her.

“Why?”

“So I could die,”I clenched her waist hard.

“At age ten I did something I do and don’t regret, that made my father banish me,”she nuzzled me.

“Hey it’s alright,” she comforted me and held me like a child. I held onto her tight.

“Can you sing that song to me,”I asked.

“Which song,”she asked me.

“The one that you sang last time,”I snuggled against her chest.

“Why?”she yawned.

“Because I remember it from somewhere,” I answered. She chuckled.

“My mother sang me that before she got taken away, it was her way of comforting me or making me laugh,”she revealed. I never heard say things about her mother. Mostly Elio.

“Aramis I think it has to be tomorrow I don’t feel well,”she looked really sick. I felt her temperature She was coming down with a fever. She started to cough. And all of sudden she went limp. I felt her heart beating as it was my own.

“Estella,”I hugged her tight. It was my fault she was leaving. Her blood pressure was high. It could mean her body wasn’t accepting her powers. I stroke her golden locks. I looked up moon. It was so bright. It seemed everything was ready for the ball. I slowly drifted off to sleep.

On the next morning I woke up. Estella was still in my arms. I couldn’t believe it was my first day of being engaged. I kissed her cheek. She slowly opened her eyes.

“Don’t go to work, please,”I pleaded her.

“Then who can do my work, hmm,”she coughed at lot blood clots. I wiped the blood of her mouth. I kissed her silk soft lips gently even if the blood bothered me a bit.

“What are you vampire now,”she teased. At least her sense of humor wasn’t gone. I kept giving her kisses. She giggled.

“I can do your job,”I brought up the idea. I also needed a excuse to visit the rogues.

“Alright but remember you have to teach that new girl of how things are done, I will know if you do something inappropriate with her,”she threatened.

“Alright but my princess needs to rest,” I tugged the rope.

“How many to call room service?” I asked.

“Two,”she smiled. I tugged it two times. I kissed her in her forehead. I changed into the uncomfortable prince outfit.

“I will see you tonight, I need to see you in your bed, understood,”‘I ordered her. She nodded. I walked out the room and there was Rizon. Kenzo was with him.

“The prince contacted me mentally, she has stated that you will attend her duties, so in other simpler terms, I’m here to assist you and teach what you need to know, I will be the only one staying at this castle since the arctic region is mine to look over,”he smiled.

“All alrighty, what’s the first thing that needs to be done,” I asked.

We entered into the ball room. There were trays of food. 200 or so different wines. But I couldn’t see any decor.

“So where’s the party stuff,” I looked at him in confusion.

“The Queen has deliberately decided all type of decorum is unauthorized, it’s been like this since the coronation,” he explained. Half of which I didn’t understood.

“What he tried to say Aramis is that no one has decorated the palace grounds for a long time because the your fiancé didn’t allow it,”he explained in much briefer words.

“Well I’m king am not,”I looked around the palace ball room.

“Yes sire?” Rizon looked at me intrigued.

“I want you to decorate the whole palace, ceiling to even the floor, I want pine trees, sliver ornaments, and that long pine thing,” I ordered.

“You mean a garland,” he seemed to make a butler write everything down.

“Yes, the main colors will be sliver, I want sliver balloons, what not,” I instructed. The butler seemed to run to the decorator or whoever decorated houses, mansions and some castles.

“Now you have to decide on the food and the wine and champagne your excellency,” Rizon seemed calmed around me. From everyone I had a hateful encounters. Sometimes even people would tremble. It weirded me see the royal court be so use to me. Riven and Winston were somewhat getting better. I looked around the trays full of food.

“I will let this decision fall in the chef’s hand,”they looked at me stunned. Kenzo face palmed himself.

“Aramis you have to choose at least three items or four,”Kenzo instructed. I sighed. I signed off the filet mignon and other random dishes. The champagne I just chose the one that tasted right as well for wine.

“So what’s next?” I looked over at Rizon.

“Well Lady Rue has already awaken, so you may take a early leave, Estella will get all the paperwork,”he said. He bowed and left. I saw Kenzo was still standing there.

“Remember betas always follow their Alpha,”he gave me his raised eyebrow look.

“But I also remember that you taught me that I can order the Beta to leave,” I snarked.

“Well does the alpha want me to leave?”he questioned.

“Yea, this weird wolf human girl hates being surrounded by statues,”I let out chuckled. He started laughing.

“Alright good luck AND don’t let your weird urges get ahold of you,”he remarked.

“I won’t, just take care of Stella, AND don’t you dare touch her,”I looked at him sternly.

“EW, I’m a married man,”he walked away. I laughed. I walked towards Rue’s room. I could see it was the only room in this hallway with three huge windows. I knocked. At least there were not any guards.

“Come in,”from her tone of voice I could hear she confused and tired. I entered the room.

“Ah I recognize you, you were holding hands with emo queen yesterday, I fainted out on her yesterday maybe one of her babysitters brought me here,”she stated. Again she was really talkative. I was trying to keep my inner rogue urges in. I really needed Kenzo.

“So why do you talk like normal,”she asked.

“I lived among the humans for a year when parents left me in the Sahara Desert at age 4, so I lived in Dubai for a year as a street rat until I found my family again, then I got banished by them at age ten and I lived in Dubai for another year,”I explained.

“Ah so you lived in rich city,”she made fun of me. But I didn’t care.

“I lived in streets, until I found another pack,”I hated talking about my past. But Estella wanted me to give her a warm welcome.

“Look I know I’m a duchess or what not, my family is a royal, you guys aren’t human, and I’m not human so leave me alone,”she had attitude. Yet that’s what I found attractive in most girls. Back in the slums I loved scaring girls with attitude. I regretted doing that back then.

“Fine then I will let you process it, you can leave if you want, but if you don’t I could teach you how to transform,”I explained to her.

“So are you going to leave and transform,”she asked. I paused. People who didn’t fear my beast normally saw I had yellow innocent eyes. People who had feared the wolf saw it’s red eyes.

“I don’t transform for anyone, just for my mate, my beta, and if it’s necessary, everyone is scared of the wolf inside me,”I explained to her and left. I walked to the painting that disturbed me last time. I didn’t thought of it much but since then it’s been haunting my memory a lot. I looked at Estella’s mom. It was her who I shot. Draven’s father bullets weren’t as technical as what Estella was discussing with the doctor. Back then the bullets didn’t work so well. I never questioned him if it was the queen or not but it was my ticket in to what I thought was a family. I ran out of the castle. I saw the exit of the kingdom and transformed. I ran to the exit and to Riven’s territory using the tunnels. I knew the way to the principal camp. I stomped on tree trunks. I just needed to clear my guilt with trying to stop whoever was behind this. I made myself smaller so if the humans spoofed they wouldn’t suspect a thing. My beast was enjoying the running and thrashing of trees. But it also felt cold to not have Estella around. As I got to the camp. There were soldiers who greeted me with some pants and black blank t-shirt as well with some underwear.

“Our leader was expecting you today,” they both said. There a hundred on each side guarding the perimeter. I slowly transformed back and grabbed the t-shirt. I changed into the clothes quickly. I was going to stay here for a few days at least.

“Aramis it’s good to see you again,”I could see it was Gavriel. Weird to see him to give me a greeting.

“Gavriel it’s also good to see your dumbass here again,”I said in playful mood.

“Alpha Draven really wants to see you, he predicted you’d come,”he explained. How was Draven already leader. He was barely fourteen. I followed Gavriel. I saw Draven in a throne.

“Dr-Draven?” I looked at him stunned.

“Aramis I think I’m the one to be stunned, you’d left us saying you had family matters, of that stupid leader didn’t care, but here we are in front of the all powerful Lycan Alpha,”I gulped. I saw one of Estella’s so called scouts came.

“Your majesty I gave her the fake coordinates of our hideout,”he explained.

“Very good we shall ambush them,”he smiled sinisterly. Estella was conjuring a army without me. It was going to be a bloodshed for the packs.

“DRAVEN please stop this nonsense,”I begged him. He looked at me.

“Well fine I sadly I can’t stop the ambush,, but I won’t kill the arctic wolves the squadron is already there, I will give six years of what’s called peace, then I will visit you at the old arctic castle,” he said.

“If you don’t like your so called married dumb life, I will start the war,” he explained.

“That’s fine,” I said.

“If you didn’t know you were brother to me when I needed you most, so I would like to give you a small wedding gift, if your not happy well I will get the throne and the world will be like you wanted it to be,”he extended his hand.

“So shake it here?”I shook hands with him.

“I will give a happy vision as another wedding gift for you, your future wife will live these seven years then she will join the cycle of life, but you might bring a bundle of joy to the world,”he sounded like a adult. I mean his father was taken from him really young at age three. So no wonder he was twisted inside.

“Thanks,”I looked away.

“So are you going to give the rainforest their females,”I asked him.

“Um sadly I don’t know what the rainforest rogues did with them, so sorry,”so it was him. At least he was truthful.

“So I think your staying here for few days,”he asked. I didn’t take my eyes off of him.

“Very well show him his room Gavriel,”he ordered. And Gavriel bowed at him. He walked on the other entrance of the throne room and took me to my old room. It seemed like everything wasn’t touched from the last time I stayed here.

“I will come back to bring you to the dinner hall,” he explained and left. I was just going to stay here for at least five days to clear my mind. And to make Draven at least a bit happy that I was staying and not coming here to make him stop the war. I looked out of the window. I was wondering what Stella was doing. I was thankful that Kenzo was taking care of her. And least Draven use his predictive magic to help see how long she was going to live. At least the rogues weren’t so scared of me. I decided to lay on the bed. I knew I couldn’t tell Estella about this or she’d have me executed. I’ve only told Kenzo. I fell asleep. I felt the minutes pass.

Until I heard a knock. I woke up immediately. I looked at the clock saw I slept in for two hours.

“Who is it?” I tiredly asked.

“It’s just one of the guards,”I could tell he was newer guards. I opened the door.

“Dinner is ready,”he was serious. I followed him to the dinning hall and I saw Elwin near where I had to sit.

“Everyone I would like to introduce Alpha Aramis, who used to be one of the rogues so please give him a warm welcome,”Draven exclaimed. Everyone clapped. The difference between the other wolve packs under the crown’s controls and the rogues was that they were really welcoming towards me. I knew a lot of them. Everyone raised their glass and they began dancing. While some of us were still eating. Draven came and looked at my way.

“So how did you became Alpha?”

“It wasn’t so easy to beat my own brother, once I heard my old man died, I thought it be best to take my place back,”I started to drink champagne.

“So did the Queen let you come?” Gavriel asked.

“She doesn’t know, plus I don’t think I would live if I told her,”I replied. Everyone laughed.

“Have you ever wondered why they would choose a female? They so weaker than us, I mean they’re so emotional and they don’t even like lifting something that’s not really heavy,”one of the rogues.

“It’s true,” someone said with their mouth full. I wanted to stay silent. Draven laughed at their remarks.

“I mean she’s queen because of the moon flower, it blossoms every full moon, unleashing it’s power, the most interesting about it is that it’s immortal,” Draven explained. I knew that was a legend no one has ever found it. It’s said to live in the arctic. Many have tried to find it. The flower is linked to Selene. Its said it can only grant one wish. Another thing it said that once harvested it can never grow back because it doesn’t produce any type of seeds. I kind of wanted to prove them wrong about my destined mate. Estella got chosen because of her blood.

“Hey I know, to make you comfortable let’s see a wolf fight , you used to love those,”Gavriel gave me a playful punch.

“Sure why not?” Everyone exclaimed. Draven just there silently. Every started barging in a dirt area we had. Everyone was drunk. Well course not the kid. Draven looked off. He seemed mad at something. Then the two contestants came out. It was a scrawny omega. And what seemed a well sized alpha wolf. I looked over at Draven.

“Are you sure you want to start this strong,”I asked.

“Sure why not,”he laughed and tapped his father’s staff. I looked in horror as the fight was unleashed.