The Crown in The Abyss

Chapter Two: Aramis POV

Her voice had an British accent. I looked at my destined mate. It was weird the Beta acting like a father and a alpha to her. I couldn’t believe the royal wolf was my mate. She grouped up everyone and sent the guards to me. They escorted me to the kingdom. It was immense compared to my pack. I saw buildings and more buildings. The road was paved with stone. It looked like Christmas Town with no Elves. Then we got to the castle and I looked up. It was huge. The castle was white and was decorated with golden statues and hints of it on the window sills. She was born lucky. I barely became Alpha of the Lycan Clan. Yes, hence the name. The Alphas were Lycan. What does that mean? Well, we can transform faster and easier into wolves. We were mighty more powerful than any other of the packs except for the royal blood. I had a secret in my family. All the Lycan Alpha wolves were cursed. The goddess Artemis felt pity for my great great great great ancestor for he got left by his mate. She gave him a gift at that time. She told him that in order to find their true destined mate his kin has to work for love of the mate and when we win the love of our mate she will be ours to claim, the downside was that our mate couldn’t smell us so they wouldn’t know we were destined to them. Our blood was also blessed, our blood was poisonous to anyone outside of the kin of the family. Our wolf was harder to control, we could kill anyone of our enemy, she also made it easier to transform. My wolf began to whimper. Yea my mate didn’t know I was her mate. She didn’t look at me. This was a curse. Then the Beta gave me a look and then noticed something. I opened my mind.

*You're her destined mate?* he asked as if it wasn’t obvious. My wolf was whimpering really loud wanting to caress her body. I gave him the look. The reason why I came to the Cilia Empire was because I wanted the goddess Selene to lift my curse. When I was younger there was news that the goddess reincarnated as Queen Alpha Luna. I tried to visit but wolves outside the pack couldn’t be in presence so I had to challenge my brother. That’s how I became Alpha. I couldn’t believe I was destined to be with the moon. Although she sort of rejected me. The guards took me to the palace. The entrance was big. I couldn’t see my mate. The guards made a turn to the left and took me to the court.

“Elio, are you sure he is the destined mate of the Goddess Selene,” one of the court officials asked.

“I’m not sure it seemed like him,” Elio said. I talked to him on the phone saying I wanted an appointment with the Queen.

“Nude him,” an old man exclaimed. The guards came and started ripping my clothes.

“HEY wait w” I grunted. I was left naked. The old man came down and checked my wrist. I was born with a moon crescent birthmark but on my back.

“It’s not on the wrist” the old man looked at the court.

“HEY this isn’t a damn fuckin physical,” I exclaimed. The man circled me and saw the big crescent moon on my back.

“Is this a tattoo?”he asked.

“No, I was born with it,” I growled. Annoyed they didn’t believe me that I was her mate. He came in front of me and looked at the royal court.

“Elio, Rizon, Faron, bring me the golden knife and golden bowl,” the old man said. Elio went to where there was a crown enclosed with glass. Next to it there was a hanging knife under a painting. The other two went and got a deep golden bowl. The guards forced me to go through it. Great, I might die. They made me extend my hand. I was trying to not let them but they had a good grip on me.

“HEY I DIDN’T ASK FOR THIS, I WANT THE QUEEN, WHERE IS SHE,” I screamed at the top of my lungs but they didn’t listen to me. The old man cut the palm of my hand and it hissed. As my blood dropped in the water it slowly turned silver and shone brightly under the moon. I was in pain. I could feel my mate’s pain from her wrist and now the pain got worse from the cut.

“It is him,” the old man said.

“Well kill me now,” Elio remarked.

“You are the goddess’ mate,” they said all together.

“What’s your name,” what seemed like Rizon asked.

“Aramis Lycan son of Alaric Lycan,” I said. One of the guards wanted to touch the bowl of blood and I stopped him.

“Look I just came to be lifted from a curse that Artemis casted on my kin,” I started.

“But are you even her mate, so are you trying hurt the goddess?” Elio stare annoyed me.

“Look your a mere beta I say you scare a rabbit at most, and second she can’t recognize me as her destined mate I’m cursed,” I said.

“I know the Lycan curse,” the old man said.

“But you can break it, you just have to work hard for your mate to recognize you and when that’s all done you're all free from the spell,” he said. He said it as it was all easy.

“It’s not easy as you say,” I said. The old man threw the scroll in front of everyone and I caught it. I slowly opened it shaking.

“He whose heart is broken, I shall grant your plead, your kin will never fall enemy to a broken heart because they have to work hard to gain the heart of the true destined mate, may you drenched your blood onto you enemies, may your blood make everyone suffer in your law, if you seek to destroy this gift, one must win the goddess Selene’s heart and tears”

It was true, in order to break the curse we had to win Selene’s heart. Selene, also known as Estella Eirlys Lucelence, was my mate. Everyone was looking at me. I let out a sigh. The guard gave me a towel to cover myself.

“So what do you say we crown you as king Luna,”Elio asked.

“I don’t want to be crowned as anything at the moment,” I said.

“It is true that if we crown him, Queen Alpha Luna will be mad” the old man remarked.

“Fine, I will tell the guard to take you to the Queen,”Elio said, although he didn’t like the idea. I glared at the guard and warned him to not touch me. As we exited the royal court we got down some stairs and we went to a hallway. We first took a left to a grand staircase which led to another hallway. The guard walked to the door of my room. I walked in the room, it was a bit bigger than my room in the mansion.

“Is it to your liking King Luna?” The guard asked.

“Yea it is,” I said. As we walked out he pointed to a doorway.

“That’s the entrance to the tower room, which belongs to the Queen Alpha,” the guard said.

“Can you tell me where I am, which wing,” I asked.

“Your in the east wing, it will get confusing because there is the west wing and north and south wing, then we have the smaller wings which are for the library archives, the royal court and the throne room and training grounds and dining room,” the guard said.

“The east wing huh?”I looked around when I said this. A whole city could fit in one single wing because there were 3 floors in them.

“Yes sir but once you get use to it, it will seem like a small castle, the Alpha can be seen in the throne room courtroom and in the training grounds on her leisure time she will be seen in her office in the north wing please don’t enter the north wing,” as the guard said that my hopes of conquering her heart seemed slim.

“Does she go to the royal court by any chance,” I asked.

“She does but after she spent time in the north wing,” he said. I sighed.

“Anything else King Luna, Beta Elio informed us to catch you up about the castle, the maids are preparing a bath for your stay,” the guard said.

“No, that'll be all you can get back to your post,” I said. The east wing seemed where most of the services the Queen Alpha used as time to eat bathe and her necessities. The northeast wing was where she held meetings with the royal courts and ambassadors. The west wing was more for the Luna. The South wing was more guests, and a medical area. For some reason no one could go to the North Wing.

“Thank you King Luna,” he addressed me and bowed and left. At least I could see her at breakfast hopefully. I walked in my room and there stood two maids.

“King Luna, we are here to serve you,” they did a curtsy. I looked behind them and I saw they prepared a bath.

“We prepared your bath, we hope it’s to your liking,”one of them said and kept their head down. I really wanted to kill Elio. I told him I didn’t want any title.

“Please get some rest, that will be all,” I told them off. They curtsied and left. I put the towel on the bed and got in the bath. I sighed. The journey wasn’t easy getting here. And it was getting harder. Now I had to win my mate’s heart for my kin. I soaked under the warm water with rose petals floating. As I finished I got out, I dried myself and took off any drops of blood from the rogue. I got out of the bathroom. I decided to sleep naked and not put on any pjs. As I laid on the bed I saw an alarm clock. I wondered why I would need an alarm clock so I could always wake up early. I decided to ignore it and went under the covers. The bed was so comfortable. I laid my head on my pillow and it felt like clouds. I could get used to this life. As soon as I laid my head on the pillow I fell into a deep somber.

The alarm went off and I grunted and turned it off and went back to sleep. I was sound asleep for what felt like a minute until I heard the door open.

“ARAMIS,”I heard Elio yell. I woke up and looked out the window. It was night the stars shone bright.

“ELIO IT'S STILL NIGHT, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT,” I yelled.

“Oh really check the clock,” I glared at him when he said that and l looked at the clock. It was nine in the morning.

“You're late for breakfast,” he said with a smirk. He was right. I got out of bed and put on some boxers and jeans. I put on a shirt. Elio escorted me to breakfast, luckily she was still there. She was so beautiful. Her hair had golden locks, it shone like the sun. Her icy eyes pierced my eyes like knives. Her lips had a natural rosy tint. I saw the rosy tint spread on her skin. She was unreal. She stood tall. She was wearing an off the shoulder pastel yellow dress. Her hair was loose.

“My Queen Alpha,” the beta bowed. I felt his glare and I saw I wasn’t bowing and bowed as well. I sat down next to her.

“Queen Alpha I invited Alpha Aramis to stay,”the beta tried explaining until the chef interrupted.

“Sorry for the delay, Queen Alpha breakfast is on the way. We had to change the servings because of the guest,” the chef said. My mate looked at the chef.

“It's alright, take your time,” she said. Then she looked at the beta again.

“Continue Elio,” she said. Her aura was strong.

“As I was saying Alpha Amaris is going to stay some time because he and I have business together and the court agreed,” the court entered as he said that and she glared at the court. I felt tense.

“I-I-isn’t that right everyone,” he started shaking. All of them started nodding as best they could.

“Very well it’s your business,” she said. I felt like I couldn't breathe.

“And we felt it would be best if you get to know him,” one of the court officials said. The maid came in shaking and gave her a glass of orange juice. She was intimating. It was one of her features which intrigued me. She drank a bit and put it on the table.

“Very well, I have training,” she said and left. The chef came with all the food. Everyone sat down. We felt we could breathe.

“How the f**k am I going to win her over?” I glared at all of them. They didn’t say anything and looked over at Elio. He growled.

“Look, she doesn’t have the best childhood,” he said.

“What does that mean,” I asked.

“My childhood wasn’t good, my father always gave me little love and wanted all his kids to be strong, my mother was cold to us,” I said.

“It’s hard to explain, she could explain it to you, but over the years she created a cold fortress in her heart,” Elio explained.

“It’s been years we haven’t celebrated her birthday, or anything,” one of the royal court officials said. Yea the castle seemed bland.

“She spends her day in the north wing or outside or training,” Elio said. I didn’t know anything about her. I ate my breakfast quickly and headed to the training ground. There were guards fighting each other. I walked around and then I saw her on the treadmill. I saw her took off the yellow pale dress and put on a sports bra that barely fit her chest and some leggings that hugged her body. Her hair was in a long braid. I looked away shyly and she looked at me.

“Is there a problem?” She looked at me. She was innocent in my eyes.

“Nothing, I was thinking of how good you were,”I was trying to make excuses. Gosh I wish I wouldn’t be working so hard to work for her love and attention. She laughed. Everyone was looking at us. Her aura changed from ice to a spring summer morning.

“Oh you're hilarious Amaris,” she implied. I was red again just looking at her.

“Estella,” I tried to say and then the air became ice.

“Stella,”she said. I felt I was losing air.

“O-ok Stella, I-I w-was wondering if you could train m-,” I coughed and tried to grab air. She softened her stare and tone.

“Sure I can be your trainer,” she said. She had a broken wrist from yesterday.

“Let’s go to the fencing room,” she said. Sword dancing is my hobby. No way anyone could beat me. But I knew I had to go easy on her because of her wrist. She walked to a room and it was the size of a basketball court.

“Ok if I win Goldie, you owe me a date,”I said with a grin. She smirked and walked really close to me. My wolf was howling inside and my heart wanted to jump out of my chest.

“And if I win you're going to call me Stella,” she said seductively and put a finger on my chin.

“Y-yes of course,”I was dumbfounded by her. I looked down and she had a lot of cleavage. I really just wanted to grab her and ravaged her in the fencing gym. She gave me a devilish grin and walked to the sword cabinet and grabbed real swords.

“WAIT real swords,” I exclaimed with fear. I had to be careful where my blood dropped.

“Yes? It’s best you know your weapon use including swords plus it just adds a bit of fun to our date,”she said giving me that touch me if you can look.

“Oh and one more thing don’t go easy on me darling,”she said as she threw me the sword. We began and she put her broken wrist behind. I did the same. I decided to strike first and she blocked it really quickly. Then I saw an opening in her weak spot and she dodged it quickly and tripped me over and stepped over my leg and my back and grabbed my arm and put the sword on my cheek and sliced it a tiny bit.

“I think that’s touché darling,”she smirked. I growled. Her aura was calm. She wasn’t even controlling my moves. I didn’t know how I lost.

“How about we battle it with our wolf forms, a Lycan against a royal,” I said. I really wanted that date at any cost.

“Are you sure you want to?” She asked. I bet she had cold feet. I might beat her and take her throne.

“Yes I assure you it’s not a challenge, it's just fun training,” I said.

“Alright I warned you,” she said. I was confused by what she said.

“Let me call my Beta to watch us,”she said with a scared look. She walked out of the room and I opened my mind and messaged Elio.

*Elio I know how to get a date, a wolf fight* I was excited about what he would say about my idea.

*Are you crazy? Remember Enver who’s in a wheelchair?* Elio asked with fear in his voice.

*Yes? He’s such a nice guy*

*He challenged the Queen Alpha and lost his ability to transform and to walk even* I froze when he said that. I didn’t want my blood to be in her mouth, it could kill her. Elio came in with everyone in the castle including Stella.

“Ready?” she asked, really excited.

“Y-yea,” I said with a scared smile. Maybe I could win. I was a Lycan. As she transformed I saw a white wolf with purple eyes. It was majestic. It was 2 meters tall. It was taller than my wolf. I transformed quickly. She circled me, she was limping. I had the upper advantage. I saw an opening where I could win easily. I jumped at her neck. She moved quicker and her jaws caught my neck. Her jaws were strong and heavy like a crocodile. How was she a skilled fighter? I tried staying still before she killed me. She let go. I felt like I couldn't move. I was sore. I saw she didn’t bite too hard. She transformed back quickly. I really wanted to get my revenge. I wasn’t bleeding or anything. The white wolf decided to lay down and she transformed. The maid came to her with a dress with puff sleeves. The dress seemed to reach to her ankles.

“I accept your date, I never had so much fun,”she said and looked at me smiling. I stood up barely and transformed back. Her body confused me and it made me weak. I just wanted to dominate her and mark her so bad. I wanted everyone to know that I loved her, that she was my mate.

“Goldie , is your wrist ok?”i asked. I saw her wrist was in worse condition. I helped her change into the dress. I grabbed the bandage wrist. She was in pain. My wrist started hurting as well.

“It’s really swollen. I'm sorry I made you transform,”I said.

“It’s fine, it's just a broken wrist,” she said. Then she fell to the ground and fainted. I caught her and held her close. Everyone looked worried.

“SOMEONE GET A DOCTOR OR SOMETHING,”I yelled frantically. Elio ran away. She was breathing slowly but she was really weak. Normally normal Alphas don’t require a lot of energy to transform. Lycan wolves need emotion and strength to transform. But royal blooded wolves like Stella needed a lot of energy to transform. Something wasn’t right. The doctor came in with Elio.

“Take her to her room,” Elio said. I nodded and I carried her to her room. I walked out the training room and walked to the grand entrance. I walked up the stairs and took every hallway till we got to the east tower room. Her room was round and big, it was the size of the most expensive penthouse. I accommodated her in bed and she grunted. The doctor came in with Elio. The doctor gave her a physical. He grabbed a needle and drew some blood from her. There was a huge mirror and I was bleeding from my cheek. It was from the sparring match. Elio saw the blood dripping a tiny bit.

“Please don’t check her blood there will be no trace of poison, my blood is highly poisonous,”I explained to the doctor.

“As you wish king Luna,”the doctor said and left. Elio looked at me.

“Is she going to be ok,”Elio looked at me concerned.

“I don’t know it might take a few hours to days for her to wake up, if not she might as well be dead by tonight,”I said.

“That’s how your pack stays undefeated with your kin,”I could feel his glare. I didn’t blame him. It was my fault I wasn’t careful where I spilled my blood. That’s why I was scared of sharp objects and the fact she wanted to fight.

“Aramis, you’re bleeding from your neck, you have a small puncture wound,” he said. I put my hand on my neck and there was blood. I grabbed my mate.

“Please I have to take her to Australia to my doctors, they have the medical treatment for this,” I said.

“But the heat will be too much, and the sun, we are used to harsh cold climate,” he explained.

“Please, it's the only way,” I pleaded for the first time. I nuzzled her. He sighed.

“Fine,” he grunted.

“Come on I will show you the tunnels, a helicopter will be installing a dome to hide us soon and the tunnels will be able to open for the all packs,”Elio said. I didn’t know they had a tunnel system. I followed him out of the castle while I was carrying her. It was colder for my taste. Elio transformed into a red black tinted wolf. His wolf seemed old. I opened my mind.

*Why did you transform?* I asked him.

*Because I am 70 years old, my wolf moves faster,*he replied. He took me to the back of the town and in the tunnels. I felt how she struggled to breath and the fever was starting to rise. I nuzzled her a bit.

“Please hold on,”I told her. I felt the burning sensation she felt. But she was still fighting. We got almost to the end of the tunnel which was ice and then we got to a glass tunnel that overlooked the seas, it was like an underwater castle. It took us an hour to get to the end. Elio climbed out and I heard him transforming back.

“Hand me Stella,”he said.

“No I can do it,” I snarked. I held her close with one hand and climbed my way up. We were in a forest and we heard people. Then a tall broad man came out to us.

“Beta Elio of all the packs,”he addressed him and bowed to him. Elio cleared his throat.

“Alpha Riven of the Ivor pack I was hoping you can give us one of your private jets,” Elio said.

“Of course Beta Elio, but why?”

“My mate is badly hurt, we need to get to the Lycan pack,” I said.

“Lycan bah, I knew they shouldn’t be trusted,”I hate how he expressed about the Lycan pack but I had to lay low for my mate.

“Take your mate on the plane and I will order the pilots to take you to Australia, and Elio take care of my helicopter, the dome will be there soon,” the alpha said. Riven signaled someone to show us the plane and the landing dock.

*Please take care of her Aramis*Elio pleaded. I felt his whimper behind me as I walked with Riven’s wolf. The landing dock was full of luxurious jets, luxurious planes. The man who was ordered by Riven took us to a small but luxurious jet.

“Here is your flight, scruffy will be taking you two to Australia,” he said. He opened the door and entrance of the jet, I walked in with Stella in my arms. I was glad to take her to my homeland. Then a man with Afro hair walked in a hurry as he warmed up the plane. I sat down with her and I nuzzled her. She was energizing my body like a battery. Then the plane took off. I kept checking on her. Stroking her hair. I gave her CPR to help her breath. I grabbed my phone and I called my beta. He was a good friend of mine and knew the secret of my family.

“Hey Kenzo,” I said, shaking.

“What, you don’t have to worry the pack is fine, we partied a bit in the mansion,” he said drunkenly. I was pissed.

“WELL prepare the mansion I am coming home with my mate,” I ordered. He was too far for me to send commands through my mind. I decided to stay up. It took us a day to get to Australia. We landed on other pack’s landing dock. We got off the plane and I was carrying her. I sent a signal to My beta. Then Dreyden came.

“Alpha Aramis, what is it that I can help you,”he asked. We were allies. My family kin protected his pack.

“I need to go home because my mate is in bad condition,”I said.

“Ah I thought that the Lycan’s don’t have destined mates,” he said.

“We do but we suppressed them,” I said. He got a luxurious car pulled up and one of his pack members gets out and he gets in. The pack member opens the door for us and we got in. She was strong from what I could feel. We got to the mansion. Yes we were desert wolves, we were very rare. He parked the car. He got out and opened the door for me. We walked in the mansion. There was Kenzo standing there with my brother and my sister.

“KENZO GET THE FUCKIN THE DOCTOR,”I ordered. He runs to get the doctor, and I got up stairs and I put her in my room. The doctor storms in. I slowly put her in my bed.

“I told you to be careful,”he glared at me.

“I tried,” I told him. Kenzo brings the antibiotics and sets them on my bedside table. The doctor grabs a needle and inserts a IV. She winced and woke up a tiny bit and fell back to sleep. The doctor begins giving her the antibiotic. My doctor made the cure and rarely anyone knew about how potent my blood was. I didn’t want her to know because I was scared how she’d react.

“Will it work,” looking at him made me question if it was too late.

“Your lucky this time,” he gave me a scolding look. He knew I hated the dumb rules. I never followed them.

“She will wake up in a few more minutes, is that all Alpha Amaris,” he asked. I nodded. He left. I sat next to her thinking I could of killed her for my insolence. I decided to leave her alone and let her rest. I just hoped that my mate was fine.