Beyond A King

Stalker

( Nerva pov )

Juliana looked at her in disbelief, I almost felt sorry for the old bat she hadn’t seen it coming at all, yet she should have with how easily she betrayed Gwen, her lifeless body now serving Juliana as a pillow, soon she would join her ex prodigy in the after life. The irony of the whole situation didn’t seem to be lost on Juliana.

A sudden chill ran down my spine and I felt the familiar terror which meant they had entered the small space, the distinct feeling of death filled the office, it was suffocating.

I felt one of them lift my hair exposing my neck and I flinched away coming face to face with those inhuman red eyes. “ jumpy little thing isn’t she sisters” the blood witch said with a smile. I knew the three of them enjoyed my torment whenever they were close. They had once been as human looking as I was but the dark magic had ravaged their beauty over the years, the red eyes were part of the sacrifice their dark lord demanded when they dedicated their life to his service. I think it was to show the evil of their souls.

I don’t know what deal serveena had struck to have these three to do her bidding or maybe they were the pawns and Serveena made her deal with the blood witches dark lord either way I didn’t dare asked because whatever the price it must be high.

Blood witches were soulless creatures, a witch who has travelled too far into black magic and become the very embodiment of death and despair. I knew first had that these three enjoy torture and fed off fear. They didn’t deal in things such as money they just wanted to inflict pain and suffering in the world. No one sane ever got mixed up with them. Which made me sometimes question who was the bigger monster, the blood witch or the master. I glanced at serveena who was whispering something I couldn’t hear to Juliana.

“ We could have some fun with her,” the one purred beside her sister. I forget their names. I never stayed in a room long enough to find out. Their skin was a deathly white almost grey, the red eyes made it almost impossible to look at them. Like staring into the horrors of hell.

It was thanks to council elder Thomas that the three sisters hadn’t been executed with the rest of their coven. He had them placed in a safe house only he knew of. Serveena had often said it was the only useful thing the man had ever done.

“ I wonder how long she would last play time sister, you do so enjoy breaking your toys” the third said, they all grinned sinisterly making it hard to breath i inched back until I hit the wall trying to get away from them. I had seen what they did at play time- as they called it. I would die before I became one of their toys.

“ I have not summoned you here for her” I was filled with relief when Serveena’s voice commanded their obedience. Their red eyes blaze indicating their anger but they submitted and went to where serveena was still towering over juliana.

( Serveena pov)

I looked down at the pitiful woman I had once considered a mother after my own had died, I had grown up considering her own daughter a sister along with my own. Now I was only filled with hate for the evil witch. at my feet. It was her influence that cost me everything, that lead to my family and my beloved betraying me, she was the root of all my suffering and I would end her today “ I want you to know before you die that, you failed, the war, murdering your only daughter, it was all for nothing, the king that sits on the wolf throne has witch blood running through his veins” I watch in enjoyment as I see the light bulb go off in julianna's head.

“ Yes mistress, Lucas stormthorn is the son of Tatiana and the mutt king Magnus, your grandson, the abomination you waged war over sits on the throne of werewolves, you accomplished nothing and your bloodline is polluted with mutt blood” I told her watching the rage and despair swirl in her eyes, the years of believing her bloodline was pure shattered in an instant and she would never be able to change it.

“ But what about the witches?” Juliana whimpered, watching the sister’s come forward, even when facing death she only cared about her kind.

“ who gives a f**k about the witches, I’m going to burn the entire supernatural world to the ground” I grinned down at Juliana, the woman I had once thought hung the moon. The woman who had orchestrated the events that lead to my current purpose. To destroy them all. They were all despicable, lying, selfish creatures that didn’t deserve life.

I was granting them mercy really. If they no longer walked the earth there would be no pain, no suffering for any of them and more importantly they couldn’t cause any either.

I stepped back to allow the sisters to feast. “Make it quick, don’t play with your food” I muttered to Carina, the eldest of the three she nodded and moved forward with her sisters.

I noticed nerva had left the office and chuckled to myself. So weak.

I left the office finding her just outside looking nervous. An ear splitting scream filled the hallways, nerva gasped and looked pained but it was music to my ears. I closed my eyes as if listening to a beautiful symphony. when I opened them again nerva was looking at me horrified I knew she didn’t care about the old woman, she knew what they were doing to her I had made her watch the first time, fear was always a good motivator and although nerva was useful to my plans she had needed to lose some of her arrogance, if Gwen had inspired a bit of fear in the girl growing up maybe it wouldn’t have been so easy for me to convince her to betray her own mother.

“ Why bring her into the plans if you didn’t want to use her?” Nerva asked, it was amusing she always asked questions as if she had any right to know my plans. She was only here to fulfil my needs until she was no longer needed. I didn’t keep things that weren’t useful to me.

“ I was interested to see if she would betray Gwen like you did” I chuckled seeing Nerva’s anger, she fancied herself a martyr, believing killing her mother was a necessary sacrifice so the coven would have a better leader. What nerva didn’t know was once the coven had served their purpose they would all die too.

The truth was I wanted revenge, I wanted Julianna to know what it was like to have everything you ever want within your grasp only to lose it. That’s why I let her think killing Gwen would bring back control of the coven. For that split second she thought she had regained power before I snatched it back from her.

Telling her that her bloodline was impure was the icing on the cake, for her to know everything she had sacrificed in the name of our kind was in vain, betraying me, Gwen, even Tatiana, her own child was all for nothing in the end because she still had a half breed grandpup out there in the world polluting her legacy.

“What now?” Nerva asked paling slightly when she heard the final death cries of Juliana. There would be nothing left of her now, when the blood witches fed, they absorbed a witches aura, her powers became theirs but in doing it they tore apart the witches soul until there’s nothing left. Juliana would be nothing now, her soul would be so shredded there would be nothing for the great mother to judge.

In a way she had been saved from punishment for her crimes, she was now nothing. Part of me was sad that she wouldn’t face judgement and purgatory but that had never sacred Juliana she would say it was all in the name of serving her kind.

No what Juliana feared most was what she was now, nothing, to be forgotten, nothing more than a faceless witch lost in the crowd and no won ever remembering she was here.

That brought a smile to my face, there was nothing left of her now, no body, no magic, no soul. There would be no funeral or tribute to honour her great legacy and the only blood she had left in the world was a half breed that despised her. It was glorious justice.

I turned to nerva with a smile “ Now! we take the werewolf kingdom” then the entire supernatural world would fall at my feet and I would destroy it.

Nerva when to leave when I stopped her “ have Bruno release a few test subjects” Nerva’s eyes went wide.

“ but you said yourself they are not obedient yet” she exclaimed.

“ His people have had long enough to study the werewolves, it’s time to see what the experiments are capable of” it they reek havoc then so be it, a bit of chaos and panic might be just what the supernatural kind needed. They have spent too long thinking they are indestructible it’s time to show them all how weak they truly are.

I chant for a moment and watch Nerva’s eyes widen as my appearance changes, I wave my hand and a portal appear’s beside us. “ I work to attend to, carry out my orders” I commanded and step through the portal back into the palace servants quarters.

( Lyla pov)

I sat in my booth at coffee bean still fuming and ready to start throwing energy balls everywhere. After my moment with Penny. I dropped the pups off at their grandmothers.

what a charming woman she is, didn’t even wait for the pups to be out of an ear shot before she began calling me all the names under the sun. She ended with how I was a waste of a body and should just kill myself.

I can’t imagine why it hadn’t worked out between her and my dad….. yes yes that is sarcasm.

After getting to the hospital I spent most of the morning with patients that refused to be treated by a human. My colleagues told me is was just teething problems and the pack members would warm up to the idea of having a human doctor but right now I felt deflated. I left thinking a coffee and cupcake would make me feel better but when I’d gotten to the counter one of my old friends from our group jumped in front of me and little cow had stolen the last red velvet so I’d had to settle for strawberry cream.

Nicola Jennings, not really my friend. We just tolerated each other because we had all the same friends. Now I was no longer with Sebastian her tolerance had evaporated. She had been flanked by Sasha another girl from the group, she was a bit ditsy and not all there to really form an opinion she was just a sheep. So she went with the crowd. They now sat at the table across the room continuously giggling and looking over at me.

Seriously are we still in high school? I rolled my eyes.

What made it all worse was that I couldn’t just head home curl up and watch tv while I felt sorry for myself, no, we all had to dress up and head to the ball to honour our new king. Would anyone really notice if I wasn’t there?

Yes, I had stupidly agreed to model Annie’s dress for her.

I felt Someone sit down in my booth, just as I looked up to tell them to get lost a familiar handsome stranger smiled at me.

Damn, he looks even better than the other night outside my house. His blonde hair was lightly tousled like he’d just gotten up, no one had ever looked more like a cover model while rocking that just rolled out of bed look “ Close your mouth beautiful, you’ll catch flies” he winked pulling back on the paper of the familiar red velvet cupcake. I looked over and noticed the cupcake thief's cupcake was gone from her plate. She was leaning over to her friend gossiping and hadn’t noticed it was gone yet.

I looked back to Mr handsome who was following my line of sight. He looked back with a smirk and leaned against the booth kicking his legs up without a care in the world. “ what! it isn’t like she was gonna eat it anyway, it was wasted on her”. What was this guys name again Oliver, Oscar, Owen, ah s**t I’ll just stick to Mr handsome.

I looked at him indifferently “ oh no I was just wondering if you had time to eat it before she comes over here and kills you” I answered back.

He just shrugged uncaring “ worried for my safety? Awww you're so cute” he grins tossing the wrapper on the table.

I scowled unable to keep my eyes off his gorgeous lips I was sure he was pouting just to draw me in “ more like worried your blood will stain my clothes, this top was a gift” I lifted the hem of my armani hoodie Megan and Alisha had given me as a leaving gift, we all had one in different colours mine was black and white, megs was lime green and Alisha’s was pink. My scrubs had blood and puke on them so I’d changed before leaving the hospital.

“We promised to wear them when we face time later and I don’t want to have to explain the blood stains” I smirked at him. Ok I was lying I would see Alisha at the ball.

He slapped his hand over his heart dramatically “ ouch Atwood your cold and there was me thinking you cared about my safety” he laughed and then did something unthinkable, he pulled the top off the cupcake and turned the frosted side upside down smushing it into the bottom half before taking a bite.

My eyes widened in horror “ excuse me what the f**k did you just do?” I exclaimed looking at the cupcake monstrosity.

Mr handsome looked down at the cake confused “ oh, you like my cupcake sandwich?” He held the cake up to me.

No! No I did not like it at all, he just committed a crime against all cupcakes. “ you committed cupcake murder” I pointed to the monstrosity that was the beautiful cupcake I had been eyeing up earlier. “ that poor cupcake” I whimpered dramatically.

“ it never saw you coming” I pretended to cry.

He rolled his eyes “ don’t tell me your one of those that has to eat a cupcake so you get frosting all over your mouth” I scowled picking up my own cupcake that now was far prettier than mr handsome’s and took a big bite. “mmmmmm” I moaned dramaticly, eating the sugary deliciousness knowing my lips were covered.

My tongue darted out licking the frosting from my mouth. “ licking frosting from your lips is the best part, it’s an added bonus after the initial bite, you get extra sugary buttery goodness” I laughed at myself, so did Mr handsome.

“ Now I can kinda see the appeal of a human if they make those sounds, imagine the noises if she was sucking on a d**k” I over heard at the booth behind me along with the snickers that followed. I already knew it was a group of teens who I had seen earlier when I first sat down. One of the guys was the asshat that had his hands all over sophia at my party.

I closed my eyes for a second trying to rise above it “ nah man not even a plastic bag over her head would make me sink that low” another boy laughed so loud that everyone in the shop heard if the girls across the room’s giggling was anything to go by.

‘ don't start something lyla’ I chanted in my head even as I turned to face the little boys that thought they were men, I slowly began to stand and went round to their booth to face the asshat that had insulted me. I was standing over him before he’d even realised I was there “ well good thing because your ugly mug makes my lady parts drier than the sahara desert”

The guys looked at me in shock. Obviously they didn’t think I was going to snap back, I wasn’t a little girl that would take that crap lying down. My earlier estimation was wrong, only three of the boys were teens the other one was Craig, Sebastian’s friend and Sasha’s mate. I frowned wondering why they weren't sitting together.

One of the younger boys sitting direstly behind me frowned in disgust “ who the f**k do you think you are?” He sneered and I noticed he had similar features to Craig, same black hair and jaw lines but different eyes.

The softer looking one with a bit of puppy fat to his face nudged him shyly “ dude that’s Sophia Atwoods sister… the human” he whispered but even I heard him.

Craigs look alike sneered “ oh the human stalker” he began laughing along with the guy sat opposite him who was the Justin Bieber double.

“ Is she Sebastian's stalker?” Bieber asked his buddy who nodded.

“ awww how sad” he cooed pouting like a child attempting to mock me. I saw Craig looking away trying to hide his own smirk. Was that what Sebastian had told everyone after I left.

After a moment of snickers it deemed Craig found his voice “ listen sweetheart I know my man seb is too nice to say it but you need to leave him alone it’s seriously pathetic, he’s mated” another wave of snickers from the pups.

“ yea and Delilah’s way hotter” Bieber said as more laughs rang out. I think they expected me to run away crying or turn back to my booth but instead I just continued to stare. When the laughter finally died down Craig’s expression became nervous, had he forgotten who I was.

I smirked “ stalker? Is that the best you have?” I asked him. Craig didn’t seem to have a come back but that was craig, all mouth and no brains. It made sense he was mated to Sasha she was as ditsy as he was.

I looked back towards Mr handsome who seemed amused but I wasn’t sure if it was at them or me. Either way I knew I was on my own.

“ How does it make any sense when I’ve just got home from England? 200,000 miles doesn’t make for great stalking” I mocked, his earlier comment now sounding stupid.

“ Also he came to my welcome home party and my own brother had to intervene when your ‘boy seb’ wouldn’t leave me alone, there may be a stalker here Craig but it’s not me” I chuckled how stupid do people need to be to believe this. Clearly I was going to have to set a few people straight.

None of the other boys had moved, the lookalike was giving Craig a glare as if he couldn’t believe Craig was letting me talk back to him.

Puppy fat was trying to shrink into his seat, while Craig just looked embarrassed I stared Bieber down and the kid could barley look me in the eye. “ oh and Delilah may be hotter than me but she’s still just some slut that got pregnant by a man that wasn’t her fated mate” gasps and laughing rang out around the cafe and I turned to see the females at the table behind me were filming, I sighed heavily great just great. I needed to shut this all down now.

“ Craig leave it alone ” I heard Curt intervene but was quickly cut off when Craig’s lookalike stood abruptly from his seat so he was now towering over me.

Craig said nothing but his lokkalike clearly wasn’t all that bright “ NO! this f*****g nothing human thinks she can slander Delilah when we all know it’s her family that has the sluts” he spoke directly to Curt but his voice was loud enough to cause a scene. The pup looked at me with an evil sneer “ how is your sister this morning? I heard Chris had a great time with her last night” he pointed down at Bieber I realised I recognised him as the little s**t that had he hands all over Sophia at my party. snickers rang out around the group. Except for puppy fat who was trying to crawl inside himself.

“ MIKE!!” Craig shouted apparently he finally realised Mike was crossing a line but apparently Mike wasn’t listening. Not that Craig was scalding him because this Mike was being rude, no, it’s because Craig knew no one talked s**t about my family and got away with it.

Mike pointed his finger towards me in anger “Your the one in the family of sluts, it’s in your DNA….human” he spat the word like it was acid and it took everything in me not to reach out and send an energy ball his way.

I was just about to whisper the word ‘ pain’ to send the little s**t writhing on the ground and blow my whole cover, when I heard movement behind me “ alright guys that’s enough” mr handsome growled. I couldn’t believe he’d jumped in to defend me.

“ Stay out if this newbie” Mike glared at him.

“ yes stay out of this” I said not taking my eyes off Mike, he was a bigger asshole than craig.

I moved forward so I was in his face letting him know he couldn’t intimidate me“ funny you should mention my sister, she was just telling me this morning all about your tiny d**k” his eyes blazed and I knew I’d hit a nerve “ not a patch on Chris, at least he could get his tiny d**k up” I used the douche who he’d referred to earlier, it was then I knew I’d tipped him over the edge, in the next breath the dumb teen swung his fist toward me but I anticipated it and grabbed his arm taking him off guard making it easy to pull the i***t forward. He lost his balance and all I had to do was slam his head down hearing a satisfying crack as his face connected with the table.

The little punk let out a scream distracting the others. Out of the corner of my eye I saw craig jump up as had Bieber next to him, puppy fat was blocked in by Mike. Who was crying like a b***h.

I felt a hand on my shoulder but it soon disappeared.

I used the moment to kick Bieber in the balls as he moved to help Mike. I caught my leg on the corner of the table trying to keep hold of Mike who was still face planting the table but Biebers face twisting in agony made the sting in my leg worth it.

I didn’t know if what they said about Sophia was true but either way they deserved it for talking about her that way.

I leaned into Mike's ear as he still couldn’t move now I had his arm twisted behind his back. I brought a small bolt forward and slammed my hand down hearing a satisfying crack in Mike's arm. He cried out but I didn’t release his arm. “ next time I take the arm completely” I whispered into his ear, I looked across to his still trapped friend who was now pale. Obviously he caught what I said, realising his arm Mike fell to the floor clutching his broken arm.

I turned to craig only to find Mr handsome had already taken care of him. Craig lay in a heap at his feet and Bieber was still clutching his balls in the foetal position. I looked around to see that the others in the place were staring in shock, Curt’s mouth was almost on the floor with his surprised expression. Obviously none of them thought much of my abilities, did they forget I was still a royal gammas daughter and even without a wolf I was definitely not human.

Mike was crying on the floor clutching his nose with his good arm. I smirked down at him “ well look at that, humans can’t be all bad, one did just hand you boys your asses” he looked up at me with hateful eyes but said nothing.

I felt someone come up behind me“ we should leave” . I said to MR handsome, he nodded and helped grab my stuff from our booth. I muttered an apology to Curt, noticing Sasha at the other table was still filming instead of helping her mate. Interesting.

Heading for the door Mr handsome wrapped his arm around my shoulders “ wow I knew picking you as my best friend was gonna be fun Atwood but not this much fun” he chuckled pulling me closer, leading me through the door.

Maybe having him around wasn’t so bad and he had helped me with the bullies after all. “thanks for the help…Oscar”

He grinned down at me probably knowing I got his name wrong on purpose “ it’s Oliver and your welcome Atwood”