The King's Witch

The Lykan King

   "Evil witches!" He couldn't control his anger as he grabbed the talisman and smashed it on the floor, making it dropped so hard that it bounced to the other side of the spacious great hall in the castle.

    "Take it easy, Sif." Faolan went ahead to picked it up and checked for damages. "Maybe we used it wrongly. Look you had it cracked!" He didn't care. It could blow to pieces.

    "I want a refund. That's a rip-off." He snapped. He was angry and frustrated thinking that he spent millions of dollars for that so-called mate-finding talisman that didn't even work. And it was Faolan's idea to buy it without even consulting him using his American Express Centurion Black card.

     "Come on, bro! Merea's sorcery is as comparable as her exquisite beauty. She's not selling anything phony." His brother sounded smitten by this Merea. Clearly, he had been scammed by a vicious witch. He didn't really care about the money. It just that he got his hopes high in finding his woman and so the disappointment he was feeling was as massive as his expectation about that magical object.

     "Ah, right." He suddenly exclaimed, touching his pockets and searching for something. "I remembered she mentioned something about a chant." Sif closed his eyes in exasperation. "Right! In my wallet." He hurried upstairs. Unbelievable.  They had been using it for hours now and he was just reminded by it at that moment. What an irresponsible prince!  He expected a lot from him just like his expectation to this charm he bought that would find his female.

    Well, he was not exactly looking for his mate. Living for fifteen hundred years without his fated female had been amazing for him. As a Lykan king, he could do whatever he wanted and bed any attractive women from different realms and factions. It was very satisfying and free. He had got no problems at all- carefree life and full of exciting and new pleasure every time.

    He had seen other mated Lykans who were now in the mercy of their mate and would grovel onto their feet and provide anything and even crazy things just to please them. They had become irrational in his opinion. They seemed lost their characters and he couldn't allow that to happen to him. 

    Women were at his mercy, not because he was Sif Barclay, a man with wealth, strength and power, but because he was a very attractive male and any female would lose their mind once they experienced what it was like to be treated like his mate. He was a very generous lover, thus making him the most popular Lykan king probably ever written in history. The longest to live without a mate and without an heir. He couldn't bear any child other than to the woman intended for him. He was just fine with the thought of him having no children, since Faolan was considered as his heir being the first line in the throne as his brother. If anything happened to him,  he got him to continue leading the pack. So this free and easy set-up was great for him and he wouldn't trade it for just one female.

    But when Faolan arrived this morning and mentioned about the charm that could locate his mate, honestly, he got a little excited. He suddenly got curious about what kind of woman she was or what she looked like. Perhaps if she was a Lykan then that would be much easier for him find her from all the other packs around the world. Or if she was from another faction, then what kind of creature was she. Was she from the delicate beauties of nymps  or the human-like goddess of fey. She could be a siren which were famed for their power to charm the wind. He wondered if a creature was capable to taming him though.

    That made him so fired up for a while. That was why he got provoked when they got nothing from that fake talisman and  so he couldn't help smashing it.

    He heard his brother shouting, leaping down the stairs. 

    'I found it." He handed him a paper with a written chant on it. "She said you gotta hold this..,-" giving him the charm - ...and read it aloud. That simple!"

  He sighed while shaking his head. He was still skeptical. Knowing his brother, he had been told that Faolan was a bit gullible especially with women.  But when he looked down on the note he gave, the chant were written in gold. The words were dazzling, flickering in magic. For a short moment, he felt excited. What was that? Was it the enchanted spell he was about to chant? He became uneasy. And for the first time, he trembled- for just a second. Was he nervous on what he was about to find out, on what kind of woman fate would give him? Was she so much better and prettier than all he had before?  His overflowing curiosity turned to excitement. Looking at the charm and feeling its weight and power, he read the note.

    "From mountains to high seas in glorious universe. I implore to open the gate, show me my mate." He felt a surge of power going inside the talisman and soon blinding lights came out of it. He was forced to drop it and protect his eyes from its damaging flare as Faolan did too. 

    As it subsided, a silhouette of a woman was reflected on the wall. Unknowingly holding his breath,  he was waiting for it to be cleared. And when it did, they saw a woman in a royal blue cloak, standing tall and slender, about to face them. Did she have a beauty that would captivate him? It was said that when a Lykan behold his fated one for the first time, all of his senses got heightened - his sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste. All because of a special woman - one woman made for him.  But the vision of the woman suddenly got blurry and blinking as though it was going to be gone soon.

    "s**t! What was happening?" He was about to witness his woman. "Do something, Faolan!" 

    "I don't know bro!" His brother panicked upon seeing his murderous stare at the fading vision of his mate. "Maybe because it was damaged and you're not holding it too." Damn. It was his fault. He ran forward to the talisman he dropped but before he could jump for it, the  reflection was gone. 

    "Oh F***.! s**t!" Finally grasping the talisman, he couldn't stop clenching the talisman in his fist and further breaking it in his hands. 

    A thunderous roar shook the castle as the monster in him came out in so much rage he couldn't control the creature within him.