The Departed and Return, Princess of Lyconia

The News

Kings POV

Without knocking my wife stormed into my office with joy on her face “Babe, we did it! We’re pregnant!” She nearly screams at me, waving her test results in my face.

“Are you serious?!” I had asked her thinking it was some sick joke, but hope had sparked in my heart.

“Yes honey. I’m actually further along too at 6 weeks! We’ve both been so busy lately with the rogue attacks in the smaller territories and the treaty with the dragons. I wanted to be sure and didn’t want any false hopes, so I waited. I hope your not mad” she stated

I got up from my desk stupefied, “Babe! Are you kidding me? Why would I be mad? I’m ecstatic!” I shouted as I ran to her and picked her up in my arms bridal style and kissed her happily.

She giggled and slapped my shoulder, “Har, let me down, you old goof!” With a huff, I gently let her down.

Soon after that we found out that our unborn child was to be twins and twin princesses at that! Upon receiving that information my queen and I were in shock! Twins! Rarely are twins ever born in our race and even more shocking was that my first borns were to be princesses! Not that I minded, but in most cases an Alphas’ first born is usually a boy, much less a Kings firstborn. Either way, these princesses are now heirs to the throne! A historic moment in history altogether!

After much celebration with the kingdom and families, the excitement finally settled down and Ellie began feeling the terms of her pregnancy.

Then one morning we received news from a very unexpected visitor.

We were all seated at the breakfast table with my second in command, Beta Jason, his wife Panny, his son Favor, my brother Prince Hendrick, his mate Tannis, and their 4-year-old prince, Kendrick. The omegas had just served us my favorites eggs, sausage, bacon and biscuits with gravy. Omegas, are the lower class of our lineage, workers of the packhouse and pack that they reside in. When suddenly, a white puff of smoke illuminated in the middle of the table.

“What the hell?!! I puffed out as a stood from the table in front of my wife, ready to defend my family from the mysterious smoke rising up, not knowing what was to come out of it.

Hesitantly, everyone got up and stepped away ready to defend each other from whatever was to come from the mysterious orb-like smoke. Then an illuminated woman with sharp blue eyes and blond almost white hair began to speak from within its mist. “Please do not be afraid, I mean no harm. Do you not remember me King Harold?”

I stared into the smoke-like orb flabbergasted, then I recognized her from long ago with my father meeting together on multiple issues of the kingdom. She hadn’t aged at all, soon remembering she was a white witch, an old adviser and friend to our late king, my father.

Finally, sensing no danger my Lycan Jake, calmed down in my head and asked me, 'What the hell does she want? Why did she have to scare the s**t out of us?'

'I have no idea Jake, but I'm pretty sure she's about to tell us' I responded to him mentally.

I nodded to her in response and said sarcastically, “Well hello there Glynda. Thanks for almost giving us a heart attack. It’s been years since you’ve made your presence known in our kingdom.”

She gave an aplogetic smile and said, “My apologizes for that your majesty. After your father passed, I haven’t been the same and have been keeping myself busy with other matters.”

It was well known that the white witch was in love with my father, but that love was never reciprocated as my father truly loved my mother his fated mate, even after she passed. Their friendship was strong but even as a friend she remained at his side the remainder of his life until the end, where afterwards she disappeared not to be heard of until now.

“To what do we owe the pleasure of your presence?” My mate Ellie finally asked.

“Hello, your highness, my name is Glynda the white witch of the north. My apologies for meeting you like this for the first time, but I have my reasons. I have come to tell you of a message I received from Selene the Moon Goddess in my dreams. Also, to inform you that you are not only pregnant with twin princesses, but they are twin white Lycan princesses as well.” Glynda said as she turned her head to face us.

We all gasped as we know that in the kingdom white wolves were rare, much less white Lycans and royal Lycans at that.

“The twins united will complete each other and have powers blessed by the Goddess herself, true descendants of the Goddess. An upcoming war is coming where the world will be effected, and the twins are needed as they are key to its success. Beware as trials will come and unknown surprises will arise. Have faith in your Moon Goddess as everything will unfold in time.” She continued as if in a trance.

“Say what?!” Ellie yelled. Everyone at the table started talking at once. “Wow!” My 4-year-old nephew whooped. “Oh my Goddess!” my Beta gasped out.

“Glynda, are you sure both of them will be white Lycans?” I asked.

“Yes, your majesty. The moon Goddess has deemed it so.” Then with that the smoke dissipated as if it was never there.

I looked at Ellie, as her worried violet eyes stared into mine. I clasped her hand as she slowly sat back down in her seat.

'Oh s**t! Our pups are white royal Lycans' Jake yelped proudly in my head.

'Calm it, Jake! Yes, they are but a lot is at stake now as white wolves much less Lycans are sought after for their powers. I'm worried for our girls and now I feel that they will for sure be threatened in the future.' I said to him.

'We are royals! Who would dare?! We can protect them! No one can take them from us!' Jake growled at me.

'Yes, I know that, but we have to be careful' I stated. He gave a little huff and retreated to the back of my mind.

My poor Ellie, I thought as I then ran my finger down her now pale cheek, "My love, do not fret as everything will be okay. We have the most powerful kingdom in the world, and no one will harm our pups!"

She looked at me and gave me a small smile even though her brows were trimmed with worry, "I know babe, but it worries me even more now that the girls are deemed white Lycans. Knowing how my mother was a white wolf alone was tough enough, but now our girls are white Royal Lycans?! And to think that in their future they will be needed to fight in some war that we're not even aware of?!"

"I know love, it's definitely something to worry about. But for now, let's worry about giving birth to our pups and raising them properly. It'll be okay." I assured her as best as I could.

My beta Jason, my best friend since childhood, then turned to me after comforting and silencing his own family after Glynda departed, "Harold, we can assign extra security around the queen and the princesses after they are born. Also, I can research for more information on white wolves and see if there has been any known white Lycans."

I agreed and mind-linked him to meet with me after breakfast to go into details of our upcoming future with the princesses. Then I took my wife upstairs to rest, not realizing that my brother was still present at the table with his family lost in his own thoughts and hadn’t said a word.

I held Ellie’s hand as we ascended the stairs, thinking all kinds of things. Our kingdom has been so peaceful lately, what kind of war or uprising will my girls be facing? How am I supposed to prepare for something unknown?