Go Take a Flying Lycan (book 2 of The Kingdom series)

My little Sprite

Jake POV

I watched my Dad go try to figure out where Mom went which left me with my five siblings. Lex was fuming after what Dad told them; it was bad enough I went through all of this at three. Since Maverick is no ordinary wolf I remember everything that happened all of those years ago. Trust me if my mom didn't kill my sperm donor I would have. The horrible things that that man did to she-wolves; I don't even want to think about it. If anyone laid a hand on Aurora I’d kill them where they stood.

Mira and Gigi were shaken to their core by what happened to Mom. My other two sisters, who thought that they would berate Mom into changing her mind were in shock and trying to get Dad to listen but he just walked away. Dad loves his children but no one intentionally hurts his queen. They got off lucky; if that had been anyone else their head would have been removed from their shoulders.

“Well, this is great.” Alicia huffs. Her purple eyes flickered. Flipping her long black hair. Alicia was the spitting image of my Great-great-grandmother Alicia. Except for the height, My sister Alicia was about six foot tall but had the same pale complexion and round face.

“Are you kidding me?” I yelled at Alicia. When I yelled at Alicia Aurora came to my side, I guess she could feel my anger through the bond. “You ungrateful little brat. That woman has sacrificed everything for all of us and what do you do? When she finally calls you all out for the s**t you do, you bring up the most painful thing that ever happened to her to get your way. What the hell is wrong with you two.” I have never gotten angry with my sisters in my life.

“We didn't know.” Samantha quips. Samantha with her long white hair, and pale blue eyes, is tall and lengthy.

“That's right you don't know none of you do. What she was put through, the sacrifices she made for you five; for all of us. I can't do this; I mean I always knew you were spoiled but never did I peg you as cruel.” I blew up at them. “Mom was justified in what punishment you all just got. As far as I'm concerned I will be surprised if our grandfathers and great-aunt Selene will give you back your abilities. She can't take away who you are but she can take back who rules. Running a kingdom is not about what you get from the title it's what you give to your people. Mom is right you are not ready to rule.”

Gigi and Mira just stand there with their head bowed. I can see Alicia getting ready to fire back at me but Lex gets there first. “Alicia don't you dare say a word, everything Jake said was right. I was pissed, Hope and I had an argument I wanted to bring her breakfast to make it up to her and I took it out on Michelle; that wasn't fair to her. But what you two did to Mom was uncalled for. We all just turned eighteen we have to do better. Now if you will all excuse me I need to find Michelle to apologize for my behaviour then help Dad find our mother.” Lex shook his head and walked to his room.

“Don't, I don't want to hear it. I'm also going to help see if I can find Mom.” I say before anyone has a chance to speak. I grab Aurora by the hand and walk away.

Alicia POV

Okay, I didn't know what happened to Mom, maybe I shouldn't have said what I said, but really that punishment for an omega was too harsh. I mean it is our birthright.

“I can't believe this. How they treat us.” I groan.

“Oh my God, you are ungrateful.” Mira raises her voice at us. Her eyes are glowing all red at this point. See we are all species but we all have a dominant gene except Lex. Mira’s vampire was fierce, I was a stronger witch than the rest. Mira looks just like Grandma Kat. Long black hair, tall, skinny fierce blue eyes and a sharper Eastern European-shaped face. “Mom was tortured and raped and your response is can you believe this. I'm ashamed to say I was a part of this and you are my sister.” Mira threw her hands up and walked away. Gigi my red curly-haired sister, with emerald green eyes like our mother and the same build; about 5’8” and curvy, shook her head and followed.

“What's up with those two? What Mom had some s**t happen to her big deal.” I huffed.

“Mom was raped and tortured Alicia, you really don't think we went too far? I mean we may have been right about the other stuff but we did go too far bringing Jake’s sperm donor into it.” Samantha sighed.

That had to bring up painful memories. “She’s the queen of all realms she needs to be able to take some criticism. Come on let's go pack so we can get this over with.” I scowl. I can't believe I have to be away from the castle, plus Grandma Lilly has perfected a masking spell that not even our mates will know what we really look like. Sure they will still feel the bond but won't know or believe who we are unless my grandfather, great-great grandfather and 2 of my great, great, great aunts get to decide if and when we get our powers back. But I know they won't till they are sure as they don't want to piss off Mom and Dad. Samantha and I go to our room to pack. We have our own rooms but since birth, we have always been together. My mom said the moon goddess told her we would be a big part of each other’s lives. We even were pulled out holding hands. Samantha was unusually quiet. I think what the boys said to her got to her. She was always tough around other people but I got to see the real Samantha; she is kind, caring, compassionate and soft-hearted. I mean she cries watching anything even kids' shows. She'll get over it I will get her to see, and in a couple of days, everything is back to normal.

Samantha POV

I'm packing my bag and look over at Alicia and she is fuming. I know she said that we didn't know so it was okay, but I feel really bad for what we said to Mom. I love my sister but sometimes she can be cruel. I go along with her most times as she really is my only friend; plus I try to stop her from going too far. I mean one day she was going to drop an omega from the roof to test her magic and catch them just before they hit. If it failed it was only an omega is what she said. I tried to be kinder to people after that day and not egg her on so much. But I was mad too when they took everything from us and I knew how to push her buttons.

You know to this day I have never seen my mother cry; well that's till today. I know we hurt her deeply, the world just felt sad. I knew there was no point in talking to Alicia right now because she was just looking for a fight, and I really did not want to talk to my sister right now. So I packed my bag in silence.

I don’t like being a mean person but as I said my sister is my only friend. My other two sisters are different than us. Gigi is all about training, her wolf is always pushing her to be better in every discipline, not just a wolf. Well and Mira is just too serious I mean she’s part of everything else but there is no trouble to tell she’s a Vampire; even Grandma Kat is not that serious and stoic.

My wolf doesn’t like that I go along with Alicia. Joy is a jovial creature, she loves all her gifts, and the things she can do as faes are normally happy creatures. Joy also tells me that Auntie Selene is not happy with all of us and it’s time to act like leaders and not children. My fear is always if I go against Alicia I will lose my only friend. If I was not who I was I would have been bullied at school, I did sometimes but Alicia was always there to fight my battles. I may be strong physically but not with my words. I bet even my mate will only want me for my title and not me.

“Our mate will love us not our title or position.” Joy scoffs at me.

“Glad you think so.” I scoff.

“Samantha you need to stop putting yourself down. You spend too much time with that bratty sister of yours and you believe what she tells you. You are beautiful Samantha. Your long blonde almost white hair. Your sky-blue eyes are beautiful and unique. Your figure is perfect, you have curves where they are supposed to be. Hell, your perky D cup and an ass that people just want to take a bite out of. You are gorgeous don’t let anyone tell you any different.” Joy gives me words of encouragement.

“Thank you Joy you are the best wolf ever; maybe if Mom doesn’t confine us to our room tonight we can go for a run and play with the sprites,” I tell her and she’s purring like a cat.

Next thing I know it’s dinner time. We always have dinner together it was both Mom and Dad’s rule. Since we were little there was never an excuse to miss dinner. When we got there Mom wasn’t there but an extremely pissed-off Dad was at the table. See the way to know my father is pissed well really all of us you will see lightning bolts flashing in our eyes; except Alicia’s her bolts were silver and almost gold. With her purple eyes, it’s kinda freaky. Again we knew it was bad Mom wasn’t there. We learned at a very young age that Dad couldn’t handle Mom being upset. He said something about hurting her once and he never wants to see the pain in her eyes like that again.

We ate in silence, well that is till Alicia decided to push her luck. “Daddy.” She draws it out. With that, a huge clap of thunder and a lightning bolt hit the ground that I swear cracked the earth. This was going to be bad.

Dad’s eyes were all chain lightning at this point. I love mortal combat I always call him lord Raiden. “What?” His fists hit the table.

“Daddy since Mom is not home can we all go out tonight, hang out and say goodbye to our friends?” Alicia puts on her sweet voice. I don’t think she realizes how much this is pissing Dad off.

Dad gets out of his chair, not looking at all like our sweet loving dad but King Nick. “Don’t worry Daddy Finn is there too and I think he’s more pissed than our human dad.” Joy cowers down knowing what is to come.

Dad gets to Alicia’s chair, she looks up and bats her eyes at him. “You dare ask to go ‘hang out with your friends.” There’s that voice. Still, one thing we haven’t figured out and especially with Dad. Is the demigod like his wolf can he talk to it or is it just Dad turned up to eleven? I can hear Dad and Finn’s voices but the other one is so scary even we bow to it. See Mom and Dad can command us but it’s hard since we are also demigods but when this voice comes it’s almost like Grampa Zeus. The rest of us were bowing; Alicia doing everything she could to fight it. I guess Dad turns it up a bit more Finn’s aura blasting through too. Demigod wolf, demigod man full god power. At this point, we are all whimpering every part of us. Joy is backed up bowing to him. I can feel Nova’s pain but Alicia trying but failing miserably to fight his command. “After what you pulled today, you think for one second I’m going to go easy on you.” The house shook with their voice.

Alicia didn’t speak back. Dad huffed and walked away. Once he left it was like we could all breathe again. “This is going to be like this till tomorrow, at least the academy won’t be like this and I can have my freedom again.” Alicia snarked once she knew Dad couldn’t hear her. But Jake could and he is as protective as Dad is over Mom, Jake is almost as bad. Yes, we will technically outrank Jake in the long run but right now he’s way above us. Crown prince of every kingdom right now and he already is the shifter king he has been since he was three.

“You know what I hope you get ranked delta when the swap comes and get picked on by your own friends who will be there as alpha’s, beta’s and gamma’s even though you treat them like crap because you think you are above them. No privileges there for you and if Dad doesn’t make sure you have no privileges I will.” Jake through his napkin on the table and left, Aurora going behind him.

I like Aurora but she’s in for it. If Jake is half as protective of her as Dad is of Mom which we all know he will be worse, We were taught at a young age if we messed with her it would not be fun what happened to them. Aurora was never going to be able to leave his sight and if anyone says anything unkind to her I think they should prepare for death. Aurora will be at the academy with us. She was supposed to be going for Beta training with her brother but that’s been bumped to royal training now. Not that she will do badly at it, Jake has been preparing her since birth to be his queen. He may be the shifter king but Uncle Chris has made it quite clear that he is not to mark her till she’s eighteen; so he still has a month. He has the coronation planned for her eighteenth birthday.

See it’s a bit different for royalty when we mark. Mom and Dad didn’t but they weren’t who they are now either. Royalty normally marks in public at their ceremony, and since Jake has known for years who his mate is; he had everything ready for her eighteenth birthday, which also happens to be a full moon.

Alicia goes to speak but the rest of my siblings just glare at her. Lex and Hope get up and leave, and so do Mira and Gigi.

“Can you believe them?” Alicia huffed and rolled her eyes.

Joy growled and something in me snapped. “You really are the most selfish, self-centred, egotistical, hurtful and malicious person on this planet. Yes, yes before you say it I know I helped but it stops today. Even after learning what mom went through you have no empathy for what you triggered in her, you kept, well you kept on attacking. She called us out on our s**t Alicia, that is what mothers do. The punishment does fit the crime we need to learn to treat people better. We are the future we need to be better.” I could just see her screwing up her face. “You know what Alicia do what you want I don’t care. Learn to be a decent person or don’t. The day is going to come and you will find that it is a lonely world out there, these people are only friends with us because of who we are. Our family will never leave us.” Still rolling her eyes. “You know what I’m done you aren’t going to change and I’m done trying. I’m sleeping in my own room tonight.” I storm out of the room.

I ran upstairs, I hadn’t been in my own room in forever; I did not even know if the bed was still there. I walk in and slam the door; the room is still exactly the same as Mom designed it. She must still have people cleaning it regularly.

“About time you woke up my little sprite.” Helios was standing behind me.

“Grandpa Helios, you saw that.” I was surprised to see him.

“I see you finally coming into your own. I’m happy for you my brownie.” Helios always calls me every type of fae out there except a troll or gnome. Yes, faes are mostly known, as pixies, and sprites but there are bad ones in everything. Trolls are the worst gnomes are not much better but when push comes to shove they are there for the kingdom in any type of conflict they do not sway in a mixed species war. They have also caused a few civil wars though. To see Uncle Liam turn into a troll is a trip let me tell you. As royalty, we can change into any type of fae. I have tried them all except sirens. I can tap into the command but not the turning into part fish. I know it’s not practical but I’m afraid I won’t shift back. I was shocked to learn that sirens were faes not shifters, even though they do have a human form like us.

“It was uncalled for, yes before you say it, yes I know I was involved too but it’s time to grow up.” I sigh.

“Do you know why I call you after a type of fae all the time?”

“Because you like them?” I roll my eyes. Everyone knows that Helios stops the sun to watch Faes play.

“No that’s not it.” Helios chuckles in his deep chuckle. “No, I call you that because people believe they are quiet, jovial, fun-loving. But they are fierce my granddaughter. When they love something they fight till they have no fight left. They are little spitfires. But when you are doing wrong they also have no problem telling you and standing up to anyone. I think your fae brought it out your eyes are even a little bit lighter. I’m proud of you my granddaughter, you will make an excellent queen.” He hugged me and was gone like that. The joys of being the sun god.

I go to the bathroom brush my teeth and I have pyjamas in a closet I have never used. I get dressed and go to bed. Tomorrow will be worse than today.