The Lycan

The Exile

Drogo smiled and smacked his lips. He drew the knife and as he reached to slit his throat, Catrina dashed towards the prisoner and held Drogo's hand in a flash, “Father, there isn't any need for killing him, I don't want his blood, please father?”

She pleaded with concern.

Drogo pushed Catrina aside and slit the prisoner’s throat in fury, blood gushing out as the prisoner fell helplessly to the ground.

Drogo dipped his mouth on Cassius' throat to drink his blood. As he kept drinking, his countenance changed as he beckoned on Catrina to join him in the blood feast, she refused turning her back against the gory sight.

Drogo shouted back at her, “Catrina! This is your last chance, drink and you'd see. It's pure power!” Blood dripping from his lips. Catrina in disgust dashed angrily out of the room wondering if this was her father or a monster in disguise of a father.

Back at the courtroom, council members shared spoils of what was left from the prisoner's body. Howls filled the air as they devoured the remains.

This was the tradition whenever a Rugaru wolf was caught, they devoured and shared the dismembered body among themselves.

As they sat and drank, all the council members wondered at the back of their minds what Drogo would do to his daughter who disobeyed him.

They knew he loved her but they also feared for what he will do to her as they have witnessed worse from experiences of those who defied him.

Catrina quickly shut the door and bolted it behind her as soon as she got to her room. She knew she had defied her father- the pack’s alpha and this was an unforgivable offense. If Drogo ever let it slide, it will be interpreted as weakness.

Any beta who senses the weakness of the alpha can challenge him/her in a duel, if the beta wins, then the alpha is dethroned, demoted or exiled while the beta takes over as alpha.

As Catrina laid on her bed, she wondered what her fate would be with the action she displayed. From a very young age, she had detested drinking werewolf blood because it makes her ferocious and ever since the first taste of werewolf blood, she vowed again never to. Her heart raced multiple times per millisecond. She could almost hear every distant voice, every creaking door, every horse that neighed in the stable across the courtyard.

She knew her life was in danger or even worse. Not too long, there was a bang at the door. “Lady Catrina, Alpha summons you!” Her heart almost jumped out of her mouth as she jumped out of her bed. “Tell him I feel sick!” She replied, creating a pretentious response voice. “No! my Lady, He wants you out now!” the voice replied more calmly.

This time she knew there was no way out. She initially thought of jumping out of the window and transforming but looking out the window,it was five floors high and she could only escape if she was strong enough to transform.

She turned away from the window and looked towards the bolted door to check if it was still bolted. It was! At this point she knew she would be exiled because she was not ready to give in to her father's wish and she was ready to bear the consequences of her actions.

There was no escape and quickly she replied, “ just a minute, I'd be right down!” She walked to the door as it took ages to even lift her feet. She felt sweat trickle down her neck as her heartbeat raced even faster. Finally she got to the door to open it.

As the door flung open two heavily transformed werewolves walked in, the last one was the alpha’s guard who spoke to her but he was still in human form. They seized Catrina and took her straight down back to the courtroom.

Back at the courtroom, Drogo was already fuming. His eyes were blood red as if stained in blood or red dye. He couldn't call for his Luna- Sessy because at the time, Sessy was ill and in her chambers.

Sessy didn't have an inclination of what was going on, weeks ago, she fell ill and has been in her chambers being taken care of by her maids and her daughter. She had always warned Catrina to avoid any altercations with her father or any form of defiance to him.

Drogo had summoned Catrina upon appeal of the court members to grant her a second chance. This time, a bath meal. Catrina would be told to enter a bath bucket filled with werewolf/huwn blood naked to drink to her fill. This feeding method was given to special werewolves who were either reborn, reincarnated or reinstated as alpha.

Since she would not know whose blood she was drinking, Drogo believed Catrina would accept but there was only one challenge. Drogo wasn't sure she'd want to bathe naked in front of his members of council who would loathe seeing his beautiful daughter naked.

Catrina was dragged helplessly to the courtroom. Although she put up a fight, she was no match for the two already transformed werewolves who held her arm-one on each side.

As they entered the courtroom, the two werewolves returned to human form again both naked. They were given clothes to wear as the kings guard pulled Catrina towards Drogo's throne. Drogo barely looked at her daughter, the fury was still in his eyes. “You may begin!” He said sternly as he beckoned for the bath bucket to be brought to the front.

Just immediately, two transformed werewolves walked in with the wooden bucket. It was huge and wide, had two handles by each side and was long enough to occupy just a single person.

Two other wolves walked in with buckets filled with blood to fill the bath bucket. They kept pouring until they filled it to the brim.

All the council members stared at the bucket keenly and excited, hoping and wishing they were the ones given that opportunity.

It was known that Rugarus had ‘zing’ in their blood making others so powerful upon drinking.

Their blood was only impactful on Lycans alone; it didn't make any difference to Rugarus.

Catrina knelt before her father pleading with him to let her not feed on blood from the blood bath.

“Father, please tell your guards to stop!” She pleaded, her palms joined together.

As soon as the bucket was filled, the two werewolves pulled Catrina from the floor and started ripping her gown apart. Her underwears was torn to shreds without mercy. All eyes looked straight at her as she tried covering her breasts. “Father, please don't do this!” She continued sobbing uncontrollably. After a while, she stopped crying and everyone wondered why.

Suddenly she dropped her hands, held her breath and closed her eyes as the last piece of clothing fell off her bare body.

Catrina opened her eyes in anger, her eyes turned blazing red, she pushed away the wolf on her right and suddenly turned to the one on the left, hitting him hard with her elbow as she jumped on him quickly.

This time Drogo looked surprised as to his daughter's behavior . Catrina’s light skinned body began to turn brown. Her claws grew as she tore the face of the guard apart. She suddenly growled and pounced on the other guard to bite him.