"Ok focus.....focus shape shift in wolf form...Now!!"
"Poof" a shroud of mist covers Lowe.
"You did well sort of anyway at least you got the tail down and maybe half of your body almost?" Lowe looks down to see that only half of his body is transformed into a wolf.
"Dang it! How will I ever become the alpha... the king of the Werewolves of I can't even change into my wolf form yet! Ugh!" Lowe reverts the transformation and sits down on the rock.
"Well the king isn't going anywhere so soon you have plenty of time to work on your transformation skills, but on the other hand you have maxed out all combat, and other magic abilities so you should be fine for now" Olcan said as he took another bite of his apple. "Just look at you sleek and wavy black hair, blue eyes! Just a blue as the king's, and you most certainly got the body of an alpha I give you that but you can't even turn into your wolf form yet. You are 19 this year and still can't transform."
"Oh stop it Olcan you know as well as I do that it's this stupid curse! My mother had placed this curse on me to not be able to turn into my wolf form for whatever reason she had to prevent me from trying to become king!" Lowe lay down, and looked up at the sky to see the bright sun beaming down on them with little to no clouds in the sky.
" I can't believe I became a knight and all because I can't transform I practically lost my position as one of the princes of this kingdom what could possibly go wrong now!"
"Hufff hufff hufff! Your highness!!! Your highness Lowe something has happened!" "What's wrong Coinin hurry and tell us we don't have all day can't you see I'm training here trying to move up in the knight ranks if you know what I mean." Coinin quickly caught his breath and he cleaned off his clothes and glasses, he took a deep breath and with a trembling voice he said "th....the king....our....al...al...alpha has...." "oi come on spit it out already! Starting to lose my patience what happened to my old man!" "The bking...the king has fallen terribly ill and he requires your presence immediately!" Lowe sat up and ran straight for the palace.
"Where is he! Where is my father!" Lowe ran into the Kings chamber to find all 19 of his older siblings crowding around their father's bedside. Lovota the 19th child of the king sat with the queen crying her eyes out. Her eyes were puffy a her sniffles could be heard by all in the room. The doctor came in by then and was checking on the King. He looks at the at the queen and then the rest of us and shook his head. "The king does not have long to live he may live a month or so at most 3 months. His heart is failing him as we speak." "So you mean to tell me that the love of my life is dying?" The queen clenched her hand into a tight fist as she fixed her face and stood up "children come with your father and I have prepared for this moment for a long time." All 20 of the king's children got up and followed the queen to the mma right to this throne once I am gone. There will be no fighting amongst yourselves over this throne no blood will be spilled over this matter you understand! Now that is cleared let us talk about the rules to this little game of mine. First There will be no fighting with each other and teams are allowed but if you are backing the head of the team to be the next king. Second weapons are allowed but there is no killing involved you can only hurt your enemies to immobilize them. Now to your task as you may already know the Snake kingdom has broken a few of our treaties and plans to ensue war between us, but in order to stop that from happening we need a political hostage, and your target is the beloved snake princesse Andromeda the kings only daughter and the youngest out of 5 kids. Your job it to kidnap her and to bring her back to Werewolf Kingdom. The son who completes this task will have complete control over the courts and full respect of me and the people. As soon as the one who brings back the princess to this kingdom I will have this recording aired for all to here to give you acknowledgment and legitimacy to this throne. And if a war does start as brothers you should be prepared to help the future King and be advisors to him you all will be rewarded greatly for your efforts and will be given estates and provinces under your own names and places in the court will be open to you all your voices will carry weight, but if you go against the king your brother in anyway in his first 5 to 19 years give his reign your titles will be striped and you and you families will become peasants in this land. Oh and here is the kicker you have to marry the princess of the snake Kingdom to confirm you legitimacy to the throne or else you place as heir will be invalid, nor can you kick her out, have her killed, or divorce her. I have eyes and ears everywhere in the least likeliest places you will be dethroned if anything happens to the Princess. Oops times up Peace out my children!"
"Well children what do you think?" "Well what is there to think? We have this contest to see who is going to become king? That's stupid it should be deterrent who is the eldest me!" "Oh shut up Adalwolf you just want to be king like almost everyone else in the room" Lowe sneered at Adalwolf both of them sizing each other up. "NOW NOW! Let's not fight like father said. A lot of use don't stand a chance against the two of you so let's just pick between the two of you. All those who want to follow Adalwolf walk over to him the others who want Lowe to be king walk over to him, and as for the rest of you who want to do it in your own then stay in the middle." 7 of the brothers walk over to Adalwolf and the other 6 walked over to Lowe who had yet to be gifted his werewolf name yet.
"Hey Ulfred who do you pick?" Lowe said as he glanced in Adalwolf's direction even though they both knew the answer. "To make the teams fair and even I choose Lowe for this reason and some others" Ulfred walked over to Lowe and they shook hands as Ulfred stood behind Lowe.
"Now that everything is decided two palaces have been prepared for the two teams here is the information on the Snake Kingdom and you palace and provinces."
"Provinces Father never said anything about having to work provinces.!" Adalwolf said like everyone else he too was enraged that he had to work a few provinces. "Your father left this out but I will give you each one section of the kingdom to watch over and cultivate. This will also factor into if you will be a good king and can help and protect the people. This is the second part of the test regardless is you had won over the Snake Princess it not. Now go my sons and come back alive and victorious! The contest starts in one week from today go and prepare." Everyone existed the study and left for their palace.