Chapter 11
James Harvey ~
Those cowards have made a huge mistake. Cassius won't at all be pleased to know that the trybrid child is in the human world. I was also given the order to bring to him, the head of the vampyre king but thanks to Frederick's witch friend, that would be added to the list of things that was going to be bad news to Cassius.
"Open the gates!!!" I said to the gate keeper.
Immediately, the gates of Cassius' gigantic castle flung open. Unlike anything, the gates were invisible or should I say, transparent in form since the reign of Cassius begun. Only a special command of magic can open its visual form.
One can only make it to the gates if one knows where exactly it is and one can enter or leave only if permitted by Lord Cassius. With myself leading the returning multitude of lycans that went to seek the queen Alessia at the royal coven, we all entered through the gates.
I got into the castle and headed straight for the throne room or like Cassius prefers us to call it, The Center of Power where I knew he would be waiting for me.
"You let the trybrid child go? Why?" stormed Cassius with a thunderous voice. "The orders are simple and clear enough. THE PREGNANT FORMER QUEEN, ALESSIA CLAW WAS WITH A CHILD. KEEP HER IN THE DUNGEON UNTIL SHE DELIVERS IT AND THEN YOU CAN MAKE WASTE OF HER but what did you do? YOU AND THOSE MISCREANTS LET HER ESCAPE AND GET TO THE CLAW' COVEN, ALLOWED A WITCH SEND HER CHILD INTO THE HUMAN WORLD AND ALLOWED THE VAMPYRE KING TO ESCAPE YOUR CLUTCHES AGAINST MY ORDERS!!!"
"Your esteemed..." I began but was quickly cut short by Cassius.
"SILENCE!" "AGAIN, I GAVE YOU AND AN ENTIRE POPULATION OF LYCANS WHOM YOU WERE MEANT TO LEAD, POWERS OF A CREATURE SO GREAT AND POWERFUL, THE MENTION OF ITS NAME BROUGHT MOUNTAINS TO RUINS AS TO ENABLE YOU BRING ALESSIA BACK HERE AND IF CASUALTIES ARE DISCOVERED, BRING BACK HER TRYBRID CHILD AND KILL THAT FOOL OF A VAMPYRE WHO PARADES HIMSELF AS THEIR KING but what did you do instead, YOU LET A COMMON WARLOCK CONSTRAIN YOU AND AS A RESULT OF YOUR PRIMITIVE AND FOOLISH THINKING, ALLOWED THOSE... THOSE CREATURES SEND THE TRYBRID CHILD TO THE HUMAN WORLD."
"Do you know the most annoying and angering part of it all, it is the fact that you came back with nothing. So, James, tell me why I shouldn't snap you neck or crush that heart of yours to pieces." Cassius said to me as he used his powers to strangle me.
I was a goner and I knew it. The Cassius that is before me can tolerate a lot of things but failure isn't one of them. Amongst all supernatural creatures, I know him to be the most powerful and strongest that ever walked the surface of the earth.
His abilities were beyond compare not until the prophecy came along. Cassius had gone a long way to attain such magnified power and I guess having a trybrid child as his only weakness made him and his quest for ultimate lordship over this world and all others to be futile.
"Answer me! Tell me, why??!!?" he roared making the entire building shake to its foundation. "The trybrid child is in the human world and right now, the only way to get over there is by becoming one of them – POWERLESS!" "Do you know how long it will take me to make a portal to counter the majority of the laws of nature itself?" "Do you know the gravity of what your foolishness and stupidity has caused me?" he kept asking walking closer and making his grip on my neck tighter.
He kept coming towards me until his very hands were strangling me.
In his anger, Cassius is strangling the life force out of James and he is helpless to do anything about it.
"….. Mercy! My lord!" I was able to summon enough strength to beg for my life.
It was either I begged for another chance or I let those words be my last.
"You are lucky that I still have a heart. Thank your stars that I still need you." said Cassius releasing me from his tight grip and throwing me to smash a wall with an intensive strength and speed. "Fail me again and I promise you pain would be an understatement compared to what I will do to you. Now get out of my sight!" "I now have work to do all cheers to your failure"
"... Yes! My Lord!" I whispered with a grunt as I headed straight for the door leading out of his power room.
"Wait!!" Cassius roared using his powers to shut the doors that I had managed using little strength to open. "I've located the leaugue of phoenixes. Get some lycans ready! I want their powers so we ride at dawn." he added before disappearing into the thin air.
"Your wish, is my command!" I said with a quick bow as I clutched my side and leapt to leave the power room.
This week, this was going to make it the 33rd creature he plans on absorbing. Ever since Cassius got 'The Power of Vuitton' – an ability that allows him to absorb the power of almost anything having magic, including supernatural creatures, he has done nothing but seek power and the life force of every creature that he sets his eyes on.
After he sucks out the powers and abilities of the creature. He somehow becomes one of them.
I've lost count of how many creatures he has absorbed and how much powers and abilities that he now possesses.
The Lord Cassius that I know is a vampyre, a lycan and a mutant lycan, a warlock, whatever creature, just name it! But still, his enormous greed still desires more and more power. For as long as I knew him, he has always planned on ruling all worlds starting from this one.
"Troops, quicken your healing lessons! The black moon pack would be embarking on a mission with the almighty." I said as I entered the healing chamber.
Unlike vampyres who heal incredibly fast, we lycans, by nature do not undergo a speedy healing process and are dependent on the slow process of healing that we are limited to but with a bit of Cassius' powers showered on us, our healing becomes a hundred times faster than usual.
"We just got back from a brutal battle. Don't you think that we should have some rest considerably, a day or two before sending any troop or pack out to combat again because I'm damn sure that's what the almighty wants them for?" "The almighty may be the one giving us strength beyond our nature but he hasn't changed the fact that we all are lycans." said Aaron, the alpha of The Red Clover pack.