Derek's squeezed face went high on alert as he heard Rikito's statement.
"What do you mean the Almighty Alpha might be alive?" Derek questioned.
"Why would the goddess tell us that it is until the coalition of both of them that would bring a new dawn to the clan?" rikito asks.
Derek put his hand on his chin, massaging his temples at the same time. He raised his head to look at Rikito, shaking his head slowly.
"So what do you think we can do now?" he said.
"We need to.." rikito started but was cut off by a loud shriek.
"I'm home." a masculine voice echoed from the hallway.
Derek's lips curved into a smile at the sound of his son's voice. He had called him two weeks back to come home, but had just accepted to come home yesterday. He had no idea he was going to arrive this quick. He hastily stood up from the chair he was sitting, walking towards the entrance of the door to welcome his son.
"Father." Dylan said as he hugged him.
A huge grin was plastered to Rikitos face as he saw the father-son relationship. No one apart from him knows how much they fight over little things, but when meeting after a long time, they act like everything is perfect between them.
Dylan saw Rikito from the corner of his eyes as he gave him a slight nod. He detached from his father as he prostate in front of Rikito.
"Stand up my son. You don't need to do all this again." Rikito said to him before trying to lift him up.
"Dylan, there was an occurrence of red rain." Derek started.
"Hope you did not try anything foolish in school?" Derek added.
Dylan scoffed at his father's statement. One minute he was acting emotional for seeing him and the next he was already the king of the Nazi clan again.
"I did nothing apart from reading in school, father, if it makes you feel better." Dylan said before walking out on his father.
Derek stared at his back until he was out of sight before facing Rikito again.
"So how do we find them?" Derek asks.
Rikito sighed deeply. He had no idea how to do that.
"Your majesty, I sincerely have nothing to say on how to do that," Rikito replied.
"Does that mean evil will befall my clan! Over my dead body Rikito, we need to find a solution." Derek shouted, widening his eyes at Rikito.
"I believe only the greatest catalyst can lure the Almighty Alpha out," Rikito said to Derek.
"Then how do we lure the greatest catalyst out?" Derek asks.
"By finding her," Rikito said before standing up.
"I have to go now, I have other issues to attend to at home," he said before bowing and slowly walking out.
"Wait!" Derek shouted at Rikito.
The old man slowly turned to look at Derek, wondering why he must have shouted at him.
"What is it, your highness?" Rikito asks Derek.
"But we are emergent of the Almighty Alpha, wouldn't it be turning our back on him if we give him to the greatest catalyst?" Derek questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"We have no choice, your highness. He has sinned greatly and needs to pay for it. It is either that or the whole clan wiped out." Rikito said before walking out.
A guard followed him to prepare the carriage for him, but before he got outside, Rikito wolf was already long gone into the village.
•••••••
"Yukito!" Ketoria yelled from her room.
She was in a tiny room, what she called her bathroom. A tub was in the middle where she laid there only with a piece of cloth on her. Her assistant wiggled her way into the room through the little door that was made to it.
"You called your highness," she questioned.
"Yes, I did. Tell me, what have you gotten about Razi?" Ketoria asks.
"He's an old man that lives amongst the Nazis clan but nobody knows this. He's just an ordinary man that they all think he's yet to die." Yukiko readout.
A sly and sinister smile made its way to Ketoria's lips.
"That sly man.." she murmured.
"I think he has done something to himself," Yukito whispered to Ketoria's ears.
"I know he has done something to himself. He has become immortal over the years, planning on taking revenge on me. But what he does not know is that I know what he is planning to do." Ketoria said, a dark chuckle following.
"I just need a little time, a little time to show him what I'm made up of," Ketoria whispered to herself.
Blue flames emerged from the water that she was in, making Yukito take a step back from her. Ketoria slowly closed her eyes, engulfing herself into the deep blue water. She had been hurt by Razi, her loved one brutally taken away from her by him. And the goddess thinks that the only punishment that could be endowed on him was to make him a night creature.
No, that is not enough to collect back all he has done for her and her clan. Her clan! She thought. Ketoria opened her eyes quickly, her brown eyeballs now as blue.
"Yukito, fly to the ketorians. Make sure they are all safe. That sly thing can decide to start from them." Ketoria said before closing her eyes again.
"Yes, your highness." Yukito said before walking out of the room.
She inhaled the scent of the water, helping her to instill calmness back into her. She was the Greatest catalyst, the fear of the Nazi clan. Even though she knew the actions of Razi had deeply affected her clan, she had not meant for all of it to happen, but she was going to restore it all back for them, to make sure that sly things head is sacrificed for the people of her clan.
"Just a little time, a little time." she repeated slowly.