Alpha Azrael looked at the maneaters around him carefully while waiting for the response. The leader was still trying to process if his premonition could be correct.
He kept staring at Alpha Azrael like one would a work of art.
"I'm correct... you really are the next werewolf king..." The maneater spoke again as he signaled to his subordinates to stand down.
"There is one more fact that you need to know..., you are my son..." The maneater added.
This shocked everybody as they looked around in confusion.
The other maneaters were also confused as they stared around confused with their minds in chaos.
April Herrington came closer to Azrael and stood beside him, "How could my brother be your son, what sort of nonsense is that...?" April Herrington snorted towards the maneater.
The maneaters' leader was about to speak when one of his subordinates also decided to attack, thinking their leader was probably buying time.
He opened his mouth and pounced toward Azrael Herrington, but before he could attack, he suddenly felt a woosh from his left.
A bigger mouth tore through his neck, like scissors on a piece of cloth, separating his head cleanly.
The maneater died in shock looking at his assailant. His assailant was none other than the maneaters' leader.
The other maneaters were surprised by this reaction of their leader, they started to ponder. "Why would our leader kill for this human? is he possessed? I also thought he was buying time for us to counterattack, but why is he attacking us? could his story be true?"
As they pondered, the maneaters' leader walked closer to Azrael.
"My son, I know you don't believe me and you probably have a lot of questions, but I'm ready to answer them. From now on, none of my men would attack any of your people, we would only go after the elders that offended us..." The maneaters' leader spoke confidently.
Alpha Azrael who wasn't taking his words initially seriously started to wonder if he could be telling the truth.
"My father is Hayes Herrington, the greatest man in the city of Herrington in the country of Melbourne..." Alpha Azrael tried to refute before he stopped.
"My blood runs through your veins, deep within you, you know it's true. Your father is impotent, he couldn't possibly give birth, why do you think you don't have siblings? You think it's because he doesn't want more children, ... #scoffs#... he simply can't..." the maneaters' leader spoke confidently.
Alpha Azrael was for the first time starting to consider the possibilities. He recalled the many times his father would show little to no care for him, this could explain a lot of things, he thought.
At this moment, another thought came to mind, "That doesn't explain our resemblance though, just from facial observation, I look more like him than you..." Azrael was able to reassure himself that the maneater was wrong.
"I asked your aunt, Bianca, to help me use magic to reconstruct your face so you don't end up looking like me. imagine having such largemouth and endless rows of teeth... you would never be accepted in the human world, however, the magic she used was too strong and made the change permanent, so you're stuck in this form for eternity..." the maneater continued.
"You know aunt Bianca...?" Alpha Azrael was perplexed by this singular fact. It was easy to make up the other stuff but this name alone has more than thrown him back into confusion and he even started to consider the possibility that the maneaters' leader's words may be true.
"Let's assume all of these are true, who are you...?" Azrael decided to stop all the suspense.
"My name is Rafael Gosling. You should have heard of my half-brother Zanther Gosling, the werewolf King..." the maneater leader started to explain.
"Wait what? you're a half brother to the werewolf King....? bloody lair..." someone injected from the crowd who were engrossed in these pieces of news.
"Zanther is my Half brother.... same father, different mothers, while my father was a human, my mother was also a maneater. At the time, we never feed on humans, we at most eat animals, we were pushed to this state because of war, frustration, and betrayal. "
"We have these ridiculously large mouths and dreadful teeth arrangements that make us one of the most feared beings in existence. A time came when we had the chance to look like humans forever with no deformity, and to do that, we needed the blood of the Kannais and the help of a powerful witch to prepare a potion that would change us for good."
"Many many years ago, we found what we need and approached your mother to help us, she did and created the potion. My brother heard of this and made a plan which I wasn't aware of."
"As things went on, the potion was eventually ready and it was time to use it for our people, but before I could celebrate, Zanther had snatched it and sped away with it and he is the reason these werewolves could look human and also transform back to their true form."
"During that tussle, your mother, Charlice managed to save a drop for me, I didn't take that drop but instead saved it. At the time we had passionate moments which result in her being pregnant with you, but we had to hide your secret that was why Hayes Herrington came into the picture..."
"My brother also wanted your mother for himself and did everything to win her over, he even tried to poison her... Yiu Ming Zul did his best to protect her but it wasn't enough. although she survived for a short while."
"I think you know the rest of the story... When Hayes came into the picture, he was initially under a spell, before it was discovered he also had feelings for your mother, but there was the fear that you could turn out to be looking like me... if you know what I mean.."
"So I begged Bianca Zul to help me use that drop from that potion that I saved to use for you. That drop could be used for 10 or even more maneaters, so you could imagine the potency of what was used for you. You came out totally human with no trace of being a maneater, you should notice that your bite is deadly to werewolves...." Rafael added.
Alpha Azrael kept staring like he had just entered a new world.... "Wait what...?!" He almost screamed out in shock from the load of information.