Chapter 12 King Zephyrus
"What's your name?" King Zephyrus asked the
man.
"My name is Zarek the madman from Calanthir
Kingdom, people refer to me as a madman because of the visions I always have,"
Zarek said.
"Tell me about the visions Zarek?" Zephyrus
removed his hand from Zarek's shoulder.
"I had this vision of two men walking in
the kingdom, these two men exude wealth with charisma, and the same day Kalus
and his puppet Gideon arrived, they matched the same profiles as the men in my
visions, so these two in my visions, I saw them turning the kingdom in
darkness. They are the sons of poison."
"Did you tell the King?" Zyphyr asked so
indulged in the news.
"The warriors didn't let me as they refer
to me as a madman, no one listens to my visions, so after that, I managed to escape
from the kingdom to seek help," Zarek answered.
"And how long have you been on the
journey?" Zephyrus asked.
"I think about a month."
Zephyrus didn't waste time, he helped Zarek
to hop inside their car and told Vyn to give Zarek food and more water.
"Would you be able to give us directions?
And how many days do you think it would take us to reach the kingdom with a
car?" Zephyrus asked.
"Probably two weeks and yes, I can give you
directions," Zarek answered with stuffed bread in his mouth.
"We don't have much time left," Zyphyr
said.
Vyn revved the car, even though the road
was bumpy with rocks and potholes on the road, he knew that he had to be fast
and the car was much stronger to handle everything.
*****
King Zephyrus had been ignoring the
obnoxious feeling and strong of weird waves hitting his chest a second ago,
until a loud groan he couldn't manage not to escape his lips.
"What's wrong brother?" Zyphyr hurriedly
asked with his hand grasping the bicep of Zephyrus while Zephyrus had both his
hands on his chest to the heart area. "It's her?" he whispered for Zarek not to
hear.
"Yes, she's crying… I could feel her tears
filled with sorrow burning my heart," Zephyrus said with a drop of tears.
"I know whom you're talking about – I have
seen all the visions before but since everyone thinks I'm a madman I kept
everything to myself. In Calanthir Kingdom, they don't believe in magic or
anything to do with that which is good but it has blinded them," Zarek
nonchalantly said.
But King Zephyrus was not interested in the
kingdom not believing in magic, so he asked, "You mean you know who I'm bound
to?"
"Yes, I had visions about 6 weeks ago,
about the King and Princess Ona Astrum who are bound to be together by each of
your ancestors. Princess Ona is a princess of Calanthir, the princess who
respects everyone, with politeness, very gorgeous, and the only child to her
both parents but I never got a chance to speak to her to warn her because I
felt like she was the only one who was going to believe me," Zarek said while
eyeing the king who had a sour face from the agony he was experiencing.
"So it means, the kingdom we are going to
rescue now has my brother's mate? Wow, we have to be faster," Zyphyr said.
"And another thing, Ona can feel your
emotions too but only by dreams, and also she's going to fall for Kalus's
charisma too because he's very good, so we need to hurry."
After Zarek's words, Zephyrus understood
all the feelings his mate had been feeling. The blissful, lust but also
accompanied by weirdness.
Zephyrus became furious. His nostrils
flared and breathing so heavily imagining that bastard touching his mate. He
was fuming like he was going to explode and trying to block the images of Ona
being touched and making love to Kalus the thieves and bastard, I love her
name so much.
A loud groan escaped his lips again. The
pain was becoming worse in him and the tears of Ona were falling right into his
heart and felt like his heart was on fire.
It was frustrating him so much knowing he
couldn't shift into Drafulf before Zarek's eyes, and with the fact that he
doesn't know the direction to Calanthir Kingdom on his own, it was adding more
fuel. He felt his heart throbbing in agony along with his head.
"Vyn, drive…." Zyphyr groaned at Vyn whilst
brushing his brother's back.
"King," Zarek said.
Zephyrus inclined his head slowly to meet
his gaze.
"The time I said things about magic, it's
because I know your true nature and I know it's frustrating that you have to
hide it from everyone to protect yourself. I know you're a beast and that's
what I saw in my vision I don't know what's happening there in the kingdom now
but judging from your actions, I think Kalus and Gideon had turned the kingdom
into darkness," Zarek's voice was so calm when talking.
Zephyrus held out a long breath and asked,
"What do I have to do?"
"Unleash your beast now, and go and save
your mate before it's too late."
"We don't know the direction," Zyphyr
answered.
Zephyrus felt his chest clenching, his jaws
clenching, his hands clenched into a fist of large balls and his eyes turned
into malice. His mate was crying in sorrow and pain. He growled, "Vyn stop the
car - now."
He couldn't take it anymore. Zarek gave him
something he needed. King Zephyrus respects everyone and the respect for Zarek
it was high and unmatched and new and came naturally, not forced or
manipulated. He felt like he needed his approval to unleash his beast—the beast
that had been ready to tear both bastards apart for hurting their mate.
They have been looking for their mate for
so long.
Vyn stopped the car.
Zephyrus opened the door with a heaved
chest and breathing fire already.
Zyphyr, Zarek, and the rest hopped out too.
Zarek stepped closer to Zephyrus and
shifted his eyes to Zyphyr too as they had their eyes bored into his.
"Listen to your heart and mind and with that
it will give you direction to Calanthir Kingdom. Listen to her voice crying in
your ears and heart. It is only you – you can save her and Zyphyr focus your
eyes and senses, they will lead the way," Zephyrus kneeled before Zarek and
Zyphyr dropped to his knees too.
"Thank you so much," Zephyrus said.
Zarek dropped tears and said, "Let's not
waste more time, your mate needs you and her people to come to the rescue, go
now."
Zephyrus and Zyphyr stood up and bowed
their heads down then inclined them and Zyphyr said, "Vyn and Lyrien drive
safely on the road, and don't forget to give Zarek food too."
Zephyrus walked into the forest and the
black fur gradually started forming on his body, the fangs growing out, the
thorns on his head with loud growls from both of them.
Zarek watched them with wide mouths and
eyes. He had only seen the beast in his visions and now he was witnessing it
before his eyes. "Wow," he muttered.
"Let's go," Lyrien said.
Zyphyr had already shifted into a huge
charcoal-black beast decorated with silver-gray metals on its body – the arms, forehead,
legs and just everywhere and waiting for his brother to shift.
Zephyrus with a last loud and rumbling
growl, shifted into this enormous pitch-black beast decorated with gold metals
all over the body representing his title as a King, but same as Zyphyr's.
His paws and long sharp curved claws were
ready to gnaw in the ground and ran as fast they could.
The two brothers flared their nostrils with
audible breathings and fire emitting from their nostrils and clinked their foreheads, "I got you." Their
minds are linked at the same time.
At that moment, they separated their heads
from each other in an abrupt motion and ran so fast into the deepest of the
forest with rumbles from their breathings, hearts racing and pushing the ground
against their paws and claws and jumping at the same paces.
Their speeds were matching but not their
sizes.
Zyphyr was huge but he was four inches less
than Zephyrus.
And when Zephyrus shifted into Drafulf, he
could feel all the emotions from his mates ten times.
Even though Drafulfs were hybrids of
dragon, bull and Lycan, they couldn't fly as they had no wings. Drafulfs had
two hearts and emit fire like dragons and strong like bulls and enigmatic like Lycans.
*****
It's been day two while the two Drafulfs
ran in the wild with fewer stops to catch breaths drink water from running
rivers and eat fruits from the trees.
"The Calanthir Kingdom is far, with our
speeds, we would have arrived," Zyphyr minds linked
Zephyrus. "Are you still feeling her?"
"More than I could feel myself, she's in
pain so much pain that I wish I could fly to the kingdom right now," Zephyrus minds linked back while running in darkness.
Their eyes turned red and their visions became
bright, Drafulfs can see in darkness like it's daylight and also they can zoom very
well.
"I think we are reaching," Zephyrus said while seeing a tall wall with the connections between
him and Ona becoming stronger.
"Yes, I see the palace," Zyphyr answered back and both increased their speeds.
*****
"Niaaaaa," a loud shout of Kalus echoed in
the whole royal house.
Nia was in the kitchen finishing up washing
the dishes and without wasting time, she jogged to where the shout came from
and saw Kalus standing by Ona's room door. She hurried herself while ascending
the stairs.
Her head was bowed down and said, "Yes."
"Fix her up quickly," Kalus coldly said and
waited for Nia to get inside the room then shut the door after him and left Ona
and Nia in the bedroom alone.
Ona's sobs were not audible because the
princess was in pain.
Nia was trying so hard to hold back her
tears but she was failing as they were falling seeing Ona in bruises and blood
oozing out from her forehead and the corner of her lips.
"Princess," Nia's voice was filled with
pain evidencing that her chest was clenched.
"I don't feel like a princess anymore," Ona
couldn't talk with her mouth bruised and swollen.
Nia walked to the bathroom with her knees
so numb - ran water inside the tub and grabbed the healing salt but it was
finished, fuck…. She cried and walked back to Ona to help her stand up.
"Is it night already?" Ona asked whilst
walking slowly wincing there and there. "Kalus kicked me on my stomach,
something I never wished to experience in my life."
The tears were dry but they were there, Nia
could see them from Ona's bruised eyes.
"I'm sorry princess for being useless to
you," Nia let her cry to be heard.
"It's no one's fault," Ona said. Where
are you?
What Ona didn't know was that Nia had
bruises on her back, as Gideon had been whipping her along with Clio with loud
disgusting laughter.