Chapter 13
The sun rose while the two brothers were
still running to the kingdom. Zephyrus couldn't bear the pain anymore, he
wanted his mate to be in his arms. He increased his paces and hated that the
sun rose while they were still in the forest not in the kingdom.
He felt Zyphyr increasing his paces too to
match his.
"We are close brother," Zyphyr said and in a minute they were out of the forest.
Zephyrus took a long jump to the gates with
his horns facing the gates and pushed the gates hard to open.
The two metal bronze gates loudly creaked
with a thud when they were widely pushed. Zephyrus and Zyphyr were inside and
sniffing.
Zephyrus ignored the smell of ashes from
burned corpses and focused on the strong connection, the hurt, and the weakness
of Ona and she cried inside him leading him to the royal palace.
Zyphyr halted to the pit and zoomed his
eyes and all he could see was ashes but he knew that the ashes were from burnt
people. His anger turned into malice and without wasting time, the Drafulf
turned and followed his brother.
Zephyrus pushed the door harshly but not
too much and let it swing on its own and followed the strong scent of his mate
and it was becoming stronger and stronger with each step he was taking with
Zyphyr following him.
They both shifted back into human forms and
still had their clothes on.
One thing about Lycan's, when they shift,
the clothes remain the same as how they were. Lycans are very powerful
creatures.
Zephyrus followed the strong scent he
picked with his nose, heaved chest and grimaced face. He and Zyphyr could smell
different scents in the palace.
He reached Ona's room door, and carefully
opened the door not to hurt anyone.
"Mate," he swiftly rushed to two ladies on
the bed and heard Ona's heart race slowing down.
"Mate?" Zyphyr growled when he reached the
room.
Zephyrus was furious, he was shaking. His
eyes were wandering all over Ona's face and body seeing how roughed up she was.
"Mate," he growled raging with anger.
He heard his brother saying mate too but
Zephyrus was too focused on his mate, Ona Astrum. He was trying to pick other
scents in the house making his nostrils flare while caressing his unconscious
mate's face.
Zyphyr's focus was on his mate. He never
thought he would find his mate roughed up, bruised all over her face and body,
and unconscious too next to Zephyrus's mate.
Kalus roughed up Nia also.
"We should practice the soporific," Zyphyr
said.
"Wait, I think there's someone in here and
hurt too," Zephyrus said with a kiss on Ona's bruised forehead and disappeared.
Zephyrus followed the hurt sense and led
him inside the library where he found Clio lying on the floor and crying for
help in a flat voice.
Zephyrus quickly picked her up and used his
speed back to Ona's room and put her on the bed.
The two brothers knew they had to search
for Kalus and Gideon but the ladies were direly hurt and they couldn't leave
them like that for a while. The soporific it's a method where it will put the
ladies in slumber in the process of healing every inch of their bodies, minds,
hearts and their emotional feelings. It is the only practice they have learned
from their parents and inherited from them.
Not all the Drafulf used to perform the
method.
Their hands were moving in a circular
motion, bowed heads, shut eyes, and sending healing magic waves to the ladies.
It took them less than 5 minutes to get
done with the process and another minute to shield them with a blue bubble then
swiftly out of the room and wander around in the house with sniffing.
Zephyrus was out. He came to a halt to try
to listen to any noise and movements but there was none. He couldn't understand
why the bastards' scents were not in the air. He couldn't feel their
heartbeats, their breathing, or any movements they would make.
"I can't find them or pick their scents,"
Zyphyr said after he found Zephyrus by the stream. "It's like they've withered
into the thin air."
"This doesn't make any sense. How can
they make their scents disappear like that?" Zephyrus said as he was zooming to
all the parts of the area in the kingdom.
"Do you think they have magic or enigmatic abilities
less like us or more like us?" Zyphyr had his head turning left and right while
zooming in his eyes.
"I don't know, and the ladies wounds are
fresh, which means they left an hour ago. We just need the bastards dirty
clothes or DNA samples to track them down."
One of their enigma abilities, the Drafulfs
can track any living thing using the DNA samples or scents.
"We have to leave and meet Vyn on the way,
I saw cars here, so we will take two. And grab the ladies few belongings. We
have to make sure these ladies are fine then we will come back and track the
bastards, they won't run forever," Zephyrus said and turned around.
Zyphyr was next to him. Zyphyr was excited
that he found a mate, but even though Nia would be okay in a day or few, it was
still making Zyphyr angry that those bastards laid their filthy fingers on his
mate. He felt the veins on his arms bulging and fingers twitching to grab the
bastards by their necks and strangle them so hard then hang them.
Zephyrus was already next to Ona, staring
at her through the shield bubble, while Zyphyr was going inside each room in
the house to grab things he believed would be important for the ladies and when
he walked inside the cottage, his heart raced when his eyes caught a photo
frame of Nia next to a man, on the drawer. He grabbed the photo and searched
for more and more of Nia's clothes and other things.
While Zephyrus didn't find many things of Ona's,
he grabbed her parents' photos and some of the belongings he believed Ona would
need. They have put everything in the cars.
The king seemed like he was calm but he was
not. He has been fighting with himself not to roam around in the woods
searching for the bastards. His veins were aggressively out all over his body.
Arms, neck, hands, and on temples and he had worn this grimacing face the whole
time along with his brother.
Zephyrus removed the shielding bubble and
grabbed Ona gently to the car. While Zyphyr grabbed his mate first then came
back for Clio and drove out of the palace.
Zephyrus had loved how the Kingdom was so
enormous but his heart it was bleeding with anger, with fangs itching to gnaw
in that bastard's neck ad suck the living out of his body. It wasn't hard for
him to see that Kalus had sexually assaulted his mate, not that it would change
anything no, all he wanted was to get those pieces of shits in his hands and
squash them out.
He drove with his head reeling of nothing
but the slow death he's going to make Kalus and his puppet experience once they
find them.
Kalus shouldn't have laid his fingers on
Ona, or to anyone for that matter. He should've just stolen the money from the
kingdom like he all did to other kingdoms and fled with his puppet.
At that moment, Zephyrus hated the fact
that they couldn't teleport, which was going to make their life easier as he
didn't want Ona to heal while on the road.
The soporific method takes a few days to
heal a person completely but the time frames differ according to a person's
genetics. If the person has strong genes and warm blood, the process might take
a day or two for 100% completion. That's what was scaring Zephyrus since royal
blood was found to be warmer and Ona was a royal.
Zephyrus never tasted human blood, but
Ona's scent and the smell of her blood it was doing insane things in Zephyrus's
mouth and nostrils. Her scent was strong and her blood flow was audible enough
to make him mouther water.
Zyphyr's heart was thumping with anger. The
malice eyes he had for so long never shifted to normal ones. He was behind his
brother and fuming. Just only if he knew that he had a mate in Calanthir
Kingdom, he would've increased his speed and caught those bastards before they
ran away.
And how did they even run away?
It felt like there was a glitch, or a
portal the two bastards used, or a rift because there was no way mundanes would
disappear like that.
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It's been day 2 the brothers on the road.
"Mmmmh – mmm, hmm," Ona's moans immediately
sent strong shivers down Zephyrus's body and strong flutters to his heart with
strong knots in his stomach.
"Mate," with a low rumble growl and hoot
the car and stop it.
Zyphyr stopped his car too.
He swiftly got out of the car, opened the
back door and helped Ona to sit down. He scanned her whole face and body seeing
how fast she healed. There was no slight bruise, scar, or any blood.
And he expected to be pushed away but he
received a full hug from his mate and cried with a whisper, "I knew you would
come to rescue me. I've been waiting for you."
Fuck…
Zephyrus found his arms tightening but not
too hard to squash his mate. He lifts her to put her on his lap. He thought it
was going to be like, he had to explain everything to her and all that.
"I'm sorry for taking such a long time to
find you," Zephyrus muffled through his hurt voice as he buried his face on Ona's
neck then shift his face and put both his hands on Ona's cheeks and fighting
the temptation of pressing his lips onto Ona's. "Please do forgive me."
She was still in trauma, even though 98% of
those traumas have healed but he didn't want to take that advantage.
Ona while in the Soporific method as she
was an Oneiromance, means someone who's gifted with dreams. She was gifted with
a dream of her vague man being vivid, all the scenes of Zephyrus using his
Soporific on her, Nia, and Clio she had seen all. She had seen Zyphyr too but
she was not gifted to see Zephyrus in a beast form.
The ancestors of Astrum's answered her
prayers.
While Zephyrus was admiring the inviting
black eyes, the oval-shaped face of his mate with her plump brown lips, and her
warmness on his palms, he received echoes in his ears saying, "Mates unlock
each other's mates enigmatic abilities. You have wished to have teleportation
enigma ability and the only way to have it now is for you to mark your mate - now."
Zephyrus couldn't believe what he had just
heard in his ears. His pitch-black eyes had been piercing deeply into Ona's
because the words made his mouth water like crazy. His tongue was ready to slip
out and rub against Ona's mouthwatering dark brown chocolate skin and tastes
her, and to prepare her for the fangs.
"I'm sorry baby."