It's been days.
Zephyrus and his men went from kingdom to
kingdom searching for the people the kingdoms were crying of. With Kalus, he
felt like he was a useless King. Kalus brought out the weakness in him. The
weakness he didn't want Ona and his kingdom people to see him wearing it.
He could've easily teleported back to the
kingdom, but he wanted to teleport back with Kalus and Gideon in his grip and
give everyone closure, especially his mate. He felt tired but he didn't want to
back away and disappoint Ona or let Kalus win from hiding himself good.
"I think we have tried King, these two
thieves are no way to be found," Vyn said resting his palms on his knees and
breathing so heavily and sweating.
"No," Zephyrus growled and flared his
nostrils showing how grimaced he was.
The king sent strong knots inside Vyn's
stomach. He didn't mean to make the King angry.
"We will rest here, and make a shelter with
logs and leaves," Zyphyr said. "Don't worry about that, me and Zephyrus we will
make one."
The sun was setting when Zephyrus and
Zyphyr were tying the logs together with the stem hard skins and tying
everything with huge leaves and making enough shelter for all of them to have a
space to sleep.
Food was finished. Zarek's stomach rumbled.
Zephyrus took off his shirt and boots shoes
then shifted into his Drafulf form - Zyphyr followed to look for wild animals
to fry and eat.
Their Drafulf's forms were still shocking
Zarek who was still left in shock while the two beasts were running away from
them.
"Do you feel scared?" Lyrien asked Vyn
while under the shelter.
Zephyrus brought along the glowing stones
so the men won't be left under the darkness.
"I was even scared to say I'm scared," Vyn
chuckled at his words.
"This forest is too quiet for me," Lyrien
responded. "How did you manage to be on the run for a month in this kind of
lonely forests?"
"When you're on the run, you fear nothing,
even though nothing was chasing me….. I just didn't fear anything but now that
the two brothers are away of us, I feel like something is going to appear and
open this door," Zarek was not scared at all, he was just entertained by the
two gentlemen who were already trembling.
"We've never been in this kind of situation
before," Vyn said swooping himself to Zarek's body as Zarek was between them
facing the door.
"I think it's opening…." Zarek trembled his
body to evidence fear to Vyn and Lyrien to make them scared even worse.
Then he burst into laughter when he
couldn't contain himself anymore.
Zephyrus and Zyphyr were miles away from
the shelter, they didn't mean to be that far. They've been walking, searching,
and sniffing to catch any scent of edible animals but there were none. The
forest had no animals, it was quieter than a forest should be.
At least cicadas should be there to make
noises as birds were in their nests and resting and wild animals to howl,
growl, snarl, hisses, and sneer from other animals.
"What about fishes? We should look for a
river," Zyphyr suggested.
And yes, he came up with a good suggestion.
Fishes would do.
Zephyrus made a whistle out of wood for the
men to blow if anything dangerous happened to call for them for rescue. He
tested the whistle on each of them and found that it was loud enough to be
heard by far so at the moment, he was not worrying about them but worrying
about not finding food.
They walked to run with noses sniffing and
eyes roaming around to catch anything edible, even if there were fruits or
vegetables.
In the small kingdom, the gentlemen
visited, Zephyrus found that they had no shelters and food it sank Zephyrus's
heart that he found himself fetching rocks and logs at night with Zyphyr and
building them tiny houses while everyone was asleep just for the children to
have somewhere to sleep under a secure shelter.
They left before everyone could wake up to
another kingdom where they made them food and let them wash their bodies.
****
Ona was heating up. Her body was on fire.
She never made any painting since the first day she tried.
Nia called the warriors to pick her up from
the bed to the hospital.
Ona tried to hide whatever illness she was
fighting from Nia and Clio by locking herself up inside her room but Nia had
enough of her hiding and ordered the warriors to forcibly open the door.
She found her weak, sweaty, and pale on the
bed. She called out Clio for help so they could wash her up first before taking
her to the hospital.
The two warriors had her on the bed
Zephyrus created for sick people to be carried with and Zephyrus would be so
angry knowing his mate was carried in that bed not in a car to the hospital.
But Nia had no time to prepare the car and everything as the hospital was not
far from the royal palace, just two blocks they would reach.
They arrived at the hospital and two female
care nurses welcomed her and gestured to the warriors to take her to the room.
Everyone knew she was the Queen, so she was in a room for royalties.
Nia was right there beside her with Ona's
bag while Clio was left in the house.
"Ma'am, can we please have a moment with
her?" One of the female care nurses said. Nia was worried but she stepped out.
Ona's body was rejecting food, but she was
trying to drink water. Her body was boiling up. The doctor checked her eyes,
her fingertips, palms, her pulses on her wrists and neck.
"I think she caught some infections, we've
never had some infections before," the female doctor said. "Bring me these
doses of antibiotics."
The female care nurse went out running to
the medication store room while the doctor was examining her.
I mean, Ona was breathing fine, her eyes
were clear, her pulses were normal, and her heart rate was beating normal but
her skin was pale, she was sweaty and boiling up that could mean a sign of
infections right?
While the doctors were running some tests
on her and trying to treat her for like two hours without showing much
improvement, Nia heard loud noises coming from outside like people were
shouting and running.
Nia stood up from the chair she was on
hurriedly and walked to the door but she was restricted by the warriors who
were inside the hospital.
"What's going on?" she hurriedly asked.
"We don't know, but please remain here."
One of the warriors said and sent four to guard Ona's wardroom.
Nia watched the warriors getting out of the
hospital to guard it from the outside and she wanted to see what was happening
but the doors were covered by metal. She paced around with her racing heart and
obnoxious feeling and petrified.
The kingdom was under attack by rouges.
Zephyrus warriors could see that the rouges were armature but they were ready
to attack to get whatever they were there for.
They fought them not wanting to kill them
but one killed one of the warriors by stabbing him with the dagger in the ear
and gnawing it deep just to prove that they were there to kill and take what
they were looking for.
One of the warriors jumped down and grabbed
two rouges by their ankles and harshly pushed them to the ground and made them
hit the ground hard with their faces then used his long curved sword to
slaughter their heads out and then ran to the three who were running to the
kingdom.
While other warriors gathered their kingdom
people and children to the safe house but the rouges got them.
Fuck…. The
rouges didn't know other warriors were behind them as they just slit their
heads out from their behind making their chortles wither in the air.
Blood splashed everywhere.
"Where is the Queen?" one of the largest
rouges shouted, making his loud voice be heard. "Give us the Queen and we will
leave in peace."
The 10 rouges were by the palace, running
to the door and some even climbed up the palace to enter through the windows
but they received some arrows right at the back of their heads making them
fall.
Fuck….
More than 100 rouges came shouting and
running through the gates.
Zephyrus's warriors were outnumbered. They
were 500 while the rouges to be more than that number.
Clio was in the palace, so terrified not
knowing where to hide hearing the thuds, shouting, and she managed to run
inside Vyn's bedroom and hide in the closet.
Clio was not aware that the palace was well
shielded inside and that no one with rouges or evil or sneaky minds would enter
the palace.
Skylark was wobbling on his knees hidden in
the store room of his shop with a dagger in his shaky hands ready to stab
anyone who would come into his shop.
"The Queen she's in the hospital…." One of
the rouges shouted and they all ran to the hospital while they were receiving
some arrows on the back, legs, heads, necks, and arms and they just seemed not
backing away.
More of the warriors backed the warriors
who were guarding the hospital.
Nia ran back to Ona's wardroom and found
her still burning but she was able to move her head from side to side with flat
moans
Nia held her hand tightly and said, "Ona,
we are under attack… you need to wake up."
Ona heard her then, I call all upon the
ancestors of Astrum's to mind link me with my mate Zephyrus Kalthorne to alert
him of his kingdom being attacked. Ona never stopped believing in her
ancestors and she knew that everything happens for a reason.
"We are under attack," Ona mind-linked Zephyrus hoping the link would connect.
*****
The two Drafulfs searched for any means of
stream, river, falls, or any running water but they found nothing.
Zephyrus paused, "We are under attack." His
mind got linked with his Queen's voice but her voice was not usual. It was flat
and weak.
"The kingdom is under attack," Zephyrus's mind linked with Zyphyr, and without wasting time, they
teleported back to the shelter where they left their three men.