"The kingdom is under attack, let's go,"
Zephyrus hurriedly said as soon they arrived at the shelter they had built.
The men held hands with their staffs on
them and teleported back into the palace – the living room. That's where
Zephyrus's mind took him.
Zyphyr since he also marked Nia, leaving
the wave line mark on her neck which appeared on his neck too like Zephyrus
having spiral one, was gifted with a teleporting enigmatic ability.
Definitely, the kingdom is under attack.
Zephyrus and Zyphyr flared their noses in
search of their mate's scents, but they were not there also they could feel
Clio's presence engulfed with scared emotions.
Vyn and Lyrien grabbed their four swords,
two straight long and pointy, very sharp and sharp curved ones, and hurried out
the palace but there was no rogue outside the palace but they could hear more
noises to the hospital side.
Zephyrus gets to Clio hiding in the closet,
shaking so badly and looking exhausted from fear. The lady couldn't utter a
word when Zephyrus picked her up to put her on her bed.
"Where's the Queen?"
"Da… da… ho… hosp-," Zephyrus cut her off
by quickly teleporting in the hospital. Her mind was so loud.
Zyphyr ordered Zarek to stay behind and
look after Clio and assured him that inside the palace, they were much safer.
The rogues had the hospital, killed many of
Zystyria warriors and many were injured also. They were pushing the doors and
kicking down the windows. Even though the door was shielded with hard metal,
but their strength was making the doors crack by the ends with loud noises.
"Where's the Queen?" Zephyrus was
teleported by the receptionist area where one of the care nurses was hidden
under the desk and trembling.
"Royal ward room," she said in a quick
tone.
Zephyrus teleported in there without caring
if he would find doctors or care nurses or not.
Two female doctors nearly faint when their
King just appears in front of them and the only way for him and Zyphyr to mind
link is for them to be in Drafulfs form. He needed Zyphyr to shield the
hospital and also perform the soporific method on Ona. His heart sank and ached
when he found his only mate lying on a hospital bed sheet looking all pale,
dull, weak, and sweaty.
He moved closer to her and felt how Ona was
so hot.
"What's wrong with my Queen?" he asked
while still staring at Ona.
One of the female doctors said, "We think
it's an infection but we are still running some tests for that as she never
reacted to any of the medication we gave her."
"Okay, keep an eye on her," Zephyrus ordered
calmly.
He stormed out of the wardroom to welcome
Zyphyr.
"How's Ona?"
"Not good, and let's shield this hospital
first and perform the soporific method on her after."
Zephyrus and Zyphyr held each other's hands
and shut their eyes then moved them in circular motions building a blue bubble
while all the nurses and some doctors watched with wide open mouths.
I mean, they always knew that their King
and his brother were special, but not like this.
They still had their mouths wide open when
the brothers finished and before they could catch a breath, Zephyrus and Zyphyr
disappeared right in front of their eyes making things worse.
The two brothers were inside the wardroom,
and Zyphyr teleported and kissed Nia on her lips. He was missing her terribly
and very worried about her.
While Vyn and Lyrien were just drawing
their swords by slitting the rogues into pieces without caring making other
warriors feel motivated and join. More blood of rogues splashed all over.
Zephyrus had worn a grimace on his face
along with his brother and malice eyes while opening the doors of the hospital.
Zephyrus saw that there were warriors by
the kingdom gates, so there would be no one getting inside or running out.
"Vyn and Lyrien, take the warriors to step
aside," Zyphyr shouted making his voice be heard.
Vyn and Lyrien did as they'd been told.
"What are you here for?" the king asked the
man he sensed he could be a leader.
The man trembled, but stern his face and
voice, "Fo – for the Q – Queen." He stuttered.
For a moment, the two brothers thought the
rogues were sent by Kalus.
"Continue?" Zephyrus said.
"D – d – d – diamonds," he stuttered again.
Zephyrus's aura was overpowering each of the rogues, no matter how much they
tried to firm their bodies and faces, his aura was automatically ruling
everyone.
"Who told you about the diamonds?" Zephyrus
stepped forward to him and saw how weak the man was becoming. The king's eyes
pierced and narrowed making his brows met. "Who?"
Oh! Zephyrus read the man's mind before he
said anything. He stepped back and whispered, "Go and grab those three ladies,
the blonde, brunet, and the other one."
Zyphyr knew exactly who the King was
referring to.
Zyphyr ordered the warriors to quickly
bring them.
Zephyrus strode to the leader of the rogues
again and said, "You came into my kingdom, attacked my people, and killed them
for the diamonds?" his voice was audible and fearing. Sending strong obnoxious
knots in their insides. Making them fidget even worse.
The leader did not respond. His eyes were
moving so fast in fear.
"And how did they inform you about the
diamonds?"
"L - letter," the leader uttered.
"Mmmh," Zephyrus grimace worn off his face.
The three were brought before them and
judging by their body language and facial expressions, they were guilty more
than guilty.
"I think you three know exactly what we do
to thieves, and you committed more than that," Zephyrus said and before
everyone knew it, he shifted into an enormous black fur beast.
His warriors had jaws dropped to the floor,
eyes widened with knees numb and already wobbling along with the rest except
Vyn and Lyrien.
The leader of the rogues he was regretting
that he messed up with the wrong Kingdom. His rogues tried to run but they got
restricted by the huge dark brown fur beast in front of them.
Zyphyr shifted right before them.
The three ladies were fidgeting with the
pleading faces. But Zephyrus had no mercy when coming to his mate. The thought
of not finding Kalus made him vulnerable and not care about hiding his true
nature.
Kalus took advantage of Ona not knowing he
was bound to the beast and now he wanted to show everyone that he was not the
king to be messed with anymore.
"We are sorry King Kalthorne," the brunet
one dared to even utter a word.
"You made your bed."
Tears were running to the ground with
trembling bodies and crying so loud for Zephyrus's mercy.
Zephyrus felt like his heart turned cold. I
mean, what was going to happen if Ona did not mind linking him? What was going
to happen to his mate? The rogues were not going to steal the diamonds from her
only but also they were going to kill her or assault her like how Kalus did,
and with that, it was making him furious even worse.
He tethered all of them including the
ladies with an invisible rope making each of them wince at the pain.
He couldn't talk to them through his
Drafulf's form.
"Let's burn them right here and right
now to ashes," he mind link Zyphyr.
"They don't deserve to live," Zyphyr gave him a go-ahead.
Of course, none of them deserved to live.
They didn't have a slight mercy killing Zephyrus's warriors.
The rogues and the ladies were crying so
hard regretting even thinking of messing with the Zystyria kingdom.
Zephyrus never made his kingdom people feel
unworthy or unwanted, so why did the three ladies betray him like that? By
bringing the rogues to his only kingdom to steal the precious diamond necklace
he made for his Queen? His only mate for that matter. The love of his life. The
only woman he ever made love to and made him make love to her in his Drafulf's
form.
"Let's burn them, now."
He and Zyphyr emit the fire like a volcano
through their mouths. And right there, all the rogues and the ladies burnt like
they had never existed.
The brothers shifted back into their normal
forms and he ran back inside the hospital to her wardroom to check how Ona was
doing.
*****
The Soporific was taking longer than he
expected on Ona, it had been two weeks since Ona was in her bedroom and
Zephyrus was sleeping next to her every night with the hope that he would wake
up to see her awake.
Everyone was in the living room eating the
morning breakfast made by Vyn and Clio.
The warriors explained everything they've
witnessed to their wives, girlfriends, friends, families, and children which
made Zephyrus and Zyphyr gain more respect than ever.
Zephyrus was on his chair spreading the
butter on his bread, but he suddenly paused. The sounds transmitted in his ears
were getting audible enough to hear a heartbeat but it was not only one
heartbeat, but three heartbeats from his mate, Ona.