Oronea

Chapter 6

I'm staring a werewolf in it's eyes and it's staring back at me,

it's sunset coloured eyes are almost mesmerizing, it's pitch black fur make it seem like I'm looking into the void. she slowly closes in on me like a predator stalking unsuspecting prey, no matter how strong I think I am, I know one wrong move would mean utter death. xel tries to calm her down, they seem to be communicating telepathically which is something they can do but she doesn't care about him, she has her sights on me, and I know about just one thing I could have done to incur the wrath of The High Lunar Judge.

" Lilith get back " he says

he doesn't need to tell me twice, I slowly back away but she attacks and xel pulls me out of the way. she misses her first try but she's not giving up that easily.

" she has been given an order from The High Lunar Judge and she won't stop till she has completed her task " says xel, and apparently the only way to break it would be the command from another Alpha.

he transforms into his wolf form, it's almost like a face off. oronea rushes me again but xel holds her back, she bites him hard on the left shoulder, I can tell it hurts. he pushes her back again and he howls so loud my ears nearly burst, she slowly backs away, it seems like he's finally gotten through to her.

she reverts back to her human form, and so does xel.

" why are you defending her, they have broken the blood treaty " she says.

According to the old texts, about seven centuries ago during the dark ages, there was constant war and bloodshed between humans and werewolves. to stop this the Oak King and the Lunar King of that time period agreed to a set law that would govern them. The Blood Treaty, which stated that except for the monarchs of their respective kingdoms themselves and their messengers, no species was allowed to procreate with or cross into the others territory.

I knew we had broken that treaty by being in the Moonlit village, but if not for xel we would have died. xel tells her that I am a messenger sent buy the oak king to deliver a message of the highest importance.

" if she is a messenger then what about the rest, what are they doing here "

" they are her escorts "

" they do not wear their kingdoms royal messenger garments "

" their king wishes to avoid as many preying eyes as possible "

" if so why do you harbor them, shouldn't they be on their way to sunset capital "

" they happened across a Wakaani, so I saved them and offered them sanctuary "

" we haven't heard of anything concerning the Wakaani in almost a century, what is this message, I shall deliver it myself ".

I quickly play along with xel's obvious lie.

" the Wakaani have been seen around human territory as of recent and they have already killed a number of people and cattle, if they are left unchecked they could bring our kingdom to ruin ".

" the Wakaani are not necessarily our problem, they take no part in the blood treaty since they are no longer part of werewolf country and hence are not affected by it's restrictions ".

xel tries to tell her about the demon tongue and what we've learned so far but she ultimately dismisses it. she walks by me and I can tell she still doesn't like me. xel tells me that we would have to enlighten the oak king of the situation currently at hand before it's too late. and though I agree with him, why would the Oak king give an audience to someone born on the outskirts of the kingdom, to a low born.

" do you have anyone that has a high enough social standing to inform the king " xel asks, and I think the village chief should be able to get the news to the king somehow. now it's established that we have to return to the village, and I personally need to see my mom.

" I'll go get the others and we'll plan our return "

" and I'll be going to the sunset capital to seek an audience with the lunar king and the high lunar judge " he says.

I get the others and we plan our return trip, cept suggests the safest route we could take to get back to our village. we should be leaving the Moonlit pack in a days time, and I want to spend a little time with xel before we go our separate ways, but there are more important things at the moment.

it's night time and the tribesmen organize a kind of celebratory feast before we leave, everyone's eating and drinking. cept's just standing around like some hired bodyguard, luvera and kasim are drinking anything they can get their hands on, Gideon has gone to sleep. I'm sitting with xel and he tells me that he'd like to see me again after the whole issue was sorted, though I know that's going to be impossible I still want to see him again. we agree on when and where to meet up afterwards.

" what are you two talking about " asks oronea

we ignore her and xel leaves us to go do something else, she tells me she knows what's going on between the two of us and that it would never work. that my mere presence here would lead to bloodshed sooner or later, human blood she says, blood she's willing to spill. I look in her eyes and there's a mean look in them, I know she isn't f@#king around, she's as serious as when she tried to kill me. I've honestly had enough of being in constant life threatening situations at this point so I head to bed in hopes that tomorrow will bring some sort of comfort, though I've recently learned that's not always the case.