WHERE LOYALTY LIES

                                    Melissa King.

May 1st 

        The day of their birth became the change to their wolves, under the moon light just as when they were born, Destiny surrendered her powers to them.

        Melissa, a stunning brown wolf so dark it almost looked black and Micage a golden wolf with contrast it almost looked gold. They had clocked 18 by midnight, transform into their wolves and had engaged in a fight that almost cost them their life if it weren't for Davis.

"What the hell is going on Davis, what's wrong with me, I almost killed my brother"

Melissa amber eyes regarded Davis, she was naked and covered with sweat and blood. She tried using her now long hair to cover her chest, it helped a little but not with the horror of what had happened.

"Like fuck I felt my sisters heart in my palm".

They were both in tumor after what happened. They couldn't remember what made them go at each other only that they wanted to show dominance.

"It's the curse",

Davis gulped out, trying hard to remain conscious. None of them had the strength to move from their door on the ground, the twins had fast healing but Davis didn't.

"What!"

"That again?"

They had to know, to understand so they can stop it. The experience that had just occur wasn't ordinary. What this how their lives will be when they were suppose to be together in order to save the world.

"Yes the curse. After I discovered your true being, I was glad I did leave you with my gifts"

       He rolled unto his back putting more pressure to his side. The moon was out, clear and beautiful on this commotic day.

"What!! You mean these wooden necklaces?",

      They both considered it as an heirloom their mother left for them and just a piece of tracking device they had used to find him.

"I crafted them from the olive tree, the worship place here in Isha, I made them to cover your scent and unable Alovia to detect you, it seems like the necklace doesn't only do that. It suppresses the curse"

"What really is the curse?"

Micage strained to asked.

"There should only be one Alpha king in the sea of Lycanthrope, it is as I have said multiple times it is the curse of balance",

     Davis was getting weaker. The twins had to heal faster.

"But the Lycans are extinct now, none lives and well , I seriously don't understand any of this"

Mel knew this because it was among her studies back home.

Cage breathing was loud and heavy, he felt like he just fought a whole pack , the necklace was back in his neck but still Luca covered his mind with being ruler, to force his sister to submit and be the last true Alpha King.

"Nature has it rules and once broken a heavy price has to be paid. By creating those Lycan-demons, Alovia has defiled nature and thus the curse, She has given up her soul to darkness, I fear a war will ensue."

"Can you stop speaking in riddles and just come straightforward"

"King Alejandro was the Alpha king by birth, ruler of all Lycanthrophe and werewolves, Alovia interference cursed him and to pay the price, the title Alpha king was broken in two in hopes that one will claim its title"

"So in order for that two to become one, one of us has to die".

     Davis kept quiet giving them the answer they needed. He was enraged at his goddess never had he hated her like he did at that moment.

"I made a promise to your mother and I intend to keep it. always put on your necklace until you have learnt to control your Lycans or we figure something out".

They nodded, both in agreement for now.

       The twins were strong enough now to move though their wounds haven't closed completely, they carried Davis to the cabin where he could heal. Separating two strong Lycans wasn't easy, he had cuts that would take a whole day to heal.

          Night had fallen and all was quiet, the twins had long since healed and rested, slowly becoming accommodated to their improved body. Cage decided to shift and explore the forest in furs having gone long.

      Melissa went to the valley where she found Davis leg crossed instead of resting in the cabin, he was in meditation mode, the air around was warm, the grass was cool.

      She sat beside him drawing her legs closer to her chest, breathing in nature.

"You should be resting, you need to heal"

"I heal faster when I meditate"

Her mouth shaped an 'O' , she let out a breath, relaxing her tense muscles.

"Thank you Davis for not giving up on us"

He replied with his eyes still closed.

"Am just fulfilling my promise, my lady"

She didn't know why but she scowled when he added the word 'lady'. She gets it that she's royalty but Davis was obviously more than what he looks to the family.

"Can you stop calling me that, we are family Davis so please just call me Melissa, Mel-issa or Lissa or Liz or any god damn nickname"

     His eyes slowly opened, emotions so raw in his gray ones as though reliving an old memory, he took a deep breath before letting out a hearty laugh startling Mel.

"Your mother once criticized me for not calling her by her name"

Humor along with fond memories painted his face. He remembered times when it was just him and Ivory against the world. The feeling of being watched made he tense, slowly he turned towards Mel noticing her concentrated gaze on him.

"You should laugh more often. It suits you"

Her whispered compliment chocked him with emotions he had to avert his gaze, taking more huge breaths before turning back to her,

"Admiring me aren't you? You know am quite old for you to ogle on"

Melissa cheeks turned red.

She shrieked

"Ha! Thats not what I meant"

        She took a huge gap between them.

     Davis laughed heartlessly, tears spilled the corner of his eyes.

"Ha! You are just like your mother, ha ha!"

She smiled at the compliment,

"What was she like?"

He paused taking steady breaths before gazing out at the stars that shone in the quite night.

"She was wonderful, filled with life and very beautiful. Mm! You have her eyes you know. And her wits and courage. While Micage has her hair and her smile. Ha oh! how much I miss her".

Tears stung at the emotional state they were. Each reliving in the reminisce of one person.

"Am sure she misses you too"

The tears dropped like a filled damp, taking its time down his black bearded jaw to his crossed legs, another fell on the green grass.

"We all want you happy, uncle"

    He frozen at the name uncle. Ivory had told him to be an uncle to them, he already considered himself their guardian but uncle was another step but surprisingly, he felt pride at being called that.

Mel felt it so clear how the emotional state turned calm, she still had so much to ask him and thought this felt like a goodnight to.

"Who is Emily to you, uncle? I see the expression on your face whenever Cage speaks of her"

        She had always wondered especially how Emily spoke of him, the glow in her eyes. Mel wasn't that good with emotion but she suspected something was going on between them or rather was.

       He expected the question mostly from Micage, he taught she would have told them and the fact that Mel was asking him drew his conclusion that she had given up hope on them, not that he blames her but still it hurts and there is nothing he can but drown in the pain, so with a patched heart he answered Mel in a low voice.

"Emily is what you wolves call a mate but to us magical we call them magic-bound"

Mel didn't expect this kind of answer, she expected maybe an old fighter of his or an ex lover but not mates.

"How did you two meet?"

"It was during the time I still worked for your mother as her body guard in the palace, a time before Alovia. I had asked to follow the King's guards to Florida to survey a disturbance reported there. I was actually pulled towards there, her magic called me and I followed till I met her, beautiful Emily Salder, A mirking"

"A Mirking?"

He nodded

"Yes, a viking magical, they are more of warriors than magic, we met and immediately I felt so happy, I wanted to live my life with her"

"Instead you didn't. You left her all alone thinking about others and what was best for her as always. She even gave up on her title and became a magic shop seller for you, she took me in even when she didn't have to. She remained loyal to the bond even when you fought it"

Micage made his presence known, his anger directed at him like a storm.

He smiled warmly, "I guess I have to put a wall in my mind to avoid unwanted invasions, huh?"

     Mel felt her heart break at the sacrifices he did just for her family and still he was left with nothing but pain and reminiscent of old dreams.

"Did our mother know? about you and Emily?"

He stared ahead not seeing anything but back in the past.

"Not at first, despite her being my best friend and queen I couldn't tell her because I knew she needed me the most at that time to help find reasons why she couldn't convince, then Alovia came into the picture and everything went wrong"

"So wait you mean to say you sacrificed yours and Emily's happiness for my mother's?".

Who knew loyalty held to this extent even when it wasn't worth it.

"Yes and for a greater cause because you two are here now".

Micage felt the same with Mel. To what extent does loyalty relay. Apparently Davis had to be given a trophy for it, but still.

"But fuck man that's so..... Do you know how many sleepless night Emily had crying over you"

Along with loyalty there is pain, there is sorrow, and there is sacrifice.

"I know just as I know she always forgiveness me and also understands".

Not even werewolves hold this much loyalty to their Alphas.

"Christ!!, this is so fucked"

Cage moans. His hands tugged at his golden locks.

"You deserve happiness Uncle, both you and Emily do"

Mel was determined to make it possible. This war , this curse, this prophecy had to end.

"I know and I will once all is settled and avenged... Now we have to figure out what that second prophecy means"

No more, no more sacrifices, they had to stop this, all this.

"Wait!! There is a second prophecy?",

Alarmed with shock and fear, Mel and Cage urged Davis to elaborate more.

He nodded,

"Freya, a seer witch and a good friend of mine and the royal family sent me a copy of it".

"Isn't it the same Freya, Cole directed Adrian and Carl to find, for the prophecy about me and Lissa's birth?"

Cage quipped with a raised brow

"Yeah but they couldn't find her", Mel added.

"Freya move around a lot, never in one place for long. She only shows herself when required and she will answer to me"

"I always wondered what the first prophecy said. Do you have a copy uncle?" She tilt her head.

"Yes I do, it's here"

"It started with war,

Pleaded with tears

And now ends with blood.

Creatures that are not meant to live,

Breath and corrupt the world, Darkness.

Curse with so much pain, My moon flower was born to become peace between two species.

Darkness will always loom in the background,

Corrupted as it is, it caused an imbalance, one destiny didn't write. But life must still move on,

Now my Flower must sacrifice to help my sisters, Destiny and life and bore forth fate and hope, together they must help my sisters write"

They were silent, the prophecy though in riddles made sense.

"The moon's flower was Ivory, your mother"

    Just as her name and from the story he told them about her inability to wield magic. She was blessed, chosen then Alovia got jealous.

   Bore forth Fate and Hope, but how?, they were just kids.

"What about the second prophecy?"

'(For Balance there are two,

'A source and a key is needed to shift the balance

My children Fate and Hope must now become my sister destiny, but only Hope now has to sacrifice to send darkness back and revive Peace

One crafted as the key

One selected.

A bite will seal the deal before red paints the world')

"This really sounds like a journal", Mel murmurs.

"The prophecy is a piece of the moon goddess Selene, its her journal"

"How does the moon goddess that the wolves worship connect with the magicals that worship with the Hectate"

Melissa questions, having no clue in the religious factor. Davis smiled lightly at that happy to answer that question for the sake of Ivory

"Selene and the Hectate are both sisters, Selene being the eldest created the wolves and Lycans while the Hectate the two sisters Atropos, the old moon and Lachesis, the full moon,  created the Magicals and other mystic beings some even says one of them created the vampires"

"Wow!! So then why are all this written in Selene's journey and not the Hectate's"

"A war once ensue years ago during the first red moon the Hectate were killed so Selene obviously took over caring for her sisters creations"

"So em! are we to bite each other before red paints the world? Whats that death?, color red?, blood? Another red moon?"

Cage's brow rose which each words along with worry.

They shared a look, their wolves, though still rehabilitating sent a shiver of desire.

"I don't think its that easy...."

Mel mutters, feeling that pressing need to show dominant, to need dominance.

"Hey, what's the crime in trying just bite me Lissa, heh! Just one little bite"

His joke was a serious matter he didn't know his wolf actually desired.

Lyca sent out a rumbling growl from within, awakening that desire hidden within her.

His eyes shifted.

"You have to bite me and give me the title Melissa"

She was tempted , he was tempted, their wolves were tempted.

"Something just doesn't make sense"

The smell of blood filled the air also with Davis groan of pain broke their trance.

"Uncle, you are still hurt please stay still"

Mel caught Davis before he fell. His eyes stared ahead as though awaiting someone to appear.

"I must find Freya"

Micage stood also, to regard the unsettled look in his eyes, he entered his head but his though were unorganized to even consider.

"But why? And isn't she like hard to find?"

He stated the obvious. Cole had tried numerous time before.

"She will answer me. There is something about the prophecy that just doesn't add up"

Davis still held on to that small Vail of hope, that little understanding and conclusion of the words

"Like what?"

Cage became worried, he was blinded by the wrong hope.

"The prophecy didn't talk about the moon's flower's death but the sacrifice made and We know Hope and Fate is you two but not which of you have to make the sacrifice and I think your mother must still be alive it must also be why I never found her body"

"My moon flower was born to become peace"

"Send Darkness back and revive Peace".

They both voiced out the words from the journal.

"Darkness are the demons. This whole war started with them, they and Alovia caused the imbalance by making Lycan demons"

Mel was slow to bring the words together but the understanding was quick to enter.

"Together they must help my sisters write. How many sisters did Selene have again?"

Cage concluded. He shared a sobber look with his sister.

"I must go now"

Davis moved from Mel, holding his bandaged waist and swallowing the pain.

"But Uncle, you are still hurt"

He needed to heal but there was no time, they had till the red moon to find the true Alpha king between themselves and stop the demons.

"It doesn't matter, I have to do this"

Again with the sacrifices that came with loyalty.

"Please be safe your highnesses"

He watch them stand together, looking at him with concern and that little hope.

"Come on man! Uncle what did Lissa just tell you"

He chuckled. They both were like Ivory.

"Isha is covered by an invincible veil that makes it hard to locate it was easy for your mother and I to hide here but I fear sooner or later Alovia will find it again, I can only hope I'll be back before that happens"

"We will be safe Uncle, You just take care"

"Don't pull off the necklace and do train, you can visit Bale too if you want"

They both nodded, before Cage saluted jokingly

"Aya!! captain now go find our mother"

He nodded, clear as he turned into grey mist.

     He was gone for almost four weeks, little time before the demons found them and kidnapped them. They never expected it, Their doom was already made. I guess the family reunion will happen sooner rather than later.