Chapter Eleven : The Unsolved Mystery

Claire tossed away the blood soaked pendant. The winning trumpet broke the awkward silence. The officials from the brunette's pack were staring at their precious lady's corpse.

A satisfactory smirk was printed on Zen's face. Claire was climbing the stairs to the luna's crown.

But an unrelenting groundhog day was awaiting that no one had fathomed.

"You people killed her!" suddenly one official of the brunette's pack cried out.

Claire stopped. His outraged scream drew everyone's attention.

"You.Killed.Her," he said with fury looking at Claire.

"She asked for it," Claire replied. She was way calmer and more composed than before. "Actually, no. You asked for it. You refused the proposal."

Claire came down again and stoped in front of him. "Was it you who planned it? " she asked him mysteriously.

The guy became unprepared for a moment. He quickly collected himself and asked, " What are you trying to imply? "

"Enough of this !" Zen interrupted them. " Claire won the conclave fair and square. We are sorry for your loss. But you brought this upon yourselves."

Zen gave that man a cold glare and said.

"And now! It is the moment," Zen raised his voice again and drew everyone's attention to him and continued, "It is time for what we had been waiting for all these years. The wolf spirit that the mystic spring seeks is here, among us."

He paused for a moment and took a glance at me, then his eyes found Claire and he said again, "Now we have the most fitting vessel for that wolf too. You people may wonder what is it that making us wait?"

A chill went down my spine. I knew what he was going to say. I suddenly started feeling hot. But my palms turned cold as ice.

Zen again continued. "Our oracle had the vision. She tried to follow all the rituals for opening of the moon fountains. But seemed like all the female wolves were rejected. In the past we didn’t look for Ella's wolf because we didn’t know about her wolf being an alpha. But the oracle was right. Her predictions were true. Ella's wolf is an alpha that is the key to that spring of power and reign. The spring rejected all the female alphas till now. We never assumed a breed can be an alpha as well. The oracle had the vision of the alpha female from our pack. I believed it was Claire. But now we know she is not. But still she is the most worthy of being the vessel for the breed's wolf," Zen said. He looked at me and smirked.

"Ella's body is definitely not the type that we can use for the ritual. To control a strong wolf like hers, we need a strong body as well. If we merge Isabella and Claire's wolf together, there will be no possibility of rejection by the spring. And Claire sure proved her worth today. We need Claire's body to be the vessel," The oracle explained the rest.

"Get off my face you donut ! They are talking about my wife!" suddenly Ed started making chaos.

The bull sized guy was struggling to shut his mouth again. Edward bit his hand when he tried to cover Ed's mouth.

"Let go off him," Zen ordered.

"Your arm tastes worst than bricks," Ed spitted and looked at the guy in awe who was sending him death glares in return while rubbing his bitten area.

I couldn’t keep myself in control. I jumped into his chest and hugged him crying.

"People are not here for a romantic movie," Zen said coldly.

"Why not? They are already watching a Ghengis Khan one," Ed replied.

"You have got a daring mouth. Do you know what position you are exactly in right now?" Zen asked.

"If you don't want a sarcastic answer then don't ask," Ed replied.

"You know if you would act like your mouth, you would be mutilated, fed by the dogs and turned into shit," Zen said coldly. "Do you realise your position now?"

"No need to make it gross. I ignored your question fine first time," Ed replied back.

Zen didn’t know what to say. Cat got his tongue. The whole arena was shocked. The guards were confused.

"We need to get out of here, Ed," I whispered. "I can't run too fast, so we have to hide," Ed only nodded and squeezed my shoulders.

"Guess what? I would love to fuck off. With my wife though. You wait here," Ed replied.

He tried to get away from there with me by distracting them. We tried to use the milliseconds that the arena needed to proceed what was happening. I didn’t know if I could turn anymore. My wolf had stopped connecting with me a long time ago.

But before I could turn Zen already felt what I was thinking.

"Get them!" he ordered sharply.

The guards came back to their senses. Before we could make a run, a huge wolf pinned me down on the ground. Edward was caught by the guards as well.

"Put the girl in chains, and kill the guy," Zen ordered.

"No! " I screamed. "You can't do this! Just lay a finger on Edward and you will not even get my ashes," I warned Zen.

"Like hell you will get fire for that," Zen replied.

He took Claire's hand and lead her towards the throne. The arena was cheering again, they were excited, the oracle began the rituals already for taking out my wolf from my body.

I didn’t see Alex anywhere. Suddenly the whole chaotic situation was paused by the sounds of war drums coming towards our pack.

Everyone got silent. Confusedly they were looking at each other. It was a war break. No way the Sapphire's were breaking the rules again.

Zen was looking at the direction confusedly. The sound was getting closer and closer.

"Where is the guy from the dead alpha female's pack? " he shouted and asked.

The corpse of the brunette was gone, so were the officials who came with her.

They took the chance to run away when Zen was distracted with us.

The army was getting closer and now they were visible in the moonlight. First it looked like mist. Then when it came closer, it was actually an army of more than ten thousands. Our alliance was broken. All the allied packs had left. Only the visitors from a few non fighter packs were still at the arena. They also started to run away wherever they could. The rest was from our pack.

Our pack had thousand wolves hardly. About eight hundreds of them were fighters. With the allied clans it was more than twenty thousands. But the allies had now started a war against us.

"I can't believe they broke the alliance and now attacking us," Zen murmured.

I was thinking quickly. There was no way our pack would survive this attack. They were getting closer. We had no time left. I believed the Sapphires still didn’t know about this. If they had known they would use the advantage.

''You shouldn’t have killed her," the oracle looked at Claire and said.

" What?" Claire laughed a bit. " You think they are breaking the alliance over a loser's body? Are you blind? Can't you see? They wanted this. They planned it. They killed their princess to take a lead on us," Claire said.

She looked at Zen. "It is you against whom they are rebelling. They want a new war commander," she said.

"We have to do something, Claire," Zen replied calmly. "We can't wait for them to come here and kill us," Zen said.

"I can help you out of this," I finally spoke.

All of their gazes turned to me in surprise.