New Powers

"Shall we go somewhere?" Ned said, looking around.

"Yeah!" Emma nodded her head.

Walking to the tent at the corner besides Betty's tent, Douard looks at Emma and Nathan silently.

"You have lots of questions, don't you?"

Nathan asked, smiling.

"Yes! There are."

"It's been ages...."

"But he didn't wither." Emma cut off.

"I think I sensed you the day Aunt Martha hunted the deer." She added reminiscienting the night.

"You did. It's interesting."

They both laughed at not so funny jokes.

"Douard!" Ned called.

"Yes!"

"How's Betty?" He asked.

"Betty! Oh! She is fine."

Ned sighs in relief and sits on a log chair.

"So! Where are we?" Nathan asked.

Sitting on bed, his tiny body exuded an extraordinary kingly aura and dominance splattered in the surrounding.

Seeing a volcano of anger and frustration capped within those words, raging eyes and red face, Douard immediately bows down and shouts.

" Hail to the Golden Marked Alpha, King of Wolves, The Great Lycan King, Geld."

Every word soaked in devotion and loyalty, he looked a worshipper of god himself to Ned's eyes.

He is a formidable and brave warrior.

'What aura!' Ned on the other hand, who thought Douard as a half-ling, was surprised when he released every ounce of sealed energy.

Dark aura surrounded the tent. Air inside the tent became thick and tense.

Ned gasped as he was not used to or had seen such magnificent displays of power. With his shocked eyes, he turned to Emma and Nathan.

'What?!'

'They are fine.'

A golden aura engulfed and shield stood around Nathan.

His mark on right shoulder shone bright with dark lines.

While Emma sat yawning unaffected, uncared for.

"Call me Nathan from now on. It is my new identity today onward."

"Yes! My king!"

"Raise!" Nathan shouted.

Douard pulled his aura back and stood quiet.

"I don't expect the world to go the way we sought but…"

"There is a lot of garbage to sort out. Tch! Such a bother!" Emma cut off Nathan.

Both stayed quiet afterwards. Situation is clear and what to do is also very clear.

Nathan sensed Douard's aura had degraded and divided forcefully. Where vampire blood was a mark of pact and wolf as a protector, both of them in Douard were weak.

He calmed down his aura and now suddenly Ned couldn't even sense what they are. Faint werewolf aura leaked, otherwise indistinguishable.

'What a control!'

Such a phenomenon, he had seen before.

'Ah! Alene. So, this was the reason.'

Ned felt weird admiration towards it and stood in amazement.

Collecting his thoughts together, he bowed and said,

"There is urgent news."

"Yes! Please say!" Emma replied in a calm way.

Situation had become very tense. So, she decided to lighten the mood and air in the room.

"Drake is preparing for 'Forbidden Ritual' and hunting rogue werewolf and vampires."

Nathan and Emma's eyes grew wide in shock and surprise.

"They stepped in too far," Nathan said.

He looked at Emma and said, " Hugo is going to die this time. Revenge, I think I can't stay holding anymore."

Emma just shook her head.

'Sigh!' She sighed.

"Yeah! It's now inevitable."

Ned looks at them talking, in amazement.

"May I ask where the queen is?" Douard asked cautiously.

"She is…" Nathan was about to open his mouth but…

'Crack!'

'Collapse!'

'Bang!'

A loud sound of something collapsing in the woods rang outside.

"It's from…" Emma exclaimed.

Nathan nods his head.

"Ned!" Douard shouted and Ned ran out towards the sound…

#

Meanwhile, in the woods,

Soon, Frank and Alene covered tens of kilometers running across the woods.

"Ha! Ha!" Turning into a human form, Frank stops huffing.

"It's making me feel alive again."

He wiped off his sweats and turned back.

'Huh?!'

Alene was approaching him as fast as lightning. He was standing beside an igneous rock and a large sturdy old tree.

'No! if she crashes here at that speed…'

He feared what would happen and shouted,

"Alene! Slow down! You'll hurt yourself."

Waving his hands, he gestured to slow down but his words were weirdly distorted.

In the speed and air crashing in the ears, she didn't understand a word he said.

Instead she just smiled and hands he waved to slow down, got misunderstood as a gesture to speed up. In the moment of being able to do such extraordinary feats, she didn't notice the surroundings and even where Frank was standing.

'Swoosh!'

'Bang!' 'Crack!'

And without a delay she reached with that dangerous speed and crashed onto the rock and bounced off to the tree behind Frank.

"Alene!" Frank, who is worried sick for her, shouted.

Dust and dirt flew in the air everywhere. He felt she was not fine but…

A figure dusting off and clapping hands emerged out of the dust cloud, coughing.

'Huh?! Oh my goddess. How is she fine?!'

He stood amazed and shocked to see such an incident.

She is fine despite crashing onto the rock and the tree.

"Are you fine?" He asked, collecting himself from the awe.

"Oh! Frank! I thought I crushed you. hehe!"

She turned back to human form and hugged him overjoyed.

"I have not felt this alive in my entire life and in those ruins adventures. It's amazing."

Frank's gaze calmed down and his heart eased out.

But his eyes glided down to the rock, she crashed onto. It was only sand and dust.

'She is this powerful but…' His awe and shock grew and paused.

He walked towards the tree and observed.

Slowly reaching out his hands, he tried to touch the place where Alene bumped onto. Nothing has happened to it.

'She is still a werewolf…'

As he was not even finished thinking, Alene pulled him back grabbing his shoulders abruptly.

"Whoa! What happened?!"

He screamed in surprise.

"Frank! Look below." She shouted.

He couldn't understand what she meant and looked at the ground where he stood before.

There are cracks and small faults but soil was vibrating and bulging as if something was coming out.

Both steps back and just at the same time…

'Swoosh!'

"Crack! collapse! bang!"

Tree in front of them cracked and collapsed down.

'Gulp!'

Frank's shock now only grew and he looked at her with disbelief. Her body was thin enough to be blown away in strong wind.

'War is not a problem if such power is at our disposal.' He thought of, looking at Alene.

"Frank!"

A shout came from far behind.

'Ned! How come he appeared so fast?!'

"Are you guys guys…."

He was about to ask if they were fine or not but turned away.

'What is he shy for?' Frank thought.

He turns to Alene. 'Oh!' She was buck naked.

And he was the only one wearing shorts below.