Chapter 12: Fight in the castle.

"Are you okay, your majesty?" Neo asked the queen worriedly. She had been pushed aggressively by Lynx and he hoped that she wasn't hurt.

She sucked in her breath and then released it, "I'm fine" she left his embrace and turned around to look at Zedd's dead body on the ground.

"No, no, no" She cried. How could this happen? Just when she was a minute closer to finding her son, the evidence she needed ended up being destroyed.

Davina couldn't believe her eyes, her heart hurt so much. All she could do was crouch in front of Zedd's dead body and shake him slightly, "Stand up Zedd, you have to stand up. Where is my son?" she wailed loudly.

Neo felt sorry for the queen, his sharp eyes darted to look at Lynx, he was trying to escape from the scene but Neo wasn't going to let him.

He thought he could trust Lynx, but when Zedd kept on repeating Lynx's name, his suspicions grew. He was quite certain that lynx was the one behind Zephyr's disappearance, because if he was innocent. He would have remained in his spot and let Zedd say what he had to say, but he didn't. He silenced Zedd. Which only confirmed Neo's suspicion.

'You're not getting away' Neo clenched his fist, and a dark aura appeared like mist and covered his surroundings. And when it disappeared, Neo was standing at his full height, his true werewolf form. His size was big and his aura was dark.

Wasting no time, He charged at lynx. Taking the latter from behind and tightening his hold around his neck. Lynx struggled to get free, however, he was only a beta compared to Neo that was an alpha.

Lynx's true form also appeared and the duo started exchanging fists. He succeeded in setting himself free from Neo, he ran forward and grabbed hold of the chandelier that was hanging on top of him with candles. He did a black flip and ensured to land on Neo's back.

The latter shook his body to throw away Lynx but his efforts were futile, Lynx's widened his mouth, his fangs materialized and he sunk them into Neo's neck.

Neo howled.

His eyes blazed red and his aura returned in full force, bouncing Lynx off him. He howled again, the pain he felt in his neck was excruciating and he would make sure to give Lynx double of the pain.

He glowered at the man with full hatred, he thought Lynx could be trusted but the latter had disappointed him.

Seeing the hatred in Neo's eyes, Lynx wanted to run away to save himself. If he waited any moment longer, he was surely going to die. Unfortunately, he wasn't quick enough, Neo had thrown open his hand, his claws popping out. He used it to slash Lynx's back, from his neck to his hip.

It was lynx's turn to howl.

Neo went further to launch an attack, and he raised his hands to hit him. Lynx's reflexes kicked in and he held Neo's hand in place. He howled again.

King Kodiak was bored of the fight going on, so he ended everything quickly when Lynx was about to start fighting again. He drew his silver arrow, coated with wolf's bane, and launched it at Lynx.

The plant was a deadly one, capable of taking the werewolves down, plus a silver arrow. That meant a double kill. The deadly plant started reacting on Lynx's body, his eyelid felt heavy and his movements started slowing down. Shortly, he fell to the ground into a deep slumber.

Neo shifted to his form. He was inhaling and exhaling loudly, and his hands were holding his neck, he shut his eyes, taking in the immense pain he felt.

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The hall was tidied up by the servants, the broken chandelier was replaced with a new one and it was inaugurated, secured tightly to avoid falling easily like before.

Neo was being attended to by his colleagues, he had a bandage wrapped around his neck. While Lynx had been dragged by the servants into the dungeon.

Meanwhile, Davina had retreated to her room, she was still in a daze. The thought of not seeing her son ever again caused pain to resonate through her soul, again and again. The only hope she had... That little hope that she had held unto was being shattered mercilessly.

Where was she going to start? She questioned herself, where should she start looking for her son?

If only Dorian was in the castle right now, she would have run to him and inquired about some things from him. But he had gone out for business, in replacement of Zephyr.

She was still in deep thought when a young woman entered her room, she was short in height, fat and pretty. "Mother?" she called out.

When Nova had heard the gist of what happened in the castle from the maids, she had signaled one of them to come forward and explain in detail to her. Nova felt for Davina, although she wasn't related to her by blood. She preferred Davina over her birth mother, hence, she saw her as her second mother.

She didn't hesitate to hurry down here to console her second mother despite the warnings that her birth mother gave her.

Davina's eyes snapped to look at Nova, realizing that it was her, a subtle smile appeared on her lips. She raised her arms and welcomed nova to hug her, she needed someone to console her, now that she was in distress.

Her husband was not present to give her that compassionate hug she needed.

Nova excitedly rushed into Davina's arms, her chubby fingers went to fondle Davina's dark hair. She then placed her chin on her head and patted her back gently, "Don't worry mother, brother is going to be alright"

"He is powerful enough to take care of himself, someday, he would come back to you" she smiled while sitting down on Davina's bed, her chubby hands taking Davina's lean fingers into hers and she caressed them. Wanting to give her that warmth that she was longing for, though she knew that it wasn't enough.

"Thank you" The Queen managed to mutter. She was trying very hard to accept the fact that Zephyr was fine but it was tough for her. Right now, she wondered if he had eaten anything because when he left the palace, he didn't eat and just left in a rush.

"Please take care of yourself for my sake" she whispered.