The Visit

Chapter 3: The Visit 

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My eyelids  were shut closed, as I lay face up on the roof of my dungeon but I was wide awake. For some reason the beast wanted to remain like this unmoving for hours. It seemed like forever until I heard hushed voices.

"Seems like the lad is asleep, must be crazy having a beast inside of you  which can never be tamed." A voice said, pitifully.

"You must be new here aye?  That is no lad but a sleeping  monster, rumor has it that it is ten times stronger than Crown Prince Kael's wolf, or any of the royals." Another voice answered in full confidence. 

"Hmmm...Must be the reason why he's locked in here, is it true that he has been confined  here for eons." The first voice continued his questions.

"A little over 20 years; but only a handful of people know about him. Just as the king wants it." The second voice said, with a bit of pity sipping through his voice.

"Speaking of  the Crown Prince, I have served Crown Prince Kael for almost three months as his Valet, and I heard he's getting married soon. No one knows this yet, but the wedding is bound to happen before the year runs out." The first voice said, trying to sound relevant with his new information.

"Then you make sure it remains that way, never open up your mouth and let another guard hear ye, you do not want the crown to be against you. Now let's quietly watch the beast, it seems that's all we shall be doing all day." The second voice said, his voice dripping with boredom.

My beast had special abilities, it could  see people and things from close range even with my own eyes shut. Almost as though it had its own eyes, it was not as vivid as mine,  but it was clear enough to see objects and humans alike. The two guards talking were a few yards away from me. I recognized one of them, he has been assigned to watch my cell for years, the other one, younger than the other guard, is a new face.

"Up for a little trick??" The beast suggests, I should have known he saw them too after all, it's his eyes. 

"No thanks..." I tiredly said, he let out a smirk, I knew he wouldn't let it go and would do something to scare away those tattletales. "Let them be." I ordered but he paid no heed. I pushed him to the back of my mind as I began to think of what the young guard said about Kael getting married, just about time for him to Wed having been next in line for the throne. It's certain I'm not invited, no one wants a walking catastrophe, besides Kael and I never really  had any reason to communicate even when I was little.

A low growl emanated from my throat, another one came out low  but deeper than the first, twas the damned beast, he's up to something. Another loud growl emerges, with my heightened  hearing ability I could hear the guards shuffle off their feet as fear climbs up their spine. The beast let's out another ear piercing growl through my throat, my eyes shone as I felt him in total control, I was  still in my human form but he had the reins, completely emerged into me, I stood up and went for my cell gate with so much driving force I collided with the gate, there was no way I could escape this cell but the idea of hitting till it fell apart engrossed the beast so much that he kept banging and banging the cell gate, the walls shook but the spell the Warlords made  kept it together.

By now the guards had flown to get reinforcements, the beast cracked up in an evil fits of laughter as it kept banging the cell  with full force. "Those little wolves went running to Papa Wolf huh." He mocks them. He has been referring to father as 'papa wolf'. But we both knew my father would never come down here, he would send his right hand man instead to take the beast.

"He won't come." I said inside my head, reminding  the beast the same truth that he already knows.

He scoffed, which appeared as a huff. "I know that lad, papa wolf can't bear to put me down knowing it will hurt you. A  softie, if you ask me." He added.

I rolled my eyes at his sense of humor, more than a million times I have told him no one cared anymore, not even father. But he insisted that the eyes father looked at him showed deep inside that cold heart he cared about his  son. Times like that when he refuse to hear my opinion, I'd send him to the back of my mind.

Just like I predicted, my father's  right hand man lord Eliot  came with the gauntlet used in taking the beast, accompanied by over 50 men. "Are we doing this the easy way or the hard way as usual?" He asked the beast. He knows the beast never speaks, but he asks the same questions all the time.

As always, the beast  said nothing, not like anyone could hear him but me. So he did what he does best, he took a few steps back, my head looking down on the floor for a few seconds, he was gathering all the energy he could muster, the next thing he did was let out one big feral growl, shaking all the lights in here,causing a mini earthquake. Almost Immediately  after the growl, a shot lands on my neck.  Lord Eliot fired his gauntlet, my eyes became blurry and a headache the size of a rock hits me. I felt so dizzy that I fell to the ground unconscious, the beast went far away into my mind, I felt empty for few seconds before I finally succumb to the cold hands of darkness. 

FEW HOURS LATER...….

My heart dropped to my stomach, there was this unsettling feeling inside of me, I knew it wasn't because of the sedative I was given earlier because if the beast. It was something more, rather it was a presence, someone was watching me. My eyelids flew open, and one second using my heightened speed  I was up, my two feet firm on the ground. I turned to face the intruders, it was none other than my brothers.

The crown Prince and Thane, They were not here for family reunion or visiting, the question is, what are they doing here? I didn't even have the chance to ponder on the question as a familiar voice spoke out. "Still quick with your instincts yea? Funny how you are still sane after being in this hole all your life." my third  brother, Thane, mocked.

I said nothing.

"Don't tell me you have sudden ear wax White, I know very well you hear me. Speak up baby brother; entertain us." He continued.

I kept my silence.

"We've come here for no informal conversation, just like father, we heard your beast got in control AGAIN,  as always. Seems you'll be holed up in here for all eternity." Crown Prince Kael  finally spoke up.

I kept my cool and said nothing.

"You shall open your gutter filthy mouth and reply the crown Prince! Or I'll get into that hole of yours and show you and that little demon inside you what real carnage is." Thane threatens

I chuckled, my back straightened, my shoulders aligned, cross legged. "What are you waiting for then, come in." I beckoned with my hands wide open.

His fist  clenched by  his sides as he takes in deep breaths trying to calm his wolf down. I saw the opportunity to rile him up. "I'm still waiting, big brother, if you have the balls, come in here and show me real carnage." 

Crown Prince Kael threw a hard look at Me, his eyes filled with disgust and deep hatred. "You'll never leave this hell hole White, no matter how dangerous that beast thinks it is. It will never escape this cage, not now, not ever." He muttered.

"Is that your way of saying...." I looked up at the walls of the cell and back at him. "Without  the spell enchanted to keep me at bay, you would stand the chance against Me, one on one?" I teased.

He held the cell gate tightly, his knuckles white as snow as he angrily responded. "You belong here White, I'll make sure you never leave, you shall rot away while the rest of us leave our whole lives enjoying all the festivities of the world." 

I gasped in fake surprise, raising my brows up as if though what he muttered was a secret no one knows about. "You are right, you belong out there and I belong here. But we all know the truth, no spell or dark magic will stop him once my mate is near. But even that cat you call your wolf."

"How the hell do you intend to meet her White, you are stuck in here for life......no female will walk in here to free you and you do not have the privilege to go find her. You tell Me, how in the world would you find her?" Thane said, his voice dripping in mockery.

"You should leave, your time is up, I need to sleep in." I said, dismissing them. But clearly it seems they didn't get the message. Thane hit the cell with his hands, trying to gain my attention.

"We shall  leave when we want to,  not one second more monster. Not when you desire it, but when it pleases us."

I turned my back to them, clearly uninterested in whatever they had left  to say, I closed my eyes and activated my beast inner eyes, I could see their rage, I could feel their wrath towards my actions.

"This is not the end of the monster, I'll personally end You, sooner or later." Kael vowed.  

I couldn't let them leave without giving them a goodbye note. "All you need to do is walk in here, let's end the rivalry between the first and the last child of the royal family of Knights." 

"We'll  see about that.....very very soon monster." He said, taking his leave.

I was  once again alone. I could feel my beast stirring up, a few hours without him had been what I call, loney yet satisfying. He has always been a part of me for 25 years, I have never spent a day without him, either in my mind  or in my head. Given the chance to ever part with him, I don't know if I would ever take that chance. 

"This whole place reeks of negative wolf energy, anger and the promise of death. I wouldn't be surprised if your brothers came visiting. After All, I was asleep." He bitterly complained, I smiled inwardly, missing his presence already.

I tried to lighten the mood a bit, still engaged in the conversation."A good sleep may be all you need once in a while." 

"The dungeon is a home for us, eh." He sarcastically started. Silence loomed inside me for a moment before he broke it again, "I'll make sure to be here for their next visit. The kingdom shall soon have a crown Prince without a head."

I chuckled at the thought of his dark mind, how  would a body survive without it's head, crown Prince or not, it's not thinkable. Moments like this make everything seem okay and calm, but other times where he wants to force himself  to take full control is always messy and chaotic. I shall someday find my mate and be whole again, I shall roam the streets of Moonstone, and not just in the shadow as an outcast, but as a man holding the runs of his beasts. And when  that time shall come, the whole land will hear of Me, I would no longer be a myth or bedtime stories to put children to sleep.

We shall show them CARNAGE!!