The Lost One

Chapter 20

The first hour was silent except for the GPS.

"Richard, if you're good with it I'll open the mind-link to the others they want to ask some questions?"

A grunt was the only response from the back seat, although Kaiden saw Olivia perk up in the rearview mirror at this.

"Aus, Blair, Clay I'm going to open the link so you guys can listen into Richard, you have the drive to ask whatever questions you want. Don't make me regret this either!" He said to his men in the vehicle behind them through the link.

"Okay first ask him what makes them so different, the royals I mean, like what can they do? Why are they so special?" Austin asked he seemed the most curious about all of this.

Kaiden rolled his eyes but relayed the question anyway.

"Different? Hmm I guess you could call them that" Richard mused as if he had never thought of it in such a term, "It isn't so much that they are different from us, well they are but it is more that we are different from them. They are the pure ones, their blood is the pure blood of the werewolf gene. We all carry less pure or diluted forms of it. The King was the oldest and first of our kind. It is from him that all of us descended."

"What!? So are we all related to them?" Blair asked disgusted.

"No the King only had one child the Crown Prince. And his mate was human, he found her only 300 years after he was first created. But one of the powers or abilities of the royal line because of their pure blood is that they are the only werewolves able to create new weres." Richard said nonchalantly.

Kaiden grimaced as shouting from the other car filled his head as they hurled questions at him.

"You need to explain Richard." Was all he said.

"We call them Silverbloods. It refers not only to the Royal pack but to the crown themselves, those in their pack will absorb some of their traits as will those who make oaths tying themselves to them, like the Guardians and the Warriors. But some of these traits are ever only given or are only ever tied to the Blood themselves, to their actual blood. It is what separates us from them. One of these distinctions is that their blood lets them create werewolves. It also keeps them from aging, gives them increased speed, strength, and then some other things which I will not speak of."

"Why not?" This time it was Olivia who spoke up.

"Some secrets of the Royals are meant to be kept secrets. Some are only kept within the pack and others were known only by the Royal Household itself. They are not for your ears, at least not yet." Richard answered cryptically before continuing, "Their blood contains silver. It is where their name comes from, again I don't know all of it, how it exactly works or why. I just know it is what aids in their abilities and is manifested through their hair, eye, and wolf colorings."

"What color wolf does she have?" Olivia asked.

"I've never seen it." Was all he said on the matter, but Kaiden felt that he knew more than he was saying but he let it go for now.

"So she can make others?" Clay demanded.

"Yes in theory. Her bite has the ability to carry in it the silver along with the gene of the wolf. The silver is meant to break it down, venom begins to kill the host while the wolf gene is then able to infiltrate and trigger the change. It is how the King first started the Werewolf population. Those he created were the strongest, their descendants have become the Alpha's and Beta's of today. The closer a wolf's ancestry is to that of the Royal line the stronger the wolf. He stopped creating them however when the first war broke out amongst our kind. The destruction was said to have nearly destroyed him, the violence and absolute lack of respect for life in those he had created broke him. He spent the next century hunting down every wolf that had been a part of it. He was ruthless stalking them to the ends of the known world killing every last one of them with the first of the Guardians and Warriors at his sides. After that he created the first pack pulling the remaining wolves together and binding them to himself, vowing to protect his people and humans from the violent tendencies of the werewolves he had made. He was astounded when the oaths created the mind-link, pack loyalty and triggered the mate-principal. Those that refused to accept his rule became the first rogues, shunned from the protection not only of the crown itself but of the oaths that would allow them to hang on to their humanity. It is why rogues are so vicious and inhumane still today. They lack the binds of pack and loyalty that the King created. He ruled the were population for the next century and half alone until he finally met his own mate. The Queen became one of the last werewolves ever created."