OC In throne of glass

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"Listen to me princeling" Manon growled,getting tired of arguing with the king."Those bitches were tearing apart your city,they were inside the castle,we had no time to explain things to a fae and to whatever that was" Manon had noted the foreign scent that emitted from the stranger who  made disturbingly quick work of those witches,she also noted the wolf ears.Seeing the deadliness of this unknown beast made her instincts kick in but then that fae bitch jumped in behind him allowing herself to be gutted for that thing.

Dorian just sat in the saddle with his arms folded and a clear desire to look anywhere but Manon's face."Are you just sad because I nearly ruined his pretty face?" Manon asked mockingly,indeed the stranger had been handsome,bewitchingly  handsome actually,even putting Manon's own allure to shame."You didn't have to stab her" Dorian finally spoke,"they were there to save me"

"How about you show a little more gratitude to the one who just saved your sorry ass?"

Manon landed Abraxos on a glade and began setting up a tent."I abandoned my thirteen for you,I killed my own kind for you,i am now shunned from Morath and perhaps the witch kingdom forever just for saving you and this the thanks that I get?"

Dorian gritted his teeth as he helped Manon with the tent,he had to admit,being mad at the wing leader was significantly harder considering that she defied orders to rescue him from Rifthold.He was also well aware that Manon was the one who informed Aelin that Dorian was still there within his body when it was taken over by the Valg prince.He didn't reply to Manon's point and just used his magic to speed up the process of setting the camp."So you are useful when your not acting like a bastard"
"What are you going to do?"Dorian inquired,ignoring the comment.
"I don't know,my thirteen will be back at Morath and I will surely be hunted down for this,do you have any idea where your friends might be?"

Dorian tried to think,he recalled Aelin mentioning a story about her and Sam Cortland in skulls bay and thwarting a slavery operation.It made sense that after going to Terrassen they might just stop at the pirate city to try and and convince the captain to join the side of Terrassen,of course it might also be possible that they return to the red desert to do the same thing with the silent assassins.No,skulls bay was closer to Terrassen,they would most likely stop there first.

"Skulls bay" Dorian answered and Manon just nodded her head,dropped her weapons and stripping off her clothes to go to bed.

It had been a few hours since Neon collapsed next to the sleeping Miranda and he was still drained from his efforts to heal that deadly wound on her stomach.Just as he was about to allow himself to drift off under the stars next to his fae companion,he heard footsteps approaching from the left.Neon immediately yanked himself to his feet and beheld the tall stranger who was wearing a dark mask.
"Who are you?" He demanded,his instincts were screaming at him to grab Miranda and sprint as far away from him as far as possible but even standing was an effort as his strength was depleted.

"My,my,my,a Lycan" He mused,blatantly disregarding the question,"I thought I got rid of your kind"
Erawan? No it couldn't be,during the trek to Terrassen,Aelin had told Neon of how the Valg ruler had worn the body of the short,plump Duke Perrington,Neon didn't understand how the Duke got away with disappearing from Adarlan for what must have been months and then just returning without an explanation but he supposed a Valg king would be clever enough to cover all the loose ends to whatever plan he had to Raze Lycria.

"Answer me,and how do you know my kind?"Neon could detect the stench of a Valg on him but it was a familiar scent as if he knew this creature and he thought that the catecholamines that his body was producing was permeating the air in the perception of this Valg."Careful boy,or did you never learn how to speak to a Valg king?" Neon's eyes widened as he readied his sword,it truly was Erawan then,he must have shedded Erawan's skin and donned a different form.Perhaps the mask was to prevent unwanted attention when he travelled to Adarlan after catching wind about a Lycan warrior and a Renegade fae who were both on their way to prevent the murder of the king.

Erawan readied his sword and got into a fighting stance."Neon riding is it?,it's a shame to see such a capable warrior finally fall in combat" Erawan suddenly bolted forward and thrusting his sword faster than anything had the right to be.Neon was able to lunge to the side,narrowly avoiding the gutting strike,ducking down,dodging an attempt to decapitate his head and struck for his legs only for Erawan to jump up and stomp his foot on top of Neon's head,causing him to fall on the ground.His reflexes and everything else were still at an all time low after the healing.

Neon barrel rolled away from another deadly blow and hauled himself up,slashing for Erawan's throat,even if he was weakened,he wouldn't let the murderer of his family,the destroyer of his home walk out of here alive.Erawan narrowly evaded ending up with a slit throat as he leapt backwards and ducked under a gutting move and dashed to Neon's side but again leapt backwards when Neon slammed his sword down.

Neon kept swinging and missing until he slashed sideways with his sword,the move was once again evaded but this time,the dodge was so narrow that his blade caught the mask that Erawan was wearing and tore it off completely.What Neon saw would haunt him for the rest of his days.The beautiful golden haired male whose face was no longer concealed by the mask could not have been mistaken for any other.Neon just froze as he took in the face of-

Suddenly Erawan took advantage of Neon's stupor and slammed the hilt of his sword into Neon's temple,knocking him into the ground.Erawan then kicked the Lycan's sword away and began to rain down punches and kicks on all of Neons's pressure points causing everything to start to go black.This was it,Erawan would finish him of right here and there would be no one to protect Miranda in her vulnerable state.And he failed to avenge his family when he had the chance.

Neon looked towards the still unconscious fae female as powered through the unbearable pain of the sheer power,the blows were producing as he murmured,"I'm sorry"
Not just to Miranda but to everyone else he had failed.

So much.