Luna Felix

55 | Is this the plan?

FELIX'S POV

24 HOURS BEFORE THE CHALLENGE

Sometimes the idea of fun for me and Rei is different but sometimes I am thankful for him being into weird shit. Right now my gratefulness comes from the fact that I am in the castle but I am not the castle. The concealed exit from his bookcase to the forest near the castle helps me escape when I feel overwhelmed but at the same, I don't seem to have left anywhere.

But right now I am not overwhelmed, I am downright scared out of my mind. I have been sitting down to write a letter to those who will help me. I cannot send them anything that can be traced digitally. Paper and pen are safest.

I have been sitting with a notebook in my hand, pen ready to explain the plan in plain simple terms. But my hands haven't stopped shaking, I tried to write in hopes that the shivers would go away when I have written a little. That I will snap out of my fear, that the crazy in me would win over everything.

If only our crazy could be switched on when we needed it. Everyone would have been powerful.

For the first time, I was scared to be inside my own mind. I didn't want to think of what I needed to do but I didn't want to do it.

I wanted to cry. I wanted to, I just for once wanted to run to my father. I wanted to bury my head in my mother's lap again. I want to hug my brother as he curled up in my embrace once again. I want to laugh with Huxx. I wanted to, I wanted to, I..............I..........

I didn't want to do this. Please.

There was a loud thunder outside, as soon a shower of rain hit the earth and I closed my eyes. I closed my eyes so hard that not even a tear could slip past my eyes. I can't afford that. I can't turn back then.

So I kneeled there, clutching the notebook to my chest, eyes screwed shut as I hear the rain and thunder cry for me. Because for all my sanity, this isn't the time I wanted to be sane. Sane is not going to give anything.

And I didn't cry. I didn't cry like the coward I am. I ran away from my grief. Bottled it up nicely. Closed the lid of that bottle and sealed it with resin. Never to see the sun again.

I sat there till I was numb to my sanity. I sat there till I could feel my crazy rising.

The crazy that wanted to win, at any cost. The crazy that knew she gonna fool everyone. The crazy is dramatic as fuck. The crazy that is going to orchestrate the shit out of the enemies.

For the first time in days, I feel a smile coming to my face, and I imagine the shock on Maynard Conti's face.

I knew something was wrong with Rei's Council when the people I saved during my tests never arrived in the kingdom. I started investigating Rei's council slowly.

It took weeks to find information but I finally found a lead. Conti had lived in the DeLarge territory for the first 15 years of his life before his pack was given away to someone other noble.

The noble household couldn't rule the territory for long. Within the next two years, the entire area fell into the hands of a young Maynard Conti. He demanded that the area be independent from the Nobel. This was suppressed by Rei's grandfather.

And then out of nowhere when the royal guards reached the area, there was no sign of Conti or the people who lived there.

The next Conti appeared publicly 20 years later fresh from foreign countries establishing his information business in the capital. He rose to fame for his accurate information and righteous values. At the age of 50, he became an aid to the young prince Rei.

But that wasn't enough to support my suspicion. I started monitoring which actions of mine and Rei were being countered and which weren't.

And why not? Everything we had talked about in our bedroom and his study, in my car was being used. But anything that I and Huxx discussed in my study was still under wraps.

I looked further into it. Who was Maynard Conit's family? On record his wife was dead and he did not have a child. But was that true?

No. His daughter was alive. His daughter was conveniently lost when he was abroad. And he couldn't get much help from others, which is why he started his business. How cute. Not.

I tracked all the places he is been during his stay abroad and tallied it with every single DeLarge visit.

Sure enough, DeLarge's granddaughter's social media and passport history aligned with 4/7 countries which Conti had photos of in his office.

Some basic maths and a hospital visit later, I was 80% sure that she was his daughter and DeLarge wasn't under that old man but under Conti.

I kept investigating other members and Conti too. But I didn't find anything substantial.

However, the disappeared village, the disappeared syndicate, the disappeared dwarves, and the disappeared survivors all indicated to one man and one man only.

I dug into the countries Conti was around. Not only did they all have folklore related to dwarves in some form or other, but these countries were the seven different concentrations of all seven supernaturals. So I cashed in an old favour from Tristan and asked him to sneakily start looking for weird incidents in these settlements in the given time frames I told him.

The next flag I got was when I woke up after my fever-induced passing out. Something had triggered my curse. Something that shouldn't have been in the castle.

So I started tracking down the coven leader. He was gone. But Tristan found a member of the coven that I had helped back then. She under anonymity confessed to him the Coven leader's son had been kidnapped. And the coven leader has decided to distribute the coven and go search for him. No one has seen him for years.

I asked Tristan to come back to come to my father's pack and I returned too. He checked me up and theorised that my curse was flare because of a fine powder in my car, probably a work of DK.

But the powder alone wasn't enough, there was supposed to be another chemical that needed to be used, which makes me believe that it was what the intruder hid before getting caught. Both of them were disposed of conveniently so I couldn't even test that theory.

Anyway I knew their plans roughly once I looked through Tristan's research. Conti wasn't just after the throne. He was after Vadeuses.

He wanted them under his thumb. He wanted his daughter the queen. And to rule behind the scenes.

So he tried to kill me. He was unsuccessful as when I was young. He somehow found the coven head or his son. He either knows the whole of my curse or part of it.

He wants Rei alive. But not me. He will kill me. And he will rule Rei with that bloody necklace and its power. Rei and the kingdom will be under him.

Cute little man. Not.

I bought two magic travel scrolls for Acimer and Tristain. He will help explain everything to him. Huxx will seize the Delarger's territory and the spies.

FELIX'S POV 3:18 AM

Everything was going according to my expectations. Mostly. I was more injured than I wished for but I didn't wish for any of this so it hardly matters.

I need to click the trigger to blow up the car that is taped on the inside of my thighs. The moment it blows up, its show time. 

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