The Masked Royal

Aedion

(Tee Jaruji as Aedion)

Aedion's POV

I was dragged from sleep into the darkness of the forest. We still havent reached the border when the war broke in my home, father and mother were left behind.

I kept on looking back but the two men kept on urging me to walk straight. We havent exchanged any words until we have reached the border and the two men loosened a little from their stiff self.

I wore the cloak that mother made me, I have a strange feeling about the cloak but I didnt bother to ask the two strangers who I have entrusted with my life because father told me so.

We walked and ran into the night, avoiding roads and streams. We've been in the forest for I dont know how long, but I knew that its already been months that have passed.

We have helped a lot of my clan to seek shelter from other clans without them knowing that we have been helping them. We just decided to leave the border when we have ensured that all my clan that have survived and escaped are all safe from the roaming rogues.

We will be heading to the place where father wanted me to go, the Rieka clan. They all believed that I will be safe in Rieka, but its thousand miles away from Araceli. We have even travelled through boat to reach the border of the neighboring clan of Rieka. We cant use the roads and the usual ports, we have to divert our paths not to be followed by anyone who have ordered the attack of my precious clan.

I want to weep for the lost of my home but mother and father ensured that I will safely escaped. They have their reasons, so I have to live to know that reasons. I have to survive.

We've been inside of Rieka's ground unnoticed for almost a month when the strangers approached the young hunter in the woods. He seemed courageous facing us but his arrow is weak, I can tell by the way his fingers tremble. Poor lad, he maybe just older than me by two years.

I just remained quite while the stranger begged our way to their ground when a group of hunters arrived. I knew instantly that the one with a piercing eyes is one of the lineage of the Rieka leaders. He is an alpha, a very strong one.

He approached me and I secretly smiled when I gave him the glimpse of myself and he was obviously startled with surprise.

Without any more words he brought us to their main house where the great alpha and his family are living. I can sense their very powerful aura.

Words are exchanged, questions have been asked and answered. They would occasionally looked at me but no one paid too much attention. I was introduced as a ten year old boy and no one questioned, I dont even wonder why. I just felt my heart constrict everytime I am made aware of the presence of the cloak. It was from my mother whom I dont know if I would ever see again with my father.

I was orphaned because of the war, a war that no one knew of the reason. Mother and father fought together side by side. It was crazy when father forbid me to fight when he fully knew that I can, instead he made me escape like a coward, abandoning my people.

Everyone gasped with obvious confusion in their faces when I took off the cloak. I dont know what they saw that made them such reactions.

"Aedion of Araceli" I politely introduced my self.

"I beg for shelter in your clan great alpha Quinn, omega Ariella and alpha Vidarr" I politely added, nodding at each one of them.

They stared at me with their intense gaze but I dont feel intimidated because Im waiting for their agreement. Im fulfilling my parents command, to be in this place no matter what. Weve been through difficult trek just to reached this land, I have to acquire their approval so I could stay and be safe here.