As the dining room became empty of all the pack members, Edwin took a seat right next to Alexa, and Diego took his place right behind her, Lucius snorted some mean comment about how precious the Queen was now to have two vampires guarding her even in her castle. Charles avoided contact with the queen's eyes, "What is it, Charles? What did you found that's making you afraid to tell me?"
He looked at her, finally, seeing her brown mixed with green eyes, like it was reading his soul which sent Charles in a rubor, "I broke down the door for the forbidden library!"
"All right, did you found anything useful, of what I've asked you to?" She asked getting straight to the point.
"Yes, I've found many things, some of them I even wished I haven't found," he began and stared to Alexa, who gave him the courage to keep going with just a look, "Well, for starters, a hybrid is born out of a vampire and werewolf couple, which makes the vampire a Lycan, I believe it has to do with the mating bond..." he stopped suddenly, looking attentively to Edwin, "Did you became a Lycan?"
"Yes Charles, he became a Lycan, please, get forward, I still need to speak with Arya!" Asked Alexa, with an arched eyebrow, she knew how he could be distracted with his curiosity.
"All right... All right. It's written that in primordial times, it was usual to see the mated Lycan pair, a vampire, and a werewolf that found their true mate in each other, if by any chance they mated wrongly both of them would die, this couple was created to maintain order and balance in the werewolf and vampire community, once they were living alongside, they stopped many wars from the start, they were used as a mediator between the two species and their word was sovereign, not even kings could hold power over them. But when greed started to consume the old king's vampires and werewolves alike, they started hunting these couples and signed a treaty between them that any mated Lycan pair should be killed on sight, as for their children, that was the question, it was hard to conceive one and harder yet to raise one, once it had both sides of the parents and a touch of elemental power. The children of these couples couldn't handle the power, usually ending in madness, especially if they became orphans without any bound to teach them and to guided them. As Lycan mated couples were rare, they didn't live in a community of their own but integrated into a community of werewolves or vampires, so when the mated couple dies no one can teach the children how to handle herself and her power. I'm sorry Alexa, that was everything I found on the hybrid subject, however, there is a prophecy, that when the world is truly divided when there doesn't seem to be a way through peace, a Mated Lycan Couple will flourish, to guide us into either everlasting peace and coexistence or the end of everything we hold dear, it's hard to read prophecies once they are written in old Zuletre, which is a language born before the two kingdoms were formed. It also said that if said couple raised a child she would become the most powerful ruler ever existed, for better or for worse." Charles finished, getting his head down as if saying sorry for being the bearer of bad news.
"Thank you, Charles, you may leave." Dismissed Alexa, her hand instinctively rose to her belly, where she knew a new life form was being raised.
"Did you know about the killing of Lycans?" Asked Edwin looking sharply towards his uncle who kept the same posture of not caring.
"I'm old, but I'm not that old! I've never seen a Lycan before you turned in front of me. Neither have I seen such a document that incites the hunt of Lycans, but I can't tell that I disagree with their choice!" Lucius snapped, faking being offended, Edwin only rolled his eyes and turn his attentions to Alexa.
"I don't believe in prophecies! And I know that we will raise that child with our values, so with a mother like you, she can't turn bad." Edwin reassured her, touching her hand, Alexa only smiled a simple and somewhat sad smile.
"And you Arya, do you have anything to tell me?"
"Not any good news, I've contacted the Council, they don't care and won't help us in, either way, I was told to get back there and not even trying to face Flavius!"
"Why? Haven't we uphold our end of every treaty they shoved us in?" Asked Alexa, showing some signs of being angry.
"I know Alexa, but they are only a bunch of old coward men, and I've said that to my father, also refusing to go back and step aside from the fight, I'll be here to whatever the end is, you're my family, not that crooked old man that only used me to gain more power inside the Order."
Alexa was shocked about what she was hearing from Arya, she stood up and hugged the other woman, she knew that all Arya ever wanted was the approval of her father, to make him proud, to have chosen the werewolves instead of her own family it was a truly loyal trait of her, and also as she felt about the Royal Pack of Zulcan.
"Now that this is settled in we have a war to plan!" Explained Alexa with a crooked smile. "There is a team already in the field, right?"
"Yes, Michel team, I believe Patricia and Schirouca we're about to meet them."
"I want ten soldiers with me, we will go to the camp to see if Lucius can persuade some of his warriors to fight for him, but, just in case, we lay some traps on the way back to the castle, we will have to follow a correct path, so if they follow us they will fall into the traps, we'll have three days to complete the traps, and I want the team that's already outside to be with us, so you just have to find more three and two wolves to accompany me! Sent workers and soldiers to make the traps, but when the time comes I want our best archers on the walls and our best soldiers on the gate to close it right behind us! Did you understood?" Alexa explained carefully, making even Lucius tilt his head to hear her strategy, Edwin looked in awe towards her.
"Yes, My Queen! It shall be done!" Arya proclaimed with a smirk on her lips, she made a courtesy and left carrying her orders.
"When did you become so versed in battle strategy?" Asked Edwin.
"I always found it fun to play scenarios and trying to defeat my opponent, I used to play with my father. He would deal me with a war scenario and I had to beat him. If I couldn't he would tell me to research more and come back when I had the answers, but it was my mom who helped me most of the time!" Alexa explained shrugging her shoulders.

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Fated Enemies
FantasyWhen enemies from two different possessive species are united with a comun goal can only mean destruction or love. Will Alexa choose Edwin to be with her forever even if that means that they will go against everyone else's opinion and traditions... ...