Fated Enemies

Chapter 45 - Desertions

They waited until a commotion was heard from outside the door, metal clinking against the metal of their armor, boots stomping on the ground, and the doors to the dining room opening suddenly, Alexa looked towards the group of six people, that for the smell she could tell, four of them were werewolves and the other two were vampires, she crossed her arms on her chest and examining them quickly, as they bowed their heads she spoke, slowly, "Who are you? And why are you here?"

"We heard your message to the werewolves, how we can be accepted here, without fear and abuse, how we can be treated equally and without being wild!" A short woman spoke, taking a step forward, "We want an opportunity to show our worth, without being on a bed or taking up arms!" she finished, looking Alexa in the eyes as if defying her to contradict herself.

"We want to go back to our master! This isn't our fight if it isn't his, we only head Morgaine's call to pick up arms, because we were misled, she said our master was dead and that the werewolves caused it!" A tall man with a pale constitution spoke.

Alexa arched a brow, seeing that they weren't talking anything else she added, "I've asked who you were too! I don't like to repeat myself." She retorted.

"Sorry, your majesty, we forgot to introduce ourselves, is just that your offer only seems too good to be true! I'm Elank, the one that spoke is Hera, with me, I also have Daria and Ingrid." spoke a man taking a step ahead to position himself in the same line as Hera and one of the vampires.

"Prince Edwin knows who we are, no introductions are needed!" The vampire told her, with some displeasure to have to give satisfaction to a werewolf in his time of voice that didn't go unnoticed by Alexa.

"You're in my Kingdom, in my Castle, and in my house, you'll introduce yourselves, I'll not tolerate any lack of respect either to me or to my people, is that understood?" Alexa punched the table, looking straight into the woman's eyes.

"Yes, your majesty! Sorry for Flicka, she was always somewhat strict to the vampires, my name is Harvey she as I've said is Flicka, she didn't mean any disrespect, she is only used to be taught to hate werewolves and to not abide anything they say." The other vampire apologized to the woman.

"We all deserve respect, even if we hate each other! But I'll let it slide today, but this is a warning, I don't want this to be repeated." Edwin looked at her with a smirk, he would've done the same. "Now that introduction is out of the way, welcome to Amora Castle before I'll ask for you to be taken to your rooms and food to be taken to you, I'll ask only if there is anyone here that knows about Morgaine, Flavius or Rufus plans to attack, remember, once you have deserted your post you can't go back, that's the hard truth, so it's better to share the information that you may have and help defend this Castle than to face former friends and superiors on the battleground, or worse."

"I was a bodyguard for Rufus, I know what his plans are to attack!" Elank spoke, looking down, as if ashamed of betraying his former master.

"Flicka can help you, she was one of the guards of the tent of Morgaine." Harvey offered, "I was supposed to be one of the guards, as I'm Captain of the Blood Line Guard, but they didn't trust me enough."

"Thank you. I'll ask that the guards will escort you to your rooms and the food to be served to you. But Elank and Flicka must remain behind, they will get there after we discuss some things. Major Thomas, you can take them to the North Wing." Alexa ordered, one of her soldiers saluted and mumble a "yes mam"

They waited for the room to be cleared, then Alexa called the two remaining members of the deserter's group to come close to her table, showing them the map, "Let me guess, the main force of the army will attack from the Northern wall, it's the lowest and weakest just not to talk that it has the gate which is just an incredible hole to waited to be open, but this will only work as distractions, because in a siege we have enough inside the gates to last weeks, not to mention that some of the outer villages have been alerted to our situation and might be on their way here, so if they waited weeks, they probably would found themselves between two armies and that unacceptable, so while the main army is attacking the North wall, Rufus, Flavius and Morgaine will come with a small team from the southern wall, its the tallest wall we have but with skilled soldiers and hikers, wouldn't be that hard, they will come from there and kill or nullify the leadership of Zulcan, as the head is cut so dies the rest of the body, right?"

The other two looked at Alexa astonished, each had a piece of the plan, and even before they opened their mouth this woman already knew it all, "How? How did you know?" Flicka asked?

"Isn't that hard to see that it's the only possible play here." She shrugged her shoulders, with a chuckle, silently proud that she had been right.

"There's only a thing, Morgaine won't come with the werewolf, she will lead the main army," Flicka added.

"There are only wolves in the Rufus team." Elank also added. "At least it was that way when I left earlier this morning. There's a rift between the leadership, Rufus ain't talking with Morgaine, he thinks she's weak."

"Morgaine isn't speaking with either of them, she'll go through with the commitment because she gave her word, but she isn't liking it. She felt betrayed by Flavius who didn't tell her all before trying to kill Lucius and Rufus is always undermining her like she is inferior and not his equal."

"He thinks women aren't worth, he thinks women are property, so, usually, he treats lower than a dog." Explained Elank.

"I almost feel pity for her," Alexa began," But after all that, she did to me and Edwin, all that she caused us because of her plans, I can't, she dug her own grave!"

"She is mine!" A voice sounded, behind them, "I like the idea of secret tunnels!" Lucius comes from behind a shelf, Alexa looked at him with an arched brow. "I felt bored, so I began exploring your castle, found these tunnels by accident!" He explained dusting off his clothes, "as I've said, Morgaine is mine to do as I please, she betrayed me so by my ends she'll meet punishment."

Alexa changed a look with Edwin who shrugged his shoulders, "All right, but only in the battlefield, once the war is over she'll be presented to a trial and judged accordingly to her crimes!"

"I can live with that!" Lucius accepted.

"Then it's settled, let us prepare for the war!" Alexa announced, making everyone go to his tasks so everything would go accordingly to plan.