Chapter Twenty

[P.O.V. Dark King]

Everything is coming along quite nicely. Evanora tried to teach Alexander how to become a soul sucker. He tried to suck my soul and absorb the power I have collected over the years. The one thing they didn't know that I have learned over the years. Is that any soul can fight for the soul sucker body. By doing so, one of the souls will be destroyed; rather, it's the soul or the soul sucker.

Now I have a new body just until I get the body I actually want. Anything better than being in that mirror. After receiving this temporary body. I gave Evanora what she deserved. Then I introduce myself to my army even showed them who the true King was.

While I let Evanora rot in that cave, I have come up with her true punishment. It will even show my army not sneak behind my back. Creating a witch-burning stake, I am going to destroy her and take her powers. Making myself even stronger, and once I'm stronger. I plan on attacking the Stone Kingdom.

[P.O.V. Adriana Braxton]

Getting to the Fallen Kingdom, the Triplets, Jolene, and I. Found the Fallen King tomb, and it is amazing. It was underneath the castle in a huge stone room. With different stone pillars, some even looked like wolves and dragons. There was a huge stone coffin with different ancient writing and pictures. Carved into the side of the stone coffin.

Kneeling and looking at the carvings. Tracing a picture of a wolf with a crown on its head with my finger, Shiloh stands next to me.

"The carvings tell the story about how the fallen King died. It also talks about how the King will be reborn into another body." He says all smart like.

"If the pictures tell a story, then what with the writing?" Asking him, trying to see if he knows.

"Usually has to do with prophecy or last words for a great ruler."

"You mean you don't know what it says?" Standing up and trying not to laugh at him.

"No, I don't speak that language is very ancient. The one you're going to have to ask is Milo. He's the brains out of us three, Milo!" He yells for his brother. Milo walks over to us.

"What?" Milo asks

"Can you read what this writing says?" Asking him. He steps closer to the coffin and starts mumbling some weird language.

"It talks about the prophecy about the King being reborn and.." He keeps reading it. "Also talks about something to do with his sword. I don't know what because the stone was chipped."

"If that the case, then let's open it up and see if it's inside." Gilo joins in. All of us agreeing the boys open the lid.

Inside the coffin, there laid the Fallen King bones. Along with the King's jewelry and non-original crown. His sword laying on top of him. Milo picks it up and starts examining it.

"That not the sword, Adri," Raina says.

"What? What do you mean that not the sword?" Asking her back.

"Trust me on this. I don't remember what it looks like. But I remember the feeling it gave." Trusting my wolf, the boys start walking out of the tomb, admiring the sword. Shiloh looks back towards me.

"Coming, My Queen?" He asks.

"That's not the sword." Saying bluntly. He walks back towards me.

"What are you talking about?" He seemed a little confused.

"Just trust me, okay?"

"Okay.." Listening to what I have to say.

"Raina says the sword is still here, the one there holding is not it. The day Tanasha died, she was speaking in riddles. The one thing she said is somethings may look deceiving. What if she was talking about the sword?"

"If that was the case, then where would the true sword be?"

"Tanasha said it's in the tomb. She never said it was buried with the King. What if it's in this room somewhere? Raina said it gives off a feeling of great power, good power." Shiloh rubs his head in frustration. Starting to think he wasn't on the same page as me.

"Okay, so where do you want to start looking?" He says. Giving him a big and happy hug. We get the others and tell them to keep looking.

After looking for hours and not finding anything, we make camp outside. It absolutely pretty here huge green trees, flowers, a small little stream, and the sounds of the forest. I bet the castle was gorgeous before it became rubble. Everyone was asleep beside Shiloh and me. We were enjoying sitting by the campfire. What would make this even better is Zyston being here; I miss him terribly. Thinking about Zyston, I wonder how He and Shiloh met? With my curiosity wondering.

"Hey Shiloh, how did Zyston and you meet?" My uncontrollable mouth speaks.

"That a long story." He says while taking a bite out of some deer we hunted earlier.

"Come on. We have the time." He sighs and puts his food down.

"It was way back in the day before all Witch Hunter's became corrupted. Back when they actually did their jobs." He takes a drink of water. "Before I met Zyston, I did a lot of bounty hunter work. To make money to take care of my Mate and me."

[P.O.V. Shiloh Harrison]

...........Flash Back...........

I'm sitting in a pub drinking some beer. Trying to drink my worry and guilt away. While my Mate, Roselia, is upstairs sleeping in a paid room here. We're on the run, thanks to my stupidity.

I did a job for a Witch; I slew a whole village of evil witches and warlocks. She told me to take a potion before entering the village. To protect me from their magic, I did what my employer instructed. Come to find out this Witch tricked me into slaying a whole village of innocent humans. She had me slay them because a thief there stole the Witches pendant. The potion she gave me was to make it all an illusion. To make me believe they used magic when they really didn't.

Because of slaying the village, I am now being hunted. By bounty hunters called Witch Hunter's. They hunt down evil beings. Bringing the bodies back to their village to get paid.

Finishing my drink, telling the bartender to give me another one. Looking around a man sitting at another table. With a brown cloak covering his identity drinks as well. Something about him seems familiar to my dragon, Titus. Couldn't quite figure out what. Being served my new drink, a blade was pressed against my throat.

"Did you really think you could run from us? We keep the order between evil and good. No, matter where you would of went, we would find you. Now, how about we go up to the room you paid for? and not make a huge scene." A woman voices whispers in my ear.

Moving quickly and grabbing her arm, flipping her over me onto the table I was drinking at. Two other Witch Hunter's attacked me. Fighting them off the best I could while feeling drunk. People were running out of the pub or taking cover from the fight.

Two of them grab me from behind, choking me the best they could. While the female Witch Hunter ran towards me with a blade in her hand. I thought this was the end of my life. Before she could even reach me, the man I saw earlier. Grabbed her from her neck, slamming her into the floor, breaking her neck.

It took me by surprise that this stranger was willing to help me. After he broke her neck, I gather some strength to fight off the two behind me.

A few more Hunter's joined the fight, and the stranger helped me fought them off. While fighting them off, I could hear my Mate scream; I could feel her fear. Trying to fight off the Witch Hunter's, I was ambushed by a few of them. Worried about my Mate safety, I blackout for a few minutes. When I started to wake from the blackout, there was Witch Hunter blood and bodies everywhere.

My eyes adjusting from the blackout a woman in a beautiful white nightgown. With long curly brown-reddish hair. The most gentle dark brown eyes. She was touching my cheek, asking me to come back to her. Once fully out of my blackout, the woman standing before me was my Mate, Roselia.

Hugging her tightly to me, thanking the Moon Mother for protecting her. Roselia told me about how the stranger saved her. Taking her by the hand, I go out of the pub. The stranger stood there, looking at the forest that surrounds this place. Thanking him and asking for his name and to see the identity of him.

"My name is Zyston Woods." He says calmly. Taking off his hood, he turns around. The moment I looked into his eyes, my dragon, Titus. Recognized the two beasts that shared his body.

Titus and I knew who my brothers and I were. We were the bodyguard of the new future Queen. But to meet and fight by the future Kingside, we were amazed, and we felt honored.

"Our beast's recognize one another. You know who I am, and I know who you are. I think something worth talking about. What do you say?" The future King asks.

"Indeed." Going back into the pub, we sit down and have a drink while we talked.

......End of FlashBack.......