Chapter 27

No longer willing to tease her, Nick said "You both get to keep your lives".

Hearing this Adalind heaved a sigh but Katherine still had worry written all over her paralysed face.

"Now Sean, let's get to the bottom of the story. What did you want from me that you decided to pull such a stunt" asked Nick. He knew that Sean planned on using him as a pawn in his game of throne, but didn't know what exactly he had wanted him to do. 

Sean did not answer the question, making Nick believe that he had wanted to use Nick as a meat shield, a cannon fodder for his ambitions. Nick did not get angry at this. He knew that Sean was a self serving, cunning bastard in a literal sense and would calculate about everything and always tries to join forces with the winner. For his ambition, Sean didn't hesitate to use his own daughter to threaten Adalind into joining forces with black claw at the later stages of the series. Compared to that Nick was nothing.

"Go on, spill it out. The worst had already happened. What could hurt you more than this".

After repeatedly being proddled by Nick, Sean spilled about all his designs he had for Nick, starting from using him as a distraction for Verrat under his cousin's command and if he survived that, he had planned on using Nick to kill all his competition one by one by one by putting them against each other before officially ascending to the throne as the sole heir of Konigsburg House.

'Well, that's one hell of a plan and in the canon he had damn near succeeded. After all, apart from Viktor Konigsburg, none were alive. Eric and Kenneth were killed by Nick himself, Sean had killed Anton and the head Frederick got done in by Meisner but ended in giving up the thought of royalty after a new side with a power enough to change the tides of time rose in the name of black claw'.

Thinking up to this Nick felt the danger which Sean posed for him and was truly tempted in killing him, but resisted this urge. He knew that now was not the time. In fact joining hands with him would be the best way to go about it. Maybe he would end up getting dragged into the clash of royals earlier but this war was inevitable. They would try to find the keys which would lead to the Zerstorer's staff without knowing about its powers and the danger it possesses.

Teaming up with Sean would give Nick access to his resources and I am pretty sure he would keep an eye out on me, even make me kill and gather it as evidence to use it against me, but this is a game on both sides and I'll do the exact same thing while keeping my guard against him. On the surface it would seem like we were working together, while in actuality we would also be investigating against each other.

'Looks like I'll be in bed with the devil' Nick sighed and said with a smile "Why not, I don't mind helping you. See how simple is this, all you had to do was to ask me and I would have agreed. Instead you idiots tried to attack me. You got what you deserved, right?".

"Eh!!" Both Sean and Adalind had their ears buzz. 

While Sean couldn't believe what he heard and quickly tried to think from a rational view point about the reason Nick would personally involve himself in this muddy swamp, Adalind was questioning her very life.

'That simple, all we needed to do was ask? Then for what reason did I go through so much trauma. For what reason did my mother get almost strangled to death and later paralysed. That stupid cunt, all he needed to do was ask Nick and he acted as if he was a genius strategist and even gave a monologue of how he would become a king just from making Nick drink the potion' with this thought, all her hatred went from Nick to Sean.

"Fuck you motherfucker, because of you, it's all because of you and your pathetic scheme that I had to go through that, you thought you could outwit anyone, guess what, you only fooled yourself. You nearly got me and my mother killed because of your stupid ass ambition and plans, and you want to fuck me as a trade for my mother's knowledge and powers? Fuck you, the only one who is going to fuck you is the old bitch and if you get tired of her old cunt, use your fucking hand or go get a fuck toy".

May be because of all the stress she was in as of late and her mother's constant pressure, asking her to sleep with Sean and the failure of today's event and the life threatening trauma she had gone through by watching her mother get choked out right in front of her, all the stuff which had been going through in her mind burst out as flood. She not only trolled Sean but as the words came at full flow, she lost any semblance of respect for her mother. 

The hall was for the nth time, stunned in silence. Nick had his mouth wide open as he watched Adalind tear through all the ancestors of Sean. She did not leave out even the great ancestors who were responsible for forming the house of Konigsburg in Austria and seemed not to spare even her mother. The uncouth words which were spat from her mouth was like venom making Katherine almost break out of her paralysis. 

"Well as interesting as this sounds I need you to shut your mouth for a few more minutes, at least until our negotiations get complete". Nick finally broke the silence as his patience was starting to run low. 

Meanwhile inside the St. Joseph hospital, Monroe slowly opened his eyes and scanned inside the room. All the equipment and the smell of disinfectant screamed that he was in the hospital. He tried to move his body but stopped after seeing the cast on his shoulder and leg. 

Though he couldn't feel the pain, he could see that he was severely injured from the accident. "Oh man, this is gonna cost a fortune". Monroe wasn't a big fan of spending and usually took care of himself well to avoid coming to the hospital. But fate seemed to have other designs in his life. 

He did not know who was the guy that attacked him. Though Monroe was shocked by the sudden arrival of the car, he knew that he got T-boned. This means that now he was being targeted and it had something to do with the club he belonged to in the past. 

To be honest it was just an Iron Ranch, at least that's how it was meant to be until one day when things turned dark. Looking at the ceiling of the hospital, visions of the past came to him one by one.

Visions of him playing around as a teenage kid of 12 years just starting to hit puberty when he got enrolled in the iron ranch. He would end up hunting rabbits or chicken. Shouting and scrambling on all four, giving way to his primal instinct, becoming one with his true nature. Those were the times of his life. After graduating from being a teenager, he along with other wesens in Germany got together to start a hunting campaign in the woods leading to the black forest in Wolfach. 

This was when he was 16 years of age. From deer to bears and sometimes even wolves which get lost from their pack were hunted by them. During this hunting campaign they gained a strong bond towards each other. They learned each other's weaknesses and trained to cover for each other. With each successful kill their prowess increased and with increase in power, increased their carnal and animalistic side.

Many like himself, Conrad, Cerrone, Galvin started walking this darker path thanks to Conrad and at that time the campaign itself split into 2 factions, the hunters and the menschenfressers aka the man eaters. The hunters did not know about their presence as it was amongst these hunters the man eaters were handpicked by Conrad himself, the head of the man eaters faction. 

They had their hands on kidnap and murder of almost 63 different families over the years and most were tourists. They would get conned in the form of sightseeing guided by chaperones. Many old school wesens from really high position took part in this courtesy of Conrad making them escape the law for many years and Monroe himself was part of it for about a year before leaving Germany all together. 

Visions of his first kill to visions of developing empathy unlike his friends flashed past Monroe's eyes. There was guilt, pain and conviction which made Monroe become a wieder Blutbad and eventually turn into a vegan courtesy of Angelina. The last of the visions before he closed his eyes to sleep was a 5 year old boy whom he allowed to escape the group from being killed.