The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 915: THE REALIZATION

Chapter 915: THE REALIZATION

Lou’s condition made Iris very nervous. She couldn’t keep her mind straight when it was less than a month for him to get the cure he needed.

"There are many poisonous plant and disease in Ande Continent that you don’t have here. It is understandable that you lack of knowledge about this poison," Abby said to Grace when the healer looked very frustrated with her ability.

Meanwhile, Iris stayed silent the whole time. She held Lou’s hand and tried to heal him, but the problem was; Lou was a magic user, not a shifter, she couldn’t see his spirit.

Iris blinked her eyes. "Where is Cedric?" she asked, as if something just crossed her mind.

"He is with alpha Cane and alpha Cezi in the main tent. They are discussing the Golden Light pack," Grace replied and Iris immediately stood up to go there. "Luna? What happened?"

However, Iris already left, while her warriors scrambled to follow her. She didn’t have time for explanation, if there was a chance for her to save Lou, she didn’t want to waste her time.

Right now, they already reached Golden Light pack’s territory, but the people in the pack didn’t give them an easy time, they resisted to open their gates, showing unwillingness to join Cane’s cause.

Therefore, it would take a while before they could reach the Capital City and they hoped Decratic wouldn’t have regained his strength once they were there.

All this time, there was no news about him, but it didn’t mean it was a good thing, because the last report Cane received from Celestial Moon pack from one of his spies, it was more than two months ago.

There was also this dragon that they had to be worried about.

"Good morning, Luna!" Zale rushed to approach her when he saw the luna. It had been a while since he met her, because he was busy with his training to be a warrior. For this, instead of Zephyr, he got Joel as his tutor.

"Good morning, Zale," Iris replied his greeting hastily.

"Where are you going, luna? Are you looking for the alpha?" Zale asked, he ran beside Iris, but he seemed didn’t put an effort at all and if Iris was not in hurry, she would notice that this young boy had gotten taller since the last time she saw him.

"Yes," Iris replied almost immediately. She wanted to see Cedric, but meeting with Cane was always welcomed.

"But, the alpha is not in the main tent, he is going with Koda somewhere," Zale replied.

Hearing that, Iris stopped in her track. "Where is he going?" she frowned.

"I don’t know, but do you want me to track him down?" Zale asked eagerly.

"Do you think you can track the alpha down?" Zephyr asked. "Don’t cause trouble and roam around recklessly."

"I can do it!" Zale said confidently. He didn’t want to be looked down, especially in front of the luna. This young boy was still a stubborn brat, but he always talked nicely only with Iris.

Iris shook her head. "It’s okay." But then she remembered something. "Zale, come with me."

"Okay." His face lit up. He didn’t even ask where they would go or what he needed to do, he was like a puppy, who followed its master.

Iris went to the main tent and found Cedric with Cezi.

"I am sorry, but can I have a moment with Cedric?" Iris asked Cezi politely, Zale followed behind her, entering the tent, while the warriors waited outside.

He looked smug because he could enter the tent and they couldn’t. But, he gasped in surprise when he saw Cedric was there.

"What is he doing here?!" Zale blinked his eyes in disbelieve. "He is the knight, right?" Of course, he recognized Cedric, after all, he used to be the one, who discussed strategy with alpha Cane. His role was important for the people in the Holy Kingdom, but he had been missing, along with his other friend, Liam.

"Tone down your voice," Iris said sternly. Most of the people was still unaware of Cezi’s existence and Iris wanted to keep it that way.

Zale immediately clamped his mouth shut.

"I will take my leave," Cezi replied to Iris’s request, he bowed at her and then left.

Cane had started to warm up with him now after he was left with orders without giving a chance to be part of discussion and all that time, Cezi didn’t even make a single complain.

Before he left the tent, Cezi glanced at Iris over his shoulder, he could see why Cane dotted on her so much. She was the kindness person in this continent if he could say and he saw himself as still having a debt of gratitude to her that needed to be repaid.

However, he didn’t know how to start it, when this luna literally saved his and Arella’s life.

"How can I help you, luna?" Cedric asked once Cezi had left the tent. They were discussing about how to enter Golden Light pack and what kind of approach they would do when Koda came and talked seriously with Cane in low voice and the alpha ended the meeting abruptly.

"There are a few questions I wanted to ask you," Iris replied, she was straight to the point with her intention.

"Please, ask away."

Cedric’s attitude toward Iris changed. Probably because he knew he wouldn’t survive without the shifter and he most likely be killed again if he returned to the Holy Kingdom, or maybe because he finally accepted his fate as Iris’s protector, though he had never said it openly.

His loyalty was still on Abby, but his gratitude was on the luna. She was the one, who saved his life and such debt couldn’t be easily forgotten.

"I saw your spirit that night. That’s how I managed to find you." Iris glanced at Zale, making sure he followed the conversation. "What happened with you when you were supposed to be dead and I supposed not be able to see spirit unless they are shifters."

Because of what had been going on, they had not yet had a detail conversation about this.

"I am not sure, luna." Cedric looked like he was thinking about this thoroughly. "I only remembered the time when Rei slashed my throat, but after the pain, everything went dark. So dark."

Zale craned his neck, wanting to listen more. He felt important because the luna took him in this conversation, while Cedric wondered why this little boy was here.

"I feel like I was in a dark tunnel and have to keep going that’s when I saw a bright light."

"A bright light?"

"Yes, I thought the light came from the end of the tunnel, but now I realized that the light came from you and I have been following that said light to be able to get out from the darkness."

The light, the bright light. This was what that blind man told Iris. The bright light of the Serafim, which could guide a lost soul.

Iris didn’t know whether this made any sense, but she had a gut feeling that everything was related to one another and she needed Cane to discuss this, but before that, she needed to do something.

"I want to introduce you to Zale," Iris said, nudged the boy’s shoulder. "This is Zale and Zale, that is Cedric."

"Nice to meet you, Zale."

"I know him." Zale looked at Cedric. He didn’t like this knight. "But, why he is here?"

"He is here because he is one of my protectors, Zale, just like you and Lou," Iris blurted it out.

Zale widened his eyes, while Cedric didn’t look surprise, because he had heard about it before. "Him? But, why? Didn’t the Holy Kingdom’s people have been treating us badly?"

This was something Iris couldn’t answer about why the birthmark appeared on them. "Not, all of them bad, right?"

"Have you touched him?" Zale asked again, he meant the touch Iris did to him and Lou.

Iris blinked her eyes. She forgot about this. She did touch Cedric, but not the way she touched Zale and Lou.

However, when she explained to Cedric about this and he showed her his mark, the mark was already touched, though Iris didn’t remember she did it.

"What happened, luna?" Zale asked when he saw Iris was deep in thought, but Cedric shook his head, as if telling him not to bother her and let her to think.

No. Actually, it was not it. Iris might think about this in wrong way, she needed to take this from different approach.

Na chose them to be the protectors with their birthmark as the sign, but maybe it was because she touched their souls.

Just like how Na preserved her life essence and Lu, his soul. Their powers were beyond one could see with only their eyes. How Lu gave Na an ability to control the monster and the black wisp, while Na could see Lu’s soul. A lycan was a shifter too. But, it was not only a shifter, who had soul and spirit...

Iris only assumed it was limited to the shifter, but Na saw what she wanted to see and Iris saw Cedric’s spirit because their fate destined to be tangled together.

This realization was confusing and scattered, Iris needed to rearrange her thought first.

However, there was a loud noise in the distance, in which it followed by vicious roar and howl, the bell was rang arduously, giving them a warning that they were under attack!