Chapter 107
Dylan POV
Why the fuck would there be a van completely packed to the brim with weaponry for a base that had no intention of fighting against the king? The only conclusion was, was that this place wasn't the true rebellion that was reportedly growing, not by a long shot.
"Ok..." I finally made my presence known to V as I walked out and stood with my arms crossed in front of me. "Get your answers straight, as I'm only going to ask once..."
Vs face dropped drastically at my sentence and the lady opposite her began to fiddle with her fingers slightly.
"What the fuck is this place?"
“Your grace…” the lady stood with V quickly dropped down to her knee and allowed her head to meet the floor. Just from her bow alone you could clearly see she was in fact a wolf. “It’s an honour to meet you, I heard you had been brought here.”
“You’re accent is western… you’re from around here aren’t you?” I was done with the bullshit, I wanted answers and I wanted them there and then. She was nothing but silent when it came to giving my question an answer, but honestly her silence told me everything I needed to know. “You’re from this sector… but which district?”
Again I was met with silence, my mind was racing with endless possibilities as to why a wolf, who clearly still resides in a pack, would be driving a truck full of weaponry and not only that but, also conversing with an enemy in what would typically be classified as enemy territory.
“You’re all gearing up for a war… and yet you wanted me to do what exactly? Sit still and stay out of trouble?” I was beyond angry, they all knew what the king had put me through. They all knew and yet, here they were, keeping me in the dark about things that were only progressing the way they were because the king showed his true colors when he was torturing me.
“We aren’t going to the war, we are simply helping the people that are… do you honestly think you are in the right head space to lead an army?” V tried to explain, but my head just shook in complete frustration. “You are still not eating, you are not sleeping and you definitely aren’t strong enough to even run around the lake. How do you intend to fight when you can barely catch your breath.”
Why the hell would she think I wanted to lead people? I wasn’t naive, I knew I was weak and I knew I was vulnerable, but I wasn’t going to stand by and watch other people fight my battles for me. I should have at least been given the choice.
“I know I’m not the way I should be, I’m not stupid, and I’ll be the first person to admit that the king really did completely fuck me up, in more ways than one, but I’ll be damned if I just sit idly by while the world reclaims order.” The wolf next to V smiled brightly and bowed her head again at me, while Victoria simply rolled her orbs in annoyance.
“So you’d prefer to get yourself killed over seeing what the world can become if it enforced change?” I don’t know how many times I had say it, but death genuinely wasn’t something I feared. No, I was more scared about never being free from this pathetic person I’d become. I was terrified of spending every single waking day of my existence, suffering as the victim of the tyrant of a king.
I was done cowering away from life, and I was done being scared of things that were simply out of my control.
“The world will never enforce change unless people like me force the hands of the lycans. As a species we are weaker, we lack training and resources…” I was ranting so much to V that I hadn’t even fully comprehended the growing audience in the clearing. “Our wounds heal five times slower than the wolves, and yet, if the kings reports are correct then the rebellion is growing. We may be feeble in their eyes but we outnumber them five to one.” I would have personally loved to see the world for what it could be, but my mind was far too fragile to even consider living through the inevitable battle. “I wouldn’t prefer to die over seeing both lycans and humans living as equals, but I am more than prepared to die in order for the world to get to that stage.”
“But… if you were to be killed then who would lead us into the new age?” A voice from behind me spoke and I spun on my heels to address the voice however was shocked when I saw just how many people had been watching my word vomit. There must have been over a hundred people waiting in anticipation of my answer.
I felt a lump form in my throat and the thought of being back in front of the world shot through me at full force. My heart began hammering in my chest and my eyes darted around each and every person. I felt my limbs begin to shake but these reactions my body had simply invalidated every word I had just said moments ago, and so, before I could panic any more than I already was, I clenched my fists tightly and took a deep breath, I knew I couldn’t lose it now. Especially not in front of everyone here.
“I’m not a leader. All I want is for the people I care about to be safe… I don’t intend to sit by and have other people fight the battle that I made escalate. King Josh needs to understand that he can take away any of our rights, but he can’t stop us from fighting to take them back.” I heard murmurs and nods of agreement. “The king isn’t invincible, he has weaknesses the same as us. I shot him, and he bled, he bled the same crimson blood that runs deep within our veins. Although his stamina is insanely high he still does eventually tire, the exact same way we do when we exert ourselves…” I thought about my words for the first time I managed to stop my word vomit and let spite cloud me slightly. Thinking back to the day the king burnt me mercilessly. My arm rose and my thumb rubbed across the large scarring on my forearm, and my fist clenched once again, before I looked back up at the people in front of me.
“A lycans biggest weakness is silver, I fully intend to utilize this information, after all, the king himself told me it.” I was met by a few looks of pity but I pushed them aside, I had to stop being bothered by what everyone else thought. I knew more than anyone that life was far too short to be worrying about the opinions of people, Freddie said he thought I was the strongest person he knew, it was about time I started to act like it.
“So you do intend to join the battle then?” I finally turned my head to meet Lewis’s, I wasn’t sure how much of my speech he had heard but he looked quite upset actually at the thought of me fighting. He of all people should have known I wasn’t going to cower away. “Is there anything I can say that would change your mind?”
I was confused about his question. I didn’t understand why he seemed so concerned but still I shook my head and watched him sigh then nod his head with a small defeated smile resting on his features.
“In that case, we will need to start building your strength up.” V much to my surprise actually and looked me in the eye before speaking.
“First things first is you’ll need to meet the alpha!”
The alpha? The alpha of what? Of where? I’d just escaped the alpha king and now I was being forced to meet with yet another Lycan who thinks he’s in charge of things.
Bloody typical. **Thats another chapter uploaded. Just a heads up, there will be a time jump of a few months happening in an upcoming chapter, it's just to keep the story relevant, it will make sense once its happened i promise. that being said it isn't happening just yet, so please enjoy the story and comment your predictions. I would love to hear them. **
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