#10 Revenge

She was carried to an isolated underground cell that was within the castle as fast as they could. They had spent more time than they expected and were expecting the alpha king to start a search for his second anytime soon.

After seven hours...
Jack asked; “Your majesty, it’s been two hours now. Should we go search for her?” Another obvious reason for Matt’s worry was the fact that Lilly was roaming through the thick forest alone, there was no telling what sorts of dangerous creatures lurked around.
The alpha king’s emotions had been on a rollercoaster unlike before when he was alone, he felt no emotion, due to the death of his loved ones. Especially his sister’s death which scarred him.
He also could not help but feel like it was a completely terrible idea, what had he been thinking to leave her without guards to protect her? She was a target and every rogue wolf would be unto her.

“Go with a search party of twenty men and find your queen”, he sighed sitting down on his throne. “Very well, your majesty”, Jack said, bowing down, he turned to leave the room but was called back almost immediately,
“Please bring her back safely”, he pleaded, his vulnerable state almost breaking Jack’s heart. He had never seen the Alpha king like this before, it was so rare and inexistent.
“You have my word ”, he said with a smirk on his face, he placed his hand over his chest, where his heart was and bowed before exiting the presence of the king and he headed to Luke the second in command to deliver the message the king said.
Lilly had lost track of time as she had fallen asleep in the cell; the last thing she remembered was when Jack had choked her with a handkerchief that had sleeping medicines.

Suddenly, as Lilly woke up in pain, pressure built up in her chest as she tried to lose free, I balled my hands up into a fist and pulled my arms. There was another clang of metal and sharp pain in my wrists.
She shook on the floor like a worm, her head twitching in different directions, she twisted her back trying to lose herself from the ropes “please, help me!” she cried.
There was an echo of foot walking towards her,
she smelt another scent coming towards the cell with candlelight, it was a very familiar scent, which she had taken in. As he walked closer the scent became stronger, “Who is that?”, she yelled then she saw her butler Jack in her presence,
I thank my stars, it's you Jack, please free me. I don't know who kidnapped me and tied me up. He looked at me with a devilish smile, don’t try to play dumb with me, like you don’t know I kidnapped you.
"Jack" What do you want from me? Do you want money? Power? women? I can give you all of that." She tried to sit but it was too much of an effort. It's funny but your father asked me the same question before he died. Well before you ask any questions I would tell you why I kidnapped you.

Years ago...
Finally, the day of the meeting was here, a bell was rung twice to announce the commencement of the meeting all elders high and low class gathered in a rush towards the castle of king Brock.
Even though they thought it would be a waste of time. Due to hunger, they were all present because of the need to solve the hunger crisis. The merchant in a rush to get to the meeting stopped and remembers that he forgot to take the magic fertilizer.
Before leaving his house, he always gives the beggar that sleeps opposite him home some money to buy food, then in a hurry runs to the castle. With the meeting about to start the king was given wine to help him think straight, in a rush the merchant got to the castle and handed over the magic fertilizer to the guards.

The guards handed the potion over to king Brock, he marveled at the sight of the potion, and slowly he dropped his wine on the handle of his throne. Out of curiosity, he asked the merchant “what sort of sorcery is this, why does the bubble in the potion go down instead of up? “
The merchant replied saying “I acquired the magic fertilizer from the witch doctor that visited our land” The king replied saying “you mean the witch doctor of the land ruled by werewolves?’’ Yes my lord said the merchant.
Out of annoyance, he threw his wine toward the merchant leaving a slight cut on his face. Anything that has to do with werewolves should not be at my sight, for I do not want anything to do with such creatures.
Swiftly the potion was removed from the sight of the king and was thrown on land with no milk or honey. Tension raised in the chamber with the king feeling uneasy he was offered wine to reduce his anger, everyone drooled at the sight of the wine because of little or no food.
They proceeded with the meeting, everyone coming up with different ideas on what could be done to solve the issues but the king turned a deaf ear. He stated that “the cause of the problem is that the witch doctor came from the land ruled by werewolves, his voodoo, and black magic caused famine upon our land’’.
We need to please our land for the gods are angry, the witch doctor needs to be buried alive on a cross as a sacrifice for the god of our land. Some agreed with him while others were on the fence about his observation of the situation.

The existence of the witch doctor was said to be the cause of our issues in the Rozzano region where humans dwelt. Because of his voodoo, the inhabitants of Rozzano began to despise the werewolves and the witch doctor for bringing hunger to their land.
On a random day, the merchant was walking out of his house when he observed a small plant sprouting out of his backyard; he had no idea that his magical fertilizer had been dumped there.
Because of the temperature, he didn't seem disturbed and assumed he was seeing something different. When he arrived at his house, he couldn't stop thinking about how a leaf could grow in my yard without rain.

He came out of his backyard at night to check and then noticed that the plant had beard edible fruits. With so much excitement on his face, He went in to tell his wife about the miracle that happened in his backyard.
Both of them with tears of joy said to each other, finally the hunger crisis of our region can be solved. They both started building fences around the backyard to secure the land, they worked day and night in the field, and within days different kinds of fruits grew in their backyard.
With this, he opened a fruit stand and was able to take care of his wife and son. Within minutes word got around that there is a fruit stand selling fruits in the region.
He made profits day after day,
he and no one in his generation had ever made that much money before, word got to the king that there is a great trader selling fruits within the region. But the king didn’t believe it, he thought to himself how could our land bear fruit with no rainfall, the king invited the merchant to the castle with a carriage.

The merchant felt honored to be in a royal carriage since no one in his family has been honored this way. The merchant arrived at the castle and was taken to the presence of the king.
King brock feeling like this is a Deja vu and said to the merchant ‘’my nobleman you look familiar, have we by any chance met before” The merchant replied saying ‘’Yes, your majesty we have met before, I was the man that offered you a magic fertilizer from the witch doctor that visited our land.
Out of anger, you threw your wine towards me leaving a slight cut on my face, don’t tell me you have forgotten. The king said to the merchant “let bygone be bygone, we are noblemen, let the past remain in the past. We have pressing issues to discuss,
I have done a lot of thinking and I want to acquire your land and am willing to give you anything women, riches, just name your price."