Chapter 49

Samira
Another several days passed before I was mentally ready to see the All King… We were in our office, readying for a Zoomie meeting with him and the other kings. Tyson was making sure the connection was secure at his desk, while he’d linked the Omega Tech Support to stand by just in case.
The Dragon King was felled… The Cartels were rounded up on mass, and many of my people have been saved, about ten thousand. Across the country, and another twenty thousand all over the world.
Many had been missing, or thought dead, but now there was real progress. Wix put his fist down on the backs of his people who killed children…. He should.
They even had the nerve to call it baby’s breath, or babe’s breath…. Evil…
I saw a flash of what Asanguis did to Zang Xi….
I held my hand to my mouth. The urge to release my hay was strong….
Maybe I was overthinking it… We are the Realm King’s playthings, but at this moment, he plays nice. This world is merely a project he maintains because of Queen Harmony…. I saw for myself his true nature, but at the same time… a mate was involved.
They’re lucky he didn’t end all the wolves… There are certain races that are missing completely… like crock shifters, and kelpie.
I knew about the crock shifters though. Mama told me that story when I was little. They begged mercy and swore to give tribute, but when he arrived, they tried to attack him. He slaughtered and ate them all… Every single one. There are *no* crocks, kelpie, ratkin, or crowkin because he, or his generals destroyed them*all*…. And if there are, they must serve in secret, since I know at least I’ve never seen those races…
Yet… all I’ve seen of him currently, is his casual nature… How…. How ‘normal’ he is… Maybe he really did change?
“You don’t have to attend if you don’t want.” Siad Tyson… I held my head high, like Luna Gweneth. I will not disrespect myself, my mate, and the royal house being a timid mare.
Timid mares get trampled.
“I’m here for not only my people, but ours as well.” I said taking both his hands, and I pressed them to my forehead. He was warm… I could hear his steady heartbeat. That was soothing to be honest.
“Alright…I’ll have to get Carson to come up here after all.” He mumbled.
Within minutes, the blonde Omega with blue dyed hair fixed it… If he was able to shift, he wouldn’t dye it, because when we shift the color goes away. Many did dye their hair black before multicolored hair was de-stigmatized….
Before, even my people would tar their hair black, because the Church back then was shoot first, questions later.
‘Oh.” I said with a little surprise. He pulled my office chair next to his. His desktop had two screens, one that was loading the King’s meeting, and the other had …. At least a hundred icons. How he made heads or tails of that I wouldn’t know.
I was out for three days… and there was about a week of peace. Today, since it was scheduled, I put on my best professional suit. I matched my mate with a gold dress shirt, black tie and suit. We even matched with the fabric a classic wool, cashmere blend. I wore black heels too, even though they won’t see.
Well… when I say peace I meant more for the wolves…
The Unicorns and Elves finally found ours officially a day ago…. But there will always be a market, thus, we will never stop being hunted, just as humans are.
Many lower goblins told the locations of their bosses in exchange for their lives. Real progress was made because of my mate…
But Tyson…. Lately he’d become a little scary with his lack of tolerance. Any wolf who committed a serious crime got a serious punishment… There was little mercy… Even Fewer exceptions to laws.
I heard some of the higher numbers complain about it...
Tyson heard them, but chooses to let them. He said so long as the complaints don’t turn to plots, that he doesn’t care….
But I did.
Tyson was doing his best to not only clean up some of the lingering corruption, but also serve his people. He really was… but I worried a bit too.
We were the second to get the connection up. Grace and her mate, King Aureus the new Dragon King were already on. They had their own troubles. His people didn’t readily accept him, because during the war he didn’t pick a side.
After them was the Vampire Queen Lucia. She was here by herself. She was really pretty… Her hair was white, her skin was a rich chocolate, and her eyeglasses matched a lipstick red manicure. King Victor was out, but I’d seen him before. He was a tall black-haired man paler than me, and able to phase through walls…
Why he didn’t sleep, or why he wasn’t here I wouldn’t know. I doubt such a secretive race would openly share.
The Crown Beast Prince popped up next. He was a lighter chocolate than Queen Lucia’Anuli, The Witch Princess was now the new Queen Xi, however the true Witch King is marked by the Horned One, and serves him, so being on the council would be contradictory.
He can’t save a world he’s ordered to destroy. That was his command in the old times. I have no idea where he is, what he looks like, or if he’s still alive.
Goblin Prince Wix’lek, then my brothers popped up next.. I still missed my parents, but it’s better they slept…. While Saiyatok was the only defeated And killed king, if my brothers wanted to stay king… they’ll have to kill our parents.
I don’t think I could forgive that….but that is the alternative…
King Jerold, the Minotaur King, didn’t sleep because of his human mate Noah, but he also looked Really tired in his Secret Police uniform…
He’s been a king since before written history…. He does it because he must like keeping the peace.
The Holy Seat, Head of the Church of the Light, was also present… His pepper hair honestly looked more salt than pepper to me, and he was an older man, being the youngest present… but having the oldest face.
He isn’t the real Man King, Rodrick does something else somewhere else... but the old man’s position is the highest humans know of. They don’t know they have a King… One so strong, that his title is the Left and Right Hands of the Light.
Humans don’t need to know that their choices aren’t democratic…. They don’t need to know that they are actually cattle… and this world is a façade to keep them happy… It is why Rodrick does not come out, and why Xaxas thought it best to keep them unknowing.
After all, with his tight regulations, active man hunting is essentially not only illegal, but punishable by law. Only Headhunters can be freely culled, since they also aid in the illegal drug and supernatural parts trade.
Last was the Realm king as his true appearance and height.…. He held his miniature queen in his lap, being their in Byson City, Jentucky condo.. Behind him was an ornate, wall sized cage that held a bright red monitor lizard at least 10 feet long…. It sparkled like rubies. It laid there content as a fed cat, so I know it was well taken care of…
I found myself looking at the floor when my eyes met the All King’s.
“Let’s see here.” Said the Realm King, pulling out a large folder. “I, High King would like to welcome the new kings and queens. This is our first meeting with everyone. It’s been rough with all the change overs, except the Holy Seat. I spoke with Arviel; you’ll get the additional 15 years of life for your illegal kid’s sake.” He mumbled.
He got a nun pregnant… even though he was …. *so* old. He was given the additional years so he could see his child grow up…. That isn’t something Arviel was known to do, but it was good that the Realm King pulled favors to make it happen…
It made me realize I was wrong….
The Xaxas didn’t *have* to do that… but he did for peace. He did so no one would corrupt the Holy Seat’s son or daughter with poison and lies about the Night Court…
I could see that happening too…
The old times made the Church as aggressive as they needed to be to protect their people… But some of them really did go too far.
“Thank you sir.” Bowed the Holy Seat.
His wrinkled eyes were kind… His voice was too. It’s a shame they can’t marry, but it was a rule made during the war, after a Holy Seat forsook his duties to the Church for a woman…
That woman turned out to be a succubus, and she drained him dry on their wedding night….
Thus, the law was made, that no priest marry, though many had love children with nuns. It was kept hush-hush, but my family could see the secrets with their Glittering One title.