Chapter 44: Blue Road I
Edgar paused for a while and thought to himself that this might be the end where his brother Skylar gets what he wants, which is Elaine, the power of the blue stone pack, and every other pack in the region.
“We cannot let this happen, we need to protect ourselves at all cost even if we die trying” Lewis said trying to raise everyone’s spirit when he saw the sad look on their faces.
“No Lewis, we are not going to stay here and wait for an immortal army to storm our gates, we gather very little we have” Edgar said and everyone turn to him like he spoke of an abomination.
“You want us to run? You’re the head of these lands and your advice to us is to run away without trying to fight for our lands?” One of the elders said as he stood up to confront Edgar.
“Do you want to stay here and wait for the inevitable or you want to give yourself a fighting chance by going away from here and aligning with other packs as we find a way to fight an immortal army?” Edgar said with a cold tone to the elder who was immediately intimidated by his words.
“You are doing something you will regret, In my years of experience this is not the right approach for a situation like this” the man said summoning up courage even if he felt goosebumps all over his body.
“Years of experience? How many wars have you fought in your many years of experience ?” Edgar said and they all turned to look at him.
“Everyone” Brandon said standing up as he tried to lighten the heavy air that came with Edgar’s intimidating aura.
“This is not a war that can be won by weapons and fighting, this is a war that can only be won by our passion to survive, Skylar is closer than we all think and if we sit here and allow him to block the blue roads, we are all stuck here tillwe die.
“We need to come up with a way to end this, a way to stop Skylar, we need the help of other packs” Brandon said trying to speak sense into the pompous elders that sat on the table.
Elaine looked at Edgar and she saw rage in his eyes, his pupils were already black and he was doing all he could to contain the anger that was building up in him. She gently placed her hand on his and looked into his eyes giving him a gentle smile which soothed his anger mildly.
“You’ve heard him, we will do as they say please send word to everyone from the citadel to all the lower towns across and within the border, we match before nightfall” Elaine said before one of the elders cut her off.
“But Your highness” he said trying to counter her words.
“No Arnold, we are doing this, you’re all dismissed now” she said showing him that she didn’t need his opinion on the matter.
“Yes your Highness,” he said, and soon they all left the room leaving Elaine with Edgar who just stared at the door they walked out from.
“I’ve failed to be the one that protects the werewolf race from my brother who betrays his own” Edgar said.
“He is not your brother” Elaine said in a calm voice.
“He is a monster but we share the same blood,?” Edgar said with furrowed brows.
“He is a hybrid, he is not your father’s son, his mother lay with a vampire and bore him” she said explaining to him.
“That’s impossible, I saw him change several times to his wolf” Edgar said more confused.
“His mother did a good job at hiding it, pure blooded hybrids are dormant till they taste blood for the first time, he was dormant till the day your father died” Sapphire continued and she saw his face change to an inexplicable expression.
“This is no good news, Skylar is a vicious beast and at worse he is the king. This is going to be a long cold war” Edgar said as he stared at the door in realization that things have only gotten worse, he doubted his strength now that he knew that his brother he had known all his life was a hybrid.