Chapter 70: Frost Moon & Viridis Elit

The council was sending its warriors - a mix of lycans, witches, fae, and vampires. My dad was sending additional lycan warriors. Samiya contacted a few covens that would help and Phoenix was sending some additional fae warriors.

It would take them some time to arrive. In the meantime, the scouts and I would watch. We would stop what we could but there were too few of us to do much. Frost Moon and Viridis Elit would be given a chance to surrender. If they didn’t, they would be wiped out. They would only get the one chance. Only the children would survive this if they don’t surrender. No trials this time.

The reinforcements arrived over the next two days. I set us up in the mountains so it was easier to see the surrounding area. Frost Moon was located just below us. I had the fae put up a camouflage barrier so we wouldn’t be detected. We would go in at night fall with speed and stealth. Our targets were their leadership. We got lucky that the coven was staying on pack lands.

Under the cover of darkness, we swept in and grabbed the alpha, beta, gamma, and the witches’ leader while they slept. The fae took care of the patrols.

“Will you surrender peacefully?” I asked.

“Never. We will never surrender to you. You came into my land and stole us from our beds. How dare you!” The alpha exclaimed.

“How dare you, sir! I gave a proclamation declaring this kind of thing off limits and you dared to defy me. Plus you stole those children from their beds, now you know how they feel.”

“I did no such thing,” The alpha protested.

“I watched you do it and even stopped you a few times. Not only are you defying me but you are endangering the supernatural world. The human authorities are looking into the kidnapped children and infants you took from them. And as punishment you will all die.” I said as I slit his throat. “Go, kill everyone of them and find the missing children.” I commanded. They slit the throats of the other leaders and began going into the houses.I looked at Savannah and Samiya. “Take back the children to our camp and have the doctors check them out.” Then I started a fire to burn the corpses.

After it was all done and the clean up was taken care of, we headed back to our camp. The doctors checked out all the children. We were now tasked with sorting them according to species. The human children we would take to the nearest hospital in Denver. The lycan children we would take with us to the next pack where we would call other Alphas to come get them. The older children were able to tell us which pack they came from but we had no idea about the others. Any lycan children not claimed would become the responsibility of the council. Hopefully, the alphas would know which children were from their pack and be able to claim all of them. But it was hard to tell if a child was of rogue parents.

All the infants were claimed. A few of the other children were not. We had three children - approximate ages of one, three, and four- who were likely rogue or taken from a pack further away. We took them home with us. Until we could find their families, they would stay in the packhouse at Hyacintho Lunar. Savannah would put a call out to as many packs as she could and put the word out that we had three children looking for their families. Hopefully, we would find their packs. Tracking down rogues was almost impossible to do, they lived in human communities and seldom visited packs.

When I arrived home, I was greeted by Ethan and Lucas. They ran up to me and threw their arms around me like they thought I would vanish before their eyes. I hugged them back and gently pushed them off of me. I introduced them to the three children I had brought back.

“Kids, these are my friends, Ethan and Lucas. Guys, these are Sara, Christopher, and I think the baby’s name is Jonah. He doesn’t talk very well, so i’m not sure if that is what he said.” I told them.

“Nice to meet you all,” Lucas said.

“Pleased to meet you,” Ethan said. The kids just stared at them both and Jonah clung to my leg.

“Help me get them settled, would you guys?” I asked.

“No problem.” Ethan said as he slapped the back of my head.

“Ouch, what was that for?”

“For not calling us while you were gone.” Ethan said.

“Oh, by the way, we made some new friends. You remember the guys that joined the pack before Christmas, right? Well, we became friends with them.”

“That’s cool. I’m glad you guys are making new friends. I’d love to meet them, but right now I have stuff to take care of, maybe invite them to the packhouse for dinner. I’ll let the kitchen staff know we will have a few more guests.”

“Yeah, that sounds great,” Lucas said.

We got the kids inside and asked the staff to help set up a room for them. While the staff did that, we took the kids to the playroom. As soon as we entered the room, they were off running and playing. Probably should have gone to the playground instead. I left Ethan and Lucas with the children and went to talk with the kitchen staff.

After I spoke with the kitchen staff I checked in on the kids and then went to speak with my father. It was barely lunch time, so I knew he would be in his office or the library with Mom. The library was on the way to his office so I checked there first. He wasn’t there but I greeted my mother and kissed her forehead. I found my father in his office.

“Dad, I need to talk.”

“Sure, son, just give me a second to finish this.”

“Okay,” I said as I sat in one of the chairs.

“Alright, what is it you want to talk about? I heard your mission was a success.”

“It was if you think slaughtering a bunch of innocents along with the bad guys is a success.”

“Ah, I see. You are having doubts about whether or not you did the right thing.”

“Yeah. I mean I gave the alpha a chance to surrender peacefully but he refused. I had everyone killed while they slept. Even the women and children of his pack. The witches helping them didn’t have any children with them, but I suppose some of them still could have been innocent of this crime. I don’t know if it was the right thing to do. I mean it seemed like the right thing to do before I actually set it in motion. But I had to stop them and anyone else who thinks they will get away with it.” I sobbed.

“It’s hard to make these kinds of decisions. But the fact that you are having a hard time with it means you didn’t make it lightly. Maybe if David, right, that was the king’s name in the Bible?” He asked, and I nodded my head. “Maybe if David had wiped out everyone he was told, the humans wouldn’t be having problems in the Middle East or Israel right now.” He got up and came over to give me a hug. I did feel a little better. God had told David that since he didn’t do as told, those people would be a pain in his side forever.

I was glad that an entire race of people weren’t wiped off the planet, but I wished they could get along and be friendly with each other. I don’t think I could ever wipe out an entire race. That just seems wrong.