"Intruder!!! Intruder!!!"
Neveah's eyes snapped open sleepily at the loud yells coming from the castle,
The dregs of sleep still lingered in Neveah's eyes and she lifted a hand to rub them off tiredly.
Neveah glanced around her surrounding, momentarily surprised to see the familiar clustered trees and thick greenery of the forest behind the Eclipse palace.
This forest was a place Neveah had frequented in her childhood, when everything became too overwhelming for her and she needed to get away from it all, even if for just a short moment.
Due to her familiarity with this environment, Neveah could tell she had gone in much deeper into this forest than she ever had before.
It took Neveah a moment to even recall how she had gotten out here in the first place and after her disoriented memory settled, Neveah heaved a sigh of exhaustion.
"Father would have my head if he finds me out here." Neveah murmured to herself in a distasteful tone.
Neveah had not even realized she had drifted off to sleep leaning against a tree after she had fled the castle and she recalled her father's strict warning that she was never to venture into the forest again.
In his words, the forest was no place for weak and pathetic humans who had no means to defend themselves save for a pretty face.
Although Alpha King Lothaire was the farthest from a caring and loving father as anyone could get, the fact remained he cherished Neveah for the benefits he believed her physical gifts could bring him,
And the one thing he feared the most was Neveah growing extremely emotional and harming her ownself so he could no longer use her for his purposes.
Neveah had actually considered it when she was much younger, considered ending her life and letting her father wallow in the loss of his shelf trophy and favorite toy.
However Neveah had quickly realized that in her bid to spite her father, she would only end up doing her step mother a great favor and so Neveah had pushed away those thoughts.
Although hardly anything in Neveah's life had happened of her own will, Neveah felt at the very least, she could get to decide the day she died and how she died.
Neveah sensitive ears picked up the howling and fierce growling of the pack wolves from a distance as they most likely chased down whoever the intruder was.
It was rare for anyone to be daring enough to trespass Eclipse territory, Neveah wondered why it had to be tonight of all nights that an intruder had appeared.
"It's one thing after the other." Neveah murmured in an exhausted tone as she leaned against the tree.
Neveah was not even sure how long she had been out in the forest, it could have been days even.
The fact that no one noticed her absence did not count for much as Neveah was only noticed when she was needed, at other times, she returned to being the insignificant omega.
Neveah had no intentions of heading back to the castle, the presence of an intruder was no business of hers.
Even if a pack of rogues were to launch an attack at this very moment, Neveah would hardly care for it... she had long dissociated her mind from identifying as an Eclipse wolf.
Whatever happened, the Eclipse wolves could deal with their own problems, she did not care in the slightest.
Neveah perked up when she heard footsteps coming her way, distracted by her thoughts, she had not even caught the footsteps until they were now awfully close.
Neveah was too emotionally drained to even panic and so she just stared on ahead with a blank gaze as a silhouette soon emerged from the cover of trees.
Neveah squinted her gaze to get a closer look, her eyes widened in surprise as she took in the visage of the silhouette.
With pitch black hair and eyes a boundless darkness, like gleaming black onyx and a face seemingly sculpted with the greatest care by the creator himself,
The dashingly handsome young man sped Neveah's way.
'Was there actually someone who was this handsome in existence? What was this? A heavenly being?' Neveah pondered in awe.
Neveah was accustomed to being the one on the receiving end of such shocked looks due to her visage, she had not expected there was actually someone in existence who could rival her looks and even put hers to shame.
What was worse, this someone was even a man at that.
It took Neveah a moment to shake herself back to reality enough to realize this was the intruder.
"Of course the intruder has to go by here." Neveah muttered to herself as she rolled her eyes slightly.
However Neveah immediately regretted speaking as the intruder halted sharply, finally taking notice of her.
Neveah watched in alarm as the intruder spared a look around their environment, confirming the Eclipse warriors were still at a good distance,
The intruder then changed his direction, stalking towards a frozen in place Neveah with slow, predatory steps.
Each step he took was light and almost completely soundless as though his feet did not even make contact with the forest ground,
Neveah found herself in a daze as the intruder stopped right before her, with barely an inch of distance between them, he crouched down and stared straight into Neveah's eyes.
Neveah shook her head slightly, forcing away her dazed state.
"I don't even care to know why you are trespassing Eclipse Fang territory but believe me, you are not going to get out of here alive." Neveah pointed out, fixing the intruder with a blank stare.
The intruder's lips stretched into a predatory grin as he leaned in close to Neveah's face, Neveah felt her heart rate pick up as the intruder's scent wafted through her nostrils.
'Dragon Shifter!' Neveah exclaimed in her mind as the scent of fire and ash flooded her sensitive nostrils.
Neveah's entire body immediately froze up as she realized just what kind of creature was standing before her eyes.
Just what kind of shifters were dragon shifters? They were the most powerful existence in all the supernatural realm.
They were at the very top of the food chain, the gods of the realm, their very existence was the representation of raw, unadulterated power!
Across the supernatural realm, who did not fear them?! They were the indomitable rulers of the supernatural realm! Ruthless, bloodthirsty and powerful!
In a sudden move, the dragon shifter leaned forwards and it was at this point that Neveah's heart exploded with panic, she did not dare move, she did not dare speak, she did not dare twitch... hell! Neveah didn't even dare breathe!
In a sudden move, the dragon shifter leaned forwards and it was at this point that Neveah's heart exploded with panic,
She did not dare move, she did not dare speak, she did not dare twitch... hell! Neveah didn't even dare breathe!
The Dragon Shifter leaned in closer and closer till his face was pressed against Neveah's hair and then he took a deep, lingering breath.
'Did he just sniff me??!' Neveah exclaimed as she struggled to keep her heart from jumping out of her chest.
"Sssstrrrong Wooollf..." The Dragon shifter drawled in a deep, guttural tone, a hum of approval resounding from deep within his chest.
Neveah had the feeling this dragon shifter did not speak much, his words and actions sounded more beastly than human.
However what astonished Neveah more was the fact that the Dragon shifter had been able to recognize her Alpha wolf from just sniffing her.
This was the height of excellent senses, keen enough to so easily pick out a secret Neveah had so closely guarded for so long.
And this fact only terrified Neveah even more, however Neveah mentally lectured herself to gather her wits.
"I...I... what do you want?" Neveah stuttered out in false bravado as the Dragon Shifter leaned back just a fraction so he was staring right into Neveah's eyes.
Neveah did not truly expect a response from the Dragon Shifter, and so she was not surprised when she was not granted any,
As the very next moment, her ears twitched as she heard the sound of paws thumping against the earth and Neveah knew the Eclipse warriors were close.
The Dragon Shifter clearly had also picked up the sound, perhaps long before Neveah had because his lips stretched into a predatory grin revealing a pair of pristine white but terrifyingly sharp dentition.
His head then snapped up and he spared Neveah one last glance, a complicated look in his gaze, but he didn't linger long enough for Neveah to figure out what it was, dashing away in a flash.
Neveah blinked in surprise, she was not certain as to what to think of this situation and she did not have much time to because the very next moment,
She saw an army of Eclipse wolves lead by what Neveah recognized to be her father's massive gray wolf.
Neveah rose to her feet as her father's towering wolf, 8ft of pure muscles stopped before her and shifted into his human form, storming up to her.
"Are you hurt?" Alpha King Lothaire asked his daughter in a blank tone, Neveah shook her head quickly.
"Return to your quarters and stay there till this is sorted out." Alpha King Lothaire ordered as he walked past Neveah, reverting back into his wolf form in the blink of an eye.
Neveah watched as her father led the warriors, dashing through the forest in pursuit of the intruder.
"But he didn't go that way..." Neveah muttered quietly as she noticed the Eclipse Wolves had gone in a completely different direction from the one the intruder had taken.
And Neveah could not even blame them, although she had seen clearly with her eyes that the intruder had gone East, for some reason, his scent trail lead down South.
"Oh well, it's no business of mine." Neveah reminded herself as she made to head back to her room,
Neveah trudged through the forest at a slow pace, sighing at the weight and inconveniences of the ball gown she was still wearing,
Neveah felt extremely drained, it had been far too long since she had let herself shed tears over the matter of Prince Alessio and his mother.
Neveah thought that after so many years of being on the receiving end of all sorts of abuse physically, emotionally and otherwise from the mother and son pair,
She would have grown a thick skin to the hurtful words and shameful accusations they always threw her way,
But Neveah guessed she was not as tough as she thought she was, it had been seventeen years and she still let herself get affected by their words and actions,
Neveah sighed again as she realized how deep she had walked into the forest, it would take forever to walk the distance to her room,
And as much as she would have loved to rip off her dress, she didn't want to give Prince Alessio any more proof with which to label her a slut.
Neveah was drawn out of her thoughts by a loud piercing scream that echoed across the forest.
Neveah froze in her step, her sensitive ears twitching, immediately identifying the direction the scream had come from and the likely source of the scream.
Whatever that sound was, Neveah knew it was clearly the scream of a young pup in danger and the sound had come from the direction the dragon shifter had taken which was the direct opposite from where the Eclipse warriors had gone.
"Not my business." Neveah reminded herself, as she made to continue on her way and ignore the scream, but then there it was again.
The piercing scream came a second time, this time louder and if there was one thing Neveah could sense in that scream, then it was fear...no, fear was an understatement, this was terror.
Raw, unadulterated terror and all Neveah could think of was the fact that whoever that pup was, he was in grave danger.
And presently, Neveah knew within her heart that she was the only one who could do something about it,
Neveah could hear the sound of thumping paws, the Eclipse warriors had heard the screams and were doubling back, but they were still too far away... much too far away to be able to do anything.
Neveah could very well turn a blind eye to the whole Eclipse Domain crumbling...but a child? Neveah did not want to be such a person.
"They won't make it in time..." Neveah murmured in annoyance as she leaned down and ripped her dress to free her legs before she dashed off in the direction the screams had come from.
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