Chapter 3: seven days before

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Xaver: "Niju? what are you doing here? "

Xaver asked, surprised enough to see the dark wolf near the city. recently Niju had set off for the city of Nome to find Xaver. He had discovered something about Dark Blade and had to let Xaver know immediately. One night Nava appeared to him in a dream and showed him the chilling revelation.

Niju: "I was looking for you, I discovered some important things about Dark Blade "

Xaver: "and how?"

Niju: "Nava appeared to me in a dream and showed me what happened seven days before the fall of Cyberwolf"

The silver wolf opened his eyes wide. He wanted know absolutely everything he had seen Niju, maybe that dream was the key to understanding the true intentions of Dark Blade and perhaps the way to defeat him once and for all; so Xaver asked Niju to tell him about his dream by thread and by sign.

Niju: "Tell me what you saw, from begin to end"

One night Niju had stayed in a cave to spend the night. And when he closed his eyes, he found himself in the astral world, the dark wolf had never seen that place, he tried to look around and run into the possibility to finding someone or something, but the astral world is infinite and the only thing he saw were millions of souls flit above him.

Niju: "w-where am I?"

Suddenly he heard a familiar voice exactly behind him, Niju turned and saw Nava, he was quite confused at first: a second ago there was no one but him, and unexpectedly Nava appears in that strange world.

Nava: "It's good to see you again, Niju"

Niju: "N-Nava? Do you know what is this place?"

Nava: "I welcome you to the astral world, this is where the souls of great warrior wolves rests"

Niju: "I heard a lot about this world, but if only the souls can enter this place, why I am here?"

Nava: "all this, is just a dream ... listen: I have a mission for you"

Niju: "what is it?"

Nava: "follow me and you'll find out"

Nava dissolved in the air as the floor under Niju's paws crumbled mysteriously. Now Niju was in free fall and was about to fall on an island, the ground was getting closer and closer and soon the dark wolf would hit the ground hard ... but just when he was a few inches from the ground his fall stopped unexpectedly, Niju opened his eyes and saw the ground in front of his face.

The wolf put his paws on the ground and stood up; he looked around, he was in the middle of a frightening city and he met the look of wolves that were very similar to him...darks. the strange thing was that they totally ignored the presence of the dark wolf. At that moment Nava reappeared at Niju's side.

Niju: "and now, where are we ?"

Nava "we are in the black islands, this is the kingdom of the dark wolves of CyberWolf "

Long centuries ago they were known as unknown islands due to the fact that they hadn't been explored yet, but when the first dark wolves appeared and began to attack the continent of the allied kingdoms, the dark ones were all exiled to the islands and that was how they took the name of black islands, but despite their exile the dark wolves built a city of their own to become a kingdom.

The dark wolves tried several times to attack the allied kingdoms, but each time ended with a defeat in the last battle, and many dark wolves, lost their lives so as to be considered permanently destroyed ... or so it seemed. Apparently despite the hard defeat, the dark wolves got up and were ready to attack the kingdoms again, but this time things would have been different.

Niju: " why are we here?"

Nava: "this is where it all started, seven days after the fall of Cyberwolf"

Niju and Nava teleported inside the castle of the black islands, the two found themselves in the throne room where an elderly dark wolf with a crown of onyx and a regal cloak of black with gold trim.

That was Doran Han Craite, the king of the dark wolves, when his father died in battle he gave way to succeed the throne and had already shown during his youth to be worthy of his new role. At this time the king was talking to two of his subjects, who strangely for Niju looked familiar.

The Han Craite family was composed of the most powerful and evil dark wolves throughout CyberWolf, were famous because their ancestors had found a way through a spell to turn the positive energy in dark magic, and it was thanks to this spell which gave birth to the dark wolves, from the day of the exile, the Han Craites took command of the dark wolves becoming the governors of the black islands.

As Niju shifted his gaze to the king's two subjects, he could not believe to his eyes: Sihen and Thundera had betrayed their homeland to unite with the dark ones, Niju already knew that Sihen had allied himself with the dark ones, but as soon as he saw Thundera he remained very shocked.

Thundera and her brother, Blazer, attended the academy along with Niju and Sihen and they were excellent students too, together they passed the final exam without problems and when they came out Blazer decided to enter in the legion of the defenders of the kingdoms allies, while Thundera followed Sihen towards a bad road.

Niju wanted to go to them and tear their throats out of bites for what they had done, but Nava managed to calm him down and convince him to listen to the conversation.

Niju: "those damn traitors! How much I would like to get them in pieces "

Nava: "you'd better stop and listen"

Doran : "So we agree that this ... Dark Blade will destroy the continent of allied kingdoms?"

Thundera: "yes, but in exchange he wants the parchment"

The king of the dark wolves, took an old parchment and handed it to Sihen.

Doran: " keep this parchment too, I have nothing against it, I only care that he razed all those damn warrior wolves"

Sihen: " I want to tell you that my lord is already on his way to Cyberwolf"

Jorvan: "Excellent, your collaboration will not be forgotten. now go, I have other things to do "

The two warrior wolves were headed for the exit as they decided to talk about their future.

Thundera: "Sihen, when Dark Blade destroys the allied kingdoms, what will we do?"

Sihen: "we will help him to find the heart of Helixium and then we could finally live as the owners of our future kingdom"

All that he heard and saw Niju a little while ago made his blood boil with anger and disappointment at not being able to do anything to prevent this from happening. Meanwhile Nava and Niju returned to the astral world, now Niju must find Xaver and tell him what he had discovered, but before he awoke he had one last question for Nava.

Nava: "Now you have to go to the city of Nome and rejoin with Xaver, he needs you and you need him"

Niju: " Nava, I have one last question: why did you decide to stay on my side when they tried me?"

Nava: "if I hadn't done it, they would have undoubtedly taken you to the black islands, and I didn't want you to become like a true dark wolf. The fact is that until the day you entered the academy, I immediately noticed that you were destined for great things, and I was very fond of you and when Sihen broke your dreams I felt a deep sadness. You became a dark wolf only from the outside, but I knew that nothing had changed inside you, which is why I decided to forgive you and protect you even during your trial and pay the exile with you. You for me were not only a student; You were like the son that I never had"

Unexpectedly Niju hug Nava, the old wolf was right: Niju had become a dark wolf only in appearance, but his heart had never darkened, and although it was too late now, Niju wanted to confess to his old master a feeling which had been hiding for a long time. Before enrolling in the academy, Niju had spent his childhood in an orphanage and when he met Nava he saw him as a father figure.

Nava: "It's time to go, you have to find Xaver and help him fight with Dark Blade"

Niju: "I'll do it ... Dad"

Nava: "good luck, son"

Niju: "at the end, I started to travel and here I am"

Xaver and Aleu listened carefully to what Niju had seen in his dream and realized that Dark Blade was a weapon used by the darks ones to make them conquer all the allied kingdoms and thanks to the destroyer of worlds they succeeded in their intent.

Aleu: "so the cause of Cyberwolf's fall, are these ... darks?"

Niju: "without a doubt"

Xaver thought that Cyberwolf was not entirely lost, he was preety sure that one day he would reconcile with the survivors and reconquer their planet.

By now it was late, Xaver and Aleu were about to go down the mountain to head home.

Niju: "And now what will we do? "

Xaver: "Dark Blade will come here. I don't know when, but sooner or later it will come to Nome and we will wait for it"

The silver wolf decided that for the moment it was not the case to think about the fight against the destroyer of worlds, so he decided to resume talking about the friendly duel they had suspended between them, he thought that after all it would be a good opportunity for the two warrior wolves to put themself to the test and to improve their skills in fight; Xaver looked at his friend with a determined smile on his face.

Xaver: "hey, Niju. Do you remember when you said that we will be challenged in a duel?"

Niju: "...yes"

Xaver: "why don't we challenge tomorrow at dawn?"

Niju: "it's a great idea"

The two warrior wolves exchanged a look of audacity. since the last time they fought together, both Xaver and Niju have greatly improved their skills and they both looked forward to testing themselves in this duel.

To be continued...

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