We left you where chapter 13 left off. And Shinoda hears something very horrible and...well, you'll see.
Chapter 14: Shocking Revelations
As Shinoda walked his way towards the hall, he walked past some leopards and both of them gave him a disgusted glare in their faces to which Shinoda didn't seem to care about too much and just kept on walking and as he was about to go up to Zai-Shin's chambers, he overheard some loud conversations about what they're gonna do with Max.
"So, boss...how do you want to start off with the plan to kill the little pipsqueak?" asked one leopard.
Zai-Shin scratched his head in thought and after a few minutes, he came up with an idea that's gruesome and vile and said, "First, we convince the brat that we've got a surprise for him and then Shinoda will bring him down there, head over to my chambers completely blindfolded and when he steps out of there, you leopards will slam the door, lock him and we tell him to take off his blindfold and surprise him. That's when we attack him, tie him up and chop his entire head off and then we slice off his entire body, eat them up and the only thing that's left of him are his bones."
Shinoda gasped in horror when he overheard the entire plan to eat Max and the fact that he's gonna be brought into this made him realize that now is the perfect time to get him out of the cavern mountains before they get ahold of Max.
"Yeah, but why bring Shinoda into this? He's not like the rest of us, master." one male Alpha wolf soldier asked.
Zai-Shin looks up at one of them and said, "Chien-Mo, must you ask any stupid questions? Yes, he is an Omega, but he's my personal servant as well and I know of his friendship and trust with the trespasser. At first, I would've confronted him myself, but then...opportunity knocks on my door that he can use that friendship to bring the little terror into my evil plot, thus taking advantage of that and betray him and bring him down to his consequental death."
That made Shinoda really disgusted to let Zai-Shin talk him into doing something like that and he whispered, "No...no. That is not happening."
Boshu then stood up and asked, "Do we chop off his head before or after we slice him?"
The others looked at him in a state of annoyance and embarassment after hearing Boshu's answer and Zai-Shin said, "Before, you idiot! We do it when I say we'll slice his head off before we chop off the rest of him!"
Boshu then sits down on his chair and he replied, "I knew that."
One Alpha member pokes him and then slaps him in the face, letting Boshu howl out in pain and then he growled at one of them, like he's ready to attack and then Zai throws his sword to the wall in order to break up this fight. Zai then sits down, sighs exasperatedly and said, "As I was saying...the plan will set into place and the tiger cub will pay for absolute trespassing and treason."
"Master, if I may imply...he might not know what treason is." one leopard said.
"I'm well aware of that. Now...after we kill the cub, we burn Shinoda to death for completely trusting this brat. That is treason enough for me...that and because all he cares about is his stupid family! So after I kill him, his entire family gets slaughtered too...like I did with his rotten little offspring." Zai-Shin said, with an evil chuckle.
"Did you not recall that we helped too?" another Alpha wolf asked.
"Yeah, we were gonna kill him for you. I mean...that kid means nothing to Shinoda, anyway." Boshu exclaimed.
"Well, we can all share the credit!" Zai-Shin shouted.
Suddenly, Shinoda couldn not believe what he was hearing...not only was he gonna get burned and his family was gonna be killed by Zai but that he was the one that killed his son, Xi and all of the Alpha's were also involved in it. He nodded his head in disbelief and felt like he was completely betrayed and lied to, wasted all those 4 years with him being his servant when he could've fought back.
"I don't freakin' believe this." Shinoda whispered, in anger.
Just then, one Alpha wolf chimed in quickly and said, "What do we do if the little runt escapes from our view?"
Zai-Shin felt like he was waiting for that question and then, he sticks out his sword and tells him, "All of you take care of it. Because you know what happens when one of our trespassers escape. They get the full fatal penalty. I don't give a damn if he's seven, six or even two and I also don't care if you claw him, stab him, burn him or whatever the hell you want to do. JUST KILL THE DAMN BRAT!"
"And his rescuers too?" asked another leopard.
Zai-Shin lets out an evil smirk on his face and he said, "I'll take care of them personally. We strike early tomorrow morning."
Shinoda definitely had heard enough of all of this and as soon as he ran out of the doors of the council room, he realizes that the time is definitely now. He panted heavily and whispered, "I gotta warn Max."
Max's reaction to the warning is coming up!