Disclaimer: I do not own Noblesse, it's a brilliant webtoon made by Son Je Ho and Lee Gwang Su.

Plot: While two fights were taking place in the Reign, Maduke arrived at Victor's battleground, he starts a debate furiously labelling Kentas and Lunark as traitors following Bertrand's story, and failing to notice that the white-haired werewolf is manipulating him. An infuriated Victor uses his dark power to consume Mirai, and no one has words to describe the happening… What will happen now that the boy has inflamed their rage?

I was occupied with my studies, so I didn't have much time to write, anyways, here's the chapter!

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Messenger from the Future

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The green haired werewolf was paralyzed in daze, her mind rummaged in a maze of theories an explanation as her eyes frantically searched for her twin sister that was nowhere to be seen, then, her gaze feel upon Victor who was bearing the consequences of absorbing more power than he could handle.

"What…" Urne shook with teary eyes "What did you do to my sister your monster!" she leaped irascible to tear apart the stripling that was already out of battle.

Her fury was stopped with an attack, she almost didn't see the blow coming, blinded by her rage, but she was able to avoid on time. It was the Landrege Leader, he had Legasus on his hands.

This time, Maduke himself jumped into the fight, he needed to pick that interesting boy for the next experiments conducted by Ignes. Frankenstein fretted to help, but Gayare hindered his way again, he gnashed to the werewolf.

"Get lost!" he tried to shove away the enemy, but the werewolf took advantage of his impatience to plunge the blonde's torso, although he blocked it for a few centimeters.

Raizel also stepped in, ready to interfere, but someone jumped in front of him. Bertrand smiled in some sort of enjoyment as he watched his Lord going after the half-breed. The cunning aspect of his smile only caused a slight frown on Raizel that was aware of his true intentions. The ill feelings condensed on his mind disquieted the vampire's usual coolness.

"Calm down, noblesse… You should watch the interesting climax too…"

The black-haired knotted his brows, the outrage demonstrated by his enemy was more than enough to offend him. Such disrespect should not be disregarded, even more when one of his underlings was in need. His eyes shone bright red. Was it time to use his powers again…?

Bertrand's smile vanished when he saw that, for a very brief moment, but soon a contemptuous and cynical smile crossed his face, wasn't it going exactly as he planned? What would happen if the weakened noblesse were to use his powers right now…?

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Juraki almost caught up Karias, but the blonde avoided, tumbling his feet when he landed on the ground.

"Ow, ow, that was a good one!" the clan leader praised his enemy.

The blue-haired werewolf grinded his teeth, he was getting impatient. Some moments ago he had felt a burst of power that he recognized to be Mirai's and Urne's. He thought they had defeated their enemy at the time, but… He felt a nasty, strong power emanating, invading the palace and impregnating into the walls like it wanted to consume the whole place, and it exploded, after that he didn't feel Mirai's powers anymore.

Both he and his opponent turned their eyes to the same direction, stalling their fight. The other clan leaders and even Tao and Takeo were also surprised.

"That power is…" the purple-haired gulped apprehensively.

"Boss'…?" Tao has a worried glance "No… That is…"

Juraki was flabbergasted for a moment, then, he simply darted on that direction, startling his opponent. He vanished from sight, Karias also frowned, following him.

"Why is he going there? That power…" Rael was stunned.

"Rael-nim… I guess its Victor's power… Also… Why had one of the other powers around him vanished…? Could it be he…?" the hacker stopped in the middle of the sentence with a sour tone.

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Maduke smirked walking towards the boy as his subordinates fought against his foes; his staff hitting the rock ground produced a firm sound as his smirk enlarged; withal, he had to stop and his expression changed when someone leaped in front of Victor.

"Kentas…" he snarled "Are you going to defy me…?" his hatred started to manifest in many ways and his presence was imposing.

"….. Lord, for the sake of our honor, I can't just let this boy die… You see, he saved us back then…" he had an earnest expression, but a drop of sweat delineated his sturdy face, he knew he wasn't able to defeat that man. Only buying time should be enough for now.

"Don't call me Lord anymore!" he shouted, clanging his staff against the ground. "You're not even worth calling me Lord!"

"…."

Kentas glanced back discreetly, the half-breed was struggling with himself. He felt pity watching that scene, even though, he wouldn't be able to help more than that. Lunark approached Victor too, she reluctantly squatted down to check on him, but his condition was only worsening as dark-spear spread even more on his body.

"Why did you do this…? How reckless can he be…?" her brows curled in a mix of sadness and concern as she observed the large back of her companion trying to delay Maduke. "Even Lord was… How could we be so foolish…?" she closed her eyes for a moment, trying to digest that situation, but soon her senses alerted her.

Victor squirmed on the ground, groaning, unable to withstand the pain. His aura leaked out violently, harming him. Dark stakes darted out of his body, in an attempt to relieve him from the powerful energy he had absorbed, and he entered in uncontrolled state, sending stakes all over the place, not distinguishing ally or enemy.

Everyone around had to take distance from him as he let out that threatening power. The dark stakes not only broke the walls, they corroded the concrete. Frankenstein ignored Gayare's attack, receiving a full slash on his torso as he dedicated his attention to his son. The black-haired werewolf got shocked with his sudden disinterest on the fight, but before he could give more blows, the blonde had dashed to help the kid.

"That-" he growled, insulting mentally the scientist.

Frankenstein sweated worriedly, what his future-self feared was happening right now, Victor was unable to hold that power. The aggressive tendencies of dark-spear were harming its own user.

"… His body is collapsing… He is letting the power out in an attempt of enduring it, but…" his eyebrows twisted in distress. "That kid… How could he think about doing it on such situation…? Just what happened in the future for you to use such tactics, Victor?" his thoughts were bathed with a singular affliction.

This time, it was Bertrand who hindered his way. He had no time to waste, with a swung of dark-spear, he tried to take the werewolf out of his path, but the opponent defended, feeling pleased with the start of the fight. Frankenstein would deliver another hit, but his instincts warned him, and he turned back, defending from another opponent, Gayare had already caught up to him.

"You all…" the butler clenched his teeth, tightening the hold on his lance, liberating more aura than enough to scare his enemies.

Meanwhile, Maduke laughed in a low tone of deride. He couldn't help but feel amused on how ridiculous that situation was, Kentas and Lunark trying to help a half-breed who wasn't even part of the family and couldn't restrain his own powers.

The fifth elder tried to approach again, but that black aura roughly leaking impeded her from getting closer, then, another person approached fearlessly. Her eyes wavered in awe as she watched the scene: Raizel walked towards the stripling, his steps were so elegant that she could almost forget the background sounds and listen only to the smooth sound his shoes made; his brows were slightly curled in worry and his eyes were bright red as he looked down, that harmful aura didn't even scratch him and he lunged his arm, a powerful energy was felt, it was very different from the dark-power, a bright light obfuscated his figure, engulfing him and Victor, and on the next second, the half-boy had lost conscious, but his dark-powers receded, letting him in peace.

She wondered what he had done, he could even stop Victor's rampage and he did it when Frankenstein was out of mind too. Kentas was surprised like her, but Maduke was clearly displeased by the show.

Lunark has finally reached to Victor, hesitantly looking at him. She squatted down again and carefully supported his back on her arm. Even though his powers had been subdued, he still seemed to be in pain and his wounds weren't healing, he didn't move an inch and she could hardly listen to his breathe.

"Noblesse…" she called in a collected voice, even though her tone had signs of preoccupation as she looked at him "If we buy some time… I'm sure you'll be able to get this boy out…"

"…." Raizel frowned in discordance.

"You all came here to pick him, right? Just tell Frankenstein to pick the boy and leave, he will listen to you, right…? We will try to create an opening…" her pragmatism never failed, she had to be straight on such situation.

His gaze once more scrutinized her, notwithstanding, the emotions on her eyes were clear, there was nothing to hide. The reason of his analysis was not to probe her words or even feelings, but to find words to explain to her something that he should maintain as a secret without revealing the most important details:

"Victor considers you as his own family…" his apparently colorless tone caused a flinch on the female werewolf "He disobeyed his parent and came to save you both, such was the pureness of his feelings… I shall not allow any more offenses to his determination."

Her pink orbs oscillated wildly for a moment and lowered to take a look at Victor's face. The noblesse respected him and his wishes, she felt it was not merely because he was the son of that man. Victor only wished to protect them, but in the end…

Her expression was moved by compassion. The same way the noblesse felt he wanted to protect that boy, she couldn't simply ignore the fact that she owed him one. Closing her fists tightly, she turned to glare at her Lord.

"Humph… It seems you two finally turned your back to our family without regretting it…" Maduke said between his fangs. "You never brought this thing, now I understand… You were supporting him from the start, that's why you never brought him to me… What a saddening tale… You two threw your honor to help that test subject!"

Lunark tightened the grip on Victor's shoulder, pulling him closer to hide his silhouette from her infuriated Lord. She didn't want to confront her family, but it was her duty to stop her family if they were going down the wrong path too, for the sake of their honor. Kentas sustained her decision, by putting himself in front both her and Victor.

"Lord, you may consider us as traitors now, but we're acting accordingly to our beliefs… And we believe the clan has been going through the wrong path by using our people as experimental subjects, the same way by using this boy as a subject…" his firm gaze only caused a deeper frown on Maduke's face.

"I comprehend you must be angry because we didn't agree with your ideals and that you're the one to give the final decision independently on our beliefs, my Lord, but no matter how deep thought we've invested into this matter, the only conclusion we could reach is that it's wrong. However," he closed his fists "Opposing completely the treatment you've been giving us, this headstrong kid invaded the kingdom only because he wanted to help, even if it meant he would die by the hands of our clan, even after listening that we were prompt to kill him if your ordered so… Unlike our family, someone who isn't even related to us came to help, this boy gave a lecture about honor to us… Thus Lord, in respect of your authority, I'll ask you to step back and let this kid alone… As much as a warrior from our race, he deserves respect."

"I see… Conniving with Lunark and this half thing… I'm disappointed; you're just like Muzaka… Favoring the humans over our family, and now, even this thing is more important than our species…" he snarled.

"No, you don't understand, Lord…" the brown-haired man grinded his teeth "I'm not doing it solely for the sake of this boy… I'm doing it for the sake of our clan's pride! We're not cowards that would use people as stepping stones for our growth! We were endowed with power and we can grow by training ourselves, that's what I believe in! But if anyone is going to use the others saying it's for the sake of our clan, I can't allow those acts that might stain our honor to happen!"

"You're the ones staining our honor by tagging up with those humans and vampires!"

While they discussed heatedly, Frankenstein finally landed near Victor, immediately dropping his knees to the ground, to check on the boy. Lunark was startled at first, but she put the boy on the ground again. Some drops of blood spilled when the blonde landed, it came from his last injury that wasn't even healed yet. The union elder wondered just how desperate he was to imprudently come down there.

"Victor…." He blurted out anguished as he inspected the situation of the half-human's body.

Beside the wounds that were now delaying to heal due to dark-spear's influence, the youngster seemed in pain. His master had placated that virulent power, but it wasn't enough to solve their problems… Before he could think about the treatment, he listened to a provoking laugh. His blue eyes turned slowly and angered to the side as he caught sight of Bertrand and Gayare landing at the side of Maduke.

"You're Frankenstein, isn't it?" the white-haired wolf asked mockingly.

The same time he pronounced that name, both Maduke and Gayare immediately were in shock. The Lord glared furiously at his former servants:

"I assume you also knew his identity …" his cold voice could not suppress the angered tone he had when referring to the traitors.

"…." Kentas frowned in silence, feeling troubled.

"So, that's how this human is so strong… You're a very famous one!" Gayare smirked "Someone with your intellect might be useful for us…"

The dark-spear master only knotted his brows feeling displeased by their discovering, as for Lunark and Kentas, they sweated even more.

"But… How is that possible…?" Gayare took a fast glance at the half-breed "I don't know how you were able to create a hybrid, but I understand why you would want to use our race to create a hybrid… If we used this research to create a stronger being, I can't measure just how many lands we could conquer…" his smirk enlarged as he fantasized about their wretched dreams.

Frankenstein gnashed, standing up, ready to eliminate them as an evil energy leaked out harmfully towards his enemies, forcing them to recoil.

"Bastards like you are centuries behind me!"

"You…!"

Gayare easily lost his temper and sprung towards the blonde scientist, which was already manipulating his aura to form stakes that darted. The black-haired avoided easily, but on the following second, the blonde was in front of him. He could stop the incoming slash from Frankenstein, bur he failed to stop the punch delivered to his face, it was so fast he couldn't react. And once again, Gayare was out of battle, colliding with the far away remains of rocks from the corridor.

Before he had time to breathe, another attack was coming, which he skillfully defended with dark-spear. The perpetrator of this strike was none other than Bertrand. A vicious grin was delineated on his face, it was obvious he was finding some fun on a joke that Frankenstein failed to understand. The blonde attacked violently and pushing the white-haired back, grinding his teeth.

While he delivered powerful blows, he felt another presence coming, this time from afar, his eyes averted to the side for a second, to inspect who was coming this time, it was a blue-haired male werewolf, craving for blood. Juraki had finally arrived at the battleground, the situation was falling further to the bottom of the well.

The dark-spear master prepared to fight two opponents at the same time, but it wasn't necessary, before the blue-haired could catch up to him, he was stopped by someone else.

A black arrow crossed Juraki's path and he was forced to jump back to avoid the hit, his eyes instantly and vigorously tuned to his attacker, Karias, who had followed him.

"Hey, you can't leave in the middle of the fight, it's a lack of courtesy." The clan leader joked.

Regis who had difficult holding Urne was helped by someone too, when an attack came from behind, hitting the werewolf and sending her away. The young noble was impressed and turned back, that style of attack was…

"Seira! Rael!" he exclaimed while his eyes studied those two.

Seira was holding her death scythe while Rael helped both Tao and Takeo. He dropped them on the ground and grumbled:

"Seira, let me take care of this!"

"Regis, step back… And take care of those two. Rael, you too. I'll deal with it." she assured unshaken by the perilous werewolf that approached again.

"Seira…"

The Landegre whispered worriedly. Tao and Takeo were on the ground, sitting. He knew he wouldn't be able to endure a fight against that female werewolf for much more time. Rael also stepped into the fight, for his relief.

"Where is Sir Victor…?" Tao searched around with his tired-looking eyes.

The battlefield was a mess, to begin with, it wasn't even a place to hold a battle, the palace was ruining. Frankenstein fought furiously against Bertrand, who seemed pleased, much to their surprise; Lunark and Kentas stood in front of the fallen Victor, and the noblesse was protecting them. The situation wasn't good, from his analysis, Victor's actual condition had something to do with his dark powers, and Frankenstein would soon lose his mind too, his arms were already half-covered.

"Boss must be exasperated… I don't even want to think about his lecture… But… Isn't that the current Lord of werewolves…?" his glance landed on Maduke "Raizel-nim shouldn't waste his energies, he hasn't much left to use… And boss has his hands full, even if he were to fight, would he be able to stand against two opponents with one of them being a werewolf Lord…?"

The moment he thought that, he got startled when suddenly, the course of the fight Frankenstein was leading changed, when Maduke was seemingly threatening both the traitors and Raizel, some dark stakes almost plunged the Lord, if had not he evaded, he would be full of holes.

"Forget it… We're talking about boss…" Tao immediately recognized his error of calculus.

The werewolf Lord gritted his teeth with a scowl to Frankenstein and the blonde landed on the ground with a smile, clapping his hands.

"Very agile, you're not the Lord for nothing…"

Bertrand landed right after and waited to see what would unfold now that the scientist dragged his Lord to the fight. The savoring smile left his face with the next sentence proffered by his opponent:

"You dared to threat my master with this filthy hand of yours…" a grave expression filled with rage obscured his face.

"Insolent human, do you have any idea of who you're talking to?!" Maduke couldn't tolerate his arrogance.

"I couldn't care less about who you are… You insulted my master and my son, I will make you pay for that!"

His dark aura increased menacingly. Kentas and Lunark had drops of sweat on their faces, putting their arms in front of their faces to protect from the wild blast of wind flowing through the place due to his aura.

"Is he out of mind… Again?" Kentas couldn't hide his perplexity. "Defying the Lord?!"

"Well, He did challenge Muzaka-nim before on that time we were with Grui and Gaitan…"

"I don't know if I should call it courage or mere stupidity…" the sturdy werewolf frowned confused.

"I don't see much difference… But he's not stupid, you see…" she blurted out in a jesting tone "If he defied the Lord, I'm sure he has something under his sleeve…"

Raizel's brows approached slightly in a concerned tone as he watched his servant going rampant again.

When Frankenstein darted towards his enemy, a brittle smirk appeared on Bertrand's lips. But soon, something astonished everyone inside the place, when a heavy object landed between Maduke and the blonde scientist. They both halted with confused eyes. The object broke the ground, shattering it into heaps of concretes, making a smoke screen arise. On the next second, the person amidst the smoke shoved it away with a brusque swing of his arm.

Maduke's eyes widened in puzzlement and scorn at the same time while Frankenstein frowned irritated with the newly-arrived guest staring at him.

"Muzaka." The lord said between his teeth.

"Muzaka-nim!" Kentas and Lunark said in unison.

"Yo, it has been long since we last saw, right?" he lively greeted with a calm smile, beckoning, but his posture became serious when he turned his body a bit to visualize Maduke "Frankenstein, would you mind stepping back…? I really need to discuss some important things with Maduke here…" his eyes sharpened as he casted a side glance to the current lord, and also, his worst enemy.

Raizel expression turned into a subtle worry with the arrival of his former friend, and Frankenstein didn't seem the least pleased. As for Maduke, while the others commented about the arrival of the new enemy, his anger silent boiled within him, in a way his expression changed completely.

"Muzaka… You traitor… You had the nerve to invade my reign!" his thoughts made his fists clench automatically. There was no coming back now, it was time to settle the differences and show who the true Lord of werewolves was.

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Now I have set fore into the stage, what do you think that will happen?

And what did you think about the new cover? (I had to draw Victor and Franky together at least once!)