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I did not finish it but this is the next chapter!
Chapter Nine
Warning, Warning, Warning: If you get sad easily, don't read!!! It's very depressing!!!
Their arrival had been known by many in the 8th Kingdom. Rows of humans and creatures stood by the icy road, watching as the cart bounced by.
Virginia wrapped her fingers around the wood of her cage as she stared into the gaunt eyes of the Queen's subjects. They seemed to have no life or love in their hearts.
"They must have been put under some kind of trance." She heard Wolf say.
"How did the Queen become this powerful?" Virginia asked with a heavy heart.
Bluebell grinned, baring his horrible teeth, "Why don't you ask her?"
They all looked up as the cart came to an abrupt stop in front of the castle. An elegant woman standing in an enormous entrance took their breath away.
She had white hair that glistened like snow when the sun shines upon it. Her skin was just as pale and smooth. Her haunting eyes were a silvery-blue that looked through the souls of anyone they reached. Her soft blue gown seemed to stretch out for days. But what was most magnificent was her silver crown. Its jagged points resembled her temper as many frozen ghosts could tell and reached out like angry flames. The overall beauty was hiding a great evil.
"Bring them inside!" The Ice Queen's powerful voice commanded. She turned, making a rippling wave with her white over-coat.
The band of idiots jumped off and headed toward the cages. Virginia prepared to fight her captors, but glanced over at her husband, who shook his head. She loosened up and obeyed, letting the trolls chain her up even more and take her inside.
They were all led through amazing halls and corridors until they arrived at a grand staircase made of marble.
"Welcome to my home." The queen said with a warm smile that almost masked what was really dwelling inside, "I'm sorry that it had to be under these circumstances."
"Why did it have to be?" Wolf asked defiantly.
The Queen contemplated this question carefully. She glided toward him and looked deep into his eyes, "Because I need your help."
"Why not ask?" Virginia said through her teeth.
The Queen never broke her eye contact with Wolf, "Would you have helped?"
Wolf saw things in her eyes that he had dreamed. All of his secrets and hopes were there and it deeply frightened him.
"You like what you see, don't you?" She looked over at his unconscious daughter, "You want so much; yet you're so afraid of losing her."
He nodded, becoming uneasy by her stare.
Virginia rattled her chains to grab their attention, "What help do you need?"
The Queen smiled at her, "Why don't we return to that subject a little later. I would like you to meet someone."
Virginia rolled her eyes, "Everyone in this world has the attention span of a four year old!"
A grin spread across the evil woman's face; inhabiting a personality of its own. She knew Wolf's secrets and his past. She only wondered if Virginia knew.
The Ice Queen turned her head to look at the top of the stairs. Grinning, she announced, "I am pleased to introduce the crowned prince of this kingdom, Adrian."
All eyes found an amazingly handsome man, standing tall with his chin up proudly. His clothing was raven black that broadened his shoulders. His hair was a brownish-black that reached his chin.
Virginia gasped.
The prince's resemblance to Wolf was uncanny. She looked over at her husband, who had the same shocked expression as herself.
"By your reaction, I'd say that you remember me." Adrian grinned as he stepped down the stairs.
Wolf looked away and sadness washed over him, "How could I forget."
"Yes. I bet you have nightmares about me every night." Adrian turned his attention over to Virginia, "Hello, I'm pleased to finally meet you my dear. Your legends don't do you justice."
"My legends?"
"Oh yes. Yours is quite the fairy tale here. Yet when everyone speaks of it, they never mention my twin brother."
"So you're twins? Wolf, why didn't you ever tell me?!" Virginia shouted, obviously fuming.
"Yes Wolf, why did you keep this secret?" The prince smiled, standing next to her.
"Adrian, don't do this." Wolf growled dangerously.
The Ice Queen watched his anger grow, 'Tell her Wolf.'
Wolf jumped; startled that he could hear her. He found all eyes on him, pushing pressure from every direction. He lowered his head and closed his eyes, "Huff-puff." He whimpered helplessly.
Quietly, he began to tell his story, "We were a pack of 8. 5 sisters and 3 brothers. Nothing could tear us apart. I mean, when your family is being hunted by neighboring farmers, that's all you have, trust. Adrian and I were the oldest at the age of 17 and watched out for the others.
One day, after watching the moon, my mother and father sent the others to bed, including Adrian who was secretly listening behind the door. They told me something. Something that I still don't believe."
Wolf looked away, he felt lost in a place where he could never be found.
The Ice Queen touched his shoulder gently, "Go on."
Taking a deep breath, he continued, "They told me that an old prophecy said I was meant to make peace between man and wolf. I asked how they knew. They lifted my shirt and touched my birthmark, saying that the prophecy mentioned one just like mine and that he would be made from a wolf mother and a human father. I asked why they hadn't told me before and why Adrian wasn't the one who had to deal with this responsibility.
Unknown to us though, Adrian had been listening and jealously overtook him.
The next day, Adrian said we had to find wood to build weapons, because the farmers had been going into forests and villages hunting for wolf packs and burning them. I believed and followed him to a place I had not been before.
It had trees that went as high as bean stalks. While I was looking up to see if I could determine the age of one, I was distracted by something shining in a tiny pond next to me. I turned in time to see 'my brother' swing a dagger I had never seen before toward my chest.
Somehow, I was able to get away and return to my family. I never saw him again; till this day."
There was a silence that followed. Wolf and Adrian stared at each other, watching for some kind of answers.
Virginia didn't know what to think. She had been lied to her whole life, and now she found out that her husband, the one person she was supposed to trust more than anything, had kept this secret from her.
"That was a beautifully told story. But let me fill in the blanks." The prince said, "Do you know what happened after you left me in the forest?"
Wolf shook his head.
His twin began, "After you escaped, which is a few days before our family tragedy, if I'm not correct, I ran the opposite direction from you. I ran as hard and fast as I possibly could, weeping like a child the whole way. I ran till open wounds caused my feet to bleed. I fell in poisoned plants with exhaustion.
I didn't fight the plants as they dug their thorns into me. I had no care as they infected my remaining blood.
But then, just as I began to lose consciousness, a beautiful lady stepped over me. She said, 'Take my hand and I will give you everything you've ever desired.'
She gave me hope for a new life.
But before we left for her kingdom, I informed a group of farmers where a certain wolf pack had been hiding."
It took Wolf a few seconds to understand what he was saying. He began to breathe faster and faster. Tears formed and bile rose in his throat. His brother's words had brought him back to that night....
' "Off to bed now. Your father will be back any moment. Wouldn't you like to make him proud by being asleep when he came home from hunting?" Wolf's mother patted her children off after a story.
She watched as they slowly walked to bed and smiled. It faded when she saw Wolf sitting on the window sill with his arms cradling his legs.
He noticed her watching him and sighed heavily, "Why did he hate me?"
She sat down next to him and brushed back his hair, "I never wanted to tell you this, but I know I must."
Wolf looked into her eyes for answers.
"The prophecy said more. There was to be identical brothers born on the same night. One would do wonderful things for wolves and humans alike, and one would bring evil back to the 9 kingdoms. I never wanted to believe it because I love both of you cubs very much, but the events two days ago tell me I must. It is your duty to bring peace. I know this is a horrible burden now, but later on, you'll see the greatness of doing good for others. But no matter what tasks you face, always remember that your father and I love you very much." His mother kissed his forehead and gazed at the moon.
He took her words and placed them in his heart. He knew it was his destiny, but he didn't want to accept it.
Suddenly, his father burst through the door and yelled, "Get the children!!! Farmers are coming!! They were a few moments behind me!!!"
Wolf's parents gathered all the children out of bed and crowded them in front of the door to run, but his father stopped them, hearing screams and rants outside. Instead, he led them to a room and opened a trap door leading to a hiding place.
"Wolf, you first, help your sisters and brothers in."
Wolf grabbed both sides of the opening and let himself down. When he opened his arms to help his youngest sister, the door to the room slammed open and a farmer laughed, "You aren't getting away that easily!"
His mother looked down at him, and she knew none of her family could be saved. But since the farmer never saw Wolf, she smiled, and shut the trap door, causing him to fall.
The farmers burst inside and carried the family to the front of the cottage. In the process, they hit the book self, making it tumble over the door down to Wolf.
He rubbed his head and recollected what happened. He looked up and panicked, "MOTHER!!!"
Wolf jumped up and slammed his upper body against the door, trying with all his might to break it open.
Something he didn't expect happened then. Warmth comforted his body and an orange light carried itself through cracks in the wood of the hidden room. He ran toward them and was able to peek out.
What he saw was etched into his mind forever.
The farmers tied his entire family to posts and lit them on fire. He heard his brothers and sisters howling in pain. His father was pleading for his children. And his mother, the most beautiful woman, stayed calm and stared at the hidden room, almost as if she and Wolf's heart beat was as one.
Wolf became hysterical. He dislocated his shoulder trying to break free to at least kill the ones who had done this. To his distress, nothing helped.
The combinations of screams, howls, and laughter from the murderers caused him to hug his ears. He cried out in the kind of pain that no one should ever experience. Every part of him was shaking.
He felt each of his family members. He felt their haunting cries for help. He felt their spirits reach for him.
He felt them until he couldn't take it any longer. From shock and mental exhaustion, he passed out. Though unconscious, he could still hear them.
A few days later, Wolf woke up in a bed startled.
Maybe it had never happened.
He found out later that good friends of his parents had reached him and took him in as their own.
But what happened that night would stay with him for as long as he lived.
He could still hear them. '
Wolf collapsed to the ground. The trolls let him fall, surprised by his reaction to the words of the prince.
"Wolf!" Virginia shouted. She struggled to get out of the punk's clutches to comfort him, but they would not let go.
Her husband just lay on the ground, weeping and howling.
Adrian stood with a satisfied smile, "Well that was better than I imagined... How pathetic."
The Queen grinned as well and commanded, "Take them down to the dungeons (sp?)!"
The trolls roughly snatched Wolf up and dragged him behind his wife and child. Virginia continued to look back and watch him with worry and confusion.
The Queen lost her enthusiasm quickly, "These games have gone on long enough."
Adrian stared at the empty doorway where his captives were led through, "They are not games! By breaking my brother, we both get what we want."
"How do you know he won't fight back?" She asked.
"I know."
The prince gently took her hand, "Trust me. Soon, we'll both possess what we desire."
So that's that chapter. I hope it didn't depress you. It's just Wolf's past that no one knows about. Or at least my version of it.
I'm sorry if it's too quick or the grammar sucks. I wrote this up pretty quick.
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