"Deon."
"Yes?" Hedeon responded to his new nickname.
"You are coming with me to the fairy territory."
"Yes…"
"The Devil will make a move soon, so we should be prepared for when it comes. Michael will continue training the soldiers in my absence. Before I leave, I'm going to talk to Zela, the Dragon King, and the Artemis brothers about the war 600 years ago."
"Why would you need to do that?"
"How come it's always you who asks such obvious things?" Celea asked the subordinate.
The subordinate blushed and looked away.
"We will meet tomorrow. I'm leaving for the Dragon territory to make the King join our meeting."
With that, Celea left the room, leaving everyone silent behind her—and confused new members shocked at her behavior.
sigh
Claus sighed, already being used to her behavior.
****
" As you all know I called you all here tonight to discuss the war 600 years ago "
Celea was sitting on the table facing the people inside the room. Deon was sitting on the chair right beside her. The Dragon King, Zela, and Zhen were sitting on the sofa-like chairs, while Claus was leaning against the wall-long window.
"How did it all start?" Celea asked.
"It all started when the hunters attacked a village on lycan territory," Zhen said.
"So what did you do?" Celea asked.
"We went to their village and destroyed it."
"I see… were the hunters always hunters?"
"No. At first, they were just protectors," Claus replied.
"Protectors? Protecting who? From what?"
"They protected humans from us," Zela said.
"Who is 'us'?"
"The whole magical community—everything that was inhuman," Deon answered.
"What are they? Are they humans?"
"They are hybrids."
"Between what?"
"Between humans and shadow," Dereus said.
"Shadow? What does that mean?"
"Shadows are creatures of the dark who no longer exist," Zhen explained.
"If they are creatures of the dark, why do their descendants protect humans?"
"Thousands of years ago, their kind was cursed by the Moon Goddess to protect humans because of all the terrible things they did."
"I believe the horrible things were done toward humans?"
"The horrible thing they did is how the hunters were born… they raped women and left them pregnant—mostly humans," Dereus said.
"But how did they go extinct?"
"Shadows are dark creatures. They can't survive long in daylight, which was required to save humans, so they eventually died," Dereus replied.
"So the protectors are able to go into daylight because of their human blood."
"That's right."
"What happened after that?"
"The hunters were angry, saying they never attacked us, and afterward sided with the Devil and started attacking our territory
"If the problem was between lycans and hunters how did the others get involved?"
"the vampires attacked the dragons so that's how the dragons got involved"
(Dereus)
"I see…how about the witches, how did you get involved?" Celea
"our Village got burned down by the hunters wich left us with no home" Zela
"tell me if I'm wrong but…did you find shelter in the lycans territory?" Celea
"yes…how did you…" Zela
"Is this also the time when you got into a relationship with Claus?"
everyone was looking somehow uncomfortable at the question
"I need to know in order to come to a conclusion" (Celea)
"yes that's true" Claus
Celea smiled as if finally realizing something
"you didn't win the war" Celea
"what are you talking about?" (Zhen)
"he lost the war on purpose, he adjusted his pieces for this moment this war, this is the real war" Celea
"I know his target" Celea
"who is it?" (Deon)
"his weakness…me" (Celea)
"what are you talking about?" Claus frowns
"Let me explain so you can all understand first of all the hunters never attacked the village but the devil did, just like he tried to make us blain the dragons and second of all is about the meeting between Zela and Claus, the devil wanted you to get involved with each other this whole war was mostly for you to fall in love"
(Celea)
"how so…what does that have to do with me meeting Claus" (Zela)
"The devil needed Claus to love you" (Celea)
"why would he need me to love her" (Claus)
"The curse must've been a lie all along about the Artemis brothers not having mates, he knew your mate was just not born yet but would be born 600 years later this gave him enough time to
make your love grow roots deep in your heart and make your choice easier for the time you'll have to choose, he knew that a history of over half a millennium between you and your lover would make you choose her and not choose your so called mate a person you knew nothing about but was now destined to take over your life…..it's simple really, what he wanted from the very beginning was for you to kill your mate in the name of true love and you did "
Celea and Claus were staring at each other
"WHAT!? YOU KILLED YOUR MATE!"( Zela)
"YOU KILLED CELEA?" Dereus was now livid and almost jumped to attack Claus, Celeas name was mentioned and Zela finally realized....
"Uncle sit down" (Celea)
"but Cele this motherfucker.." Dereus
"Uncle please sit down I don't care about that I'll leave him anyway after the war ends" Celea gave him a reassuring smile