novelxo Chapter CHAPTER 111
Chapter 111
Nick POV
I stood and watched as the king purposefully walked to the front of the platform, leaving Dylan standing behind him, he stopped at the edge and held his hand up to quiet the already non existent noise. His position was the best place to stand so that every person present could hear him speak clearly and precisely.
“Wolves and she wolves. It is a great honor to stand before you all today. As you know I have been extremely busy lately in regards to my mate, however I have not forgotten my true role as sole ruler of you all. It is for that reason I shall inform you all today of the new academic curriculum that will be put into place at the start of the next educational year.” A new curriculum was mentioned the other day, but I didn’t know it was already well enough established to he announced so soon.
“From this coming September and onwards, humans are no longer permitted to attend school after they have completed the 2nd grade!” My head shot to Dylan as camera flashes went off signaling the interest of the kings words. Her eyes went wide at the revelation however she remained quietly stood behind him. Her head met the floor once again and I watched as her hands tightly made their way into fists.
“Why is she just standing there?!” I whispered to no one in particular, however my mate Arya was standing directly next to me.
“Shh, be quiet! I don’t want to see you get hurt!” I know I was supposed to be silent through all of this, but it was shocking information that was being given. Not only that, but Dylan’s actions shocked me too, she never would have held her tongue in the past. In fact it was her mouth alone that got her into the most trouble, she never had an issue with calling out the wolves on their bullshit, so why did she now?
“We feel that now the new world has come into full fruition, the need for human education isn’t at all high enough to be funding it. Instead positions of work will be provided to ensure maximum potential is met. My eyes widened drastically as I continued to stare at my friend, I could see her trembling with rage, yet she still remained silent. I didn’t understand her, I really didn’t. This was her opportunity to speak up, this was why the rebellion had grown so much, she needed to be our strength, our voice of reason, so why was it as if she’d been silenced. We all needed her!
The cameras kept flashing and reporters quickly began to throw questions at the king, while we all just listened too shocked to say anything about our further oppression.
“What sort of jobs will be provided, your grace?” One asked, this was sick, he was only taking our education away for one reason, and that was to hinder the rebellion. Everyone both Lycan and humans knew that
“All jobs pertaining to Manual labour, will be provided to children above the age of 12, to ensure all remedial tasks be completed with efficiency.” Ok I couldn’t hear any more of this, I just couldnt.
“How do you expect a 12 year old to be efficient with that sort of work?!” My head shot over to that of my father and 1 tensed under Arya’s hand as I heard him yell out causing heads of all kind to turn to him in shock at his outburst. I felt Aryas grip on my hand tighten and winced at the sensation, but couldn’t blame her for it as she’d done it out of nerves. Her gaze wasn’t even on me but instead was on king Josh as he stood on stage.
I stared at the royal male and watched as his hands tightened into fists, he took a deep breath before chuckling and looking directly at my dads angry form.
“At first it will be laborious, however in time every child will excel, it is decided!” King Josh glared at him and clicked his fingers for my dad to be apprehended. Which instantly drew a protest from my own lips.
“That’s just barbaric!” I spat which resulted in Aryas hand clamping down even tighter, she hesitantly took a step in front of me, attempting to Shield me from the kings rage.
“Forgive me your grace, for I clearly haven’t taught my fiancé well enough. Her use of the word fiancé drew even more onlookers to meet our forms. It was ludicrous for me to speak against the king, however nobody else seemed to have anything to say. I couldn’t understand at all why I was the only one who stepped up, even Dylan just stood there, and this affected her more than anyone else, because it would mean Freddie’s education would end next year.
The king was volatile but I couldn’t just stand by as my dad was taken to the stage, before his shirt was ripped off the king spoke to Arya through tightly clenched teeth. “Reign your mate in, or he will be punished, alpha mated or not!” Decided my ass, the almighty king of the Lycanthrope has spoken, and so we all must bow down and accept his ideals. “If you all want to see barbaric, then I’ll show you barbaric…” He stormed forward, towards my dad his intent evidently clear as his eyes never moved from my fathers now pinned form.
My dads top was torn away leaving his back on show to the crowd, I stepped forward only to be pulled back by Arya.
“If you try to stop it, you’ll get hurt too.” She had a point but I couldn’t watch him get more scars. He’d take two lashings so far in this new world. One of them was for trying to stop my mother being taken, the other was in my stead.
Chapter 111
The king quickly snatched a whip out of the lycan warriors hand and held it up, I’d never seen him actually do the manual labor of punishing someone, he always seemed to get his lackeys to do it for him.
He threw the whip behind his back ready to swing it at my fathers flesh only his wrist was caught by a small trembling hand and he was stopped in his tracks. The entire audience went silent as everyone watched the king turn angrily to converse with his queen