The Alpha's Temptation

Felis noticed that there was a sudden buzz in the fireflies and he ignored the circles. They were like yellow little circles that were barely larger than a palm but they were now the size of an arm.

He wanted to stop and investigate but he didn’t have the time. With his army behind him, he didn’t want to stop and waste time on something as mundane as that only out of curiosity.

Kaitos was riding beside him. “This is not good!” he shouted, looking at the yellow circles.

“Shut up!” Felis shouted back. “And focus on what we have to do next!”

Kaitos gritted his teeth. He was getting wary of the circles and facing the stubborn, impatient and arrogant bastard of Araniea.

Felis’s army was so huge that it took almost two hours for it to completely enter the kingdom of Pegasii. What he was wondering was that how come there was no activity on the part of the king. Then he scoffed. It was probably because he didn’t have enough time to react to his invasion. Or it was possible that he didn’t have any other option than to await him at the gates of the capital. If the latter was the case, then he was going to have a blast. The Pegasii army would be completely annihilated.

For the first time he allowed a grin on his face at the satisfaction that the faes were all dead. The two faes that he had sent must have killed each other because he had ordered them to kill every fae in Pegasii.

He couldn’t help thinking that faes were such idiots. At first, they closed all the portals when they thought that Kinshra was betrayed when in fact it was Menkar’s dark magic who was controlling her and now they killed each other because of his dark magic. He was sure that the faes must have closed all the portals now as well.

If faes were such idiots, he wondered if he could conquer Vilinski. He even had the High Priest of Cetus under his control who had powerful dark magic.

His attention was diverted by a yellow fireflies’ circle on his side that had enlarged enough for a human to step in and out. “Gah!” he said out of frustration and continued to ride on his horse. But he noticed that his horse was getting scared. It whimpered slightly out of protest. He kicked his horse harder in order to keep it focused.

As he rode, he heard loud screams from behind. “What is happening?” he asked his commander.

“I don’t know,” Brix shrugged. “Those must be soldiers rejoicing in the victory.”

Felis chuckled. Those were indeed soldiers. His chest swelled with overconfidence. Soon they would all rejoice in total victory. Once he would have Pegasii under his control, he was going to mix its army with his.

Another ten minutes passed when he heard more screams. Were his soldiers going mad? Well, he couldn’t blame them. They had tasted sweet victory after ages. It was small, but enough to be delighted about. However, when again after a gap of ten minutes he heard loud screams and shrieks all over again, he signaled his men to slow down. “Go and check out on them and tell them not to make so much noise!” He commanded Brix.

Brix was about to turn and go back when they saw that the yellow circles had increased to the extent that they were as big as their horses. All of a sudden, something emerged out of one of the circles and it had… wings. “F**k!” he rasped. “Faes are here!”

He looked all around and there were like hundreds of such circles. They were actually portals. From Vilinski.

Faes after faes started emerging from the portals. Felis couldn’t believe that faes didn’t close the portals. Didn’t they bloody die? Aren’t they angry with Biham all over again?

So many faes came out of the portals that Felis was astounded. He watched them, frozen on his horse. With wings spread they flew over them as if trying to cast a web of traps.

“Faes!” someone shouted. And Felis came out of his shock.

“Ride faster!” he shouted at his men. Now he understood the reason why his men were shouting and screaming behind. They weren’t rejoicing, they were being hunted by the faes. Anger burned through him and he lashed his dark magic at the first fae who was shooting towards him. His magic struck the wing of the fae and she tumbled down, but before tumbling down, the fae sent a strong wave of red beams in his direction. He tightened the reins of his horse and made it leap in the air, narrowly missing the magic beams. But they fell on the soldiers behind and roasted them alive. The whole place was filled with b***d curdling cries and shrieks.

Felis never anticipated this move. He had to get to the capital as fast as possible and take down Biham if his plans had to succeed. Looking at Kaitos he said, “Come with me!”

“No, I won’t!” Kaitos protested, looking happy. “You will be ruined soon, Felis! Surrender now!”

Felis neared his horse to that of Kaitos’s and grabbed the man. He pulled him onto his horse. “Don’t even think of defying my orders, Kaitos!” he growled. Then he turned to his Nyxers who were coming behind him. “We are veering left. Guide all the monks there!” He saw that there were no portals towards that path. At least he had time to recover.

This ambush meant one thing. Biham came to know about his attack and had called all the faes. He was sure that it was Kinshra who was helping him. His b***d boiled and he promised himself that he was going to kill Kinshra first.

If the attack from the faes wasn’t all, he saw armies bearing flags of Draka and Orion coming from the front and the side. It was surely a very well-planned ambush. One he had never anticipated.

Felis was completely surrounded.