Heroine

Ten- Trust

She sat in her study, the days fun trip with Thew was over, her happy persona gone, all laughs and jokes aside, she had all the facts in front of her,

Loreté was her head warrior against the rogues and returned empty handed when sent to retrieve the rogues head, she murdered him, his vengeful son was her most trusted servante Stephen, Stephen was sent by Kane and so was the chef and maids that tried to kill her,

What if Kane was a werewolf hunter?

But Kane had been Aramine's brother's Jon's best friend and had always been there for her,

What if he was involved?

What if the rogues were on her tail?
who could she call for help?

All she knew about rogues were that they were werewolves that had committed crime and had been banned from the kingdom by generations of her family before her, the catch was that when you were a rouge, any family you had in the future became rogues so their population only increased, their kingdom was situated in USA but she ruled over the werewolf population all across the world. Rogues were mainly sent away to her dungeons or away to another country, that was a problem she need ed to solve, they seemed to appear from everywhere.

why were they against her?

Because she wanted their numbers down?
(Or preferably wiped out)

she would rather murder hundreds of thousands of prisoners then have them turn rogue, just another one of her problems.

All she could think was,  Who was on her side?
All and most importantly, who was out to get her?

She stood from her desk rubbing her temples and she wondered what to do next, she couldn't start a war with what she couldn't  see and she wouldn't risk being stabbed in the back,

She sighed and wandered her castle thinking of anything to do at all,

That was when she heard noises from her weapons room, on her side of the castle, that was off limits to her guests,

She huffed and entered to see the surprised face of Logan stating straight at her,

"What do you think you are doing?" She questioned him on her commanding tone,

"Practicing, care to join?"

"Why are you in my side of the castle?" She stated interrogating him further,

"Oh no reason, don't you want me to be here? Got something to hide?" He taunted as he tossed the dagger about in his hands, without warning he launched the dagger towards her,

She reached out and stopped it, holding it the way you would hold a freshly plucked feather,

She fired it at the target, letting it spin and hit the picture of her brother's face that had more holes than face,

"Who's this unlucky fella and what did he do? He asks,

"Jonathan Rossi, or as I called him, Jon." She replied.

"But your name's Rossi meaning he's either a lover or brother? He says

She remains silent and nods.

"How long did he live?" Was his next question,

"I have no idea,"

She walked to him, a stern look on her face,
"How good are you at fighting?"she asked,

"Better than most, why? Want to take me on?" His voice is hollow and rings the truth,

"Think you can beat the queen of an entire race?" She snarled out,

In response to this he simply slung a sword from her cabinet attached to the wall and flipped it between his hands like It couldn't kill anyone,

She stepped around him and grabbed only a small knife,

He raised his eyebrows in question, but he knew that his best option was to get it over with without any questions and find out what powers she possessed in the meantime,

They stood on the larger mat in the middle of the room, circling each other, eyeing up possible weaknesses.

"Rules?"He asked,

"None." Was her reply, to which he raised an eyebrow, this was news to him, he could shift.

"You chose to fight a queen and a fight you shall get,"  she confirmed,

Silence surrounded them as he decided he would make the first move, he snarled slightly, his upper lip baring sharp canines,

He lunged out at  her with the sword and aimed for the ribs, she swerved and jammed her knuckle into his side as she ducked again to the left as he turned to her, flipping over his head jamming her knees into his back as he tripped her.
She aimed a high kick and slam with it so it smashed his jaw, he grabbed her leg and span it, flipping her on the ground.
They resumed their starting positions as he slashed out nicking her neck as she dived, hissing in annoyance she swings up her knife and jabbed his thigh, causing him to growl, his breathing erratic, he starts to puff and huff as he growls though he is starting to transform, his bulky figure and rippling muscles fall as a heap of fur on the floor as his claws defend and the transformation to wolf is complete.

He growls at her, his sandy coloured wolf with large green eyes,

She takes a step back as his wolf runs at her, crashing round in circles as she jumps from his attacks, snarling at him, she runs up and tackles him onto the ground, holding his paws she commands,

"Shift!" She commands, He growls but complies, no wolf would ignore the word of a queen,

He shifts back into skin beneath her as she tries not to look at his non clothed self and focus on staring into his hate filled eyes,

"Don't forget who your queen is. When rules are not obeyed there are consequences," she said as she lifted the dagger away from his neck taking her weight and pressure off his torso,

As she departed from the room all she could think was,
Why on earth was he in her private training room?

Why?

There was only one thing of which She was certain,

Aramine was going to have to be a lot more careful with who she trusts. Especially if those with her, were trying to fight her.

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