179: THE CURSED BEAST

THE CURSED BEAST

"We can do that, right?" Iris looked at Grace expectantly, as she waited for her answer.

Unfortunately, Grace shook her head. "No. We can't do that." Grace then proceeded to explain why she couldn't do that. "We are dealing with dark magic and you can't recklessly touch the media that contain it. We don't know what will happen to you if you pull it out or what will happen to the Alpha. In any case, one needs the same amount of power to counter it."

And as a healer, Grace had different power from a magic user, and was not qualified to resolve this problem.

"It is a pity that we don't have a magic user here," Will murmured, but then he raised his head and looked at Redmond. "Doesn't the Blue Moon pack have a magic user?"

All of them turned their heads and quickly looked at Redmond, but the warrior rolled his eyes. "You killed him during the battle," he said simply.

At that, it was clear they didn't have any chance to find one in the Blue Moon pack.

Silence ensued inside the room, as each was deep in their own thoughts. If something really happened to Cane, they would be doomed. The King would be the first person to gobble up the two packs down his throat happily, because Iris, as a luna, wouldn't be able to hold her ground.

The future looked so bleak with Cane lying on the bed, after being cursed by someone close to him. It must have been someone that he knew, since he wouldn't have let just anyone touch him, nor would he have let his guard down.

Not to mention Cane had neglected the summons to the palace, since he had his plan in motion, but with him unconscious like this, Jace dreaded the worse.

It was Grace who finally broke the silence, she stretched out her hand and tapped on Iris' arm, who sat across from her, to get her attention. "Can you take a look at the other two children in the orphanage? I want to know if they have been cursed as well or not."

The symptoms the children and Cane showed were the same, but Grace wanted to make sure about it. After all, they couldn't do anything until they found a magic user to dispel the curse.

"Okay," Iris agreed. She had heard about the two children in the orphanage and felt her heart bleed for Emma, the first girl who was inflicted and died a few hours Ago. Right now, Ardand was there to look after the other two children.

Reluctantly, Iris let go of Cane's hand that she had been holding. She could still hear the howling of the beast and was desperate to figure out a way to help lessen his pain, but none of her suggestions were doable since it was dark magic, which was a ground that they couldn't touch recklessly when they didn't have ample power or knowledge over it.

"I will check with the messenger and figure out how to get a magic user here," Jace said, as he followed Iris and Grace out. It would be Will who would look after the Alpha.

However, they barely took two steps away from the bed when they heard a loud, dangerous growl from Cane and Will shrieked.

Grace and Jace immediately turned around hearing that, but Iris turned around because the pitiful howling turned into a feral roar in her head.

"What the hell…" Jace muttered when he saw the Alpha had woken up. He was kneeling on the bed, but there was something wrong with him because it was a fighting stance that he took.

Out of instinct, Jace stepped forward, shielding Iris and Grace behind his back, so did Will, he took a few steps back, creating distance between them, as he felt danger emanating from the Alpha.

"Cane?" Jace tried to call him. "Are you okay? Do you know what happened?" He asked him, hoping his wild guess was not true.

Cane's eyes were the color of red, they were not golden or black, but the same color when he was in his lycan's form.

The lycan let out a low, dangerous growl when Jace kept shielding Iris out of his sight. He couldn't see her but could sense her scent, and this agitated the lycan.

However, how was Jace supposed to know that? He didn't understand that the cursed beast only wanted his mate. And so, he stood in his way, because the Beta saw him as a threat and his first instinct was to protect the two women behind him from the lycan.

Jace could see that Cane was going to attack.

"Cane?" Jace called again, but the next thing that happened was; Cane leapt in the air and landed in his lycan form, which shocked Will, Redmond and Grace. They didn't know about this secret! "Shit!" Jace cursed under his breath, as he shifted into his beast as well to stop the lycan.

The two beasts' bodies collided, but the lycan was too strong and the brick-colored beast couldn't hold the impact, as he was hurled away. His body hit the wall and left a dent on it.

Grace freaked out, she had never seen a lycan before, let alone think that they even existed, since it was the cursed form of a shifter who mingled with dark magic!

The healer fell on her butt, unable to move a finger, because she was too scared. She felt her heart stop beating when the lycan ran past her.

It was not her, who was the target, but Iris.

Easily, the lycan scooped Iris' body and burst out of the door, disappearing into the night in a heartbeat.

It was not a new moon, how could the lycan appear now?

"Wh- what is going on?" Will was too shocked to react. "What was that? Was that the Alpha?" He turned his head to look at the bed, hoping the Alpha was still there, out cold, but the bed was empty.2

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