“I am going to pay Rick a visit tonight, I need that printer of yours just in case I need to print out a picture,” I say and she giggles as she grabs a backpack for me. I go to the pictures I took in Gibson’s room last night and I read through the rules to find out I already know them.
The rulebook ends rather strangely: Enter the Palace from your northern border. Find the little Prince for your reward. I show it to Gaia with a smile on my face, because I know where to find our reward. “I will get our reward on the way back and I might grab their reward as well, if I can figure out where it is hidden,” I say to Gaia.
After I am sure I read everything from the rulebook I tell Gaia I will go to sleep for two hours and ask her to make sure she wakes me up on time, I need to make sure I don’t have the device for more than seven hours. With my sleep this morning and the two hours I will sleep now, I will have two more hours left before eight tonight.
After Gaia wakes me up I plan my trip for tonight, I will head to Moon Storm Pack before I pay a visit to the Palace. If I can’t find a way into the Palace fast I will return home and make a plan for tomorrow night to take those rewards. I will shift into Twilight to get to Moon Storm Pack as fast as I can, it will be a lot faster in my Lycan form.
Kianda is in the kitchen preparing dinner when I finally come out of the guestroom and we talk about the rumors going around the Pack. I smile when I hear that Donovan and Gibson are no longer the most popular Wolves in the Pack and that Elinor is using his office now.
Nyx and Gaia are preparing my backpack and I ask Hestia to help me with my vest, I need to know how Twilight can take it with her in her Lycan form. After trying it a few times we decide the best way is to place it on the backpack, so she can carry it until we reach Moon Storm Pack and if I leave at seven I will stay within the hours I am allowed to take it off.
I reach the southern border of Moon Storm Pack half an hour into the second twenty four hours of the competition and after I place the vest back on my body I climb into a tree. I watch their border patrol to find the best time to enter the territory and as time passes I see more and more lights dim in the Pack-house.
Climbing out of the tree I keep my eyes on the border and when the first patrol passes I run across the border towards the Pack-house. After watching the territory for hours I planned my route to the Pack-house and it makes it easy to get there fast and undetected.
A tree next to the Pack-house is my way up to the Gamma floor, but I want to take Rick out first and I have never been here before which complicates things for me. The branch I use to reach the Gamma floor leads to an empty room and I quietly step into the hallway, hoping and praying that they have a staircase for Omegas like our Pack-house.
I sigh in relief when I find the staircase and I walk up to the Alpha floor to find Rick’s room. I smile when I see two devices on the dresser and I take a picture of the scene in the bed, Rick cuddled in the arms of his Beta. I had left the backpack and printer in a staircase, just to make sure no one would hear it print if I wanted to use it.
I see their envelope on the dresser and I take pictures of their rulebook, smiling as I read their hint; Enter the Palace from your Southern border. Find the first Royal for your reward. I shoot at both devices and tape the picture to their door before I go back down to the Gamma floor to take care of the Gamma.
Leaving the same way I came in I sit in the tree for a moment, I know where to find their reward and I hope I manage to take both rewards tonight. I walk towards the Palace in Human form and I have to climb a few trees to avoid the Palace Warriors, their patrol is a little tighter than that of most Packs.
Twilight is having fun avoiding the Palace Warriors as we get closer and closer to our first target, but our real challenge will be inside the Palace. I have no idea if it can be as quiet as our Pack-house at night or that it is full of life twenty four seven, only going into the Palace will answer that question for me.
Zalia
With my back against the wall I look in the direction of Moon Storm Pack, I wish I could be there in the morning when Rick wakes up to find out that he is taken out of the competition. “No one is in the kitchen.” Twilight says and I slowly open the door to make my way inside, keeping an eye on my surroundings.
The door to the hallway is open and so is the door to the dining room. First I go to the dining room to find the statue of the male that founded our Kingdom, he never carried the title of King but most consider him the first Royal we had and I know that he will hold the reward for Moon Storm Pack.
I look around the dining room that is completely empty and I wonder if this room gets used if there are no visitors, it looks so huge and impersonal when it is empty. I walk up the stage to sit in the King’s seat and look at the room from his point of view, “Not a seat I would want to fill.” Twilight says in my head and I slowly get up to grab the first reward.
I have to grab a chair to reach for the box that is placed on the statue’s shoulder, whoever put it there made sure it wasn’t really noticeable. I walked around the statue twice before looking up and down the statue, but once I spotted it I quickly got it down from there. I place it in my backpack before I go back to the kitchen and head towards the main living room of the Palace.
“Why do we have to go to the main living room?” Twilight asks and I smile as I duck into a bay window. “Prince Reginald was called the little Prince, even though he was as tall as Deimos.” I answer her and she is rolling around in my head as she calls Deimos “little Gamma” over and over again.
“That is the little Prince.” I say to Twilight as I step in front of the painting, only to drop to the floor the next second when I hear footsteps near the window. I look up at the painting to see where the reward is hidden and I see a sachet hanging from the back of the painting. Once I make sure that the coast is clear, I get to my feet and snatch the sachet off the painting.
“What do you think is in there?” Twilight asks as I put it in my backpack. “I don’t know. Why don’t we wait until we get back to Gaia’s place and have some sleep?” I answer as I walk towards the exit, but I turn around quickly as I realize I can never open that huge door without anyone noticing it.
Luckily I had seen a small door not far from the painting and I walk over there as I listen for any sounds in the vicinity, but it seems this is my lucky day. I make my way out of the Palace and climb the nearest tree to make a plan to get out of Mystic Moon Pack territory, I smile when I see Leander walking around the Palace with another Warrior.
“He was the one that nearly caught us, Twilight.” I say as I keep staring at Leander, I know that if I keep staring long enough he will be able to feel it and I wonder if he can find where it is coming from. Twilight is game, I keep staring at him and after a minute or two he starts looking around.
His buddy is talking to him and Leander apparently answers him as he also starts looking around, but neither one of them seems to understand where it comes from. I let my eyes glide up the Palace walls and I smile when I see Deimos stepping on to his balcony, a moment later Eryx steps onto the balcony above him.
Both of them are scanning the area, “Looks like Leander tipped them off.” Twilight says, but this time we don’t keep our eyes on Deimos or Eryx. They will probably be able to locate me and that would mean losing my rewards, no way in hell I will let that happen.
After about twenty minutes they all give up, Deimos and Eryx go back into their rooms and Leander assumes his patrol around the Palace. The moment he rounds the corner I want to get out of the tree, but Twilight warns me to sit still and a moment later I see Deimos looking out his window. “Sneaky bastard.” I whisper.
I wait a minute or two after he has stepped away from his window before I get out of the tree and make my way to their southern border. Along the way I have to climb a few trees again, but I get out of the territory without getting caught and I sigh in relief when I see our own border come into view.
“Honey, I’m almost home.” I say through the mind-link to Gaia and she tells me they are almost done with border patrol. I tell her that I will get some sleep first and tell them all about my adventures in the morning, my team wishes me Goodnight as I walk into my bedroom.
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