I woke up with a terrible headache on my bed . I opened my eyes slowly to meet that of an angry father. I tried my best not to let Scarlett run away. I didn't realize that my fingers were shaking out of fear and for a moment, I thought I was paralyzed. Scarlett has never laid a hand on me. This cannot be happening to me right now. My father would not take it lightly with me . It's all a dream , it has to be.
I just have to close my eyes and open it again and wake up from this terrible night mare. I closed my eyes and assured myself that it was either a terrible night mare or a daydream that went really bad .
"Are you playing games with me, Stella?" My father's bass voice echoed throughout the palace.
"I'm so sorry, I never knew she would try it again. I tried to keep ..." I pleaded to my father before he interrupted me from finishing my statement.
"What in the seven seas are you talking about, get up immediately. We need to know who's behind this . " My father said, with fury in his voice.
I stared at my father confused. I could no longer decipher what was going on. What was I missing ?
"Get dressed, we're going to pay someone a special visit." My father said with a straight face.
"Father, what's going on ?" I asked .
"Someone just challenged your father, do they know who I am ? Do they know how many battles I've fought ? I am ...
"King Sebastian, the Ruler of the southern seas, the Emperor of the waters and the god of war among the realms. Now tell me what's going on , Father ? You have been keeping me in suspense. " I interrupted him from speaking further. My father can be a bit of narcissist at times.
"Your sister is missing, someone's kidnapped her ." My father said with despair in his voice . I've never seen my father look so worried about anything or anyone, he was never cut off guard revealing his emotions. Most times I wondered if he felt anything at all but today, I saw a whole new side of my Father that I've never seen before. He was scared, terrified, anxious and very furious.
" Have you sent Scott to look for her ?"
"The royal search team are on it, whoever that kidnapped her must be a land creature. Scott picked up a scent of them but it only led us up to the shores and he couldn't find a trace again."
"Could it be Walter ?" I kept on asking myself and decided to ask my father.
"Now, why would you think that ?" My father asked sternly, waiting for my response .
Now , I would have to think of a lie to save my sister because I know that if my father finds out the truth that she visits their pack without his permission, he would not go easy on her when we find her.
"Why are you taking so long to give me a response . You are about to lie to me, aren't you?" My father replied as if he could see through me, sometimes I wondered if he was a psychic.
"I checked the pack before sunrise , considering the fact that yesterday was a full moon and it was unsafe. I don't think it's possible they would come to the ocean since they would have been going through their transformation . Besides, they can't even survive long enough in the water to kidnap her , she would have done something to stop it, maybe kill the intruder while he struggles to survive . It's not possible that the person that kidnapped her was a werewolf. "
"So it's not the werewolves ", I said with a bit of relief.
"Hurry up now, we need to go immediately." He said as he stood up to leave.
My father has so many enemies that I don't even know which one to blame or suspect.
My father turned around to leave so I could get dressed to follow him to God knows where . Tear drops threatened to leave my eyes as wild and horrible imaginations of what could happen to her began to overwhelm me.
I decided to cry it out immediately he left the room as I could no longer hold it in. All of a sudden, my father barged into my room and stared at me with anger.
"What are you doing, I told you to get dressed and you are crying. Can you be more pathetic ? Is this how you are going to rule this kingdom ? I didn't train you to be soft hearted, did I ?
"I thought you left, she's my only sister Papa"
"Of course I know that , just suck it up and get dressed, I don't want to hear any whimpers from you." My father said sternly.
I got dressed, my father and I swam up to the surface, our tails turned to human legs and father dried his wings .
We were heading down an unfamiliar path.
"Where exactly are we going, Father? I asked. He didn't give me a reply.
I have never been here my whole life . The whole area is deserted . I wondered if there was any life in existence here. I haven't come across any human since we entered this particular street . We kept on walking for what seemed to be like forever.
He halted suddenly and he opened what seemed to be like an underground hole and told me to go in first. I obeyed his instructions without any complaints.
When we finally got to the bottom of the deep hole, we saw humans, I wondered what they were doing underground, something wasn't right. I could feel it in my guts.
One of the humans walked up to us and went straight to my father.
"Our leader has been expecting you."
"Tell him, I'm here to speak to him"
" I'm sorry but he doesn't want any guests today. He's offering you one of our finest motels to stay for the night ."
Father accepted the offer, that was when I knew that these people weren't mere humans and whoever father wanted to meet was powerful.
But if they are not humans , what are they?