ATLAN

“My Lord, I don't think you will be able to find a human that easily, how about we kidnap a few from you to choose from?”.

Said Ezra, the king's most trusted beta.

Atlan lived in his lonely castle for years without being seen, his people have all deserted him because they think he wasn't going to be normal again.

He didn't blame them though, for years thousands of years, he had lived, killing even when he didn't want to.

Witch Eleanor had died, leaving him with a curse for eternity.

The only people who believed he would one day turn back to his human form was his beta.

Over the years, the betas, and their generation beyond, paid their allegiance to him in respect of the former beta who had been with him from the time the curse was placed on him.

Beta Jeremy was his father's beta, but he watched them die helplessly in the hands of the white blood witches.

FLASHBACK

Alpha Gerald Rudolph was the most loved Lycan King in the werewolf world, it didn't take long before he was crowned as the king of the wolves because he was powerful, brave, and fearless.

This made him an object of envy by many other Alphas. This brought about a great battle between their kingdoms and smaller packs who wish to take over the throne.

At that time, Atlan just came of age when the battle between the king and Alphas began. He was never allowed to participate in battle because his father, the king, thought he was still not strong enough to fight.

The battle for the throne never ended, even though the king defeated every one of them. They were so desperate to bring down his reign.

It was for this reason the white blood witches were summoned.

These witches are known for their extraordinary strength and powers, they are deadly and no one ever survived their attack, not even the strongest of Lycans.

They are never seen outside, unless they wanted to be seen.

The witches are used as assassins, and they killed werewolves for a living. They are neither werewolves, vampires, or demons.

They lived far away from the habitat of humans and werewolves.

They lived in caves, and only werewolves with ill intentions summoned them.

The reason they are called white witches was because they were always on a white cloak.

There are some features to which these witches are recognized, which was their deep green eyes, magical powers in which they controlled the minds of their victims and the power to clone into a loved one just to get what they want.

After some years of peace, the Lycan king let his guard down thinking the peace would last forever, not knowing it was the peace before a storm.

The white witches invaded the kingdom when the king least expected it, they killed as many as came to stop them.

No one was a match for them, they used powerful magic to lure their enemy, after which they kill them in one swoop.

The Lycan king and his Luna died by their hands, but before the King went for battle, he entrusted his son to his beta.

Atlan was knocked unconscious by beta Jeremy for fear that he would not sit back and watch the kingdom being attached.

He had way passed his coming of age, and it was a given that he should be allowed for battle, but his father never allowed him to, since he was their heir and only child.

When Atlan found out his parents died in the hands of the witches, he went feral.

He killed every witch he found, not knowing who the real witches were.

It was during his killing spree he met one of the witches whose daughter he killed.

She took her daughter whom he had killed into her arms and cried loudly.

Suddenly, her eyes changed, and the cloud became dark and windy.

She was the most powerful witch in the were kingdoms.

She pointed at him and cursed him to never stop killing, for eternity without the knowledge of death.

The moment she cursed him, Atlan felt his body go numb, he tried to shift back to his human form, but couldn't.

Truly, he had fallen under the curse of the witch who disappeared with her dead daughter.

Atlan tried countless times to shift back to his human form, but could not

When night falls, Atlan becomes very wild and violent, he goes into the woods outraged, and he kills just anyone who he came in contact with, he became feral.

Beta Jeremy together with some werewolf warriors would go into the woods in search for him, but he hurt them.

In that state he knew no one, all he did was kill without a care, he became a beast of no agenda.

The only thing that made him calm at that state was his mother's pendant, and that was if they were lucky to find him.

Whenever beta Jeremy went in search for him, he always carried the late Queen's pendant with him.

When he sees this pendant, he suddenly become calm, and he would follow them back to the castle quietly.

His violence starts only at night, and so when it's bright, Atlan told Jeremy to get him chains.

“My king, you are not a prisoner, why do you want to make yourself one.”

“This is the only way to stop me from killing my people!”. Atlan yelled through the mind link.

The mind link was the only way Atlan could communicate with beta Jeremy.

The beta had no choice but to obey his young king, and so he brought silver chains which was known to weaken a wolf and he bind the king.

Atlan also requested for them to put him in the dungeons and make sure the bars are well locked.

They did just as he commanded.

It so happened that when night came, Atlan became violent again, to everyone's greatest surprise, The king cut of the chains to which they bind him with.

Everyone in the castle stood guard, they thought even though he broke the chains, he won't be able to break the gates to the dungeon since it was tightly and strongly sealed.

To their utmost shock, Atlan hit the gates of the dungeon with his weight, when he found it difficult to get out, he growled so loudly that the sound of his growls sent the guards wreathing in pains on the floor.

Atlan never stopped, he continued hitting the dungeon gates until it finally flew open. Atlan in rage clawed on the warriors who stood in front of him.

He was like a giant wolf that could not be compared to any other kind of wolf.

Knowing this, the rest werewolf warriors couldn't bear to be killed by the beastly king, and they took to their heels immediately.

Atlan ran into the woods as usual, killing everyone that he came in contact with.

For this reason, no one in the kingdom was allowed to go out at night, all because of their beastly King.

The good thing was he never attacked the city or ever showed himself.

His anger was always directed in the thick, dark forest.

Sometimes when he found no one to kill, he made a guttural growl, which was as dangerous as killing.

Whoever was close by when he growled fell to the ground in severe pains, and if they were not strong enough, they died.

One night when he ran into the woods, and growled as usual, but suddenly, he found a woman, she was human.

When Atlan sensed this woman was human, he got furious.

Humans are not supposed to step foot into the werewolf world, how could a human be this bold enough to come to his kingdom without permission?

Atlan headed for the woman in a rage to kill her, only to hear the cry of a baby.

Atlan froze, he walked closer to the shivering woman in front of him, only to find out she had a baby which she carefully wrapped to her chest.

The child cried loudly, and Atlan dislikes noise, he killed anyone who made sounds that disturbed his hearing because his hearing was very sharp, even sharper than other lycans.

But somehow, he didn't seem to be angry at the cry of the child.

He moved even closer to this child, only to find it staring at him with big blue eyes.

Atlan was surprised to see how beautiful the baby's eyes were. He suddenly became calm, and strangely, the child also stopped crying.

She just stared into his eyes, and shockingly, the baby smiled at him, opening its mouth, so he could see the baby gums which had no teeth in them

He wished he could hold the baby, but he felt the woman's fear for him.

“Please don't hurt me and my child, we are not bad humans”.

Atlan wished he could talk to her through mind link.

He wanted to ask her why she was in the woods at that time of the night, but that wasn't possible because the only thing the woman would hear are his growls, and that will only scare her and the baby away.

Atlan was more interested in this baby, who stared at him without blinking all these while.

He was curious to know why the baby could make his beast calm.

Suddenly, he heard footsteps, which he recognized as beta Jeremy and some werewolf soldiers.

Atlan ran away from the woman, but he stopped to take one last glance at the baby, who was still staring at him.