The Throne of Arbediin

Chapter Three

A gloomy expression engulfs the four of them. Other hideous monsters escape into the human realm, not to mention they were lingering exactly where Aileen lives.

“Coincidence?” Caleb looks at their leader, who’s now has a puzzled look in his eyes.

“Truthfully I don’t know, we need more information about this, but this… this worries me.” Aiden pointed at the gruesome carcass of the three-headed monster. “How could you even killed this creature?”

Fenrir rustling his black hair kicks the carcass from the table and puts his two feet instead at the table. “It wasn’t easy. I tell you that. Those f*cking things almost killed me if it wasn’t for Emir.”

“You’re welcome, Puppy.” Emir winks and teasing Fenrir.

Fenrir throws a vase at Emir's face, the face shattered even before it touches Emir.

“F*cking perverted magician.”

“I’m a sorcerer! You flea-infested wolf!” Emir goes away from the office while shouting towards Fenrir, who then returns the word with a middle finger.

Aiden and Caleb smile whenever bickering happens between the two of them, four of them are from a different clan. They become the representative of each of their clan as the guardian for the royalty, named Sakhsiyun. Naura Amyra was the one that handpicked four of them from a handful of candidates, together they were invincible back then, until the day where her own flesh and blood betrayed her, to gain the full claim to the throne.

 Aiden imagining the day when the tragedy happened. He was beside her, but there was nothing he could do. He screams, cries, lamented for his beloved Amyra who got murdered by Dagna Amyr, the crown prince of Arbediin, the twin brother of Naura Amyra.

“Asakh… Aiden Asakh.”

“Huh, what?” Aiden, finally aware of his surrounding, he saw Caleb in front of him.

“Thinking about the past?” Caleb asked him. His hand is busy mixing a drink at the liquor cabinet.

“That obvious, huh?”

“For almost a hundred years, on our quest for a perfect soul, you depressed for 10 years, gone insane for 15 years, and for the rest of almost 75 years, you become a vigilante.”

Aiden smirk when Caleb mentioned everything that happened for the past 100 years. “Oh, you’re just like me, but with more finesse.”

“F*cking geezers.” Fenrir's mocking the two of them while he got out and leave the room.

Caleb turns around and laughing at his words. “Shut up! You scruffy dog, we are just a hundred years older than you.”

“I'M A WEREWOLF, YOU MISERABLE BLOODSUCKER!”

Both of them then laugh and try to get some work done again. The threat of the three-headed monster still haunting them, but they just need to be focused on after the success of the soul transfer.

Fenrir walks into the kitchen and sees Emir making some food.

“Dinner?”

Emir turns around to see Fenrir leaning into the wall beside the large fridge. “Yup, since we have a new lady in the house, we should at least impress her with some culinary feasts.”

Fenrir shakes his head in amusement. Between the four of them, Emir is the famous player of them all, he can pick any woman and make them head over heels for him. He remembered the old days, Naura Amyra always teases them about women, many elven women love to be chosen by the admirable Sakhsiyun, only Emir likes to play around, Caleb and Fenrir just choosing women when the time of need has come, Aiden never fools around.

Fenrir sits on the chair, drinks some water from the glass; he stares at the crystals gleaming in the glass and then calling Emir. “Hey…”

“Hmm? What’s up?” Emir answers while still focusing on his cooking.

“Why did Aiden never fool around?”

Emir stops stirring the cooking pot. “Good question, why did he never fool around?.”

“See, it’s strange, right? I mean, he’s our Asaksihyun, the leader of our group, but he never ever goes to the pleasure harem or even have a flesh companion.”

Emir just laughs at his curious question about Aiden.

“Hey, I’m serious here, is it normal for a healthy elven male to not have s*x sometimes?”

“Oh, don’t you worry, he got some and many of it alright.”

Fenrir chokes on his drink. “Wait, what?? You know something, seriously!”

Emir just winks at him and immediately goes out of the kitchen.

“Hey, tell me! You, Harry Potter bastard!”

Emir throws a kitchen towel to Fenrir's face. “I’m a sorcerer’s not a f*cking wizard!” he then continues his activity in the kitchen.

“Same same, anyway, come on dude, just tell me, Aiden has a flesh companion? A favorite girl on some of the pleasure harems?”

“Not going to tell, you should just ask him yourself.”

“No way, that Nephilim scares the heck out of me sometimes.”

Emir looks at him. “Then, why are u bother so much by it??”

“Curiosity?”

Emir turns off his stove and then hangs his apron neatly. “Well, sometimes curiosity not just kill a cat, a wolf as well.” He laughs and goes to call everyone to eat.

Aileen wakes up, hearing a knock on her door.

“Hey, dinner is ready.” It was Emir's voice.

“Oh, yeah, coming.”

She got up and freshen up a bit, everyone already waiting for her at the dining table. Aileen is still awkward to be with them. She takes a glance at Fenrir, Emir, Caleb, and Aiden, four of them are so different, but they look like they get along just fine.

Aiden eating his soup elegantly, he looks at Aileen who sits at his right side, she’s talking with Emir and it seems he tell her some jokes, cause in a matter of second she's smiling so brightly, Aiden really miss it, miss her dear Amyra smile so much, he didn’t realize that he stares at Aileen longingly.

Fenrir munching his food, his eyes accidentally look at Aiden who’s still staring passionately at Aileen. A clarification came suddenly into his head.

“You… you sleep with her??” Fenrir pointed at Aiden and then Aileen.

The four of them have different expressions because of Fenrir. Aileen chokes on her food, Emir and Caleb just smirking and staring at Aiden, while Aiden just continuing eating the food in front of him with no interest in Fenrir's declaration.

“Can we just eating the food in peace?”

“You’re absolutely right,” Emir answers him even though he was still chuckling a bit, he looks at Aileen, who’s now more nervous than before. “So, how’s my cooking, is it suit your taste?”

She finally reacts and turns around to see Emir. “You cook this? Wow, this is amazing.”

He then whispers to Aileen. “Please don’t mind the hassle before, we tell you everything, for now just enjoy the food.”

Aileen agrees and then tries to relax a bit. They continue to eat with some small talks, after the feast Aileen helping Caleb washing the dishes.

“You don’t have to do this.”

“it’s okay, I love to work, I hate to just sit and do nothing.” Aileen then smiles at Caleb.

They both wash the dishes together, while the other three light a fire in the fireplace by the living room. Aiden then calling Aileen and Caleb to have some meeting in the living room.

Aileen sits in one of the cozy sofas with Fenrir by his side. Caleb opts to make some cocktails and then sit by the fireplace, while Emir sits on the single sofa. Aiden standing in front of the fireplace and looking at Aileen directly.

“We need to tell you more.”

“Of course you are, I’m already prepared to hear it.”

“What do you want to know?”

“Why me? Why not some younger woman or maybe a woman that you guys already familiar with? Is it because I’m dead?”

“No, not exactly, well, yes we need to save you at first, we didn’t even think that the procedure will be a success, soul transferring have to be working if the vessel, the receiver, and the soul have a powerful connection.”

“Powerful connection, do you mean my soul and this body?”

“Yes, and the four of us as well. The vessel is the empty body, the soul basically you, and the four of us are the receiver.”

“The four of you? Not just one of you?”

“It depends on the vessel itself, Naura Amyra had an immense power within her, it needs all four of us to contain your soul into her body.”

“So… right now, I… I have the power?”

Aiden and Caleb look at each other, Caleb's the one who talks to Aileen.

“Yes and No, Yes, you have the power, but no, not all of her power because your soul right now cannot contain the power, the current you have half of the power.”

“Then? Where’s the rest of it?”

Fenrir, who just sits and quiets earlier, finally talks. “It’s on us, the four of us.”

Aileen looks at Fenrir in disbelief. “So, what happens now?”

Aiden then continues to answer. “Thankfully, the soul transfer was a successful one, but you’re still not stable. We need to train your soul to be attached to the new vessel while waiting to do one more ritual, so you can get Naura's full power.”

Aileen, standing up goes away to one of the sliding doors, she opens the door and then goes to sit at the terrace facing an enormous garden. She then inhales the aroma of nature surround her.

“Too much to handle?”

She turns around and sees Emir, who then sits on the chair beside her.

“Is it that obvious?”

“Yeah, the whole changing body thing already overwhelming enough. I figure that much, not to mention that you’re now a crown princess on the elven realm, with a power that big enough to destroy half of the world.”

Aileen's eyes got big, and she stares at Emir. “That big?”

Emir laughs and then rustling her hair. “No, silly, I was just joking.”

Emir suddenly remembering his day with Naura, their Amyra, remembering how she always teases him about his way into a women’s pants, how he always rustling her hair to get back at her teasing. He missed that day, but the more he tries to remember her, the more he realized that the one beside him isn’t Naura anymore.

Naura Amyra, the fierce crown princess of the Arbediin Kingdom, could slay 10 Qadar with just one strike. She even can destroy a herd of Qadar with no help. A warrior with no fear. Emir looks at the new Amyra beside her, a timid and shy woman, a fragile human who forces to have a new body because of her ability to not avoid any danger.

“Emir?” Aileen calls him.

Emir looks at Aileen again, realizing that he was reminiscing about the past in front of her.

“Ah, yes, sorry, I was just remembering something about her, can’t help it though.”

Aileen smiling in an understanding manner. “It’s okay, I get it.”

“Look, I know you get thrown into this situation. We even contemplate whether we ought to continue the plan, but we are going to respect your decision if this life is the one that you don’t want to.”

“Really? How?”

“Let’s just say for now, that there’s a way.” Fenrir is the one that answers her. He leans on the sliding door, looking at her sitting with Emir.

Aiden and Caleb follow suit. Both of them come over to Aileen. Aiden sits at the other side of Aileen, while Caleb standing up admiring the view with a glass of whiskey.

Aiden looks at Aileen. “We never actually say an apology properly, we are sorry, this is the only way to help you and yes we have motives as well, putting your soul in our Amyra.”

“To tell you all the truth, I was angry and then confused, I’m angry because I don’t have a choice in that matter, confused because why you guys choose me, I am nothing to society, a loner and lacking in every aspect.”

“Woah seriously, woman! Have a confidence a bit!” Fenrir, who just backing out from the crowd, is now marching in front of Aileen. He lowers himself to have an eye-to-eye perspective with her. “Yes, we did the soul transferring ritual to you, but it wasn’t just a haste or random decision on our part.”

Fenrir's face is so close to Aileen, she can even feel his breath, her heartbeat going faster, she's so lacking in the romance department, even just to be this close to a man already make her blushed so much. She back out in a hurry, her head hit the back of her chair, they all can hear a tremendous thud.

“Ouch!”

“Woah, are you okay?” Even Fenrir got disturbed when she was avoiding his face almost immediately.

“Yeah… yeah, I'm fine… A bit hurt though,” Says Aileen with an awkward laugh.

“Hey, you’re still laughing even when you got hurt like that? The sound of it… ugh it must be hurt so much.” Emir in disbelief immediately checks her head.

Aiden and Caleb also go toward Aileen to check her well-being. Aileen then laugh of it, making everyone wondering why she can laugh at the situation.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, it’s just that I’m not used to be treated like these by any men, and now I have four men making a huge fuss just because I accidentally bump my head.”

The four of them look at each other, Aiden smile and goes back to the living room, he stops midway and turns around to see Aileen's face. “Our Amyra is fierce and a brave warrior. You may be shy, but you have the quality to become a warrior. Please believe in yourself more.” He then goes away, with Caleb not far behind him.

Fenrir and Emir stay behind. They chat a little more, mostly Emir and Aileen Fenrir just there, watching them with longing eyes.

Aiden and Caleb in the office room once more, they both reading the newest police report about another incident in The Doom.

“This is unsettling, almost a week after Aileen's incident, and this happened?”

“I told you, something sketchy about that place, Mona was right.”

“Yeah, I give you that.” Aiden agrees to Caleb's statement, his eyes fixed on the police report once more.

Fenrir goes into the room. He sits on the sofa, his right hand holding a bottle of cold beer from the fridge.

“Where’s Aileen?” Caleb asks him.

“Living room, still chatting with Emir.”

“That walking p*nis has a talent to charm any woman, I’ll give him that.” Caleb smirking with the case file in his hand.

“Tell me about it, what do we have here now, boss?”

Aiden takes a glance at Fenrir. “Another missing person case, from The Doom.”

Fenrir cursed when they heard of the news. They already suspected something happened involving the elven realm at the nightclub, but this is too much. The Doom already has three missing person cases. At this rate, they know someone with higher authority has already protected the place from being shut down.

A knock from the door startled the three of them, it’s Aileen, she asks permission to go out a bit with Emir. Aiden reluctantly agrees just because Caleb will go along as well.

He saw Caleb’s car; the phantom goes out from the driveway into the night road ahead.

“Fen…” his eyes still fixed on the window.

“Got it, I’ll follow them, don’t worry.”

Fenrir goes out of the office, he took his bike and drove away to follow the three of them.

An hour later, he was still at the office, organizing the report files. His phone ringing loudly at the table.

“Fenrir?”

“Aiden… …… …… quick… .. Tracker…”

Aiden gets alerted, he grabs his coat and got into his car, activate his tracker to check where Fenrir was. He then drove away so fast into a deep night.

-End of Chapter 3-