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"Careful, mama's boy. History repeats itself," Ezekiel smirked, leaving us more baffled than ever. The only thing we could do at that moment was to watch the two Lycans confronting each other.

All of a sudden the blood that was spilled on the snow didn't seem enough because of the way those two lycans were talking, it was sure that there was soon going to be more and more blood painting this valley bloody red and I couldn't have been more right for thinking that.

"I'm not surprised that you're still stuck in the past," Balthazar spat at his brother, After all, it was the only time you ever won against me and that was all it took to enrage Ezekiel because he responded Balthazar next not by his words but by his sword.

As soon as their swords clashed, another war cry rose among the River Lycans and before we knew it, another round of bloodshed had started. This time they were tougher on us. I couldn't help but feel less bullish after seeing some of my dead wolves staining the snow along with the dead bodies of the lycans from both the sides and some drakkons.

From the way things were going, I knew that we were going to lose it but I fought until Ezekiel fought. I did manage to glance at the duo fighting by the edge of the river. Their fight was more brutal and gory than the previous one when the Drakkon king was here.

I also managed to look at the river and what I saw gave me goosebumps. There was so much blood in the river that now it appeared completely black. The river was still until now but the water had started to flow again but this time it looked a bit more violent for some unfathomable reason but nonetheless, it looked like a place I would not dare to go again until and unless I have a good solid reason.

I fought some more lycans before somehow managing to glance at Ezekiel. He now seemed to be defeating his brother. I watched as he slashed his brother's arm with one swift swing of his sword, resulting in his staggering back at the river weakly while blood gushed out from his wound and dripped in the river, and... that's when it happened.

As soon as Baltazar's blood united with the river water, something similar to a whirlpool appeared in the river as the water started to rise in the river high and higher.

"Now what?" I heard one of my wolves growl behind me in annoyance. Well, I somewhat felt the same because so many unexpected things were happening today— things that we couldn't even fathom in the first place, thanks to Ezekiel's tight-lipped ass.

I was just so tempted to walk up to him and smack him right in front of his brother. As another figure rose from the river, everyone stopped what they were doing and just stared at it in horror and anticipation.

Again, no one had any idea who was going to appear from the water this time except for, of course, Baltazar and his scheming son of a bastard brother. Ezekiel let out another defending growl as Baltazar stood at the edge of the river, holding his wounded hand and glaring at Ezekiel.

"Of course, you would call her out because you cannot fight me alone," Ezekiel gritted at his brother.

"He didn't call me," a feminine yet commanding voice boomed in the valley all of a sudden. There was something so chilly and eerie about the voice that sent a shiver down my spine, "I came here myself,"

The water splashed down to reveal a woman I had never seen before. She was levitating over the river and the first thing that I noticed about her was how her hair flowed down to her legs before turning into the river water. She was beautiful. She looked like a goddess. I raked my brain but I just couldn't guess who she might be but I didn't have to guess for long because Ezekiel spoke to the woman soon.

"Why are you here, mother?"

Mother.

MOTHER!

THAT SON OF A BASTARD CALLED THAT WOMAN MOTHER!

M-O-T-H-E-R!

This time I felt this urge to drop my sword and clean my ear because I was finding it hard to believe that that scheming son of a bastard just called that beautiful looking woman his mother! So he was born from a woman's womb but how did he end up being such a sexist manwhore? Maybe, it had to do something with his father about whom I knew absolutely nothing yet.

Well, to start with I didn't know much about Ezekiel in the first place.

"I should be the one asking you that, Ezekiel," That woman spoke.

"I'm here because this is my land," Ezekiel told the woman.

"Then why are you fighting with your brother," The woman asked pointedly. Even though we were surrounded with blood and dead bodies, this felt like a typical scene of a mother intervening in a fight between two siblings. Only these two siblings were fighting with swords and had spilled a lot of blood already.

"He broke the treaty, mother!" And there was the sibling who snitched.

"I did not! I was ready to settle it with reparations but this thick-skulled motherfvcker wanted to fight me," And there was the sibling who usually gaslit the other.

It made me wonder what they were like growing up but again. I just couldn't imagine Ezekiel and his brother as young boys. It just felt like their mother pulled them out of her vagina in exactly this form.

"You have violated the treaty, Ezekiel," The woman spoke and I didn't miss how Balthazar smirked.

"If that's what you think then I am ready to settle it whether it be with a war or reparations," Ezekiel told the woman.

"I want war," Baltazar roared with a fire burning in his eyes. I didn't like where this was going. We were severely undermanned and didn't have many resources to survive in such a harsh place.

"Then be it," Ezekiel roared back in return. I wanted to drive my palm through my forehead at this point because Ezekiel was just so blinded at that moment that he couldn't see we would lose a war with them. "A fair war," He added as if his senses had returned to him finally.

"Fair enough," The woman remarked as she glanced at Baltazar who was recovering from his wounds, "Until then you can return to your places. The war begins after three sun rises until then I don't want to see your face," The woman spat at Ezekiel before a huge wave washed over the land, swallowing Baltazar and the rest of his men inside the river.

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