|Ch.39

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"You let my son become a slave!"

"It wasn't my choice Katherine",Senga Bishop,the Saintess caressed her temples,feeling the worst headache.

"Idris is a childish boy! He will die the second he goes there!! And Wynn,that bastard took him to the hospital along with that bitch Luna to teach him his first 'lesson' as a slave!"

Senga sent a warning glare at her grand daughter,"Shut it,I want to hear none of it. Just leave now"

"But what about my son?!"

"I will try to do something later. For now,I need to rest. Tell Moira to prepare a medicinal bath for me"

Katherine seemed to want to say more but seeing how exhausted the Saintess is,she knew it was better to drop the topic than pushing own luck. But she would definitely bring this topic back,no way she would let her son endure such a humiliation. With that in mind,she bowed and left the office room of the Saintess.

Senga sighed and closed her eyes before opening them,an expression of caution taking over her,"I know you are there. Come out"

Her eyes focused on the shadowed corner of the room where she kept her book racks. And within the dark shadows,a man appeared. He was wearing a cape with a hood covering his face.

"Did you think I wouldn't notice when someone had intruded through my barrier?"

The mysterious man let out a chuckle,the voice deep and poisonously raspy,"Actually I wanted you to notice my presence"

"How dare you come here,Storm Pendragon"

The man dropped his hood revealing his multi coloured eyes. He bowed dramatically as if he was mocking the woman. "Such a pleasure to meet you,your grace"

Senga scoffed loudly,squinting her eyes in disgust,"What do you want?"

Storm sauntered towards the main chair of the Saintess and took a seat before placing his legs on the table with a carefree attitude,"What do you think?"

"I don't think I have anything to offer you. Please get out of my home,you disgusting devil"

Storm's eyes shone in amusement,"So you know about my father"

"Those shadows,only a devil could manipulate them. It's obvious who your mother eloped with to have you"

Storm's lips curved into a menacing smirk,"Oh ~how brave of you to talk about the Elmyr"

Senga's eyes narrowed into Storm's figure. Her eyes were filled with resentment and disgust. "What do you want from me?"

Storm tilted his head to a side,"You are being careful with your words yet your eyes can't lie"

"....."

"Where is Jackson?"

Senga was taken back,"Jackson? How would I know?"

Storm's eyes hardened,"Jackson has gone missing. I can only think of this family at a time like this. What did you do to Jackson?"

"Jackson and our family have nothing to do with each other. He is just a bastard we abandoned back then with his whore of a mother. From then on,we have never interfered with his business"

"Ho~ nothing to do with each other? Weren't you all coveting over his abilities?"

"There was a time our elders wanted to invite him back to our house but he refused. He was already a Pendragon person. That was all"

"And you think I would go back believing your words?"

"Look,no one has heard from him ever since the war back then. I heard he would appear at taverns sometimes but no one knows his whereabouts"

Storm fell into a silence. True,after the war,Jackson remained by Storm's side to look after his health. He never went back to Pendragons,and then he left to travel the world. But he would still come back once every five months to check on Storm.

Jackson was on the way to Storm after he heard about Storm's current condition but he suddenly disappeared.

Storm stood up from the seat and walked over the table towards her,and leveled his glare on her. He did not trust the words of this woman. "I will see it for myself"

The next second,shadows started expanding through his feet,and then tendrils of shadows left the room through the door. Storm could hear almost every sound and voice in this castle through his shadows.

Every shadow in the castle connected to his shadows,allowing him to manipulate the every single shadow in the castle.

"You are crossing the line,we have our own secrets to hide within this castle —"

"I don't think they are important than your life"

Storm turned his back to her and concentrated,"And do not even think of harming me just because I'm showing my back to you. Even your own shadow is a slave to me"

Storm grinned knowing he pissed off the old woman. He was almost done searching for anything related to Jackson and was about to stop but paused suddenly. A voice was speaking something. He didn't want to hear it but he just heard it anyways.

"We should have just killed Gabriel when we had the chance! So what if we made him a slave! He might as well have been a slave if not for Jungkook Pendragon! Why does my son have to pay for it?!"

"He is still a Pendragon. We shouldn't have done such a thing knowing very well who his father is! We made his son a slave for eight months! We should be glad that duchess promised to not reveal this matter! Compared to whole family's destruction,this is better"

"Better?! What is so better about this,you old man! He is our son! —"

Storm stopped the shadow manipulation. He tilted his head to a side,"Gabriel?"

Senga flinched at the sound of the name coming from Storm.

"Gabriel Pendragon was a what?"

A dark chuckle left Storm's lips as he turned around to face the Saintess. His eyes were in complete disbelief and confusion,"The Gabriel Pendragon was a slave here? What kind of bullshit is that? Haha"

"That doesn't have anything to do with you. You hate Pendragons right? So why bother?"

Storm's eyes turned blank,"Very obviously. I hate them. And I wish their destruction more than anyone",A pause. "However,I think you are forgetting something"

"Huh?"

"The honor of destroying Pendragons belong to me. Only.Me. They are mine. Every single Pendragon belong to me! Only I can decide their fate"

Senga seemed to catch on to Storm's hostility. She took a step back and used a divine shield around her to protect herself. "Gabriel is not a Pendragon"

"Oh he very much is",Storm said calmly yet his eyes were swirling with something very dark. A smile crept into his lips.

An ominous silence fell upon the whole Bishop castle. No one spoke at the second as if everyone had a chokehold on their throats.

It was a soundless moment. Half of the castle blew off on its own. A sea of fire was it.

Storm left the castle without looking back with a pissed off face,"It's kind of annoying when someone trample on Pendragons and that someone is not me"

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Namjoon Pendragon,for months,no one had heard from him. And that was why Jaykar has taken his old position back as the shadow guard. He was watching Namjoon's manor from a hill side forest. He could not invade the territory more than that without alarming Namjoon,his former commander.

But he had ways to get inside without alarming his target.

"This is getting boring"

A childish voice interrupted him.

"Killian,the first lesson",Jaykar's voice took a tone of authority. He turned back to see the child whom he took charge of. A pair of red eyes stared back at him,the eyes of fate he had been entangled with ever since he was little. The child was an eleven years old boy with long tied up hair. A copy paste of his father Taehyung Pendragon.  Killian Pendragon,the second child of Taehyung Pendragon.

The boy groaned,"Always keep quiet"

"Exactly"

"But no one is hear to listen to us!"

Jaykar sighed looking at the student he decided to take upon as his responsibility. It all happened out of freaking nowhere. Before he departed for the mission,the boy was sent to the Pendragon mansion by Taehyung with nothing more than a note. The content of the letter was simple,the child was to be trained under Jimin or Jungkook. But both of them were out of the capital.

And the reason why Jungkook or Jimin should be training the child? Apparently,Killian had his first kill recently and he had not even used magic,he had killed the man with his bare hands,with pure raw strength. So instead of counselling the kid,he would be pushed to the hands of monsters like him. That is the Pendragon way. They are naturally violent and their vanished curse had nothing to do with their violent behaviours to begin with.

At the end,Seokjin gave the child to Jaykar,the former shadow guard who was known to be another ruthless man.

"Just because no one is here does not mean you have to shout your location to enemies out there"

"You're bossier than my witch of a sister",he grumbled. "And what are we even looking at?"

Jaykar opened his palm and a butterfly appeared on his palm.

"I can do that",Killian also opened his palm and a glowing red butterfly appeared.

"This is not the same as yours. This is a soul?"

"Woah,whose soul?"

"Killian,you are breaking the first rule. We are here to spy,not to chat around"

Killian tilted his head as he watched the butterfly flying away towards the massive Manor. "Whose Manor is that?"

It seems pointless to keep reminding him the first lesson.

"That's your uncle Namjoon's place. You haven't been here before?"

"Not really. Now that I think,I actually don't even remember his face"

"He is a busy man after all"

"Is that why we are stalking his ass now?"

Jaykar,"....."

"You don't have to make that face. I do curse a little. The witch curses all the time so I learnt a thing or two"

Jaykar sighed stroking his forehead in distress. "Just why am I stuck with you?"

"My mom said I am lovely,anyone would be lucky spend time with me"

"Moms lie sometimes"

"My mom never lies. But my dad do lie a lot though. Urg,I hate him so much"

"Alright Killian Pendragon,now listen,we are going to infiltrate the city first. We can't go to that mansion no matter what. We need to finish this mission and I want your full support,can you do that?"

Killian grinned widely doing a little salute. "I can absolutely do that"

Jaykar looked like he doesn't trust a word that came out of his mouth. "Alright,but we have to do something about your eyes"

Killian clicked his fingers and his eyes turned pink.

"Still standing out too much. Turn them black"

Killian clicked his fingers again and they were black.

Jaykar nodded,"Good. Let's go. We need to see what's going on with your uncle"

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