Is That Really You?

He had to be the most annoying person she had ever seen in her entire life, she evades his attack and his metal clashes with her father's,

"You're battle is with me!!" He pushes him a few distance back and Arcadia sees it as an opportunity to strike, she deal him a blow to his eyes and she feels it crack underneath her force, she then runs her claws across his face giving him another scar.

He falls to the ground and kicks in pain, holding his bleeding face, she turns to Mace and brings out a dagger that she took from a fallen soldier,

"Do you submit?" She threatens him with the blade that was dangerously close to his neck,

"Yes.....I submit..." He says in defeat and Xerxes brightens up,

"Good!! I'll spare your miserable life." She dumps him on the floor where he belongs, "father, let's close this thing up. Where is Sheila??" She turned to look for her half sister,

"Arcadia, keep an eye on them both, I'll go look for her." He decides to do h searching instead while his daughter watched them. But to fulfill her ambitions, she drags them to the throne room and climbs Mace's throne.

"All hail Queen Arcadia! Ruler of he North and the south!! Queen of the entire land!!" She praises herself and imagines a crowd cheering for her, her eyes soften when she remembered that her mother was alive. And Conan. Her teeth grit in anger, she had told Asher to handle that so she was sure he would bring him to her eventually.

"Pregnant? No, this cannot be happening!!" She cried desperately and she pulls her body to stand, Octavia relaxes her by caressing her hair, "I can't be pregnant!!" She didn't want to believe it but it could be the reason why she had been so sick lately.

"We can't really say until you're checked, but you do look pregnant. Have you been feeling sick lately?" She guides her by he hand slowly, since she was very delicate during this period. Sheila nods and Octavia's eyes roam around the halls, "is it Loki?" She knew I would hurt and it did.

Hot tears slid down her cheeks, she could not get the image our of her head, he raised his weapon at her. He wanted to kill her. After everything they had been through together. He raised his weapon at her.

"Sheila we cannot stay here, we need to take you to a doctor." She moves the traumatized wolf forward and she sincerely felt bad for her, she was starting to insinuate that her child would be fatherless since Loki already hated her.

"What did I do to deserve this? What wrong have I done?"she needed answers to these questions but unfortunately the Queen had none, she only rubs her shoulders and advances further into the palace. There were dead bodies littered on the floor and it was a result of the anger between two wolves, so many people had died.

The sight reminded Octavia of the war during her youth, how she lost so many of her siblings because of Magnus' greed for power. She stretches her leg over one as she held Sheila tight, she needed all the support in the world at this turning point of her life.

"Sheila!! Sheila!!" Xerxes called out for her and she was invoked to answer him back since he as more or less a father to her,

"Father!!!" She runs to find his voice wherever he was,

"Sheila be careful!!" Octavia runs after her and she skids to a halt when she sees her crying on her husband,

"It's okay, why are you crying??" He is barely audible but Octavia's breathing had become Audible as she saw the love of her life, ad she beheld her Mate. A tear falls from her left eye and she had began to pant, a small smile creeping up her lips. Sheila poured all her tears loudly and he held her as tight as he could; to reassure her that she wasn't alone. He had no idea what the matter was but he felt it was something big if it was enough to make her cry like a child again.

A scent flies into his nostrils and memories flood back into his remembrance at the pheromone taste. He raises his gaze to see his wife smiling at him with tears in her eyes, his blue orbs begin to shake as he saw Octavia,

"Xerxes.... Is that truly you?" She sniffs back her tears and she takes steps closer to him, his heart beating with each soft thud her feet made when they connected to the ground as she advanced, "my love..." She was reaching out to him, to hold him once again.

He was horrified, the memories of when Magnus killed her replayed at lightning speed, he didn't know if she was real or if he was just imagining things. Then he remembered the rose he found on his mirror table one morning, it was her scent but she was dead. And now he's seeing her for real.

His hands subconsciously stretch to hers and their fingers Interlock with each other's, his chest was visibly heaving but he was too happy to care about any other thing,

"Oct—Octavia?" A crazy smile begins to stretch on his lips and he pulls her into an embrace, she cries on him and he doesn't restrict his tears too, "I thought I lost you forever." He was grateful to the goddess for bringing his mate back to him.

"I would never break my promise, especially not to you." She pulls back to look at his orbs, those very eyes she had been dreaming of every night. They gave her the strength to fight when she was going to die and rot away under the earth, he kept her alive. The will to be with him gave her daily breath and now she was breathless.

Sheila felt complete with the embrace of the king and the Queen, she had stopped crying and began to cry her tears. To her they were the family she lost when their clan was attacked.

"Where is Arcadia? Where is my daughter? I want to see her again!!" She was too eager to meet the new Queen of the North and Xerxes couldn't help but let out the laugh he had been holding in,

"I have a feeling she's in the throne room where she rightfully belongs, Mace has given up and we now rule this land." His declaration of good news make the women jump in joy, Octavia was overwhelmed with emotions and couldn't stop the tears that spilled, he wipes them for her and places a kiss on her forehead, "I've missed you so much Octavia." She doesn't say anything but she does kiss him.

She missed him too.

"And tell me why I should spare you life?" She sat on the throne and spared Conan a look from the tip of her nose,

"Your majesty, it's Asher's fault!! He made me do this!!" A horrible situation he had been put in and his so called brother was no where to be seen,

"You're lying!!" She exhumes her fan and Conan's spirit leaves his body and goes back to the goddess,

"My Queen wait!!" Asher runs into the throne room to see Mace and Czar tied, he brings the last of them and his comrade's drop Loki beside his brother and his fellow Beta, "this is all of my doing, you can do anything you want with me but please spare him. He only took the decree because I told him too, it was never stolen." He confesses and Arcadia twitches visibly,

"You made me fight a war because of one of your jokes?!!!" She had enough with these men, "get out!! I don't ever want to see you again!!" And his heart shatters,

"Now look at what you've done to yourself." Conan makes a side comment and his brother goes on his knees,

"Please, may be discuss this in private?" His request makes everyone go wide eyed, she thinks for a while and she nods although she was still fuming. Even in her anger she already had a soft spot for him.

"Brother, are you okay?" Loki whispers to Mace but he barely had the energy to talk, so he nods his head, "we would escape but for now let's comply."

"We've lost, she wouldn't spare us, consider yourself dead." Czar remarks and Arcadia could see them talking in hushed tones,

"Shut up or I would cut off your tongues!!" She barks at them and they have no choice but to obey, "you useless men!! All you know how to do is run that river mouth of yours!!" She scowls before relaxing again.

"I told you she was more like me."