The Lycan King novel Chapter 85

Nikolai

I picked up the key ring from besides his cell and held it out for the little man.

"Lucas, I want you to unlock the door, I will drop them out and be right back." I handed him the key before I dashed out of the dungeon and place the boys on the floor. The guard two was sitting on the floor with the girls on his lap and he was talking to them, trying to make them smile.

He seems like a good man.

"Bring a couple of slaves in. Preferably those whose owners don't mind them dying. I want them here right now." I ordered before I ran inside.

Lucas had opened the door but he was standing outside, looking a bit scared to go inside.

I patted him on the shoulder, silently saying that he did a good job and walked inside the cell. I knew he was Ava's father. But I needed to conform it. How is he alive? Ava said he died. Mary said he died. All the pack members believed he was dead too. They must have felt his link break. Or maybe they stripped way his title somehow. I don't know how someone can do it to their superior but maybe a witch can do it.

"What's your full name?" I knew the answer before he opened his mouth. He was pale but his skin was naturally tanned??the Hispanic kind.?Ava must have gotten her pale skin tone from her mother.?And I recognised his features, I had seen him when I was a kid and still in Mystic Lupus. But right now, he looked...decayed. His skin was pale, almost greyish green. The skin around his eyes had sunken along with his cheeks, making his eyeballs pop out. His back was hunched and his t-shirt hung over him like it was hanging on a hanger. I'm sure he once filled it out perfectly. But right now, he looked nothing like the man I had met when I was a kid.

His lips parted but no voice came out. His hand trembled but he was unable to lift it.

"Alvarez?" My voice was rough as I spoke. This is fucked up. Avalyn will loose her shit if she sees her father like this.

The dim light in his eyes changed, displaying life. And then, with much difficulty, he nodded.

Goddamn.

"Let's get out of here, old man." I murmured and then put his frail body over my shoulder before I walked out.

Lucas walked on my other side and grabbed my hand as we walked towards the exit.

I frowned when I saw that the door was closed. I tried to push it open but it was... locked?

I growled. "Open the door or else I will kill you."

"I don't know what happened, Alpha." Came the guard's panicked voice. "Suddenly the door slammed shut and it isn't opening. I've been trying to open it since you went in." It was the truth.?

"Fire!" I heard a scream.

My eyes widened and I looked down at Lucas. He looked at me with terror filled eyes.

I bent down to his level. "I promise I will get you out of here alive, Lucas. But for that I need you to not cry and do exactly as I tell you, alright?"

He nodded and wiped his eyes. "What do you need me to do?"?

I placed Javier down and sat him up against the door. "Stay here and protect him, okay? And let me know if you hear any news from outside."

He nodded and I ran inside the dungeon.

And true to the scream, one end of the dungeon was on fire.

'Ava, I'm locked inside the prison and there is a fire burning here. I need your help to get out. There are a lot of people here that need to get out too.'?I mind- linked her.

'I'm on my way.' Came her immediate response. I decided upon not telling her about Javier until she actually sees him.

I'm pretty sure that most of the people here have not committed any true crime and I need to save everyone.

I first unlocked the cell closest to the fire. "The door is shut, it's not opening. Everyone will stand near the door." It was furthest away from the fire. "Give wide girth to the boy and the vampire or we will have a problem." I growl and opened the door. "Help the people in your cell to escape." I said when I saw the people in the end unable to get up.

A couple of people of people began helping them and started walking out. I decided that if I open all the cells right now, it will be chaos and I won't be able to concentrate in finding a way out. But then these wails and pleas were getting louder by the second.

I growled loudly. "Shut up."

The dungeon quietened down. "I promise to save all of you but if I open the cells right now, all of you will only come in my way."

"But the fire is spreading quickly. What if you won't save us in time?" Someone cried out.

I looked at the fire. I know its spreading quickly. It was on the wall at the end of the hallway. How did the fire even start? It was away from the cells, no one could have lit it. And even if they did, no one had the supplies to light a fire, much less the ability to light it up over stone walls and make it spread so quickly without any flammable objects present. I'll dwell on it later. I need to find a way for all of us to escape.

"I'm unlocking all the doors, if the fire comes close to your cell, you will quietly walk out and stand near the door. Otherwise, no one will step out of the cell without my explicit permission." I growled and motioned to the young man in front of me to open all the cells. He nodded and set to work.

The first thing I did was to comb the entire dungeon, looking for a way to escape. But there were no windows. Neither were the drainage holes big enough to fit a person.

'The outside of the dungeon is burning too, Nik.' Came Ava's panicked voice. 'I have evacuated the area. What should I do?'?She seemed hysterical.

'First, calm down.' I told her.

I thought about it. And how the hell is the dungeon burning from outside too?

I went towards the end of the dungeon, where the fire was still burning and pressed over the wall from where the fire first started. There has to be a secret door or a window or something.

The clothes on my back burned and fell in the fire I was standing on and turned into ashes.

I couldn't feel the fire or felt the burn. The heat almost... made me feel stronger somehow.

I pushed against the entire wall and felt nothing. If the fire was burning on the outside of the dungeon as well, the pack house will immediately catch fire. It was made of wood.

Where the fuck did the fire start from? I punched my fist against the wall and the stone cracked slightly. And then an idea struck me.

'Ava, get out of there and walk outside, to the east wing of the house.' I told her as I ran out if the fire and saw the terrified eyes that were filled with hope watch me with fascination. I ran towards the east end of the dungeon that was away from the fire.

What I had understood about the pack house's structure was that this end of the dungeon lied exactly below the east wing of the pack house. And this wall should be where the pack house ends too. I'm underground right now but if I were one a level above this, on the other side of the wall would be the outside.

'I'm here, Nikolai.' Avalyn was breathing hard.

'Good girl. Now the dungeon is on the basement level. I want you to built a sort of tunnel that will help us get out of here.'

'I can't think straight, Nikolai.' She was having a panic attack. 'The entire house is on fire. Everyone is out and safe but the house is collapsing. I'm not sure how long the dungeon will hold up. I can't put out the fire. I can't focus.'

'Take a deep breath, Love.' I commanded softly. If the stone of the dungeon started collapsing because of the weight of the falling house, we were all going to die. I might be immune to fire but I'm sure as hell not immune to death by being crushed.

'Now take a couple of steps back and think that you are digging a hole in the ground. It should be diagonal, like a slide, the lower end about twelve feet below the ground level. Image all the soil coming out. A path is being created. A path that is wide through where a lot of people can walk out easily. Imagine me walking out of that tunnel to you.'

'It's done, Nikolai. I see a stone wall.'?I fucking love this woman.

'Good girl.' I smiled. 'Now take out only one stone.'

A stone started come out from the top and a little light shone in but the ceiling started collapsing.

'Nikolai!' She cried and out the stone back in it's place. I looked at the ceiling to make sure it wasn't falling again. That's when I realised that with the way the stones were placed, the walls acted as a pillar of the pack house. If they were taken away, the entire thing will start collapsing.

'Hold on, Love. Let me think.'

I looked back at the all the people that were now huddled by the door, at the end of the hallway, looking at me with wide eyes. The fire was licking up the dungeon and slowly reaching them. The dungeon was already filled with thick black smoke.

But as ordered, they remained silent, except the occasional coughing.

I looked back at the wall as I tried to think of something.

If the wall is destroyed, the entire pack house will collapse.

'Ava remember how you turned those corpses into dust at the beach during the war?'?I asked. 'Just like that, turn the entire house into dust.' The fire will be put out automatically when there will be nothing present there. I just hopes it works on such a large scale. She hasn't worked on anything this big.

'It's done.' She whispered after sometime.