The Alpha King's Mate novel Chapter 56

Even though their requests were granted, they were fearful that the other rulers would turn against them, and so, after meticulous planning, a second war erupted. Humans hunted and slaughtered many elemental sprites, leaving their corpses on orc territory and blaming the orcs for the deaths.

After this massacre, King Pyrus and Queen Lydia, the rulers of the sprite kingdom, consulted the leaders of all realms for help. It was agreed that all realms would protect any remaining elemental sprites from the orcs.

King Asher agreed to help protect the sprites and convinced the alpha king, the leaders of the other realms, and King Pyrus and Queen Lydia that the orcs needed to be eliminated before the orcs killed them all.

The strongest of all species, the orcs managed to wipe out half of the realms throughout the war before being obliterated in reprisal for being accused of a crime they did not commit.

The Midnight coven of witches believed the Orcs were innocent, but the realms would not listen to them. The Orcs entrusted the coven of witches with the safety of their young, hiding them in their Covenstead to save the species.

In the aftermath of the war, every species was at its most vulnerable since every realm had suffered significant losses and many injuries needed time to heal. The humans took advantage of the opportune timing, knowing realms were ebbing at their lowest and attacked the realms, successfully wiping out the last of the mages, vampires, sprites, fae and orcs except for the few that managed to escape to the human world through the portal.

Humans gathered witches and vampires in droves before burning them alive on stakes. They captured werewolves and locked them up with heavy chains of silver before torturing them to death.

The werewolf realms realised too late that the humans, not the orcs, killed the sprites. With all the orcs dead and with a population much larger in number than the other species, werewolves were the next strongest species.

The witches of the midnight coven, humans and werewolves were the last to remain in Mysteria. After the Midnight Coven used spells to hide as many children from different species as possible in the trees of the forest, a few managed to escape through the portal and lived out their days on earth, while the other two witches, Lou and Prunella, remained in Mysteria in hopes of finding more children to save before their demise at the hands of humans.

Werewolf King, Alpha Dominic, and King Asher agreed to an indefinite truce. The humans knew the werewolves were much stronger in strength and number. They agreed to keep to themselves and avoid each other's territory. The land was surveyed and reallotted to both rulers, precisely and identically halved. A large forest between the two halves became a no-man's-land that neither party could lay claim to.

King Asher ruled West Wallow, and Alpha Dominic ruled Moon Crest Valley.

Over the years, knowledge of this great war and the existence of other supernatural creatures dissolved into fairy tales for children.

The last witches had cast a spell that the Moon Goddess would free Maia into the world again at the perfect time where she would find her one true love and retake what was rightfully hers. The spell also turned me into a fox to stay by Maia's side as her friend and help guide her over the years.

The rest of the children and myself would remain spellbound until Queen Maia and Alpha King Damon broke it by ending the last war and bringing peace between the humans and the werewolves," Ember says and smiles at me.

Maia

Damon stands up and faces everyone.

"Let this be a lesson to us all, we must not fear each other, and we must embrace and accept each other's differences. Do this, and we can live together in happiness," Everyone cheers.

Hugo approaches.

"I hear you're looking to hire a nanny?" Hugo asks. Damon and I both look at each other and burst into laughter.

"Hugo, I think we have a position more suitable to your liking that needs filling at the castle?" I say.

"Oh, what position would that be?" Hugo asks with keen interest.

"I'm looking for a knight, but he must be the best and most loyal knight I could ever ask for. So, what do you say, Sir Hugo?" I smile at him.

Sir Hugo looks at me with the greatest respect and kneels before me.

"It would bring me the utmost honour to serve you, my Queen Maia, and you Alpha King Damon if you would have me?"

Damon smiles and nods in approval.

Hugo walks away proudly.

The Orc children run up to Hugo and playfully begin to tackle him without any fear. He gives up, trying to push them away gently. There are too many of them. He begins to laugh as they continue to try and tackle him to the ground, but he is too large and strong, and they are too little. Troy and Vivian approach hand in hand, smiling. Grace, Ella and Zayden run towards the other children and play.