496 The New Tenth family (1/2)

As for Silver and Fex. They had broken off from the group to head back to the thirteenth castle. They both needed and wanted to have a serious conversation with their father. Everything had felt so strange since the incident withFex, and as a family together, they needed to decide on the next step of what to do.

Another thing that had crossed the thought of the group was why the mention of the Dalki attacking hadn't come up in the meeting. Edward had explained that the vampire's had tried to look for the Dlaki everywhere but could find no sign of him. Unaware that it was actually the strange little thing on Vorden's shoulder.

What worked in their favour, was Edward actually didn't know that the Dalki was part of Quinn's group. He had assumed that the Dalki had come randomly during the fight and was a separate problem altogether. So when they asked him about it, he never tried vouching for it either. Even when they had used the influence skill to ask who was part of their plan, he did not know. So that discussion was dealt as a separate problem to the rest.

While walking to the castle, Quinn was busy racking his mind with what to do next.

'I have to stay here? But I can't.” Quinn thought. Rather than can't, it was more like Quinn didn't want to stay here. He looked at the others that were behind him, Vorden, Peter, and Logan as such. Maybe before he had met them, he could just change his life as such, but to suddenly live in a new place like this, and to be a leader.

It just wasn't something Quinn wanted to do. What Quinn wanted was to just be free, and being under the vampires, or under the humans, he didn't feel free.

The other problem was, not just him, but the others were also meant to return to school soon. There was only a little over a week before the second year would start.

As he was deep in thought, Logan came over to his side. ”Don't worry too much,” Logan said. ”If anything, our memories can be wiped. It's not a big deal. I could always just make a video log of some sort and hide it. Just watch it back later. It won't feel the same, but I will still have the same information either way.”

”The main problem is you, Quinn. When they spoke, there was no option for you to leave this place.” Logan said.

And Honestly, both Logan and Vorden didn't want that.

Finally, they had arrived in front of the tenth castle. The news hadn't been publicly announced as of yet about the new tenth leader, and they had explained to Edward that it was his duty to inform his people of this as well. However, when he looked at Quinn, he thought it would be best to leave it a while before they made such an announcement.

Quinn didn't exactly look like the most menacing or strongest of vampires.

”Alright, I guess my journey ends here,” Arthur said.

”What are you going to do now?” Erin asked. ”Will you be returning to the shelter? Is there even a way you can return to the shelter?”

”Don't worry about that, I have my ways. Besides, unlike you guys, I am free to leave and do as I wish. It's not like they can exactly stop me, can they?” Arthur started to laugh, and it certainly was true after seeing his strength. ”But I think I will stay for a short while before leaving. There may be some clues in the castle or around here as to what exactly happened to my people.”

Arthur then walked over to Quinn and looked at him up and down.

”You are a strong one, and if you weren't the tenth leader, I would have asked you to come join me as a punisher. You have the correct morals and traits to become a perfect punisher. When you're done with what you need to do at the castle, then come over to see me. Perhaps there are a few things I can teach you about the shadow.”

And with that, Arthur hopped into his dark shadow and he was gone before Quinn could even give an answer.

Learning about the shadow from the strongest shadow user was certainly an offer he could not refuse. Growing his strength was at a quite a high priority at the moment. If he was to stay in the vampire settlement and Arthur was to leave soon, there would soon be others that will be targeting him.

Entering the castle, everyone had gone to choose a room to rest for a little bit. They also wanted to take a shower and such and also change their clothes if need be. It was certainly tiring for all of them, and very stressful too.

They were then later to meet in the dining room, to discuss what needed to be done. Quinn with Edward had decided to head there first and while doing so, Quinn was busy trying to think of what to do. But in the end, he realized it wasn't his decision to make. Just like Logan had said, they had three options, and they were to choose from them.

Whatever they would choose, Quinn would respect their decision.