Chapter 116 - Try Not To Fall

"I will leave you here then. I hope that you have memorized the path so that you can return back to your quarter on your own. Or do you need me to come back later to get you?" Fenris had other things to attend to so he did not have time to wait for his brother while he trained.

"No, I can return back on my own." Nigel had already memorized the path so he didn't want to keep on bothering his cousin. But even if he forgot it, he was pretty sure that he could track down his quarter by smelling the scent of his belongings.

"Okay, see you at the dinner then. The King has invited us to have dinner together so that he can officially welcome you to Aberdeen. The maids will help you out so, see you tonight." Fenris looked very happy while saying that because it was not so common for the Royal family to have dinner together even though they lived within the same walls. So Fenris was eagerly looking forward to the dinner.

Nigel was also happy with that dinner invitation as this was a rare opportunity for him as well. "See you later then. I hope I can meet everyone at the dinner."

Fenris nodded his head and said, "You will meet everyone." Then he gave thumbs up to Nigel and wished him luck, "I hope that you will turn out to be a great wolf. Do well, brother. And try not to fall." Fenris gave a wink to his brother and ran off.

Nigel nervously clasped his hands together as he waited for his personal teacher to arrive to the training spot. He recalled the last sentence that his brother said to him and whispered to himself, "What did he mean by try not to fall? Is the first exercise something that has to do with standing… like standing on one leg or standing on a plank or something like that?" 

Nigel got even more nervous thinking about his training. He began to take quick breaths in and tried to calm his nerves.

Suddenly, a strong smell entered his nose and he looked around in search of his teacher. The scent was from another werewolf and he believed that it must be his teacher's scent as the smell was getting stronger and stronger, meaning that werewolf was coming closer to him.

Nigel saw a woman walking towards him from the direction of the Palace. And as that woman came closer and closer to him, he deciphered the meaning behind Fenris's last sentence, 'Try not to fall'.

But Nigel already felt a warm but fuzzy feeling building up in his heart. "Did he mean try not to fall for her?" Nigel thought to himself as that woman was approaching him. He did not realize it but his jaw was wide open and his eyes were fixated on that walking beauty.

"Who is she? And how can someone look so… so beautiful as though she is an angel sent from heaven?" Nigel could not take his eyes off of that woman.

She was wearing a skin tight uniform which accentuated her body figure. Nigel darted his eyes at the perfectly curved shape of her body, a little smaller on the upper part while voluptuous at the bottom. As she came close enough for his sharp eyes to get a good look at her face, he was even more spellbound.

She had a perfectly tanned skin, bouncy and curly black hair, and flawlessly shaped lips with a prominent cupid's bow. And her eyes, he could not even describe her dreamy eyes. She had two different colored eyes, one was blue while the other was light brown. But heavens… did they look enchanting? Yes, definitely yes.

She was already standing in front of Nigel but he was just… lost. He was lost in the depths of her beauty.

She cleared her throat to get the attention of Nigel and asked, "I am sorry to ask this, but are you Prince Nigel?"

Nigel managed to nod his head while gawking at her face.

She smiled and then formally introduced herself, "I am Rhea. And I will be your personal trainer from today onwards."

Before he even realized, Nigel raised his hand for a handshake with Rhea and said, "It's nice to meet you Rhea. I hope you will teach me everything."

Rhea reluctantly shook his hand and replied, "I will try to teach you everything that I know." She pulled her hand away and spoke in somewhat stern voice, "Let's start today's session then, shall we?"

"Yes, of course." Nigel gave a wide grin to Rhea and nodded like a hopeless fool.

Rhea walked a little further away from Nigel and then stood near a tree. And she began the first lesson, "As you are a newly turned werewolf, I am sure that you aren't that well aware about the werewolves. So today, I will give you some basic general knowledge about the werewolves, our clan, the rules that everyone of us must follow, what we are allowed to do and what we aren't allowed, and things like that.

Nigel was trying his best to divert his attention from Rhea and focus on what she was saying.

"The Siccaldi clan is a special clan which inherited the werewolf curse a long time ago. Even though it was given as a curse to us, we managed to turn ourselves into the apex predator and remain at the top of the food chain as well as maintain a high status among other humans."

"However, the members of the Siccaldi clan being the werewolves is kept as a secret from the rest of the world. We have managed to stay hidden from the eyes of the others for hundreds of years and we plan to do so in the future as well. We do not want to show ourselves as a threat to the other normal humans and we also do not want the others to become a threat to us just because we are different than them."

"There are several rules put in place by the clan to protect our secret from the others and to maintain discipline among ourselves. The first and foremost rule, which you might have already guessed, is that you are not allowed to reveal your secret to anyone who are not from the clan. You are to report to the elders of the clan if you find someone breaking that rule."

Nigel's heartbeat increased a bit because he realized that both he and Fenris had already broken the very first rule of the clan.