"Who the hell are you?" Tristan shouted as he shot to his feet.
Jack lit his cigarette before raising his eyes to look at Tristan sarcastically.
"The name is Jack," he finally said. "And I know exactly what is going on and how we can solve this."
"Oh?" Tristan's father said while raising an eyebrow. "And how do we do that?"
Jack laughed softly under his breath.
He then marched smartly over to the crowd, grabbed a chair right out from under someone, and dragged it to the middle.
Sitting backwards on the chair, with his elbows over the headrest, and one hand still holding the lit cigarette Jack started to explain. "Several months ago someone contacted me and told me that he was offered a very generous reward if in exchange he were to take the last witch as his wife."
Aradia's eyes grew wide with shock while Dax took her hand.
Jack, however, just chuckled. "Anyway, I figured that there was no way in hell you would turn her over just like that."
He snapped his fingers to emphasize his point.
"So I decided that the only way to get you to turn over the last witch willingly would be to hold something of equal value hostage."
Tristan, amazingly, laughed at Jack's statement.
"And what on earth could be more valuable than her?" he said, ignoring the stares of Aradia and the others.
Jack grinned wickedly. "Your home."
"What?" Aradia asked.
Jack glanced towards her and grinned.
"The last witch I presume? Or should I say the Witch Queen?" he snickered sarcastically, "I have to say that you are not at all what I expected you to be."
He paused as his gaze flickered over her. "I expected someone...prettier."
Dax shot up from his seat, but Aradia pulled him back down.
Looking back at Jack, Aradia asked. "What exactly have you done?"
"I took the unicorn's horn," He said sneeringly.
The silence in the room was almost frightening.
It was only broken by Roy's alpha who said, "You did what? Are you out of your mind? Such a thing could cause huge devastation to all of Salem!"
"Then I guess it's a good thing I don't live in Salem then huh?" Jack said as he took another long drag. "Well it's good for me maybe not so for you."
Everyone stared at him in stunned silence.
He, however, decided to take that as an opportunity. "The thing is there is a chance to fix all this. All you have to do is turn over the last witch, only then will I return the unicorn's horn."
"What good will that do?" Aradia demanded.
Jack rolled his eyes. "It is common knowledge (at least to normal hiddens and not human raised freaks like you Rai) that even after cutting off a unicorn's horn the Unicorn can still lives. If the horn is returned by the next full moon and placed back onto the unicorn's forehead then the Unicorn will return to its full power and life. Thus restoring the balance and bringing back order blah, blah, blah."
"When is the next full moon?" Aradia asked.
"About two weeks from now," Jack said.
The grin on his face was almost too much to bear.
Nevertheless, Aradia did bear with it as she asked, "those are the terms?"
"Yep," Jack replied as he got out of his chair. "So if I were you, I would start packing."
He then threw his head back laughing as he turned on his heel to leave.
Although Aradia tried to stop him, Dax followed Jack and looked out into the cold blustery night. Amazingly, Jack had gone into this weather and now seemed nowhere to be found.
"Pompous ass," he muttered and slamming the door behind him.