GAVRAEL~“What are you doing here?” Adaira asked the female, Kraine’s mate, as we approached the cell house.She wasn’t supposed to be here and she knew it. That was why she looked like she wished the earth would open up and swallow her for being caught here.“You better not be here to help that bastard.” Adaira snapped at her as she opened her mouth to give a reply to the question.“I just wanted to s.see him, even if just for a minute. I’m… I’m sorry.” The female replied with barely concealed fear.“Don’t be sorry, be sensible. Why are you coming back to him after all he did to you? I haven’t even heard the full story but what I’ve heard is enough to make me despise him for life.” Adaira replied.I wanted to tell Adaira to take it easy on the girl because she was young, and it was her first time experiencing something like this. But I decided to stay out of the conversation. The female looked fragile, and like she needed a softer approach, but I trusted Adaira to know what was best
ADAIRA~“When I found out that Tamika was my mate, I kept it hidden because I didn’t want the others to ridicule me for being mated to her. My status in the eyes of others would have reduced." He said.As he spoke, I couldn’t help myself, I began to laugh. Gavrael looked at me like he thought I may have lost my mind and so did the other two males in the cells. Tamika’s mate that had been speaking paused because he was confused at my reaction.“So let me get this straight. You refused to accept your mate, not because you think there’s anything wrong with her, but because of what others would say? You’re so insecure, so… weak, that you can’t stand up for yourself and what’s yours against your own pack?” I asked and laughed again.“I wish I could say that I’m surprised, but I’m not. What else is to be expected from weak males?”“I am not weak!” Tamika’s mate snapped at me, and his brother growled beside him before speaking as well.“You’re so bold to speak because there are bars separat
ADAIRA~Tamika didn’t waste a second longer there, she turned and walked away as fast as she could. Even though her quick reaction hid her face, I had seen the tears in her eyes before she turned away. Kraine held his chest in the cell with a dazed look on his face. He was feeling the empty place in his heart where the bond had been before Tamika rejected him. I understood that feeling of emptiness, I had also felt it after coming back to life to discover my bond with Gavrael was broken. It was like you lost a part of your soul, a part of yourself that seems so far away and because of it you would never be the same. He deserved to feel that way and worse. Tamika would feel it too, but she wouldn’t be as acutely affected as he would be because she had been the one to break their bond.“You will stand trial in three days. You will be brought before everyone to state your atrocities, and I will deliver my verdict for your judgement. Before then, I will make sure you will beg for death a
ADAIRA~She took me to the outskirts of the pack, one of the official burial sites and I immediately knew where they had been laid because the soil around that part looked freshly disturbed. There were two tombstones made of stones and flowers on the grave. Shifters didn’t usually mark the tombstones with names like humans did, neither was the tombstone carved by hand or any tool. It was just stone in its uncut, untouched form made to form a small wall. The reason there were no markers even if everyone knew where their own loved one was buried was because we saw ourselves as one big family. So if you mourn for one, you mourn for all. Writing individual names would create a sense of division so they all looked the same to disprove that. It has been this way for centuries and it will still continue like this. Because of this, I had to stop by the tombstones that came before my parents and put a hand to each one I passed. It symbolised me drawing strength from those who have passed in o
GAVRAEL~I was asleep when I felt Adaira wake beside me, and I immediately got up thinking she was in distress again and needed me.“Ira, what’s wrong? Another bad dream?” I asked as I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her closer.“No, not this time. I had a dream about my grandmother. It wasn’t anything serious, just a reminisce of some of the days when I followed her around to tend to people’s gardens. It seemed like nothing at first, but then throughout this dream, she never called me by my name, she called me by the pet name she gave me as a child. Luna. She called me that name years before she even knew that I would be a pack Alpha’s mate. When she said I should follow the moon, she didn’t mean the one in the sky, she meant me. I think I’m just supposed to go to the human town and I’ll know the way. Follow the moon to the North star must mean to follow my heart to my destination.” She said to me.It seems so far fetched that this was what the message she had been given by he
ADAIRA ~ The brothers were brought to the pack square and everyone was gathered, both rogues and the members of my own packs. Gavrael had initially stated that their trial would hold in three days, but since we planned to leave tomorrow, and we had no idea how long our journey would take or what we were even going to meet there, it had to be done before we left. Lucky them, they wouldn’t suffer for so long like they should. As for us, I would basically be leading us based on instinct alone, hoping I’m correct and this is how my grandmother wants me to find our way. But finding the way was only one step, the second part of her instruction was even weirder than the first. Find the one with the broken eyes with rivers of gold… What on earth does that even mean? I’m hoping if I find our destination it would make more sense, but it may not and our leaving may just be in vain. When everyone was gathered, they formed a circle around me and Gavrael, the brothers were bound and on their knee
GAVRAEL ~ I don’t know when exactly I decided to finally effect the change of the pack’s status, but after talking with Adaira, I just realised that her anger was because I just keep saying I will do something but end up not even making an effort. I felt everyone’s varying degrees of shock, hope, anger and disbelief as I made the announcement. I continued speaking regardless. “I do not expect you all to suddenly become one happy family or best of friends, but from now on, I release the rest of you from servitude. No matter what pack you belonged to before, Brookstone, Grenshaw, Rogue, we’re all living within the same boundary, so we are one pack and will act like that from henceforth. I understand that affecting this much of a change will not happen spontaneously and will take a little time to become normal. Everyone needs to contribute to making the pack work like a well oiled machine. Members of the other packs will be slowly reintegrated to join the rogues as warriors. As for t
ADAIRA~I chose Gaby, Elene, my grandfather, and two others as the supervisors for our own side because I trusted them to handle the job effectively. My grandfather may be an elder, but he was still strong enough to do this. And he needed something to keep him busy so he wouldn’t have time to have depressing thoughts, doing this would keep him occupied. And he used to be part of the council in his younger years so he had experience handling issues like these within packs. The five shifters Gavrael chose from the rogues were displeased just like the others were about my pack’s change in status, but I knew why Gavrael chose them. Even though they made their displeasure with his decision known, they were level headed and were willing to obey the order he gave. They were better, compared to some of the other rogues that seemed to be time bombs waiting to explode but only held back by Gavrael’s warning and his promise of pain to anyone who disobeyed. Gavrael gave strict instructions to th
EPILOGUE ~ Using up so much power drained both me and Gavrael, and we both passed out almost immediately after. We didn’t wake up till after two whole days because our bodies shut down to heal and recuperate. When we finally woke up, we discovered that using so much power had broken the hold of the third souls we each had. I no longer possessed Selene’s soul and Gavrael no longer possessed the soul of the demon king. Their essence had returned to the volcano realm after their souls split from ours. They couldn’t be killed, she was a goddess and he was a god, but it would take a long time for them to recreate a physical form. For now, I was just happy that we would no longer be the victims of an age long war. Then came another problem, the issue of Gavrael’s possessiveness. He was no longer under the control of the demon king, but now that he knew I was pregnant, his wolf was just as easily pissed off as he was before. It was usual for the mates of pregnant females to become very ter
GAVRAEL ~ He calls himself Zephyr, and seeing him manhandle my mate made me angry. But my anger wasn’t enough to break myself from his hold and regain control of my body. “Kill them all, I’ll deal with her. I could only watch as he took Adaira away from the battlefield, knowing that she was their only hope to win the battle against his beasts. “How does it feel having so much power but being unable to use it? You trapped me for centuries, took my memories, took my powers, kept me in this mortal body. This is just a slight taste of that. So tell me how it feels to hate what’s happening but not be able to do anything about it?” I could feel his amusement as she tried in vain to free herself from his grip. He was enjoying her struggles and her helplessness. I couldn’t even reach out to her to at least let her know that despite everything, I was still in here even if I’ve been pushed so far deep in my subconscious that I didn’t know the way out. But he had put an impenetrable barrie
ADAIRA ~ Gavrael is gone and there is no way for me to get to him. I wanted to use my powers to get across to the nether realm but Theia warned me not to do so because I would never be able to defeat him in his realm, he was stronger there. Our best chance of winning this battle is here in this realm, which means we have to wait for Gavrael’s return. By the looks of things, he would not be returning as my mate but as the demon king, with an army meant to obliterate us all. “There has to be something else we can do.” I said to Theia after waiting for an hour with no sign of Gavrael or any danger. My wolf was restless because my bond to Gavrael was so faint now that I had to search deep before I could feel it. I was terrified. What if the demon king somehow finds a way to sever our bond, how would I be able to reach my mate and bring him back? “You need to calm down. Your restlessness is affecting your pack. They’re already dreading the fight we all have coming, and they only stayed
GAVRAEL ~Heat, rage and pain. Those were the only emotions flowing through me at this moment. It was like my blood had been exchanged with lava and my head was being drilled open by a thousand nails. I felt the power of the full blood moon before it even rose and cast its reddish hue over the earth. This past week, I had to stay away from everyone except Adaira because I was losing my temper at the slightest provocation. I knew it was just because of what was coming that my restraint was shitty but at the same time, I couldn’t control myself which led to my isolation in order to protect everyone from me. Adaira was the only one whose presence I could tolerate even in those moments. And the second those rays of light from the full blood moon touched the earth, everything became worse.Heat, rage, pain. Nothing else mattered but these, and the demon whose soul was bound to me feasted on them delightfully. He was much stronger now and he was actively fighting me for control of my body.
ADAIRA~I was eating more than normal out of anxiety. It was still better than worrying myself to death and overthinking everything though. My sleeping schedule was also wack but that was understandable. The full blood moon would rise tomorrow night and I just couldn’t bring myself to sleep even if it still was hours away. My wolf on the other hand was calm and mostly silent. After the night of the pack bonding ceremony where we all shifted to wolf form and ran as one pack to strengthen the pack bonds, she hadn’t made a push to be set free which was unusual. Usually, if I stayed for more than two days without shifting, she would be angsty and restless, whining to be set free, and I would have to shift and run even if for a few minutes. But it’s been days without shifting and she was still calm, I had no idea why and I was too preoccupied with everything else happening to try and figure it out. Maybe she understood the complexity of the situation we were in and was just trying to help
ADAIRA ~ It took two days of mating almost all round the clock for my heat to die down and for the both of us to regain our senses. And as this problem was solved, another problem presented itself, our lives were just a myriad of problems nowadays but who’s counting. When we returned to the pack after my heat passed, almost all the other packs had come to join us, just two were left and they were expected to arrive in a few hours. But as I passed through the crowd, all the males were still attuned to my scent even though I was no longer in heat. Females were also drawn to my scent but it didn’t make them lust after me like it was confusing the males. It was a big problem because it was causing chaos and it was making everyone restless, and I had no idea why it was happening. In fact, it seemed to be even worse now than when I was actually in heat. Sage wolves had also been arriving from the human towns close by. They were wary but they were all put together in one house to await my
ADAIRA ~ Just as expected, the rest of the pack took the news of Sage wolves with varying degrees of disgust, shock and wariness. When we announced the merger into one mega pack, they were even more shocked and awed. There were obviously protests especially when we let them know that we planned to get messages across to Sage wolves in hiding and have them come here to join the pack. But we also explained the great danger that would be coming against us and that we would only be able to defeat them if we work together. Next we let anyone with ideas step forward and speak. There was so much to be done; clearing the surrounding forest for instance, so those that would come to join us would have room to build their own houses, plans to build another general pack house where meals can be taken by a larger group because eating together was a shifter custom meant to ensure the pack bonds remain strong, same as hunting in a group and running as a pack on some full moons. There would also be
ADAIRA~I moved closer and held Theia’s mother by the hand. I forced myself to relax and put every doubt out of my mind. If I could protect the whole pack with the barrier, this was nothing compared to that. I didn’t really know what to envision, last night, it had been easier to see a barrier forming in my mind just like Gavrael directed. But now, do I imagine her using powers? Or imagine me giving her powers?It turned out that I didn’t need to do all that. While holding her hands, I felt some sort of vacuum, a hole in her essence. A missing piece. I didn’t need anyone to tell me that that must be the part of her where her powers used to reside, all I needed to do was to fill it up. I reached out to her with my own essence and I vaguely heard her gasp as she was zapped with it. Her hands were released from mine as she crumpled to the floor and her husband rushed to make sure she was okay.I opened my eyes to see that she was faintly glowing for a few seconds before the glow died do
ADAIRA~I was getting weird looks from everyone that saw me today. After eating by midnight and talking for a while, Gavrael and I had gone back to bed to sleep and woke up after dawn but later than usual, we were entitled to sleeping in after everything that happened after all. But as we left the room to join the others for breakfast, everyone was either looking at me with awe or fear or both. I figured out why when Gaby walked closer to us to speak to me.”Ady, did you really… you know, do that stuff?” She asked.She seemed unsure of how to ask her question and if she should even ask it. I also didn’t understand what exactly she was talking about, so I asked.“What stuff?”“The warriors that fought with you, they showed all of us what you did. We weren’t there but we could see it from their minds. It still seems a bit hard to believe. You were flying or floating, I don’t know, and you were glowing, and there was so much light. And you burned the dead ones, none of the creatures cou