GAVRAEL~I followed Adaira down a busy street after we came out of the alley, and I could feel her curiosity about why so many people seemed to be on their way somewhere. The people walking towards us also seem to be returning from somewhere, I could smell the excitement on them. Shifters could detect emotions because of the different hormones the body releases when stimulated in different ways, and my senses were heightened than most. Most times, I don’t even need scent to determine how a person, shifter or human was feeling at the moment. Right now though, it was impossible not to smell the anticipation and excitement in the air.Adaira grabbed one of the passing women and we stopped walking so she could question the woman.“What’s going on? Do you know what’s happening? Everyone on this street seems to be going somewhere or returning from someone.”I barely paid attention to their conversation. I just stood beside Adaira, silently scanning the area for threats while they discussed
ADAIRA~“I… I don’t know what way to go next. I’m sorry, I thought this would be easier.”I don’t know why I felt so discouraged all of a sudden. Maybe it was because of the throng of people moving around. I just felt confused on what way was the correct path. And no road in the fairgrounds was straightforward. Just about fifteen paces ahead, the main road branches off in five directions, each leading to a different part of the fair. And those roads led to even more roads if I judged by the amount of people I was seeing. To say I was overwhelmed would be an understatement.“Don’t do that. Don’t doubt yourself.” Gavrael said to lift my spirits.I appreciated his words of encouragement, but it didn’t do much for me. I’m the one that led us here, and it seemed like that had just been by a stroke of luck. Who knows? Maybe it was even a coincidence that a fair named Polaris was here at the same time we came to search for a North star. What if the North Star I was supposed to find was some
ADAIRA~“She knows we’re shifters.” I said to Gavrael through our mind link and he looked at me like I had lost my mind.“That’s not possible. I killed all those humans involved in your capture. And I checked their minds before doing so. They hadn’t told anyone outside that place about us yet so the knowledge of our existence died with all of them. If anyone else had known of the existence of shifters, don’t you think they would have tried to find us or maybe spread the information to the authorities to find us?” He replied to me through the mind link.I didn’t take my eyes off the woman. She was now hunched over, almost like she was trying to cover herself from my gaze with the cloak she wore while pretending to be cold. But I knew her shivers were from fear, not from cold. Gavrael was right, there was no logical explanation for why this woman possibly knew of our existence and identified us so easily even among so many people. But I’m supposed to trust my instinct on this journey,
GAVRAEL~Watching Adaira win the hammer contest and seeing the look on all the men’s faces as she did so was immensely satisfying. It made my mind ease a little, to remember that she was stronger than all of them combined so my paranoia that she may be exposed to danger here was unfounded. I still refused to let my guard down though but I became less tense than when we first left the pack to come for this search.Then she dragged me to so many rides, the most embarrassing was riding on a pink pony on a merry go round meant for children while Adaira tried not to laugh and I was gawked at by parents and children alike. The pony was too small to hold my weight, but I still held on to it and moved as it moved. It was beyond embarrassing but it was worth it in the end because it made Adaira laugh. At least for a little while, she didn’t have that worry line on her face from thinking about our real reason for being here. If we stayed here for a few hours and she still didn’t see anything t
ADAIRA~“Adaira, wait!” Gavrael said to me but I didn’t stop.It was like I was being compelled to go towards whatever it was I was feeling. This must be the thing I was supposed to find here, or a person if they were running away. But if I was meant to find this person, then why was the person running away? It was so confusing.“It could be a trap for fuck’s sake!” Gavrael yelled at me but I kept going.I heard him swear behind me as I entered the inner room. I didn’t have time to look around. I moved faster ahead, towards the direction of the departing footsteps. I saw the back of a man covered with a cloak leaving the back of the booth and I followed. But as I stepped outside, I didn’t see him anymore because the back of the tent led to a crowded part of the fair.“Damn it!”I lost him.“What were you fucking thinking running off like that?” Gavrael fumed as he came up behind me and turned me around to face him.“I had to follow him. Why would he be running if there was nothing to
ADAIRA~“There is nothing here for you to find. Just leave us in peace. Go back to your pack, go back to your people and leave me be. I have done nothing wrong to you.”“Save your breath. I’ve already told you, we’re not leaving without answers. And you may claim innocence but guilt is written all over you.” I said to her.“He’s already gone. He got away. What more do you want? I’m not important, you can feel it.”“And why is he more important than you? What is all this supposed to even mean?” I asked her and she kept her mouth shut.No matter how much I glared at her, she refused to speak. She was bold, I’ll give her that. Well, it may be more of stupidity than actual courage really. She must know that we would still get answers one way or another.“If you don’t start talking, I will get the answers from your head by myself. I’m not a fan of this game you’re playing here, whatever it is.” Gavrael growled at her.“Do what you think you must. I will not tell you anything. And you will
ADAIRA ~ “You have a child.” I said and the fear in her eyes was more than enough confirmation. “Where did you hide…” I started to ask and then paused as the answer to my question came to me before I even finished asking. “Your child is still inside the room. That’s why the enchantment on the room is so strong, so you can hide him or her from everyone else. Your husband was just a distraction, he ran away to lead us away, and make us think he’s the one I’m supposed to find when he isn’t. He must have been carrying something that carries the aura of the child which is why I felt a brief connection to him, just to deceive me. That was why the minute he was out of sight, I could no longer feel him, that enchantment isn’t as strong as the spell on the room.” “No, please!” She yelled as I began to walk back into the inner room. She began to cry and tried to come after me but Gavrael held her back with his power. I stepped back into the room and immediately felt like a heavy blanket h
ADAIRA ~ “My name is not Selene.” I said to the girl and she just smiled like she knew something I didn’t. But that wasn’t important. I had more important questions to ask her. “You will understand soon. All will be revealed to you in due time.” More cryptic mumbo jumbo. I didn’t have time for this. “You say you’ve been waiting for me yet your parents did all they could to make sure I don’t even see you.” I said to her. “They’re afraid. I’ve told them that they cannot change what fate has ordained no matter what they do, but they protect me because they love me. Our paths were meant to cross, no one can stop that.” She replied. “Why?” I asked. “Why have I had the need to find you? Why are our destinies entwined? What do you know?” “I know a lot of things, but the most important detail to you is what I am. I am a seer.” Seers were Sage wolves that could see the future, predict events, even see the past sometimes. To be a seer, it meant that she must have access to magic, a lo
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