The Curse

Sitting in front of a mirror, those glowing amber eyes were staring at their reflection in it. 

"You are looking really very beautiful, Luna Fiana," one of the maids complimented her, which brought a gentle smile to her face. 

"I am sure Alpha Lucian won't be able to take his eyes away from you today," another maid uttered. Their Luna blushed before sending a fake glare to all of her maids, who were giggling. Even after being the Alpha female of The Blood Night Pack, Fiana Venzor was a very down to earth lady. Her warm and tender nature always used to make each and every person around her comfortable and happy. Even after being a royalty, she never treated anyone with disrespect or harshness in the castle and even outside it. Almost each and every member of their pack used to love and respect her a lot.

Another maid of the castle came and bowed her head in front of their queen.

"Luna Fiana, Alpha Lucian is waiting for you in the rose garden," the maid informed, earning a tender nod from Fiana. She got up from the chair. Her maids were about to follow her but she stopped them and told them she wanted to go alone. The maids had no authority to defy her words, so they obliged and after that, Fiana walked out of her chamber. 

Stepping inside the rose garden which was one of the most beautiful gardens in that castle and which the Alpha had specially made for her because she loved rose, Fiana finally saw her mate, her love, the father of her son and the Alpha of The Blood Night Pack, standing there waiting for her. She walked towards him with a smile.

She noticed his dark brown orbs getting filled with love as soon as they fell on her. She hugged him when he returned gladly and pecked her forehead.

"I apologise for making you wait, Alpha," She said which made him beam.

"You don't have to because my wait finally paid off," he uttered, looking at his mate from her head to her toe. Her cheeks hued, hearing his teasing tone. He chuckled before holding her hand and then they both started taking a walk in that garden which they both loved to do together.

"Where is Darren?" Fiana was smelling a rose when she heard her mate asking her about their 10 years old son. 

"He is playing with his friends and cousins," she answered him, earning a nod from him until

"Alpha…." A guard came rushing towards them. The couple looked at him. The guard was panting heavily. He lowered his head in front of his king and queen.

"I apologise for coming unannounced but Prince Darren…" the guard paused, widening Fiana's eyes in fear.

"What happened to Darren?" Lucian asked, both commanding and worried.

"Please come with me," the couple hurriedly followed that guard who took them where their 10 years old son was.

"DARREN…." Fiana screamed out of her lungs, witnessing fire blazing all over that chamber because her son was inside it. One among the kids revealed that they all were playing hide and seek and Prince Darren had gone inside that chamber to hide himself but suddenly that chamber caught fire and everything started burning. The rest of the kids panicked and called the guards for help.

The maids were trying to hold Fiana back from going inside that chamber where her son was.

"Luna, please calm down. Alpha Lucian and Beta George have gone inside. I am sure they will take the prince out safely. Please calm down," the Beta Female, Agnes, tried to assure Fiana but it did nothing to calm that mother, who was crying her heart out in fear of what if something bad would happen to her son.

After some few moments, Fiana saw Lucian taking out their son from that burning chamber who was unconscious in his father's embrace.

"Darren," She dashed towards them and her eyes watered more, witnessing those deep burning marks on her son's skin. 

"Call the healer immediately," Lucian commanded his Beta. He immediately nodded.

………..

"Prince Darren is alright. He will get back his consciousness in some couple of hours, Alpha," The healer informed, after treating him. Lucian nodded and then dismissed the healer. He looked at his mate, Fiana, who was sitting beside their son while holding his hand in her. Tears were aggressively falling from her eyes. He sighed before taking the place beside her.

"Darren is fine, Fiana. Please embrace yourself," he clutched her other hand. She squeezed her watery eyes shut before turning her towards him.

"We have to call her again," she uttered and he immediately understood whom she was talking about.

"It's all because of that curse, Lucian. That curse is roaming around our son's life and it wants to harm him, please call her here. Only she could help our son," She whimpered. When Fiana was pregnant with Darren, she had smelt a white rose as her habit which turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes of her life. That red rose turned completely black soon after she smelt it and then she turned unconscious. When she woke up, she got to know that someone had cast an evil spell on that rose with the purpose of harming her and her unborn child and from that day, she continued to see terrifying nightmares regarding her child's life until she didn't give birth to him but even after Darren's birth, things didn't ease, instead turned more complicated and petrifying. 

From the day Darren was born, his life had gotten into danger countless times. From almost getting drowned into a river to falling from a rooftop. Getting bitten by a snake to almost getting stabbed by a knife. From catching a life-threatening fever to almost getting burned in the fire, he had always attracted harm to his life in one or other way and his parents knew it was because of that cursed white rose.

"Lucian, please call her here. I can't watch my son getting hurt over and over again. Please call her. I beg you," she broke down into tears. Lucian immediately pulled her into his arms and sighed.

"Calm down. I will call her here, Fiana but please calm down," he uttered while patting her head and gazing at his son's closed eyes. Fiana is right. Only she could help them and their son now.

After a couple of days, Fiana and Lucian were sitting on the bed beside their son who was sleeping. His body was still healing because of that accident in that burning chamber. His burning wounds were still fresh and were healing slowly and slowly.

"Alpha, she is here," a guard came and informed Lucian. He nodded and told him to take her inside. That specific person for whom the couple was restlessly waiting from the past couple of days and she was finally here…..Witch Sirena. One of the most powerful witches of that time. It was her, who had told them that the white rose was cursed which Fiana had smelt.

The couple stood up on their feet as soon as they saw her stepping inside. Her aura darkened the entire surrounding of that chamber. She bowed her head in front of Lucian and Fiana. The couple told her everything that had happened to their son. The witch patiently listened to them before stepping closer to the sleeping little prince.

Her piercing dark eyes roamed all over his wounds on his body before focusing on his closed eyes. Lifting her hand, she placed her palm over his head. The couple watched her murmuring something inside her mouth which made their son flash open his eyes.

He tilted his head and that witch saw his gleaming amber orbs peering at her. The witch passed the kid a smile before turning around and looking at his extremely worried parents.

"Sirena, please help us," Fiana begged her through her watery eyes. The witch sighed and tilted her head to look at the little prince who had again fallen asleep.

"Nothing can break that curse which is hanging over your son's life, Luna Fiana," 

Both Fiana and Lucian's heart ached, hearing her. The witch looked at the couple again.

"Except his mate," she uttered. They both wordlessly heard her.

"His mate will be his sole protector and the day he will mark his mate, this curse will get broken completely but till then, he would have to face these difficulties," a hope flickered inside them at her words.

"But can you please tell me when he will find his mate?" Fiana sounded desperate, even after already knowing the answer. Her question brought a smirk to form on the witch's face.

"Time will tell that when…." She paused and turned her head towards the prince.

"He is going to find his destined mate," she completed her words and then took out a grey colour stone from her satchel. It was shimmering. She handed it to Fiana.

"Till then keep this stone always closer to him. It would not be able to stop that curse from harming him but it will help him in remain protected from it and the day this stone will find its destined possessor, he will find his mate too," 

Fiana took that stone from her and wagged her head. After that, the witch took her leave and left from the castle, giving the couple a hope that their son would get free from that curse once he would mark his mate but little did they know what their son's destiny had really stored for him and his mate.

…………….

"Ouch ….." 

"What happened, Aria?" The Alpha of the Silver Shade Pack, Slade Kensley, asked his pregnant mate who was clutching her swollen belly and just groaned. 

"She just kicked me, Slade," Aria answered her mate, smiling. Her words brought a smile to Slade's face. Placing his palm over her belly, he gently caressed it.

"Seems like our little princess loved her father's idea of coming to this woods for a walk," 

Aria chuckled, hearing him. The couple had decided to come and visit in the woods which was just located behind their castle's. They both were enjoying their time together when suddenly the beautiful bright sky started turning dark and gloomy. It alerted Alpha Slade because he could feel the reason behind that sudden gloominess. Grabbing his pregnant mate's hand, he shielded her behind him and clutched the grip of his sword.

"Come out, right now," he seethed out, while peering at that darkness around them with his steel grey eyes. Aria clutched his shoulder tightly and swallowed hard in fear. She had never witnessed something so terrifying like this.

"I said, come out. I am giving this as a last warning," Slade knew something diabolic was prevailing in that darkness but it was invisible to their eyes. But suddenly he felt an abrupt force passing them which made him take out his sword and pierced it in the air. 

A scream resonated whereas Aria's eyes widened in horror, witnessing that blood dripping from his sword. Slade's grey eyes were burning crimson as his wolf had taken over him in alertness. 

A fog of dark smoke gathered in front of him from which the blood was flowing aggressively and then he saw that figure emerging from that fog. Aria witnessed a figure falling on the ground which stilled her but Slade's burning eyes hardened by watching a warlock…..

Blood was dripping from the wound he had given him. His sword had penetrated deeper inside his chest. If it would have been a normal sword, it would not be able to do anything to harm him but that sword of his was laced with a special and powerful kind of spell for ending and protection against any kind of diabolic and mystical powers. 

"What were you doing here in my territory?" He questioned him. In reply, the couple heard the warlock groaning in extreme amounts of pain before his eyes snapped towards them. Charcoal tears were rolling down from his darkened eyes which were penetrating deeper inside their souls. Aria clutched her mate's hands tightly as soon as she saw his inky eyes gazing at her belly.

Slade gritted his teeth before placing his the tip of his sword at his neck 

"What were you doing here?" He snarled. An iniquitous grin formed on the warlock's face, even after his whole body was writhing in pain. His eyes were shedding the tears of blood now.

"Your daughter will pay for this, Slade…." His words unleashed his inner beast. Slade shoved his sword inside his abdomen, earning a soul piercing scream from him. A sob broke out from Aria's mouth.

She saw black smoke again gathering all around that warlock's body which started making her body fade and then it completely vanished into thin air. Aria was shivering in pure terror by now which made Slade embrace her tightly until.

"Your daughter will pay for this, Slade Kensley," a female whimpering scream echoed in the woods, freezing the couple. Slade was quick enough to figure out whose voice that was…. witch Sirena….he had heard a lot about her and her powers.

"We had not come here to harm you or your loved ones but now……your life's most precious thing will burn in this same pain in which I am burning today,…" that crying voice grew louder, growling, almost flaming their ears.

"Your daughter will watch her love dying in front of her eyes the way you have made me witness today, Slade Kensley,"

The couple had numbed to their place by now. The darkness around them turned more cavernous.

"The day her mate will mark her, she will become mateless. Her mate will die in front of her own eyes….. and she wouldn't be able to do anything just like me…."