KIRA:I blink my eyes repeatedly at the sight of the one who just talked, putting a likely end to the issue going on between me, Kelvin, and Sophie’s gang. I can’t believe my eyes because what I am seeing calls for a lot of surprises.The one who just put the whole ordeal to order was the pack’s beta, Thompson. And right beside him was someone I would never expect to meet at such a close range in quite a number of years — Alpha Simon!Our alpha was here. He was really here in our school in flesh and blood. Of course, everyone would know him because he is not a hidden figure but what would be of surprise to every one of us present in the hallway would be the fact that he is here in the academy.I don’t know what prompted him to be here. I literally have no idea. But to see him here means there is something important that he has to tend to lest he would not be accompanied by his beta as well as some elite warriors.“Isn’t it too early to be picking up a fight, young ladies?” the beta as
REID:Hearing Venice say that was just about enough to let me know how bad I might have fallen with my father. It was enough to let me believe he hates me even if Venice would not want to admit it to me.“Do you think what I did was justifiable?” I ask her.“It was. If I had been in your shoes, I would do the same,” she tells me, using her most sincere voice. “Father needs to learn how to hand off from things that hardly do not concern him. I wanted to stand up to him all these years about that attitude of his but I have never had the courage to. You wouldn’t believe how happy I was when I figured you already put him in his right spot.”That earns a smile from me. Ever since the incident with my father that had to do with him prying into the activities of the pack, I have been feeling awful because I thought I might have overdone things by talking down on him. Turns out my sister was a big fan of what I did. Makes me delighted that I did what I did.“You see... you’re smiling now. Aww
REID:“He's waking up,”I hear Venice say and I am prompted to look away from the window that I have eyes on. I turn my body to the side to land my eyes on a partially naked Hunter tied down to a bed.I walk over to the bed, stopping close to the edge and it gives me a clearer view of him slowly opening his drowsy eyes. My arms are folded below my chest as I await his full activeness.In no time, he is already fully awake and that is when he tries to sit up after groaning to signify a most likely pain in his body. “Ow, that burns,” is what he says after being unable to get up from the bed which was accompanied by a rattling sound. And at the same time, his eyes land on all three of us that are in here with him in the room.He expresses shock at first and then confusion. But then he seems to gather himself and say, “What are you guys doing in my room? Did you tie me down like this?” He then exclaims at the end after another rattling sound that came with his struggle to sit up, “Ow!”I
REID:“Why didn’t you tell me?” I ask, expressing disappointment in my beta who I thought would let me in on things that have to do with anything related to the pack issue. “I would have tried to figure out something with you but you let it affect you by keeping it yourself,”“You think I didn’t want to tell you? Why do you think I have been clamoring about meeting with Alpha Simon? Why? I just wanted this to end once and for all because I thought going through the prophecy like the Elder said to do was going to work out. But you have been adamant on not establishing a communication yet,”I feel a bit guilty because it was more like I was at fault for his predicament. Still, I felt I should not take the blame. “How was I supposed to know, Hunter? How? If I had a chance to know, wouldn’t I have taken the bait? I only thought you wanted the meeting with Simon done and over with because you didn’t want to have much to do with the Green Dales. That is what I thought, I promise.”“Well, th
KIRA:I find the owner of the voice as fast as it came. And what I see is an angry-looking Adam standing just outside by the side of the balcony. I get a memo of his reaction instantly, recalling the first-ever long proper discussion I had with him.“Uhm, Adam, what are you doing here?” I say, giving him the way eyes because I was certain he was going to snap any moment from now.Instead of responding to what I asked him, he starts to come to the front slowly, still maintaining the visible anger on his face.I give a brief stare at Bradley who seems confused about the present setup but in my mind, I was blaming him for this because the reaction I was getting from Adam was totally his fault.When Adam gets to the front, it is clear now that he has his sight set on the confused Bradley. I have to ask the moment he takes a step up the balcony, “What do you think you are doing, Adam?”Fortunately, I was quick to react because as soon the words leave my lips, my brother has jumped straight
REID:“One of a kind?” Venice asks soon as we both leave my room. “What does that even mean?”“He’s gifted. A being with fore insight about things we cannot decipher. More or less a soothsayer,” I tell her, almost reluctantly. No lies, I do not really feel like talking about anything else because I know how much I had sacrificed in my time but giving her the details she needed minutes ago. And knowing Venice, she is never satisfied until she has clarified all that she wants to.“If dad keeps warning you not to consult him, then that should mean the Elder might not be the real deal that you think he is, isn’t that right?”“Real deal or not, I think he might have a profound solution. And since that is the case, I will be going with what he suggested. At least it wouldn’t hurt giving it a try.”“At the expense of bowing at the feet of the Green Dales?”A sigh, and I stop walking. Slowly I turn around to look at her, giving her the frustrated look because clearly I am getting frustrated w
KIRA:‘Don’t you think I need to leave? I’m having this eerie feeling being around the school,’ I communicate via the link to Alexia while resting my back on the barricade in the usual spot I take away from others during school hours.‘What eerie feeling? You sure it isn’t because you’re trying to avoid Kelvin?’ she asks teasingly.‘What has Kelvin got to do with this?’ even my facial expression shows how much ridiculous I find the question she asked. ‘Can you give me a break away from the guys? I’m trying to figure out my existence here, you know,’‘You sound like you are naive about the fact that I can see through you. We share the same soul, remember?’‘What about if I just cut you off from my soul?’‘Let me see you try,’ the confidence in her voice has me scoffing before I decide to put a block to the link between the two of us. And it was mostly because I needed to recuperate.Using the mind-link had come as something of a deal to me, but using it gets me mentally strained after
REID:“Reid, the reason you’re here had better be good ‘cause if not, I’m going to kick you out of my territory just the same way you came here.”That was the supposed threat I received from the one I came to meet in the territory that doesn’t belong to me. You must have guessed right because I am in the Green Dales pack. And right before me is my fellow alpha, Simon.After the whole hustle and bustle outside the territory leading in here, I was finally let in. Even though I had been quick to announce my intention, they still maintained their high level of cautiousness. I totally expected it, because who wouldn’t act that way seeing a group of wolflings coming at their territory armed?I had waited about ten minutes before they got in touch with Simon who finally agreed to let me into their territory. And to avoid any issue that would involve the pack members knowing I was around, they made me pass through a path that was not even the main way to Simon’s quarters. I was not bothered,
REID:I find Venice in her room about twenty minutes after my father left. Didn't even need to knock to get into the room because she left the door ajar.For a while, I stand at the entrance as I contemplated going over to sit beside her. She looked like she was thinking through a lot of things and I didn't want to meddle. But then I was here for a good cause.I eventually pushed myself to the bedside, taking a seat directly beside her. She doesn't even flinch or reacts to the fact that I've joined her and I stay quiet for a pretty long while until the courage to say something kicks in.“You sure about your decision?” is what I ask her. Trust me, I was not truly fine with speaking yet.She says nothing for such a long time that I thought she was going to ignore me totally. But then she speaks:“Why wouldn't I be?”I find myself nodding as if in understanding. Seems she has made up her mind about the whole thing before even confronting our father.I can't say I was a hundred percent in
REID:“Why don’t you wait? Let me teach you a good lesson!” Hunter yells at the already retreated Diana.He was already up on his feet with the sole aim of going after her but I was quick to get up on my feet as well and then hit him square in the chest, sending him back down on his seat.It was a good thing that I sat this close to him or he would have acted as the dimwit that he always is and go make trouble for himself. I wonder when he is going to learn how to comport himself.“If you dare go after her, I will have your head!” I threaten him with a glare.He does not even look threatened by what I just did as he scowls right in my face and then looks away. It took a lot of willpower for me not to smack him right across the face.I do the right thing by looking away from him. Damn it was exhausting having to control a grown-up. Wonder when he will learn to put himself at bay because I would be sure to do that for him if this goes on like this.I was just about to reprimand him once
REID:“We need to find a solution to your problem. We cannot keep letting you endanger the lives of others in this pack.” I say that with a bit of anger directed toward my beta seated right in front of me.It has been a week since the incident that had me having to put him down again. And for over a week, until yesterday, he was chained down to his bed. You could still see the scars that came with the silver chains used on his wrist. Must have hurt like hell.But I, for one, am not enjoying this. I should not be feeling endangered by the one I call my right-hand man. Literally makes no sense. How can I guarantee the safety of others when one of the problems comes from the one that should be assisting me in leading them?“I’m sorry, Reid,” he starts to say, reflecting soberness. “I wish I have a way of getting through this without putting the lives of others at risk but this is a tough call for me. The fact that I have no idea what is going on with me should be something I consider as
KIRA:I don’t know who suffered more from the attack between Bradley and me. Because we both look terrible at the moment.After the pack warriors had come around during the showdown between Bradley’s wolf and Kelvin’s, they had been able to handle the situation by subduing Kelvin’s wolf. But it took a lot before they were able to get that done even though they had come in their tens.Right after they had accomplished that, they took Bradley and me away from there while carting away with the struggling body of Kelvin who had been in his human form then. He was still not himself.The warriors had taken Bradley and me to the pack hospital which is where we both are now. The pack doctor had tended to our wounds already minutes ago now what we were made to do is rest so we could heal in time. It seems the claws that came with the possessed Kelvin had more than just ordinary swipes because it was taking time for either of us to heal.“That was your friend, wasn't it?” I hear Bradley ask, ta
KIRA:I feel I have lost a lot of blood. I can hardly move my body as I lay on the ground waiting for what fate has in store for me next.I can already hear incoming footsteps which means he is coming for me once more. The thought of it is frightening, especially judging that I have no defense against what is coming against me.When I hear nothing again, it prompts me to force myself to sit up so I can take a look at what is going on. I won’t necessarily say I succeeded in doing that because my elbows were just put up as a support to lift my body upward a little bit.I realize why I hear nothing from him again. This is because he is right now in the process of shifting. He has bent to the ground a little as the transformation starts to take place and in less than two seconds, a different entity was found in place of him which made me more scared than I was of him.His wolf is brown like almost other wolves I have sighted. The only difference is the size. Being that he is just an ordin
KIRA:“It’s the substance,” I say with my gaze still fully fixated on the spot Kelvin has his eyes on. Well, it did not come as a surprise to me because I was already aware of what killed my parents.I stand upright a little while later and look at Kelvin who cannot seem to take his eyes off the thing. And to be honest, it made me wonder if he had fallen into a hypnosis with the way he was acting.“Is this what you think we might find in here? There’s nothing special about this.” I say to him and then walk away from there to go check on something else.Even after a minute or so, I realize that I have not gotten a response from Kelvin which makes me look back at him. And to my surprise, he is still looking down at the substance.It was at that moment I knew something was wrong. How could he still be standing in the same spot since and be staring at the same thing? That was awfully strange.“Kelvin?” I decide to reach out to him by calling his name. But when he does not respond to my ca
KIRA:I’m out here freezing even though I got a pullover on. The weather seemed to have increased drastically in the last two days. And now I am beginning to regret that I agreed to be out here. At least, not by this time of the day.It’s way past noon already. I am certain it has hit the evening clock. But what do I know... I’ve been out here much longer than anticipated already.A few more minutes passed and I agreed that it was not wise being out here anymore. So I turn around intending to leave when I sight the person I’ve been out here waiting for.A frown makes its way to my face when the person’s gaze comes in contact with mine. I cannot believe that I got my time wasted just because of some link. He should have kept to the deal.The first words that leave my lips when he reaches right in front of me are, “You mind-linked me to be here yet you went on to delay me. Who does that?”He seems apologetic when he says, “I’m so sorry. I had to tend to something real quick at home. Did
REID:“What is wrong with him?” Diana, who just approached, asks. I know it is her even though I am not looking at her.I have full focus on Hunter who has already gone down to the ground. His situation has worsened because he now looks red all over. I cannot even place my hands on what triggered him to be this way.I finally respond to Diana’s inquiry. “He is at the point of going berserk.”“Berserk? Is this because of me?” she asks.“Not at all. The Abomination caused this on him. It is a long topic to discuss if I am going to go into the details with you.”I am glad he has not gone wild yet. I think he is fighting the urge to let the whole thing take control of his senses. Because if not, he should have switched already.Diana confirms my thoughts. “Whatever it is that he is fighting against, he is doing a pretty good job holding it off.”I nod. “So I see.”“What are we going to do now?”I look back for a second at Venice who just asked that. She looks all panicky as she stands in
REID:If I said I was not in awe of the activity going on right before my eyes, I would be a terrible liar. Watching the Red Legion train was something I would never hope to see in a million years but here was I witnessing it firsthand.Diana took permission from me this morning to use the training area to train with her men. According to her, it was the only way they could still be on track with their skills.I had agreed but only on the condition that I would be there to witness today’s training. And after today, they could have the training area to themselves whenever they needed to.She had thought it over first before agreeing to it. Not like she had a choice. And that is why I am here to witness the remarkable display of the skills the Red Legion possesses.Their prowess was much unique from what I have ever seen during any form of practice made by warriors. I could not seem to figure out the various forms of techniques they were showcasing. And it should not be much of a surpri