AURORA- “Do you want me to come with you?” Zeus grabbed my hand as I was about to leave. I shook my head, “I need to do this alone… she hates me probably.” I buried my face in his chest and kiss him on his cheeks before leaving. “Do you not like to sleep?” I asked as Azrael didn’t have any time to sleep. The darkness of moon was making me yawn. I was exhausted, from everything, the ritual and ‘things’ that happened with Zeus. I blushed looking away. “You can sleep, I’ll wake you up when---” I intercepted.“Yeah, please do…” I yawned one last time before closing my eyes. I fell asleep in a whim, not knowing the reason was it because I was exhausted or because Azrael played a soothing music making me feel drowsier than ever. I felt the wind brushing my cheeks, my body getting cold from it and sensed someone wrapping me in a blanket. It was warm now, something around me was happening but I was too asleep to open my heavy eyes, I let go of myself. “A… ora… rora… Aurora?” I heard m
AURORA-“Why would you do that?” Azrael yelled at me. “She asked for your life and you gave it up like nothing.”“Azrael, I don’t care what master you serve but, you don’t get to judge my decisions specially when they only affect my life.” I shouted back being devastated of the choice I made.“Of course, I’ll tell you what’s wrong and right…” he pinned me against the tree before I could even retreat and save myself.His elbow blocking me, his eyes in mine, he wasn’t looking away from them anymore. I could see them turning red bloodshot, rage and fear, anguish and pain everything in them.I tried to push him away, but his other hand stopped every possible movement I could make. I panted loudly while grunting.“W---what do you think you’re doing?” it’s not him, the Azrael I knew.“I know, you might’ve hated this world but you don’t anymore…” he panted as well, his breath brushing away the sorrow on my cheeks.“You are kind and people use it and you’re too kind to even notice.” He hid hi
AURORA- “Azrael…” I was already burning with rage, if this man tries to harm me, I’ll kill him without flinching however, he took me to Azrael and where that kid was. “Who are you?” I sat beside Azrael who was undergoing treatment with a doctor. “He--- he is C---” Azrael choked blood before he could complete his sentence. “I’m Conri…” the man introduced himself, “the second of the quintet.” He continued. “Test me whenever but, not now. A member of my pack is injured, there’s kid---” I tried to speak but my eyes went wide as I realized. “This was your plan?” I gasped not believing the words falling out of my mouth. His lips curved into a smile, and he nodded. “I’ve never been proud. The men I sent after you told me, that you vowed not to turn.” He snickered and I peered down at the floor. I wasn’t even thinking about that I failed the test, but this dumbass of a quintet used a child for his own business. “I wanted to see what you’ll do when you’re bound by vows and your morals.
ZEUS-The thing going on with Aurora is at most distracting me from the void I felt after killing my father.But it’s given me other problems to think about. The news about his demise hasn’t spread yet because if it does, I’m afraid Aurora will get really furious.No matter how much she hates my father, she loves me enough to let me see my asshole of a father breathe.“What happened in the woods, tell me everything.” I stood before Azrael who wasn’t matching eyes with me.His eyes were selling him off and I knew something was fishy, Aurora is already in shock from what life is making her face, what I am making her go through.“Azrael, you got three seconds before I slit your throat…” I’m lying, it might be an empty threat but I’m desperate to know.“I’ve fallen for her, Alpha.” He knelt on the ground, his eyes staring at the ground. My insides shuddered as soon as his words fell in my ears.What now? “Wh---What did you say?” I stumbled on my own words, like I forgot all the 26 alphabe
AURORA-I run away, Azrael must've told him, he’s too honest. Zeus’ anger, no one knows it better than me. I can’t even look at Azrael.There’s nothing I can but feel helpless, I’m the problem, I say nothing,I wish could feel nothing as well.This is just too much, I see the doctors giving up, they came out with heads staring at the floor. All three of us rush to know what’s happening.“We’ve taken the bullet out but, if he doesn’t wake up soon, I’m afraid he’ll land in coma.” The doctor sighed leaving.Zeus’s eyes on me and I look away, I don’t know yet what to feel. This gun in his hands is creating a huge wall between us.We wait, we wait,for hours, we see the sun setting down but none of us thinks of moving our asses up. As if sitting here would heal him.“Azrael…” I heard an old, wrinkly voice. The chef!! He’s here. I want to hide before me blames me. I want to jump into a deep ocean.“A---alpha… where’s Azrael?” I see tears in his eyes as he pleads before him. “What did my so
AURORA-“I was shocked when I learned you passed Fridolf and Conri’s test.” He puffed; I could see how much he loathes my existence.“Making me chose between my morals and something I love, that’s cowardice.” These pathetic tests I gone through, only a monster could make me chose between the vow I took and an innocent life.“You saved a life both the times, it shows that you are kind but kindness for me is like a poison, I would’ve killed you the moment you broke your vow.” He smirks, his eyes on mine transferring hatred.“You gave up on your mother’s memoir for a useless life, that too a spy---” I cut him off.“Mirage is a kid, he was forced to, he is innocent---” he cut me off.“An innocent kid is killing Alpha Zeus just because he’s forced to, is he still innocent?”“Zeus is not weak enough to be killed by a kid.”“He was weak enough to be stabbed by you!!” he slaps me in the face and I had nothing to say.“But… heh! That showed me you have potential… however I won’t neglect the fa
AURORA-“Am I always going to be last in your priority list?” Zeus’ hands are shivering, his eyes are tearing up, it’s all again because of me.“I didn’t doubt you, even though you kissed Azrael… I couldn’t, and you are choosing people over me, am I really nothing?” I had nothing to say.He’s right, but it doesn’t end here, does it? It is going to get worse; I try to look away but his voice forces my gaze back on his teary eyes.“Look here Aurora… tell me, say something. Say I’m important, say you love me unconditionally.” My body is shuddering as I hear his voice cracking.Everyone is looking at us, Boris just died right before me, a quintet and I’m sure there’ll be consequences but…“It feels too horrible to realize that you don’t love me as much as I do.” I want to kill myself; I want to end this misery.“I wanted to kill him the moment I heard him, but I wanted see what you’ll choose… for a moment I was happy, but when you ran away… just to save a man over me---”“He’s Azrael, Zeu
AURORA-“You killed a member of the quintet, wouldn’t there be repercussions?” I look at Zeus who seemed lost. He told me that he didn’t kill Azrael.The way Azrael was begging me to kill him, it was obvious, but it felt nerve-rackingly good to realize that Zeus held back.While I'm just turning into an evil monster, Zeus is becoming human, alive.“Z---Zeus… Azrael opened his eyes…” I heard Arthur on the door, my body flinched and I stood up running outside.He’s fine, thank God, I'm suddenly standing outside, with his eyes looking at me. I can’t go in, Zeus walks past me, getting inside.“A---Alpha… I’m s---sorry…” his voice cracks in between.“Listen kid, ask for the world… it’s yours, but that girl standing over there… she’s mine, anything but her…” Zeus voice is low but commanding, my heart is pounding really fast.Like it’s gonna jump out,scatter around,“I won’t ask why you fell for her, because I know she’s quite irresistible, even though she herself is unaware about it.” Zeus
AURORA-My body is aching, Zeus was merciless yesterday, and I believe I’ve slept for fourteen hours straight. No one bothered to wake me up, and I opened my eyes to find out that a new day has begun.I got up leaving outside, Zeus and I are finally together, and I loved every moment of it. I'm glad he didn’t hate me, I'm glad everything went well, despite the problems we had to go through.“No, no, no.” I heard the familiar voice and whatever sleep I had in my eyes vanished.“Elinor?” I shouted running toward the ground. The voice turned into laughter and I saw Elinor giggling with Zeus, both of them lying on the ground, as Zeus was tickling her.“Don’t ruin it.” my legs stopped on the voice and I turned to see Azrael standing before me.“H---how are you---”“How am I here?” Azrael muttered and walked in my direction. “it was time for me go out of the picture.”“What’s that supposed to mean?” I shivered just by his words.“Elinor found your wedding photos, Aurora. I couldn’t do much.
ZEUS-I love her, and my undying love for her knows no bound. But, I'm insecure, I'm insecure she’ll again choose whatever over me, and can I be blamed for that? Can she be blamed for that?My meanness and her kindness always clash, always. And I don’t believe in opposites attract but fuck. I am angry, jealous and dying every moment she looks at other man, even if it is Arthur, they are bonding way too much now, they need a fucking break.And I am angry because I can’t stay angry at her, so maybe I'm acting to be rude while I don’t give a fuck about my own pride, this girl ate me alive. And as much as I want to drag her to my room, I can’t.“Are you going to fill me up with your silence?” She is so nervous that the dark part of me is enjoying it very much, more than I should. “I wonder if Alfred should serve us today?” I posed a question again but she didn’t dare look at me. so apparently, me mentioning Alfred’s name was not much of a trigger.She wasn’t saying anything and it was now
AURORA-Three more days and nothing, we have nothing on our hand. Zeus is still unconscious, still very much the same, though he’s breathing and maybe healing, we see positive signs but I need more, more than that.We avoided war, not we, Alfred did it. He stopped him pack, the soul sorcerers, the Alpha or Kian for that matter didn’t come after me because Alfred chose to let me go. And they had to listen to him, everyone knew Alfred will single handedly kill the whole pack, or maybe cause severe damage if not that.Arthur is still dying with the pain, the loss of Halsey but nothing can’t be done. She and Dabria plotted against us, Dabria informed the soul sorcerers about my existence and that I have a daughter, she thought I have broken all ties with Zeus, which was right. And that I would have no backup.I am a mother now, and I want to say I get how she felt but I am a selfish mother. And she tried to take my daughter away from me, and nothing, nothing could make me angrier than thi
AURORA-“I knew you’d come back to me.” He smiled and I looked around to see if Arthur is here or not, I am being delusional, of course, he is not here. Alfred took care of him, them.“I didn’t come to you.” I say, without looking him in the eyes. Because I am embarrassed of my own self, of my own stupidity of breaking hearts though it is always intentional.And truth be told, this shouldn’t worry me even a bit, but it does, and it shatters me in ways I don’t expect. Alfred as a being is kind inside that coating of pretending to be callous, he is not cruel, or maybe not to me. Alfred deserves to be loved by someone who truly cares for him. I'm not that someone, I love Zeus and look at the damage I've brought to him, so what will happen to Alfred, who I don’t even love?“You’re not?” He tried to smile, I noticed the dark circles under his eyes, the sleepless eyes that wanted to shut off but he wasn’t allowing them to. The tiredness on his face and the glow of those amber eyes was lost
AURORA-I woke up, my eyes burning from the poison, probably the side effects of wolfsbane, but I was breathing and was back in our mansion.I was back home, safe and breathing, in my own room. The first thing I do is look for Zeus, I want to see him. his wound was closer to his already healing heart, plus that poison was made for primordial not a normal werewolf.My breathing went erratic, and I paused before entering his room. There was no sign of Elinor here, she was not back, and was safe with Azrael, this gave me some peace of mind and I gulped.I don’t want to have bad thoughts and barged in, my heart heaved a heavy sigh and it got stuck in my throat, I couldn’t move and only saw him lying lifeless on the bed.“Zeus---” I etched, my voice not coming out firm and my lips wobbled as I took a step not having energy to move further. I tried to smile, “Zeus, I know you’re angry with me.”I didn’t want to believe the sight before me, I was in denial and wanted to stay that way forever
ZEUS-Death? What is it? Death is the look Aurora had on her face when I let go of myself, when I said things, I wanted to regret but didn’t.When I said I hated her because for a moment I actually wanted it to be true, but I can’t, I can’t hate her. She will be the death of me yet I won’t be able to hate her, she gave this life a life so, why would I hate her if she takes it back?But only after Arthur’s taunting I realized that I was complete jerk for the girl who was again sacrificing again her happiness because of me, so that I can breathe, and I hated my life, myself to be this helpless.All the arrogance I had in me, about being the strongest, rigid and stout, it all crumpled into a piece of paper later on dumped into a bin.Aurora is forever gonna choose everything over me, saying it her duty to keep me safe, what am I doing? This girl lost her world, the beautiful life she had before she met me, I ruined it. I became the death of her happiness and yet she’s doing her best to k
AURORA-“Somewhere safe… for now?” Kian teased and my nerves tensed up with fear. The dread of happening something to Elinor made all the possibilities to think numb in my brain and I paralyzed.I looked at Alfred who promised to keep Elinor out of it had nothing to say, but for some reason, he was just as shocked as I was however, I wasn’t foolish enough to believe him, or his fake reaction.“I always love having an upper hand, especially when Alfred is dumb enough to gladly listen to all the ranting you do. we wanted power and fear in our enemy’s eyes gives us that.” Kian almost snorted.“You are of no use, we need soldiers and not those who defy us. You became a rebel the day you stood up before me, we don’t want that shit. Henceforth, I’ll train Elinor or I’ll kill her there’s no third option.“W---what happened to Azrael?” I gasped for air, I failed, like every time I failed and nothing, nothing went my way, I failed.“He’s alive… barely. So, either you back off or see her die. W
AURORA-“Hurry, we need to leave.” He muttered panicking.“M---Mirage and Ian, they’re inside.” I say still looking down on the ground, processing the reality.“Don’t worry about them, they escaped too---”“Where will we go? They will come after us, he will come after me, he will kill you. no---, Zeus you have to go back.” I shiver merely from the thought of seeing Zeus de---.“Aurora stop being like this and just come home.” “He’ll make sure, I don’t have a home. This is bad.” “Aurora, I'm trying to fight here for you, I don’t want my daughter to live without a mother, when she clearly has one. Do you get it? I'm not as strong as them, but I have the power of love, now stop looking down on me and just hold my hand, dammit. My pride has a limit too.” I looked up as he extended his hand, worry cascading his face, his eyes glowing, mine as well, I missed him and he’s before me.I got up and hugged and firmly, my whole body trembled under his touch and my dead soul awakened. I missed h
AURORA-It’s here, my death, my end, standing and the door and I just invited it in. I'm here sitting in this wedding gown which feels more like a death bed.I'm getting married to Alfred Hestia, in order to survive, in order to see those who I love breathe, I love Zeus, and I miss him, I just want to see him one last time and could even trade my life for his one look.I feel my bones shattering just as my will and Zeus is my only redemption. “Come here…” Alfred pulled me closer, his eyes fixated at mine and whenever I look away, he forces my gaze back to him.His eyes are making me feel naked, the way he looks at me, and the way he licks his lips like he wants to devour me, his smile tells me how victorious he feels right now, and his laugh is like he gives no shit about this world.I didn’t take up on the fifth tier, it was a good thing I didn’t see Mirage here. He probably listened to me, and I'm glad he did so. All I see is one vow and the Aurora who smiled, the Aurora who lived w