AURORA-I look at Zeus, the smirk on his face is gone. “Ms. Aurora… are you ready for stage two? Or do you need some break?”The old man asks again, its Zeus team, honest and wise and I couldn’t have thought about them otherwise. I smile, “that was for starters, I’m looking for a fucking main course…”I snap my neck, waiting for someone to pop out from the crowd, and he did. Another tall, broad and husky figure, “Silas…”I smirked and his steps halted, maybe because I know his name as well, I’m glad I worked into this. The adrenaline rushes inside my body, and I’m about to burn this world.“The people under me would be all yours to rule, to kill, to have someone killed, if you best me…”He shifted from his human form; I grabbed the sword from Zeus’ hand running at Silas. The werewolf lunged at me with its razor-sharp claws.But I was ready, my sword met its claws with a fierce clash, and the werewolf stumbled back from the force.I brought my sword up to the werewolf’s neck and he sna
AURORA-I wanted to escape from his hand grabbing my throat, his hand pinning me down, I felt blood trickling out of the cloth and the knot loosened.The bandage came out with his hand as I pushed him away and stood right back up. His eyes met Zeus’ glare; he looked down at the ground doing nothing for a while.“Don’t go easy on me, I won’t be worthy that way…” I gave him time to come back out his anxiety. He looked at me and then at Zeus again.“Don’t look at him, do you want a failed Luna to rule you?” I can’t let Zeus manipulate him. I’ve been a jerk all this time.Now, I have to do something to prove myself, I turned my gaze at Zeus threatening him to not make this battle unfair.He sighed looking away, his gaze telling me, ‘Do whatever you want but I’ll kill him if he hurts you again’.I’m so sure, I’ll have this man beside me even if the world is burning or melting away into ashes, to know that he’ll become the umbrella when it rains, a island if in I’m drowning in the ocean.I
ZEUS-[“Zeus… come I’ll show you something.” My dad grabbed my hand, I was alone, I am alone. my father says my mother is gone, and it’s been five years and she isn’t back yet.I want to know where she is, so, that I can go meet her, hug her, but it’s not possible, I’m just five years old and can’t go out on my own.Dad will kill me, and I’m scared of him. I manage to laugh, sometimes, but smiling takes a toll on my body so I try to act indifferent to all those feelings.I was only adapting to it slowly, “Hold it…” he handed a huge sword almost my weight to me, my legs stumbled however, my curious eyes wanted to know it was.I tried a hold it but couldn’t handle its weight and sliced my own arm, that’s when I realized that it is a very dangerous thing and I threw it away.“It hurts…” I cried, my arm bleeding but instead of showing some love my father pressed the wound with his fingers.“This is the pain you need to grow up with…” he roared, I hissed trying to break free, but failed. H
AURORA-He’s been acting weird, ever since last night. He didn’t open his eyes or something but I can roughly guess that he remembers that nightmare.And not matter how hard he’s trying to make it seem like nothing’s going on, I can tell, he’s suffering. His smile seems fake and forced.What happened? I really want to know what caused it, why is he suffering? That night, his behavior in the car, it was something I shouldn’t have overlooked.Everywhere I go, I find myself blaming for things. How am I good for him? How am I any good than his father?His father…Zeus’ father, he must have the answers. He should, he might be the one triggering his trauma. But am I ready to meet him and act cool?Too bad I want to kill him but, it’ll ruin the bond, Zeus and I have, it’s already on the verge of shattering.But what good am I if, I don’t overcome this need to kill him and talk to Alaric like a human, in decency. I have to do it.I stomp upstairs, my heart beat dropping as quickly it rises up
AURORA-“Hey… Zeus… it’s me… Aurora…” I stood back up, my hands around his waist. He was having another attack/ seizure, I don’t know what to call it.Why is it so frequent, he’s an Alpha, he can’t heal? But again, healing is all physical, it’s the will that restore all mental wounds.“Let me go…” he roared putting his own hand on his throat, he’s choking himself, why? I wish I had… fuck with your regrets, do something.I embraced him tightly, my head buried deep inside his chest, “Easy… there there, calm down…” it’s slow, gradually the speed of his heart race is decreasing.I helped him remove his hand from his neck, I rub his back, “look t me…” my calm voice somehow made him calm as well.His breathing is still shallow, he’s looking at me but it feels like he is seeing right through me, a different dimension, a lost world, a lost kid… his childhood perhaps.“Come here…” I grab his hand taking him inside, I sat him down and hide his face in my chest. He is hugging me tightly, as if h
AURORA-That weird blood scent, it belonged to Alaric? Zeus killed his own father? I don’t know how or what to feel about it.Alaric was a true beast, but he his father and it’s normal to feel the loss and cry about it. He’s been hiding that pain, even from himself for so long, he needs to let it out, before this guilt consumes him.It was a long journey, a very long journey to bring us here, in the realty but again, I can’t send him back in the past, letting him live there, no.In order to stop having these nightmares, he needs to let go of this guilt.“Where is she?” I heard a familiar voice, my body automatically rushed towards it. I closed the door behind me gently not letting it ruin Zeus’ peace.He barely slept last night; I don’t want him to get disturbed again. I knew who this voice belonged to however, what I didn’t know was how to face it, the reality, the things I’ve been numbing my thoughts about.“Aurora Ogre…” another roar and I walked quickly. “Where do you think you’re
AURORA-“Why act all innocent now?” she smirked, her eyes shining from happiness. I don’t know what to feel but it’s creeping me out, her smile, her words, they’re just telling me that Dabria was never kind.Perhaps, I made her this way, she’s been trapped inside that cell, every sane person can go mad in there… all alone, hoping for some light, that’s never gonna come.“I wrote it, Fridolf came to me suddenly, saying that I knew Athena and he needs a little in return for my son’s grave… I’d give him the world, you remember my son?” he taunted, her eyes shed tears as she mentioned Cyrus.I was again short on words, I didn’t know what to say, “My son who died just to help you from that bastard Zeus… but what did you do? How did you pay for his kindness? By falling for that very inhuman man who killed him…”Please stop… stop… “I’m sorry… I really am, but Zeus is not inhuman. I owe Cyrus my life but I won’t let you talk ill about Zeus…” why was I talking to her like that?“You bitch, you
AURORA-“Listen lady, I don’t want to kill you, just leave before I change my mind. consider yourself forgiven for touching her but---” Zeus warned however got interrupted.“Touch her? I’ll kill her myself, if not today then tomorrow, but I will and you, or your pets, none of them will be able to stop me…” she sighed at the end, her words slicing my heart into pieces, all I want is to ease this pain but it’s not possible.“Azrael, throw her out. It’s because of her you managed to leave this mansion, or else you would still be locked behind those bars so, don’t let this rage get to yourself!!” he picked me up in his arms walking away.I hid my face inside Zeus’ chest, wanting to go blind to the bitterness of the truth, to the worst reality, I clenched his collar with both my hands, shivering from dread.Zeus seemed angry, a lot, since he didn’t talk to me. I stood before him as he tried to keep himself busy with work that I wouldn’t call as ‘work’ specially.Flipping pages before readi