AURORA- “No---no, nothing can be normal anymore. This is it.” I couldn’t look at him, my eyes were fluttering like a butterfly with broken wings. I don’t know what the future holds for us, but I have entirely given up on the notion called love. Zeus and I, we can’t be together. I was stupid enough to believe in a world with harmony, tranquility and everything good in it. This is reality, and the darker it gets, the blacken the shadows turn. “Aurora… you can’t give up on me.” He stuttered, his eyes fluttering just as mine. It is taking everything within his soul not to cry. The rarest, the agonizing, his tears will shatter me entirely. “Zeus… you need to go with the will to never come back. I'm giving you Elinor, let her grow to the prettiest flower. Please I beg of you.” I mutter hunching on my bed, in the farthest corner, far away from Zeus. “Aurora, don’t push me away.” “It’s high time, you need to realize, we shouldn’t have even met. But things have happened, Zeus---” “Don’t
AURORA- “Aurora. Aurora---” This voice, this very voice. Zeus… I sprung up from the bed. My body is aching for his touch, his warmth. I looked around to see Alfred sleeping soundly, I didn’t dare move, I was too afraid of him. I--- “Aurora…” Another voice, Zeus is calling out for me. I removed the sheets off my legs gently not wanting to make any sound. I didn’t breathe in the fear of getting caught, but my heart was yearning for Zeus, I didn’t fear death, so what was Alfred. Who was Alfred? I gasped poking out of the window, the cold wind touched my face forcing me to go out. “Here…” Zeus grabbed my hand, his eyes red, red from crying? He cried? “Let’s go…” And at that moment I just wanted to escape not think anything about my daughter, or anyone for that matter. We looked around but found no one to stop us, adrenaline rushed in my veins like his essence and he hurriedly stormed out of this hell. I realized we were not at the official base of the soul sorcerers, so, was it perha
AURORA- “I, Aurora Ogre, hereby pledge to serve my undying loyalty toward the pack. I confirm every line written on the holy book of souls, and will always put my clan first.” My heart heaved; I couldn’t breathe. I was only looking at Alfred, a man, a beast dressed in all white, like every other werewolf in the crowd, but he just stood out exceptionally. Was it the aura he had? The pledge I took just now, it wasn’t prepared or something. They made me read every word of the said book, until my brain went numb, Alfred was all the while looking at me. He was wanting to eat me, he would eat me, if not for the crowd, no, if not for the vow he took. “Aurora Ogre…” I turned to the old man. His beard was longer than the waterfall itself, his eyes too small that I’d be shocked if he could see from them. His face was so wrinkled, so wrinkle, like a three-year-old shirt, that didn’t know any steaming. “We soul sorcerers, never break the vow, do you understand the consequences if you go agai
AURORA- “Aurora Ogre, do you agree to become the leader, taking the responsibility of fifth tier---” “No…” I replied cutting him off. “Do you understand what you’re doing?” The old man roared with fury. “Yes.” I sighed peering down at the floor. “I don’t want to be the leader of this tier. I'm sure there are many werewolves who are worthier of this position than me. I just have entered this pack; I don’t want to be loaded with responsibilities.” “Didn’t you say you loved power?” Kian muttered from the crowd. “What happened now? Are you disobeying the first order you get? Is this how you’re going to show your loyalty toward us?” He ran a finger through his burgundy hair and a smile rippled through his lips. “I'm not worthy of this p---”“Oh! How kind of you. I would very much like you to see as an insect sitting in the back, but no one, I repeat no one here says no--- your faithfulness is clearly amusing, Ms. Aurora.” “You want me to kill someone, I’ll do that, you me to die, I’l
AURORA-“Stop being a dick…” I hide my flustered reaction and try to act unbothered before him, but he is a damn assed beast, that he even caught the redness on my face.“Aurora, you enjoy seeing me vulnerable?” He whispered under his breath. I irked and tried to move away from him. “Stop me from going any crazier than I already am, babe.” His hands wrapped around my waist and I whimpered.I want him gone, miles and miles away from me. “Don’t touch me…” I say, my eyes squirming around trying not to focus at him, him who was exceptionally close to me.“You know it is our wedding tomorrow?” he stated the obvious, he made my blood boil by stating the obvious and I tried to move away.“I’ve called some people, they’ll come around seven, you need to select your dress, make sure it is pretty.” He tapped his head with mine. “But I know you’ll look pretty no matter what you choose, but since you’re going to marry none other than Alfred Hestia, you need to look lavish, not that you don’t look
AURORA-“Agatha, have you seen Auor---” “Don’t come in.” Agatha stopped Alfred from entering in the room. He snickers, “you don’t get to stalk in, she’s trying her wedding dress.” Agatha stood behind the door pressing her weight against it, like it would stop him from entering.I gushed inside the changing room, don’t know why? I would jinx this marriage with all my heart, yet here I am hiding behind a door.“Stop with your superstitions, I’m dying to see in that dress.” I heard him grunt and the lock rattled, I could feel it rolling down on ground, and he earned an unexpected gasp from Agatha.I clenched my fists, holding the dress tightly. “I'm changing, I don’t want you here.” I say from within the room. I close my eyes, my heartbeat pacing like crazy, I had no control over it. Alfred is… Alfred is intimidating, to the point I feel myself shivering.“Our deal was about not touching you; I could see you, in any shape or form, naked or not, I don’t care.” He was only a few breaths a
AURORA-“I’m going to open my eyes now.” He warned as his lips curved up feeling victorious. I felt a drop of tear rolling down my eyes and drop turned into a wave, an unstoppable wave.“No, no, no. Don’t cry.” He heard me sniffling and rose his brow frantically. “You know what your tears does to me.”“Then, just go away if you ever want a life with me in it.” I beg, but my voice was firm. “Alfred, I will never look at you if you---”He twisted my head, thumping my body on the mirror, his hands on cheeks, and he locked his lips with mine. His warmth killed the coldness I was feeling from behind and he pushed me into the mirror pressing his body against mine.I sandwiched between the two lifeless things, I tried to create distance between us by placing my hand on his chest and push him away. But my strength was nowhere near his.His lips moved recklessly, licking my jaw, my cupid--- “Hey!” I heard a voice.“Aurora?” I opened my eyes to look at him who was standing at a distance from me
AURORA-I'm at the door, and there is nothing but darkness beyond it. and I'm willingly opening the door, to get lost in that dark, dark world.I am insane, I must be out of my mind, for what I am doing, for what I didn’t do, I'm so dumb, I hate myself. Something is going to happen and I will be ruined, I am getting ruined. I am ruined because there’s no escape.Not even death. “Morning…” This voice, this haunting voice is the death of me. I am no longer a human; I am no longer anything for that matter. I feel like a broken toy with no hope of redemption.I opened my eyes to look at structure lying beside me, his eyes on me as I rub mine gently brushing away the sleep. I don’t know, but I have to look at his face first thing in the morning.“Did you sleep well?” Unfortunately, I did, I shouldn’t but I did. Maybe it was the anger that drain all of my energy to keep my eyes remain wide, or I don’t know the other reason, because of him.Which is not possible, hypothetically, mechanically
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