Chapter 4: Memories Awakened

 The forest turned eerily quiet as Olivia made her way through the dense undergrowth. Her senses were on excessive alert, every rustle of leaves making her jump. She'd been attempting to find hours, and nevertheless no sign of Hera.

 "Hera!" she called out, her voice echoing in the stillness. "Where are you?"

 A faint whimper caught her attention. Olivia's coronary heart raced as she followed the sound, pushing through a thick patch of trees. There, in a small clearing, she observed Hera.

 The sight made Olivia's blood run bloodless. Hera becomes light, her skin clammy, and her respiratory shallow. "Oh god, Hera," Olivia whispered, kneeling beside her.

 Hera's eyes fluttered open, unfocused and glassy. "Olivia ?" she mumbled. "Which one are you?"

 "I'm here," Olivia confides in her, lightly lifting Hera into her arms. "We want to get you somewhere secure."

 As Olivia carried Hera via the forest, the sky darkened ominously. Thunder rumbled within the distance, and fast raindrops started to fall. Olivia cursed under her breath, scanning the place for a haven.

 A rocky outcropping caught her eye, and as they drew nearer, Olivia spotted the doorway to a small cave. "Hang on, Hera," she murmured. "We're almost there."

 Inside the cave, Olivia gently laid Hera down on a mattress of dry leaves. She tore a strip of fabric from her blouse, soaking it with water from her canteen to wipe Hera's brow.

 "Stay with me, Hera," Olivia pleaded. "Ralph's accessible seeking out us. We just need to maintain it until he unearths us."

 Hera's eyes snapped open, suddenly clean and targeted. "Olivia," she gasped, grabbing Olivia's arm with surprising strength. "I recall. I take into account the entirety."

 Olivia froze, her heart pounding. "What do you mean?"

 "It's coming again to me," Hera stated, her voice growing stronger. "My past, my true identification. Olivia, concentrate on me carefully. I'm now not who you think I am. I'm... I'm your wolf."

 Olivia stared at her, bewildered. "What? That's not possible."

 Hera shook her head, wincing at the movement. "No, it's authentic. We have been separated, cut apart through powerful magic. I've been trapped in this body, stripped of my recollections. But now... Now I keep that in mind."

 As Hera spoke, fragmented photographs flashed via Olivia's mind. A ritual long past incorrect, a searing pain, and then... Emptiness. The consistent feeling that something turned into lacking, that she wasn't whole.

 "But how?" Olivia whispered, her global tilting on its axis.

 Hera's eyes were intense, burning with an internal hearth Olivia had by no means visible earlier than. "There's no time to explain the entirety. But I can teach you the spell to reunite us. It's the only way to keep each of us now."

 Outside, the hurricane raged on. Lightning illuminated the giveaway, brief, stark flashes as Hera's susceptible voice guided Olivia through the difficult phrases of a historical spell. With every syllable, Olivia felt an extraordinarily warm temperature constructing her interior, a connection she'd in no way known became missing.

 As they neared the top of the incantation, Hera's voice grew fainter. "Hurry, Olivia," she entreated. "We do not have a lot of time."

 Olivia's voice rose, sturdy and clear, as she spoke the final phases of the spell. A blinding light crammed the cave, and for a moment, the whole thing went silent.

 Ralph raced through the woodland, his coronary heart pounding in his ears. The storm had washed away most of the scents, making it nearly impossible to sing Olivia and Hera. But he would not surrender. He could not.

 A surprising burst of strength rippled through the air, making Ralph stumble. He regarded it, his wolf senses tingling. Something huge was happening.

 Following his instincts, Ralph drove ahead, breaking through the treeline right into a small clearing. There, at the mouth of a cave, he saw a sight that made his breath capture in his throat.

 Olivia changed into kneeling on the floor, her body sparkling with an otherworldly mildness. Beside her lay Hera, her form growing fainter by using the second one. As Ralph watched, frozen in shock, tendrils of light seemed to waft from Hera into Olivia.

 "Olivia !" Ralph called out, in the end finding his voice. "Hera! What's taking place?"

 But neither girl seemed to listen to him. The light grew brighter, forcing Ralph to shield his eyes. When he seemed once more, Hera's body had vanished, and Olivia slumped to the ground, motionless.

 Ralph rushed to her aspect, amassing her in his fingers. "Olivia? Olivia, can you listen to me?"

 Slowly, Olivia's eyes fluttered open. For a moment, Ralph should have sworn he saw a flash of Hera in the eyes of the one. Then Olivia gasped, her frame arching as if in pain.

 "Ralph," she choked out. "It worked. We're... We are complete again."

 Before Ralph may want to ask what she supposed, Olivia's eyes rolled lower back, and she or he went limp in his hands.

 "No, no, no," Ralph muttered, checking for a pulse. It became there, but weak and erratic. "Hold on, Olivia. Just preserve it."

 Scooping her up, Ralph ran lower back towards the pack. Lands, his mind reeling. What had passed off in that cave? Where turned into Hera? And what did Olivia suggest via being "complete once more"?

 As he burst into the per cent house, chaos erupted around him. Pack participants swarmed, asking questions he could not solve. The pack. The healer rushed ahead, right away taking the rate.

 "Get her to the infirmary," the healer ordered. "Now!"

 Hours exceeded in a blur of interest. Ralph paced outside the infirmary, his wolf stressed and agitated. Finally, the healer emerged, looking exhausted but relieved.

 "She's solid," the healer announced. "But, Alpha... There is something you need to see."

 Inside the infirmary, Olivia lay peacefully on a bed. But as Ralph approached, he observed something exceptional. There changed into a new electricity in her functions, a presence he could not pretty explain.

 Suddenly, Olivia's eyes snapped open. But rather than their traditional warm brown, they glowed a fantastic gold – the mark of an Alpha wolf.

 "Ralph," Olivia stated, her voice an unusual blend of her own and Hera's. "We have lots to speak about."

 As Ralph stared in disbelief, Olivia started to explain the fantastic story of her cut-up self, the merging spell, and the brand new truth they now confronted. With each phrase, Ralph felt his world shift, realigning to this new reality.

 Outside the infirmary, they waited anxiously for news. None of them may want to have imagined the profound changes that had taken the region that night. As sunrise broke over Crest Moon pack., it marked not simply the beginning of a brand new day, but the starting of a brand new technology – one filled with challenges, mysteries, and a love that defied the very laws of nature itself.