#Chapter115Raven’s Scent-01Lucas Alexander Castellanos“What do you mean you let her go?” Aya’s voice trembles as tears stream down her face. “She would never leave me. She promised. And Raven always keeps her promises. You are lying.”My heart was starting to pump fast. I felt my Lycan trying to break free. I felt my eyes go darker. I was angry at myself for letting her go. But so, was he? Why? Why? Why?A deep growl escapes my lips as I clenched my fists to control this rage that was building within me. “Brother, calm down.” Tessa puts her hand straight, her palm facing towards me as she takes a step back. “We need to find Amara. We need you calm down, brother.”I close my eyes and try to force the beast inside to back down. For now. I need to be rational. I need to find her. Then what?No. I will not think about this now. I’ll leave it for later to deal with. Right now, the priority is to find her. I will find her.I open my eyes now, clear of any signs of th
#Chapter116Raven’s Scent-02Lucas Alexander CastellanosThe sun hits the dark sky as it announces the beginning of the day. We have already looked through three woodlands nearby. Still no luck. Nothing. Where is this girl? Is she in trouble? No. she’s fine. I keep telling myself. Hoping. No praying that she’s okay.My phone rings in my pocket. It’s from Sean. I quickly answer phone. “Sir, we are in a park further south as you told us to, we don’t see Miss Amara, but the park itself seems pretty weird, I guess.” He doesn’t have to say anymore. “Sean, check the area once more. Go through everything again. We’ll be there soon.” I hang off my phone and tell Elias’ to go south. Please be there. Please be safe, Koraki. I pray to the goddess up there. I’ll do anything. Please just keep her safe.As soon as Elias’ stops the car, I shoot out to meet Sean waiting by the front. He bows his head as he shows me the land that once used to be a park? If not for the bench siting in t
#Chapter117Raven – Waking upI can smell the ocean. I’m surrounded by it. It feels as if I had submerged into it. It can’t be right. I open my eyes to the extremely bright room. I blink a couple times to adjust my eyes. I see the white ceiling above me. I slowly tilt my head side to side; glass windows surround the room like a wall. Where am I? How did I get here?I tried to lift my hands up, but something heavy lays on it. It’s very warm against my cold hand. I completely turn my body to the side. My breath gets stuck on my mouth.What in the Raven’s name is going on here? Why is he here? No forget it. Why am I here?He’s sleeping beside me curled up like a big baby. His hand on top of mine as if he wanted to hold me but at the same time, he was afraid to. Wait what? You are losing your mind, Raven. Get out of here before he wakes up and sees you here. You don’t want him to get angry again.Right. Okay.I slowly pull my hand free and push the cover off me, without
#Chapter118Raven, His?Silence.Did he leave?I turn to the side and place my ear right on the door as if it was doing any better than to hear the silence that filled the room outside.Time passed and I just stood there.“I… I’ll- I’ll give you five minutes to change.” He mutters the words. If not for my incredible hearing I would not have heard him. “Not more.” He says louder and I hear his footsteps fading and the door being shut. Thank goddess. At least the door seems fine. I cannot say the same for the lock though. I release a deep breath and slowly pulled the door open. I put my head out through the narrow opening and looked around. No one. Okay, and that’s my cue to run. I dash my way to the closet holding the towel tightly on my chest. I go straight for the drawer full of lingerie and grabbed the first pair that was neatly put together.As I put my legs through, I realised that I had chosen the most revealing pair of all. Why now? I didn’t have time,
#Chapter119Raven, a fool-01I struggled to get free of his hold on me but when he said the word, I was frozen in his arms. What? Wait. Did I hear him say ‘mine’? As in his?“Ha-ha” But I’m definitely not laughing. “How am I yours?” I manage to say but still clearly am very much in shock. While he quickly grabs a grey hoodie with a zip and puts in on me, taking advantage of the state I was in.“You have a lot of explaining to do, Koraki.” He then sweeps me up in his arms as I let out a loud yelp. I am so high up from the ground now.“What are you doing? Put me down.” I struggle to get free, but my efforts are futile. So, I give up and cross my arms as he laughs and exits my room.“The rest of them have been worried about you. Especially Aya. You need to see them before they come in barging on us.” He now walks down the stairs. I see the three on the sofa, face laced with worry. A smile forms on my face and I struggle in his arms once more. But this time he lets me off.
#Chapter120Raven, a fool-02“But what do you mean wasn’t? As in past tense?” Aya emphasis ‘wasn’t’ as she questions me. Her eyes demanding answers. “Well, what happens if you, umm, happen to, umm, isolate a Lycan’s head from the rest of his body?” Aya’s mouth opens in shock as Elias’ brows just furrow a little while Eliana huffs a laugh. “Well, I’m thinking that they might not be alive anymore.”“Wait. Back up again. They? There were more?” Elias’ is more shocked now. “A few others.” I mutter. I felt his arms tighten on me as a growl thundered on the side of my neck where his face now rested. But I let him. It calmed me. I was more comfortable this way. But once in a while, his breath tickled me. Just a little.“But- but we did not smell another Lycan in the park.” Eliana counters. “It’s her doing.” Aya mumbles to herself as Eliana turns her way and Elias’ places her on one side of his lap so he could see her face now. “My love, why do you think it’s her?”“I don’t think
#Chapter121Why Not Raven?I look at his perfectly handsome face, patiently waiting for me to answer. But I can also hear his heart, it’s pounding. “He said, he knew me.” I look at his chest where his heart was beating rapidly. I slowly put my hand out to reach his heart. My palm against his heart as it slowed down but was still very fast.“He said that I was a Lycan too.” My eyes flicker back to his. He had a knowing look on his face. So, I continued. “He was supposed to kill me the moment I was born. Seems like he couldn’t, so he left me in the woods, thinking that the animals there would do his job for him. Unfortunately, the woods protected me.” I release a breath as I break off his stare and turn to Aya.“He had been watching us the moment we left the woods. He would have tried to kill me if we hadn’t met Eliana that day.” Then I face Eliana. “This whole time he had his eyes on me. He said something about letting me live if only he hadn’t seen me with you, Lucas.” I look
#Chapter122Raven’s Safe HavenI somehow manage to escape his arms and lock myself back in my room. Not that the lock was working but at least I wasn’t zapped with currents and do nothing about it the entire day. It was killing me. This time I take my baggy top and boxy underwear as I went for shower. I’m being careful, just in case, incidents like this morning happens again. Also, because the lock to the bedroom is not working and I don’t want anyone to walk in on me with just a towel to cover my body. And definitely not him.I take a quick shower. When I come out of the bathroom, my bedroom is very empty. “Good” I mutter but I’m disappointed. Why did I hope to see him here? Lying on the bed. Waiting for me.Raven. Oh, Raven. Wake up.I shake my head as I climb on the bed and lay on my back. I stare at the white nothingness that covers the ceiling. I blink once. Twice. Then I turn my head to the side and bring my arm out to feel the empty space beside me. I let out a
#Chapter237Forged (4) (Special)Aries BlackwoodLike a magnet pulled by its other half, I walk towards her. “This is where she offered herself to save your soul. You didn’t even know her, yet she was so keen on being with you. I had asked her why she was so willing to love someone that doesn’t even know her existence?” Then she looks at me with a sad smile on her face. “You know what her answer was?”I shake my head, my eyes still on hers as I try to control these emotions wanting to pour out of me once again. “She told me she could hear your soul. That she could understand your heart. Said she would womb your sin and find a place where you both can be together in this loop of infinity.She was willing to sacrifice herself just to hear you laugh. I warned her. But my daughter is too stubborn for her own good.” She too shakes her head and chuckles softly. “I told her that just because she wants to be with you, doesn’t mean that you too would want the same. And you know what sh
#Chapter236Forged (3) (Special)Aries BlackwoodI open my eyes to the darkness.Pitch black darkness was all I could see. And I doubt if my eyes were even open at this point.But then I see something glimmer distance away and so I reach towards my only source of light which guided me to a land, painted in red, soaked in blood. Piles and piles of dead bodies covered the entirety of the land and there he stood, a boy with a sword pierced right through his heart.He holds his ground until no heart beats the land. Then he too falls on his knees. Swinging his sword up and onto the ground, he holds his wounded body upright as if proving the land that he was invincible even in death.And as something in that blood-soaked golden hair spurs my curiosity, I inch closer towards him, studying the lines of his equally bloodied face but his piercing blue eyes stops me from going any closer. For I see a replica of my own eyes. For I see myself in him. Baffled at the image of my younger se
#Chapter235Forged (2)Althea SilvermoonA group of rogues that wished to live in a pack again.With no place to return, no place to call home, they had chosen to remain on this barren land until their bare bone was the only proof that they once lived. And as my father’s words chanted itself over my head for the uncountable time, I had healed the hurt and guided them home as promised. Maybe that’s the reason they could bear to be with me. For they only saw me as their saviour and nothing more.I sigh softly as I feel the warmth of the flames. The only proof that I lived was the light rise and fall of my chest. Although alert, the only melody I was interested in listening to was the soft crackling of the wood as it sacrificed itself and burned into ashes.Thump.All of a sudden, I hear my heart thump loudly.Once. Just once.But it was enough to break me out of my empty thoughts. Lifting my chin higher, I place my palm over my heart to feel that lost sense once more. Sadly,
#Chapter234Forged (1)Althea SilvermoonMy feet digs deeper into the scorching golden sand as I make my way further into the land of dunes. The sun sits hot on the crown of my head, and my forehead beading with sweats, trickles down, dampening the white cloth covering my eyes as I advance further into the land with no direction. With no aim.I don’t know how long or how far I had travelled. I have passed through lands, crossed the ocean. I have even travelled across the universe with Alex always by my side. The essence of my life now engraved on the entirety of the vast universe.Had it been a century? A millennium? Or had it only just been years?I look up to the sky, feeling the sun hard against my face and I exhale tiredly.I don’t know. I don’t know anything anymore.The only thing that I knew was that I was once again back on this deserted land, occupied only with silence and the occasional howling of the wind. But my soulless body preferred its silent words anyways
#Chapter233Free (Special)Third personShe sits frozen still while the rest of the world moves on. Chaos finally gone along with both darkness and happiness. The land sits silent, too quiet to be called alive. And when everyone thinks that she will never come out of her grief, she stands herself tall, although tiredness evoking of her, she moves even though forced.With face as empty as her heart, she carries herself forward, towards the edge of land and Alex comes forth from her shadows. Taking her in the strong hold of his arms, he descends, wings spread wide, down to the land where flowers bloomed beautifully all around. And when he lands, Althea moves out of his hold, her eyes solely to the front as she gracefully glides through the narrow path. Ignoring all eyes on her, she continues to move forward to where her mother sleeps within that vast tree, her pale skin now as white as the snow covering the mountains. She stands before her mother and the man, she once loved as
#Chapter232The goddess of life (2)Third personShe whispers the name of mate as pain becomes too much for her to bear and in a silver flash, appears a man, wrapping his arm around her defeated shoulders, holding her tall. And with a swing of his arm, he dismisses the darkness floating the land, as if it was nothing but a heavy mist.He stands dressed in white and like the goddess, he too holds the brilliance of heaven, the halo in his silver hair, and supremacy on his silver eyes. But those silver orbs remain on the girl, searching for the light, the innocence she once radiated with.He had failed to protect his little girl, one whom he loved before heaven.“My sweet, little Althea.” But Althea looks back with hard eyes, blaming him for her loss as she pulls Aries tighter in her arms, in fear that he too was against her being with Aries. “What has this world done to you, my little Althea?”She keeps her glare on him even though, Randolph, her father, held the softest gaze of
#Chapter231The goddess of life (1)Third personShe lowers her head a little. And finally, the Lycans and wolves could see the light in her eyes that now shines through the world, as those silvers torches the darkness around.But on the other hand, her coal back eyes become one with the so-called darkness. Hatred, it holds all. Slowly making the silver dull which only holds the pain, the sadness. It grieves its loss and gradually the light in them too starts to fade along.“I will destroy this land that does not hold your breath. I refuse to reside in a universe that does not accept your heart. And I will never ascend to heaven that does not house your soul.” Gruesome words roar throughout the land as the war halts, as if time froze still petrified of the rise of the dark goddess. One by one, the creatures starts to dissipate as the darkness touches its core. Until there was none that lived apart from the man called Vyncent. Staggering on his feet, he moves forward, wounds
#Chapter230The dark goddess (2)Althea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonThe wind blows hard as a loud roar echoes the field. A divine beast soars through the blue sky with his silver wings, beating on his back. The girl chuckles softy as she looks upon the beast and stretches her arm forward. And he lands inches away from her and strides with power, his marvellous wings spread high, until his furry head touches the small palm of the girl. “Would you like to join me on this journey, Alex?”He grunts softly while nudging his furry face against the palm of her hand, making a sweet giggle erupt out of the girl. The goddess walks towards them with a small smile on her face now as she looks at them both. Then her eyes shift on the silver of his wings and she steps forward. Gently stroking the soft feathers, she seems to be deep in thoughts. “I better prepare for the worst then. Who knows when you might need some kind of harmony in your life? I’m sorry to burden you with such weight,
#Chapter229The dark goddess (1)Althea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonThen I hear the loudest roar of all, every other feeling in the air dull compared to it. I sit numb as I look up at the sky, but my vision far from it. My pitiful lips torn apart, pulled away from one another. It was me. My grief. Echoing to the heavens.Then I’m pulled into a land, heavily filled with green, blooming beautifully with tulips that stretched beyond, meeting the peaceful blue horizon. Then I see a girl dressed in white, her perfectly sliver hair blending into the pureness that she exuded. She sits on her knees as she hovers over the pond. Hesitantly, I move forward, pulled by the curiosity that held the girl’s keen eyes tightly to the pond. I stand just behind her and look over her shoulder at the clear colourless water. But instead of both our reflections, I see a man. One that looks very much like Aries with his golden hair now shorter, trimmed and his face void of the light stubbles. He loo