#Chapter131Raven ReadyHis hand laid on my bare thigh the whole dinner, as the piece of the dress fell on either side of my legs when I sat down. Sparks danced around where his palm grabbed me. But I was content. Coming here was a good idea. That’s what I think so far.The dinner ended quite late at night. Now I was anxious to get off this dress and the killer heel. Thank god we were sitting down the whole time. Imagine having to walk around in these. Oh, how am I going to survive ball? I guess we’ll find out tomorrow.We were all standing by the door as we said our goodbye to their parents. They all retired to their own quarters, might I say. I sigh loudly after I knew they were far enough not to hear me. I lean my back against Lucas’ solid chest for some support as his arms came around me. My poor feet. “Can we just go now?” I was really tired, and I did sound tired too. Very much. I see Eliana go to Aya and take her off Elias’ arms and she came to me to do the same. I
#Chapter132Raven Meets the Royals-01We closed our eyes when the sun shined through the glass window by the bed. We were too tired now that we had stayed up the whole night. I could feel my body shutting itself as the sun rose higher. And I complied to my body’s need.It’s too noisy in here. I turn in the bed and pull the pillow over my head, blocking the sound and the brightly lit room. I don’t want to wake up. I groan clearly voicing my annoyance to whoever was disturbing my sleep.“Wake up little beast.” I hear Eliana’s voice close to me as I feel the pillow being pulled off my face. Then I feel a hand tug me up, making me sit upright. I groan again but I don’t open my eyes. I’m so sleepy. “We only have a few hours before the ball starts. Wake up.” She grabs both my shoulder and starts shaking me.“We need to start getting ready.” She shouts as I finally open my eyes to glare at her. Ugh. “You clearly said we have a few hours. Let me sleep some more.” I try to fall bac
#Chapter133Raven Meets the Royals-02Silence fills the room. It’s so much to take in. But it makes me feel sad. My chest tightens slightly. Why? No matter how strong, a mother cannot bear to part with their children. It really hurts when I think about the mother. The queen. Why? “Raven” I look up to Eliana. Her eyes are filled with emotions that I cannot read right now. I feel my stomach twisting uncomfortably. “Tonight, whatever you do, please stay close to Lucas.” Her eyes beg me. “If she were to truly show up, you need to be with him. Please.” “Why-”But she doesn’t let me finish my sentence. “He will tell you later. Although he should have done it sooner.” She has a very sad look on her face. “He should have marked you before this. But it’s not my place.”She breaths deeply before she smiles and gets up. “Ladies, we are so late for the ball now. I’m guessing that they are already there. Wait, hold on, I didn’t know you had a tattoo. When did you get it done?” She
#Chapter134Raven’s Truth-01Eyes so green looks into my own pool of green. Her footsteps too, halts, as she finally notices me, as does her mates beside her who turns to look down at her. But her eyes are fixed on me. Her intense green eyes turn soft as so many emotions plays across her face. And then I saw relief on them as she let out a soft gasp.This made the king follow his mates’ eyes to look at me. Soon as his eyes fell on me, he gasped loudly, his mouth slightly open, making me break my eye contact with her and look into his hazel eyes. The queen slowly lets go of the hand that rested on his arm and takes few hesitant steps towards me before she stops. A sad but sweet smile plays on her angelic face. The crowd follows our every moment as the hall sits in silence.“Finally, I found you.” Her soft voice breaks the icy silence that fills this crowded hall.“I have been waiting for this day. For you.” Her forest green eyes are glossy with unshed tears, but her fac
#Chapter135Raven’s Truth-02Father finally dismissed the meeting after planning to search for the traitors that sits amongst us. And soon the couple both flew out the room, none of us suspecting anything as it was very late at night. I turned to hug my mother goodnight. She held my face in her hands once again as she smiled softly but her eyes quickly went to Lucas’ who was ready to jump out the door himself. “The earth indeed smells heavenly when the rain falls upon it, doesn’t it, Lucas?”But his eyes were in so much pain as he curtly nods his heads, biding goodnight as he marches out, leaving me dumbfounded. I turned back to face my mother, very confused. “What was that?”Her smile, ever so soft, her green eyes shining bright under the chandelier, holds so much happiness. “Go and talk to him. He needs you right now. He might be a bit… overwhelmed.” My brows furrow further in confusion. “But why?”“Let him be the who tells you everything.” My mother lightly pats my
#Chapter136A Hunter Raven-01A loud boom brought us apart to look out the window. To look at the commotion outside. Wild angry fire burned the far side of the palace building in flames. I heard cries and pleas alike. It looked like hell had decided to fall upon us.Lucas let go of me and quickly slammed the glass window. The pieces of glass reflected the moonlight as it showered down. He held on the side of the window and jumped to sit on it, leaning his head out to look upon the sky that was slowly getting darker. Angry dark clouds filled the sky, covering the moon and soon it poured on us, raging the flames and soon calming it down. I let out the breath that I had been holding as Lucas looked back at me. “Stay here.” His eyes pleaded me as he jumped out of the window leaving me by myself.I run after him to the window, only to see that he was long gone. To where the hell was raising. Now dark smoke raised up to meet the equally dark clouds that was raining heavily. Sti
#Chapter137A Hunter Raven-02These Lycans made stupid mistake by hunting me alone. I was a hunter. A hunter trained by the woods. I cannot be easily defeated. But little did they know. Every single Lycans I encountered, I bit or ripped their heads alike. Now my whole body was covered in blood. The small white patches of my dress were the only indication that it once used to be a beautiful pure white dress. My hair had fallen off its neat bun as half was messing hanging on my back. I know my sight was not the prettiest right now. But I didn’t care. Now my feet traced back to the grand door to the hall which was shut closed. I stayed in the shadows and listened hard. I knew something was definitely happening inside. So, I didn’t want to barge in through the front and make myself vulnerable. That was a rookie mistake. And I was no rookie.I looked around for a path. A way into the without having to walk in through the front door. Then I remembered that I had seen windows w
#Chapter138Raven – the beginning of the endAs a Lycan moved towards him, with its extended claws and razor canines, the earth beneath him opens up and he falls into the pit of hell. Loud gasps surround the hall. “What the f*** is happening here?” He yells angrily moving forward, dragging my mothers’ weak body along with him.The vines then start growing from the cracked marble flooring and wraps itself around the Lycans that held my friend’s captive. That held Lucas. It coils around their legs and twists around their body to their neck. They struggle to get free but in vain. The sharp thorns extend from the vines pierces their body. The night now filled with their cries. Until their neck’s snaps with a loud satisfying pop.I know my face doesn’t look pretty anymore as I too hold a smile equally as evil as him. I was becoming more of an animal. I was enjoying this too much. This was what I was afraid of before. I did not want to be a monster. But the situation turned me
#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