#Chapter176Unforeseeable futureAlthea Zoe Castellanos SilvermoonWe settled down on the house by the beach that dad owned. I knew they weren't going to let me go off far as they decided where I got to be. For now.I sit on the edge of the pool on the balcony staring at the all-so familiar view of the wide blue ocean. I was across the world but the scenery in front of me remained the same. No matter where I was, it was the only thing that didn't change.It had been a week but all I did was be caged inside these walls. Even though they tried to make it seem unnoticeable, but it was pretty obvious with my sight and hearing. I sigh at the thought. What were they even thinking?Even though I wasn't blessed with a gift like all the true Lycans, all my senses were stronger than them. I was faster, stronger even, but I didn’t bother correct anyone’s judgement on me. I didn't want to stand out even more. Already being born a royal without gift was enough to make me an outcast, I didn'
#Chapter177An empty shellAlthea Zoe Castellanos SilvermoonI try to loosen the tight knots that was once again starting to form in my heart by creeping further into the crowd. Pushing past the intoxicated bodies, I move closer to the source of the hammering sound and directly underneath the blinding neon lights.But whatever I was starting to feel did not go away. My eyes impatiently scanned the crowd from the centre of the dance floor while my heart thumped loudly. Deafening even me from this music. I was feeling restless at this point. All I needed was some clarification. An answer. Something to calm this raging heart. And this darkness that was once again starting to rise.I was starting to think that it was a big mistake coming out tonight. I should have stayed in. Like a caged little bird. But no, I had to become a rebel and break free. What was I even thinking?I frantically move around the bodies of people once I get my head straight. Trying to move past and get away fro
#Chapter178LieAries BlackwoodThis feeling. This strong urge.Even, the beast, who had decided to stay extinct, was starting to crawl out from deep within. It was as if something woke him up.But what could possibly hold the power to cause the hibernating beast to awaken? What was it that was getting even me agitated? For no reason, my heart was beating erratically. Like it wanted me to feel again. Almost as if telling me something. Something that I didn’t understand at all.I shake my head and dismiss these feelings that was confusing me to no end. But my heart didn’t let it go nor did the beast as I felt him pace around the back of my mind coming towards the surface with each passing second. No, he wasn’t forcing a shift. And neither was he trying to take control. He was just getting impatient. Like he was hungry? Thirsty even.But for what? My dysfunctional brain was not competent enough to understand these emotions that was boiling inside of me. Or anything at all.
#Chapter179Bloodline royalAlthea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonI wake up panting again. My forehead beading in sweats and my entire body drenched in it. My breathing heavy and the only sound I could hear was the drumming of my heart. As if ready to burst any second now.Releasing a deep sigh, I look around in the darkness, my eyes as sharp as ever. I was in my room, laying on my bed.A warm touch on my shoulder makes me whip my head around in alarm but those familiar green eyes that even lights through the darkness comforts me. Just a little.“You are okay.”My vacant thoughts slowly comes together and my hands immediately flies up to cover my eyes, to hide myself, my breathing once again skyrockets. But she just grabs my wrists and gently pulls my hands down, away from my face. A small smile tugs the corner of her lips upwards as she looks at me. That smile of hers, the only reassurance that I needed. “It’s alright.”It was alright. And just like that my breathing calms, k
#Chapter180Mate?Althea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonMy heart decided that it was just a one-off thing. For the rest of the week, it remained calm. Just a soft constant beating. Almost inaudible. Too silent.It made me anxious for it never really stayed calm for long.So, I trained. I trained hard. Because I needed to prepare myself. I had to stay strong. I couldn’t just lose control every time my heart ached. No. I cannot be that girl that ran crying to their parents every time things became too hard to handle. I knew I was stronger than that. And I will be just that. Powerful and strong.I sigh as I think about the past week. I haven’t returned to that dreadful place of learning that just seemed to suck the life out of me. Just the thought of it was enough to give me a headache.But after a week of deep thinking, I have now decided that it was time to go back and be a part of that world. The world which held unimaginable possibilities. A diversed beings and not just Lyc
#Chapter181MineCirce McNaughtOnce more, I sit on the far back of the classroom. Most of my attention on the chirping birds that sang melodiously as they sat on the branch of a tall tree beside the small window. A lover’s quarrel maybe.Their playful bickering drew me more than the human that stood by the front of the classroom seeking to hold all the knowledge on history. Their history.I have lived almost half a century. So, I myself have attained quite a lot of knowledge on histories. Stories that they don’t even know about. Of creatures that lives amongst them. With them. Me being one of them.I lived with my family, my pack, before I moved out almost ten years ago. I grew up watching humans shift into wolves. I lived with the werewolves and I was a part wolf myself. But I was never blessed with one. Apparently, my other half was more dominant than my wolf half. But I always considered myself to be a werewolf that just couldn’t shift. I had razor sharp vision, an excell
#Chapter182Just be meAlthea Zoella Castellanos Silvermoon“Alex, have you ever thought about the chances of finding your mate?” We were just standing by our car in the parking lot, waiting for the classes to start. I tap my hands on my arms as they rest folded across my chest. “I have never really given it much thought before.” Alex leans back as he looks up to the blue sky. “If you ask me now, I haven’t got a clue.”I sigh, following his movement, I too look up at the peaceful blue sky. “I wonder what it’s like…”“One day you too will find someone that’s meant for you. You too will know then. One day.” I feel his eyes on me, but I don’t tear my gaze off the blueness that fills that space above. “I doubt that…”I don’t believe that destiny has lost enough sanity to pair me with another life. I am dark. I am ungifted. An outsider amongst my own people. I was an outcast. I possibly cannot have the luxury of having my soul complete. I scoff and shake my head, pushing the d
#Chapter183DestinyAlthea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonThe last bell rings announcing the end of the long torturous week. Two more days until it was finally time to hit home. So far nothing has happened. No irregular heartbeat. No drumming in my ears. Nothing. That only led me to believe one thing. That it was time to move on now.There was nothing here.“Want to go out tonight? Same place?” I head for my car and open the door, resting one elbow on the roof while the other on top of the open door as I wait for someone to reply.Egan who has his arms snaked around Circe’s waist looks confused whilst Alex had a worried look on his face. “Are you sure? Cause’ the last time we went there it didn’t go well-”I just stop him, before he starts ruining my mood for celebration. “I have decided to return.”And that seems to do the job. A wide grin makes an appearance on his face as he comes forward to tightly warp me up in his arms, his face bright with excitement. “Should have said so
#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