#Chapter197Raven’s Home-04Amara RavenScanning the heart of our home, I see more bodies lying on the bed of red, angry ocean rising up high, grounds burning bright blue with flames of rage, but their numbers only seem to have increased further. Fatigued, the warriors continue to defend, to fight back the never-ending war.And with one final breath of death into my lungs, I let go and fall into the well of ashes. It was time for me to join the battlefield, to be a warrior or the huntress that I once was. The land meets me halfway, rising high, and as my feet lands on them it shatters like glass, swallowing the enemies within its open mouth. I will the earth to break beneath their feet and swallow them whole, the vines to grow bigger, spikes deadlier as it wraps around them until it eventually sucks the life out of them. A gift written only in my name. To take life of these vile creatures as I please. Walking through the empty path I created, I move towards the centre of mayh
#Chapter198Return of the dead-01Althea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonI wake up to the sun brightly hitting against my face and a sweet current flowing all over my body. I could hear the soft thumping of a heart other than my own, a side of my face completely flushed to something hard but smooth, and something that was definitely not my pillow. I push myself higher and watch the light dancing along the surface of his face. Aries. My mate. All the heartbreak, the uneasiness, from previous days, years, all forgotten, a memory forsaken, only left for the past. I trace the lines of his face, my touch as light as a feather, careful not to awaken the sweet soul that was sound asleep. The harsh lines on his face, the dark shadows under his eyes, now completely gone. He looked even more heartbreakingly good now that he had enough rest, time to recuperate. His hold stronger around me, probably his unconscious self, scared that I might leave again. I smile at his innocent intention
#Chapter199Return of the dead-02Althea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonJust then Aries appears out of the bathroom in a fresh pair of trousers and a t-shirt, his hair still wet from his encounter with the water. “About that…” I really hadn’t gotten a chance to tell her that I had found him or him me. Long story short we have found one another. He comes forward, his eyes fixated on my lips as he answers for me. “I found her.” But the minute he opens his mouth, I put my hand on his lips to stop any more words from him. I glare at him, but he just smiles with his twinkling eyes. “Hello? Althea?”“I found him. More like he found me.” As the deed was already done, I confess. “His name’s Aries. Aries Blackwood. We met not too long ago that’s why I didn’t get to tell you about him.”And a long pause follows, I wait for her to process the information and was about to speak when she finally decides to speak again. “Can I talk to him?”He places a kiss on my palm still on his lips and th
#Chapter200Return of the dead-03Althea Zoella Castellanos Silvermoon“Zoe, there must be something really going on back home. We cannot contact anyone. And the ones, outside of the kingdom, we managed to contact so far doesn’t know anything either.”“What about the preparation on our return?” My heart thumps, slow and loud, already knowing the answers to all my questions. “Unfortunately, all the aircrafts have been shut off by the kingdom. Including route via the sea.”“It sounded like a war cry.” I exhale a shaky breath, as my eyes stares at the vacant space ahead of me, brewing thoughts of hopelessness in my head. “I need to return home, Alex. No matter what.” My decision firm as we all sit in silence. But what now? There really was no way back home. What was I going to do? But what could I do anyways? What power did I hold?“A portal.”I look at Circe who looks at me with this glimmer in her eyes. “A portal?” Did I hear her correct? Was that even possible? “But no t
#Chapter201Return of the dead-04Althea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonHe comes forth from his group who stands frozen on their steps, different sets of eyes still on me. But I look past their gaze and to the man that now walks towards us, only difficulty was that the more I look at him, the more I couldn’t get past the feeling that I knew him from somewhere, like we met before. And I was going crazy. First this place and now him. What else, Zoe? Get a hold of yourself. I pull myself together, climbing out of my crazy thoughts and once again put a smile on my face as I greet them. “Hi. I’m-” But I don’t get to introduce myself as everyone seems to have already known me here. “Althea?”I turn to Aries and squint my eyes at him, who only smiles back at me. He probably had already told them about me, right? “Right.” Turning around, I nod my head in acknowledgement but that only seems to surprise them further. “But please call me Zoe.” I manage to breath out given their reaction.
#Chapter202The Queen-01Althea Zoella Castellanos Silvermoon“She’s clearly talking about someone else. Eve you seem to be tired lately, come, I’ll take you to your room.” Natalie proceeds to take a very distressed Evelyn away from the crowd, but I just couldn’t let her walk away now. No, I needed a reassure before the day passes. I needed hope to hold her here. Because time, I did not have. “Evelyn.”Thankfully, she turns around at my hopeful request. “Evelyn is it? I came here with big hopes. I need a massive favour from you. I need your help Evelyn.”The harshness in her eyes gives me an answer before her equally harsh words do as she stands there, staring at me, reading every part of my face, my body, but I guess she does not find what she had been searching for. I put my fists on either side of me, defeated already. “Sorry but I don’t help strangers, I only help a friend.”And I had nothing more to say to that. Disheartened, I seal my lips tight, nodding my head, disa
#Chapter203The Queen-02Althea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonAnd just like that the morning sun greets me, reminding me of the hours that had passed, that I had so far wasted. A day had gone by and we had nothing on our hand. No answers on my side.The sound of vehicles approaching in the distance makes me sigh in exhaustion, but regardless of my weary self, I prepare myself to greet them and possibly leave now. And I put a small smile on my face when Aries comes into the room and holds my hand, no words needed between us to understand, as a harsh reality leaves us all very much awaken. Hand in hand, we head for the front porch where the rest were already waiting for them and for us, our cars too lined up, ready to depart on command. I give them a tight smile, nothing more to say than the silence of the unknown and stand in front of the group with Aries on one and Alex on the other side. I hear the opening of the door behind me as the wolves too comes out to greet the rest an
#Chapter204The Queen-03Althea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonBut he still dares to speak. Still, he defies me. “I’m afraid I cannot do so.” And I start to shake in fury, my eerie set of eyes, staked on his bare neck as his head remains attached to the ground. My heaving lungs audibly loud as an unknown anger starts to form within my soul which was turning as dark as the smoke flaming out of me. “Take…me…”But even through all this rage, this fire, this hate, I still feel it.I feel him. The soft touch against my back, delicate and tender, as if scared to break me. “…home…” Even through this darkness hovering over my body, I feel the small spark upon the lightest of his touch. And I halt. I halt as my conscious once again starts to return and I remember who I was and where I stand. When I don’t push him away, he bravely moves his hand over to my shoulder and across my chest, pulling me flush to the front of a very hard but a very warm body.Aries. My mate.Closing my