#Chapter211Annihilate-02Althea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonAnd soon the evening echoes our voices once again. Lycans, werewolves alike hover the clearing, the trees, the ground alike, circling us, a smile in each face, a determination in their eyes. I look at the door back home. “We are going to win this.”The cheers soon follow after, lessening the gap between us, crowding the land. I turn around, looking at their eyes as I speak. “Soon we will once again step into a land, familiar to some and foreign to others. But no matter what we got one another’ back.”I take a step back and look forward. “But first we must know the situation. We cannot all just barge in there and be the prey to the unknown. I, myself will go and foresee the situation.”And before they could revolt, I put my arm up, palm facing outward. “I need to go.”The wind travels my voice across the land, loud and clear, strong and powerful, and they all drop on their feet. “My queen.” “Alpha.”Equally ech
#Chapter212Annihilate-03Althea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonA flame that never dies. A flame that burns with such a passion. Only she was capable of such destruction. That meant that they were behind this barrier of blue fire. They were here. They were safe. “Aunt Ana.”I call out with hope in my heart, drumming at the pace of meteor. “Aunt Ana. Mum. Dad.” Let there be a voice to answer this anxious heart of mine. I pray, inching closer to the flame as the seconds pass by unanswered.“Zoella?” It was Aunt Ana. “Aunt Ana. Yes, it’s me. I’m here.” And immediately the flames extinguish to reveal the other side. And the first thing that I see is this huge bonfire, lighting up the darkness the earth cast. There she stood with her fiery blue eyes wide with shock but nevertheless moves forward, breathing out loud and pulling me tight into her embrace. “Althea what the hell are you doing here?”They only call me by my first name when they were displeased with me, but her soft
#Chapter213War-01Althea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonI felt the fire raging a havoc, burning down all the rational thoughts, the barrier of good, the reason for my years of resilient compliant towards their rulings looks, their tainted minds. I was done standing in the shadows. The lights that cast the shadows for me to take a shelter were no more.With my head lowered and eyes burning rage, glued to the sullied ground that took my mother’s life, I force myself on my feet. I clench my fists until a pool of hot liquid pours out, there was no one that could calm this raging storm and save me now. But I wasn’t worried for there would be no one that could save them too. Those sinner Lycans.I’ll avenge you, mother. I promise myself.“There will be no life existing on this land.” I look up at my mother’s face, eyes blurred with rage. “I will make sure that no one lives. I will destroy every being that stands on this ground.”Loud gasps echo the earth and their loud footste
#Chapter214War-02Althea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonExhaling a shaky breath, Aunt Aya’s face goes hard, fire raging in those soft brown of hers. “A few days ago, we were all summoned to the great hall. Turns out Queen Ophelia had a premonition, but time was short on our hand and their number far greater than we could handle. Within the next twenty-four hour, we were both invaded and outnumbered, and eventually we began to fall.”With eyes pouring with tears, Aunt Aya finally stops to take a sharp inhale, slowly coming out of Uncle Elias’s arms. “I guess to save more life, Althea raised mountains, built these walls to shelter us. We have been here since then. There was no exit nor entrance until you showed up.”Aunt Ana’s gaze shifts towards my father, completely broken. “Lucas. He’s been like that since. He won’t budge. We told him, she lives but he doesn’t hear us.” More tears flow down her eyes and she breaks further into Uncle Chris’ arms. “I prayed that I would never hav
#Chapter215War-03Althea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonAgreeing with him, I nod my head, following his eyes to her. Finding the courage in Aries’s warmth, I take a step forward, letting his hand fall free, I can only try and be strong for now but first I had to make this right, fix my wrong. “I’m sorry for letting hate dictate my words, blindly accusing you all of a crime that never was yours. I’m sorry for causing you distress in this time.”I look around at the Lycans who had their heads lowered. “But if- if you are strong enough to fight. If you can forgive me enough to fight beside me. Please, I ask you all to join me, help me save our home. Take back our land.”But not a voice sounds from the silence. I look at the herds of Lycans, but their eyes all lowered. A reminisce of the past day. But unlike them, no one here was on my side. “You don’t have to follow me. You don’t even have to respect me. I only ask you to do this for yourself. To save our land. Our home.”Tightening
#Chapter216Sound of the world-01Althea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonGiving one last look at my father, crouched down on the ground, holding a memento of my mother, I step into the darkness that invites me, leading the army to the battle ground.The warriors joins me, roaring, howling the cries of our unity. And soon those turned Lycans appears from the greens, one after the other, hearing our shriek of affirmation to their barbarity. Already in their Lycan self, they come charging towards us. Even though their numbers significantly reduced, they were still too many of them, but we were stronger, we were one. “Rip all their heads off.” I see the back as I lunge forward, jumping high, landing as I hold onto its throat and pull backward until I hear the soothing pop of the bone breaking. But I don’t let go. Claws digging deep, and blood spilling down its throat, spurting out of its mouth alike, I rip its head off and toss it to the ground. Letting out a deep growl, I march
#Chapter217Sound of the world-02Althea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonHis face twisted in loathing for the land. He stands there with heart filled only with bitterness, waiting for the doom of our land, hoping to see it cease with his own eyes. My father charges forward, towards him, growling a word, a name unknown to my ears. But the forces of turned Lycans around him stands before my father, building a shield for him with their own life.Detestable. Despicable. That man was.And my hatred for him rises even more as I charge towards them, backing up my father, tearing each and everyone’s head apart as I pray for their soul to find peace. There was nothing more that I could do for them. As there was nothing more for them in this land than the awaiting of their own destruction.From the corner of my eye, I see my father raging his anger towards the man, his clawed hands swinging in the air to tear him apart, but the man was just as strong. Strong enough to fight my father one o
#Chapter218Sound of the world-03Althea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonA dozen of hands suddenly holds me back, holds me down. “Let’s put it to test, shall we?” He growls as he speeds forward and jumps high up in the sky, to pin my body to land. I watch him as he slowly brings his arm up, my eyes wide motile, but my limps immobile, I watch him as he hovers in the space right above me.Ah, this is the end.I think to myself as I await the piercing of my flesh. As I await death.Giving up the hopes to live, I slowly close my eyes shut. But the moment I do, a piercing blue orb forces them right back open and I inhale a sharp breath. Aries. My mate.I just found him. I just met him. I couldn’t be so cruel and just leave him all alone. He would be lonely. He would be sad. And as the time freezes, I go back in the past to listen to the story of the goddess and the wolf, whose ending I had yet to know. I see all these images in my head, of our first encounter, his messy hair, his
#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