#Chapter48Althea Garcia Hela SilvermoonIt was late at night as I stood naked in front of the mirror in the attached bathroom, staring at the reflection that looked back at me. Who was she?Deep down, I felt as if I didn’t know the reflection that looked at me. She had this petite bony figure. Almost every single bone in her body was visible even more so as the only light that was on, was far behind her and these shadows emphasised it even more. She had a flat chest with the ribcage outlining her pale skin. She was just bones and skin.I looked up to her small oval face. The lightest shade of blonde sat on her head and flowed down a little past her shoulder. I looked at her thin lips and the tiny nose before I finally looked into her eyes. Her dark blue eyes, almost black in this dimly lit bathroom.Who was she? I know that this was my own reflection, but my soul told me otherwise. Who was I then?This reflection that looked back at me through this mirror lied to me. It was hidi
#Chapter49Althea Garcia Hela SilvermoonMy heart thumped hard at that. Why did it sound like he was calling me? I turned my head around to face the door as others were already looking that way. I saw a cute little boy by the door. His blue eyes widened as his face lit up upon seeing me. Did he know me? Who was he?Silence filled the room for a while until the little boy decided to speak again with confirmation this time. “Althea.” He smiled as he ran towards the table where we sat, but he seemed to be running towards. Me? He came beside me and hugged me tightly, caging both my arms in his equally tiny body. “Althea.” He whispered this time, tightening his hold on me.This name again. The name that I have been hearing so much now. It hovered around me. It followed me like a shadow. He frees me from his bone crushing hug. He was strong regardless of his tiny body. Or maybe I was too weak. “Althea.” His twinkling baby blue eyes stare into mine as he repeats the same name again, b
#Chapter50Aries BlackwoodI have been keeping an eye on her since she left the infirmary. She was such a fragile being. She was easily scared and intimidated by others. Something inside me wanted to go out there and protect her. But the other part of me denied her.The more I watched over her, the more she reminded me of her. Like the way she is close to Noah. The way she smiles, it reminds me of how she used to smile. They had the exact same smile. The slouch on her shoulder as she passes the bed of roses almost as if she knew its story and felt its pain. And to top that, she walked towards the tree where Althea used to sit most of the time, just watching over the training ground. It was like a hobby of her.Everything that she does now was reminding me of her. Like this small human had a part of her soul. I crave to touch that soft skin of hers. I want to know what it feels like. Would her skin feel like the softest silk, like hers used to feel? Would I feel the soft tingles a
#Chapter51Althea Garcia Hela SilvermoonAgain. All I saw was his back disappearing into the woods. Who was he? Why do I never get to see his face? I hugged Noah as he ran up to me but my eyes very much on the treeline where he disappeared into. Just then I heard a howl. A very painful one. I felt as if it was cursing me. My heart clenched painfully as my eyes started to sting. When I looked up, I saw Matt facing the same direction that he disappeared into. His face had hidden all the emotions but his jaws were clenched. When he finally noticed me looking at him, he gave me a small smile.“Don’t worry about it.”And with that he dismissed any questions that wanted to jump out of my mouth. I nodded my head at him as I once again looked into the woods.A tug on my arm pulled me back and I looked down at Noah’s sad blue eyes. “Why is he so sad?”I furrow my brows at his question, but he turns to look up at Matt. “She’s here now but why does he still seem so sad?”Matt looked do
#Chapter52Third personAlex was confused to see the tiny human by the door. He was here to discuss about the human they had discovered on their land and all those other dead bodies of rogues that seemed to be increasing in numbers recently. But actually, seeing the human in person, made the blood in his body hot as his heart started to beat rapidly. Who was she? He wanted to find out even more now.He observed her fragile little body as her dark blue eyes finally met his. The centre of his forehead scorched hot for a second before the pain itself disappeared. As if his body was responding to a blood call from her. Like she was the one to command him. To control his body. He squinted his eyes as he knew that only one was able to do that and she was no longer there.Alex somehow felt like he knew her but then he doesn’t remember ever having an encounter with this human. Or any human before. He was so occupied that he didn’t even notice that Matt was now next to her. “This is the
#Chapter53Third personAlex had decided to stay the night and leave the next day, sometime in the afternoon. But throughout his stay, he was unable to meet the human girl or even have a glimpse of her.His blood seemed to be reaching out to her for whatever reasons that he was not aware of. The next morning, he hoped to see her during breakfast. But it seemed like, she thought it better to skip breakfast than to sit with all these unfamiliar faces.So, Alex made it his mission to talk to her once, before he left in a few hours. Or even just see her. He didn’t know why but he wanted to make sure she was okay. So, he randomly walks around the whole mansion of a pack house, he once used to call home.He looked through every possible place he could think of but nothing. He sighed as he thought of where she could be now as he stood in the middle of the field, looking around. He was almost about to give up when his feet moved on its own accord, like it had a mind of its own too. He w
#Chapter54Althea Garcia Hela SilvermoonIt had been two days since Alex left. But somehow, I missed his presence. Why was a man that I barely knew made me feel this way? Why do I seek for protection in him? Now that I sit on the hallow of the tree in the middle of the woods, I think about the imaginary man in my dreams. And there’s also this mystery man that I’m supposed to meet. Noah keeps on pestering about it more often nowadays. Something about him not being himself anymore.It makes me feel sad, hearing Noah say that he was hurting inside. For some reason, I wanted to be there to comfort him. But I don’t even know who he was. It had been more or less a week now, and I still had no idea who he was. I wonder how I never got to see him.My eyes focus on the clearing of the woods, wondering if I had ever been here. This place reminds me so much of what I might have lost. Did I ever come here? I don’t know. That seems to be the only answer to all my questions.Then I looked fur
#Chapter55Althea Garcia Hela SilvermoonI did not want to leave this room today. But I wanted to see his face again. I debated with my heart until it made me give up and I got ready for the day. My appetite seems to have cease to exist as I didn’t feel hunger or the need to eat. My eyes searched for that tall muscular figure with the piercing blue eyes. Every time I saw a blond hair, I would crane my neck to see their face. None of them was him though. He had this softest looking sandy blond hair. I wanted to feel it against my hands. I wanted to touch his smooth yet slightly chiselled face. I want to know what it feels like. Although I feel like I know it. I want to remind myself of those feelings. Just once. Let me find you. Let me feel you.Oh dear goddess, if you are up there, please hear my plea, let me see him once again. I close my eyes and clasped my hands together in front of my chest. Please.I slowly opened my eyes as the door on my left creaks open. Then there he s
#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