#Chapter80Raven On Her JourneyThe man or the wolf she just pushed away, grabbed her injured arm and hauled her up. Her weak legs dangled with no strength to keep herself up. She winced in pain and tried to yank her arm off. She could have succeeded had the red eyed man not grabbed her by the other arm and the man with blue eyes not pulled her head back by grabbing a handful of her hair. She let out a snarl. Not a painful one but one filled with a promise to kill them all, if she got a chance.The werewolf whose back was still facing us, slowly took calculating steps towards them until he was directly in front of her. “You leave us no choice sweetheart. Oh, how I wanted to taste that vicious lips of yours, just once.” He held his hand to feel her lips on his fingertips. But once his fingers were close to her lips, she snapped her mouth, almost biting his fingers off.He laughed. “Feisty, are we? I would have loved to taste you.” He moves closer to her ear to whisper. But she
#Chapter81Shut Up, RavenExhaustion was now taking over my body as I laid next to the girl, flat on her back. Her bruises had already started to heal, a darkish yellow was taking now its place. She looked so peaceful almost as if she was just sleeping, not drugged or almost beaten to death. Aya checked for any more injuries on her but found none that needed tending. Her arm that was bleeding was healing at an incredible rate. Apart from that she had no physical injuries however I cannot say anything about the drug she ingested.The unbearable tiredness clouded my eyes as I look up to the wooden roof. “Raven, rest for a while. I’ll try to keep an eye out for now.” I heard Aya’s footstep fade away. My heavy eyelids shut itself close and the blankness overcame my conscious. I heard a groan beside me. As the memories from before I passed out, came flooding in, I sat up straight and scanned my eyes around the room. My eyes landed on Aya who seemed to be wide awake as well. S
#Chapter82 Raven A BeastThe word still means nothing to me while Aya lets out a gasp. She’s clearly shocked. She looks down at me with my lips still clamped shut.I know that look. That look doesn’t mean anything good. Oh boy.“I’m taking it as you know about Lycans then.” She continues as I turn to look back at her. “Well I should be embarrassed that a werewolf” then she looks at me as I arch one brow higher, “and of course a human saved my life.”“But I’m thankful to you, for saving me ladies. I guess, I’m indebted to you now.” She chuckles softly.“At least tell us why those werewolves were after you?” Aya insists. The girl looks at the wooden roof as she replies, “Cause of who I am.” “Who are you?” My big mouth decides to open up. She looks at me but doesn’t reply to my question, “By the way, how did you come across this cottage? It doesn’t look old. In fact, it looks fresh, I can even smell how fresh it is. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought you gu
#Chapter83Raven’s Coming“I have lived my whole life in these woods. I have hunted and I have also been the one who was hunted on many occasions. Several times in fact. I am always around those beasts that I have become one of them now.” I reply coolly for the first time today. “I wouldn’t want fool to you by saying I am weak. No, I’m not. You should not look down at me. If I were you, I would be careful of me too.” I warn her but my face has a glint of sass to it. She smiles once again and holds her hand up. “Of course, you are. You are a cheeky little beast. I knew I would like you.” Now it’s her time to ramble on. “Let me introduce myself, I’m Eliana Tessa Castellanos.”Aya gives her a calculating look, then her eyes open wide in shock. “You are one of them.” She whispers again. Okay I’m truly and completely lost here. Again. “A true Lycan.” Yep definitely lost.“What’s a true Lycan mean anyways? Isn’t it all the same?” I ask looking back at Aya who still looks utterl
#Chapter84A HumanIt’s already been four days since we started our journey towards Wyoming. We keep to the forest. We continue during the day and rest the night. We hunt some animals along the way, when we are hungry. Don’t worry I don’t eat them alive like I used to. Remember, I’m more human now. And we’ve got skills to light up fire. Apparently, Eliana was really good at that too. I don’t know where she learnt that skills from though. We keep away from the main roads or highways. You know one gotta be careful. Who knows what kind of frenemies we might encounter? And right now, we are not looking for anymore company. Well at least I’m not. Eliana was enough to torture me. She enjoys making fun of me as she keeps on mentioning my ‘short’ legs. I think she’s amused how easily she can rile me up. And knowing me, I always take the bait unfortunately. Our plan to stick to the woods comes to an end as we have to take the roads now. And that road will eventually lead to civilisa
#Chapter85Raven’s Promise To The OceanI place my face on the glass window of Eliana’s beautiful white BMW, as we drive past now. I was amazed to see the town which was filled by two story buildings scattered around on either side of the roads. But when we hit the road, once again we were surrounded by land that stretched forever under the roof of the vast sky. “Wow” I whispered for the untempt time as I sat back and enjoyed the interior of the car at the same time enjoyed the moving scenery in front of me as the car moved along.“You really need to stop being surprised at every single thing we pass by.” Aya chuckles by me. “But I am thought. Surprised? I’m enthralled.” I couldn’t seem to stop smiling.“I take it’s a good thing that you happen to meet me then.” Eliana says from the from the driver’s seat, as I vigorously nod my head at her. “By the way with you two at the back, I feel like your chauffeur. So, where off to now ladies?” she says saluting at us from the front a
#Chapter86Do Not Open Your Mouth Raven“And of course, my parents too.” Eliana adds.“But why a mate though. What’s so special about a mate?” I question, confusion lacing my voice. Eliana looks my way for a second as a soft smile plays there. “You’ll know when the time comes.” “Come on now. You know that I’m not going to have one. So, tell me. Why? Why only a mate can stop their bloodthirst?” I poke holes on her face through my eyes as I keep glaring at her to reply.She looks at the rear-view mirror to Aya, asking her to answer my question. But Aya just shrugs. “Aren’t mates someone that the moon goddess paired for you to be. You love each other, be loyal to one another and live your life with them?” she answers with a question herself. “I know as much as Raven does. So please feel free to answer her. Anyways what’s so special about a mate anyways?”Eliana sighs due to our lack of knowledge. Or no knowledge I should say. “I believe, you haven’t met your mate correct?
#Chapter87Raven That Belongs To WoodThe silence doesn’t last long as her home or her mansion comes to view. Since we drive past the gate, we have been in the car for more less five to ten minutes. It might be the speed she was driving as she was keeping us informed. Or it might also be the amount of times she stopped to laugh her butt off.Anyways, her house is spectacular. It was white with glass windows that looked almost black, but you could see a shade of green to it. I got out of the car with my mouth wide open for the ravens to fly in. I silently follow Aya who was equally inviting the ravens as her jaw were hanging by her chest.Eliana seemed to have disappeared down the white staircase as she said something like ‘Welcome’. As I took the stairs, I could see the sofas and lounge chairs on the rooftop by the second floor, facing the calm evening ocean as the sun dipped in it. On the edge of it, I could see a glitter of water, forming a straight line walk in jacuzzi. Di
#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