#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
#Chapter88If Only Raven StayedAs I lay on my bed after the wonderful dinner, the cook presented, all sorts of scenarios play in my head. Of what we were going to do next. What next? The question fills my head as the dark night slowly starts to light up. I requested to be in a room that faces the woods so I can take its energy to calm my storming heart. But it did little to help. I know I need to be in it. So, as the small rays that pass through my window, lights up a path for me, I get off the bed and walk up to the large window that I left it open the whole night. I climb up the small wall encasing the balcony and take a step off it as I floated in the air before I softly landed on the hard-cemented flooring. Then I leapt into the woods. I ran as if I was being chased. My own thoughts haunted me. I ran deep within the forest, where even the sun’s rays couldn’t find me anymore.I willed the trees to cover me better, hide me from my horrific future that I didn’t want to be
#Chapter89Hunting RavenEliana Tessa CastellanosMy life kind of feels empty now that the sisters both have decided to leave. We might have formed a bond over the past few days we have been together. I still don’t know, how they saved me but I’m still grateful that they did. They are a secretive pair of sisters, drastically contradictory both in features and personalities alike.Aya was the overprotective sister. Her light blond hair shimmered in the light. Her pale complexation made her brown eyes lighter or darker depending on the time of day. She is very tall for a werewolf and very strong, might I add very beautiful for a werewolf. It might be due to the Alpha blood in her. I doubt that they know I’m aware of this. A normal werewolf can’t take half of what our journey offered. She’s a very uptight person especially to strangers. But once you get to know her, she’s really not. It’s just a wall she tries to build around herself to ward off everyone.While Amara is a who
#Chapter90A Lone RavenWe have settled down in a small one room apartment that we shared with two other humans, Mary and Sophie. We met them at work or where Aya works. When we went in the small restaurant by the beach to ask for job, they immediately took her in. Even though it was small, it was lively and busy with humans and werewolves alike who filled tables after table, both inside and out.Aya refused me to go to work. She says that my big mouth will lead me to trouble eventually. And in a busy restaurant like that, there are too many eyes and ears to judge us. But after two days of doing nothing, I went to hunt down jobs myself. I found a small café to work in which was a few blocks away. They did not complain about the way I dressed. All they said was I had to wear an apron on top. That’s it. Not like I had to come out to the front. All I had to do was prepare drinks and hand it over. It’s all thanks to Oliver who kindly taught me how to use the machines.At firs
#Chapter91Same Old RavenI can feel myself wrapped up in a warm blanket as sleep slowly leaves my eyes. My body is rested and fully charged but it feels lifeless as I wake up to a cold empty room once again. The empty bed across me, almost mocks me. I can smell Aya’s scent. A sweet jasmine with a hint of fresh lotus lightly spreads across the room. She must have left by now as the scent only lingers. It does not fill the room. I get up off my bed and bring myself to shower before I head to a circle of life, I have been living since I got here. Everything is a repeat of the day before. I wake up each morning, go to work, come back late in the evening and go to bed again. Like a lifeless robot. I lived for money. To what it’s worth now. That I don’t know.I don’t know why I’m feeling like this. I need to get out of the depression I’m losing myself into. I need to get used to this so one day when Aya finds her mate, I can happily let her go. Yeah. That’s it. I’m going to work
#Chapter92Raven ready to flyI woke up to a delicious smell of pancake. But what made me more delighted was that I felt her presence. The sweet of jasmine and lotus filled the whole room. I sprinted out of my bed and ran out the door to Aya. I hugged her from the back as I didn’t give her any time to react. I inhaled her smell. It made my lip curl up in a smile and eyes filled with tears but I refused to shed. “Oh sister, I missed you so much.” I whisper on her back. She puts her hand on mine and squeezes it tightly before she makes me release my hold on her. She turns around and looks down at me as I am still hanging onto her. My chin rested on her chest as I looked up to her with a grin on my face.“Look at all these cute cheeks you have lost. You need to eat more.” She pinches both my cheeks and smiles at me. “Sit down. I’ll serve you some pancakes.” Then she turns around to make the last batch of pancake. But me being me, still hang around her. Once again hugging her fr
#Chapter93Where Raven Belongs“There you are ladies. I have been waiting for your call. I almost thought that you had forgotten about me.” Eliana appears out of nowhere. But the air around us is still heavy. Even though I want to run and hug Eliana, I cannot leave this Lycan wide open for Aya. My jaws tighten as a scowl forms on my face. “Oh, let me introduce you to my brother here. Elias Nikolaos Castellanos.” Her hand points toward the Lycan I’m having a glaring battle with.“Big brother, meet Aya and the little beast, right here.” That does the job now. I forfeit from my staring contest with Elias as I turn towards Eliana. “What did you call me? Never mind. No fair. That’s cheating. I lost because of you.” I accuse Eliana as she stares blankly at me. I give Elias a glare before I start blabbering. “My staring contests. I was this close to winning.” I motion with my finger, almost squeezing my thumb and forefinger.Eliana bursts out laughing as an amused smile takes pl
#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