GODDESS LUNA

What was this voice? I didn't have a wolf. Alex still held my face in his hands, looking down at me. He pulled his lips back, showing two sharp teeth.

“MATE”, he whispered back. My eyes bulged wide, no way he heard the voice.

“Who are you? I don't like asking twice,” he asked.

“I am Clarissa, there has been confusion, and I can't be your mate.”

His hand was starting to hurt. I pried at it, removing it successfully, and I moved my jaw around. Did this asshole want to break my jaw?

“You are my mate, I wasn't expecting to find you here, but you are mine.” He had to be delusional. I didn't belong to anyone. I ignored him and went towards my mom, shocked at how she was doubled over in tears, snot dripping over her face. It seemed she had something she was scared of.

Buick went to where Alex stood, squaring his shoulders and lifting his chin up, like he wanted to challenge him. “What do you want?” He asked.

“Your people stole this land from my people. I am taking it back.”

Why did he say that? His people were the intruders.

“Your family was greedy,” Buick shouted in Alex's face. “They kept growing stronger, and we did what we had to do.”

That was news.

Alex's lips lifted. “You know,” he said, “you are the first Alpha to confess a bit. Good.”

He turned to the people still on their knees. “People of Grey Wolves Clan,” he bellowed, “I do not come to kill or murder you. I have come to remind you of all the good times we had before the evil Alpha's killed my family and committed To’veah”.

It was so silent, the moon casting her light on Alex's body, making him look even larger than before. “All the clans I have freed, have returned to their roots, worshiping Luna, free from the evil magic cast.”

What madness was he spewing.

Buick looked white, shaking like a deer brought to slaughter. The people even looked more scared.

“Please leave us alone,” cried out Gregory. I had to give him that, he was courageous yet stupid. Holding my mother, I looked at Alex, wondering what he would do.

“Contrary to what you've heard,” he continued, “I do not use force. However, let me introduce you to my friend.” He pointed at a clearing.

That's when she came out, her hair was red as fire and her skin as dark as oil. She was glowing in the moon, her mouth opened in chants, saying things we couldn't understand.

She was a witch.

The Shifter kingdom did not socialize with witches. They were evil, and when twenty-two years ago, they had fought with shifters, it was banned to be friends with them.

Shockingly, no one alive remembered what exactly caused the fight or why it happened.

She stood in front of Alex, her eyes green. Her skin was covered with different runes, symbols of the spells she practiced.

Suddenly, she stopped and looked towards me.

Oh my God.

“Hail the Goddess, her voice sounded like the ocean.

She walked towards me. Hands in the air. She stood in front of me then fell to her knees.

“Divine mother,” she cried out. She started speaking in another language.

“What the fuck is this?” I asked. Alex looked at me, clearly intrigued by what he was seeing.

“Can I help you, Divine Mother?” She asked, reaching out to me.

I wanted to say no, but her green eyes kept me from moving.

Then I felt pain.

It started building from my chest; rage filled me; I heard my blood rushing in my veins. I fell to my knees next to her, crying out in agony. Everyone stared, in shock, at what they were seeing.

Then I felt something step out of me. I looked up and saw a huge white wolf, but it looked like I was looking back at myself.

I was a shifter.

In the shifter kingdom, wolves had hierarchy, in terms of size and color, which affected strength and wisdom. The most common wolf was brown fur, then grey wolves, then black wolves.

The white wolf was a legend, it was said it was the most perfect form of the goddess on earth.

I was a white wolf.

I screamed out loudly, crawling backwards away from the wolf and the girl. She gazed ahead, looking at Alex. I heard a voice in my head again. “Calm”

“Who are you?” I asked.

“I am you. You are me.” I knew it was my wolf speaking to me.

I looked at the people of the Grey Wolf clan, their eyes wide in surprise. Seeing a white wolf was only possible in books. She was a myth.

I was going to faint.

Alex grinned at me. “Mate,” he growled. My wolf howled at the moon, obviously in reply, and he howled back.

Then Alpha Buick lunged at me.