Luna Riza shifted in the small room, snarling and clawing as she charged straight to Diana before the latter could even move a muscle.Diana did not budge. She remained seated while she calmly twirled the pendant of the Moon’s Tears.With two strides of the light brown wolf, it immediately reached Diana. Raising its clawed front paw, it snarled viciously at Diana with every intention to kill the latter.Two inches from Diana’s face, a bright light emitted from the Moon’s Tears. Rays of light escaped the cracks of the room’s closed door and windows.The wolf slammed into the farthest wall.The light did not vanish even when Luna Riza was partially rendered immobile. The latter, who reverted to her human form, shakily stood up with the support of the wall. Wiping the blood trickling down her lips, the Luna eyed the necklace with wonder, awe, envy, and greed.Luna Riza wanted it for herself and Diana saw it.‘It really runs in the blood, huh.’ Diana thought.“The power of the Moon’s Tear
Nothing could be more painful than to watch one’s mate die in front of him. To watch one’s beloved get torn to pieces without being able to do anything but shed tears.This was Riza Crescent.Rendered immobile by the spell, Luna Riza’s tears were the only telltale sign of her anguish as she watched her husband, her partner, her best friend, and her mate struggle to crawl in her direction.It had only been a couple of minutes, but Alpha Nathan of the Crescent Pack was utterly defeated by Alpha Dylan. Though the former was in his wolf form and the latter was the opposite, it did not hinder Alpha Dylan from severing Alpha Nathan’s limb.One cruel snap at a time, the proud Alpha Nathan was no more as he lay howling and whimpering from pain.With fluid series of movements that were both deadly and quick, it was long over before Diana could have her first yawn—and for a female wolf who was halfway having her baby, that was pretty something even for her mate.While Diana oozed with pride as
Time seemed to freeze for Diana.She knew of the owner of that voice. Hearing they were safe and sound from the mind link and experiencing it firsthand to witness and hear their voices were two different things for Diana.Every nerve of her body seemed to stop functioning. Her breathing halted and her pupils dilated.The re-forging of the bond blocked too long by black magic came in a whiplash, waking up the slumbering Tehsin for a good moment enough for her wolf to whimper and reach out to their parents through the strengthening link between them.The tugging of the string called fate and bond intertwined was the final nail to the coffin.In a whiplash, Diana turned around.Dylan’s heart was hanging by the thread, much to Diana’s oblivious action as she immediately jogged toward her disheveled parents. Staring at his empty arms, Dylan nodded at Seymor before he followed his mate. To hell with the Crescent Pack, what Dylan feared was for her to trip.Diana, on the other hand, was obli
Flies lingered around the borders directly facing the northern part of the Crescent Pack.The smell of rotting corpses wafted miles from the source of such a scent. At the peak of the pile of rotting limbs and dismembered body parts, two heads were pierced by poles. One would be blind to skip such a sight. Its position was a special spot for the former alpha and luna of the Crescent Pack.It was the very same way how Mason Ritchell and Lorraine Ritchell died in Diana’s first life. Atop the loyal wolves of Diana’s parents were her beloved mother and father’s heads, speared for all to see for their supposed treachery. When their rotten corpses could not be distinguished anymore after being eaten by the scavengers, they were buried collectively in a nameless mound where Diana could only weep.Now, as Diana stared at the small hill of corpses, her eyes fixated on the two heads at the top. Her fists were clenched as she relived that day. That day was particularly gloomy. The skies were fil
“Are they still refusing to obey?” “Yes, Alpha.” Anton, a Crescent Pack member who had pledged allegiance to the new alpha and luna, could only nod his head. His face was grim and he could not look up to his alpha knowing how he had failed. Alpha Dylan Cain, whose gaze remained fixated on the screen of his laptop, did not even spare Anton a glance. In an absent-minded tone, he said. “Then kill those rebels. Hang their heads around the town to set an example. The same old rules.” Just by the tone of the alpha, it was quite evident that he was itching to dismiss Anton. Beta Seymor, who was standing behind Alpha Dylan, cleared his throat. “Alpha, we cannot keep on doing this. If Luna Diana learns that the Crescent Pack has lost a quarter of its wolves, she would surely cut off her bed rest schedule to solve this question herself.” Just the thought of her mate leaving the Blood Claws Pack to go to the Crescent Pack had already soured Dylan’s cheery mood. Stabbing Seymor with a glare,
'I wonder how he even managed to hold onto his seat all these years,' Diana pondered.Diana was at the balcony of her room which was facing the eastern borders of the Blood Claws Pack.Teshin, who was rarely awake, answered at the back of Diana's mind. 'He is like Nathan Crescent—a puppet of Shananel Ritchell.'Diana hummer in agreement.With raised brows she turned around and crossed her arms. "How long will you stay here?"Talia, who stood behind Diana earlier, shrugged. She leaned against the wall and smirked at Diana. "What? After you made use of my magic to block all connections of the Crescent Pack's wolves—even including your parents—you will discard me like that?"Rolling her eyes, she explained. "That's not it and you know that." Looking straight into Talia's eyes, she added. "How long will you play this game with your mates, Talia?""I don't know." Talia sighed, looked up into the cloudless sky, and stared straight at Diana. "I really thought I could handle six of them. Heck!
The word 'huh' was written on Seymor Tesan's face.He did not expect that by accepting his alpha's order to watch over his Luna's mood would make him enter a potential war zone.Seymor was not stupid. The way the two betas glared at him with a promise of death and the way Luna Diana's wolf had resurfaced, he was forced to call his boss who would turn the world upside down should something happened to his mate—Alpha Dylan Cain.'Alpha, there is a situation here.'On the other end of the mind link, a certain alpha lowered his grip around the wolf's mouth.'What?' A hint of annoyance was clearly in his tone for having his slaughter feast interrupted.Seymor sent a silent prayer to the Moon Goddess before he continued. 'Luna Diana is—'Snap!The jaws that Dylan was holding snapped, killing the wolf instantly. Dylan threw the wolf like a ragdoll on the ground. He was now surrounded by the wolves of the Woodland Pack saved their leader who had cowardly saved his ass when worse came to worst.
"I can't contact Sonja."Dylan was faced with the distress-looking mate. With one scoop, he carried her and cradled her as he took a seat on his swivel chair."Since when?"Arms around Dylan's neck, she mumbled. "Since last week. I first thought she was merely doing errands with Shinro and Laville, but I received Shinro's mind link right. He hasn't made any contact with Sonja for three weeks already. Rakiz is the same."Dylan opened the drawer of his table and took his cellular phone that he rarely used. In fact, this was the first time Diana see him use technology aside from his laptop—which he only used for searching baby names like a man possessed."Who are you calling?" asked Diana upon seeing her mate dialed someone."Luke."Hearing Dylan's one-word reply, Diana finally remembered that Sonja was Luke Cain's mate!Hope flickered in Diana's eyes as she waited and listened.The phone kept ringing for good two minutes. By the nth ring, Luke Cain finally answered."Bro, what's the matt
Long ago, when the Moon Goddess slept inside the cradle of oblivion, Comba was the only god of the world. Just like how the Moon Goddess blessed the werewolves with their wolf counterparts, Comba blessed the witches with the ability to command the nature at will across the seven seas.The gift given by Comba was the reason why witches stood at the peak of the chain with so much difference in power compared to the races beneath them. It was because of this peculiar and convenient blessing that the witches were both revered and feared by the other races. They revered them for their strength and they feared them for the little sense of empathy towards the lower races. They treated the werewolves as their slaves. For many centuries, werewolves were skinned as their clothes while the werewolves’ heads hanged by their homes and gates as ornaments.It was a time that werewolves almost became instinct. Female werewolves were exploited for sick entertainment while male werewolves were used as
Clad in an epsilon-ranked uniform of the enemy camp, the shade of red and black did wonders against the snow-like complexion of Dana and the noble elf as they trudged the empty plains of the southern territory. Kicking the piles of snow and stones in her way, Diana cleared the path for Gelong who was walking behind her like a duckling following its mother goose. The heaving sound of a set of constricted lungs made her stop. She turned around as she untied the black tattered satin from her neck before she placed it around Gelong’s frostbitten neck and chin.“We will find a safety spot for you with food and enough heat to last you as you wait for me.” Diana muttered under her breath. A ghost of a translucent smoke escaped from her chapped lips.Upon her words, Gelong lifted her chin to meet a set of orbs staring at him already – making him want to step back like always. “Where are you going? You are not planning to go into this plan without me, aren’t you?”On instinct, his hands found
Heavy footsteps together with the rattling of chains echoed within the empty corridors of the fortress they were staying at. The silent breathing of the elven folk did not leave unnoticed for Diana as the two of them were on high alert as they trudged within the hallways of the keep. Diana gritted her canines, enough to make her taste her blood trailing down her throat. She did not like, especially Teshin, how they were chain into submission. Had it not been for the remaining logic within her mind, she was sure that the corridor walls would have bathed the blood of the delta-ranked werewolf traitors.Three trecherous delta-ranked werewolves, clad with their uniforms which the insignia of the secret circle was embroidered, wore smug faces as they held the leash that the prisoners were bound to. One of the delta-ranked werewolves, who had a bloody knuckle, pulled the leash he was holding on a whim. On cue, Diana stumbled forward – losing her footing and which made her chin kiss the dust
Tears started to stream from her unblinking eyes. The color of her eyes darkened that it almost looked like the starless northern night sky as she stared at the enemy alpha, who was grinning down at her.She plead, “Please. Please, give me a chance to be of used to you. That elf can only do so much while I am better tenfold than her.”Crimson ink dropped onto the pristine tiled floor. The tip of the claw grazed Diana’s throat. Upon seeing her crying face, the first alpha, who was apprehensive about everything, was about to step forward when the second alpha, who was constantly courting death, spoke again. “Bring him in.”On cue, the enormous double doors of the throne room opened followed by the rattling of chains and the painful grunts of the person being dragged ensued. Diana, who was not able to turn her head, waited for the person to be brought in front of her. The nagging instinct she had made her quiver with fear.“Let us welcome our very important guest, everyone! Gelong the No
“You must go while you still can. They will ask me about you after they get their hands on Gelong. Before then, you must leave the place and come back to where you come from. With your ability, I know that you can survive escaping from this place. That place is safer for you than remaining here.” Her nose smelled his unfamiliar scent and a change of his hair color along with the difference in his height. Gone was the scent that Diana was used to.Diana shook his head. “It is too late for that.”“What?”In front of Diana, the fading mirage of Gelong together with the loud thud of the dungeon’s entrance bombarded her. The moment that the heavy footsteps appeared before her, the enemy leader had already disappeared.‘Teleportation? Is this also one of his powers? How did the enemy become this strong?’ Diana’s train of thought snapped when a werewolf invaded her senses.“Move!” A werewolf pushed Diana away from the iron bars which made her stagger. A loud banging sound resonated when the
A couple of meters away from him, wildflowers started to bloom in the middle of the snowstorm. The trail of flowers led to the trudging person, heading in the direction of the man. Amidst the temperature, his thin cloth barely covered his dainty body paired with his bare feet that buried a mark on the white-colored ground with every step he took, and a pair of eyes glowed like the rising moon.“Took you long enough to come here,” said the man who waited. His back was on him when he stood a meter away from the newly arrived person.“I enjoyed the last of my vacation for I know that the time has come for us to move; we will have no luxury to relax anymore.” The sweet voice answered the man. He took a step and moved ahead, striding past him before he kneeled in front of the tomb. “Rush vanala. It has been years since I last talked to you, but now we can’t do that anymore.” Lumeria, the dryad, heaved a shaky sigh before he continued. “And like what I promised, the wolven race is at stake.
Diana, who was left alone with the leader of the enemy, started to question why she was there. She somehow realized that it was not sheer curiosity that made him call her—it was something more. And for whatever it was, Diana felt she would not like wherever this ‘talk’ was going.“You are from the Crescent Pack, right? And you’re a hybrid as well.” The enemy leader started to speak without even telling her to raise her head.“Yeah right.” Though her head was bent down, Diana spoke with a clear and calm voice which the enemy leader found quite vexing. His eyes gleamed with malediction.“And when was the last heat of your pretty little shapeshifter? I am quite curious to spawn a hybrid of an elf and a wolf. They said that male elves can conceive as well.” This time, the enemy leader cracked a grin upon seeing the hybrid luna in front of him go rigid. He was ecstatic to know that the infamous hybrid luna’s weakness was someone so trivial —something that should be easy to deal with. Seein
‘I have parents to avenge and a pack to protect – from the sidelines. Killing the abominations will be my priority to stop the plausible scenario where the innocent would get killed in a war, not theirs to fight and die for. I need this war to stop escalating, and I need my mate and my vassals to do that. But where are they?’Teshin, after encountering Shananel, answered at the back of her mind. ‘They are nearby, Diana. I can sense them.’Diana wandered her predatory eyes discreetly as her head bent down, but she could not even see a single hair of Dylan’s electric blue eyes or a shade of Gelong’s locks. The scene wherein she saw Gelong being surrounded and enclosed by the phantoms struck her mind.‘I have to go back and find him. All I need is to present this plan to the southern alphas. I bet they will allow me if I told them about my capability to use the offensive flame spells—this way, I can venture out beyond the barrier. After all, I still have the advantage of being a reborn h
A small table was placed near her with a jar and a cup of water along with a piece of bread and dried meat. There were also some white pieces of cloth folded neatly beside the place as if Dylan was telling her to change her wretched clothes. The lamp that was hanging near the pillar had almost ran out of flame and the dozens of rushed footsteps from different directions right outside her tent were a telltale sign that the war had taken a pause but it was yet to end.“I am in an Alliance encampment,” said Diana as realization dawned upon her. After taking all the pieces together, she was a hundred percentile sure that the blood alpha had brought her in the encampment.‘Then, the abominations and Shananel did not chase us. What about Gelong?’Though staggering, Diana stood from the makeshift bed and walked around – her bare feet did not deter upon the contact with the cold ground. Her frantic eyes landed on the crescent-shaped blade which was now clean compared to what she remembered. T