*** MIKEY ***As I walked inside the training building I found Uncle Drake leaning against one of the large columns of the building instead of going straight to Uncle Leon’s office. “What are you doing here?” I whispered as I stood beside him. “Did you know that people usually misinterpret your Uncle Leon?” He asked as followed where his eyes were looking. “What do you mean?” I asked in confusion.“Leon is a straight-to-the-point kind of guy. He hates it when I or your Uncle Calvin use flowery words to charm and win any business prospect or a pack to add to our alliance. He said that all that we needed to do was state the truth, because like what everyone says, honesty is the best policy.” I nodded not sure where our conversation was heading. “What he said isn’t really wrong, but it is also not entirely right.” “What do you mean?” I asked once again because what he was saying was not really clear. A smile appeared on his face, a sad smile to be exact. It was as if whatever he w
*** MIKEY ***The training of the warriors who lost in the tournament was going well. As an added protection, the families of these warriors were placed under a spell that would trigger Aunt Dana and Aunt Nikki once someone tried to approach them and ask anything about the warriors who were currently training for Purpura. Aside from that, their memories would be protected as they won’t remember a thing about their sons or daughters, or their nieces or nephews if ever the trigger was set off.Today, all of the warriors who were supposed to be part of the tournament were given a chance to rest, no training was allowed at the training academy but that does not stop all the hopeful warriors from training on their own, especially when the threat of being eliminated was haunting them. Anya arrived at the training room at the packhouse basement earlier than scheduled. She had improved a lot both physically and mentally since the last tournament. Today she will just focus on knowing poisons
*** ANYA ***The day that all the remaining warriors were anticipating finally arrived, the day of the second test. Everyone piles up in front of the entrance of the tournament arena and the way our numbers went down was noticeable. And it was not only that, uncertainties among warriors are more evident than before. “Do you know what our tests would be?” One warrior asks. “I’m afraid that I won’t be able to make it until the next test,” another warrior shared. “Everyone is getting anxious, Luna,” Ruby whispered as she stood beside me. “I know,” I replied. “What do you think our test would be?” Ruby asks softly.“To be honest,” I said, “I don’t have any idea at all. But I trust that after all those trainings that we went through, more specifically my physical training.” I still can’t forget everything that I have to go through because of these tests. I thought that Mikey had finally given me a break especially after he let Persephone run with Hades. But when I came back, I was n
*** ANYA *** I was expecting that the test today would be different from the tests that we had from the last time. I was just not expecting it would be this different. Doors. All we see in front of us are doors. Doors made of different materials, colors, and sizes. “This will be hard,” Rose whispered and I knew exactly what she meant. The three of us need to make the right choices for us to reach the end and to be honest I don’t really know what to expect. “Camaraderie,” the voice spoke once again. “Do you have what it takes to reach the end? Or is your bond not strong enough to take you to the finish line? Will you stay together or will you go on separate ways? Tik tok the clock is ticking.” “I hate the speaker right now,” Rose said under her breath and I know what exactly she meant. The rules were clear, the three of us needed to reach the finish line and we needed to do that within two hours. I turned to face Rose because if there was a weak link between our team it w
It was all a lie.The silence we heard outside was all a lie. Because once the door closes you will hear everything. We heard another terrified scream, it felt close and yet it also felt so far. “What the hell,” Rose said under her breath as the screaming continued. The three of us froze from where we stood as we were not able to take a single step from where we were. Because of the moment, our door closed behind us. All we heard were screams and not just the usual type of screaming. You can feel the fear embedded in those screams. Ruby went from being lax to a fully alert stance and made sure that I was behind her, even though there wasn’t anything to protect me from. We found ourselves in an empty room that was filled with white tiles. The room was too bright and too white for my taste, but then again, I am pretty sure that this room was created to make us feel uncomfortable in the first place. “We need to move,” I said as I was about to take the first step, Ruby stopped me. She
The door behind me closed and the view in front of me appeared and I found myself in the middle of what seemed like a forest. It was not like any forest I know, so I am not sure that this is not a forest near Purple Hill. I wonder if this was the same view that Rose and Ruby are seeing. I started walking forward but kept my senses open for anything. I recall the first survival skills that Ruby had taught me. ****** ‘Keep your eyes open but make sure that your other senses especially your ears more adept at differentiating all the sound that it hears,’ Ruby instructed. ‘That’s all?’ I asked Ruby and she raised her eyebrow at me. ‘It’s easier said than done,’ she replied crossing her arms in front of her chest. ‘How hard can it be?’ I said with a shrug. Ruby looked at me and smiled. ‘Let’s try it then,’ she said. ****** And that’s when I learned how wrong I was, the hard way. Because Ruby slammed me down more times than I remember on the makeshift ring. I stopped for a wh
Something is not right. From the moment Anya stepped inside her door we all know that something was wrong. We can see each of the warriors as they enter their own doors. And all of them. Which is why we were all surprised to see how different Anya’s place was from the rest. Everyone is trying to find their way out of the very big maze that the tournament masters have created. I find it fascinating that none of them cross with each other as they find their own exit. Tall hedges surround the warriors and once in a while if they were not clever enough to pay attention to details, they wouldn’t realize that they are just walking around in circles. It was not a hard test, but also not an easy one. Because aside from the fact that some of the hedges move without you realizing the change, there are several surprises planted along the maze as well. It would have been fine, only if all of them had the same arena. But for some reason, Anya’s arena was different. Instead of tall hed
DK and I reached the supposed exit of the Arena and found the tournament masters right by the exit of Anya’s Arena. “Open it,” I said as politely as I could, even though all I wanted was to scream. “We had been trying, Alpha,” the withered old man who was the boss of the tournament masters said apologetically. “There’s got to be another way,” DK said as he ran his hand through his hair. “We set up the arena in a way that no one can easily get out of it as well as enter it to avoid the rogue wolves from attacking once again,” the old man explains. “Then how can you explain what happened to Anya’s Arena?” I asked, still trying my best to control my anger.“We don’t really know how it happened Alpha,” his answer was soft and filled with guilt but that was not something that I would need. “Are you telling me that we have a traitor from the tournament masters?” I have been trying to avoid it, didn’t want to believe it either since most of the members of the tournament masters are vet
It’s been five years since the war ended, but there were still times when I would be so afraid that the horrors would come back again. But then my family would come and remind me that no matter what happens we will always get through them. Anya still hated me for the way I acted that day as I approached Isabel. She hated me because she almost lost me. But then it was also because of what happened we finally found what DK’s power was. If my power was death, DK was life. Which explains how he was able to pull me out of death’s arm. We were the extreme of everything, and Anya was the balance in between. Which is why we were Fated with each other. I have to thank my mom. She was one of the reasons why I survived. Turns out she was right, we would have triplets and I have a daughter who was as unique as her brothers. Her hair was black on the crown of her head which slowly changed to blonde by the ends of it. A perfect combination of my hair color and DK’s. But what made her m
She’s here, they’re here. They came for me.‘Redeem your powers and your wolf,’ Anya orders, ‘We are going into war.’I smiled through the pain as I chanted the words that my mother told me to say when I was ready. Pain, spread through my body as Hades took his rightful spot. ‘It’s about time,’ Hades growled. We watched as Isabel’s eyes filled with fury as she watched my body heal like the torture that she gave me this past few days never happened. A guard came rushing and said, “We are surrounded.”Isabel’s eyes widened as she finally realized what she was up against. “Seize them!” she ordered to her guards. “Keep them alive.” Additional guards arrived and to our surprise, they all shifted into their wolf forms barring their teeth at us. “Don’t ever think I can’t fight them or Persephone will never allow you in bed with us,” Anya threatened, making DK and me laugh. “Oh we wouldn’t dare,” I replied. Suddenly our wolves order us not to shift telling us to fight in human form.
I failed. I was brought to the Black Moon pack to hide as I let my new best friend die right before my eyes and let one of my Fated Mate be captured by the enemy. I failed. And I have no one else to blame but me.DK had tried several times to check on me. To talk to me. But I wouldn’t let him. I was angry with him for letting Mikey go and I was afraid that if he came closer I would lose him too. Why? Why did we have to suffer like this?And yet despite all my questions, no one seems to provide an answer. *****It was the second day, and I cried myself to sleep. I found out that Ruby was buried as me. This isn’t fair. This isn’t right. But there is nothing I can do because she is already dead.I used to enjoy sleeping because it let me escape my harsh reality. But I hate sleeping now because I dreamed of Mikey in a cold dark cell suffering as his body was broken several times over and over again. DK broke the door of our cabin, but I still won’t talk to him. He carried me to th
After finding out who the spy was everything went clear. I know what needs to be done. How can I not know when I dreamt of it almost every night? My nightmare was finally becoming reality, but all I could think of was Anya’s safety. “What are you waiting for?” DK asked in a panic. But I knew that nothing would happen to Anya as long as Ruby was there. “I need you to listen to me,” I finally said. “Anya will be killed,” I said. “What?!” DK was about to launch a punch but my mother stopped it. “Let me rephrase that,” I said as I took a deep breath, “Everyone will think that Anya will be killed because it will be someone with Anya’s face.”“Oh god,” DK said as he fell back on his chair as he finally realized what I was saying. “And I will be captured,” I continued.“What?” It was my Dad who reacted this time. “Because I will let them,” I replied, “Asher will be tortured in our hands but we will not kill him. And just right in time, Isabel would arrive and kill Anya. The moment th
I closed my eyes and envisioned the person I was going to imitate. This is the last chance that we have and I need to make everything as perfect as I remember it. I tuned out all the sounds and negative thoughts that I had and prayed that this chance that I had won’t go to waste. And then I feel it, the soft hum of the spell working their magic. I watch as the shape of my hand changes as well as my clothes. Once the change was complete, I pulled out the small mirror that I hid in my pocket and looked at myself to see if I had become the person that everybody feared. I know that by now, Mikey, DK, and the rest of my family understood what I meant that I would root the spy out. Because I finally learned the best way to do it. As I was waiting for Ruby to come, a thought came to me as I recalled my grandmother’s words. “The spy you are all looking for is right under your noses.”“There is only one spy.” I guess I have known it for a long time, I just don’t have enough proof to admit
“I still think this is a bad idea,” Uncle Drake said for the third time. “Can’t you just trust your daughter?” Aunt Athena complains. Even though DK and I agreed with Anya because we wanted to support her. We can’t deny the fact that we are still scared that something bad might happen to her just like the last time. This is why the tournament was held in a different Arena that Anya personally requested.As the three of us agreed to disagree, we finally found a way to compromise which included my Mom and Uncle Jericho’s presence. The wards inside the arena were created to not have any rogue wolves in unless it was tampered with from the inside. But that does not include me, DK, my Mom, and Uncle Jericho. Aunt Dana added our blood the same security she used in Purpura that would allow us to enter the Arena when needed through teleportation. We watch through the screen as Anya and Ruby prepare to enter the arena and see Rose approaching them. And as much as Anya hated it, she was wa
The day of the tournament is finally here. The place where the tournament was going to be held was announced an hour before the tournament began.It was on the plain just outside the forest of Purpura. I know the test that awaited us, but instead of surviving the tournament, I now have a different purpose. And that is to find the spy. “Luna,” Rose said as she approached us. I nodded at her. “I know that you’re not here to win the tournament,” she said, her voice so low that only I could hear what she had to say. “I want to help.” Rose was there when Isabel attacked us. My father said to be on alert because she may be the spy. I told him that Rose would never do such a thing and that I trusted her. But my father then pointed out that the purpose of the spy was to gain our trust so that they could attack when we least expected it. He pointed out the same thing with Asher, which of course hurt Mikey. He had watched that kid grow with his guidance, which made the thought of him being
After practicing for more than a day and a half, I finally got the spell right. I know that I shouldn’t let anybody know about the spell but I needed to practice it. So before I did the spell I made sure that Ruby made a promise bond with me. So that she won’t in any possible way tell anything to DK.“It worked!” I screamed happily as we stood in front of each other in the training room of the packhouse. “Do I really look like that, Luna?” Ruby asks as she stares at me with this belief.I pulled her in front of the floor-to-ceiling mirror by the corner and smiled. “We look like twins,” I replied happily. Ruby sighs, “Still, I don’t think I look like that.”“Stop it,” I ordered, “You're spoiling the fun,” I added pouting. Just then someone moving the doorknob caught our attention. “It’s locked,” I hear DK complained.“Are you sure?” Mikey asked. “Anya!” DK shouted. “I’m here!” I shouted but then my voice sounded different, “Don’t open the door.” “What’s going on Little Wolf?” M
After the announcement about the tournament, Anya headed back to the packhouse to do the thing that she needed to do but couldn’t tell us. Since Anya said that she will just stay at the packhouse for it. We decided that Ruby was a better alternative in the meantime since DK needed to return to Silver Mountain to assist my mother, Aunt Dana, and Aunt Athena in finding a suitable place for a safe place for his people. But he promises to be back before nighttime to keep an eye on Anya while I stay in Purpura for the night. “You’re avoiding your mother,” My Dad Nori says as he falls a step beside me. As we walk towards the entrance of Purpura.“No,” I replied but it didn’t sound as convincing as I want to be. “What’s on your mind?” My Dad asks as we enter the threshold of Purpura. “I guess I just don’t know her,” I answered.“You don’t know Seth before but you got along just fine right now,” My Dad countered. I looked at my father and saw the same onyx-colored eyes that I possess and