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
If I have known that I will run this much while I was training with Mikey this past week, I wouldn’t have given him so much crap. Because frankly right now, I was able to survive this tournament simply because of all the things that they have taught me. But even though I have learned so much, I still can’t deny the fact that I am running out of places to run which also means that I am running out of options. I stopped running and realized that the mist that was chasing me had also disappeared. But I was still restless, especially after remembering Ruby’s rules of surviving. ***** ‘Just because you don’t see your enemy, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have one,’ Ruby said as she gave me the rules that she follows as a spy assassin. ‘If you are being chased down. Then suddenly that person who is chasing you disappears, find a safe place, and follow the rules of being a shadow.’ ‘Why? I asked irritably, I know I told them that I wanted to be a spy but I never thought that it would
We never knew how intimidating the tournament was until DK and I stood before the very door that Anya had stepped into earlier. But despite the intimidation that it made us feel, DK and I stepped inside the first door to find ourselves in the area where Anya and her teammates had signed with their blood before entering their separate doors.Initially, we thought that we could just proceed with entering doors but unfortunately, we need to do the same process as Anya and her teammates have to go through for us to be able to open the doors.DK and I decided that since the door only allowed one person to enter, I would go first and then he would follow. But when we tried to open Anya’s door, it wouldn’t budge. DK moved to the door where Ruby entered to check if all doors were inaccessible or not. It was not a surprise to us when it opened just like how the door that Rose stepped into opened for me. This just made it all clear that someone deliberately trapped Anya inside her arena.DK
I don’t know why I was still hoping that I would find myself in Anya’s arena even though I entered a different door. This is why I can’t stop myself from feeling disappointed as I see tall hedges rather than trees. The bright sun made me squint and I raised my arms to cover my eyes. I was bathing in the sunshine while Anya was running for her life in the darkness. Which reminded me of the real purpose why I was here in the first place. With a heavy heart, I started walking as I looked at both the ring and the bangle and they continued to glow and flicker slowly. Which could only mean that I was so far away from DK and Anya. I followed the trail of the tall hedges and turned left and then right to check which made both the ring and bangle flicker a little bit faster. From what I remember from the viewing room, these hedges changed every minute which means that if I don’t want to go in circles, I should start moving faster than the way I was moving right now. The ring flickered a
I looked at my glowing ring and bangle every second as I tried to mend Asher’s teammate as fast as I could while Asher kept watch. I remind myself that as long as my ring and the bangle were glowing, the two most important people in my life right now are alive. The screams around us never stopped, but I was not sure which of them was true and which was part of the theatrics placed by the tournament masters. But as long as the ring and the bangle are glowing, as long as Anya and DK are fine. Then I can at least breathe. I wrapped the last exposed wound of the warrior in front of me. A newbie whose name I wasn’t able to get. I removed my jacket and covered him with it. Since I have used every usable part of his shirt as bondage rendering him half-naked. I turned to Asher who was on alert mode as he continued to keep watch for any rogue wolves or enemies while I worked on his teammate. I stood and he turned around, the fear in his eyes almost broke my heart. This was not how it wa
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