Last night was one of the best nights that I have spent with Anya, and surely one of the many firsts. It was also the first night that Persephone finally made me feel that she likes me over DK which not only boosted my morale but also my ego. When I woke up today, I almost didn’t want to leave, especially after seeing Anya lying naked as she slept peacefully in my arms. Even Hades was reluctant to leave Persephone but we both know that if we wanted to keep them safe, there were a lot of things that we needed to do. I went to Purpura alone, right after I prepared Anya’s breakfast. When Aunt Nikki and Aunt Athena saw me in the kitchen while I was preparing Anya’s food, they didn’t ask me anything, they both started teasing me. It was something I had always been used to, except that this time their teasing went on another level. “You’re early,” Aunt Athena said as she dropped the bag of groceries in her hands. “Are there more?” I asked.“Nope, everything is here,” it was Aunt Nik
When I arrived at Purpura, I couldn’t help but be surprised at what I saw. “All of them were so determined to show you how great they can be that they all stayed up for the night to make sure that they would at the very least show you quote unquote one training ground,” Aunt Dana said as she pointed the first building in the row. Uncle Jericho, Sol, Marko, and my Dad Nori were all asleep leaving Aunt Dana to greet me. And the building was not just any building. It was massive. But it wasn’t just the building that impressed me, it was also the fact that I see not one but two training grounds and one that is half-done standing all high and mighty. “Wow,” I was lost for words as the glorious buildings stood before me. “As you can see, they really delivered,” Aunt Dana said with a chuckle. “They stayed up all night just to make sure that they will have one finished when you come back.”“Have they tried it?” I asked as I looked at Aunt Dana excitedly.“Not yet,” she replied, “I was so
Who am I kidding?I had been sitting in front of this pile of wood for almost two hours now, but nothing was happening. ‘Aren’t you supposed to help me out?’ I asked Hades who was lying down and doing nothing at the back of my head. ‘The power does not come from me, it comes from you. I am merely a tool to help you control it but it seems to me that there is nothing that needs to be controlled,’ He said with a smirk. ‘Asshole,’ I remarked bitterly. ‘What?’ He asks acting so innocent that I wanted to poke his eyes out.“Still nothing?” Aunt Dana asked as she got out of the barracks with my Dad behind her. I know that if there was one person I shouldn’t be ashamed of it would be him. But I can’t help but avoid him after failing a simple task that Aunt Dana gave me. This exercise just confirmed what I already know and that is I was not meant to be the Alpha King. I felt my father sitting beside me and I was about to stand up and walk away to avoid having him comfort me. “What wer
I felt him even before I saw him. Mikey is here.He shouldn’t be here. He’s not ready yet. “Let go of my daughter,” My mom said, “And I’ll give you anything you want.”The asshole laughs but never answered my mom. He continued to scare my mom as he pulled out a dagger and let the sharp edge of it travel along the side of my body, while the big bulky guy held me in place with a knife at the side of my neck.‘Is there a way for us to get out of this asshole?’ I asked Persephone who was as angry as I was. ‘I do not like the situation as much as you do, but you know what would happen if we move,’ Persephone reminded me. ‘We can’t let them have Mikey,’ I said as I desperately searched for ways for them not to take Mikey. Because the moment that Mikey saw me. The moment that he saw me in the hands of our enemy. Mikey will do everything, even give himself up, for me. I have no doubt in Mikey’s strength but there’s a lot of them and just a handful of us. ‘Baby, if you can hear me just
Anya stayed with her mom, to make sure that she was okay, while I attended to Chloe and Ollie who were now both staying in the pack house in the meantime.I heard a knock on the door and found Aunt Nikki’s head poking in.When our eyes met she gently opened the door and walked in to check on Ollie and Chloe.“Our great healer Eyva will be here soon,” She said as she checked on Ollie and Chloe, “She is just making sure that your Aunt Athena is out of the critical stage. I heard she pushed herself to the limits once again.”I nodded.Noticing my silence, Aunt Nikki sat at the foot of Chloe’s bed and faced me.&l
I hate it when people think I am some damsel in distress and use me as bait.And I hate myself for being one. I should have stopped it. I should have fought and not been caught. ‘It’s not your fault,’ Persephone said, ‘If someone is to be blamed it would be me. I should have sensed. I should’ve warned you. But I was so lazy that we got caught.’ Regret fills the bond and I know that she blames herself.I hate this.Mikey blames himself for what happened, and I am sure that his wolf Hades feels the same way. And now even Persephone joins the club.I just wish that we catch that fucking spy and get rid of all these surprise attacks.‘The fault is not yours to take,’ I tell my wolf. ‘Let’s stop blaming ourselves and find ways to fix all of this. Because if there is someone to blame it would be the spy. And the faster we find that asshole the faster we fix our problems.’I felt Persephone agreeing with me. I need to get stronger and master my powers, and I need to accomplish all of that
“I will enter the tournament,” Mikey said breaking the silence. “And make sure that I will find that son of a bitch as soon as possible.Protests. I watched as Uncle Leon disagreed along with his dad, Uncle Nori, and my Dad. Uncle Jericho leaned by the wall in silence as he and Uncle Calvin continued with their staring contest. Which made me wonder, what the hell is up with them. “Anya,” my father calls to me, interrupting my thoughts. “Check with your Mom, I don’t want her to wake up alone. I am worried that she might panic if she finds that I’m not there. We will just wrap this meeting up and I will follow you there.” A part of me knows that whatever they are going to discuss includes me and my father is afraid of my reaction, especially after Mikey had just told them about his plan to join the tournament. I looked at Mikey, who was genuinely trying his best to avoid looking at me, and decided to follow what my Dad had said without saying anything and stood up. All eyes are on
I have angered Anya once again and I don’t have any excuse. But DK was right, I should have taken care of Anya more. I should have made sure that she was fine. That she was safe. But I was so busy with the task at hand that I forgot to check on her. ‘That’s what Little Wolf wants,’ Hades said as he tried to convince me otherwise, but after seeing her in the hands of the enemy, it wasn’t enough to convince me. The bottom line is, that a lot of people got hurt because I was not paying attention to all of them which is why it happened. “Will one of you explain or do we have to beat the information out of you?” Uncle Drakes's voice was so laced with menace that I didn’t even dare look at him. “We’ve seen it all before,” Uncle Jericho said as he turned to look at me, “I guess we just wanted to make sure that what we know is really true.” I looked across from me and met the blue eyes of the man that I hated so much but still tried so hard not to hate. “We don’t have the whole da
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