Kaiden POVI took a deep breath, looking at the scene in front of me and feeling uneasy. Benny is holding Jenny in his arms, lying in the middle of a completely messy bed, with glasses, open packages, leftover food and stains of semen and other unconventional liquids. The smell of the place was intense and for werewolves even worse."Jenny! Benny!"I yelled both their names and saw them jump out of bed, but when they realized it was me, they rolled their eyes and I controlled my wolf not to come forward. It was a gigantic disrespect. I am not an Alpha, but I am a Beta, they are Gammas, and they should pay more respect to the hierarchy.As much as we were friends, we were warriors and they were trained to behave. I understand what happened, I don't know the pain they are feeling with the whole Jenny only living 4 more years issue, but it had been days since they were there.Kendrick had given them a discharge, but that discharge ran out earlier today and they didn't show up at the trai
Dylan POVI looked at the scene, Kaiden leaning in and giving Hope a light kiss. I let out a low sigh. I had accepted who Hope was and how many admirers she had a while ago. Sin had learned her lesson about trying to trap Hope. Still, it didn't mean it got easier with time.I have different feelings for each person who gets close to Hope. With Kaiden, it's a mixture of jealousy and indifference. I know he loves her enough to do anything, but Hope doesn't want a romantic relationship with him, but still...I then saw her turn around and start down the stairs, it was noticeable the bandages that were under her clothes, part of them were exposed by her neck. I arched my left eyebrow, even in a state like hers, Hope had still found a way to fight. Typical.Her aura is serene, and her smile is... Gentle...'How strange.'I listened to Sin's voice and had to agree. Hope was very different, and everyone around was noticing it, apart from Max, the rest, were uncomfortable. It was much easier
Third Person POVI looked up at the black sky, realizing that there is no brightness in it, the stars and the moon are out. I smile, it's a great feeling to know that I'm very close to getting what I want."The deadline is almost here." I hear a woman's voice behind me. Her tone is one of the concerns and at the same time indolence."Yes, and despite the setbacks everything is going as planned," I replied in a calm voice."I want to be there. I want to see when Hope falls." The woman's voice is now full of hate. She hates Hope."You know I can't promise that." I still keep my cool. I still need this woman."Just take me with you!" I hear her scream and let out a deep growl.All the sound that was around us stopped, even the breathing of the beings around me, and I felt the woman cringe."Be a good girl and do as I say. The important thing is that Hope falls, isn't it?" I ask, still looking up at that completely black sky."Yes. Sorry for raising my voice." The woman speaks lower now.
Hope POV"The training is going to be simple... You're going to hide in the forest, and I need to find you two."I listened to Kendrick's voice and took a deep breath, smiling inwardly, remembering the times we had done this in the pack, the thing is Kendrick and Night didn't usually find me."SilverRage has a skill native to the pack, which is being able to suppress aura, which makes it, so a person can go unnoticed. Of course, all soldiers learn the skill, just some are better at it than others."Kendrick explained to Dylan what the training was about."BlueMoon's ability is different, but that doesn't mean that with Sin's powers, you can't do it."Dylan nodded in agreement, he was deep in thought, probably talking to Sin about how to succeed in the training.I cracked my neck and started to warm up. I can feel the weight on my muscles and bones, as much as it was getting easier to be in the presence of other people, it didn't mean I was immune. With the deadline they had set, I nee
Marcus POVI walked into the room hearing Hope's question and I knew what was happening, I could feel it resonating inside me. The moment that entity spoke to her again, past the prison bars holding the curse, was agonizing. My very soul was being attacked.If it's hard enough for someone like me, it was even worse for Hope. Even though I didn't mark her, I am bound to her. After all, Hope is my Mate and my Protected, so anything that attacks her soul I can feel."Hold her," I warned and approached Hope.I took out from my pocket a small transparent vial, inside it is a whitish feather with bluish edges. It is not just any feather, but something divine, a gift that few have access to, after all, this particular Angel no longer walks on Earth and his Original Hunter left this existence millennia ago.Everyone around me was apprehensive, but Lestat and Erick knew what this feather was about and what it could do. I opened the vial, then held Hope's face, her amethyst eyes were unfocused,
Hope POVI don't think I've ever been through so many changes in such a short time. I've only been at the Royal castle for a few months and so much has already happened. This last one is certainly one of the most intense. I already knew about Raphael's Feather, Marcus and I thought it could lessen my curse, but we didn't want to use it until it was really necessary, after all, that was one of the last 3 that existed, and now there are only two more.The power of it is so strange, as it acted on my body I could feel a pain that wasn't a pain but made every bit of me shiver, a feeling of having my bones, muscles and skin stretched and then softened. When it reached my soul and the links around me, I could feel their strength growing and pulling me, the four main bonds were there, Kendrick of the Pack, Marcus and Dylan of Fate and Lestat, my Chosen.For a few moments I thought I was going to go crazy, feeling what they were feeling all at once and mixed, I know tears were streaming down
Hope POVThere is something inside me that I didn't think could break anymore, I thought I had already suffered all the pain, physical and mental. I have lost loves, friends and enemies. I have shattered and reinvented myself.I felt my soul being torn, my skin being burned, my bones being broken and my muscles being ripped. I knelt and begged, I prayed and cursed.I cried tears of blood watching the souls of some comrades being annihilated. I cried because I lost a love, I cried because I lost lovers, I cried because I couldn't be close to the one I longed to be with the most. I cried and begged for the pain to stop.Now all those tears shed seem weightless and don't matter. There is a despair that starts to grow in my chest that I don't want to fight against. I regret so many things. I regret coming to this training and not being able to be next to my parents.I regret not talking to them more often. I regret not telling them my feelings, I regret not being more loving to them, and
Kendrick POVI followed Hope with my gaze as she left the office, I know that what we have to talk about is just between us, even if Dylan, now, is part of our group, still, some things are just ours.I'm worried, I can't quite understand how Hope is doing so well, so serene, it was like watching a summer storm, she appeared and just disappeared."I'm surprised too."I heard Dylan's voice and turned to him."No need to worry." Night's voice sounded in my mind. "Haven't you noticed? Her scent has changed slightly, it's not something permanent, but still, it was enough to calm Hope's mind.""Night is telling me not to worry," I spoke and took a deep breath. As much as Night told me that, still, my heart is apprehensive."Sin told me something similar. What's more, there's an instinct in me that at the moment when Hope was most desperate, she managed to find the right path and made it back. I felt her desperation. I felt the emptiness she started to feel. It was like she was giving in an
Hope POVI know what I need to do, and I don't regret this decision. I know they will cry, but I can only pray that the Gods guide their next steps. I hope they find their second chance, that they can be happy without me.As I grab Melvin's collar, pushing him back and bringing the darkness along with me I see him smile in a corner, but that smile will disappear, because I use my left hand to pierce the place where his heart is and I see the surprise appear and die in those eyes that I once loved. I loved Melvin and not this corrupted version of him.I can feel the darkness around me surrounding me, hurting me, breaking the armor that covers me, and falling into that endless pit and I don't know how long I fought and defended myself, but I finally hit the ground. I've gotten used to the taste on my lips. Finally, I raise my eyes and I want to bow before the beings that are in front of me, the power that emanates from them is so gigantic that my soul shudders, and doubts begin to arise
Note: This chapter will be written in the third person because there are so many characters involved.There couldn't be any soul that didn't feel the grief, for even the Gods are crying, that heavy and freezing rain is leaning on their bodies and their souls understand that this day is a day of Mourning.For those who can see the other world, they could see the Harvesters walking over the battlefields collecting the souls that were making their way to the Mekai.The tears of children who had lost their parents and parents who had lost their children mingled with the Divine tears as if trying to console each other...That night had been exhausting, it had been heavy, it had been a disaster and as much as it was known that the Corruption had retreated, there was still no feeling that it had been won.It was simply all about loss because those who survived now had to bury those who died and had to mourn for those who were lost.The feeling of no winner is so dense that you can't hear the
Erick POVWhen my brother finally realized what a foolish thing he was doing, I saw that Kaiden was fighting a she-wolf and I knew that the two of them had been destined, my Beast told me what had happened.I approach Hope and soon I can see several smaller creatures piercing the blockade that is around as the other four chosen are focused on defeating Melvin. Using the movements of my hands, the chains that are at my feet begin to move to wrap around, trap and exterminate those smaller creatures that dared to approach.It wasn't tiring to do, just boring, because none of them had any power to compare to mine. I notice Hope is standing still, looking at the movements of her chosen ones, she is smiling happily, with a dreamy expression.She's seeing what the end of that fight will be like, and from the looks of it, it's going to be a good one.I turn my attention to a shadow that manages to gather closer, it had fed on the corruption that had not been annihilated before and that rain o
Dylan POVI don't want to believe what's in front of me, when Melvin's name echoed from Hope's lips I wanted to just explode with rage. How was this possible? I almost lost my Mate several times because she was afraid of what would happen if I marked her...I almost lost her because she had killed Melvin... I almost lost her because there is a curse on the place where my mark will be on her... I almost lost her because of that?!'No!'Sin shouted in my mind, our anger turning to Wrath as the images of the distant future flash by and I can sense that Marcus and Lestat share the same sentiment. Yes, I would have respected Hope's oath in that other future, because I would have seen that she was already on the right path, that she was already happy in her world...'That creature in front of us will be erased from existence!'Sin told me and I agreed with him, because after all when I met Hope I had seen a girl who used various tricks to hide how broken she was. Hope didn't want to get clo
Kendrick POVI didn't get to have much contact with Melvin, sure I had trained with him, but we weren't friends or close... When the first reports came out that Hope and Melvin were dating, Night immediately wanted to go back to the pack, but what were we going to do? Stop Hope from dating?That wasn't an option, so I focused on training, trying to forget that the person I loved was with someone else... Then came the news of Hope's first temper tantrum... I didn't see it, but from the reports, I knew she had been distraught and again Night wanted to go back to see her, but again, what could I do?What I did was just promise myself that I would stay strong enough so that Hope would never have to fight again in a way that could lose her control. That's how I began to unlock the powers Night had and after a year I was kneeling before the King reciting the Oath of Loyalty and Protection.I didn't do this at all without my father's permission, back then how could we have predicted that Hop
Marcus POVIt is no longer news that I am old, that I have been walking on this plane for many, many years... I have had opportunities to choose to die, rest and then reincarnate... I have had loves and enemies, family and loneliness...You all know that I no longer have descendants, that I chose not to bond with anyone anymore, and that I was simply being an observer on this plane, concerned with protecting humanity since I was Created for that.So I felt again, I lived again, I desired again... The one responsible for that was a girl who invaded my base and looked into my eyes saying that I would train her. The SilverRage pack had already requested a Delta who showed exceptional skills and had some Divine gifts. I denied it. How many times had I heard of some "saint" and it was nothing but nonsense?One afternoon the alarms at my base went off and no one could locate the person responsible, but the runes my sister had placed all over the place indicated that there was someone underc
Lestat POVWhat is the sun? It seems like a simple question, doesn't it? Some would say that it is the star that makes up the solar system... Others would say that it is a red dwarf, a classification of the types of stars that exist... Many would still say that it is what gives life to Earth...For me, the Sun is something greater, something that has brought me Light in times of Darkness, it is what has made me continue to have faith in the Gods, the One who blessed me and accepted me as I am... The Sun can be welcoming or simply burn everything!Right now I am the Son of the Sun, but I don't want to welcome, I simply want to burn! I want to consume and see that creature disappear amid My Light!I comforted Hope several times, even though she was appearing to be whole, I could see her pieces and the way she was bleeding. I could see through her soul, and I wanted to show her the beauty that was in the Light!I didn't know what I needed to do, but the Beast that dwells within me had al
Kaiden POVHow? Why? When? Even standing in front of me I don't want to believe it, it can't be real, Melvin would never become what I'm seeing. The boy that I knew, that I lived with, that was my best friend! That boy would never have chosen to become this creature so... so... I can't even find a word.Everything seems to be slowing down, and it really was, one second stretched into so much more and as I hear and see what my beloved is suffering and how the future could have been my disbelief turned to anger.'We will avenge her!'I heard my wolf speak, and I shuddered, I don't just want to avenge my beloved, I want to destroy that creature because that being was not my friend and never would be! Melvin, the warrior within the SilverRage pack had died and that was an aberration!I don't fight this pressure that is around. I don't want to, because I know that when I get free I will turn and I don't know if I will want to control myself.I let Lestat and Erick keep that bubble of time
Erick POVSomething inside me wants to get out, my Beast is restless, as those images pass, this sensation, this feeling increases and it is like a poison because I need to release it.What that boy had chosen was much more than just choosing the wrong side and I want to exterminate him. Yes, I don't just want to kill him. I want to eliminate any trace that he ever existed on Earth.I'm shaking, and I can feel my aura expanding and the space between everyone became heavier and yet when that creature screamed I wasn't able to protect Hope as I saw her fall to her knees and the smell of her blood spread to a catalyst for everyone to want to move and counter-attack but we are still "trapped" in this little bubble of time, not because of Hope but because of my aura.Not just mine, Lestat's aura is gigantic and blends with mine in such a way that even gravity begins to bend, just as it bends before the sun. I manage to walk over to Hope and help her up."You tried," I spoke calmly, a calm