Chapter 1

"Grandma Grandma!" A five years old Thea shouted excited. Her two pigtails bouncing as she jumped up and down in excitement. 

"Slow down Thea." Her grandma said laughing at her excited face. 

"Grandma please tell me a story." Thea asked her grandma with a little pout on her face. She looked at her grandma with puppy eyes to melt her. 

"Which story you want to hear my child." Grandma asked as she caressed Thea's head. 

Thea thought for few seconds before she answered, "The Story of the sleeping  lycans!" She shouted excited. 

"Okay, let me wear my glasses first." Her grandmother said and wore her glasses. 

The grandma smiled at her granddaughter and started telling her the story. "So once upon a time there lived lycans who used to hurt everyone. Everyone were scared of them. They used to hurt humans. They all were cruel."  

"Humans were scared of those lycans. They used to hide in their houses so that the lycans couldn't hurt them. However, The cruelty of the lycans kept increasing day by day. They used to have fun by troubling the humans and making them hurt." The grandma said. 

Little Thea listened to her grandma with full attention. 

"Why did the lycans hurt humans grandma?" Thea asked innocently. 

"Because they were powerful sweetheart. They used to exercise their powers on humans because it would make them feel stronger. They used to hurt humans because it would give them pleasure." Her grandma told her. 

"They are bad." Thea mumbled. 

Grandma smiled at Thea. "They are." She said. 

"What happened after that grandma?" Thea asked. 

"All the lycans had a Leader. He was the King for them. The lycans used to listen to all his command and would bow down to him only. He was their ruler, their ultimate King." The grandma told Thea. 

"Was he good or bad grandma?" Thea asked looking at her grandma with wide eyes. 

"He was neither bad or cruel." Grandma said. 

"He was worse." She whispered. 

Thea's eyes widen hearing her grandma. 

"He was the most ruthless lycan to be ever present on the earth, the most cruel soul ever to be found. He was the strongest of all. He had the whole world under his control. Everyone including the humans and lycans bowed down to him." Grandma told. 

Thea clutched her grandma's hand feeling scared.

"Even the lycans were scared of him. They used to shake in fear at the sight of him. Even is shadow used to make the lycans scared." She revealed. 

Thea looked at her grandma scared. 

"If the lycans were cruel than he was brutal. If the humans were scared of the lycans then the monsters were terrified of him. If the lycans used to find fun in others pain than he used to find immense pleasure in others suffering and pain. If the lycans were heartless than he had no heart." Grandma said. 

"He was worse than the lycans. He was the King of the  lycans." Grandma told. 

"I am scared grandma." She mumbled. She rubbed her eyes as she was feeling sleepy. 

"You should now sleep sweetheart. I will continue the story tomorrow." Grandma said and was about to get up when Thea hold her hand in her little ones and stopped her. "No Grandma, please continue the story. I am not sleepy." She said and gave her puppy eyes. 

"You are getting scared Thea. You will wet your bed if I continue the story." Grandma said. 

"I don't wet my b-bed grandma." Thea said with red cheeks. "And I am a big girl now and big girls don't get scared of anything, not even the lycans." Thea said and giggled at her own words. 

Grandma sighed. She knows she can't win against her granddaughter. 

She started telling the story to Thea. "The humans were becoming helpless and weak day by day. The lycans were becoming more cruel and cruel. It was scaring the humans. One day they decided that they had enough. They all planned to put the lycans in sleep, a life long sleep. They knew they couldn't win against the lycans if they decided to fight them because the lycans were hundred times stronger than the humans." Grandma said. 

"How did the humans put the lycans into sleep grandma?" Thea asked, her big eyes were shining with curiosity. 

"There was a saying that the lycans could be put to sleep by a woman who was blessed by Gods. It was said that woman's of a particular family were blessed by the Gods. Every female who is born in their family is blessed by the Gods with some special powers." Grandma said. 

"The woman had magical powers?" Thea asked excited. She clapped her hands in excitement. 

"You can say that." Grandma said. 

"They all started searching for that woman. They all were failing miserably. There was no trace of such a woman who was blessed by God. They thought there is no such thing as a woman blessed by God and it was all false." Grandma said. 

Thea became sad hearing it.She wanted the woman with magically powers to be true. 

"Until one day, the humans finally found that woman. With the help of that woman, they tricked the lycans and put them in a long life sleep." Grandma told her. 

"The humans than started living their lives peacefully. There was harmony and peace everywhere. Everyone were happy in their life. The lycans were asleep and the humans got their happy ending." Grandma finished the story. 

"I love this story grandma!" Thea exclaimed. 

Grandma laughed at Thea. 

"Grandma what if the lycans wake up?" Thea asked fearfully. 

"Then hell will broke loose my child. Everything will be destroyed. There will be chaos and blood everywhere. The earth will be once again ruled by the monsters." Grandma said. Her voice was laced with fear. 

Thea looked at her grandma scared. 

"Don't worry my child, if the lycans wake up again than we will put them into sleep again." Grandma said making Thea giggle. Thea nodded happily. 

"But grandma for that we need the woman who is blessed by Gods. Where will we find her?" Thea asked worried. 

"God will help us find her Thea. He will show us a way. " Grandma said. 

Thea nodded happily. She wants to meet the woman with magical powers. 

"Grandma how will the lycans wake up?" Thea asked with curiosity shining in her big eyes. 

"There's a legend that say that the blood of the innocent soul will wake the lycan King up. The soul should be untainted, pure and innocent." Grandma told her. 

"However, there's a another legend which says that only the mate of the King of lycans can wake him up. They say that her presence will force him to break everything and come to her." 

"Grandma is this story real?" She questioned with curiosity. 

"I don't know child. This story has been passing to us from generations. We can't tell if the story is true or not." Grandma told her. 

Thea yawned suddenly and rubbed her eyes with her small hands. "I am feeling sleepy." She said and placed her head on her grandma's lap. 

Grandma smiled at Thea and patted her head. "Sleep my child." She said. 

Thea closer her eyes and she could feel herself getting into a deep slumber 

Suddenly a question left her mouth. "Grandma, what was the name of the King of lycans?" She asked. In the whole story, the only person who intrigued her was the King of lycans. 

Grandma looked at Thea shocked before she answered her question. 

"Ares."

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