The moment, the warriors laid my body to rest in the sacred forest, a grand staircase appeared before me, and I automatically ascended upwards. It wasn’t a matter of choice, I guess this was my new chapter.The stairs led, to the top of the biggest structure that I have ever seen in my life. The structure was atop the moon. I was stopped at the entrance and I couldn’t move any further. I couldn’t help but exude awe and astonishment as I made my way up the stairs. I had never seen anything like the edifice in front of me. As far as the eye could see, it appeared to be a ship that has no end.As I got closer to the enormous building, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. It was embellished with elaborate carvings and decorations, and it appeared to be made of some kind of glittering metal. The ship turned out to be a building of some type, and I gazed up at the imposing edifice, wondering what secrets it hid behind its walls.I was still gawking at the enormous structure, and I failed t
I tried to open my eyes, and I was still hit by an array of lights, then I instinctively shut my eyes in an effort to drown out the overwhelming stimuli. But I soon realized, from the inside of my eyelid, that there has been a change in my environment. I inhaled deeply before slowly opening my eyes once more, and I was able to concentrate this time around. Then, I found myself at the Lakewood pack clinic. I was surprised to find myself here, in the same room, where care was administered to me when Menelik disfigured my face with ceramic shards, but the difference between now and then, was that I didn’t feel any pain on any part of my face or my body. I could recognize the antiseptic odor and the pristine white walls in the clinic, but I was unable to recall how I had arrived there.Then, it dawned on me, that I have been granted a second chance at life by the moon goddess. I was with the moon goddess one moment, and the other I was back at the Lakewood pack, to continue living my mise
LATER THAT NIGHTMalik is tall, handsome, and also haughty-looking at the same time, his angular face seemed designed to intimidate, and as much as you’d have guessed, he was ripped and well-built with muscles bulging out of every possible part of his body. Scanning him from head to toe, his probable height, 6’2, isn’t a far cry from mine, as I’m, a 5’5. His big blue eyes seem to pierce my soul every time, he stares at me. The party was over, and I accompanied him to his room. “Wow, such a great performance you pulled up, out there. The food was excellent and majestic. I love how you produce such outstanding results, under pressure. You know, the food, was the main reason why the whole place was emitting contagious energy. I actually tried my best to keep my composure, and not burst up with excitement like the other wolves.” Malik lauded. “Ha-ha,” I giggled. “That’s funny, but thanks for the compliments, though. It truly was a great time out there, and I won’t lie, I did not look at
We made it to Malik’s room in the Alpha’s chamber, and we were locked deeply in passion for hours. We didn’t care if anyone was eavesdropping on us, or if the chamber was reverberating with the sounds of our loud moans, we just did our thing. Menelik must be clenching his jaws all night long. We’ll probably get our own chamber to avoid the inevitable tongue-wagging. Malik made me feel like a goddess, he worshipped my whole body. He ate me inside and out; It was so good, that I didn’t know when I was literally begging him for more.He was so soft on me, and I found it hard to keep my hands off him. He placed me in so many positions, that had me yearning for more, and I was deeply locked in passion that he had to cover my mouth with his hand, to suppress my moans.He made the night a memorable one, and I don’t think I would ever forget about tonight in a hurry. I wouldn’t mind getting at him, for at least once a day. At the end of the night, I was sore and worn out. My hips hurt badly.
THIS CHAPTER WILL BE FROM MALIK’S POINT OF VIEWMenelik sent out warriors to fetch the members of the Lakewood pack governing council, and in about thirty minutes, the members of the Lakewood pack governing council were all converged at the meeting hall, for a council meeting. The hall is located on the third floor of the gigantic pack house. The governing council is made up of the Alpha, the Beta, the Gamma of the pack, and some select ranked elders in the pack. Menelik and I were honorary additions to the governing council, courtesy of our father, the Alpha.“Welcome, everyone.” Alpha Barak greeted. “Sorry for setting up this emergency meeting. There’s a matter of high importance on ground, and we have to address this issue with urgency. So, with no further ado, I hereby declare this meeting in session.”“Ok, Gamma Mangol, can you give us a short brief about your recent crusade.” Alpha Barak ordered.“Thank you, Alpha.” Mangol stood up and bowed his head, showing reverence for the A
I was about to troop down the stairs, when I heard a voice call me from afar, “Malik! Malik!” I wasn’t so sure if that was Calista that called out at me.“Calista?” I retorted in a curious tone. She ran towards me and wrapped her hands around my body. I pulled her close and scanned her face with my hands to confirm if she was the one. Lo and behold, she was.“Where were you Calista?” I queried.“I was just downstairs,” She responded. “What’s going on Malik, you seem so troubled.”“Look, it’s high time, we get away from this pack.” I blurted out with a sad grimace.“What? We should get away from this pack. What’s going on??” she questioned. “The pack is going through a turbulent period, and I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to protect you anymore. So, we have to move fast, away from all these, before the brunt of the impending doom gets to us.” I said with a gloomy sigh. “Seriously?” she quipped.“Yeah, do you think, I’m joking? I’m sacrificing everything I have here, every mundane
“You don’t have to be always sorry, but no. I still cannot see when I shift into my wolf, but my wolf, always steadily guides my step.” He responded swiftly, and he tried to change the topic of our conversation. “Ok, are you ready, now?” Malik questioned, “Yeah, I am.” I beamed.“Do you still trust me to lead you, now?” Malik queried.“Why not?” I mumbled in response, “I’ll always trust you, mate.”I stomped through the valley of death, with Malik, and with our wolves pawing through the very forest. It was an adventure, that I never thought I would have to embark on. I never knew a day, would come when I’ll have to stomp on skulls and bones, to secure my freedom. But as I stood at the entrance of the forest with Malik riling me up, I knew that there was no turning back; I had to see this journey through to the end.Although Malik was right before me, all through the journey, I couldn’t help but feel a deep sense of uneasiness surging inside of me. The path ahead was broad and unending
THREE MONTHS LATERAlthough it took a while, Malik later subtly admitted, that he was out of line to smack the hell outta me like that, but his actions only made his message sink in, and I’ll probably not mention anything related to sight to his face anymore.After leaving the Lakewood pack, as the months went by, I couldn’t help but look back to see how far I’d come with Malik.Malik and I walked through the shadow of the valley of death. We walked through the stench of the rotten, we stomped the skulls and skeletons of the dead, buried probably centuries ago, and thankfully no one in the Lakewood pack noticed that we escaped.We sprinted a long way, away from the evil and cruel Lakewood pack. we overcame all the innumerable challenges, that life threw at us; we fought against the vicious werewolves and vampires, that wanted to have us for lunch; we used our trickery to fend off slavers, who are roaming through the woods, looking for wolves to enslave. And finally, following the le
"Malik!!! Malik!!!" I yelled, trying to dissuade him from attacking the Lakewood warriors all by himself, but he wouldn't listen. I didn't want him to get hit again, but it seemed like he was utterly enraged, and nothing would stop him, from releasing all rage he had bottled up inside of him."Everyone, get into the pack, and burn it to the ground…" I could hear Menelik's voice faintly, from the distance, even amidst the heavy battle cries. "And Hammy. Finish her now!!!" He growled.Explosions ripped through the air at once, reverberating with a bone-shaking intensity, sending shockwaves through the pack. The deafening blasts echoed off the surrounding trees, creating an atmosphere of chaos and danger.The battle raged on, explosions continuing to rock the surroundings, I could still see arrows flying all over the place. And as I was still surveilling my surroundings, breathing haphazardly, an explosive was thrown, at where I stood, and I instinctively picked it up, and threw it back,
Malik and Melinda chose to be put in chains and cuffs, ready to be taken back to Alpha Menelik, against my wish, and I had no choice but to lead them out of the pack, to the battlefront. I walked behind them, as we neared Lakewood's pack camp outside our pack.There were several tents in their camp, but there was one big tent at the center, and I automatically assumed that that would be their Alpha tent. So we sauntered in that direction.And as we got closer to the tent, the Lakewood pack warriors trooped out of their tents, and the gazes of some, who were parading the pack, stretching as far as the eyes could see, shifted to us as we sauntered forwards. Some of them were jeering and making mocking gestures towards us, as we walked, but that didn't faze me one bit, I was only focused on the task at hand.A number of the Lakewood pack warriors formed a wall outside the big tent, with each of them wielding heavy metal weapons, pointing them in our direction."Stop there!!!" A gruffy
Ramsey and I were joined by the other Alphas in the bunker.The other Alphas made us know, that the Lakewood warriors had surrounded the pack, and they didn't give chase, nor did they pursue our own warriors into the pack as we retreated. The Lakewood warriors were only standing round, successfully putting the pack under siege.And that made me question their motive — because if the Lakewood warriors are truly here for battle, why can't they just waltz in, and finish the battle? Because it was crystal-clear that we were losing the war to the Lakewood pack, and it was glaring, even to the blind, that we were on the back foot, even in our own backyard.I was fed up and frustrated, and it scared me to the bone, to learn that the face of battle, that the face of warfare had evolved, beyond fists, claws, and fangs, to now explosives, and speedily moving silver bullets.The warriors reported, that with these new innovations, the Lakewood pack outmatched and outwitted them, annihilating and
"Ok. The pack is all clear now!" Melinda breathed, her heart pounding in her chest.Melinda, Ramsey, and I stood in the middle of the pack, gazing round at the empty structures, save for the scanty warriors who were holding their grounds inside of the pack. Melinda, Ramsey, and I had escorted the young ones, and the women, who couldn't volunteer in the battle to safety. "Ok I'm going to join the warriors in battle…" Melinda let out a low growl, her eyes booming with intensity. "I have to go, even the scores…""No…" I boomed with authority, holding her by her hand. "You ain't going, nowhere, Mel. I don't want them to capture you again, or even turn you against us, as they did to Kieran…""I gotta go, Mom." Melinda retorted, her face entwined with worry. "I know Kieran would surely be out there. And um, I don't know, I have to…""But you said, he was all out of control, and he doesn't recognize us anymore…" I said in a curious tone, my voice laced with sorrow, as I gazed intently at Me
The shadow warriors sprung up to action at the nick of time, and they caught Cassandra in the air, just before she could attack Ubuntu. They knocked her to the ground, they cuffed her hands, and they made her sit back in her seat.The hall was booming with silent tension, and the rest of the congress watched in silence, as their Alpha was being disgraced by her own warriors."Y'all see, she's a nuisance…" Ubuntu smirked. "But this is a serious allegation, Ubuntu." Adonis Graham chimed in. He was the Alpha of Woodbury Pack."He's lying…" Cassandra yelled, her face crumpled and distorted with rage. "Tell them, he's lying, Calista.""His words are true…" I muttered. "I can confirm that it's true. Alpha Cassandra herself, narrated the true version of the cause of the destruction of Ridgewood to both Ubuntu and I before she tried to murder Ubuntu...""What!" Cassandra bellowed. "You're taking sides with this traitor!!!" "No, I ain't. I'm just done playing this delicate game with you." I
******CALISTA'S POV*****"So, was that all that happened???" I quipped, sighing deeply, a great sense of weariness sweeping over me."Yeah, Mom," Melinda responded, her voice laced with subtle fury, as she laid her head on my shoulder.We were both seating on the bench outside the room, where Malik was being treated in the pack's clinic.Melinda just narrated the gruesome, heart-wrenching, and calamitous chain of events that happened, after we were separated from each other, and I just couldn't help but feel a great wrench of sadness. My spirit was heavy, and my heart ached with unspoken agony.I was close to tears, but I tried to hold myself together. I tried to picture the sleepless nights, the grueling events, the pain, the agony — that my family had to go through, all because of me, but I just couldn't. It was so hard for me to process.I thought about it, back and forth, and the fact that I brought Kieran and Melinda into the world, only for them to go through tribulations upon t
Malik tried to defend himself, but the energy remaining in his frail muscles was only a tiny fraction of Hammy's, and there was nothing he could do, other than to lie there, and humbly receive death blows from the boy he raised from birth.Melinda was shell-shocked, and for a second, she found it hard to believe, that her own twin brother, would viciously go up against her, and their Papa — Malik. For a second, she wondered why he won't even answer to Kieran anymore, but Hammy. Melinda was so shocked, that she couldn't even retaliate to Hammy's brutal blows.The Lakewood warriors aimed guns at Melinda but they couldn't shoot, because of the crowd, at the square. The scene was chaotic, and the warriors were trying to take control of the situation. The junior officers tried to disband the crowd, but they wouldn't leave.The whole of the Lakewood pack was stunned and thrilled, by the recent turn of events. and they wanted to stay at the square, to watch the showdown. It was as though th
*****AUTHOR'S POV*****The whole of Lakewood Pack stood at the pack square, all gloating and murmuring amongst themselves, as they stared down at the helpless Malik, with some pups even throwing stones and specks of dirt, at Malik who was kept in a silver cage fitted to the center of the stage for all to see.Malik was weak and almost powerless. He had withstood vicious attacks and beatdown, from Menelik's puppets, all week long since he arrived at Lakewood pack. They didn't stop the assault for a minute, save for the occasional moments, they'd stop to force some food and water down Malik's throat. Malik often rejected the food, and sometimes he'd try to summon his fangs to stop the warriors, but the warriors had to find a way to boycott Malik's defense. They had to use any means possible to see to it that Malik was fed, that he ate something, for it was all on Menelik's order.Menelik also made sure Malik was bruised, battered, tortured, and manhandled at Lebron Dave's abandoned c
"I won't harm you, kid," I resounded, placing my left hand on his shoulder. "...but that's only if you'll answer my question. You're a guard, and I know you hear rumors that even the whole pack does not get to hear about. So, you ought to know Malik's whereabouts; the fellow question is the Alpha's brother, and I wanna know, whether he's still…""Ooh, that's even who you're talking about…" He chuckled, and sat up slightly, looking me dead in the eyes. I was amazed at how his once fearful guise suddenly turned to a confident one, in a couple of seconds. "Well, he is on the stage at the square right now, and he's about to be executed… just like you are…" he groaned. And the next thing I saw was the bruised guard suddenly raising a gun at me. And before I knew it, he pulled the trigger, and a bullet came running at my head, but I dodged it, at the nick of time."Waoh," I exclaimed. My face turned red, a solar-red-hot fury streaming from me, and I unleashed all my anger upon him. Befor