"You are not a horrible person Shirl, you are the most wonderful person I know and there is no need for you to be hard on yourself. If anyone is to be blamed for what happened, it would be Fredrick for betraying his pack and the Moon goddess for allowing such to happen right under her watch.
Shirley sobbed quietly as the dream flashed through her mind, some minutes later, she was eventually lured back to sleep by her wolf who continued speaking comforting words to her. When she woke up the next morning, she felt something sticky on her cheeks and when she looked in the mirror, she noticed that her cheeks were stained with dried tears . She wondered why because she didn't remember crying before falling asleep, last she remembered was reading a book and now that she woke up, she had tearstain on her cheeks.
'Don't you remember waking up early this morning and crying out for Zane?' her wolf asked her.
'I woke up earlier this morning? And I cried? I find that hard t
FIFTEEN YEARS LATERVery early in the morning, Hunter sat on the floor of his room, his back against the door and his knees up against his chest. He was staring at the ceiling with almost vacant eyes, he sniffed, wiping away the tears that had streamed down his cheeks as all the events that happened in his dream whirled viciously inside his head. He couldn't understand why he kept on dreaming about the same person all the time. He started having these dreamlike visions ever since he turned ten and now, five years later, it continued, nothing changed. The way he remembered it happening five years ago was the same way it kept on happening. The man in his dreams looks so familiar yet strange at the same time. In his dreams,
"Him? As in the man in my dream? " Hunter asked in confusion."Yes, him... as in your father," Shirley replied.My father? I thought you said my father died shortly before my birth, "Hunter said in confusion."Shirley glanced at the watch on her wrist, finding out that it was close to six in the morning. The sun was coming up in the autumn skies, becoming brighter as the day went on. Anyone looking at them right now would say that they appear homey and cosy, but she felt so tired, lonely and all alone. She was already dreading the talk they would have this afternoon as soon as Amelia arrived, and she was tempted to tell him to forget about it once again, but she couldn't do that to him. She knows that i
"My other favorite days? Hmmm, let me think about that...the day you were born; the exact moment I carried you in my arms for the first time, the day you said, mama, the first time you called me aunt, the day your first tooth came out, the day you walked for the first time, your birthdays...do you need more?" Amelia replied with a smile."Why is it all about me? Are you just telling me what you think I want to hear?" Hunter asked narrowing his eyes at her."Of course it should be all about you! You are my precious little baby after all. I don't like it that you are growing, I would prefer if you remained little for a longer while," Amelia replied."I would prefer that too, I can't believe that a baby of yesterday is now taller than I am," Shirley added."You both should stop calling me that. Like aunt Amelia rightly said, I am growing so I am no longer a baby," Hunter replied."Until you defeat me in a duel, I will continue calling yo
"I don't know all about it yet but I think Hunter have some kind of power or something. I didn't want to mention this before until I find out more, but since we are at the topic, I will tell you the little I know," Shirley said."I don't understand the kind of power you mean, is it magical power or something?" Amelia asked in confusion."I can't answer that for now, but I wouldn't doubt it if he has a little magical powers in him," Shirley replied."Magical powers? I find that hard to believe, How is that possible?" Amelia said."You remember when we first saw Hunter in a half-wolf state when he was three? And we concluded that it was a onetime thing? It's not, he has the ability to shift that way anytime he likes he just haven't been doing it because of how shocked we looked that day. I think there is more to him than he is showing us, that is why I really need to find out more about h
THREE WEEKS LATER (INFERNO DA LUCIANO)The past three weeks have been pretty simple aside the stress of training, we all followed a particular routine, wake up very early, have a light breakfast, train for four hours; that is from six to ten, then go on our separate ways and then gather again around five in the evening when we train for another two hours.As for the whole Amelia not liking fighting thing, we found out that she has actually been enjoying the whole training stuffs, she even wakes up before them most morning in order to get a head start, she trained harder than everyone else in order to make up for all the years she spent slacking behind.When Shirley asked her why she was putting in so much effort, she said that she has been putting in her best efforts because she didn't want anyone to worry about her safety on the battlefield instead of fighting their enemies. How thoughtful of her. The first one week of training was very hard on her, it was evid
" I am...I am not excluding you guys from the fight, in fact I am grateful that you guys decided to help out even after what happened all those years, all I am saying is that you guys should not follow us back to our old pack, it would look very suspicious if you do. Only members of our old pack and some warrior wolves from here who are not known should come with us," Shirley said."I understand where you are coming but still.. what if.." Ace said."If you truly understand then you would see how suspicious it is for the alpha and beta of a prestigious pack to be residing in another pack. That fact wouldn't sit well with anyone and it would look suspicious to even the dumbest of all. We can't afford to raise any suspicion of any sort, because if they find out about our plans before we execute It, all our chances to save Zane and Robert will go into thin air, and our safety will no longer be guaranteed," Shirley said."I agree with her," Amelia said
"Fine, I will give in to your demands. We are leaving now," Davina said, and within an instant, her body went limp and her head rolled to the back. She started chanting something as her eyes turned white and black. The words she was chanting were in a language that none of them understood. Immediately, they all saw a whiteness envelop them, then Davina's head fell back to its normal position. She turned to Darren and gave him a tight smile. "Time to go now, love," she said to him, and immediately a portal began to shimmer behind them. The rogues that surrounded them began to push them all through the portal, and when they had successfully pushed the forty of them through the portal, they also began to enter. When the last one entered the portal, the shimmer enveloped the entire clearing, and just like that, they went into thin air.
Hunter stiffened as the words the witch spoke yesterday ran through his mind. He has been awake for a while now and all his efforts to wake the rest of them up proved abortive, even his mom was yet to wake. His heart was beating erratically in his chest, threatening to burst out anytime from his chest due to the unparalleled fear that was coursing through his veins as he heard sounds of approaching footsteps. With his head bowed low and his eyes clutched shut tightly, Hunter felt his knees tremble from the heavy and tense atmosphere in the room as the sound of the footsteps got closer."I have told you already, I will wake them up with magic if they are yet to be awake, but I must warn you, it might have adverse effect on their minds," Davina said."How much effect are we talking about here?" Darren asked."They might start seeing or hearing things that are not there, some might even go completely gaga because their body wouldn't be able to contain