I was no longer scared. I just wanted to end everything. I decided to go back to bed after my encounter with Marcus. I was in no way sleepy yet, but I needed rest. Its been a very long day, and I know I have some longer days ahead of me. I lay down trying to think of a battle plan. Something, anything that could give us an edge over them. Over Sarah. No one is invincible. They're not God.They must have a weakness.They just must. I tried to mentally analyse all the time I'd spent with Sarah, even going as far back as the night I saw the creature and even before that, when I saw them floating in the woods. There must be a way to stop them.After spending what felt like an eternity thinking about what to do, I finally settled on a thought.Not exactly a thought that was going to automatically save the day, but a thought that could get us started.It was something. At least I hoped it was. I needed to make sure it was.***The day couldn't have broken soon enough. I did manage to
"For me?""Yes, you. When you first learned of the sacrifice and you thought the great thunderstorm was going to be the ritual day. He called the Alpha of my pack almost every day until they finally had to get me back from my retreat so I could help you out.""Really?""Yes, even after the event had passed, he never stopped contacting us.""Us?" All this information was new to me. I mean, I know he contacted some packs for help when we initially found out about the sacrifice, but after it had passed, I somehow forgot about it. Didn't he?Apparently not."Myself and some other couple of healers from other packs."Oh. Wow."He said he noticed very odd things about you that had him worried. He said you were getting sick, losing weight, your hair was falling out, and you were losing almost all your strength." Losing weight? I unconsciously looked down at myself, as if I would be able to identify from that glance the pounds I've lost, if I had lost them that is. I couldn't see anything o
"She could attack you Alpha.""She could. And I'll be ready for her. But please, help me find a way, I need to talk to her. There are so many holes in this story that I need to fill out. I'm going crazy.""What makes you think that she will tell you all this?" "Because, I've seen the cracks in her armour. I've seen times that she got so emotional she lost control of her act. At that time of course I didn't know it was an act, but now, it is only obvious."Sorayah looked at me, she wasn't convinced."Whoever or whatever she is, she is pulling her memories from somewhere. Somewhere deep inside her, the real person still exists. And I'm not planning or holding out the hope that I can turn her around and make her give up her evil ways, because I know that is highly unlikely, but I want to get under her skin far enough to rile some answers out of her. She will answer me.I need answers if we are ever going to be able to try and fight them." Sorayah's expression had not changed in the sli
"As much as I have enjoyed your hospitality Alphas, I must leave now and head back to my pack. There is an emergency, and my presence is required immediately." Damon and I were in his study going over updates and possible sightings of Sarah and her cohorts. All had amounted to nothing so far. We weren't even surprised. We didn't even know what kind of enemy we were on the lookout for, let alone how to fight it. Sorayah had entered after knocking slightly at Damon's open study door.I knew she would have to leave sooner or later, but I really wasn't ready for her to leave just yet. But I knew I couldn't be selfish. Her pack needed her. On the up side though, I knew she and Evelyn had been able to figure some stuff out in terms of protection spells. It wasn't permanent though, but it would have to do for now.Damon stood up to shake her hand."We're grateful for your time and help. I'll have my gamma get you back to your pack along with the packages that we agreed upon." Packages?
Damon went back around his desk to sit after giving another goodbye nod to Sorayah, and then we were out the door."I'm really interested in this healer Aliyah, if you don't mind, I'd really like to meet her upon my return. I know we have a lot of other things to worry about, but I really want to see her. If you can, that is." "Of course. Hopefully, she'll be here." Once we'd walked a distance and we were almost by the door, she pulled out a stick from her pocket. She said a few words over it and it lit up, burning slowly from one end.Noticing my confusion, she gestured towards Damon's study. "It's so he won't hear anything."Oh.I nodded. Wait, why though?"Why are you blocking him out?""I have something for you, regarding what we spoke of?" She lifted a brow at me. "I'm assuming you wouldn't want him hearing about that, or am I wrong?"In that moment, I wanted to hush her for fear of being heard, but then I remembered she's already taken care of it.Smart girl.Then she hand
He blinked. Like he hadn't heard me properly but then he quickly regained his composure, and probably his thoughts too."What do you mean contact her? We've been searching for her non-stop already. How do you plan on contacting her?"Through snap maybe?I pulled out the candle from my pocket."She gave me this." I looked up at him as I held out the candle. He kept his eyes locked with mine for about five more seconds, trying to read me, I guess, before he tore them away to look at the object in my hand.He regarded the tiny candle resting in my palm."A scented candle?" His brows were furrowed but he looked mighty confused as well. "It's to contact Sarah, it can bring her consciousness to me."His eyes remained hard as he stared at the candle and then slowly back up at me."Bring her consciousness to you?" He said enunciating each syllable like he was trying to understand the sentence himself. "The same thing that's trying to kill you? Have you lost your mind?" His voice was calm an
Mavis and I had walked out of the library and towards the pack house, discussing as we went.We decided to meet up at the library and continue with our research hoping to find something, anything. After a while of finding nothing meaningful, we decided to head out. "I still can't believe so much has happened." Mavis sighed. "And that wicked witch Sarah, I can't believe she- ugh!"I nodded silently as I walked alongside her. I still couldn't believe it myself, how gullible I'd been."I can't believe I let her braid my hair! All while she was trying to poison- wait," She paused like a thought just came to her. "That's why I was knocked out for almost a day.""What?""When I had some of that your blasted tea once, I was literally slumped over for a day, and I didn't know why. I'm sure it must have been the tea.""Oh, I remember that." I said recollecting the day that we went to see Evelyn and James had informed me that Mavis had been sleeping since the previous afternoon well into the n
Huh, impeccable timing."Good day Alpha Adrianne, Mavis" she said as she approached us. And even as she stood before us I knew it wasn't a coincidence that she walked by us this very moment. Her steps were deliberate.And as I regarded her I knew something was wrong. She seemed uneasy.Sensing all this, I put my hands on her shoulders steadying her a bit. "Hey Mara, are you alright?""Yeah, no- well yeah, I'm fine, but I'm, I don't know." She sighed."What's wrong?" "I saw you walk out here and I decided to come look for you. I needed some help. It's my sister.""Aliyah?" "Yeah. She's acting weird." "Oh, so she stayed afterall." I said confirming some of the thoughts I had on my checklist."Yeah, she did. Ever since her encounter with the Beta a couple days ago, she's been acting weird." She said trying to gesticulate with her hands. "I know they're not mates cause she didn't feel anything, but afterwards she's been a bit catatonic. She says I'm exaggerating but I don't know." M
And just as I felt the pull increase, it stopped suddenly. Slowly I looked up to see wide blue eyes staring at me in shock. As quickly as it happened he pulled his hand out, thankfully spine-free. This however still led me to collapse on the ground. I was going to heal, yes, that is, if they gave me time to, but for now, I still couldn't feel my limbs properly. I felt a crack that made my body snap, my spine was realigning itself but it was excruciatingly painful and slow. All I could do was lie and watch Damon. Damon who for some reason was still just standing and staring at me. Sarah though, had apparently had enough. "I said for you to take her spine out!" I could see the blackness in his eyes trying to to return, and with all he had he fought against it. So much so that when his eyes started changing colour again I had a sickening feeling it was blood. And I was right.With a grunt he fell back to the ground, blood oozing out of his ears, eyes and mouth. He was spasming on
I had heard the words.Loud and clear.Yet they rang in my mind like I had imagined them.'Take her spine out.'A very dangerous command uttered against me. And yet I still couldn't move.I had heard those words and I was still frozen in shock.Unfortunately, Damon had also heard them, and was ever willing to oblige.I could feel his fingers and claws pushing past my flesh, tearing muscle and sinew along the way as he continued to inch closer and closer to my spine. The pain was searing and numbing at the same time.I gasped and could only let out silent screams and breathless grunts. My body was still not functioning the way it was supposed to. My motor nerves were defunct but my sensory nerves were working overtime. I could feel every ounce of pain and then some.So when he finally made contact with my spine I felt chills all over my body. From my scalp straight to my toe tips. His hand slowly wrapped itself around the girth of my spinal column, the gaping hole in my back causing
No."Attack her."I didn't even have time to register what she said because I was focusing on what was happening to Damon. In an instant, he had pounced on me while the other minions started to become visible around Sarah again.I've fought with Damon before, but we were training, and he was still him, and he didn't want to kill me.This time was totally different. I wasn't even fighting with Damon, I was fighting Sarah. I saw this because her eyes had turned as black as his, and she was focusing all her energy on me. She's entranced him.She's fighting me through him.Damon lunged at me, and I ducked and kicked him backwards. I tried to think hurriedly between rushed breaths and movements. How do I fight him? I can't hurt him. Will I hurt him if I fight him? Will it hurt her? He came for me again and bit into my shoulder, I reached my arms back, grabbed unto his shoulders, and yanked him off me, slamming him hard unto the ground. He grabbed my ankle and pulled me down to the
All of a sudden, I was left alone. They'd stopped attacking me.They're trying to leave.I was scared that they'd do that.If they escape today, we might never get them together again to end this.I really hope Damon and Evelyn were able to pull through.Just then, from around and above me, I felt surges in the atmosphere.Simultaneously walking in, there was Evelyn with Damon and Marcus right behind her. I heard them before I actually saw them.Evelyn's hair was all loose, actually levitating around her as she muttered some words and kept her hands up in the air. In twos and threes, people all started filing in from the hedge entrance at the far end of the clearing. This was way more than we agreed upon. In a short amount of time, there were almost sixty to seventy people here, all looking ready to fight. I even saw Mavis and James line up behind Damon and Marcus.Evelyn's voice got progressively louder as I caught my breath, looking all around and feeling all my wounds close up
I was in shock.When she was done doing whatever she was doing to the bubble she smiled. Because she knew what she was doing. She was distracting me. But I didn't even care about her anymore.I was frozen, staring at the woman. The woman who was still seemingly unconscious, fading fast and almost lifeless.The woman I would be replacing.The woman who sent me back when I almost died. The woman whose picture lies in my drawer with her brown long wavy hair, her hair that was not white because of age or even for the fact that she'd been overused or drained. Her white hair that was so in her wolf state. In her white wolf state. I'd stared at this face a million times in my worn out picture. I'd stared at this face even in the mirror. I knew her. I know her.It's her. It's really her."Only fitting that you've come to replace your mother isn't it. Generational blood is always the strongest." Sarah cackled.She was distracting me. Trying to throw me off. "One wolf supplying an entire t
There was no one here.Nothing here. And there was certainly no matter right in the air where my fist just was.I stretched my hand forward but there was nothing there. Like I'd just imagined it. But I've been through too much to just overlook things.I closed my eyes and punched the air around that spot again, but nothing.Stop. Breathe and feel the surge.I directed my rage and energy again and let it out in another punch. My hand bounced back again. It felt like I had hit some sort of jelly. Some thick invisible sturdy jelly.What is this?This time, keeping my focus I placed both hands on where I thought this jelly was, and I held it. I could feel it. And it wasn't just a little blob. It was huge, like a whole wall of the stuff. What is this? Are they in here? Keeping up with it, I tried to focus more of my energy on it to try and get through the barrier but I couldn't break it. It was literally exerting the same amount of force pushing me away as I was putting on it. "Ahh!
I'd committed the place to memory. I knew exactly where they were. And even if I didn't, they'd find me. They were expecting me. But they certainly weren't expecting me in the capacity in which I was going. And even if they were, they were in for a ride regardless. This ends today. It ends now. Walking further I started to notice the trees with the strange markings again. This was it, I was approaching dark woods territory. The etchings were barely visible, probably wearing away over the years or in their case probably decades, the bark protesting against this violation to its skin. I've known for a long time how I act under pressure, and I've known for a shorter while how my wolf acts under pressure. Right now I wasn't acting like anyway I've acted before. I wasn't shaking with apprehension or nerves, and I didn't have a rapid heartbeat filled with determination or wild aggression. I was just calm. Still. But I was blazing with fury.I could feel the ice cold flames wrap themse
Fight day.It was today.A week later has felt like a year.But it's finally here. I lay awake in bed staring at the ceiling.I didn't want to sleep, but Damon insisted, he said I need rest to be at my best today.So I'm here at 2am trying to rest since sleep has inadvertently evaded me, while Damon paces all over the house, doing goodness knows what.He's restless, I know.We all are. Even though we don't actually leave until 4pm, it's been impossible to relax. I haven't slept for almost two days now, but sleep was so far from me.I was going to take the lead. Locate the 'sanctuary' as they call it, by myself, and then have Damon and the rest follow my trail a little while later. How was I feeling right now? Scared?No.Anxious? Yes. I want to get it over with.Angry? Well, let's just say that whatever we have planned for them, they've got it coming.I spoke to Sorayah on the phone yesterday, she's already trying to make it back but I'm not sure what time she'll get here.It's
***A few minutes had gone by and we were still deep in conversation, regarding the sisters, what was happening, well the main gist of it and how we had to move forward.Even though I completely engrossed in the conversation I caught his footsteps before he even stepped on the lawn.I glanced over at Aliyah who had her eyes trained on Evelyn as she spoke of healer capabilities when they are in full bloom.I could sense him approaching. He was now outside the door. And by the way he lingered there for a whole five minutes I'm sure he knew who was in here. He was here to go over some things with Damon, something I would have to sit in on as well at some point.When I had planned this earlier I didn't think that it would take so long. I didn't even consider them running into each other. Is it going to be awkward or is it actually a good thing? To clear the air maybe?He finally stepped in, Sam, the head guard, in tow. They walked up to us and then greeted me."Alpha." They both said a