Darkness is all I remember not just in this moment but from the moment I was born , it was all i could understand especially now. Maybe it was the secrets i had finally begin to understand or the pain for my mother , or just the blow to the head I received but something in me had begin to burn and something about it just felt so relieving like i almost could grasp the power right between my hands.
"What do you mean this is it , how the hell are we supposed to survive out here let alone find whatever pack it is you claim she belongs to " i could hear lily's voice clearly now ,it was obvious i wasn't in darkness anymore. Stretching out in the carriage i set up in looked out the window, it was clearly almost time for the moon to come out and so far all i could see was woods and trees this couldn't be it." this is it " i whispered questioningly at the guard and driver who delivered us here , " where are we supposed to go " i raised my voice , i was beginning to lose my mind." I'm sorry but this is the queens orders i was told to make sure you and lily was delivered to the edge of the forbidden forest nothing more , nothing less" he said looking at us both in sympathy. But even I'm sure lily could notice how his body begin to shake even through his armor," it's fine veronica , he's right there is nothing more he could do for us anyway it's up to us to find your pack or wherever this north place is supposed to be " lily said harshly"Who do you think you are ordering me around , i know you had something to do with this " i screamed accusingly at her . " and how dare you speak to me as if you're on my side when you couldn't even bother to tell me my own mother was alive what type of friend are you " i yelled out ranting in circlesBefore either of us could even continue our disagreement, the horses let off signaling that the carriage was indeed leaving us at the edge of the forest in the middle of complete nowhere." now look at that how about we head along now princess " she said sarcastically" you bitch" I growled out charging at her in inhuman speed , " how dare you joke after what you did , do you think we're friends I LOST MY MOTHER , do you lack sympathy " i growled out andBefore i knew it i was laying flat on the ground a few feet away while lily laid a few feet away with two burn marks imprinted on her forearm."Oh my god " i cried out in anguishBefore i could grab her arms she scooted away from me " stay the fuck away from me " she sneered." you think your the only one with issues like everyone is just living in the happiest world while you sit with no one, well guess what i lost someone too , i love someone too , I'm fighting for someone too and I'm in pain too " she yelled at me while wiping at her tears. The pain was running through the both of us , sadness as wellBy then i think all of our anger had subsided, I could finally see the reality of our situation we were both being targeted, both alone , both lost everything and now all we had was one another.Time had passed and by now the moon was almost finally out , looking at each other I think we both got that the decision to put our differences aside was best for now , right now we had to survive tonight in a place we both had no idea about" look i get it that's all I'm saying, and i know it wasn't right to hide the truth from you but my father is out there she took him and if we don't figure out a way to save our parents then yes I'm going through with what the queen said " lily said look down at me sadly.I couldn't hold it against her in a way maybe we were alike, but i was never prepared to hurt anyone i wanted to find a way that wouldn't hurt any more people . " deal " i said holding my hand out , she hesitated before reaching out to shake my handle lightly. " you know we might have to figure out a way to fit in a little training for this problem " she said cringing her hand away , i looked down at my hand to finally recognize what she meant.My hand was completely covered in red flames making it's way up my arms in a flower pattern , it was completely painless , but what really shocked me was the uncontrollable shocks of fire that sprouted from my hands. Whenever I opened them causing both me and lily to let out uneasy smiles " sorry " i said with a half smile ." for now wear these " she said then reaching into her coat pocket to hand me a pair of leather gloves." the queen told me to give them to you when you needed them, i guess this is what she meant " she explained when i looked at her with questions.The moment i slid the gloves on i could tell that they were not regular gloves , something told me this had something to do with what the queen said about having stuff for monsters. Making me instantly feel regret while slipping them on, But I couldn't deny the relief i felt once i put them on, instantly the red energy surrounding my hands disappeared making my anxiety go back down.I quickly grabbed my sack while trailing after lily," we need to hurry in find shelter " lily whispered back to me while looking around the entrance of the forest " you don't want to know what beast lives out here other than your kind " lily said while looking around warily .That's all it took for me to start making my way through the snow towards lily, as i went I couldn't notice the trail melting as we walked along through the forest leaving no snow wherever i walked ."Atleast we don't have to worry about walking through the snow " lily said trying to lighten the tension in the air, but I couldn't help but wonder about those other beast she spoke of . All I've ever known are walls inside of walls . I would steal books sometimes just to learn but nothing in those books could have prepared me for the truths that resided in the real world.Looking around I couldn't deny how much better the real world looked than those four walls, and that made me smile.From the day i was born my mother always told me i was a fireball, but she never knew at the age of fifteen that i would become not only the first of our kind to attain the power of fire but the only of our kind that didn't shift into a lycan but instead some type of hybrid of a hellhound and a werewolf but also coming with the ability to manipulate fire. some called it a gift but to me it was a burden no matter where i went my entire life I've been one big ball that people just can't seem to understand, It also didn't help that i could care less to help them understand either. I've been alpha of my pack since i was sixteen that was about the time when the last war between the humans in the forbidden had last happened, also the last time my father stood as alpha . That was the day they stripped his title by death and because of my duty as the next in line as Alpha i was forced to take over , some gift huh , if only it had saved my father." Alpha " my beta Jonath
"Okay this is the best were going to get i guess " lily said yarning tiredly. We had been walking for hours in all we had managed to find was nothing, complete nothingness. I couldn't help but wonder what we could be missing it seemed like it would take us ages to find this pack i apparently came from, what signs were we even supposed to be looking for. I could feel myself all a sudden getting agitated with the queens games," do you think maybe we aren't seeing it because we just don't want to " i said openly, " I don't know about you but I definitely want to find this pack " she snorted while stuffing her sack behind her head to rest on. " you know what i mean " i said rolling my eyes , " maybe we need to think inside the box , I'm apparently this monster with powers right, so how about in the morning we test that logic out. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough " i said out loud more so to myself , " look first thing in the morning if
" No you LISTEN i need to know every name of every female wolf who has entered your land within the past week " i ordered to alpha darren into my phone " look here pup I don't know what boundaries you're trying to cross but i owe you no explanation " darren said before i heard the line disconnect."Arghhhh " i said slamming my head onto my desk like I've done for the past seven years since taking over my pack as alpha. I could tell by the complete silence following the footsteps that walked up to my desk that Jonathan was indeed laughing at me, " i think the last person who we should be expecting a war from is alpha darren , you know he just loves to get a rise out of you and i see it worked " Jonathan said to amused obviously by the pain i was causing to myself. " it would help if you could maybe provide the information on the task i gave you " i said while pinching the bridge of my nose. "I checked the boundary lines over twenty times not to
I could feel my body heating up the more we walked through the forest, we had been walking in circles for a hour. Not finding munch but a endlessness of trees I had taken my coat off long ways back my body could obviously stand the cold now, unlike lily who was shivering away next to me. "It's obvious that something isn't quite right about this forest, or were you just waiting for me to say it" i insisted looking at lily. Before either of us could get out another reply a huge beast like creature tore through the tree's completely missing the sight of us at first,"Veronica run now " lily screamed yanking at me to turn back towards the way we had came. I couldn't move though, i was petrified I couldn't stop staring at the glowing red eyes , the way it turned around in incredible speed to snarl at me. It looked exactly like a wolf but three times the size it's fur was the exact color of pure black , anyone could tell the damage this monster had
I didn't imagine that the moment i closed my eyes i would instantly wake up but i did, I just never imagined that i would wake up to the most beautiful sleeping man I've ever seen, but it wasn't his fiery hair that reeled me in, it was the way my body and mind instantly felt connected to his as if my whole body was humming with this invisible energy i could feel connecting us, I don't know what made me feel so sure but i was positive this had to be the man the moon goddess had spoken of , my mate. Everything sounded so much louder or maybe it was the immaculate hearing i had managed to gain , but the sound of over hundreds could be heard letting me know that i wherever i was did in fact have a lot of people. But that couldn't distract me from the fact that i knew that this man was my mate,Looking around I slowly set up taking in my surroundings trying not wake the sleeping man while i was at it. "I'm glad to see you're okay" a deep voice
I could feel my beast get restless the more i pacedI just couldn't get her out of my mind, My body was fighting against every single instinct my beast was having. The moment he saw her through my eyes it was enough to send him in a spiral, enough to almost make me lose control again. The way she looked at us told us everything we needed to know. She could feel the bond, I could tell from the bond itself that she had a million questions. I also could tell she wasn't a rogue but not exactly human either meaning she had to be the girl that gloria told me i was meant to find. But never did i ever imagine she would be my mate, " ughh what is wrong with me" i yelled to myself in frustration, i had been waiting all my life for this one moment; I couldn't fuck this up. I hadn't thought about how much of a prick i must have looked rushing out of there like that, of course she needs me with her, why wouldn't she ? I'm her mate i knew she could feel the bond just as much as i could. "okay
Talking to the healer had eased my thoughts about my mate not being interested in me, not to mention seeing lily over these past few days have helped me more than i knew it would. Every since the healer gave me the green light they moved me and lily to the medical house until they was positive we were healed up. But i knew deep down it was to keep us under surveillance cause obviously they still couldn't fully trust us yet, but no matter how much i tried to not think about all the events that had happened; i couldn't help but let my mind wander over all the possibilities, or questions that rose the moment we arrived here. I just couldn't get him out of my head, i don't know if it was the meds but i even was beginning to smell him Causing me to sit up in the bed sniffing for that intoxicating earthy smell. "Find anything" i heard a deep voice say jokingly and If it wasn't for the bond enlightening me that it was my mate i would have been shocked by the sudden intrusion."Omgforfuc
On the outside i know i looked calm but on the inside every single part of me was burning to mark my mate as mines in take her far away from here, But leaving my pack was the most distasteful thing a alpha could ever do I couldn't abandon them when they trusted me to protect them. I had to inform the pack of their new luna that was the only way they would accept her, everyone had to be able to trust her and the moment they knew she was my mate they would with no exceptions. Having a luna was one of the most important parts of a pack, they would love her just as i do. Then we could confront the issue with the council, As all these thoughts ran through my mind I couldn't help wondering what details my mate was keeping from me. Even without the bond i knew it was something she wasn't telling me, i also couldn't help but wonder about the main questions; who was her parents?"What are you hiding mate" i whispered out loud to the forest, Whatever it was i knew that it was important to he