All Chapters of Once A Luna, Now A Stealer?: Chapter 291 - Chapter 300

TheonAnd of course, something happens in the middle of the night. At first, I think I'm dreaming of it.But then I realized, in my sub consciousness that my dream was all about walking down the beach with Callista. Callista had never seen the ocean before, so we've gone on a mini vacation to the beachside.She's happy here, I'm happy here.We hold hands as we let our toes sink into the soft, warm sand, and she smiles at me, the wind blowing her long dark hair across her face, and her green eyes shine like the brightest emeralds...And then I hear screaming. I wake up from my slumber, blinking at the suddenness of it. I look around the room using my wolf senses, and I see that Haden, Leita, and Hunter are awake as well. “What's going on?” I ask, as the screaming registers in my sleep mind more and more.It sounds like a group of people are outside, screaming in Romanian. “I'm not quite sure,” Hunter says before getting up from her sleeping bag to peer out of the window.“Oh, crap!

Theon“Well, that was disappointing,” Master Tsertinand mutters, wiping off blood from his sword. “Didn’t even put up a good fight.”Near his feet, a stabbed hunter lies, his open, eyes staring up at the sky, frozen in fear and death.The whole mob of hunters lay on the ground, massacred. Their blood stains the snow red. Half of them have vines wrapped around them, shot to death with Leita’s crossbow.The rest are stabbed or cut with Master Tsertinand’s magical disc. Haden, and I did not transform as there wasn’t really a need for it.The witches took care of the hunters in mere minutes. Many of them didn’t even get to fire their guns because they’d only expected werewolves. The witches caught them completely off guard.Hunter and Kiran drop the shield they’d erected around me and the Costin family, who looks extremely alarmed at the violence. Haden and the witches come closer, panting from the effort. Ophelia makes the vines go back to the earth and to wherever she summoned them f

Theon“After that, we lived in the city for quite some time. We moved from here and there to avoid suspicion as we didn't grow old, and we changed names. About four or five years after Alin was born Doina's estranged parents passed away,” Mihai continues the story, and Doina looks sad.She talks to us in Romanian, and Hunter translates.“Doina didn't have a good relationship with her parents. They were very abusive towards her and wanted to marry her off to a man in the village rather than let her go to university,” Hunter explains.“They weren't on speaking terms after that. They didn't even know she was married and had a kid because of that. She was actually surprised that her parents left her the farm.”“We all were,” Mihai restarts the story after Doina falls silent, hugging her to his side. “Initially, we didn't want to move. But Alin was growing more and more into his vampire self, so we wanted to give him the freedom to be his authentic self that was rather restrained in the ci

Callista“This is useless,” I mutter. Once again in my dreams and once again in the rose garden at the side of the Rexellen pack castle.This time I sit on the lush grass with my back to a wall. “Come on, don't think like that,” the deviless says, sitting next to me. “We need to think harder. You're the one who told me that we cannot give up.”“Well, you're the one who gave me all that crap about saving the world,” I snap back, feeling annoyed. “And I don't know if you've noticed, I'm just a werewolf who'd had some bad luck in love. You're the three-thousand-year-old deviless who was blessed by the Goddess. You should know better than I do!”Do I sound petulant? Yes, I absolutely do.But at this point I'm too far gone to care about being polite. Being used as a pawn since she was born apperently does that to a person. “Wit is not directly proportional to age, Callista, if so Xaveraq would not be doing what he's currently plotting.”I gawk at her.“Did you just call yourself stupid?”

Theon“So, it's an insanely powerful magical ward that doesn't let supernaturals into the Hoia forest,” Ophelia says. “Which is also irreversible and only weakens on the day of the Winter Solstice?”“It kinda makes sense, doesn't it?” Hunter remarks. “The solstice days are known to have a negative effect on magic. And if the supernatural repellent in the Hoia forest is actually a ward, it could weaken.”“Keyword being 'weaken',” Leita points out. “Not entirely gone. That means we will be affected to some extent when we go in.”“The winter solstice weakens our powers as well,” Master Tsertinand joins the discussion. “So, we won't be as powerful as were now. The devil couldn't have chosen a better day for his soul devouring than this.”“We're fucked, aren't we?” Haden mutters next to me in the driver's seat, his voice too low for the witches to hear with their discussion. We'd left the Costin family about an hour ago, after getting the battery replaced. Mihai had told us the only way t