Chapter 1
I feel the dirt as it dusts under my paws, I’m racing through the treeline at the speed of light. Yet, the world around me seems to moves in slow motion as I become one with my beast. I’ve just shifted for the first time. Breaking every part of my body, slowly and painfully I morphed into my true form. All around me I can hear the whispers of old trees and sense the flow of magic in the river that pulses supernatural life into the forest around me. Never before have I been able to feel so connected to nature, to the forest, to my home. I have thick white fur covering my body and a jolt of power coursing through me, heightening all my senses. I feel powerful, bold and free. What I am now, lies beyond my wildest dreams, indescribable. It can only be felt. In a way, one’s soul gets ripped apart and torn to pieces. While being reconstructed into a force of nature even she is unsure of.
You see, before I was just a simple girl. A part of a pack, a family. Here many families are living and working together to create a community that thrives with nature. Here we can be free away from other creatures that might hinder our way of life.
We live at the foot of a mountain range with the forest creeping up its slopes. Snow Moon mountain has always been the home of my kin, legend has it that the Moon Goddess herself danced with the first Alpha at the foot of this mountain,every full moon after his 18th birthday for a hundred years. In those hundred years, he never aged , he just grew stronger with every moon. He and his pack were sifters, able to shift from human to beast at will.The first Alpha waited for her every month, devoted to her. He loved her deeply, she was all he could ever want, so he never took another, no one was as graceful, powerful and beautiful as her. She held a part of his soul in her own, they were an unmistakable match, but it was forbidden. He ruled alone, always waiting for the next dance but when she stopped showing up, he was devastated, howling to the moon, begging for a glimpse of hope, despite for her touch. But the moon remained silent. That’s when he frantically started looking for ways to find her, even soughing the help of a witch coven. They would help, but at a price. Once the witches had found her, they learned that she was being held captive by the old Gods. She had crossed a line no God should ever dare, she fell in love with a wolf. A lesser being, but worse than that she was carrying his child. When the first Alpha came to know the truth he gathered his pack and declared war on the Gods. Unbeknownst to him, every full moon when the Goddess and he would dance and make love, little bits of her power morph with his own making him as powerful as the gods themselves. The part of her soul residing in him fused to his own , unlocking powers beyond his understanding. He was suddenly stronger beyond his former abilities, could hear better, seance everything around him, talk to every member of him pack, feel every emotion and hear every thought that they might have. They were truly connected to him like a tree to its roots. Every member of his pack had the same abilities he now had, except he possessed powers much like the Moon Goddess herself. He could command the elements , will plants to grow in any form and bring any beast to its knees.
The battle between the Gods and the first Alpha was bloody and many lives were lost, but in the end the witches stayed true to their word and fought alongside the wolves to overthought the Gods. So when the battle was won and the Moon Goddess was in his arms once more, it was time for the first Alpha to honor his end of the bargain.
But not before he had one last request, he wanted the Moon Goddess to be with him until the end of his days, to live and walk among his people and raise their child together. To cast such a spell, a great amount of power was needed, a power beyond nature itself, so to perform this spell and restore balance, the unborn child was brought into this world, her powers channeled and the spell was done, and in doing so her soul was ripped in half, the other part residing in her mate. Once she came of age she was to find her mate, bond with them and her soul would be whole once more. Her fate was to be shared by ever wolf there after . But this spell had also given the witches the ability to lift the veil between life and death. Making them almost immortal themselves. A heavy price to pay, the Moon Goddess knew this but gave into her love for the first Alpha and her infant daughter . Once the first Alpha would die she could return to her place in the heavens and rule over the wolves once more.