When Lunar Wolves Rule

When Lunar Wolves Rule: Part 4

The Heir to the Throne.

My eyes hover open, everything is swirling, I faintly see my friends, they look worried sick, Kimmy is adjusting pillows under my head, Claw is taking my shoes off, while Juno yells curses while looking for my necklace. Necklace, why would I need that? Aragorn and Teddy, tend to my bruises and wounds. Wait. . . bruises, wounds, how did those get there? Then I pass out and I’m in my mothers arms hurling toward the ground, then boom my mother has wings and we're soaring through the air. Then the scene shifts, I’m in a meadow, and there she lays, my mother, welts, bruises and cuts all over her. Tears rolled down my face, I wanted to go to her but I couldn't move, then the scene shifts, every kind of wolf slaughtered, and standing on a high platform with a torch in one hand and a sword in the other is the tiger queen. STOP! Then I’m back in the dorm, panting, sweating and crying. Make it stop, Make it stop! First it’s just in my head then it’s out loud “Make it stop!” Then nothing, no dreams, no friends, just deafening silence and darkness.

When I awake Kimmy and Claw are reading me a story, Juno and Aragorn are tending to my wounds still, while Teddy wipes my face with a warm towel. I blink, at first I can’t hear them, then, ever so slowly my hearing comes back. Juno wipes a cut on my leg while Aragorn holds me still. “Ow.” I say under my breath. Claw stops reading in the middle of a sentence, and looks up at my face, everyone else does the same, I frown, “I feel like crap” Teddy smiles, Kimmy and Claw giggle, Aragorn’s face softens, Juno smirks while he finishes cleaning up the cut on my leg. I close my eyes for a minute, and sit straight up which startles Kimmy so much she almost falls off the bed. I rub my head with the back of my hand. “Woah, take it easy, shrimp!” Juno says, then Aragorn askes “So you gonna tell us what the heck happened or what?!” I blink and pull my legs up to my chest, “I- I don’t know.” Claw frowns, “What do you mean ‘I don’t know’?!” I don’t answer, I lean on Juno and frown, Why, Why Why, Why. “I . . . can’t talk about it”

“What do you mean?” Kimmy asks, frowning.

“I mean they don’t want me to talk about it, I- I can’t, I’m sorry.”

Then Claw asks “They? They who?”

She knows who, I can tell, our thoughts are connected, she knows what I’m thinking, and I know what she’s thinking. Come on Lilac, I know but they don’t. Her tone makes me flinch. “The gods, they did all of this, I can’t say more than that” I swallow and bury my face in Juno’s chest. His heart starts beating faster, Why did they do this to me!? I don’t know, Lilac . I'm sorry. Claw only says it in her head so only I can hear it. The next thing I know I’m asleep, and a dream comes, I block off Claw so she can’t see the dream. “You not only killed the love of my life, but the QUEEN OF THE LUNAR WOLVES” My dad yells at Amiliana. She smiles wickedly “Now, now. She was nothing, she was powerful yes, but a barbarian! Me however,” she walks up to him and raps her arms around his neck, “I’m both civilized and powerful.” My dad pushes her off, and says in a language so old I should’t be able to understand it, but somehow I do “Yeeth trapeeth de cursay, till shey forgiven yeeth” “You are cursed until she has forgiven you!” The tiger queen gasps, “NOOOOOOOO!!!” She yells and glowing bars surround her. I wake up to see Claw and Kimmy by either of my sides, they both sigh and smile, “You okay girl you scared us.” Kimmy says. “Yeah, and you blocked me off, we were getting worried.” I sit up and say “Guys I don’t know how but, I think my mom just sent me a vision.” Claw gasps and Kimmy falls off the bed with a thud, we look at each other and break down laughing. Once were done I tell them about my dream vision thing. “OMG so you’re like a princess!” Kimmy says, excitedly. “Well then I want to be your ‘Royal Adviser’!” Claw squeals. “Hey no fair! I want to be her ‘Royal adviser'! " “I called dibs first!”

“You both can be my ‘Royal Adviser’!” I giggle. So do they. Then there’s a knock on the door, my brother’s knock, Claw gets up to unlock the door, and as soon as she does Nico bursts in. “Okay, so you passed out and got wounded, AND DIDN’T THINK TO TELL ME!?” I just giggle, while Claw shuffles past him and sits back in her spot. So he’s mad. Yep. Should I knock him out? WHAT NO! I look at Claw like she’s insane. Kimmy looks at me then Claw, then me then Claw. This goes on forever until all three of us start laughing like crazy, Nico rolls his eyes and says “You’re insane, FREAKING INSANE!”

I plop out of bed and ignore the pain in my leg and see Aragorn reading a very, very thick book, he looks up and gives me a small smile, “Well look at that, you're not a zombie!” I giggle and sit next to him “What’re you reading?” He just flips the book to the cover and it says The Bite, a book that’s apparently too mature for me. I blink and then yawn “Where is everyone?” “Classes, don’t worry I’m on break. We're taking turns watching you.” I roll my eyes because they act like I'm a baby. He stares at me for a long minute, and then, finally, asks “So you’re a princess?” My face goes red, “Uh yeah I guess, Kimmy and Claw are my ‘Royal Adviser’!” He laughs at this. I dozed off for the millionth time today. I don’t have any dreams. I just think about my friends, and how they stood by me when I was hurt and delusional. They’ll stand by me no matter what, right? Then my mind wonders to Juno and Aragorn, how Claw pointed out how they were looking at me, then there’s Teddy. I giggle thinking how he was looking at Claw, but then I think about how Kimmy was looking at Teddy. Wait a minute, does Teddy like Kimmy or Claw? But I’m knocked out of my thoughts, because someone is brushing my hair. Teddy! Great “Hey Teddy, um. . .” I struggle to find the words. He pushes his brown hair out of his face “Yeah?” “Um do you, I know this is a weird thing to ask but, do you like Kimmy or . . . Claw?” He seemed surprised by this question, but he answered without hesitation “Kimmy, I mean Claw is cute but I just met her.” I smile at this. The next time I wake up it’s Juno, Perfect, I can quiz him too. “So Juno, who do you like the most . . . romantically? Claw or. . . me.” He looks at me from across the couch and says “Why the heck do you want to know, shrimp?” I roll my eyes “It’s just a question!” He sighs, and when he says Claw me heart leaps, That’s so cute! I giggle once I realize Juno is sort of like Nico, MEGA OVER PROTECTIVE!

Now here comes the hard part, Aragorn. What if he likes Kimmy or Claw? But that’ll have to wait because I need to find my dad, so put all the lovey dovey stuff aside.

Once Juno is gone and I’m sure no one else is coming I put on a shirt, some jeans and sneakers and head out. Last time I saw him he was by the magic lab. I sneak past the teachers lounge, but then I stop short when I hear my brother's voice. “. . . Don’t care if that’s the case! If she ends up like this it’ll be you unconscious!” I ignore the urge to go in there and see who he’s talking to, and creep toward the magic lab or ML as we call it. There he is swirling various different colored liquids. “Well, Lili, I know you're there.” says her dad. Lilac creeps away from the corner she was hiding behind, “W-well.” Lilac says, her stutter coming back. When he turn around Lilac studies his features,

His eyes are the same color as hers, his hair is so black it looks purple, she clenches her fists and tries not to cry. He puts down the beaker and walks over to Lilac, “ You look like our mother.” He says with a small smile. Lilac takes a step back, and her father says “No need to worry I won’t hurt you.”

“How do you know I can trust you”

“Because I’m your father.” He says calmly.

Lilac’s ear twitches, Wait ear, I’m not in my wolf form??!! Lilac reaches up to her ears and almost falls flat on her face, “OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!” Her father chuckles. Lilac rushes over to a mirror on the wall and just about has a heart attack, where her human ears should be are two fuzzy wolf ears, and just above her butt is a furry tail. She moves her tail back and forth. HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THIS BEFORE!!! It only happened after the vision, she spins around to look at her dad. “WHAT IS HAPPENING!?” Lilac booms. “Lili calm down. . . breathe, the more you refuse to trust me the longer those will be there.

Lilac looks into his fiery orange eyes and swears they're actually on fire, then a memory comes back to her. . . well more like a feeling, and then she hears a poof! She looks back at the mirror tail and ears are gone. “See that wasn’t so hard.” Says Lilacs dad. She gives him a small smile, for the next few hours Lilac romes around campus with him talking about her mother and the Queen of Jerks, as Lilac had started calling Amilliana. Just then Aragorn comes running towards her and asks with just a bit of a threatening tone, “Who the heck are you, and why is she out of bed.” Her father obviously doesn’t approve of the way he just barged into their conversation. However he answers calmly, “I’m her father young man, and may I ask who are you.” Aragorn frowns and grabs hold of Lilacs hand, “We should be going, excuse me.” He’s practically dragging Lilac and when they get out of ear shot of her father she says, “Wanna tell me what that was all about?” He stops but doesn’t turn around, and when he does he looks absolutely furious. “You left and didn’t tell me where you were going, when I got back you weren’t there, do you know how worried I was!?” I sigh, I didn’t think about how this would affect him, I was too eager to get answers. “ I’m sorry, okay, I really am, I just. . . wasn’t thinking I guess.” Aragorn's face softens and he pulls me in for a hug, “Don’t ever do ANYTHING like that again!”