The Wolf Chronicle

Chapter Seven

MEREDITH’S POV

I vanished and appeared in a cave inside the Metairie cemetery, I saw the three wolf council members along with Fenris’ dad and Fenris.

They watched as a witch was performing a spell on a toy doused in blood, “stop!” I yelled and they all turned back

“Meredith?” Fenris said and I walked towards them, “what are you doing here child?” Maccon asked

“you’re hurting her” I spat in anger, “ we’re only helping her” Felan defended

“No, you’re killing her! stop this right now!” I yelled, “and how do you know that?” Fenris asked

“I’m passing the night in her house, stop this. She can’t take it” I fired, They all looked at each other

“Maybe we should stop, after all she said it might not work” Artemis said, Maccon nodded

“Morgan stop” he said but the witch was completely drawn into the power, her eyeballs had turned white “can she hear us?” Fenris asked

“Ofcourse not! She’s in too deep” I walked towards the table where she was performing the ritual and pushed the bloody bowl of the table, it crashed and she snapped back to her normal self

With widened eyes and heavy breathing, “what have you done!” she yelled

“You’re killing her so I had to” I defended

“You realize that you just doomed us all”

“it’s not midnight yet, we can still crown her. we have just an hour left” Fenris suggested

Morgan turned to glare at me but I wasn’t feeling intimidated, my mother is scarier.

“Fine then, but….” Morgan was cut off as the ground started to shake and stone particles started falling in the cave, a heavy wind blew across, blowing off all the candles in the cave. Leaving us in the dark

It suddenly stopped, “what just happened?” Maccon asked, Morgan lit another torch

“The barrier has broken” Morgan and I said simultaneously

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THE NEXT MORNING

NAKIA’S POV

“I thought the council members are supposed to take decisions that will benefit the pack” Meredith spat as she faced three men who she said are the wolf council members appointed by my dad

“we were only trying to help, we couldn’t just sit back and do nothing while all our lives are in danger” Felan fired

“so you decided to kill me?” I stopped pacing and turned to face him with folded arms and a very nasty look on my face

“My queen, we didn’t know that would happen” Maccon defended

“Oh actually you did, because Morgan told you she might die but you went along with it anyway” Meredith let out an exasperated sigh

“We’re truly sorry” Fenris apologized, “sorry?” I scoffed

“You almost had 206 bones in my body shattered to crumbs and you’re saying sorry? If I had the power I would just…” I clenched my fists as I couldn’t express my anger

“This act was really irresponsible” Meredith continued, “watch that tongue of yours child, we’re still in charge” Maccon warned

“I’m a witch, so you’re not the boss of me. Forgotten so quickly or do I need to remind you?” Meredith gritted

“Enough!” I yelled, “I can deal with how you almost killed me later”

“But the real situation still remains on ground, the barrier is open. Things will start coming out we need to close it” Artemis said

“Then close it yourself” I shrugged, “we can’t do that, we don’t even know how. And even if we are to close it I’m sure we’ll have to get the queen involved” Maccon

“Oh so now you don’t know how to close it? But you could hand over my life to a voodoo queen to kill me!” I am just so mad right now; they had no right to do that

“Even if I haven’t “shifted” before or whatever you called it, you still had no right!”

“we are so sorry, indeed we really are.” Halter begged, “we’ll make it up to you princess but please we need to close that barrier before anything slips out of there” Fenris said

“What is so bad about this barrier that everyone is freaking out?” I sat beside Meredith, “the barrier is like a gate or more like a bridge between our world and the world of the ancients” Maccon started

“The ancients in this case are monsters or demons that existed way before our time, when werewolves and witches came into existence we had to separate them because we couldn’t handle them” Halter continued

“So we had a witch create a portal to another world and banished them there”

“so if they come back, it’ll be for revenge” Fenris added, “this is why we need to close it” Maccon said

I sighed, “I’m still trying my best to understand all of this, but I’ll help you since the situation seems really important” I said

“And we have to act fast, if one thing manages to slip out then more will come along and soon we won’t be able to handle them all” Meredith added

“Then I guess we have all one job to do” I said

“Close that portal”

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MEREDITH’S POV

I had fallen asleep on my mom’s chaise lounge, on opening my eyes I found myself lying on the bare grass in the woods.

I sprung up immediately, pacing around in circles. Unaware of the kind of situation I’m in or how I even got here.

It was dark and I flinched as a thorn pinched my leg, I started walking around till I got to a portal with extremely bright light.  I covered my eyes as the light was getting too much for my sensitive eyeballs.

I heard a very deep snarl and I hid behind the tree and watched as something slipped out quickly from it.

It was so fast, I didn’t get a chance to see its face but it definitely was humane.  This must be the barrier.

I jerked up from my sleep and I rubbed my eyes, “we have a problem” I mouthed

MACCON’S POV

I rushed into the Metairie cemetery, dashing towards the cave while carrying Halter and Artemis following me behind swiftly

“Morgan! Morgan!” I called as I rushed in and my eyes scoured the room for her, I finally saw her kneeling, in prayers.

“Morgan!” I called, “shhh” she replied

“This is very important, please you have to help me” I begged, she clapped her hand twice as she didn’t look back, still muttering words to herself.

“The life of a man is at stake, I’m sure Hecate won’t be mad if you intervened” Artemis stepped towards her

She stopped and got up, swerving swiftly she faced Artemis. “And what prey tell could be the problem this time? Prayers to our triple goddess mother Hecate is really sacred, now I have to offer a prayer of forgiveness later” she spat

“Please Morgan, I found him like this” I stepped forward and Artemis paved way for me to place him on the long table by the wall.

Her eyes widened, she moved slowly towards him. “What happened?” she asked

“I don’t know, I walked into his room and I found him like that. His eyeballs all turned backwards and..and i- just help me please” I exhaled

Apart from us being the elders of the council, Halter is also my brother.

She placed her hands on his forehead for like two seconds before jerking them off, she did it again before turning to face me

“He’s gone” she said softly, “go-gone?” I stuttered “I don’t understand you Morgan, make me understand you”

“His consciousness is lost Maccon; he’s no longer in there. This… this is just a shell” she held his hand and dropped it

I slowly started losing my breath as I felt my chest compressing, “Maccon, Maccon” Artemis rushed towards me and held my hand before I could fall on my knees

“Ho-how did this happen?” Artemis asked her,  “I’ve seen this before” she walked towards her prayer table

“This is none other than the work of a demon that has been for ages”

“De-demon?” he stuttered, she grabbed a Grimoire off the table. “Yes, a sleep demon”

She opened the page and Artemis helped me move towards where she placed the book

“This is a sleep demon?” Artemis looked at her

“The bakasura”

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MAURGRIM’S POV

I sat on the mini sofa by my fireplace, drinking whisky from my glass and scheming. I suddenly started getting tired, and I just wanted to close my eyes.

I dropped the glass on the table and slumped in the chair, about to close my eyes I felt something get in swiftly and now sitting right in front of my feet.

I opened my eyes and I saw this demon, with a frightening appearance, facial structure like that of a bat , also looking grotesque.

“Bakasura” I called softly as I sat up straight, “Maugrim” she called and moved away from me and sat by the edge of the long sofa.

“why are you here?” I got up slowly, “decided to pay an old friend’s son a visit” she answered in her tiny childlike but intimidating voice.

“Old friend you say?” I raised a brow, “your father was very good to our kind” she continued

I smirked; I think the presence of this ancient monster just made my scheming easier “Perhaps you can return that favor” I rested my weight on my walking stick and I watched as her bat ears stretched even longer

“I’m all ears”

“You see I’m after an artifact that holds generations of power. A crown, but I can’t get my hands on it. I’ll need to compel the heir to have her hand it over. It’s almost impossible, handing over your birthright to a stranger”

“And what do you want me to do?”

“You have the powers of sleep don’t you?”

“My powers are unlimited; I’ve been in existence for ages. Don’t question me child and tell me what you want. I would have trapped your consciousness in limbo if not for your father”

“I’m sorry, very well then. I need you to manipulate someone to give me something I want” I said

“hmm, Trickery. Give me the name”

“Nakia Reyes”

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NAKIA’S POV

I adjusted my gown as I rushed towards the meeting room, I woke up 30 minutes late for work and hopefully this doesn’t come out of my paycheck for the month.

I exhaled deeply as I opened the door, “ Nakia, you’re 30 minutes late” Dr Haven’s said

“uh-I’m sorry sir, it was….” He cut me off, “Nah that’s okay, just don’t let it repeat itself, anyways I gathered you all here to meet the new doctor” he smiled as he pointed to the man beside him.

The doctor was 6’5 ft tall, black curly hair that falls on his face, dimples that shows whenever his lips part, broad shoulders and well defined jaw. His eyes were bright blue, he stood confident in his office pants, white coat and immaculately polished shoes.

“Doctor Damon, nice meeting you all” he smiled as he greeted, his voice treading softly in the room. “well, I hope you get to know him one on one later, back to your positions” Dr. Haven’s said and I was about turning back when I noticed a grotesque looking monster with bat like features standing behind him with a devilish smile on it’s face.

I froze, still looking at it. Unaware that my colleagues have left the room, “Nakia, Nakia” Dr. Haven called and I flinched

“You want to say anything? Or?” he looked at me and my gaze turned to the new doctor who kept staring at me with an interesting look on his face

“uh-erm- no sir. Excuse me” I stuttered as I rushed out, what the hell did I just see?

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I carried a tray of injections as I walked towards the dispensary; I placed the tray on the table and opened the cabinet to get more bottles of haloperidol.

I closed the cabinet and turned back, the monster was up close this time. Right in front of my f*****g face.

It cackled before vanishing and I just stood there, breathing heavily. I quickly placed the bottles in my tray and was about rushing out when Meredith appeared in front of me and the tray dropped from my hand.

“Oh s**t!” I cussed, “I’m sorry” she said softly “I’ll need to get used to you doing that”

I looked at the ground and two bottles had broken, oh damn! This one is definitely coming out of my paycheck.

“There’s trouble Nakia” Meredith said “trouble?”

“Can you wait till after I’m done at work? Please” I begged, “No, if I could wait I wouldn’t be here” she spat

“Fine, what is it this time?” I groaned

“One of the elders is dead” she landed and my eyes widened

“de-dead? How? When?” I thought I still saw them yesterday, like what the f**k? Is that how people die?

“This morning, something is out of the barrier Nakia.”

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“This is exactly what we were talking about!” Fenris yelled, “Now look, Halter is dead” he continued as he paced around the room

“I don’t understand, how? Was he captured or something?” I asked with a confused look plastered on my face

“Oh please, how would you understand? Since we’ve been telling you about this, you’ve done nothing but being ignorant about it and now look one of our council elders is dead and it’s all your fault” Fenris raised his voice at me

“Fenris! You realize it’s the queen you’re talking to” His dad warned, “Queen? The same queen that is afraid of taking responsibilities? The same queen that wants to get us all killed? She couldn’t care less about us. We mean nothing to her!” his voice reverberated across the room

His dad sprung up and grabbed him by the collar, “I don’t want to hear another word from you” he gritted

“I’m running from responsibilities? Is that what you think? If I understood clearly the mess we were in wouldn’t I have gotten involved? So you think it’s easy to lose your memory and just believe what everyone tells you?  Now listen to me and listen well” I sprang up and got in his face

“I still remain the queen and right now you’re in my house, you can either stop raising your voice at me or let’s work head in head to stop this or you can get the f**k out of my house!”

He huffed as he glared at me, “and next time you talk to me like that, I’ll f*****g cut off your tongue and I doubt that will grow back” I smirked

“Meredith, what kind of situation do you think we have on ground?” I turned to face her, “Bakasura, it’s a sleep demon that steals people’s consciousness in their sleep and feeds on them. It’s a trickster spirit, has the ability of image and mind manipulation. If you don’t study this demon well you might fall for it’s tricks” she explained and exhaled

“And you’re certain that it came out from the barrier? What if it was summoned or something?” I shrugged

“I’m most certain, I had a vision that something slipped from the barrier but I couldn’t get a proper grasp of it” she continued

“Okay now we know that it slipped from the barrier and it’s an ancient demon, the only thing we need is the solution before it feeds on more people” Artemis said

“How do we catch or banish it?”

“You can’t banish a bakasura, we were lucky to have banished it along with other spirits the first time but the bakasura is a pretty stubborn demon” Meredith pushed a strand of hair back

“So if we can’t banish it, how are we supposed to stop it from wreaking havoc?” I bit my lower lip as I looked across the room to see if anyone got any bright idea, I’m new to this s**t so yeah obviously I got nothing.

“We trap it” Meredith suggested

“Where are we supposed to trap a demon that ancient? Definitely not in prison!” I scoffed

I watched as Meredith was trying to recollect something, she kept biting her lower lip and picking her nails.

“I got it! We can trap it in the 7*7” she said, “Okay you just lost me, what’s that?”

“It’s a puzzle cube that my mom has been working on, it’s big like the shape of a pyramid” she explained, her enthusiasm is kind of infectious

“So you expect us to lock a demon in one of your mom’s puzzle cubes?” Fenris raised a brow

“Shut it, we don’t need your sarcasm” I cautioned,  “No you’re not seeing the bigger picture here,  My mom and I could finish the puzzle cube and cast a spell making it into a prison that can hold any entity” she continued

“Okay and how long will that take?” I asked, because we need to catch this thing fast and I haven’t even mentioned that it has been showing itself to me

“I don’t know, a spell like that could take a few days” she exhaled, “days? No no we need something now” Artemis disagreed

“How about Pandora’s box” Fenris suggested, “isn’t that like a box that can unleash evil to mankind?” I arched a brow

“That barrier breaking is evil enough, but I think we should develop an idea around that”

“No, we’re not unleashing any more evil” I disagreed

“The only other way to catch a bakasura is trapping it in someone else’s consciousness” Meredith said

“So you mean while it’s trying to steal someone’s consciousness in their dreams, we trap it there?” I asked

“Yes” she answered

“But to do that, we need a volunteer, someone that is willing to be trapped in the same place as the bakasura till we find a more suitable prison”

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“Doctor Damon, I have managed to get all the folders except…..”I stopped as I walked into his office and he wasn’t there.

Anyways, I’ll just drop the file and walk out, there’s even something about him that interests me so much. Sometimes I feel drawn to him.

I turned on my heels to leave and he walked in, “oh um, sorry..I just came to drop the files you asked for. I’ll take my leave now” I walked past him and he held me by the arm and drew me back in front of him.

“Nakia” he called softly, “sir?”

“why are you acting like you don’t remember me? you don’t remember us?” he started and I had a totally confused look plastered all over my face.

Forgot about him? I don’t even know this guy, I just met him about two days ago and he’s claiming an “us?”

“I’m sorry you must have me mistaken” I chuckled softly and wanted to leave, “stop playing these games, I missed you. Honestly I thought you died, I was devastated and upon that my whole family was murdered” he continued

“oh well I’m sorry about your family but I don’t know you sir, I’m so sorry if I look like someone you know” I said and he moved closer to me and held me by the waist

“The alpha will always know what’s his” the voice in my head said, Alpha?

I stood still, gazing steadily into his eyes till he crashed his lips on mine. While squeezing me softly, I eased into it, I let myself go, kissing him back more passionately.

He started getting aggressive as he proceeded to unbutton my gown; he rested me on his desk and got in the middle of my legs, making his way up my thighs with his hands.

I suddenly stopped and pushed him off me, “I’m sorry I can’t do this” I leaned off the desk and ran out and straight into the bathroom,

Why did I let myself go like that? Maybe there was always a part of me that wanted him so badly but there’s another part that doesn’t know why.

I feel cheeks heat up whenever I see him and my legs start sweating, my heart starts pounding like crazy.

“He was always yours and you’ll always be his” the voice in my head said his?

“I don’t belong to anybody! I’m not a property and I don’t even know who he is” I disagreed loudly and I heard one of the toilets flush.

My colleague, Stacey came out of the toilet adjusting her gown as she gave me a weird look, “who are you yelling at Reyes?” she liked calling me by my surname

“oh you heard that? Uh-I’m just practicing for an audition” I chuckled nervously, “audition? For what movie?” she asked and my head totally went blank.

I’m out of lies, “the um-master’s maid” I laughed,  “hmnn, cheesy. Good luck” she finished rinsing her hand and walked out.

“Listen! If you’re not going to do anything other than talk in parables all day then shut the hell up and stop making me look crazy” I gritted at my reflection.

Damon might know me since he mentioned something about my accident and he might be a liar on the other hand , that’s why Meredith will help me out.