Dogfight

Let The Healing Begin

~Jess~

I wake up on hard surface but it's so dark I can see nothing. There's a dark mist that crawls across the ground that gives off an eerie vibe. I hear what sounds like a child crying in the distance. I follow the sound song as how I'm the only one here and come up on a little girl with her head in her lap. The closet I get she seems oddly familiar and when I notice the purple lace dress she's wearing my blood runs cold and try running in the other direction. That was me the day I was grounded.

"Cora, Cozbi where are we? We gotta get out of here!" I state but no one answers back. I start to panic as the fear of being completely alone sets in. I come up to another scene of my life. It's the day I ran from my parents and I try to run a different direction.

This process started off slow but now scenes from my life are flashing in front of me all around and I no longer have anywhere to run. I start to breathe heavy feeling a panic set in and I refuse to succumb to the anxiety taking over. In stead I throw my head back and scream in agony into the darkness. I expelled every last trace of air and hang my head in defeat as the reels stop and my world goes black once again.

I haven't cried in a long time but I feel tears slide down my cheek. I'm usually able to shut my emotions off when needed but not this time. Every emotion I've pushed away is finally coming to the surface all st once and it's painful. It almost feels like my soul is being ripped in different directions.

I see a light in the distance and for some reason it calms my nerves the brighter it gets. There is a silhouette in the middle of the glow with their arms outstretched looking as they want an embrace but I can't move. I'm on my knees awestruck with tear stained cheeks.

"Hello my child and I'm so glad to have finally met you." The most beautiful voice I ever heard say. I can now see the figure is a woman with piercing blue eyes that seems to glow as bright as the light behind her and naked as the day she was born. Her long white hair covers her breast and milky white skin is flawless. I know instantly that it's the moon goddess herself. My mind comes back to me and realize I'm being disrespectful so I bow my head and she places her hand on my shoulder.

"Rise my child we have much to discuss." I did as she said and tried to quickly scramble to my feet not wanting to make the moon goddess wait any longer. I look around us and I realize it's no longer black but we are standing in a field and not just any field the same one I used to love to play in before I was grounded which for some reason brought on an anger at the moon goddess herself. I felt my face heat up and I balled up my hands. "You put me through everything I went through when I was younger!" I yelled at her feeling hurt and betrayed. How could she do that?

She turns around with not an ounce of shock and puts her hand on my cheek. "I'm sorry child but I did not put you through that. I put you with the parents I thought would protect you best and never expected to take the words of your uncle seriously. I'm sorry they weren't strong enough to stand up for you and that was unfair but the only thing I can do is create. Everyone has free will and due to the curse I couldn't interfere."

I felt the anger turn to anguish and broke down crying. What is wrong with me? I never cry but the fact that it was truly my parents who did those things broke my heart even more. Selene put her hand on my shoulder again which got my attention. "Believe it or not you are going to be the one to fix all this so no one else has to go through the things you went through" those were the words I needed to hear. It seemed something just clicked and made me realize I was secretly blaming all the wrong people. Yes my parents were weak but it boils down to my uncle. He was truly evil.

We walked for awhile talking about all the things that I need to know. Like I can travel between realms and Cora is the one who sees his in everyone and Cozbi is wrath but with both of them I will bring judgment to the world and rid the ones who mean harm. Eventually our world will have peace like philisfy but we must fight to have it. The more we talk though the more I started missing my wolves and my mate. It's just now evening but feels like forever since I've seen him.

I see the corners of Selene's mouth twitch upward into a smile and she leads me to a lake where I seetwo wolves playing knowing instantly it is Cora and Cozbi. They look like a couple of pups running around trying to catch each other and I run to go play with them. They are both jumping up on me licking my face showering me with love.

I hear a melodious laugh from behind us "I can see you all are healed" her face gets sober as she says the next part "but before you go home there's one more thing that needs done." I start to see the little girl in the purple dress and multiple more appearing right in front of our eyes. "You must make peace with your past." She says and the people who I was start to gather around. The little girl keeps inching closer with tears in her eyes with her head down. I reach out to touch her and she looks up in shock. I then pull her in for a hug and we stay like that for a few moments till I feel her start to disappear and I watch as she turns into a glowing dust flowing upwards and joins the starry night. We do this process till everyone is gone and I have such a peace I know I'm going to go back a different person.

Selene comes to me and places a kiss on my forehead and the world falls away and I feel my eye lids flutter open.