The Moon Goddess' mistake

13. Finding Selene

13. Finding Selene

Gabriella’s POV

The Leviathan was a creature cursed to live deep in the Black sea. He was created by the gods to help them torture the bad souls after their death. After centuries doing their ‘dirty’ job, the gods decided to reward him with a mate and created a female leviathan. They produced children - the demons, but the female started enjoying torturing the souls too much and started going up to the surface to torture the living. The gods saw this and killed her. Leviathan felt the loss and went mad. He tried to erase all the living beings on earth and that is why he was cursed to live deep in the Black Sea. 

His curse was to never see the light of the day and be able to walk on earth unless he finds a mate to love him. His form was cursed too. No one knew how he looked as no one survived after meeting him.

“It makes sense to kidnap Selene. He wants a mate as no one would love a monster so maybe he wanted to force her to get him a fated mate?” Danny suggested.

“I don’t know… It is a possibility but it’s been 5 years… And why would her premonition see so much destruction? And what do our mate bonds have to do with all that?” The more information we were getting, the more questions arose.

“Let’s have some sleep, beautiful. Maybe it will help us clear our heads” Danny kissed my forehead and led me to our bedroom.

Sleep took us as soon as we snuggled together. I found myself barefoot in the woods connected to our house. It was still night and the moon was full but it looked bigger. The moonlight hypnotized me and I couldn’t take my eyes off it. I realized someone was holding my left hand. It was Danny, I didn’t have to look to know it’s him. 

A cloud hid the moon behind itself and that broke my trance. I looked at Danny and he looked as confused as I was. A soft light deep into the forest caught our attention and we started walking to it. I felt like I was in some sort of a trance and my body was just pulled towards the light. When we got near it we were surprised to see that the source of the light was a girl, looking in her early twenties. 

She wore a white dress that stopped just above her knees. She had long straight dark hair, so silky that it looked like it sparkled. Her feet were bare but she didn’t look dirty and nothing indicated that she was walking in the woods.

“Hello” I said carefully

“Hi” she smiled softly, the light slowly disappearing in her body

“Who are you?” Danny asked

“I… I don’t know. I don’t remember” her eyes welled with tears

I saw a shadow in the corner of my eyes and felt like a deja-vu from the day alpha Gregory was killed. I felt the need to protect her and I knew Danny was feeling the same but before we were able to do anything, the shadow entered the girl’s body and her lifeless body fell on the ground. 

I jolted up covered in sweat. I was still in bed and it was just a dream. I felt Danny panting next to me.

“Did you see it too?” I whispered and he just nodded.

“We need to go now, this wasn’t just a dream” Daniel said and left with me following behind him.

We walked straight to the woods to find the girl and soon enough we met her. She had the same soft aura but powerful at the same time. She looked disoriented. We asked the same questions and got the same answers. But this time we knew what was coming. As soon as we saw the moving shadow, Danny and I moved protectively to the girl’s side and Daniel bathed us in sunlight using his gift from the witches.

We took her inside the house and let her rest in one of our guest rooms as she looked exhausted and drained. The next morning after breakfast we went to our office with the girl so she could tell us her story.

“You said you don’t remember who you are?” I asked carefully.

“I don’t. I feel like I know things but I can’t say them out loud or think about them. It is hard to explain. I wake up in the woods 59 times and the same thing happens every time. A shadow comes and kills me. You saved me from my 60th death. I know If I died tonight it would have been my last.” she said

“How do you know that?” I asked

“I have this tattoo on my wrist.” She showed us the wrist and we saw a white ink tattoo of the word “one”. “It read “sixty” and it changed with every death.”

“Did you feel pain when you died? And if you knew what would happen, why didn’t you try to save yourself?” Daniel asked

“I didn’t exactly know what would happen when I wake up. It was like living in a deja-vu. Every time it was the same. I wake up disoriented, then find the tattoo and remember it used to be another number before, I feel the full moon light on my skin and it feels incredible, like it was energizing me, then the shadow comes and kills me. I don’t remember if it hurt or not. I put all my memories together last night, they all came to me in my dream.” she tried to explain. It sounded confusing but something caught my attention.

“Was the moon full every time you woke up?” I asked

“Yes?” her confusion made her answer sound more like a question.

I looked at Danny, our eyes met and I knew he was thinking the same thing. 60 full moons is equal to 5 years. Selene was missing for five years. Add the full moon, her glowing, her aura, etc.. This must be her.

“I love your smartness” Danny told me and pecked my lips.

“We know who you are” Danny smiled at the girl but before we could say anything her arm started glowing and a new tattoo formed. 

“For the light to be saved and the balance protected,

the memories that were once lost should be tended.

Care and friendship is all that is needed for them to bloom

but forceful knowledge will bring you to your doom.

What’s lost will come on it’s own

and then the Moon will be back to her throne

Secrets revealed and honesty are the keys

to save the world from its demise”

“What do you think?” I asked Danny

“The prophecy finally started to reveal itself” I said

“It is shorter than I expected…” Danny

“I don’t think it’s the whole prophecy, hun” I reached the girl’s arm to inspect the tattoo better. It looked like there was a faded line above the first line. Danny came closer and stood behind me, snaking his arms around my waist and resting his chin on the top of my head.

“What do you think it means? We need to be careful deciphering it or... you know… we may fail” Danny said

“I think it means that you mustn’t tell me who I am or what has happened to me. The memories will come to me on their own?” the girl said, almost sounding like a question.

“I agree. It’s almost lunch time, let’s go make some food and then we can get some rest” Danny suggested and I knew what kind of ‘rest’ he needed. I rolled my eyes at him but I’d be lying if I say that our brainstorming didn’t affect me the same way. Smarts turn me on, am I weird? 

We decided to make some sandwiches with dinner leftovers. We did some small talk. Selene asked how we met and we told her that Danny is my second chance mate but my first mate isn’t dead and didn’t reject me. She understood that we couldn’t reveal too much, because it might trigger the prophecy in the wrong direction.

“I wish I knew my name at least. I know that you know it but can’t call me by it” she sighed

“You can make up a temporary name, we would need a name to address you.” Danny suggested. 

“I feel like Diana” the girl said thoughtfully.

“That’s the name of the Moon Goddess in the roman mythology” I mindlinked Danny whose eyes got dark

“Good choice, Diana. Let’s go get some rest, see you later” Danny excused us and started dragging me towards our bedroom. As soon as we closed the door he pinned me to the wall, kissing me hungrily.

---***warning: steamy content***---

He tore our clothes so fast that I only realized we were naked when I felt his hard member on my entrance. I don’t know how I ended up with my legs around his waist. Daniel f****d me hard and fast and I was a moaning mess. I bit his shoulder with my canines and he did the same and we both exploded at the same time. Danny carried me to the bed, his member still inside me and I knew he needed more ‘rest’. And so did I. 

---***end of steamy***---

After another round of passion, we finally collapsed on the bed and immediately fell asleep. We ended up in the meadow where we met the Fates for the first time. 

“If you’re here. Did you find her?” Fates asked from behind us

“Yes but she has no memory of who she is. Aren’t you watching over us? Don’t you know what’s happening on earth?” I said.

“We are not that kind of deity. We work with other deities to create a balanced future while still respecting your free will. It’s complicated to explain to mortals. Please take no offense. Also Selene’s past, present and future are blocked to us. Tell us what happened” Fates replied.

We told them everything that happened, her 59 deaths, her tattoo counting down her lives and the revealed part of the prophecy. 

“Does she smell like a werewolf?” they asked deep in thought

“Hm.. no. I didn’t smell a wolf on her. Is she a werewolf?” Daniel asked

“She is the mother of all shifters but there is a wolf soul connected to her. When Selene needs to go to the human realm, she becomes a werewolf. A mortal one.” Fates explained

“How does it work? Going to earth and then coming back here?” I found myself curious about that for some reason

“She needs to go through a portal which removes her immortality. Our immortality is part of our souls and it stays in the portal until we return and go back through the portal again. Our immortality would recognize us and attach back to us. The problem is that Selene wasn’t taken through the portal. Her immortality isn’t there. We need to find out who took her.”

“We think we have an idea. What do you know about Leviathan?” Daniel said proudly and winked at me. Such a boy.

Fate’s eyes went wide.

“Well that changes a lot. Leviathan’s story is best known by Selene. He is her child, too. We don’t know what happened, no god or deity knows the whole story. We only saw his craziness and were ready to kill him but Selene didn’t let us, so instead we cursed him. Took 7 deities to create a curse strong enough to contain him.”

“I guess we will all have to wait for Selene to get her memories back. We could use some normalcy” Danny shrugged his shoulders

“Oh, you will have your hands full really soon” Fates giggled and sent us back home.