The Dormant: The 5 Goddesses

Episode 6: The Mysteries of Willamette County

[18 Years Prior]

~Bastet~

It was the start of the autumn equinox, and the biggest and shiniest blue moon was high up in the sky. I knew this was one of the few times in our time the moon has come out this way; just a thousand times, it has been like this, so I was pretty sure I knew where to find her.

I felt the necessity of talking to her to explain my reasons. I needed her, she was the only one that could help me achieve my ultimate goal.

Shifting and taking the form of a cougar. I moved through the woods quickly and with determination. My destination was getting nearer, so I swiftly changed and appeared back in my human form.

In a forest, in a small clearing near a silver pond. There I found her. She was finishing her rituals and accepting the offerings that only happened once every so often. Her naked body entered the waters, making her blue hue shinier than the moon above us, her long white hair, which usually was styled up in a coronet, was now loose and wild from the night wind.

She came out, and the droplets of that perfect water caressed her body, blending perfectly with the blue halo that was her skin. She kneeled on the pool's side, grabbing a dagger, making a deep cut on her hand, light shining out of the wound; she lightly submerged it in the pond's waters, giving the wishers what they asked.

My sister stood up and smiled, and a voice in my head started ringing. ¨Bastet, please come out. It has been ages without seeing your beautiful eyes.¨ As soon as her voice entered my head, I shot back ¨Selene, how much have I missed you, sister.¨

Walking out of the shadows that hid me. I started talking to her. ¨Selene, I am sorry to ask this of you, but I need you. We cannot let them win. After what they did, I came back just to watch how she had decimated my kind. He is not here with me now and my powers are dwindling. I need you to help me.¨ My sister looked at me sadly. ¨He is no longer with us, I know, but he wouldn't like what you've become.¨ A sad, concerned look flashed on her face.

I closed my eyes and went to a time when he was with me. The happiness I felt. We had my people, we had his people, and most importantly, we had each other.

Feeling pain building up in my chest, I took a deep breath and started speaking again. ¨She destroyed everything, and I felt so weak. I couldn't stay, I couldn't believe she would be desperate enough to do what she did to me.¨ I thundered at her.

The pain of memories made me feel like balling up and leaving again, but I decided I wouldn't, couldn't, feel emotions. Disappearing was not the best option for me. If I did it again, there would be nothing for me to come back to. I knew I had done it for a long time and now was reaping the harvest of my own foolishness.

Selene just stood there, her white gown magically covering her up. I stepped forward and bitterly said to her. ¨Please, in the matters of the past, what happened to him, with me. Just let it be.¨

She cut my words and said, ¨Babe, I thought we lost you forever, your people are almost gone. Their magic is now asleep, they have lost their faith in you, and that's the only reason you are currently weak. This is not something that happens in a century but the neglect of different lifetimes. This is your fault and yours alone. What did you think would happen if you disappeared for so long? Not caring about their needs, they prayed for you, and you didn't answer, and now they have stopped believing in you. Without them, we are nothing.¨

Pretending I hadn't listened to the last thing she said, I grinned and asked her. ¨Babe? Since when did we start speaking in the language of the twenty-first century, Selene?¨

She made a hand gesture, scolding me off. ¨Oh, you are not the only one who has gone in transfer and tasted the world. I just haven't done it numerous times in a row, and indeed, I didn't do it just so I don't have to remember the s**t I put my family through.¨ She sounded calm, but inside, a storm was brewing.

I rolled my eyes at her, knowing she was expecting an answer. ¨ I was left a shell of myself Selene, what did you expect? Maybe the responsibilities of taking care of them were too much for me. Nature gives them free will to choose to follow us, so why can't I do the same? I needed time for myself.¨

She stared at me in silence, almost appalled by my statement. I kept on answering, knowing the words that came out of my mouth. I didn't even believe in them., ¨Selene, I am sorry, sister. .... I just couldn't. ....It's in my nature…¨

I paused and continued. ¨... If that b***h wasn't anymore…¨ again finding myself lost for words, I thought.

Selene looked at me with a grave face and angrily growled into my mind. ¨Please don't compare my female kind with the sort of her.¨

Laughing out loud in a chuckle at the words that came from her. ¨I am sorry, Selene, you can be super touchy about your children, you know.¨

She looked at me with a smile, and I burst out laughing at my joke.

And like that, the tension was broken.

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[The Present]

~Sean~

I've been watching her every day this week, waiting for a chance to get her alone. As always, the little w***e, couldn't keep away from those two friends, nerd and trailer trash. They were constantly beside her, making it impossible for me to get near her, and talking with them there would be completely moot. They hated me as much as I hated them.

The week ended, and I started feeling more anxious. I wouldn't be able to see my little flower over the weekend. I thought if I had caught Charlotte alone, I would have taught her why she shouldn't anger me. The way she had spoken about what happened and gotten me in so much trouble with my f*****g father. If she had kept her mouth shut, she would have been mine already.

I stood up from my bed, pissed. Who the f**k does Charlotte think she is? Nothing, that was what she was. Without me, she was another pretty girl a damn in a dozen, she should count herself lucky that I decided to set my sight on her. I looked at myself in the mirror, at the blond, tall, muscular man I was becoming. How can she deny me? No one has ever done that, and she wouldn't be the first. It was now an obsession to be her first, to be inside of her, to own her completely.

Even though I moved on, even when we were together, I used to f**k different girls on the side. I didn't care, she had no right to laugh, speak, or breathe without me. I felt a sour taste coming up from my throat, it was anger, it was unfulfilled lust, and she would pay big time for denying herself to me and getting me into this mess.

¨Bitch!¨ I muttered while yanking my boxer briefs down and tugging on my aching c**k thinking about her, my eyes looking straight at myself in the mirror. I wasted three years with her and got nothing. I was going to take it now. My other hand was propped against the closet door, against the mirror, and I was now angry, stroking myself hard.

Thinking about that, I slammed my fist in the mirror, breaking it into a thousand pieces, some of them getting into my knuckles. I trusted my hand hard one last time, feeling my balls shoot as I came spurting all around the floor. Yes, my Charly, my flower tonight, she was going to be mine, like it or not, I thought while cleaning my hand with a towel and taking a deep breath.

I got dressed, left my room, and walked down the stairs grabbing my car keys. ¨Sweetie, your father is getting dinner. Would you set the table, please?¨ ¨Shut the f**k up, Mom!¨ I screamed at the woman, banging my already busted hand against the door, making her jump on her spot, grabbing her hands against her chest. ¨I have no time for you trying to f*****g mother me. Can you stop bothering me and let me go? I am going over to Charlotte's. I'll be back tomorrow.¨ I spewed at her, turning myself and stepping outside my house.

Entering my car, I remembered those three years treating her like a delicate thing. The way they say they like to be treated. Bullshit, my dad does what he wants whenever he wants, and my mom is still with him, even if at times she wore the sign of his fists on her face. A police officer in a small town could get away with so much. That's what they really like: a man who takes what he wants, no questions asked and that was what Charlotte was going to get. I tried gentleness with her, I tried coxing her, but this was the only way to get her.

Putting the key in the car ignition, I drove to her place and sat outside there watching the house. ¨As soon as the lights are off, I'll sneak into her room.¨ I started making my plan to get Charlotte off guard, knowing her parents like every Friday night would be out.

In my head, I was savoring every little thing I was going to do to her. Then her f*****g nerd friend came to her door. I jerked up at her sight as she entered Charly's house. After a while, both of them exited the house and started walking to the trailer trash house. ¨My f*****g plan is ruined. f**k those bitches.¨ I hissed between my teeth while hitting my steering wheel with my open palm, making it bleed again.

I still followed them slowly and watched. They didn't go into her friend's house. ¨Well, my good girl, what are you doing?¨ I mumbled, watching intently as the three of them entered the woods. This was perfect. I was getting three for the price of one. I got out of my car, silently entering the forest behind them.

I followed them until they came near the remote village north of Willamette County and decided to wait and see what they were doing there. I still had them in my eyesight as they made their way around the area. Twenty minutes in, and I heard a commotion.

The three of them ran to the woods, sprinting past me. I started running behind them.

They got to a clearing, and I quickly stopped running and hid behind a tree. Now we were alone, no one was behind us, and it was just Charlotte and Poppy. ¨Well, Sean, this is it, ¨ I said frantically, my d**k already throbbing with excitement. Crouching down and getting near them, I grabbed a piece of wood, smashing it against Poppy's head, making her fall to the ground, unconscious.

Charlotte screamed as loudly as she could, but we were alone now. She could have yelled all she wanted. No one would ever hear her, and I was going to take due diligence, and I was going to enjoy every second of it.

¨You think you can get away from me? I have been following you and those two all around the woods tonight.¨ My lips curled up in anticipation of what was going to happen. She saw my hungry face and tried to get past me to her friend, but I just put my body between them. She was at my mercy, at the mercy of a true predator. Charly took a step back and tried again before I moved forward. I heard her voice saying, ¨I am not going anywhere. I am not leaving Poppy.¨

I rolled my eyes and passed my hand through my hair. Charly didn't have to say it. I knew she would never leave her friend, and after I got what I wanted from her, I was getting what I wanted from the other one too. Launching forward, I caught her by the root of her hair and slapped her with my open palm against her right cheek, throwing her on the forest floor and following her down on my knees. She was struggling with all her might. She even managed to scratch my cheek hard, drawing blood with her fingernails. ¨So, you like it rough, don't you?¨ I smiled, amused at her weak attempt to fight me.

I touched my face and saw the blood on my fingertips. I smacked her hard and shook her by the arms, my finger probably bruising her upper arms. ¨Stop fighting! ¨ I screamed at her face as she lay there whimpering while I opened the button of her jeans and started peeling the material from her legs. Charlotte was still moving while crying and talking to herself while I fumbled with my fingers, finally releasing her from the piece of clothing. ¨No you can't, you can't do this.¨ She repeated the words like a mantra.

Sure I can, of course I can. When I am finished with you, you would be a w***e, I thought while licking my lips in anticipation and removing her socks, thinking of everything I would make her do. ¨I assure you, I can, and you will enjoy every minute of me inside of you, understand, cunt!¨ I started caressing her bare legs, her milky skin. My fingertips touched every place she denied me over the years.

I was getting so hard hearing her whimper. I grabbed her arms and yanked just to listen to her cry harder. She opened her eyes, looking straight at me, which for a second stunned me, but soon I was back on my mission, removing my own pants.

I quickly took them off and lowered my briefs, releasing myself. I positioned both my legs between hers, stroking my d**k, and leaning down whispered in her ear. ¨Believe me, baby, you are going to enjoy this and ask for more.¨ I yanked and ripped her underwear hard with one move, which made her yelp in pain, and then aligned myself to her p***y. I was ready to thrust myself inside her.

Before I managed to enter her out of nowhere, a black weight knocked me out from on top of her. I rolled off Charly, landing on my back, quickly looking up at the weight pinning me down. I found myself face to face with a growling rabid wolf. I am sorry, it's all I could think.

~Danielle~

We watched all these guys taking their clothes off, and most of them were yummy, gorgeous, snacks! My eyes went to the one that was behind the leader. His face looked carved by a god, with hazel eyes, a square jaw, blond hair, and muscles rippling and moving as he slowly took his shirt off. ¨Yum.¨ I could objectify and that specimen of pure testosterone was wholly objectifiable. I found myself biting the side of my lip and clenching my knees hard as I saw all of that male goodness putting on a show for me. Okay, it wasn't for me, but a girl could wish!

His tattoos were canvassing almost all of his back, painting his golden tan skin with numerous black motives. I turned to see Charly and her glasses were askew, so I fixed them while she closed my mouth. Yes, I was a proud hornbag, and I was salivating at the unintended strip show that man was putting up for me.

I kept drooling while watching those stone-carved abs, eight I thought those were a myth, but hell, this man was real, and he had them, the perfect pecs. He was about to remove his black shorts which were hanging, oh so dangerously low, they left almost nothing to the imagination. His pelvis was a perfect v and above a small trail of dark hair. Making an arrow into the only covered place on his body, and it was seconds away from being uncovered as he hooked his fingers on the elastic in his basketball shorts. In my mind, I was hooting and fist-pumping while whistling like a cartoon wolf.

He looked up, and those golden eyes stared straight into mine. I unconsciously let out a loud gasp. Everyone's head snapped toward my location. ¨Oh Shit...¨ I reacted, cursing myself for making a sound before I could take a peek beneath those tempting shorts. ¨... Guys, we need to move now!¨ I yelled as I started sprinting towards the woods. Running like hell was behind me, not stopping for anything.

I looked back; Charly and Poppy were behind me, and so were the large group of men who started running behind us. I took on escaping with all my might, still making sure the girls were behind me every couple of minutes. Poppy would never let me forget this.

Shit, Charly and Pops. I was so intending on escaping I wasn't watching to see if they were behind me. In a second, I looked back, and they were not there anymore. I stopped immediately, my eyes searching in the dark all around me. ¨Charly, Poppy, where are you guys?!¨ I screamed into the forest, trying to see past my own nose. The flashlights were lost and forgotten somewhere on the forest floor.

¨It's not funny. Come out now, please!¨ I kept on screaming while walking all over the place. Still, I couldn't find them. I couldn't see. Charly and Poppy are my family. If they go down, I go down, I thought, as I prepared myself to go back to get them out of the cult's clutches, I couldn't leave them, so I put the best look of determination on my face and turned around to retake my steps.

I hadn't taken two steps when a giant wolf, taller than me, came at full sprint and knocked me over on my stomach. His paws were pressing down on my shoulder blades, and his nuzzle menacingly showing his teeth and growling inches away from my face.

¨Don't! I know her.¨ I heard someone scream behind me as I whimpered and tried to breathe while being pressed down on the floor, feeling hands grabbing me by the waist, I was shifted back on my feet, and a bag placed over my head. We were in so deep s**t, I thought to myself while fighting hard with my captors and screaming at the top of my lungs for help.

¨Hello? I am seventeen. This is kidnapping a child!¨ They had seated me down, the bag still placed on my head.

¨It was trespassing first.¨ I heard a hoarse man's voice saying.

¨Well, child endangerment and felony kidnapping trumps trespassing in the police handbook.¨ I shot back at the man.

¨Who are you? What do you want? Why can't we scent you?¨ The voice inquired.

I c****d my head, raising my left eyebrow in question. ¨What?¨ I asked the voice. ¨Excuse me?… Scent me what?... I am Danielle Starr, and I am seventeen. I am from Willamette and excuse me, but I do NOT smell, I shower every day, and if this is a cult, please don't sacrifice me. I promise no more showers if that's your cup of tea.¨ I was starting to crumble. Yeah, put me in a difficult situation and I started to ramble away. I got the worst case of verbal diarrhea.

I heard people chuckle all around me, which made me shift in my seat. ¨Missy don't play games with us. What kind of were are you?¨ The voice questioned again.

¨…you Ummm Ware? Okay, mister, I don't know WHERE I am. If it's WEAR, the answer is black clothing. I don't know any other type of WHERE!¨

I heard more laughter around and a serious voice on my back. ¨Alpha says they are teenagers if they are shifters, they haven't shown it yet. We will need to keep them around until tomorrow.¨ I felt a hand grabbing my nape and then a sting on my neck which immediately made me feel drowsy. Then, darkness started seeping in again. Before I fell asleep, the feeling of hands carrying me around lingered.