The Wolfless Luna

CHAPTER 6- DISCOVERY OF NEW POWER

GRACE

When I went near the place where the person was there, it looked like he sensed my presence and suddenly was now in his fighting stance. When I came into his view, his expression completely changed and now he was showing a very ominous smile.

“Oh. It’s you.” He said while relaxing his hand at the sides.

Wait, he knows me. Have I ever met him? No way I would forget a face like this and especially with my sharp memory I would not forget this face.

“Have I met you before? And how do you know me?” I questioned him.

“No, you have not met me but I have met you and I know who you are after all you are going to be our next successor so I need to know you.”

Next successor? What nonsense is he speaking? Is he high on something or what?

“Okay, then child I’ll see you later, and don’t go outside of your house this late at night you know you are not that strong to defend yourself.” He started leaving while laughing.

Before he could leave, I grabbed the collar of his shirt and yanked him down to the ground.

“I’m not letting you go until I find out what you were doing over here and what do you mean by the next successor?”

“You sure are a feisty one, let me tell you, you are of no match to me. So, it would be better if you let me go on my way and you go on your way?” he stood up and again started leaving.

“Not yet, Mr. Whoever you are,” I said with a challenging tone.

I swing my knee wildly into his stomach and I know he would be feeling his muscles tensing as the pain burst through his body. He stumbles back with a groan and attempts to re-arrange his senses to combat my powerful movements. He raised his arm to swing but I kicked him down to the ground before he could even begin to strike. But then a man suddenly said something and A dim, blue-green wave of tiny particles appeared and out of a sudden I started to feel tired and I felt sleepy. Dizziness took over me and I was starting to lose consciousness. I fell on the ground as I failed to maintain my balance but before closing my eyes the last thing, I saw was a bright, magenta glowing fragment cluster appearing, and in the next second the man disappeared.

I don’t know what happened next but when I opened my eyes I was in my room and everyone was sitting around my bed with a worried expression on their face. Aunt Alicia was holding my hand and was gently massaging me while Elijah and Uncle Jeremy were pacing around the room.

I got up only to get bombarded by questions from everyone.

“Are you okay, my dear?” Aunt Alicia asked worriedly.

“Why were you lying unconscious in the middle of the forest Grace? And how did you reach there?” Elijah asked.

“Grace where did you go in the middle of the night yesterday without telling anyone? Thank God Sophia saw you so, she informed us when we were not able to reach you in the morning.” Uncle Jeremy said.

That b***h, seriously needs a lesson, I very well know how she must have told them that I’m not in the house and sunk outside of the house at midnight.

“Slow down, please. I’ll answer all of you but before that give me water to drink, I’m feeling thirsty and my throat is feeling soar.”

Aunt Alicia gave me some water to drink in the meanwhile I tried to figure out what I should tell them and what not about yesterday night's event. I can’t tell them yet what happened with me and I need to find out so many answers to the questions.

‘What does he mean by he has met me and the whole successor thing?’ I know this has something to do with my birth and my father. Am I finally going to get answers to all my questions? I will just tell them everything only omitting some of the parts.

“Now, say,” Elijah commanded.

“Uhm... yesterday I was not feeling well and since today is the new moon gathering so, today I will be busy that’s why I thought of going on a run but then I guess suddenly I felt nauseous and I fell unconscious in the middle of the forest.” Wow, way to go Grace you left out very little detail and nothing much which includes your meeting the strange, the strange conversation, and more specifically what you saw in the forest. I said to myself in my head.

“Okay. So how are you feeling now? Are you feeling good enough to attend today’s gathering?” Aunt Alicia asked.

“Yes! Yes! I’m fine. Don’t worry Aunt, I’ll attend the gathering.” I assured everyone and then went to the bathroom to take a shower.

As I was bathing when I looked at the mark which is just below my chest in the corner. It is a strange mark that I had since my birth, everyone thought that it was my birthmark but only I knew that the mark kept on evolving after my eighteenth birthday. At first, it was just the horizontal crescent moon but now a small triangle had appeared above that, and below it was the sign of a sun, and on both the sides of the sun were small sparkling stars. Now a faint circle was forming around the moon covering the triangle, I have not told anyone about this and I’m still waiting to see how it will be formed.

I thought of washing my hair even though I did yesterday but still feel like since I was going today to the event it would be best to shampoo my hair. I reached out to the shampoo bottle only to find it empty and the new bottle was in the upper cupboard which I definitely can’t reach with this height of mine and in no way, I’m calling anyone now when I am naked from top to bottom.

There’s only one way left, I took a deep breath and stretched my hands outward while closing my eyes and trying to concentrate.

“Curenus Ratuno!” I named the spell and within one second the new bottle of shampoo was in my hands.

Phew! Thank God I was able to remember the correct spell otherwise I was going to mess up things if I had said the wrong one. Okay, before things become a bit difficult to understand, let me explain.

When I was seven years old that was the first time, I discovered that I had magic powers. One day when I was playing with William and Elijah outside, a group of other adult werewolves came and started teasing and taunting me, and Elijah being the hot-headed, went and started to fight and during the fight Elijah almost got hurt severely but in between I don’t know what happened to me I felt some energy burning me from inside and within seconds I was fighting the boys and then they were on ground and I stood their huffing without a scratch. Everyone thought that it was my heightened werewolf power but after that, I started to feel the same energy whenever I had the willpower to achieve something. I guess this was also one of the reasons why I was able to learn everything so fast.

I also started to see very weird dreams and automatically I knew what spell to use when I wanted to use one. I have never had a magic lesson but I knew all the spells automatically. Till now I only know that I can communicate with animals, heal someone, and reach wherever I want to and many more but those are all the bare minimum according to the books I have read about magic powers.

I have not told anyone about my magical powers and I have been using masking spells to hide my identity from the other werewolves since they will be able to tell who I’m from my scent. And this also answers that my father must be a wizard. This means that I’m a half-witch and a half-werewolf but that still doesn’t answer my question of not having a wolf. I have so many questions but I don’t know whom to ask for answers and after that incident at night I have more questions. What did he mean to be their successor and how does he know me?

While I was busy in my thoughts, I heard the sound of the door opening and by the smell, I could say Sophia had entered my room. What is she doing in my room? I hadn’t seen her when I woke up.

I was already done with my shower and was drying my hair; I could easily open the door and see what she was doing but, in that way, I wouldn’t find out what she was doing in my room.

And then a mischievous idea came to my mind, why not use my magical powers to see that? I closed my eyes, concentrated, and named the spell I wanted to use.

“Expeum Miserelio.” This spell causes the caster to become invisible and hide their scent. In this way, I can see what she is doing without her knowing about my presence.

Sophia was checking my cupboard, why is she doing that? I thought to myself. And like she didn’t find what she was trying to find then she went to look around my room. I was just standing beside her when she passed me but then she suddenly stopped on her track. Wait, can she feel my presence, no way! I moved backward only to get stopped by the cupboard at my back and Sophia was coming my way, now I was trapped between her and the cupboard.

But then what she did after was more surprising.

Quote of the day:

"If you know your true worth, you do not need anyone else to confirm it."