Fated to the tainted blood

Chapter four

Ashina wakes up the next day with her clothes torn, and her head pounded heavily. Rain had fallen heavily and it had washed away her blood-stained clothes.

“How am I still alive?” She spoke out loud, memories of the night before came rushing through her memories.

“I reject you, Ashina…” those were the words Luther had said to her after she had run after him. Ashina screamed loudly as she used both her palms to hold her head in place. It was as if the earth was spinning right before her.

“We heard that Alpha Donovan ordered his people to kill everyone in the pack” she recalled the conversation she had with the girls she had seen leaving the pack the previous day. Ashina screamed again because with each memory coming back to her, there followed a huge bang on her head as if someone was beating drums in it.

“Ashina..” she remembered the voice calling out to her before she finally got off the cliff. Now she was wondering how she had managed to survive the fall.

“How am I not dead?”

“I am supposed to be dead”, talking to no one in particular but herself. She then remembers how she had met her family in a pool of their own blood.

“Ahhh…” she screamed again, but this time around, the scream resulted in her crying. She spotted a cave nearby and then walked into it.

No matter how hard she tried forgetting the past events, they kept on coming to her, causing her to cry. Ashina wept bitterly, increasing the tension of the pounding in her head. After crying for what felt like hours, she rested and laid down, folding her body on the cold dusty floor, retiring to sleep.

Ashina jolted up in her sleep when she noticed a presence close to her face.

“Who are you?” She asked the lady who had been staring at her with wide eyes while she slept. The lady smiled at her but her eyes were sad, really sad and Ashina could tell that the lady held so much pain in her eyes.

“Were your family also killed by Donovan’s men?” She asked, but the lady kept mute, so she thought that maybe she couldn’t speak. There were a few cases of mute werewolves around, but she had not had the chance to meet any of them before. This would be the first she thought. Ashina turned her back to the wall, resting her head on it while she just sat with her legs folded.

“I was one of the powerful sorcerers around and the youngest one at that time.”

Ashina took her head off the wall and then turned to the lady. Now she could see that the lady whom she thought was a lady was a young girl just like her.

“You speak” the girl nods her head.

“My name is Raven.”

“I am….” Ashina made an attempt to introduce herself, but Raven cut her short with the sound of her throat.

“I know who you are already. You are Ashina, daughter of Beta Veryl whose blood is mixed with that of the witch's bloodline, and you were supposed to be dead now, but you were given a second chance”.

Ashina looked at Raven in shock, her mouth was slightly opened, and then she remembered Raven saying that she was a sorcerer, and then she began placing pieces together.

“You said you were a sorcerer. Were your powers taken from you?” Ashina inquired.

“No, I died”

“Wha… what do you mean? Are you dead now?”

“I was captured by Alpha Rowan and promised a good life..” Raven spoke up, Ashina did not speak a word, she just sat down on the cold floor trying to pay attention to Raven’s story.

“Alpha Rowan promised me a good life, he wanted to rule the werewolf kingdom with my powers backing him up…”

“But Alpha Rowan is known to be powerful”, Ashina interrupted Raven.

“Yes, he is powerful, but his power cannot be compared to that of Alpha Luther.”

“I didn’t think of it like that.”

“When he captured me, he sought my help. He wanted more powers, and he did get more powers. He did not want to be opposed by anyone, so he frequented the dungeon where he had kept me.”

“For more powers, right?” Ashina asked.

“Yes, but he also lusted after my body…”

“What…?” Ashina asked, amazed at the new discovery.

“I had not known then that all he wanted was my body, he told me that he was going to get married to me when the time was right, and I believed him…”

“And then he ended up not getting married to you.”

“Worst, I got pregnant for him, and he ordered a maid of his to add poison to my meal.”

“Why did he do that?”

“He obviously didn’t want to have a child with me” Raven rolled her eyes dramatically and Ashina chuckled a bit. “I used my powers to force the truth out of her mouth.”

Ashina and Raven went silent for sometime before Raven spoke up again.

“I got really heartbroken by the betrayal, so I performed a forbidden spell, a curse rather. I gave up my body to a vengeful soul. The person chosen must fulfill my wishes in exchange for my body…. I chose you, Ashina.”

“What do you mean?”

“My wish was for the downfall of Alpha Rowan and everyone who had a hand in killing my family and members of the Redmoon pack”.

Ashina was lost in her words.

“I have given you my body, now you must carry out my request. We have a common enemy, so exacting revenge should not be a big deal. I am sure you want those people. I have given you a chance to make that happen.”

Everywhere began to spin, Ashina closed her eyes tightly only for her to open them to see that the whole conversation she had with Raven was a dream.

“It was all a dream” she whispered to herself but she could not doubt her dream and call everything Raven told her as lies. She got up

immidiately, with the zeal to carry on her revenge on those who had killed get family.