The Blue Moon's Prophecy

Chapter 7 – Red Orb

Chapter 7 - Lavender’s POV

I run back to my bedroom immediately after breakfast. I don’t know how much Darius knows of what I have been up to ever since I have stayed in his house. And it might be better if he doesn’t know. Even though he is really handsome and I feel attracted towards him. He also has quite a lot of muscle and I still don’t know what he wants with me. It might be best for me to find out what it is that the key which I found in that mysterious book from the library.

I take the key from under the bed. It was still in exactly the same place where I left it. Which is a huge relief. I look at the key a bit closer. It looks very modern, just like Darius’ house. Could the key open one of the doors in this house? I slip the key in the waistband of my jeans and go to look for the keyhole this key was made for.

I start to see a faint blue light in my top as I leave my room. I take the key from under my waistband. It’s slightly glowing blue, which is the light I was seeing under my top. As I walk one floor down, the key starts to glow brighter as if it’s trying to lead me to the right place. When I walk down to the ground level of the house, the key’s blue glow dims again till only a small bit of blue remains. I walk back up the first of the two flights of stairs and walk through the hallway. The closer I get to Darius’ room, the brighter the key starts glowing. I know that he is in his office right now, so I don’t need to worry about him catching me snooping around in his room.

The inside of the room is very clean and modern. Just like my bedroom, but his room has a bit more of a personal touch. It’s neat, but you can definitely see that someone lives here. On the wall are hanging some old pictures of Darius and Haleigh. He hasn’t changed much over the years. Well, his cheeks are less chubby and his jawline is more pronounced, but that is about it. His eyes and his smile look exactly the same. They were just as breath taking then, as they are now. I notice how photogenic he was even when he was younger. I shake my head. I should not be snooping around in his room. What if he catches me? He would probably never trust me again. I look at the key while waling circles through is room. And suddenly, while facing the bathroom door, the key starts to glow even brighter. I open the door to the bathroom and suddenly the key starts to pull himself towards the mirror like a magnet. With all my might I am able to stop the key from flying out of my hand and take the mirror of the wall. As soon as the mirror is removed, I am not able to hold the key anymore. It shoots out of my hold and into the keyhole in a small door which was hiding behind the mirror. It must be around 80 by 80 centimetres. I turn the key, opening the small door. Behind the door is a red glowing orb.

Was Darius hiding this from me?

Do his sister and his friend know about this?

Does he even know about this?

And if yes, what was he planning to do with it?

And what has all of this to do with me?

Alright, stay focussed. Darius hasn’t killed you yet. He seems like a nice guy. Maybe, I could just ask him about it. Maybe he doesn’t even know about this. I decide to take the orb with my. But as soon as my hand touches it, I can feel a shock going trough my body. It feels a bit like an electric shock. My vision is starting to blur.

Was this all a trap?

What is happening?

I feel my panic levels rising. My heartbeat picks up it’s pace to an incredible speed. I start to feel nauseous. My vision starts to blacken, till I am not able to see anything anymore.

Darius’ POV

It is 8 am at the moment. I am sitting in my office together with a mountain of paperwork that Killian brought in today. It is the less fun side of being the king of all werewolves.

Suddenly, I feel a sharp pain in my chest for a few seconds. As the pain disappears, so does my vision for a few seconds.

All the alarm bells in my head start ringing. I can feel my heartrate picking up speed as I dash my way to Lavender’s room. But when I enter, she’s not there. I mindlink Killian. ‘Killian, have you seen Lavender?’

‘No, I haven’t. Something wrong?’ he answers.

Don’t tell me this is actually happening right now.

She didn’t leave me? Did she?

Why would she leave me?

Wasn’t I good enough to her?

I can feel tears burning in the corners of my eyes just thinking about the thought of her leaving me. My heart is aching in my chest. Maybe I wasn’t good enough for her. When she was looking at me at breakfast, I thought she could finally feel our bond as strong as I have been feeling it since the beginning.

Ever since she fainted, I did not want to leave her side. But Killian convinced me that she would think I am clingy if I stayed arounder her too much. He also told me about the looks she gave all of us from time to time. He said it was the questioning look you give someone you don’t trust and that really hurt me. I tried to make her trust me. To show her that I cared for her, but apparently it wasn’t enough. I wasn’t enough.

I don’t even care what happens to me at this point. Someone could take my life for all I care right now. I had all I’ve ever wanted right here in front of me and I let it slip away. My uncle was right. I’m just a weakling, someone who does not deserve what he has, someone who doesn’t know how precious the things are that he possesses until they disappear out of his life. He told me all of this right before he died six years ago. I didn’t want to believe him, I told him that he was wrong, that I wasn’t weak, that I knew what I had and how important those things were to me. But now, six years later, I finally find out that he’s been right all along. I am an i***t who only cares about work and leaves everyone hanging because of it. Even his own mate.

All these thoughts and memories flash through my head while I run through the house franticly searching for Lavender. I call desperately her name, in the hopes of her hearing me: “Lavender! Lavender”

She doesn’t show up. But Haleigh does. She looks at me with a confused expression on het face. “What’s with Lavender? Is she not in her room?” She asks. “I don’t know where she is. I was in my office, suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my chest. I got worried and started to look for her, but haven’t found her yet!” The tears started rolling down my face. Haleigh’s face changes from a confused one to a worried and panicked one. She immediately walks up to me and hugs me. “It’s okay, we’ll find her. She can’t have gone that far.”

“Maybe she doesn’t want to be found. I wasn’t a good mate to her. I should have been completely honest with her from the start. She might never forgive me. She might never want to have a future with me. What if she I have been lying to her? What if-”

“It’s gonna be alright.” Haleigh cuts me off. “This is not your fault. We don’t know what her reason was for running away like that. Maybe the fainting brought back some memories.” She suggests. “No, I don’t think that’s the reason she would have told me.” I tell her. “She left because of me. Our uncle already knew this would happen.”

“That’s not the case. He just gave you advise. He just wanted you to see what everybody else saw.” She says, trying her best to calm me down. That’s what I love about my sister. She is hyper active most of the time. But when she needs to be, she can become the calmest and most collected person in the whole wide world. I let myself cry out on her shoulder. When she notices my breathing is starting to stabilize again, she pulls back. She looks me straight in the eyes and says: “Come on, we’re going to find your mate.” I nod and she pulls me with her to the car.

~Time skip~

We have been looking for her for over 6 hours by now. We have visited everybody in the village nearby and we also have been looking through some parts of the forest nearby. Every minute we spent looking for her, in the back of my mind I thought: ‘We have to find her now, every minute she’s not with me, is a minute she can get farther away from me’.

I arrived home one hour ago, without Lavender. I was devastated, and actually still am. Maybe she really doesn’t want to be found. Maybe she doesn’t want anything to do with me anymore. Haleigh already suggested that she might have gotten some of her memories back after fainting. Maybe she already had someone she really loved before she lost her memories. Maybe there is someone out there looking for her right now with even more desperation than I.

I haven’t had lunch yet. I’ve tried to eat, but I just couldn’t swallow anything, knowing that Lavender was still somewhere out there. She might even hate me for keeping my werewolf side from her.

~Time skip~

I have been trying to continue my life without her and finish my paperwork for the last couple of hours. The same thing happened with dinner as with lunch. I couldn’t eat. Even though I was really hungry from all the searching, crying and paperwork. My stomach is growling, I’m tired and I just want to lay down. But because of the long search Haleigh and I did earlier I haven’t finished my paperwork yet.

Right now, I’m sitting in my office, starting at the big stack of paper on my desk, pretending to be busy. But my thoughts keep going back to Lavender, my beautiful mate. The girl I was meant to love. The girl who was supposed to love me.

I am startled by Killian who throws my door open. ”That’s enough sulking. I know you miss her. But you doing this, is not going to help anybody!” He says while walking towards my desk. He takes me by my armpit and pulls me up. “You are going to sleep and in the morning, we are going to look for her again.”

Killian pulls me to my bedroom. When we reach my door, he let’s me go. “Good night, sleep well. You’ll need the energy if you want to go looking for Lavender in the morning.”  After having said that, he turns around and walks back upstairs to his own bedroom. That’s why he is my best friend and my beta. He is really good at stepping into someone else’s shoes to see how they’re feeling. And he will know exactly how to help someone.

I turn around to face my bedroom door, but it’s open. If there’s one thing my mom has taught me, it’s to close doors behind me. Suddenly I feel a pair of eyes on me. They feel like the eyes I felt on me when I first talked to Lavender in her room in my house. While suddenly much more on my guard than before, I walk my own room in. Everything looks exactly the same as it used to. That relieves me, but scares me a little bit at the same time. The only thing I notice being different from before is the open bathroom door. I sneak through my own room towards the bathroom door. “Lavender? I- Is that you?” No response. “Someone there? Hello?” Still no response. I take a look inside the bathroom as I take a look inside the bathroom. My mirror has been taken of the wall and been put to the side. Behind it is a small door hiding. Which is weird, because it wasn’t there when the house was being build. And it also wasn’t there when I hung the mirror in the wall. The key to the door is still in the keyhole.

Was this Lavender’s doing?

Where did she get the key from?

What does she know that I don’t know?

I open the small door. Behind it is a glowing, red orb. It looks pretty dangerous. How did it even get here. Out of pure curiosity, I touch the crystal.

BIG MISTAKE!!!

I start to feel slightly nauseous and my vision starts to blur.

Is this what happened to Lavender?

Where is she now?

The last thing I see is the small room, the orb, the door and key disappearing and the mirror floating back to its original place.

I am able to stumble back to my room and write a small note for Killian and Haleigh. But that’s all I can do before my vision completely backs out.

I'm coming for you Lavender. I'm going to find you, and I'm going to tell you the truth as soon as I find you. Just wait for me!