The One

From past

Eli took a sit on the plush couch along side the man. He kept looking at her with nostalgic eyes. A minute later he softly spoke, " You know that you are a werewolf. Right?"

Eli nodded positive.

"you ... we know each other since you were 6 months old. Something happened when you were a little kid, and I fled with you from your pack."

"Pack?"

"Yes. your parents entrusted me with your security. But danger kept closing in. And the memories of a dreadful incident that led us to flee kept haunting you."

" How bad was it?"

"Bad enough to keep you restless all the time. And the danger was sensing you from that. So Gregory decided to place an enchanted seal to lock your memories and powers in."

"powers?" Eli was confused again. " They said I am a wolf."

"... with some extra powers."

Eli blinked. Should she be surprised or afraid ... or elated? Nothing came to her mind. She was taking all this surprisingly well, like it was meant to happen.

'May be it was..!!!'

She shook her head. "How did you met uncle Greg?"

"On our journey, we went to different places. Once the people we are escaping from closed in. I was outnumbered. Greg came in sensing his mate in me and helped. From then on he joined our journey."

"He is your mate? How?"

No sooner she said those words, her face reddened with embarrassment. 'what kind of stupid question was that?'

The man laughed at her face.

" I don't know how. It's something that is called fated. We just found each other, decided to believe in our goddess and the bond between us."

" Are you happy?"

She doesn't know why she needed to ask that, but she did and the man gave a sweet smile.

" Yes. Very much."

She flashed a smile too.

After a moment of silence, the man spoke again, " The ritual is to lift the seal from you."

" Why now?"

" We decided that we will lift the seal once you are capable of handling the power within you and the danger from it too."

" Am i capable now?"

He shrugged. "I don't know. Something happened and the seal cracked. It has to be lifted now. I trust the Goddess."

She looked up with a somber expression to which the man patted her hand.

" We are with you. You will be okay."

She nodded in understanding and felt the animal inside has dropped it's ears and patted the ground with it's paw.

something clicked in her mind.

" Err.. Uncle.. is this spell some kind of a cage or bar to keep an animal inside?"

The man blinked rapidly. His face full of surprise, " You can feel it... the animal?"

"Ah.. yes!!?? I always thought it's an image i created myself to keep my anger at bay. The bars are broken now. But the animal never came out." She tilted her head.

The man's lips parted before breaking into an amused smile,

" Guess we have underestimated you and your wolf."

"Huh!! "

He explained, " See, the seal was meant to completely block your wolf from coming out. Means you should not sense it at all. But you did."

"So.."

" So, your wolf decided to be locked inside along with your memories, not because we forced her to. She is more powerful than we thought."

" Oh... and the dream.."

" What dream?"

" A nightmare actually." Eli grumbled. " I always dreamt of running away with a grey animal perched on it's back, a white beast running with us.. some shadowy animal chasing then... " her voice trailed off, the familiar feeling of different emotions catching up to her.

The man gasped. Then with glassy eyes he depicted the rest of the dream accurately.

" It's not a dream princess. It's a figment of the past, the most painful one."