I wake up to something liking my face. I try to open my eye’s, but it was hard this time. I could sense that I was against something soft. With my eyes closed, I tried to use my hand to see what was around. I could sense fur, then I got down on my left side fur again, got down and there was something soft but ruff, and ‘claws’. Then the image of the black wolf came back to me. I stood still. “You can open your eyes. Is not going to eat you.” The loveliest voice tells me.
I open my eye carefully and receive a big liking in my right check. I turn and I see the most alluring deep gold eyes, surrounded by Silver fur. In the forehead the Moon Goddess Symbol. I then turn front and saw the most beautiful woman in front, looking at me with love and care. “Who are you? Where am I?” She smiled and everything around her got brighter. “Hello little one. I am Elaine, the Moon Goddess.” I blink several times. “You are the Moon Goddess? Then how can I see you? I am human, not werewolf.” She stood there, elegance radiating from her. “You can see me, because of that beauty near you. Her name is Ashriel, she is your wolf. Your protector, and your connection to me.” She then points at my ankles and I do not see my shackles on them. I look again at the silver wolf next to me. “You are the one protecting me? She purrs at me. Rubbing her head in my hand. “Sorry. Since you are human you cannot ear her.” She says sadly. “OHHHH. I wish I could.” Her eyes land on the wolf. “She will always be with you. Forever. But you cannot see her.” The wolf howls. “Is there any way that I can see her? Even if it not on wolf form, some other way?” She looks at me again, the sadness in her eyes still there. “You already have the light around your ankles.” I look at my legs. “But…. That…. How do I say it? They only glow when I need help. It there any other way, to make the connection permanent. Like a symbol? Something I could see. That will help me remind that she is always with me.” I look with pleading eyes. “That will be dangerous. Any symbol in your body will be a giveaway of who you are.” She tells. “I know. But it would help me. It would give me courage because I could see her with me.” I look at my wolf in the eyes. “I can’t sense you in the human world. I want you near me all the time. Even if it’s just a symbol.” My wolf purrs at me. Them looks at the Moon Goddess with her head high up.
“Yes. I can give her one of those. But that may put her in danger.” She looks at the wolf, like having a conversation. “Yes. I know you are with her. But she cannot shift” pause for seconds. “Yes. I know there will be people protecting her. Have you been ears dropping on me?” Ashriel starts howling. “Ok ok. You win. Temperamental wolfs.” She spats. “But only after what I have to do.” I sense my wolf tense up and look behind Elaine. “We do not have much time.”
She then comes near me and kneels. This is your final night. Elder Natasha is helping you heal on the outside. But you must survive this night. The Witch will try to see your memories. She will try to find out who you are. You must be strong. We can only pull you out if she tries to hurt you. Like what you experience before. But this time she will be cunning, she needs to know who you are. Resist, believe in yourself.” She was looking directly at me. “But how?” She then looks back, and to me again. Put her hands in my cheeks. “Make her angry. When she gets made, she loses control, and always tries to strive. She thinks she can never fail.” I was not sure. “You have a lot of confidence in me.” She smiled. “Not only me. You meet her in your previous dream. She believes in you also. It will not be easy. But you have a lot of love around you. Trust everyone. Even your wolf. And when you go back to the human world you will need to train.” I close my eyes while she gets her hands of my face and got up looking at me. “Train for what?” Her eyes are now a mist of hope and fear. “Train to defend yourself. And train your gifts.” My eyes widen. “My gifts?”
“Yes Natasha, my sister, Christian and Silvanie, will help you with them. There is only one of them that I am going to give now. Because I don’t want to lose you to your emotions.” I blink my eyes. “I do not understand.” Confusion. “Some of the other child’s where lost, because of the feelings. The curse makes it impossible for you to have a mate. That means you will not experience love for a man.” I can’t believe I am listening to this. “I cannot love??? I cannot feel love??? How is that possible?” Her eyes are full of pain. “That is the Mate Curse. You will never find your soul mate. I am sorry.” I then start crying. “So why do I have to live.” She comes near me again. “Because you have a family that cares for you.” I continue crying. “But they don’t know that I am cursed. What if I go back, and they don’t want me anymore?” Her voice seams eager. “Brielle don’t think that. Trust them. If you think that she will win. You know them. You know how they are like. They have defended you many times. Even though you are human. Believe in them, in your friend, in your wolf, in me, in her. She told me you will be the one surviving all of this. There is still hope, that you will break the curse and love someone. Be strong, for everyone that believes in you.” I sob. “I do not know.” She now had a determined look.
“Brielle Calhoun. You have a magnificent wolf that was given to you. You are strong, and you will come back to train to become even more strong. Stand up.” She commanded
I stood up cleaning my tears. My wolf got beside me, she was as tall as I was, maybe taller.
“Brielle Calhoun. I the Moon Goddess give you the gift of emotions. Your eyes will chance color according to your emotions.” She lifts her hand, and an orb with the rainbow colors, came in front of me, and faded in me. “The gift of emotions? What is that for if I cannot feel?” I look at her with disbelief. “Exactly because you can feel but won’t understand. Elder Christian will be helping control or mind and never get lost in despair again. But your family will need something to let them know how you are. The other gift. My sister will tell you, better if you do not know for now.”
A dark orb starts growing. “Times up… I was hoping to be able to talk more and help you more.” The Moon Goddess looks behind. “Stay strong.” She clicked her right-hand fingers, and Ashriel as gone. “What? Why? You told me she will be with me!” She points at my feet. “And she is. Look at your left ankle.” I look down and see a tribal tattoo that seems like a wolf. Not too easy to see only if you look close enough. “She told me a tattoo, is simpler. You can see her whenever you want.” She disappears in light.
I look up. The orb growing, and then I saw her, coming out of it. Inside the orb I could see the dead tree. On this side of the orb was Lutrice. “We meet again little rabbit. Try not to run away this time. I like the game, but it is getting boring.” I want answers. “I never wrong you. I don’t even know you. Why are you after me?” She keeps getting closer. “You have the same blood, of those who hurt me. Tt may have been long ago. But my revenge and curse will last forever.” The same blood to who. “Why? What did they do to you?” She gives a wicked smile. “I forgot that unlike the others you do not know. In your family tree a long time ago you had a great-grandfather that was a king, and my mate. That man broke my heart. And when our heart is broken from your mate. You may never recover.” She wants revenge. “That means you want to kill me. Because of something one of my ancestors, that I do not even know did to you.” I try to reason. “Now you sound just like her. Yes. I will kill you. Because that way the curse continues to next one, and the next one. Do you get it? You die, the curse lives. Simple trade.” She stopped two feet from me. “I do not want to die.” I swallow.
“Why not? Do not tell me. Do you really think you still have someone out there when you wake up?” Laughs “Do you really thing that? I cannot believe you are so naive.” I look at her and muster all my courage. “Is my family.” “I know I have.” She lifts an eyebrow to me. “No, you don’t. Do you want me to tell you? Do you know why my tree as 9 branches? Because every one of them is the ones that came before you. Because the world you think you know. No one loved them. They knew that they would never find love.” I scream at her. “I don’t believe you.” She smiles again. “You don’t deserve love. That is what the curse is made. You will see your supposed love loving another. And when that times comes. You may not even see him in real life. But the moment he mates with someone the pain you will feel will be so bad, you will die. You see. I cut your link to your true love. And I put all the pain I felt when my mate betrayed me, in the curse on your body. You will feel everything. Believe when I say. It’s better to die by my hands now, that later. Anyway. You will die, so why not now.” I realize something. “You can’t feel? Not even love?” Her face turns neutral, like a ceramic doll. “I don’t do love. Love is for the weak. The mate bond is just another invention by that Moon Goddess to reunite with your other half. All fake… the other half never exist.” I see her tense at the conversation. “What if it does exist. What if he was just not the one for you? But there was another one better?” She frezes and suddenly.
“THERE IS NO ONE. AND YOU DO NOT HAVE THE OTHER HALF. YOU WILL NEVER HAVE. THAT IS YOUR ONLY FATE.” Deep Breaths are heard everywhere. Lutrice catches her breath. “I know love.” She catches her breath and snarls at me. “You mean that family of yours. I could sense that in you.” I back away two steps. “Afraid for them little one? You know what your family is going to do? Betray you. Like my mother did.” That got to me. “No, they will not. I now my mom and dad and.” I shut my mouth as I see her lips in a smile. “You still have mommy and daddy. How sweet.” A big, strange smile on her face. “I bet they are just some omegas Easy to toy with.” Glancing her eyes at me, eager.
I was about to say that they are alphas, when the words echoes in my head: “..but you have to survive this night, the Witch will try to see your memories, she will try to find out who you are, you have to be strong, we can only pull you out, if she tries to hurt you”
“What was that little rabbit? Mommy and daddy cannot help you now. Where are they? I can tell you what is going to happen. You will open your eyes and your family is gone. They left you. You will be with one of those Elders that are supposed to help you. But the only thing they are going to do, is imprison you, in a place where no one can see you. Because no one wants to have a cursed child with them.” I think of Elder Silvanie. “No that is not true. I know the Elders they will never do that.” She then points at the tree behind her. “Are you sure? I have 9 lives that say otherwise. Not even that one that made it to your dream escaped fate. She was away from the world, but still died, no family by her side.”
Then another echo in my head: “I was a cursed child; you will know my story when you read my diary.” “You are the key, to free us all.”
“I do not believe you. You are just jealous, because true love, can exist. You are so focused on the mate bond. That you forgot that love exist without the bond.” Her eyes twinkle. “Love is just an illusion. I saw that over the years. Lovers that cheat and do pain to one another. Parents that kill their children because they are cursed.” That is not right. “That is not love. That is fear. You fear because you were once rejected.”
“I WAS NOT REJECTED. THAT OMEGA STOLE FROM ME. HE WAS MY MATE.” She is getting worked up. “You were rejected. And you did not know how to deal with the pain.”
“YOU DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING. NOT YOU. NOT EVEN HER. AND YOU WILL ALL DIE. FOREVER. “I saw two black orbs one on each hand. And she starts throwing them at me. I am a little trained. Training with the pup is the best defense you could ever get. I start dogging them, like if I was at doge ball. “YOU WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT LOVE IS. YOU WILL DIE NOW. BECAUSE YOU DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ME. ABOUT EVERYONE THAT BETRAYED ME.” I remember to make her mad. “MAYBE YOU WHERE A BAD LOVER.” I shout to her. She then freaked out. Pulled out a big orb at me a maximum speed. I got myself on the ground and the ball passes me by. I could sense the heat in it. And before I could get up completely, her right hand was at my neck, pulling me up.
“YOUR HEART IS MINE.” And I sense the heat of her hand over my chest, pressing on it. I try to make that hand move away. But I could sense my heart beating up fast. Them the pain, like if it was going to rip from my chest. I gather all my strength. “NOOOOO. I WILL NOT DIE.” There was a Big Light Orb White above me giving me strength. My heart started to come back to normal. I kick her stomach, and she gave a few steps back unbalanced. I got dropped on the floor. She looks at the White Orb. “You will not take her away. She will die.” Her hand strait up pointing at me and she starts closing it. I sense my heart hurting. I got my hand in my chest.
“Believe in yourself” A voice from the White Orb says. “Believe” I started to think of everyone around me my family, my brothers, my friend, my wolf. The moment the image the black wolf came in mind. The hurt stopped. I remember, the smirk on his face, the sniffing around me, the time I touched his fur. And everything became light. My tattoo started to glow, so strong that was blinding.
“NO. YOU WILL DIE. I WILL COME AFTER YOU. I WILL KILL ALL YOU FAMILY. NO ONE CAN SAVE YOU.”
And there was only light. The White Orb was around me. Only light. And the memory of a Big Black Wolf.
P.O.V Lutrice
Collapsing on the floor. The strength was almost gone.
“Milady, you need rest.” The whispers around the Dark Orb. “I rest when I die.” And I stood up. “Milady needs to stay strong to kill her next time. Your dinner is ready.” Children’s crying in the background. Fear across their faces. “You know how to make a lady satisfied. Screaming of fear, just the way I like my souls to be.” Going inside the orb. “Find that rabbit family. Contact our spies. Tell them to track the pack that as a human with them. Then put the vampires for work. They will check if the info of the spies is correct. This time do not harm anyone. Tell them to look in the shadows with that ability that I gave them, only hurt to confirm information. It is time to stay low and collect forces to the final attack. After this one. No one will dare to raise a cursed child again.”, “Yes Milady”
“And do not forget to contact our allies. They better start training. I do not want lazy ass’s in my army of shadows.” She started going near the children. “They will be warned.” The whispers respond.
“Now my children. Let us feast.”