The Awakening
I looked at the letter in my hand. I felt an urge to stop reading, but it had to be done.
" My dearest Emmy! I know you are saddened by my death but I will be brief. You are of a rare kind, the one that speaks during the moonlight. It is a curse but love will unlock its gift."Love mum.
The words' It is a curse but love will unlock its gift' kept ringing in my head. What did she mean? Suddenly heard i a knock on my door; It startled me. I was not expecting company.
" Hello Emmy, My name is Lucas and we need to talk. "he said. Behold a gorgeous tall man was standing at the door, I looked up and my eyes met his piercing blue eyes. My heart quickened; his skin was pale but still glistening as if he was standing next to the sun. His smelled sinfully good. Not cologne, body wash, shampoo. Whatever it was, it was mouth-watering as he was.
“Emmy!Emmy! Are you still here?” I heard a calm faint voice speaking to me. I snapped out of my dreamland or was I dreaming? All these realities were known to me. I could not comprehend the fact that everything was moving so fast. “ May I come in so that we can talk more and get to know each other? I see you have found you have found your mother's letter,” he said while I clutched onto the small letter that I had received while I was going through my mother's gift.
You see, I had lost my mother during childbirth and this was sweet sixteen the one every teen girl like me dreamed of. Lights, cameras action! My dad had given me a strange box from my mother. It was a wooden brow box that had a lock. So I was shocked when my dad handed it over to me on the night of my birthday. He said,” My dearest Emmy your mother wanted you to have this on your sixteenth birthday so I kept it for you safely here open it once everyone leaves.” I stood there shocked because I did not have a key. So my father pointed at my neck and behold the necklace that I had won since childbirth with a key that was gold in color was the key to the wooden box.
When I opened the box I found a bracelet written ‘Love will unlock it’ a diary and a note from my mother. I stood there shaking, confused and tired; all at the same time. It was a long day of planning my birthday party that would make me the coolest sixteen-year-old. (Me being popular! That’s a story for another day.)
“Emmy you are of a rare kind and I know this might shock you but you will be the savor of our kind. Your mother was to save us but she fell in love with a mortal. Once midnight clocks The true beast from within will come. She is like a raging soldier waiting to devour anyone that stops her but she’s also of the elite ready to protect our nations," he said while taking a pause.
"You see the necklace on your neck,"he went as i stared at crescent shaped gold pendant on my neck . "It is a key. It will unlock alot of things in your life. Your mother was the one who gave it to you."he kept going.
" You might be our savior because you come from the lineage of the saviors. Your mother was supposed to be the savior but she fell in love with your father a mortal. Now the red blood wolf is seeking for revenge -for the blood of their king who your grandfather single-handedly slaughtered; for the sake of our generation."Lucas said.
All this shocked me. My heart broke a million times. I just wanted a normal sweet sixteen. Was this in any shape or form normal?
I heard noise strange noise. Wolves howled, children, crying indistinctly, people whispering without shame, but I heard noises and strange noises.
“Come! We have to move fast. We do not have enough time. At midnight this will begin to shift and you will need a safe space for the transformation, “he said as he grabbed my hand as if I did not have a say in all of this.
We ran out of the house as fast as we could. We ran into the Forest ‘Secrets lie behind ‘For some reason its name always creeped me out, but this night it felt different. It felt like home a place where I belonged.
The sun dipped low behind the mountains casting shadows on the Pine forest. All I could hear was noise and as we ran deeper into the forest the noises that seemed to be far away from us were now getting louder and louder. Lucas was still holding onto my hand tightly as if he would never let me go. I hated running; the track was my worst sport and to think I hated all kinds of games. But this night; this specific night my legs were moving as if they were on air. My breath the one that gets lost the moment I begin running today was found.
I felt a strange heat rise in my body, at first it felt like the heat was burning my hands and feet but after a while, it stopped. My heart began rising as if it was fighting to get off my skin. My blood was boiling and my neck felt like someone was gripping it so hard and yet so gently, felt like someone wanted to choke me and still did not want to choke me.
I let out a scream that turned into thunder. I knew for a fact that something had shifted.
