The Lycan King’s Tribute

Nascence

All my life, I’ve been a runt, a virgin with no wings to fly. I’ve always wondered what it’s like, giving myself to someone.” - Enoma Pearl

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Destiny was a trained mercenary. She was good with knives, and as the Beta’s daughter, she certainly knew more about power.

On the other hand, I cleaned and hunted throughout my life. This is why I swallowed my words. Climbing out of the pit, and peeking the surface, I walked to sit down with her.

“Did you bathe with mud?” she asked, hovering her eyes around me. I looked around, trying to figure out this forest so I didn’t enter another trap again.

“I did it to mask my scent... where do we go from here now?” I asked.

“No idea,” she replied, looking at the sky. Her short hair, sprawled in the wet grounds. Her backpack, was unbuckled so she lay correctly, “But we should go,”

“Yes, we should,” I said standing up, stretching my hands for her to take and she did supporting herself to stand up.

“Which way did the monster go?” I asked, to clarify and she chuckled.

“That direction,” she said. My eyes scanned the area only to notice it was the other path you took when you wanted to avoid the pit.

In my guess, it was probably where Madeline and Samantha went, in search of me. “Oops, we should go the other direction then,”

“Yes,” Destiny said, staring at me with a knowing look. She tugged me playfully, “First to find the Egg, gets half the food portion of the other, how about that?”

I chuckled saying, “Deal,” as we strode, trying to sidestep the forest thorns. She walked in front of me, and as she did the act she did crossed my mind.

She could have walked away, gone in search of the egg. But she hid, waiting to save me. I definitely owed her. “Destiny?” I let out, and she turned back.

“Yeah?” staring at me with half gaze, she said.

“Thank you.”

“You’re welcome,” she said.

I brought out the map, checking the coordinates narrating my theory to her and she agreed we tried it out. Since that was the only lead we got. We were far behind so we saw no girl at all.

If I didn’t know better I’d say the forest was void of humans.

In spite of that, I knew we had to be careful so I looked closely at everything. We took a narrow way, walking deeper only to hear water rippling. Quickly, we made our way towards it sighting a cliff. The water fell and something oval shone, through the waters.

“Is that…” we said in synch. “The egg?”

“Oh my goodness, we just found the egg!” she exclaimed. “But how do we take it? I can’t swim,”

“Me too,” I said, “We should try walking to it, the waters seem low,” I suggested.

Since the waters were clear, I doubted any form of threat was in it. “Okay, let’s try that,” she replied.

“We should hide this,” I said walking to a nearby tree with her and we were at the front of the water with our backpacks and weapons so we hid our guns.

I walked in the water first, and she followed beside me doing the same. “No matter what happens, go for the Egg, Enoma,” Destiny suddenly said. “I’ll be fine,”

I nodded, not understanding what she meant. The waves were calm, settled and the water was clean.

What was she talking about?

The waves rumbled suddenly, and a sudden bigger wave came from the left part sweeping us both away from the egg. My head slapped across the wave, with the water entering my nose, taking me down.

“No-Destiny!” I exclaimed.

“Forget… about me, Enoma,” she gulped the water, sidestepping it to gasp. “Just get the egg before anyone else does,”

I was trapped too. What was she talking about?

Some bigger storm emanated, pulling me deeper. I kicked, trying to get up. I imitated the swim styles of people I’ve seen but it didn’t help and time was exhausting.

I couldn’t breathe, and after a while I began to float. I had inhaled much water by this time, lost hope with zero ounce of energy.

I thought of Mom, Elena, and Marina. I had failed them all. I hated that fact. Not even that I was dying. Somehow, I always knew this day would come. I just didn’t expect it’d be so soon.

“Help, someone, help me,” I said. But it was all in my head. “I can’t die this way,” There has to be some way out, “Please help, I’m drowning!”

“Use your abilities,” King Daxon barged in my head saying.

“Abilities? What are you talking about? I have no abilities of any such, please help me,” I mind linked back.

“You really don’t remember anything, do you?” he said.

“Remember? What am I remembering? Is there something I should remember?” I replied.

“Your true bloodline, Enoma, your heritage, and where you really came from,” Daxon said.

“What’s this about? Just help me, I’m drowning!” I shrieked, in panic.

He chuckled with a smirk, “No, you’re not. You’re just imagining things since you’ve never come across your power. Your bloodlines can’t drown, it’s unheard of. Look around again,”

I opened my eyes looking around to see that my hands had split the waves into two. “My hands… they are controlling the waves, how’s this even possible?” As I said those words, I noticed my right arm had some grey amulet twirling on it.

“So many questions,” Daxon muttered, “Why not ask me these in tonight’s dinner, sweetheart?”

“What dinner-“ he cut the link. “Dammit!”

So annoying, but I couldn’t deny he helped. I sighed, watching the waves, fish moving around. I had many questions. But he cut the link.

This meant I had to go see him. Back to the arena. With these thoughts, I glanced at the egg which glimmered gold.

“Hold on, Destiny… where is Destiny?” I let out, with my eyes searching around. She was no longer on the surface.

With these thoughts, I dived inside the water sighting her sinking. The bubbles surrounded her mouth as she tried to say something, when she saw me, she tried to say something but passed out.

Quickly, I took her in my arms swimming back to the surface. I noticed how fast I was, which was surprising because I had been a terrible swimmer throughout my life.

On reaching the surface, I went to the shore, laying her on the floor trying to revive her. “Stay with me, please!” I exclaimed.

“Please… wake up!” I said pressing her chest the same way I saw a man do when a boy at our pack almost drowned.

I couldn’t lose her. I couldn’t let another person get hurt, because of me. This was all my idea, all my fault. I led her here.

“Please, don’t give up on me,” I gasped and in that moment, she coughed. I held her in my arms.

“E… Enoma?” she let out. “The Egg. Get.It.”

“What about you-“ she cut me off.

“I’ll be fine, just get it. Please, go!”

I stood up that instant, running back to the egg but the waves were back in place. Immediately, I cleared the waves from my path going to the Golden Egg.

I noticed it was under a cave, the same thing my hint said. I moved away from the cave piercings, trying to manoeuvre my way around it.

I used a part of the wave to kick it off the transparent surface it was on, directing the egg back to me. The minute it was in my hands, I headed back out.

The waves came back to calmness, settling as I went out. That instant, I heard some thuds, like something was cracking.

“Enoma…?” Destiny let out.

“We have to leave. Now!”

I put the egg inside my backpack, going for the guns as the surface behind began trembling.

“I have the guns, let’s go,” Destiny said and I immediately ran towards the narrow way with her by my side.

The grounds split steadily, causing an earthquake and following us. I ran so hard and so did Destiny.