F*CK THE MOON GODDESS

Waiting In The Shadows

2. 10-year-old Knights POV

I know I need to stay away from this little girl with the kind eyes because being around me from here on out is like signing a death sentence. From the moment she touched me I knew she was a part of me, someone I have to protect, but how could I protect her if I cant even protect myself? My father is doing everything in his power to break me so I can be like him, so I can be feared throughout the realms, so I can be the hatred people feed off of to gain more power. This is just the first day, my 10th birthday is spent running from the images he projects in my head of killing my mother and sister, from his shadow people chasing me and hunting me down, beating me almost to the brick of death just to try and break me. My mother spent 10 years of my life training me for this, to withstand the trails of this moment in my life. I have until my 20th birthday to keep the light inside of me glowing, or I'll be completely evil and take over the underworld beside my father, but I have different plans. I will take over the underworld, but I will destroy my father while doing so and I will rebuild the realm not off of misery and the bloodshed. I will clean the whole realm and make it something new, something my mother will be proud of. I just have to figure out his weakness. I have to hold on to my mother and sisters' love and now, most importantly, I have to hold on to this big-eyed little girl in front of me.

So your father really wants to hurt you emotionally, mentally and make you his punching bag to get you to hate everything just so you can be like him and be the king of this underworld realm of evil? Angel tilts her head and asks, trying to make sure she understands everything.

Yes, that is right, I meant to rule after him. To be alone forever and live in hatred and be feared.

I look up, and I can feel my eyes turning milky white. I see her visibly flinch back, and I know she sees the demon inside of me. Before I can get up to move away from her, she grabs my hand and I hear those words that change everything. Soft-spoken, but it's the loudest voice I've heard since this day started, louder than the shadow voice my father cursed me with.

You don't have to be alone, I don't see a monster or demon or whatever he's trying to convince you to be. I see the light in you

Before I knew it, I started crying, and I felt my eyes change back to the shimmery crystal blue, and she held me while I cried. Before I knew it, we were talking and laughing like we'd known each other for years. It's the most peace I've felt all day. As we looked around, the sun started to go down and I knew she couldn't stay with me for too much longer, but I just didn't want to let her go.

Can we meet here every once in a while, like every Friday we met in secret ? I asked her with pleading eyes, knowing that it'd be a terrible idea to drag her into my terrible world, but I just cant help it. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding when she shook her head Yes, then hugged me and promised to see me on Friday. Now I just have to make it through the suffering until I see her again. Even though I was over the moon about the only friend I have in this realm, I wish I would've known that deep in the shadows of the woods there were those milky white eyes with sliver specks staring and watching the whole scene play out, plotting and planning his next move in a game of chest no one asked to play. God, if I only knew what was up ahead waiting for us..

Angel kept her word and we meet every Friday. Sometimes, when she comes to the flower field, I randomly pop up. You see, ever since that day, I've been connected to her and now that I've unlocked some of my powers, I can control shadows like my father, so I have a tendency to check on her. I know it seems Stalker-ish, but I just need to know she's okay and whenever she's upset, I send a daisy through the shadows so it pop up next to her feet where she stands. I'm surprised she hasn't found out it was me giving her flowers after all these years. I've watched the cute little big-eyed girl grow over the years into this insanely attractive woman. More than that, her beauty reminds me of the goddess in my mother realm. It's truly amazing even though she doesn't see it. I find myself just staring at her sometimes while she gets lost in her own conversation while telling me about her day. Over the years, I realized I've fallen so deeply in love with her, but we can never be together. It's too dangerous and I don't want to hurt her because I'm a monster even though she tells me I'm not and see so much good in me. Through the years I have realized I am like my father more than I care to admit. I used to envy my sister about how she gets to live her life peacefully, and I have to suffer, but I'll take this for my mom and sister and beat these demons so they can live safely. Even though i suffer ill make it out on top and ill go against my fate.

For years now we've been meeting and every time I see her it feels like the first time my palms get all sweaty and my heart feels like it pounds out of my chest. This one day means everything to me. As we get older I want to tell her how I feel but i feel like i cant not yet not when her life could be in danger and ever since her 14th birthday, she's been telling me how she has a crush on the alphas son. She never notices how my eyes flicker from their normal blue to white when she mentions him to me. Just seeing her daze off and smiling all giddy because of the stupid little alpha pup makes my blood boil and I have to control my shadows around us. I plan to tell her how I feel on her 17th birthday, which happens to be today, as I teleported in the flower field which has become our sanctuary since the first time we met, but that excitement changes as soon as the scene infant of me meets my eyes. All the color drained from my face when I see the ground painted in red blood and body parts of wolves scattered over the ground. The scent of death pierced my nose and the sorrowful wails coming from Angel, my angel. All i see is red and not the bright red of furry. Something worse is the same color red as my enemies, blood dripping from my fangs after I've ripped their heads from their body the furry in me has all my shadows shooting out aiming at no other person but my father. What was supposed to be a perfect day turns into her worst nightmare and I cant help but know this is all because of me.

GET YOUR f*****g HANDS OFF OF HER.. The roar that came out of me was so demonic it was unrecognizable.

All my father did was smirk....