REVENGE IN FORBIDDEN BLOOD: MORANA

ASTRID. Fire! Fire! Fire! That's all I can see, the blazing orange flames, getting intense with each passing seconds. Screams of people running Helter skelter, decapitated bodies in human and wolf form. This aren't just any people. They are my pack members, my home, my family. I can't move, it feels like my feet is part of the unmovable earth beneath me. My eyes find an unmoving little soul just few feet away from me. Her head separated from her body, I try to scream. But everything feels stuck like a lump in my throat. "Astrid!, Astrid! Wake up" That faint voice calling out to me, sounds familiar but where have I heard it before? I turn my head around since my little feet won't move, but all I keep seeing are dead wolves and bodies. "Astrid! Astrid, wake up it's just a dream". A dream? But this feels so real. "Astrid, you need to wake up right now." Everything begins to blur, like I'm passing out, before it goes completely black. Everything changes again, I can feel myself in the present, lying on a comfy bed with warm hands on my shoulders. I open my eyes slowly to meet my sister worried look. "Astrid! Thank goodness you are awake!" Dahlia says "you scared the s**t out of me." She says her and I can hear the tremble in her voice. "Oh, sorry!" I murmur sitting up. "Don't sorry me, we need to tell mom, you've been having this nightmares for ages and you've been hiding it, I thought you wouldn't come back, this time around." " How long was I out?"I ask rubbing my eyes, realizing the moisture in my eyes. Of course I was crying. "For over thirty minutes. I'm done keeping this from our parents, they have to know." Dahlia says rising on her feet. "No, Lia I'm fine." "No you are not." "I'm good. Remember your promise" I reply getting off the bed, I should get ready for school "And right now I regret promising you that." her eyes are filled with pure regret. "Look we'll talk about this Once you are back from school, you need to go now, you don't want to be late for school." " Are you trying to end this conversation?" " Just go." Having this conversation right now wasn't the best thing to do, my head is in a jagged mess. This isn't the first time I've been having this dream and the only one who knows about it is Dahlia, my beautiful sister who is staring at me with both annoyed and frustrated look with her hazel eyes. Dahlia is an everyday dream of every man and woman on earth, describing her as beautiful wouldn't compare to how good-looking she is, Milky skin, brown hair cascading to her middle-back, hazel pair of eyes. Perfect round bum and perky boobs. She's all perfection that humans wouldn't believe all this was actually inherited. Hair and eyes colors from our dad and skin color and curvy body from our mom, I sometimes envy her, unlike Dahlia I'm a lot more different, I'm the only different one in the whole family. Even Alexis who's a striking resemblance of Dahlia but older and a straight bob haircut. Both are beautiful getting their genes from our parents. Me? People do have questions about me, some say I'm adopted, while some say my mom had an affair and dad let her keep me. Unlike the Donovan's, I have a scarlet red hair. I'm a redhead but with the brightest red ever for a redhead, caramel skin tone, slim body shape and definitely not curvy like the Donovan's. I myself know the truth about myself which my family assume I don't. Unlike them I'm not a human, not even a drop of human blood in me, sometimes I do want to have a taste of human blood. Not my fault I'm half vampire, half werewolf also known as an abomination in the supernatural world. The supernatural world is vast and no matter how wide and big it is, I'll find them and them regret life in it's existence. "Are you going to keep looking at me and be late for school?" I ask. as Lia doesn't make any attempt of leaving. She huffs. "If this happens again, I'm telling mom." And she's gone, no room for argument. I have a feeling she'll make do with her warning, Lia isn't just beautiful, she's nice, kind and hardworking, she's the only one I can confide in, and also ask for help, she has been keeping my secret, where I get stuck in my sleep, some will call it sleep paralysis, but I know it's not that. It always feels like I've been taken back to that day when everything was taken away from me, my parents and my pack everything was gone. I lost everything. I know I won't be able to get my peace back if I don't avenge my family. " Deep. Breathe. Astrid." That's it. I'm back to the present. "Holy cow!" My eyes catch sight of the clock hanging on my bedside table. "Dang it I'm gonna be late." Taking a quick bathe, I take the steps two at a time to the dining room, it's a conjoined kitchen. "Morning mom, morning dad" I greet giving each of them kisses on both cheeks. "Why the rush darling?" Mom asks as I begin packing my container of food. "I'm late mom." "It's just few minutes past nine, I thought your class was by ten thirty." "What do you mean few minutes past nine it's already past ten?" I say stuffing my mouth with a toast. "Are you sure my time says nine seventeen." Dad says looking from his watch. "And so does mine." Mom says flashing her phone in my face. " Oh Dang it. My clock is broken!."I curse sitting across my father at the table, looking at me with a silly grin. " I thought it was broken since last week?" Mom asks as she dishes my breakfast. I clearly forgot my Alarm clock has been broken for over a week. "Was it?" I ask with a silly grin "Oh you silly girl, eat up". She smacks my head with the back of her hand. Mid breakfast, Alexis began descending the stairs in a tight Denim shorts displaying her perfect curves and a pink crop top her hair set in a beautiful straight bob and her face all dolled up beautifully. "Morning mom, morning dad." She greets sitting across me close to dad. "Morning to you my lady, majestic queen of the seven seas." Dad replies teasingly broadening Lexis smile. "Stop making her all over the world Donovan" mom chastise dishing Lexis food before settling down to join us. "Don't be jealous mom." "Me? I'm not jealous, your dad seems to spoil all three of you with his praises." "You are just jealous my queen" dad sing-songs. Mom waves him off with a blush "Whatever just eat up or you girls will be late for school." Halfway through breakfast Alexis gets a message from her phone her mood brightens instantly than it already was. "Is something wrong?" Mom asks as Alexis began kissing them goodbye. "No I just need to get to school." Alexis replies. "Wait for Astrid, she's almost done." And my most hated favorite time of breakfast arrives. Alexis and I have a huge beef which I clearly don't know the cause of, she has hated me so much ever since we were kids, she despise me a lot, but the feeling is mutual, she gets on my nerves even when I try to avoid her. "No." Alexis replies with a tone of annoyance and irritation evident on her face. "Alexis we've talked about this over and over again. Why won't you drive your sister to school?" "She's not my sister." "Alexis." Dad calls in a warm tone. "I'm not going to allow you ruin the start of my day because of some outsider, I wasn't the one who told her not to learn how to drive, get her a car or she can keep taking the bus." Alexis says before stomping out and mom calling after her. "I'm off to school." I say taking my bag "Honey..." Mom starts but I cut her off. "I told you several times, stop trying to get me and Alexis to like each other, we've lived in the same house for years and she hasn't seen me as her sister and it's not a problem to me. We've talked about this car thing over and over again, I love taking the bus, I don't mind so just stop arguing with her because of me." " Honey... But.. " " I'm off." I say leaving the house " You shouldn't have brought this up again. "I hear dad say as I walk out. " But how can they can't get along?"mom replies " Astrid doesn't seem to mind, she's the one who always get hurt anytime you try to get them to get along, Astrid doesn't seem to mind with the way they are just leave them alone." Yeah I love my dad a lot, only him and Dahlia seems to understand me, Alexis and I could never get along that's a fact I know, and mom should understand that too. I'm very occupied with my plans, to the extent that the thought of learning how to drive seem to be a waste of timeobviously, well obviously it is to me, as a hybrid that I am, who needs a car when you have a speed far better than SSC Tuatara Evo. Mostly, I love taking walks to view the beautiful Landscape of Greenpeak oasis, it's a good city divided into many regions and this regions are actually names of packs, clans and covens, the supernaturals prefer to keep their existence secret to humans, but they are few humans who knows about their existence, the supernaturals think they can be trusted, and I don't because they ruined my life and this humans are non other than hunters, and I'm after their heads. My surroundings looks quite and neat and I don't hesitate to take off, speeding up through anything, but the main road. And finally I arrive at my university where no one can see me, it's the forest behind my school. I stroll to the front gate, In time to see Lexis parking her car and stepping out, for a second we lock eyes and I don't miss how surprised she is that I'm already in school. "Have you guys made up already?" A voice asks besides me "No. And don't just sneak up on people like that kaidan." I reply turning to my very handsome vampire friend his piercing grey eyes staring at me with a smile. "You didn't seem to care, and nice seeing you too Astrid." He replies throwing his hand on my shoulders "Asriddd" another voice shrieks before two bodies collides with mine, thanks for my stamina or else I would have been on the floor. Lila and Sofia my friends one a hunter and the other a witch. "I missed you so much, you only called once through out the holiday." Sofia pouts releasing me from her death grip. "That's so unfair, you couldn't even check up on us." Lila whines "Have you been hanging out with Sofia a lot? You are beginning to sound more like her and that's not like you." I tease "Hey I'm a good influence." Sofia says crossing her arms on her chest. "Well seems like no one remembers me." Kaidan says walking away, not long before Sofia throws herself on him "Oh my Kay Kay, there's no way I wouldn't have missed you." She says throwing kisses on his face. Kaidan and I are the introverts of the group, but he can be so dramatic at times, I glance at Lila her eyes are focused on Sophia and kaidan, there's a glint of jealousy on her face, they can hide it to themselves, but I already know that both girls have a huge crush on kaidan, like who wouldn't be, he is so handsome, even I had a little crush on him when I saw him for the first time, but not right now, there are many supernaturals in The elites university, and they are all so breathtaking, except for one who can just murder you with his looks. His one of the main hearthtrob of the school kaidan also included in the list of heartthrobs, I've seen him few times since I came to this school and I knew I was way out of his league, besides Alexis has a fat crush on him and he is also her peer mentor, lucky for her. "Come on guys, let's go." I say, trying to get my thoughts away from that guy, love should be the least of my problems right now, my top at the lists was meeting with the night walker, I'm definitely going to have to fight with him. Avenging my parents has to be the reason why I believe I survived that day, I have to avenge them and I've gotten my first lead which is night walker, whom I'm supposed to meet tonight. ***** "Astrid you need you need to stop sulking." Lila says as she sips her signature orange juice. We are sitting at the canteen at a table for five. "You can say that because, you've gotten your favorite." I reply sulking harder "It's just a cake, you can come back for it tomorrow" "What if it's also gone?" I ask sipping on my smoothie, the tasty chocolate cake, being displayed in the show glass at the school canteen was all gone, it has always been my favorite I waited all through for the holiday to finish just so I could taste it again and it was all gone before I arrived. "Ugh, you can be so dramatic at times." Lila says rolling her eyes " Don't be upset, we'll come over tomorrow early to get it."kaidan says stroking my back. " That's if we don't have long lectures like today."I say " You guys were the ones with long lectures, so much for fine arts students, I thought all you do is just draw? "Sophia snorts " It's much better than just craming flower names." I retort " Hey being a florist doesn't just means craming flower names, you get to understand plants and their significants." " And what's the purpose of that? "Lila asks " Hey, you are supposed to be on my side, ugh, never trust all this politicians." Sophia snorts "Still better than just craming flower names." I say. Sophia was about to say something, but is cut off by kaidan. "Well there's one piece left of your cake." Kaidan says, I follow his line of sight to the show glass and behold my favorite was calling unto me, but then a student began approaching the cake." No you don't." I don't know what happens next, what I hear are gasps around me and a soft-hard body pressed against mine and I freeze, so many tingles and zaps flow through body, it felt so safe clinging onto whatever I was holding onto, it took me minutes to realize I was actually hugging someone in the middle of the canteen all eyes on us, I so much hate attention, I step back hurriedly, my stupid body completely disagreeing to me leaving where it felt safe, was it supposed to feel safe on a strangers body? Something is definitely wrong with me. Andd then I realized I've made a huge mess on the person's clothes with my smoothie. " I'm so so... " I've never stuttered before, I've never let my inner feelings take control over me so easily, I'm always good at pretending and hiding my feelings, but not now, everything just seems to disappear except from my heart beating like it's about to explode from my ribcage. He's tall, I couldn't see his face until I slightly raise my head and when I did that, part of me wished I didn't and another wished I did. It's him. The main hearthtrob of Elites university, the one with a burning ocean -brezee eyes, an onxy hair in a medium mullet cut, cupid lips, a sharp jawline that could literally slice through time, it's him,it's Berlyn kane. The look on his face is that of, fear, happiness and sadness, he doesn't look like someone who feels fear or sorrow, the sound of a throat being cleared brought us back to reality. "I'm sorry" I apologize stepping back but he grips my arm so tight we lock gaze again "Berlyn" his friend calls and I noticed the cake I was going for was actually in his hands. Damnit just my luck. "Are you alright?" Wait is he asking me that? "Um...Yes. I'm sorry." Just perfect I'm stuttering. "Damn that's a mess right there, why weren't you watching where you were going?" His friend says checking out the mess I made. "It wasn't some intentional act" kaidan says close to me pulling me from Berlyn grip, I didn't even notice him approach us. "I didn't say it was intentional" "You made it sound so." The death glares between the three men close to me is frightening, Berlyn seems to be holding himself from lounging at kaidan, well vampires and werewolves aren't best of friends I get their attitude toward each other. The friend goes to say something but Berlyn cuts him off, his expression neutral like he wasn't planning on murdering kaidan. "Quit it Alex, it was just a mistake." He says checking out the huge mess not just on him, but me also, but I'm on the safe side it's just little. "Well I hope, you have something to change into, cause I'm not giving you my shirt." Alex replies with a huff "Don't be silly." "I can help you with mine." My mouth blurts before my brain could register it. Damnit Astrid, this is not you, you've nevered lost control over a man. Well this isn't just a man it's a god. I can feel kaidan staring at me. I'll deal with him later. "Well thanks, but I doubt I'll fit in." Hey, I'm not that small I'm 170cm for goodness sake and I love extra large clothes, the grey hoodie I'm putting on right now, should fit him right? I can't deny the fact that the man standing right in front of me is huge and muscular, he's a real wall of muscle. Again what would you expect from a person oozing Alpha energy. even right now in his joggers and blue jacket, he is definitely bigger than me, well good thing I brought my white hoodie, it will definitely fit. "You haven't seen it yet" I say and he c***s a brow at me making my heart do flip flops, God why does he has to be so handsome. "So? What are you going to wear?" I wasn't expecting that question thou. "Oh I'm wearing a shirt inside, you don't have to worry about me." I say placing my ever present smile. "Just give me a minute" I excuse myself back to my table and took my favorite white hoodie to him. "Thank you. We'll take our leave" Alex says taking the sweater from me and dragging his friend off seems like kaidan was intimidating him, not to blame him my friend does have a unique aura. "You good?" He asks after they're gone. With a smile I nod at him, as we walk back to our table I didn't miss Alexis glaring daggers at me. She can suit herself. " I never knew our dare Astrid could blush? "Sophia teases as kaidan and I return to our seats " Don't just start right now Sophie." "Oh why? You were so red with.." "Embarrassment, just quit it." I interrupt "Deny all you want no one can seems to avoid Berlyn kane charm." She sings songs