REVENGE IN FORBIDDEN BLOOD: MORANA

CHAPTER 2

ASTRID

"Don't you dare Astrid!" Lia glares at me from the stove as I keep eyeing the cookies on the kitchen counter.

"What?" I ask innocently "I just came back from school all tired and you can't spare your sister just a cookie? and that's not the right tone to talk to your elder sister."

"You've always stolen my share, besides you had yours last night."

"That was yesterday, we are in the present." I say snatching five cookies from the plate making Lia screams out her lungs, it's so fun getting her annoyed.

"Will you two, stop your drama, and help me out with cooking?" Mom asks with frustrated look from the stove where she stands with Lia earlier before, because Lia and I are playing tom and Jerry around the counter.

"I'm helping and Astrid is not, she just kidnapped my cookies." Lia screams

"Lia will you stop screaming for goodness sake." Mom scolds. "Astrid please stop taking her cookies."

"I was just hungry" I say stuffing my mouth with the second cookie somehow Lia catches up to me and pounces on me and I can hear mom scolding us to stop but both Lia and I are too occupied fighting for the cookies.

" Astrid! " That firm voice doesn't belong to mom.

" Lia quit acting like a child, I need to talk to her."of course it doesn't belong to mom it's non other than my annoying sister and I know what's this is all about.

"I just wanted my cookies." Lia says slumping like a wet puppy her mood dropping. I hate when she acts like this towards Lexi, she's not her God. I balance myself on my feet and I come in face with an irritated Lexi

"What's going on girls?" Mom asks

"What was that for?" Lexi asks completely ignoring her mother.

"We were fighting for cookies." I say with a shrug.

"Don't play dumb with me." She seems to be getting angry, no matter how annoyed and angered Alexis is, she knows not to pick a physical fight with me, like who would try that with a purple belt karate athlete.

"Well that's what it looks like." I reply taking a seat at the counter.

"You know what I mean, what happened between you and Berlyn in school?"

"Who's Berlyn?" I ask feigning ignorance

"Astrid, quit it, you know who I'm talking about." Seems like my dear sister is about to go ablaze with how red she is.

"What's going on here?" Mom asks

"Oh, you mean the guy at the canteen?" I ask sarcastically." What's up with him? "

" You did that on purpose. "

" The smoothie? Well if that's your perspective I'm okay with it, I don't have to explain anything to you"

"Whatever it is you are planning quit it, and stay away from Berlyn."

"Is that supposed to be a warning or a threat?"

"Just stop interfering with my life Astrid or you are going to regret it."

"Girls what's all this about?" Mom asks coming in between us, but Lexi just huffs and walks to her room.

"Astrid, can you explain what just happened?"

"She's pissed I poured smoothie on her crush."

"You did what?" Lia asks with wide eyes

"It was a mistake I didn't even see him."why is my heart beating just at the thought of Berlyn, what's happening to me, I excuse myself to myself to my room, I have something more important to deal with and the last thing I want is Berlyn kane living in my head rent free.

*****

It's finally time. I stare at the board with markings and pictures of my friends. It might sound selfish, but they are just tools for my revenge, my friends have no idea that I know their identity and I'm also a supernatural, which is strange, because all supernaturals can understand each other, it's just normal. My friends just see me as the human in their squad but I'm more than that. Lila family's are hunters and she's bound to take after them, not only are they hunters but the most skilled hunters of all, Sophie's parents are connected with the elders and guardians of the supernatural, she's were I could get my information from.

Kaidan is a mystery I know nothing about him, except he's a vampire and I'm highly suspicious of him unlike the others whom I approached first day of uni, kaidan was the one who approached me first, vampires are some damn cunning creatures I can't let my guard down around him. Tonight I'm meeting with night walker, a lycan.

The werewolf side of the supernatural is divided into three, The humanoid, Lycan and Animal. The humanoid are humans who were changed into werewolves, they don't possess the ability to change, they are just humans with half of werewolves abilities, the lycans are a different species of werewolves, when transform they are half human, half wolf, and it's not a beautiful sight, the Animals are the ones who change completely into a full giant wolves. They are the ones who have mates, it's a complicated story in the mates part. Back to present, I'm meeting night walker today, or more precisely fighting him, they say he never goes down without a fight and I'm so prepared for this, I look at myself in my mirror. I'm dressed all in black, black hoodie, black trousers, black shoes, black beanie and mask, it's enough to conceal my identity. I pull up my hoodie over my head with an exhale, the mask is suffocating but it can be managed. The fresh night breeze sends chills to my body after jumping down from my window, everyone is asleep and I made sure to close my room door. It's dark outside except from the street lamps.

This is it, with that I take off, the mountains was said to be the place night walker roams around, he's a lycan who has gone rogue, there have been many attempts to capture but it has all being futile, we'll see about that, not that I intend on capturing him I just wanted to ask him questions. The run to the mountains took no less than five minutes. I'm standing at the top of the mountain surveying the land beneath, there's no sign of him, guess I'm too early, I refuse to believe the information I got about him was wrong, I had to knock down a teenager for that, not my fault, it just couldn't be helped. I stare at the land beneath me with deep concentration, meters down I could see a mouse running, I could hear crickets chirping, so many noises at the same time and I hate it. Minutes passed and they've felt like hours and then I hear heavy footsteps of someone running, my eyes flings open I hadn't even realized I closed them, and there he was running so fast in his beast form, I could clearly see the wolf head running on two hind legs. I can't waste any much time getting information about his appearance, the moment has arrived, I speed down the mountain my ears in high alert of his movements seconds away I'm few meters behind him in the forest, I see him catch sight of me in his peripheral vision and his speeds increases, isn't he supposed to fight?, I increase my speed we run for few minutes until I realize our surroundings isn't the forest anymore, but a dry land with few rocks, I run past him and stop meters ahead in front of him and that got him to stop, I wished the moon wasn't bright today, so I wouldn't have seen this ugly face of a wolf on a human body. We engage in a staring competition his nose flaring.

"Who are you?" The sinister rumble of a voice asks. "You are not a supernatural, I would have labelled you as a hunter, but hunters don't have such speed?"

"I'm here to get answers for my questions no need to get violent."

"Pretty guts you've got there, following me and demanding answers." His voice is all filled with mockery and sarcasm.

"There's no need for a fight." Reasoning with him looks futile, because he doesn't look like he's ready for some talk. "I just need your help with answers".

"You'll have to beat me for that"

"You haven't even heard the question."

"Let's see if you can beat me first."

"Fine." It's not like I expected this to be easy. He charges straight at me with open claws, thanks to my speed, dodging the attack wasn't hard, but then he doesn't stop and keeps attacking while I keep dodging, if I can wear him down till he's tired, I should be able to get answers out of him.

Or maybe not, I've been dodging for what ses like hours now, I feel like I'm the one getting tired.

"I must say, your speed is amazing, but that's the only thing you have, how do you expect to beat me, we could go over this again and again until the sunrise, that's if you don't collapse."

"Are you worried about me?" I ask teasingly

"I'm not. I'm disgusted for not having a proper fight, forget your answers you are not getting any." He says with disgust. Seems like I'll have to fight.

"Well you asked for it." I charge at him with my daggers, but he dodges and didn't see the kick coming at his sides, for my first attack I did well getting a hit at him.

"So how's that?" I ask with sarcasm lacing my tongue.

Releasing his sides which he was clutching unto he says, " You seem so confident about yourself."

That's where he's wrong I'm definitely not, but I need to get this done with, before the sun rises, night walker charges at me, this time I don't dodge, if only I can get a small cut on him, I'd win. He attacks with his claws and fangs but I dodged them barely, surviving with a wounded arm and maybe a broken ribs, but on the good side I chopped off his ten fingers, that's enough cut I needed, his cry of pain isn't clearly the best sound ever, it's sounds like a dying cow with sore throat. "what have you done? I can't heal" unlike him my wound has healed, and my rib already in place, him? He'll just keep getting weaker every passing seconds my blades are laced with the most dangerous and lethal nicotine and he has an estimated amount of five minutes to live.

"If you answer my questions, I'll give you the antidote, if you don't I live you to die in five minutes."

He growls. "Who are you? and.." coughs "what have..." Coughs

"Just save your strength for my answers, your insides are already burning, and they keep regernating causing much pain, if you steady your breathing the spread of the poison will be sliow until I give you the antidote, that's if you corporate with me." I say walking around and picking up his fingers.

"What do you want?" He asks after a moment of silence

"Good." I say staying inches away from him on the ground. "What is the story behind Cyrus pine pack? "

"Is that your question? Everyone knows about that story. "

"Both you and I knows it's a formed story, that's not the real one."

"You look so interested in the pack, what's your relationship with it? "

" I'm the one asking questions not you, and your time is ticking by." He glares but begin to speak after some moments of silence.

" Someone from the guardians, wanted Amelia dead" coughs " and the…then someone had a vision among the elders that her daughter will bring destruction, Amelia was forced many times to bring her daughter, but she refused, her husband which she claimed her mate, the vampire king fernors was strictly on her side and no one dared to approached them, even when the elders kept telling them their union was a birth for destruction and chaos" coughs coughs " Amelia pack and fernors clan stood together with them, and on a certain day, when their guard was down the hunters arrived and slayed everyone, fernors and Amelia fought so hard, but when Amelia was greatly poisoned she became fernors weakness leading to both their demise, Morana their daughter was nowhere to be found and the m******e was pinned on her."

"Who wanted Amelia dead?" I ask beginning to apply the antidote on his fingers

" She had a fight with Dominic Monaghan." The youngest werewolf elder, I'm not certain if he wanted her dead"

"He's from which pack?" Night walker gives me look filled with nervousness and worry?

"He's related to lawn wood pack."

"Good I'm done here." I say placing his fingers on his palm together with the antidote. "We could have done this without you getting to be in pain"

"I'm fine." He says attaching his fingers back.

"If you say so, see you some other time, I hope we meet in a better situation next time." I say plastering my signature smile behind the mask.

" That's if you ever live." He says

"Now I know you are worried about me."

"Go away." He says in a softer tone. I laugh before saying my goodbyes and headed for home.

"Morana." I hear him whisper