The lost Luna, and Her Broken King

Down the Rabbit hole

(Katie POV)

In a flash we are standing in a cave, the walls are lined with diamonds sparking every different colour of the rainbow, the cave feels empty yet full at the same time,as i take a moment to look around my new surroundings i realize the Queen is watching every move i make, "your Highness" i begin but she stops me with a sad sigh "I truly am sorry Katie, but there are powers out there that you do not yet understand and may never fully understand, I realize though i promised you answers, i still have yet to give them" I want to say something yet Shaz stops me "Katie... please this time I am here, I am with you, and i think its time you learned the truth about who we are and why i have never felt alone inside of you. i feel like there is more to this than meets the eye and i want to know the full story" with that in mind i square myself up to the Queen, " your majesty, my wolf seems to trust you, and though I do not know who you are or what your supposed to be getting out of all this, I will listen, but please no more teleporting if we can help it" i say, the queen smiles at my response and waves her hand in the air, making a couple of couches appear out of thin air. "sorry" she begins "I don't often teleport wolfs, I forget how unnatural it must feel for you" she smiles kindly at me, gesturing for me to sit on one of the couches i take my seat, ready for what ever the queen must tell me now.

"let me start by saying you are not a wolf... well, technically, you are a wolf, but not just that, according to legend the lost child will be born of 4 parts, human, wolf, dragon and faerie, she will have the powers and guidance of the most powerful creatures of each Goddess's realm, though until she meets her true mate she will never shift and she will never fly"

the queen pauses momentarily " you said your mate was missing? but if I am correct i believe you were never actually mated in the first place" dumbfounded i ask " if i wasn't mated then please explain the mark on my shoulder" but to my surprise as i pull the collar of my shirt down to revel the mark that was once there, the skin looks perfect and un marred by the mark that once signified the love she had with Kyle, the bond. "I don't understand where has my mark gone? why is everything so confusing right now" i start to cry, I don't know what is happening right now, i wish i could turn back the clock and wake up again in the arms of my mate and that all of this was just a dream, but as I am thinking this the Queen says something that makes my heart beat so hard i think it might jump out of my chest. "Katie, the realm I collected you out of, was not one of purity, that realm was made from the darkness, I was surprised to find you there honestly, as far as i knew the only living thing in that realm was the demons created in the darkness, to find a living breathing person there, I was shocked to say the least, I have brought you to the Wizarding realm, to my home in Eldaria, I do hope to enlighten you on everything that has happened since you were stolen from your birth parents as an infant, I know you don't believe me now, but finding you in the realm of darkness makes sense to those of us who have studied the prophecy, I need to ask you though, what happened to you in the realm that had you running when i found you"

as i stare at her trying to take in this new information she is giving me i start to realize how many things in my home pack just didn't add up, though it seemed normal to someone who had never left before, I recount the morning to her, not leaving out even a single detail that i could remember, as i tell her about the pregnancy just before the weakness settled in a shadow seems to cross her face which makes me ask "what is it that you know and i don't" i sigh "because if what you have said to me is true then my entire life has been a lie, and i don't know how im supposed to handle that news"

The Queen gives me a soft smile of understanding, then she stands and faces the wall before speaking an incantation that i do not understand, the wall starts to swirl and change color, soon enough there is an image on the wall of a village, a King and Queen in distress, the skies are burning and the ground is black as coal, just as fast as the picture appeared it is gone again, now the Queen is facing me with a sad look on her face, "your majesty.." i begin to say, i don't understand what i have been shown but the Queen just waves at me to silence me, before she takes a deep breath and steps closer to me, falling on one knee before me and bowing she says "Katie please, just call me Eldara, if you are who i truly believe you to be than you are the true leader of all the realms, putting your own rank far above my title of Queen" she stand as she finishes saying this well i sit there in disbelief, "Shaz, could this honestly get any weirder, our entire lives a lie ? what do you make of this all?" Shaz snorts in reply "silly human, listen to Eldara please, let her tell you her stories before you go trying to connect the dots, or we will just end up with a headache, besides, if she can figure out how to unlock me so i can actually shift and feel my paws on the earth instead of your feet, then im happy"

I smile in response to Shaz, she never has been an overthinker, i suppose that the benefit of being a wolf, everything is straight forward to a wolf, its kill or be killed.... its humans that make life difficult.

Eldara takes her seat again looking at me as if shes not sure what to say, after a long while of silence Eldara finally speaks "I understand this must be hard for you, and due to you being only a few hours old at the time it makes sense that you did not recognize the vision i just showed you" ... " that vision was your home realm Katie, The king and Queen are your parents, nearly 200 years ago you were stolen from your crib as you slept, your parents both fought to keep the intruders out of the castle and away from you, but sadly the people who attacked the castle had the help of the darkness, they knew of the prophecy and decided to take you before you had a chance to grow and defeat them, I believe they have kept you in that realm ever since, getting more and more powerful in the other realms, thinking they had you locked down." she pauses for a moment before continuing "The feeling you and your "pack mates" experienced i believe was a leak in the fabric of the dark realm, this leak caused the glamour cast upon you to fade, which is why everyone "dissapeared" except you. I believe that if you were left in the dark realm for too much longer it would have started to have a bigger effect on you, since the leak was that of pure darkness it would have eventually corrupted your soul. I thank the Goddess's that i found you before that happened."

"200 years ago i was stolen? but how is that possible i met my mate when i turned 18 and that was only three years ago, I really still think you have me confused with someone else" "Katie..... I don't think she is lying, look at her face, like really truly look into her eyes, she looks as if the memory is too painful for her to bear, yet she is here now talking to us" i sigh as i realize Shaz is right, the more i look at the Qu....Eldara the more i see the pain on her face as she looks at me almost begging for me to believe her "I do understand if you don't want to believe me it must be a lot for you to handle" she pauses then looks at the ground " I believe the rouge King Malaki is behind this all" I stare at her ...Malaki.... why does that name feel so familiar Shaz, I feel like i know that name but i cant remember from where i have heard it " after a moment deep in thought it finally comes to me... King Malaki, the hero in the stories i was read as a child, well, read is an over statement, i was forced to read the history of the wars and how the King won the war against the other kingdoms that were trying to take his realm from him out of jealousy, but the more i think on it, the more i start to realize even in the story books, the lessons and the silent hours left alone to study, I never actually found out why the war started, there was no mention of it in the books and when i would ask i was told we were attacked out of jealousy but there was no reason for us to be attacked ever.... we lived in poverty most of the time struggling to find enough food to feed us all.

I look up at Eldara and for the first time since I met this woman, I feel like i can see into her soul, and i know she is not lying, she truly believes i am the Lost Child of legend, and if what she says is true, then i have been a captive my entire life and never even known it.