A woman walked into a prison and bowed on seeing the man standing there. “I’m sorry for being late,” she bowed.
“It’s okay,” Damien shook his head, “the good thing is you are here. Can you take a look at him?”
Catherine nodded and walked to one of the cells there. There was a wolf in there, its eyes were white like it has been glazed over with a white paint and spittle drooled from its jaw. One look at it, one would know that it has gone derange but it is not a rogue, after all, everyone knows now that only the rogues look like that. “Another one?”
“Sadly yes. And it’s really tiring since nothing has been done about the others. However, I’m surprised that it’s happening here. Yes I have heard the news of the rogues biting and infecting some wolves but it has never happened here, not here.”
“It doesn’t matter where it is happening, the most important thing is that we have to find out how to treat them. It’s a surprise since the rogues can shift into their human forms despite being like this but the other wolves can’t. It’s just like they are stuck in this form, never to access the other one.”
“Well, the only rogues that turns to human is the one Alan reported being the mouthpiece of whoever that is causing this.”
“That’s true, that fight in the meadow that night.”
“Yes, the night it all began.”
Catherine nodded. “I have been handling some tests but all I could find for now is that there are traces of Garuda flower and wolfsbane in the mixture that results to this.”
“Of course, Garuda flower and wolfsbane. The two things that are really dangerous to us,” Damien sighed. “Well, should we find you some to make an antidote?”
“You do know that there is no treating wound infected by Garuda flower, right?”
“I heard that you treated Aliyah when she was wounded in the human realm. Even after staying so long to be found, you were still able to detoxify the poison and saved her leg. How did you manage to do that then?”
“I’m sure that the high alpha also heard that the she was marked then by the vampire prince which increased her healing speed. Yes, I did help in detoxifying the poison but even after working on her for two days straight, she still had to limp when she woke up and was only able to use her leg again after being marked. Also, in this case, there are still some unidentified ingredients and if I don’t know all of them, making an antidote is futile.”
Damien nodded with a sigh. “So what do you propose we do?”
“We keep the infected wolves away from the normal ones to stop the spreading of the infection and also, warn everyone to be careful when they would be another rogue fight because trust me, something tells me that they would be more.”
“It’s hard now knowing that we are facing this and yet the High Chief’s are just ignoring us.”
“Well, in their defense, you only made a temporal alliance, so, it’s shouldn’t be a surprise to you that they have withdrawn like they used to be.”
“I know but…” he shook his head, “a part of me tells that they are blaming us for the death of their prince, but it shouldn’t be so. We weren’t the one that wanted him the dead, the witch came and said all sort of things and they also agreed to it. It’s not like I am regretting what happened but I am beginning to think that Alan is right, we should have been more worried about how to settle the rogues but…”
“Don’t worry, I’m sure we will find a way through this. We always do,” Catherine said and Damien nodded before turning and walking out of the dungeon, followed by Catherine.
***
“Hello Edward, how are you?” The voice said and Edward sighed. He had stopped counting the days —not that he could— or the hours that has passed. He knew what she had come for, to ask him if he had recovered his memories but he already knows the answer because it’s the same thing it has always been since he woke up in that godforsaken place. “Anything new?”
“Maybe there will be if you let me out of here.”
“Oh Edward, you are not even trying. Somehow, you are making me regret even going through all the troubles I did to bring you here.”
“Here as in where? I know that you have me locked up here but you just wait and see when I finally recall my memories. Trust me when I say that I won’t go easy on you.”
The voice chuckled, “you should know that I like that instead of being threatened. You don’t know what I did today,” she giggled. “I paid a visit to someone. Do you want to hear about it?”
“Why would I want to hear about the second person you are torturing?”
“Ouch, that kind of hurt you know. Anyways, I will tell you. She is strong, or I should say that he is making her strong, very strong. It’s seems like they are surviving well without you.”
Edward frowned and his head sprang up, finally interested in the story. “They?”
“Oops, did I say too much?”
Edward stood on his feet. “Who is they?”
“Oh come on, do we have to go all over this again? You know that I am not going to say anything else now, don’t you? Well I must say, I’m impressed,” he chuckled, “oh, I so love my creation.”
“Your creation? Who are you?”
“All in due time my prince, all in due time. I will be more concerned about who that snow-white wolf in your dreams is other than wondering about a voice.”
“Wait, how do you know about my dreams?”
“Ciao my prince, until next time,” she chuckled and the voice vanished.
“No, wait,” Edward screamed but deep inside him, he knew it was futile, she never waits. He shook his head, the snow-white wolf’s face flashing in his mind. Those bright blue eyes, why do they look familiar and that wolf, what does it have to do with him? “Ah,” he groaned, placing his hands on his head and turning around, crouching over and landing on his knees as he forced himself to remember. He knew that he had seen those eyes and that wolf before, he knows there is something linking him to that wolf but no matter how hard he tried, he gets nothing and that only made his head hurt the more.
Eventually, he fell face flat on the floor and lost consciousness. In his dream, he saw a girl sitting across from him and there were dancing bodies around them. She turned and looked at him, those blue eyes captivated him immediately and he saw his vison moving closer to her until it stopped and then she was running away from him. The scene changed to him dropping her and her clothes were torn with blood and wounds on her body. He didn’t know what happened but she was glaring at him in shock and there was a blood red rose on her neck. He cringed on seeing that mark and his head hurt making him moan.
The scene changed again to the snow-white wolf leaping up to where he was and then turning into the girl. He saw her putting her wrist to his mouth and him burying his fangs on it. Fangs? The dream was ridiculous, why would he have fangs and why would he be sucking her blood? However, the dream changed as well as the settings. The girl was dressed in a princess attire with a silver taira on her head. She looked at him, those blue eyes seemed like they were burning into his soul. He groaned, even in his dream, he heard himself groaning. Then he saw her lying on the bed, moaning in what appeared to be pleasure and then looking through her lashes at him, her bright blue eyes coated in lust.
And then they were back in that meadow again, the wolf was staring at him as always and he was fighting some people. He suddenly leaped, slamming into someone, his eyes going to the wolf and for once, he detected the look in its blue eyes; fear. He turned then to be impaled by something. It may be a dream but he felt the pain that coursed through him and then the screaming from the girl, ‘No.’
Edward jerked up from his sleep, his eyes opened wide as he sat on the floor. Sweat caked on his face and his body was drenched. He could feel the immerse pain on his chest but he wasn’t worried about that now. Different scenes of memories flashed in his mind and it was like someone had opened a tap of memories nearly driving him insane. Finally, when it stopped flooding him, he looked up and his eyes flashed red as he whispered, “Aliyah.”
“Alpha,” Aton barged into the hall and glanced at the man standing by the window. He quickly walked up to him and reported, “the rogues are here again.”“Then we do what we do best, we fight them,” Alan replied without as much as looking away from the window.“The warriors are already on it and from the looks of it, we are winning, as always,” Aton responded.“Any casualties?”Aton sighed at that and nodded. “Three men has been bitten. We already have them restrained.” Alan didn’t say anything and Aton sighed. “Do you think it will ever end?”“There is no cure for the infected ones, the rogues attack us twice or thrice in a week. So, I don’t think it will ever end, I think that they would keep attacking us and infecting us until we are all like them, slaves to whoever that is controlling them.”Aton licked his lips. “Do you think they are okay?”Alan knew about who he was asking about immediately and only then did he look away from the window to his loyal beta. “I don’t know. I just h
Sean paced around the window and constantly stopped to peek through the blind blades. He would sigh and continue pacing again and then he would repeat staring out the window once more. A knocked on the door made him jump and he glanced at Rasmus who was lying on the floor to see the man’s red eyes on him. Rasmus shook his head at him and he nodded, they could already tell who was at the door by their scent and so Sean cleared his throat and went to open the door. He wasn’t surprised to see Milly there and she was carrying the bunny he had given her four days ago. “Milly, what are you doing here?”“I came to say thank you properly and also,” she glanced behind her and it was then that Sean saw her mother. He cleared his throat and stood erect, “mom wanted to thank you too.”“Where is your mother?” the woman asked.Sean cleared his throat once more and glanced at Irene and Aliyah’s bedroom. Ever since that night with the mysterious woman, Irene has hardly climbed out of the bed. She had
Edward kept pacing around, waiting for the voice to come to him again. Now that his memory was back, he couldn’t stop his worry of how Aliyah is doing. He had been weak when he carried them away with the tornado but he doesn’t know if he succeeded in taking them to safety. Did the rogues catch up with them? And the demon king and the witches, did they find them? He thought of the High chiefs and the High Howlers, he had purposely left Malachi alive with only inflicting a wound he knew he would never heal as a second generation because he wouldn’t want him chasing after Aliyah but Damien had escaped him with just pure luck.Now as he thought about everything, he just wished he could burn this whole place down and go back to her. He thought of the look she gave him that day, the pain and fear in her eyes when he was falling. He failed his promise, he knows that now and the pain of not knowing how she is was deriving him insane. “Where the hell are you?” He yelled at the smoky clouds. Sh
Edward glanced at the three strange doors and gulped. “Why only one shot?”“Because, you will enter the one you chose and only when the door closes behind you can you know where you are. When any of these doors closes, none of them will ever open for the same soul again.” Selene explained.Edward gulped once more, there was nothing to even give him a clue or something like that. “Can’t you give me a hint, I mean, how can I know which is which?”“Edward, how many people are given back the chance to come back to life?” Selene asked and when he couldn’t answer, she continued. “This is already a hint as it is because you are given a second chance to cheat death. If you really want to be alive, your conscience would guide you. Anywhere you find yourself, is where you are supposed to be and there is nothing I or any other god can do about it. I really want you to be alive Edward, because only you can save my creation. But it doesn’t matter if I want you to if you don’t yourself. What is tha
Aliyah frowned on seeing the black hair and black eyes before her eyes took in the form of the boy in front of them. ‘Steven?’“There is no time. The rogues will be here soon and so will the High Howlers warriors. I have seen them, just the two of you will never win. Come on,” Steven said, turning his back then to walk away.Aliyah glanced at Sean who in turn turned to her as well, ‘Should we trust him?’ she asked.Sean shrugged his big head, ‘he spared my life, I guess so.’“Sean,” Rasmus called as he wanted to know the boy’s decision having not met the other wolf boy before. Sean nodded at him and he nodded back, reaching down to pick Irene up again.“Come on Sean,” Steven called, having realized that there weren’t following him. Sean moved first and the rest followed.‘You think this is a good idea Sean, remember you said High Alpha told him to make sure you didn’t leave the pack. What if he found out that he had spared you and so told him to find us if he wants to redeem himself?’
“If we raise the barriers here, I am sure that it would stop the nightwalkers from jumping inside, at least for enough time for us to show up,” an Elder said, pointing on a draft book he had made some drawings on. “That would give us an advantage over them for some time.”The other elders nodded and Alan stared at the plan book, thinking. He was still wondering how they would be able to get that ready before the next attack when he heard in his mind, ‘oh my God’ his eyes widened immediately as he recognized the voice as his daughter’s. He has never heard her again since she left the hall that day with Prince Edward and now he could suddenly hear her? He concentrated his energy and realized that he could feel her. What is she doing? Could she be coming home?“Alpha?” Aton asked seeing that the man hasn’t said anything since the elder finished his presentation.Glancing at Aton, Alan remembered Sean and he quickly searched for his presence with his daughter’s only to discover that he wa
“Where are they?” Kaiden yelled when he saw Melissa walking up to him.Melissa sighed and shook her head. “We lost them, are you sure they came to the woods?”“Are you doubting my efficiency?” he growled.“Of course not,” she shook her head. “I just want to know because we followed them immediately and yet there is no sign of them.”“My energy told me where they were and I am telling you now that they are in this realm, we just can’t find them yet. Oh but I will, I really will and when I do, I will make them pay for stressing me this long. They can always run, but they can never hide, who is going to protect them from me? Absolutely nobody,” he smirked despite the anger he feels. Glancing at Melissa, he scoffed, “I still don’t understand how your own daughter can be stronger than you despite being way older than her.”Melissa rolled her eyes, “adopted daughter and besides, she is a pure blood and I’m not, so what do you expect?” she scoffed and walked away.Kaiden snickered, he knew r
Genevieve stormed into the conference hall and her red eyes went to Damien immediately. “Care explaining the meaning of this rubbish?”“Genevieve, calm down,” Malachi said from his seat and sighed. “We can’t solve anything with a fight.”“What do you mean by we can’t solve anything with a fight? They started this, so by right they should provide us an explanation. Only the rogues were turned before and they didn’t give a damn because the rogues are the rejected ones but what about us, no nightwalker council is rejected but every second of the day now, a council leader reports that their citizens are being turned. Malachi, they are bigger than us in number and reproduce more than we do and even earlier than us, if this continues then very soon nightwalkers will be history, don’t you understand it?” Genevieve demanded.“I understand what you are trying to say lady Genevieve, but you are forgetting something. Night howlers are not the ones that made Nightwalkers deranged,” Damien said.“