/ ABBY /Elvon and Mark gathered weird stuff in the kitchen. Stuff we barely recognized, some of them were amulets, pearls, potions, and other witchcraft stuff. The scent of smoke was heavier than usual and the whole room just felt so weird and dark and moist.We sat in the living room for ours, just letting them do whatever thing they were doing and just waiting until something would happen. So far, nothing happened yet and we were bored to death.It was already evening and we were starving. We couldn't cook our meals there because they had transformed the kitchen into some sort of magical room or whatever. So Genebeth decided to just eat outside.We didn't want to disturb the two magicians in there so we left them behind, promising we'd come back with food later. There was a small fast-food restaurant down there near the apartment building and we all went there to eat. They served us some chicken and some soup and ramen. I didn't realize I was hungry when I finally tasted food."S
/ ABBY / It took me a few minutes to recover from the impact. I bit off my shirt and tore some fabric to wrap around my wound.Things were all over the place in the kitchen. All that stuff Elvon owned was scattered on the floor, it felt like an earthquake happened.But there was no earthquake. I looked around and found a glowing and pulsing white light where the counter once was.I saw Genebeth standing up, gushes on her face as well, as she shook off dust and broken shards of wood and glass off her.Mark and Elvon were in the corner, all over each other, struggling to stand up. Mark was still holding a piece of chicken in his hands, his face looked like he had seen a ghost."What the hell was that!" he yelled in panic.Elvon finally gathered his strength and stared at the white glowing light in the corner. It looked exactly like the light I had seen back in the woods when I first met Zhask. "It can't be...." I muttered and stared in wonder."It seems like someone has opened a porta
/ ABBY /The woman who saved Zhask and me took us both to her house a little further away from where she found us.She treated our wounds and gave us water and a proper meal. She even gave me clothes to wear and made Zhask lay down on one of their beds to rest.Her house was small but it was spacious, with big windows which remained open for the rest of the day. It was located in what seemed to be a small village with people whose main source of food was farming. The village was surrounded by fields of crops and small green hills, and little streams. It reminded me of the island where Adam and I used to live, except this village was even more traditional than that place. There was no car, no technology, nothing that the modern human world ever owned. Or maybe we were just too far from the mainland?The portal had sucked us up and brought us out into the open field near a river. That's where the little kid found us. Now, I had to adjust my state of being before I could decide what to d
/ ZHASK /It was the night of the Blood Moon again, the night we held our blood hunting ceremony that takes place every once in a year during a full red moon.It was this time of the year where us, werewolves of the Eastern Werewolf Kingdom felt our strength to its extent. We would rip our clothes and run across the forest of the Great Woodlands in our wolf forms, feeling so high as we jumped over rocks and rivers and bushes and fallen trees chasing our prey. We would howl on top of hills as the light of the red moon shone upon us and got reflected in our shiny furs.It was a good evening to be a werewolf. Unluckily for me, I had to skip the ceremony because, for some unknown reason, my father, the current Alpha King of our kingdom, had fallen ill and I had to stay by his side. Being the Crown Alpha Prince and the only child, it’s customary to be present in times like these to fulfil my duty as the next in line to the throne. But I had to be there as his son, because for all I know, i
/ ABBY / There was complete darkness before my consciousness came back. I slowly opened my eyes and was greeted with a blinding light. It took me a second to realize the light came with a loud sound, unfamiliar to my ears. Then suddenly, when my vision cleared, I saw that the light came from something big with wheels moving towards my direction, its sound blaring as if a warning. Panic rushed to my blood as I quickly moved to the side to let it pass. “GET OFF THE ROAD, YOU WHORE!” shouted the man who was driving the big thing with wheels. I was lost. My mind was in complete chaos. Nothing around me registered familiar. Absolutely nothing at all. I couldn’t remember anything - I didn’t know who I was, where I came from, and how did I get here. Suddenly, another thing with wheels, a little smaller than the first one, stopped in front of me, its bright light shining upon my face. I squinted and tried to focus when two older people, a couple perhaps, got out of the thing with wheels
/ ZHASK /The words rung in my ear.“W-what?” I asked the Seer again, making sure I heard him right.“Luna Greya is in the Mortal Realm, living among the ordinary humans,” the Seer answered.“But h-how?” I asked again. It was hard to believe how my mate ended up there. The Mortal Realm was a completely different world separated from ours. It existed in another dimension and we couldn’t care more about it because we have nothing to do with that world. We were powerless there.“I studied the tracks she had left at the Hunting Ceremony before the Rogues kidnapped her,” the Seer went on. “There’s an element that only magic can explain. I’m certain that a powerful Seer was involved. But I managed to track her down.”“But wait… why? Why would they do that?” I had asked myself that question for the past four years.Why? Why it had to be Greya? What did they want with her? And for four years, I still didn’t have an answer. But I have a guess instead.Sitting among the Council after my father’
/ ABBY /I struggled to get back on my feet as the mysterious man tried to lay his hands all over my body. He was going to rape me, I was so sure of it. This was definitely the end of me.“Ahhhhhhhh!” I kept screaming and pushing him back.But he was too strong. “Greya, Greya…please…. I’m not going to hurt you. We don’t have much time. We need to go now.”I absolutely had no idea what he was talking about. “Let me go!” I kept shouting. I summoned the last amount of my strength to push him from me and then I stood up and started running.“My love, wait!” he yelled.I looked back and realized he was chasing after me. This was a huge mistake. I shouldn’t have gone for a walk in these woods. I should have stayed in my room.I ran in full speed, jumping over fallen logs and wading through thick bushes. I lost the track and just decided to run in any direction as long as it’s away from him. But he was too fast and it didn’t take him long to catch up with me.“Greya, can you please stop runn
/ ZHASK /“No, your name is Greya. And you’re a werewolf,” I told her with my serious face but what came out of her mouth was a sarcastic laugh.“So what about you? A vampire?” she said and then burst out laughing again.“No, vampires live farther north. We have no business with them.”“So you’re a werewolf too?”“Yes but not here. In this world, we’re mere mortals.”She laughed again, the same laugh I remembered when I used to tell her jokes. I miss that laugh. I miss her so much.“Look here, mister werewolf, I don’t know what your game is, whether you escape from a mental facility or high on drugs, but because I saw something weird last night and also because you have almost the same tattoo as mine, I won’t report you to the police. But I need to get you back to where you came from…”“My tattoo?” I asked, cutting her off.“Yes. Apparently, we could be related.”“It’s my pack’s symbol,” I told her while looking at the mark of the moon on my chest. “You have one too. It’s your pack’s