Ianna, you are destined to be the strongest warrior and Luna this land has ever seen. You need to build up your strength before that.—Moon Goddess.
Ianna’s POV
Today is my sister Lissa’s Eleventh birthday, I hopped down the stairs excited about having a slice of the chocolate cake mom baked for her last night. It was big and I could not wait to have my share. My mouth watered just thinking about it.
When I got to the kitchen Lissa, my sister was already having her slice. With excitement I went and took mine. Just as I was about to take a huge bite from it, Lissa slapped the cake out of my hand, and it fell on the floor.
I looked at it with my eyes glittering with tears, why would she do that? “Who the hell do you think you are? Mom made this cake for me, for my birthday. What gave you the right to take it?” I could hear Lissa, but my eyes were still on the slice on the floor.
I really wanted that cake, I bet it tasted so good. “What are you still standing there for? Take a broom and clean this mess before mom gets here.” My hope returned when she mentioned our mother.
She might convince my sister to give me a slice. I went and took a broom, and the dustpan then cleaned the mess. Now I could not wait for mom to come back. She went to a ball at the palace.
a luna eclipse ball, the Lycan king invited everyone in the kingdom. The royal family hosted many such balls.
I was sitting in the lounge away from Lissa waiting for our mother to come back. I was so anxious that I was tapping my foot on the tiled floor and kept looking at the time like it was going to go faster if i looked at it.
Soon enough, my mother burst through the doors, and I jumped up eager to see her and ask about the cake. But as soon as she laid eyes on me, she slapped me across the face so hard that I saw stars dancing in my line of vision.
“I should have known that you are nothing but trouble, how can I have been so stupid as to not notice that it was you all along.” Still confused by what she was talking about I stood and composed myself.
“What the witch said it’s true, you really are a plague and bad luck. You have been since you were inside my womb, and I curse the day I gave birth to you.” Her words hurt me so much that I struggled to breathe for a minute after I heard them.
Lissa came rushing in. “What has she done now, mom? I was also waiting for you to tell you that she wanted to eat my cake. She even touched it with her filthy hands.” That was supposed to be my protector, but Lissa resented me just like mom.
“Oh Lissa, my darling. I met the witch at the palace just now and she gave me a prophecy. She said one of my daughters is going to be a plague, something that brings only back luck to the pack and everyone she associates with. While the other is going to be the greatest warrior and Luna of the pack.”
My mother informed her favorite daughter, and I wondered what made her think it was me in all that. if I heard correctly there is nothing that said your youngest daughter will be a plague while your oldest will be the best warrior and Luna.
So, what made my mother so certain that it was me? Maybe is because of what happened long ago, shortly after I was born, my father committed a grave sin, according to my mother of course, and left her.
They say he ran off with another woman and went to build a life with her, leaving my mother, sister, and I to fend for ourselves.
Maybe he was already having an affair with this other woman, or maybe he met her while my mother was pregnant with me. Nobody knows, but my mother never recovered from what he did, and she blames me for it.
Like I asked for my father to cheat on her and leave her for another. I was not even in this world by then and yet, my mother still blames me. I never asked to be born and I had no sin. But I guess my father’s fell on me.
My mother says I look very much like my father, the man who broke her heart, a mate who ran off with another, the one who did something that was unheard of with our kind. Mates stayed together and loved each other until death do them apart.
But my father was like no other, I guess. He left my mother without a second thought and never returned. Making her feel as if she had done something wrong or that she was not good enough.
Maybe the pitiful looks she got from people after my father left, the gossip when pack members gathered and the whispers behind her back made her resent him even more. But he was not there for her to vent her anger and I was.
And as if the gods were mocking her, I grew up to be a splitting image of my father and so, mom took out all her anger on me abusing and beating me. Because all she saw when she looked at me was my father, the man who broke her heart not her daughter.
Whoever said the sins of the father fall on the son was wrong. They can fall on the daughter too, look at me, I am the perfect example of that. I was paying for my father’s sins. Nobody care’s that I had no hand in what that man did. I couldn’t have even if I wanted to.
I was only an infant, fresh out of my mother’s womb, what sin could I have committed? At that age I knew nothing, all I wanted was my mother’s love and care. Not sure if I got it but I doubt I did judging by the way she treats me now.
Even with all the pain she has caused me, the beatings, the unfair treatment, the hate. Thinking that she loved me once upon a time soothes me and comforts me. It helps prevent me from hating her.
She is my mother after all, and she gave me life. She is to be respected and shown compassion. What my father did couldn’t have been easy on her.
So, I don’t blame my mother for her actions, in fact, I understand where she is coming from. She was deeply hurt by my father, and I think if she did not have to be reminded of him every day she would have healed by now.
There was a powerful witch in Malraux kingdom. She is the one who gave my mother the prophecy, making my life even harder than it already is.
“I knew nothing good would ever come out of someone who looks like that evil spawn!” I looked at her with my big pitiful eyes crying on the floor as she looked down on me with nothing but hatred in her eyes.
She then spat on my face and spoke. “Get away from me you daughter of the devil! Goddess, why would you bring me such evil when I have been so good all these years, what are you punishing me for?”
She kicked me on my back, and I fell face first on the floor before saying to my sister. “Vaselissa, stay away from this evil child lest she gives you her bad luck, my daughter, you are the only hope I have left to be redeemed.”
I went to bed crying, my heart was broken into a million pieces, I felt like it was bleeding. I wished I could take it out of my chest for it to get some air and maybe it would hurt less. I wanted to curse my father for leaving but I couldn’t. He left because he was in love. I couldn’t fault him for that.
I don’t remember when I fell asleep, but I had a dream of a woman. I didn’t know her, but she was beautiful. She said to me "Ianna, you belong to royalty, you are destined to be the strongest warrior and Luna this land has ever seen, and in due time I will take you back to your true father's pack. You need to build up your strength before that."
When I woke up, I dismissed the dream thinking it was my subconscious playing tricks on me after what I heard the previous night.
Present time – IANNA’POVToday is my 16th birthday, a day that should be celebrated in my life with a grand event. Not only because I am turning sixteen but because this is the day, I should be getting my wolf. Today I become an adult, I get to connect with the whole pack and be able to mind link with everyone.Exciting, right? Not. I woke up today and did my daily chores in the hope that my mother would do something special for me today. That she will care enough and acknowledge that sixteen years ago today she had a baby girl, me. Not only that but also because it’s my first day of high school. I have been homeschooled throughout primary school and now I get to be around other kids my age. Make friends and be normal, like everyone else in the pack. I made breakfast and when I was done, I rushed to the closet, I called a room and took my bucket. I went to fill it with water then went to take a bath. I was humming as I washed myself, I was excited for many things today.When I was d
IANNA’S POVI muffled my cries trying not to make too much noise, but the pain was too much. Bones cracked and twisted in different directions. It was so painful that I cried out in pain. I knew shifting for the first time was painful, but I didn’t know it was this painful.I wished I had my mother or father by my side to help ease the pain. It was too much that I was sure I was going to die in that forest, and no one would know. After what felt like forever with me reeling in pain and crying the pain stopped.I fell to the ground feeling exhausted, I closed my eyes wanting to take a nap. But before I could do that, I heard a voice in my head. “Hello Ianna, my name is Sandra, your wolf.” A smile crept into my face.I had a wolf, at least one good thing happened to me today. I had my wolf. I got up excited and Sandra laughed. “It’s good to see you are excited to meet me, do you want to see want we look like in wolf form?”The excitement I felt when she said that was unimaginable. “I wo
IANNA’S POVThat evening I tried to distract myself from the pain by doing my homework and reading. But that did not help, of course, because when pain and depression hit you, it is hard to just ignore.The truth is that I was in pain, as much as I don’t blame my mother and my sister for what they doing to me. it doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt. It hurts more than anything in this world being hurt by those who were supposed to protect you.Lissa was my older sister, and she was supposed to care and stand up for me when others bully me. But she is the one who starts the bullying. I don’t want to blame her either, she learned to treat me that way from our dear mother.She was the one who was supposed to teach Lissa about sister love but instead she taught her how to lie, deceive and hate. Yet, I am the one being called the curse. Sometimes I wonder if she is my real mother.But then again if she is not then who could my mother be? I did not just appear out of thin air, I was made by people
IANNA’S POVI did not go back to class for the rest of the day, I stayed in the bathroom with my thoughts. No one wanted me there anyway; they all resented me for something they had no proof of. It would make their lives easier if I did not exist. So today, I will not exist.I was tired as well and needed a break from all the cruelty. Sitting in that bathroom for hours listening to girls gossip as they came in and out. I was the main subject of their gossip of course and the new girl no one knew.Pamela the girl who made me bleed was worried that the new girl might snatch Luka away from her. She did not like the way Luka was looking at her. I wonder why she would blame the poor girl and not Luka who was looking at her.Just before lunch time, I left the bathroom. I knew it was going to be filled with students and I will no longer have the peace I had. I left and went to sit on the football field. I was hungry but I woke up late and did not pack any lunch.“You are a difficult girl to
IANNA’S POVIn class Christina and I shocked everyone when we got back together. Sat together, talking and laughing. The last class was enjoyable and for the first time since I started school. It wasn’t all that bad.After school Christina and I waited for her driver to pick her up then I rushed to the woods. I shifted into my wolf form and went for a run. I ran and ran then when I was tired. I went and wore my clothes then walked home.I knew my mother was going to be angry and scold me, but I didn’t care. I was happy and nothing she could say to me today will take that away from me. “Keep it that way Ianna and all will be alright.” I stopped in my tracks and smiled hearing my wolf.“Hello Sandra, its good to hear from you today.” She chuckled. “Oh, I could not possibly intrude, you were having so much fun with your new friend.” I smiled. “Can you believe it, someone wants to be my friend, she did not care about all the things they said to me. She even stood up for me with Lissa.”I
IANNA’S POVMy heart broke when I saw that, I never meant to make her cry, Goddess, she has been good to me and yet now she was starting the day with tears because of me. “Oh, Ianna, I don’t know how you do it, you are so strong my friend. I don’t think I can bear any of this.”I sighed. “I bear it because I am used to it, now, let’s go to class.” She helped me fix myself and then we walked to class. When we walked in the teacher stopped and all eyes were on us.“It’s not even a week and already you are getting Christina into trouble Ianna. What exactly do you want to see happen before you understand that your presence in other’s lives is nothing but a curse?” Mrs. Laurence said.Before I could answer Christina answered first. “She did nothing wrong mam, I was the one who was feeling unwell, and she was only helping me.” Mrs. Laurence gestured for us to sit while saying under her breath. “She will be the end of you if you are not careful.”I heard her and so did Christina, but we said
IANNA’S POV“It’s time to go now, my friend.” Christina said looking breath taking in her nude dress. It sat perfectly on her curves and blended perfectly with her skin tone. “You look beautiful Christina.” She smiled at me.We walked out of my room and down the stairs. My mother was the first person to see us coming from the front door. Maybe she just sent Lissa off. “Well, I hope you know what you are doing borrowing this girl your clothes.” She looks me up and down.“Dressing up a pig will not stop it from being a pig. Remember when you lay with dogs you get up with fleas.” What she meant was that I was like a flea who transmits disease through my bite including plague.In plain English my mother was calling me a plague that was going to infect my friend if she was not careful. “Sometimes pigs and dogs are useful.” Christina said then pulled me by my arm out of the house.She then turned to me. “Please tell me that is not your mother.” I sighed. “She is my mother, but don’t blame h
IANNA’S POV“We can leave if you no longer feel like staying.” Christina my good friend said. “No, we came here to have fun and not find mates who don’t know what they want. So, let’s go have fun.” She gave the widest smile ever and I smiled back.She took my hand, and we walked back to the bonfire. There were many others around the fire laughing, talking, and drinking. I smiled feeling like I could have fun after all and forget about what happened with Jeyden.What matters is that he did not reject me, maybe because he was with Lissa that he could not say anything. We still had time. We went and stood by the others but just as we were starting to get comfortable Lissa yelled.“Ianna, why are you still here?” At that moment, the fire suddenly went out and it was pitch black. At this point, the others started to complain, "Sure enough, Ianna you are such a disaster! Such bad luck who can even put out fires just by appearing, what a devil."I was devastated and couldn't take the humilia