It was not easy, especially due to the fact that Lin was injured. Hunter and the red haired guy had to morph back into their human forms so they could help with carrying Lin.The others remained in their wolf forms so they could help with navigating because they were more equipped to do that. They had no idea how big the Dark Valley was but it made sense why the place was named that way.Number one, it was because everywhere was very dark and secondly, it was because the place was a literal valley.As they walked further, they realized that the landscape was sloping. The night was very cold and Lin was shivering.Hunter could tell and he wrapped his arms around her, showing the red haired guy that he liked to take it from there.“You’re cold, aren’t you?” He asked her.Lin could literally feel her broken bones slowly coming back into place. It was a bit painful and discomforting but she was not in as much pain as before.“Yeah, sort of,” she replied to the guy. Although she was happ
Lin’s heart dropped and the hair on her skin stood. She could feel the immense power in the voice of the little girl.Truly, this girl was who she said she was! And if she was not, then that meant whoever she was, she was impressively powerful.The she-wolf stared in amazement and in seconds, she felt a strong urge to bow in submission. She did not know where it came from but it was like her body knew to give the Moon goddess the respect the entity deserved.Her knees began to bend without her permission and in no time, she was kneeling on the ground.She was soon in a bowing position, her face towards the ground, showing her respect to the goddess.Her heart was pounding because in that moment, she now believed that it was surely the Moon goddess that she was in the presence of.Tears filled her eyes and she tried to control her anxiety but none of her tactics helped.“I—“ Lin stuttered, her mouth not even capable of forming proper words. She tried it could not lift her face from t
Looking back was the exact opposite that Lin wanted to do. But who was she to disobey the goddess?She tentatively walked back to the glowing river and stared at it nervously. The reflection of her younger self looked at her with curiosity. “You want to know the truth? You want to know why you are not in contact with your wolf?” The voice literally came from the river.This captured Lin’s full attention. She leaned forward a bit and nodded before verbally adding, “Ye—yes.” She stuttered the word out.This was it! This was what she had been wanting to know for a very long time. From the moment that she turned sixteen and watched her friends shift into their wolves for the first time while she could not, she had longed to know.She had even asked her parents and they took her to many doctors and even a few therapists but nothing helped or worked.It took three more years before she had finally made peace with the fact that she was broken. Yes, she was still extremely intrigued about kn
Lin walked into the cave with her heart thumping in her chest. She had no idea where she was going, and the fact that she was not going with the Moon goddess did not make it any better.Yes, the goddess was still with her, but not physically. To the she-wolf, it was not quite the same.The further she walked away from the goddess, the darker it became. Until once again, she was surrounded by complete darkness.Any small sound that would go off would cause her heart to thunder in her chest. She was so scared.But at least she was now more hopeful in comparison to when she had just begun the quest.She was also more knowledgeable. She knew more about the quest, her past, her wolf, and the Moon goddess than she had ever known in her entire existence.Lin walked at a steady speed, not slowing down and going any faster than that. She kept one of her arms stretched forward in case a wall would be ahead, so she couldn’t bump into it.The air smelled weird, almost like cement, and it was cold
Shifting for the first time as a werewolf was not something that was not easy. It was painful, confusing, and even at times, torturous.The she-wolf had no idea, all she thought was that it was going to be smooth, even though she knew that she had no practice. “Just breathe, don’t overthink it. Focus on turning into a werewolf and it would happen naturally,” her wolf advised her.Lin closed her eyes and began to concentrate, trying her best to shift but absolutely nothing happened.She tried again. And again. Yet nothing happened. To a point that it was now getting frustrating.After a few more tries, she finally gave up. She was tired of trying over and over, getting the same results.“It’s okay, I don’t need to shift,” she mumbled under her breath in frustration. Her wolf wanted to speak yet stopped itself. It was better to remain silent, it believed. Lin walked down a path, using her low-light vision that she had been blessed with because of her union with her wolf.Yes, she was
Lin could not believe her eyes. The smell of the burned bodies was stronger than ever, causing her to feel vomit rising in her throat.She headed towards the scene and stopped right at Hunter and the red haired guy. She wanted to speak yet she could not bring herself to do that.She had never seen a dead body before, this was the first time. And it caused chills to run down her spine, especially considering how the men had died gruesomely.Hunter had tears in his eyes but he held them back with all of himself. Crying would make him look weak.Even though the guys that had died were men that he had gone to high school with and was close to, he still did not want to seem like he was unmanly.His mother had told him before that it was okay for men to cry but his father had led him to believe otherwise.He cleared his throat, sniffled and stood to his feet. When he peeled his eyes off the dead bodies, he locked eyes with the she-wolf.He could tell immediately that something was different
Lin swallowed but refused to coward in fear. She had told herself over and over that if she wanted to be Alpha of the pack, and that is, the first female alpha, then that meant that she had to stop allowing fear to rule her life. “I am not a curse,” she managed to say even though her voice was smeared with nervousness and fear. “And I am most certainly not cancer to our pack.”“Really?” The Reaper chuckled as he walked closer to her. “Your parents didn’t die from a gas leak, Lin. And you are a damn fool for believing that.”Lin’s face twisted in confusion as she furrowed her brows, not wanting to believe what the guy had just said. “Stop gaslighting me. Stop lying to me! I know the truth!” Her voice broke a bit. “Nothing you can say right now can make me believe your lies!”The Reaper fed on the reaction that he was getting from the she-wolf. It fueled him. “Lies? Really? That’s what you call me finally giving you the closure that was stolen from you?” He stopped when he was a foot
Sitting, Lin had already made her decision, and that was to stay on the quest. It was a very risky one but she knew that that was what she really wanted to do.As she stood to her feet, her eyes landed on someone walking towards her. At first she could not tell who it was.But after a few seconds, the person became visible. It was Hunter Blackwood, and he was alone.She did not think that he would be coming back anytime soon. She believed that he saw her as cursed now.“Hey,” Hunter said when he reached not too far from the she-wolf. “Are you okay?” He was a bit tentative.She doubled back a bit, squinting her eyes while staring at him. “Am I okay? You literally left me, Hunter.”He swallowed and shrugged lightly. “Lin, see it from my side. The guy said that you were cursed. He said you are the reason why the pack has been going through a lot.”“And you believed that?” She folded her arms on her chest and frowned.“What did you expect me to believe? I have not even known you for more