" Your father must have foreseen something for him to hand over these weapons to you, before his demise. "Another remark that blew me off track. We were en route to the Northern lands. Ryan's mysterious uncle was behind us as well. He promised to lead us to the last post where he himself was allowed. " What do you mean? "I , naturally slowed down ." Did you know my father? "" I might have. " He smiled. Then he positioned himself between myself and the rest of my team in such a manner that only I would be able to hear what he says. " That tree over there, is the last post till where I will be able to accompany you guys.""Why? I mean why can you not cross that land? "I knew that he specifically asked us not to ask about that but I took the liberty. " Ahhh! You are quite a girl I see. Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt to tell you since we both will be sharing some more secrecy. " He flashed his contagious smile again, " You see that thing that rules those lands have a dark source.

It was a week-long battle. A battle it was, just in name, it was basically a massacre. The moment we stepped inside those lands the day turned into darkness. It was nothing like the empty lands that we had visited. It was, as if, they were waiting for us with armed hands. " Spread out. Look for the other packs. "I could hear Ryan yell out the orders as a terrible blizzard suddenly came at our direction. We could tell it wasn't a natural phenomenon. The blizzard was accompanied with several ghastly apparitions. Each threatning one, with an different terror. It was as if we had stepped inside a mirage of madness. It was becoming difficult to tell fake from real.In the middle of that madness our days went by. Bodies fell here and there. It would have been easy for those minions of darkness to get rid of all of us but they chose meticulously, whom to kill and whom to play with. My eyes had been fixed on Ryan, at least I had been trying. Finally when the dark fog settled, I ran

He was like the hungry wolf and it was more apt, now that I knew his reality. He was as impatient as our first night. Well, basically half of it. We never got to finish the act at that time. His kisses ravaged all over my neck as his hands mishandled me. It felt good. It felt raw. And my moans and groans were begging him to continue what he was doing. He ripped my dress off with his fangs as I saw his beastly side slowly arising. Strangely, I wasn't scared. There was a weird sense of familiarity. I could see my chest heaving so loudly that I was afraid my heart would pop out, as his tongue traveled towards the ends of my bra straps as he was about to undress me completely."Sherizad... why did you leave me? " he mumbled as he flung my innerwear to the side. I pulled my neck up to see where it was landing but he grabbed my neck and thrust his body weight over me. His embrace felt wild. His embrace felt comforting. He was like a big dog, snuggling so hard, looking for someone to

" So what was it that you wanted to talk to me about? "I swear I didn't mean to be that polite with him but I was doing it for Ryan. I knew that, at the moment, the power that Helos, the Northern Chief held, was beyond our comprehension and thus he was practically undefeatable. The lives of all of us were at stake. The ghastly apparition had blindfolded me and carried me on air, somewhere. I guess I wasn't meant to find out his hide out. They took the blindfold off when I finally could feel solid ground beneath both my feet. The place was dark and damp. I saw that I was standing on one of the small stones, scattered around and the rest of the ground was submerged in water. I tried to dip my right foot to check how deep it was but it kept going and I had to take it out because it was too chilly. In front of me was a pile of discarded bones. Human-like skeletons formed a towering structure on which was seated a hooded figure, as if it was his throne. He brought forth his exception

That stench in that mist took me back straight to the battlefield. Not that it needed anything for me to revisit that scene, over and over in my head, a million times, carefully visualizing the chronology of the event. Thinking , wondering and lamenting if there was anything that I could have done better that could have averted that massacre. It still made my breath heavy when I remembered her last breaths that she heaved on these arms. "Ryan, is everything alright? "Sherry's touch made me realise that she was gone as I stared at those empty hands. " The boat will not go any further Alpha. It might hit those rocks and crumble . We need to swim the rest of the distance to the shore. "" Sherry, get on my back... " but before I could finish, she had already stripped and jumped into the ocean. " Gosh! This water is so cold. You should have warned me before I jumped to swim. "She was so unlike my Sherizad, always getting on my nerves, always getting herself in trouble. But I someho