CHAPTER 7 – The Sacrifice That Ended The Wrath

I

In a village situated at the heart of Mt. Reveree; Lumaro the son of the Alpha of the Cold Mountain Pack will soon celebrate his twentieth birthday. He will be the next Alpha and his father’s challenge for him is to find his mate, soon to be the Luna of their pack. Once he found her; only then that he can replace his father as the new Alpha of the Cold Mountain Pack.

“What else could I do father? I have visited every other pack’s full moon parties to find my mate but I failed. I cannot feel any connection with those numbers of the unmated she-wolves that I have met. Could it be that my mate is still yet to be borne?” Lumaro asked his Alpha father with so much frustration.

Suddenly, Alpha Maro remembered something. Didn’t he and his best friend Gregor make a pack and a prayer to the moon goddess that should, the Luna will give birth to a daughter, they wished her to be the mate of his son Lumaro, who was just one year old at that time?

Alpha Maro has been the Beta before of the former Cold Mountain Pack Alpha Gregor. Alpha Gregor was a fearless, gorgeous Alpha looked up to and loved by many even by witches; but his heart only belongs to his mate, Luna Cressia.

Prior to finding his Luna, Alpha Gregor had a playful relationship with a woman named Thutaara; all they did was to have sex every time they saw each other. The woman was willing and gave everything to Alpha Gregor without asking or demanding anything in return. Until one day, while having his trading activities with other Alphas, Alpha Gregor met his mate Cressia; the daughter of the Alpha of the Green Mountain Pack; a pack that lives on the other side of the Ocean from the Cold Mountain Pack’s village. Immediately, they marked each other, mated and Cressia became the new Luna of the Cold Mountain Pack.

When the marriage of Alpha Gregor was learned by Thutaara, she was totally heartbroken and devastated. She thought that Alpha Gregor loved her and was just waiting for the right time to ask her hand for marriage. She almost died in pain. Her spirit faded its vigor to live; she could not sleep and eat. All of these have been witnessed by her mother Theria; who unknown to many was a very strong witch and sorceress.

“Thutaara, come here. I know what you feel; being your mother, your pains are my pains too. Tell me, how can I help you?” Theria asked her daughter with anger in her voice.

The crying Thutaara suddenly looked at her mother and then she remembered who she is. Her eyes grew wide and then laughter burst out from her lips. “Mother, make me the strongest witch in this land!” her eyes were full of vengeance.

Theria held her daughter’s hands, closed her eyes, and said aloud a death terrifying chant. After few seconds; Theria’s eyes opened and Thutaara could only see therein total darkness.

“My daughter, I have passed on to you all the powers I got because only then that you will become the strongest Witch in this land. Always remember how much this mother of yours loves and treasures you.” Theria said while her voice has been slowly fading and her heart faltered bit by bit.

“Mother, what’s going on?” Thutaara asked as she felt volts of electricity ran throughout her veins and saw her mother seemed to be slowly dying.

“Thu…ta…ra, this is the consequence for giving you all that I have.” Theria with a trembling voice replied.

Thutaara was in total shock. “No, mother! You should have told me! Why did you do that?” she screamed as she saw her mother closed her eyes with rugged breathing already.

“I am your mother… I can sacrifice everything for you, even if it means, risking …my … life.” Theria with difficulty said until she held her last breath.

“No! mother, No!!!” the screams of Thutaara broke the silence, clouding the whole Mt. Reveree. The nearby pack of werewolves has been surprised and such screams brought them tremors that they could not understand at that time.

II

From that time on, Thutaara has been feared by everyone. She made destructions; she murdered men and women of werewolf origin from the Cold Mountain Pack. She had no mercy at all.

Thutaara waited and gave the Cold Mountain Pack’s Alpha and Luna some days of glory. She wept when she learned that the Luna of the Cold Mountain Pack has been pregnant with her Alpha’s first child. Then her final revenge came to an end after determining that the Luna was about to give birth already.

From the top of Mt. Reveree, almost touching the clouds; Thutaara gave her chants of death for the Alpha of the Cold Mountain Pack; the Alpha whom she loved but betrayed her and the Alpha who was the proximate cause of her mother’s death and why she became who she is now.

Then, thereafter at the heart of Mount Reveree; Cressia, the Cold Mountain Pack’s Luna, cried in despair. Her Alpha has been dead and no one from among their pack could bring him back to life. Not even their pack Doctor. His life has been taken by Tuthaara, the most feared witch of Mount Reveree. As she cried more, an excruciating pain crept through her bulging tummy; she shouted in pain, and a few minutes more, the daughter of the Cold Mountain Pack’s Alpha and Luna has been borne!

As Luna Cressia lay down beside the body of her dead husband Alpha, her newborn daughter cried out loud.

From the clouds, the deafening voice of Tuthaara cursing the newborn daughter of their Alpha and Luna filled the ears of all werewolves from the Cold Mountain Pack.

“Your father rejected me despite all the love I showered him; you, their only heir will suffer my final curse to your pack. You will be thrown to a far-away land where wolves are considered deadly animals and after the day of your adulthood, you will shift every midnight into your most dreadful wolf form that the wolves’ world and even the human’s world will ever see! Let my curse be done to you!”

With tears, the Luna held her daughter beside her and whispered weakly, almost chasing for her last breath, “A love that is pure will shelter you from harm and will bring you to your true self. May the spirits of your Alpha father and your Luna mother shield and guide you wherever you may be.” She then took her last long breath.

With that, the laughter of Tuthaara, boomed like thunder, shaking the land of the Cold Mountain Pack. Every wolf growls with sadness as they saw the two lying dead bodies of their Alpha and Luna.

As Tuthaara made her final curse, the wolves hurled more and called on their Moon Goddess, who they believe has left them uncared and unprotected from the wrath of the most feared witch.

When the clouds disappeared, so was the newborn daughter of the Alpha and Luna of the Cold Mountain Pack, which brought total gloom to all wolves who revered their Alpha and Luna so much.

The newborn daughter of Alpha Gregor and Luna Cressia became the sacrifice that ended the wrath of Thutaara to the werewolves of the Cold Mountain Pack.