When someone tells you your name, it is easy recognized for it was yours to begin with. It seeps through your skin, the images flashing as fast as the speed of light in your eyes and knocking every emotions that crawls from within your soul, hiding to the surface of your life for it might trigger pain.
The insignia in my chest before feels like a name. A past flames runs across my heart, swelling it with vivid memories once the old man stops his attempt to draw the curse symbol. He shows his work to us, but the three of us are all frozen, trying to cope up with the memories of it.
It was Alpha Nicholas who spoke. “ That’s the same,” he muttered in a strained voice. At dawn, we decided to trail behind their father’s footsteps, to trace back his actions and decisions of the past.
We’ve come into one conclusion. That he was angry not by our curse, but he was angry to a certain goddess. It’s his own words that told us that the Gibbous twin wasn’t the first to cli
Alpha Nicholas would have refused the invitation of his own father. Alpha Antonio suggested the same but to do that is like losing the opportunity to know the truth. What the old man said bewildered us. It made me think for a night and any answers that tries to touch my mind was too obliterate about my perspective on goddess Selene.Now, I know why she cursed us. It wasn’t just because I was Apollo’s daughter but because she had an unfinished business with the father of the Gibbous twin.The cracks in the glass of our life was too old to even fix. Somehow, even without the curse, we are connected. There is another part of our life that is linked to each other.That old man didn’t expound his story. He leaves an open ending – an open thought for all of us. He was wicked and suggestive. He’s suggesting that Alpha Gerri was in love with Selene and if that is the truth then why does he marry someone else? I’ve known
Our actions reflects our mind. Simple movements can indicate what we are thinking at that moment. What is our thoughts even without intentionally showing it. It was the simple gestures that lead us to truth. It was those simple gestures that I somehow felt that Alpha Gerri was hiding something. He knows something and he wasn’t ready to share it with us.When I asked him when he knows the exact location of Mt. Periswua, he became rigid like he heard something to make his heartbeat stopped for a moment. His eyes moves sideways, his hands moves in an agitated way.It wasn’t long when he tugged into the door handle and leave us without any words. He lost his composure by just the simple mention of the name of the mountain. And I think I was more curious to find the place. But it wasn’t easy.Alpha Antonio was snoring when I woke up from a deep slumber. Maps and books are scattered into the floor of our living room. We are doing our be
His forehead furrowed. And I bite my lips trying to contain my guilt inside of me. I made myself swear secrecy to what happened between Alpha Antonio and me this morning. It feels like cheating to Alpha Nicholas, and it was an inevitable situation. What we did was a quick decision not of our minds but of our hearts. Our emotion dominates us that moment and I didn’t regret it. I only regret the fact that I felt like I cheated on Alpha Nicholas.I know him. Once he found out about it, he will go berserk about it. The corner of his mouth didn’t turn up when he embraced me. I was too guilty and panicking from the insides that I step a foot backward and slightly pushed him away.A muscle in his jaw twitched, his hands remains in the air, left hanging while his lips drew back in a snarl.I went white. Unintentionally, I paled like a guilty person as I am. He clutched his hands into a fist and I was stunned for a moment, seeing him walking away with a gnash
The path to seek for the truth is the path that I should take. The path that we should take to finally have something to hold. Something to answer what is happening with our life. Our quest on finding Mt. Periswua started at dawn. We are trailing and tracing behind every mark on the map to find the abode of goddess Selene. The one who curse us and the one who can give us the answers that we needed in our life. Finding her was difficult and pointing out where to find her makes it difficult. Although we already had our map, we already know how to find her, we cannot exactly point out where. We found Apollo’s den because he lured us into it. He used Alfredo to lure us into his home. The quest was unusually quiet. Both the Gibbous twin wasn’t talking to me. And I tried my best to get their attention. “ Aw,” I moaned when I stumble into solid rock. They stopped and looked at me with a worried face, I thought someone will help me and someone
The nights feels chilly. It wasn’t an understatement to feel that it was really the mountain of Periswua. That we’ve already found it, even without knowing. Just how the pale crescent moon shone above us like a slave of her majesty, lightning her home, we’ve already concluded that it is indeed her home.Stars are even giving their best to mischievously twink with light, making the night sky above us a combination of silver and illusory colors. Opposite to what is infront of us.“ Are you sure this was it?” Alpha Nicholas asked. I had the same question. Maybe those woman with spears are just luring us here in the cliff and making a fool out of us.I heaved my sigh and waited for something to unfold in front of us but nothing did. The woman told me that I can see her abode, for I am Apollo’s daughter but I can’t.Alpha Antonio growls with annoyance. “ I’ll kill her,” he said. Then I felt something.
She felt like an ephemeral star that twinkles along the night, outshining the darkness of nature. I can picture her clearly, the way how she was giggling while watching Alpha Antonio and I play, her stunning soft features and gentle words of wisdom. She was the epitome of every Luna that I’ve met but then we were told that she was cursed by an unknown disease and suffered a great ordeal until her last breath.I even kept her ring for her, for I promise to always stay by her Antonio’s side no matter what happens.“ She was once the guardian of the Mt. Henes, where it caters to the needs of peace and isolation. Her abode was nothing like ours, she was the favorite. The butterfly is in her own mountain and everyone wants her. Everyone adores and worships her. It was like her power wasn’t calming my mind and binding me with nature, it was temptation. Her cross bowed lips always tell the greatest things and even my own father loves her,
He nudges my touch and move away. “You know that she was just manipulating us, right?” Alpha Antonio said to his twin, consoling him for he was right. Selene, the moon goddess is just trying to manipulate us through her stories.Her stories wasn’t something that we know but it wasn’t something that we’ve needed to know for it was all a lie. Whatever she’s saying are all part of her lies. Alpha Gerri loathed her, it was enough for him to fake his death just to escape her sight.It was impossible for him to love Selene and loath her this much afterwards. Selene must’ve been having an illusion. Alpha Gerri loved Letti, she was his first and only love. Their love story is what inspires me and all of the women at our pack.They are an unbreakable couple. And they even died with the same disease. That is what is instilled in our mind. And hearing, Selene’s version of story won’t fazed me. She was just trying her lu
Atonement. Reparation. Paying of sins.It is the nature of the world to keep a balance among every species. That everything should be equal to established a world that doesn’t envy one another, doesn’t build a diversion against one another. However, everyone sins. It’s the dark loophole of life, sinning seems to be the nature of the world. One sin from many actions and sometimes, atonement is the only option to cleanse nature.Nature has its own way of demanding the payment of sins. It can come in a full-blown punishment and sometimes it comes into a piece by piece dark omen of life. Nevertheless, atonement is an inevitable demand that no one is exempted from.One way or another, we are ought to pay for our sins.The shuffling of our feet can be heard from the narrow part of this castle. I don’t even know where they are dragging me. It was just full-blown of winds invading the white walls and columns, the fires at each side, illumi