Chapter Five: The Witch Clan

"Why did you let her escape?" an eerie voice in the dark asks.

"I'm sorry My Queen," a woman who looks be be in her early twenties, dress in all black, who have bandages place around her neck, and also a crescent shaped necklace falling to her chest. 

She kneels before the strange woman in the dark, the Queen of the witch clan Sharona.

"Will sorry suffice for your carelessness?!" You know the rules Ericka, 'Once your face is compromised...."

There is silence. 

"Answer it Ericka. Do not be a coward! You know all so well that there are no second chances. Witches as us do not have this luxury".

Walking to Ericka, Sharona bends low, taking her chin in the tip of her hands, she kisses her farewell. She then turn facing the Eastern window, she repeats:

"Once your face is compromised....."

"My life is..And we give our lives so she may live on to wreck havoc on the son's of Lycan," she completes. And as if one that is possessed, she takes out the crescent sliver blade and slits her own throat.

Queen Sharona, walking over to the now still body, she bends over it again, using her palms she cover the still open eyes muttering a prayer:

"May mother Gaia welcome you to her bossom, and may Moriggan find you worthy of her cycle".

With that she cut the locks of Ericka's hair, as a send off rite to their ancestors. 

She mutter beneath her breathe. "I won't forgive you Alessia for daring to bring your Hybrid blood as a source redemption to the Lycans! None of the children of Lycan shall find redemption till I wipe you all from the surface of the earth and send you to Selene to forever wander on the moon!! You have been cursed and cursed I shall make you remain", she let out a cruel laughter, which shakes the entire building.

"Mother!" comes a voice behind her.

"Yes!" she snaps.

"You have a visitor."

"Who is it?"

"Alpha Derek's Beta, from the Greenwoods pack".

She smiles devilishly.

"Welcome him. Wait, on another thought, I'll welcome him. Get rid of Ericka's body". 

With that she walks out of the room. Going to welcome the Beta.

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"Welcome! To our humble abode Beta. How may we help you? We haven't offend your Alpha, have we?" she smiles sweetly.

"No. Not at all, my lady! Alpha Derek wishes to be at peace with you. He asks for a favor, that you grant him audience with your wounded daughter, the one, one of ours mistakenly hurt".

She smile again, holding her two palms together, she says, "I'm afraid we lost her this morning Beta".

"You said, she survived the wound."

"Yes she did. But we found her dead this morning. She killed herself. It appears she had been depressed all this while and finally sought death as the only option to her".

Darren stares at her. He knows she is lying, they had killed her to cover up their tracks.

"Please accept my condolences on behalf of my Alpha and pack".

"Thank you Beta. Now if there isn't any other business to discuss again. I will have one of my daughters escort you back to your territory." she offers warmly.

"No. I won't have you go through the trouble, my lady. I shall leave then. Selene be with you!" 

"And with you Beta ".

After the farewells. Darren head back to his pack, with his two escorts, the strongest Gammas, to inform Derek of the new development. While Sharona deliberate on her next scheme evilly.

"What on earth is Sharona up too?" Why is the girl who survived Alessia's wound dead? Alessia, The children of Shanti, The Witch Clan, Waterwoods pack? There must be a connection to all these."

The mountain pack - That is Alessia's place of birth according to her uncle, and that pack was also annihilated! 

"What is the thread Sharona is trying so hard to break?" Darren thinks out a loud.

All this thoughts, swirls round Darren's head, he's eyes shifting from it usually grey color to his wolf's eye, a searing blue and back, he and his wolf Kael, are in sync, as they head eastwards toward the raising sun, back to Greenwoods.