Elizabeth.I didn’t even get to put a handful of yards of distance between me and the Crescent Moon pack. As I ran from my home, I heard Herald yell behind me, and when I did the mistake of looking over my shoulder, I realized that there were five men chasing me. Herald turns to his wolf form to deter them, but it’s five against one, so as two of the wolves take over him the other three start to chase me in their wolf forms. Alarm rushes through my being as I pump my legs faster. I don’t know who these wolves are, I’ve never seen them in the pack before. They must be the outsiders that Easton had somehow managed to procure in order to take over my father!I shake my head and run faster. I can’t afford to think right now, there was danger afoot and I had to flee.The Lunar woods is an old forest. It had existed even before the Crescent Moon pack was formed by the first Alpha Mannering, and it had existed long before the human kingdom outside the forest was even founded. Legend says that
Elizabeth.I lean on a tree, panting. I think I’ve successfully shaken off the wolves who were tracking me, but I can’t be sure. The night has become darker, and I can see the stars blinking through the sparse clouds as I look up. I’d just climbed a mountain, and my legs ache. I’m still drenched from my trek into the tunnel behind the waterfall, and the cold air of the night bites at my skin. I feel a headache approaching, along with a runny nose. There’s nothing more I want to do than return back home, change out of my clothes and bundle up on my bed in front of the fireplace.Home. The very word makes my stomach drop, as it reminds me of what had happened just hours ago.I don’t know the distance I’ve traveled from the pack, nor the time I spent on it. It feels like a lot. My head and my body are heavier than ever, every step I take is an effort because it feels like my feet are trying to fuse to the ground. I have the unshakable urge to scream, which I feel like I should attest to t
Elizabeth.With my heart racing, I limp forward, disregarding the pain in my ankle, constantly looking back. Through the trees and shrubbery, I notice three wolves approaching me. One is grey while the other two are shades of brown. Their amber eyes latch onto me as soon as they appear, and a cry escapes my throat.“Stay away from me!” I scream at them as they come running towards me. I move towards the edge of the cliff as fast as possible. The gushing sound roars underneath me, and I realize that the cliff leads to the Genecy river.The Lunar woods were plentiful in water bodies, and you could find waterfalls at every turn. But there was only one river nearby, and that was the Genecy river. The Genecy river provided the whole land, supernatural, and humans alike, with water, and it was large enough for human ships to run further downstream. But around the Lunar woods, where the river began, it was still very narrow and shallow. I am trapped on a cliff in between a river and traitors
Alexander.“Alex, good timing,” My father says as I enter the pack manor of the Lunar Legacy pack. He stands in the main living room which has been converted into a conference area since the beginning of time, really. There is a rather large desk in the middle of the room where more than ten people can sit at. I’ve personally never seen the table being used for anything because there had never been a situation where such a large conference was to be carried out. Normally my father would just use it as a prop to deliver his orders to the pack as he is doing now.Perhaps I should be glad that the table had never been used because that means there wasn’t such a significant threat to my pack.“Good evening, father,” I greet him as I close the door that leads to the conference room, “You called for me?”“Yes, I did,” My father replies, getting up from where he was sitting at the head of the table, “There is a small crisis at hand, and I hoped that you could help me resolve it.”“Sure, what
Alexander. I meet up with the rest of the scouting team, and my father’s Gamma, Craig greets me.“Well, hello, Alex,” He clasps my hands, “Your father told me that you would be leading the scouting mission today, and I have to say I was surprised upon hearing it.”“Me too,” I reply enthusiastically, “I never thought I’d get the opportunity again, to be honest.”“It’s high time he gave you the chance,” Craig remarks, “Caster might be the Alpha heir and all, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t learn this stuff as well. One day, your brother might choose you to be his Beta or his Gamma. By the way, had your brother given you his decision yet?”The happiness I feel dampens a bit at that.“Not yet, I’m afraid,” I mutter, “But I’m sure he will soon. After all, he’s only twenty years of age yet, and father is in peak health. He has plenty of time.”We both knew I was only making excuses for my brother.Caster had recently turned twenty years old, and by the norms of the pack, he should be ch
Alexander.There is nothing more freeing that turning into your wolf form.The coldness of the night thrills me as the summer breeze rustles through my fur, and I lick my lips, running my tongue over my sharp teeth as I stretch my legs. My body feels incredibly energized, and I can’t wait to run as fast as I could. My vision is clearer, and the night looks like the day. I could hear everything, like the snap of a twig under a bustling squirrel, the little bird flying through the branches of a maple tree, a rabbit making its way to its burrow, members of the Lunar Legacy pack going on and about in their day…everything. The pain of transformation is minuscule to the pleasure it brings, and the presence of my wolf is heavy in my mind. My wolf can't speak to me as he isn’t an Alpha, but I could feel him, I could sense his emotions. Most of the time, I felt as if it wasn't enough, but there wasn't anything I could do about it. Five years later I was still working on accepting myself, althou
Alexander. She’s wedged in between two rocks at the riverbank, covered in various tree fronds and weeds that have been flowing down the river with her. She looks so very pale, dressed in what was once a white dress which was now in tatters and blotched by brown stains. Her long, dark hair falls all over her face. As soon as I see her, I’m almost certain she’s dead by how lifeless she looks. But upon moving closer to her, I realize that she’s breathing, albeit weakly.We turn back into our human forms immediately.“Holy shit, that’s a girl,” Matthew, the wolf who initially found her, hisses, his eyes wide.“Yeah,” I mutter, stepping closer to her. This is truly a bizarre thing to witness, “She looks like she’d been swept down by the river.”“She’s still alive, isn’t she?” Avery questions, “Because I think I just so her chest move.”“She’s alive,” Craig confirms.He then walks towards her, “Help me get her out of the rocks,” she tells me, and I rush towards him. Together, we pick the gi
The girl by the river. I see things.I’m aware that most of them aren’t real, and I’m also aware that I am not awake. I am asleep, although the sleep is not present, rather, it’s tumultuous. I am dreaming, I am hallucinating. These images don’t make sense half the time, same as the emotions they invoke within me. I see the moon, shining high up in the sky. I see wolves running in the moonlight through a forest full of old, titanic trees that loom over the wolves as their protectors. I see a river, gushing down the land, and when I see it, I feel fear. I see a black wolf staring at me from the distance, its red eyes angry, and the wolf transforms into a man with black hair and even blacker eyes, glaring at me. I want to run when I see the wolf and the man, I want to flee far away where they can’t hurt me.I see another man, with hair the color of straw and eyes the color of the sky, tall and strong, handsome and tan. He makes me feel safe, I like seeing him. I don’t know who he is, in