Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Stand-In Luna: Kabanata 141 - Kabanata 150

Ashley The Elders dropped to their knees, lifting their head up at her in awe and wonder. Who would have thought that what it would take for her to see their faces clearly was the true expression of the powers she sought to bury deep within?“The goddess…the prophecy, it's true!” exclaimed Rhodan, lifting his hands up as though to behold her. Her feet were above the ground, standing on nothing but air itself, as silver light continued to pour out of her form, bathing everything in its glow. Euphoria surged through her veins stronger than a hungry tide, pushing against barriers until all she wanted to do was remain right there, as the object of worship for them all.Now, they respected her, but wasn't it only because of her abilities? Did any of them see her as more than a weapon? As a tool for their own selfish ideals wrapped up in the promise of something altruistic?All their worship, Ashley realised, were mere lies, and they would revoke it as soon as they were once again reminde

Ashley“This wasn't what I was promised! I was promised the goddess incarnate! You will not take her away from me!” Elandir's volume increased with every sentence he uttered. His eyes were almost bloodshot with rage. His jaw popped and cracked as he started the process of his transformation, voice deepening and becoming monstrous as he did so. “I was chosen by the goddess as the perfect spouse for her. You can't change that.”Rhodan dropped his hood and looked up at the hulking form of Elandir. His eyes were narrowed, annoyed. “If you were so hell-bent on keeping her, then you should have paid more attention to her. We kept her in your care, and right under your nose, she took the child away.”“We can always find the child, Rhodan,” Elandir said, voice level once again. He tried to appear calm, but he still remained in his half-transformed state. “Killing her is not necessary.”“A vessel that refuses to belong to its potter, must be thrown into the fire,” said Elira. “Alyssa has been

JaceIt had been difficult, but I had finally gotten a hold of the relic’s location.The cave smelled of scorched stone and long-forgotten blood.Every step I took echoed like a drumbeat against the walls, a low reminder that the path I walked could not be turned back from. My fingers grazed the jagged rock as I moved deeper, the air growing hotter, denser, as though the earth itself was warning me to stay away.But I wasn't one to always do as warned.“Almost there,” my mother’s voice whispered from behind me. I didn’t turn to look at her. I didn’t need to. Even without her words, I could feel the heat of her presence, the pulse of her conviction pressing against my spine.The Ignis Relic. The treasure I had nearly lost my life trying to retrieve from that Lycan bastard. By everything happens for a reason, because if not for that cave collapse, I wouldn't have found the book that my mother left for me. The one that had shown me many things and enlightened me.We had chased informatio

Ashley The scream came out of me so suddenly. It didn't even sound close, it sounded like something distant and far away. Like my ears had suddenly lost touch with reality. Instead what I could hear perfectly was the sound of a high pitched ringing. The ash crunched under my boots as I moved deeper into what was left of the village, my knees barely able to keep me standing. I kept wishing that it was all a premonition or an illusion, but every moment that passed was a cruel reminder that it wasn't. This destruction was all real. Every trail of smoke. Every broken body. Every blackened, scorched earth and degraded wood where houses once stood. Smoke still clung to the air, heavy and choking. I kept Luna close, her small hand gripping mine so tightly it almost hurt. Her trembling was contagious. I knelt in front of her, the harsh ground biting into my knee, and brushed a streak of soot from her round cheek. She was just a child who barely knew anything about the world, and she h

Ashley Once Zane finished recounting his experience and everything that had transpired in my absence, I expressed what I also witnessed in the Forbidden Lands. “I finally understand who I am,” I said to him, realizing that I had wanted to say those words for so long. I had always been saying the opposite. All my life, it was the one question I had never been able to answer. It used to be a dead end whenever I thought about my origins, and to make matters worse, people like Carina and Lucas made sure I was always aware of the fact that I didn't belong with them. They were right. I didn't belong with them. My father was a half-lycan warrior, and my mother was supposedly the first incarnation of the Moon Goddess, while I was the second. Everything that had been a question all my life finally made sense. Why my wolf was larger than others. Why I was told to always take tinctures or risk going berserk. Why Elena tried so hard to make me feel accepted rather than to lead with a fist o