All Chapters of THE ALPHA TRIALS: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

He didn’t comfort her. He walked away.The flames whispered:“This is the night Lucien became ruthless. Will you forgive it?”Ava touched the air. The room burned away.Back to fire. Her body felt heavier.4. The Second Vision – Kael’s LieNext, she was in a library. Endless rows of books, and Kael standing in front of a sealed glass case.Inside it: a heart.Pulsing.Real.Kael turned his back and walked away.The flame hissed:“This was the truth he buried to protect his legacy. Would you still let him lead?”Ava reached for the glass—but it cracked into flame and vanished.More heat. Her skin blistered. She staggered to her knees.5. The Third Vision – Rowan’s GuiltThen: a snowy forest.Rowan held a child in his arms. Dead. Frozen. He howled—not in rage, but in failure.Ava fell to her knees.“He couldn’t save his brother. Will you let him protect you now?”The snow melted into ash.The pain returned. Ava screamed, falling forward into the scorched earth.The fire licked at her he

Trial Grounds – Forbidden NightThe rules were simple:No outsider could enter the Trials.No bloodline beyond the five heirs could interfere.And no one—no one—was allowed to hunt the Queen outside of sanctioned hours.Yet tonight, someone broke all three.Ava woke not in her bed, but in the woods, breath caught in her throat, knees raw, blood on her wrists.She hadn’t walked here.She’d been taken.1. The DisappearanceEarlier that night, Rowan had stayed behind after their bond ritual.He kissed her temple, whispered, “Rest now,” and she had.But somewhere after midnight, the moon turned blood-orange.And the warding spells on her chamber shattered.She remembered cold hands.Smoke.Eyes that didn’t belong to any of the five heirs.Eyes that shouldn’t exist.2. The Wolf in the DarkAva pressed against the base of an old tree, heart thundering.Something prowled in the trees.Not just an alpha—an ancient one.The scent it left behind was old magic and dried blood.And then… a voice.

1. The Ritual Circle – Midnight MoonThe sacred circle was drawn in blood and bone.No flames. No weapons. No spectators.Only the moon.Ava stepped barefoot into the ring, her body trembling, her breath shallow.The sky above her pulsed with red—Blood Moon Zenith, the most dangerous phase for any first-time transformation.And this wasn’t a choice anymore.It was survival.Rowan stood at the perimeter, fists clenched.Kael and Lucien watched from opposite corners, cloaked in shadow.Jax whispered a prayer he didn’t believe in.Darius sharpened a blade behind his back—just in case.Because if Ava failed this transformation…They would have to kill her.2. The Shift BeginsThe ritual began in silence.Elder Thorne’s voice echoed:“Let the beast rise. Let the false flesh fall.”The mark on Ava’s chest burst into flame.She screamed—body snapping backward, spine arching unnaturally as power erupted through her veins.Her fingers cracked and extended.Her skin tore open across her back.C

1. The Shadow Crown BurnsThe Shadow Crown sat heavy on Ava’s head, colder than steel, yet thrumming with heat that pulsed beneath her skin. It wasn’t a crown forged by goldsmiths or royal decrees.It was made of blood.Of betrayal.Of truths too old to be remembered.As the altar burned with fireless flame, the world tilted.The five heirs knelt before her—but Rowan’s bow was slower, his movements hollow.His gaze never left hers.Because in that moment, Ava didn’t see the man who had kissed her with reverence beneath moonlight.She saw the liar.2. The Tension Beneath the Kneel“Rise,” she commanded.Her voice echoed across the Trial Grounds, no longer human. Magic clung to her syllables like smoke to fire.The heirs obeyed—but Rowan remained kneeling, eyes cast downward.“Rowan,” she said again, voice softer. “Look at me.”He did.And for the first time, she saw guilt etched across every angle of his face.“Tell me it wasn’t real,” she said quietly.The others turned, watching sile

1. The Woman with Ava’s EyesThe waves pounded the black shore.Ava stood frozen, boots sinking into the wet sand as the woman stepped closer. Her presence was commanding—not because of power, but because of the impossible familiarity that gripped Ava’s chest like a vice.Her hair was silver-white, long and knotted with threads of scarlet silk. Her eyes—moonlit gray with an inner ring of red.Just like Ava’s.“Who are you?” Ava asked, barely able to breathe.The woman stopped a few feet away. “You know who I am.”“I don’t.”“You do,” she said gently, her voice like ash and honey. “Because I’m the blood in your fire. The scream in your silence. I am… your mother.”Ava staggered back.“That’s not possible. My mother died in childbirth—”“She died in the stories the Council wrote for you.”2. The Truth Ava Was Never ToldThey were led into a jagged obsidian fortress carved into the cliffs of the Isle. Torches burned with green fire. The halls echoed with whispers.The woman—who introduce