The First. The Light

I study the tree line, each pair of eyes seemingly getting closer and closer each time I meet their gaze.

"You know Ildi is right, Maybe you could try to do that thing ?"

*"I've told you both I can't, I've done it only once. Besides there doesn’t seem to be that many of them, we will just fight "*

"Fight? .Selene you don’t know what the wolves out here are capable of, they have been out here alone. no food, no pack I don’t think fighting with them is going to be an option"

*"Okay fine the two of you just stay close, I can shield us but we will need to think of a plan. We cannot just stand here like lambs waiting for slaughter"*

**"We're not that far away. we can just run for it"**

I know we are close but if we run, we will be running right into Salvi and Ivar's guard's, if they give chase there will be no time to stop and find a sneaky way into the house. We were like sitting ducks, the three of us scrambling to come up with something while we looked away from the edge closer and closer to us.

The pit of my stomach seems to bubble with anger and frustration, how do I keep ending up in situations like this. My whole life has been one battle after the other, my own personal nightmare of never-ending bad luck.

"Sekreta are you okay?"

Selene grips my arm firmly, panic and concern adorning her face. I don’t respond, I can’t, I can feel my insides burning. It’s like all of my pent up frustration is rising to the surface, my feet dig into the ground firmly, my face getting flushed with the heat.

*"Sekreta you eyes are glowing you are losing control "*

Selene’s voice seems like a distant whisper as I focus on the pairs of eyes around me. I’m angry at them, at myself and my life and I want to take it all out on them. I feel Selene's grip on my arm loosen the sound of footsteps in front of me as the two of them take a step back from me.

Raising my head to the sky I focus on the moon, the power inside me rising from the ground and up into me. Savea rises to the surface of my mind, the two of us bonding in a way we never have before.

It feels warm and powerful, the night sky changes into an obsidian black, only the moonlight shining now. The sound of snarling and growling resonates from the tree line, dropping now to the ground ready to let Savea take over. I lock eyes with the first wolf.

**"Sekreta what is going on, what are you doing? I thought we weren't going to fight?!"*

"We have had enough"

The voice that leaves me is powerful, shocking even me but they were my words, they rose from within me.
Ildi does not speak again; he merely watches and I hear Selene mutter something to him in a voice too low for me to hear.

Without warning the first Wolf bolts from the tree line, before Ildi and Selene can react. I dive in front of them shifting in the same movement. The power I feel is unbridled and untamed. I lock my jaw onto the wolves neck, the taste of metal flooding my every sense.

Before I can drop the first another makes his way towards me, he was bigger than the other his large paw swipes for me and drop swiping at the back legs as his body hits the ground, I place my paw on the back of his neck and extend my claws calling him to yelp out in pain.

This seems to anger the others and they all run from the tree line and run towards us, Selena and Ildi shift quickly and begin to attack. I see them fighting from the corner of my eye and I feel a hint of guilt. We had agreed not to do this, we had agreed not to and yet here they were.

Looking around I see more of them coming out of the trees. I take a deep breath out of the fighting and focus on each of them, their footsteps, their breathing. Without thinking I shift back and stand there.

"ENOUGH"

The sound of my voice seems to flood the forest and beat into the ears of all the wolves they stop and I rise to my feet. Looking down at my hands there is a white glow around them, it is surrounding me.

"THIS FIGHT IS OVER, LEAVE THIS PLACE"

Savea takes the forefront her power coming out of us in waves that seem to ripple through the fur and leaves of us the trees like a sonic boom in the now deafening quiet. No one moves, it's like their feet seemingly stuck in place, their eyes fixated on me.

The yellowing of their eyes now bright white, no pupils or darkness. Just glowing white orbs, every one of them now stiff as a board and still. I reach out to them, or at least I thought I did but what rises from me is bright white threads.

Each of them reaches out to connect with each of them, they weave around Selene and Ildi avoiding them reaching only for their target. I can see Ildi and Selene's mouths moving but I cannot hear what they are saying.

There is no noise in my head, only the sound of my own thoughts. As soon as each thread meets its target my mind floods with the voices of the wolves. Each one of them chiming in like a radio, voices getting louder and louder.

It becomes almost unbearable for a moment before I let out an internal cry and they fall silent. Each one of them drops to the floor bowing their heads at me. I stare at them wondering why they are doing this, why they have dropped their heads to me.

Like music, each one of them chants slowly, their voices low and soft as they repeat the same thing over and over.

**The first. The Light. The First. The Light**

They do not move. The chanting doesn’t stop and begins to feel a wave of panic rising from the depths of my stomach. It had occurred to me that I had started this but I had no real idea how I was going to stop it.

No idea what I was supposed to do next. I stopped the wolves as I wanted, managed to pull this new power from myself out of fear but I was now left in a state of disarray and panic.

"Savea, what's going on, what's happening to us"

she rises from within me again but this time it's different like when her voice took over I felt a wave of power once more.

**We are taking out true form Sekreta, we are becoming what I always knew we were**

Her words don't make any sense to me, I want to ask her, I have a thousand questions but I don't know what to ask.

**It is time for us to do what we were sent for. For what I have always known we were sent for**

"Savea. Your not making any sense, what do you mean you have always known"

He hears her chuckle from the back of my mind but it's different this time, it's confident and empowered.

**I mean. I have told you your whole life you were destined for more. That you alone were made for more**

"These were just things you told me in times of darkness when I was scared or hiding"

**That does not mean my words have no meaning. You have to trust in me Sekreta, all the times I told you of your greatness, I was speaking the truth. You are made for much more than this life has so far allowed you.**

"You're not making any sense. None of this makes any sense and I'm starting to panic. At any moment whatever hold I have over these wolves is going to break and your speaking riddles. How is any of this helpful! Just tell me what to do "

**Stop panicking Sekreta and listen to me. You know what you have to do, you just need to open yourself up to it. I am here to help and guide you but I cannot do this for you**

The snap of her voice causes a sharp intake of breath. I focus on myself, making my breathing slow.

I force the air to fill my lungs slowly, focusing on what she said. Could it be true that I know what I’m supposed to do? I look around at the wolves, all of them still kneeling on the floor, heads bowed low as they continue to chant.

I study each of them thinking about what I want them to do. I wanted them to leave, I wanted them to turn away and forget they have ever seen us. I stared at the wolf closest to me, he was larger, his brown shaggy fur, rugged and dark among the single light of the moon.

Focusing my gaze I try to pinpoint just his voice pulling it from the wave of chanting still occupying vast areas of my mind. I focus on just him and pluck his voice from the wave. As soon as pinpoint him his facelifts up, his eyes now glowing.

**The First. The Light**

"Stop"

He obeys immediately the words no longer aimlessly flowing from him. I wonder what to do next, what should I say next. That panic rolls in again but I quickly stem the thoughts ushering them to the back of mind.

"You and the others will leave here. You will forget what you have seen. You will speak of us to no one."

He doesn't move but the sting between us snaps away from me and a pinker and lighter one extends from him to the others, with each new connection from him the strings threaded towards me break.

Their eyes dull once more, returning to their original colour. It is then that I realise that I am above them all, my feet are no longer on the ground, Ildi and Selene are watching me. Staring up at me eyes wide and mouths hanging open slightly.

I focus on them for only a second before reverting my gaze back to the wolves. Each of their heads has now risen to meet me once more. As the final string breaks from me, they begin to move, some shifting as they begin to walk, the familiar cracking of bones seeming not to faze them as they disappear back into the dark forest.

Once the last has disappeared from view the familiar feeling of panic and unrest worm their way back into my thoughts. I begin to drop the ground getting closer and closer, I realise that I am falling and fast when Ildi and Selene's voices chime back in the light of the moon becoming softer and less white.

My body hits the ground with a hard thud and I let out a cry of pain as I feel my ankle snap or impact with the cold hard ground. Pain seethes in the back of my throat like the bitter taste of lemon causing my face to screw up.

*"What the hell was that Sekreta "*

**"Sekreta are you okay ?"**

I try to focus on their voices but the pain is too much, I reach for my ankle and once again focus all my energy on it, willing it to heal. Willing my bones to fuse back together.

I know that we are not able to heal ourselves but I tried anyway the sounds of their voices growing distant as I focus and fight the tiredness and try desperately to heal my own ankle. Nothing was happening and with each breath, it was getting harder to breathe through the pain of it all.

I fall back loosening the grip on my leg as I fall back onto the hard ground.

**Give in Sekreta. We will be okay just give in**

Without hesitation, I give into Savea’s voice and let the pain and tiredness take over my every thought and every breath until I am left in darkness.

*A/N
Thank you so much for reading. Apologies for slow updates with this one. Hoping to be back on track soon.
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