Made For Me

Panic sets in as he pounces towards me leaping high into the air, shutting my eyes I wait for the impact but it does not come. Opening my eyes I see a shimmering veil in front of me and Ivar suspended in his place.

**” Sekreta, you need to move I can’t hold him there for much longer”** The world around me seems to move again as I turn to the side to see a very blood-covered Selene, her hands raised in front of her holding the shield that’s keeping Ivar away from me.

I move out of the way, turning around and running towards Marel. I hear a loud crack behind me and Selene lets out a cry of pain and I’m tackled to the ground, my face hitting the floor and getting a mouthful of dirt.

I let my power build up as I turn around and face him. I’m met with the face of my mate, only it’s not him, his eyes are red and they are piercing through me like I’m nothing more than dirt.

“Ivar stop this !” I don’t know why I try to stop him, he cannot hear me, he is not himself. I push him off me and roll to the side as a paw lands where my head was before. I do not want to fight him, but he’s not giving me much choice.

I try the trick from before gripping my hands into the floor. I open up the ground beneath him, He slips into the earth, his back legs stuck, I will the ground to close around him so he cannot move. It's a half-assed attempt but I don’t want to hurt him.

I stand and turn the other way and then I hear him call my name, gripping onto my once again bleeding side.

*” Sekreta, you cannot leave me here”* When I look back at him, his eyes are normal and I want to run over to him but I know as soon as I get there he will change.

It takes everything in me not to go to him to pull him out of the ground and pull him into my embrace. Instead, I turn away and run away from him. He calls my name over and over and it pulls at my heartstrings but I ignore him.

I reach Marel moments later, he does not seem surprised he does not even try to move.
*” Finally the little Pup makes it to me. I was afraid you would never make it”*

There is so much sarcasm in his voice it sets me on edge. “If I had known you wanted to see me so badly I would have come sooner”

*” Ah, a mouth just like your mothers. You know it's a shame really if my sisters were thieves, I could have grown to like them.

As he speaks the fighting around us seems to fall silent, it is as though it is fading into the background. It’s just him and I now.

“You know what I don’t understand Uncle Marel” I make sure to emphasise the uncle part, to remind him of just who it is he is trying to destroy.

“Why go through all this trouble, why bring an army to fight us. Surely you realise that because our parents have gone if you had shown up and announced yourself, we would have welcomed you, all of us were looking for family and you were it. You could have avoided so much bloodshed”

He laughs and steps in closer to me, I back away instantly and the two of us begin to circle one another.

*” You are right I suppose, I could have taken the easy way out. I could have come to find you all, tried to get to know you and lulled you into thinking I was there with good intentions. But where would be the fun in that. I do not care for you, I didn’t care for my own family all that matters is power. You all have it and I want it. It’s simple really.”*

He speaks and I know no emotion from him whatsoever, he’s so self-absorbed.

“But you have a daughter, do you not care about her at all. She is currently lying on the floor half dead, do you not care about her tall?”

A vicious smirk spreads across his face and he turns to look at Salvi lying on the floor lifeless.

*” She was just part of the plan, I don’t care for her. I slept with a witch in the hopes that she would be born with more power than anyone, and if she wasn’t her mother could help me work out how to take her power. I was fortunate that at least the latter half of that plan worked”*

From the corner of my eye, I see people around us, however, they have stopped in a circle like they can’t come any closer to us.

*” Ahh I see you have finally noticed. I have just as much power as you, if not more and no one can get to us. You are the final piece in this puzzle, once I take your power the rest will be easy “*

I heard what he said but I can’t help but think back to Salvi’s mother, what did he mean she helped him is she the same witch that put the spell on Ivar, if so that must mean she is alive. How could she let this happen to her child?

“Her mother, how did you convince her to do that to her child?”

**Sekreta we don’t care about any of this. We have one goal that is to kill him, why are we letting him talk?**

Savea has a point and when I think about it, I don’t care what he has to say. All I know is that if she is right he has to die. I’m going to just let him carry on and let him keep talking about himself until the perfect opportunity comes along.

*” She's a witch, witches will do anything for power. She was low in her cover and I offered her the chance to be a Luna of a strong pack, she jumped at the chance she didn’t care for her
“*
He once again motions to Salvi on the floor and I take my shot. It's now or never, I shift into my wolf and I pounce at him. I see the shock in his eyes as we tumble to the ground, I snap at his face trying desperately to get to him.

Noise erupts around me as the fighting resumes, Marel's shield comes down and the sisters close in each of them shifted circling the two of us keeping everyone back from us.

Marel moves beneath me and dark shadows form from his back, I dig my claws into his shoulder and he doesn’t scream or make a sound. It is as though he knew this was coming like he expected things to play out just like this.

As I take my next breath he moves from underneath me and shifts into a large black wolf. But he looks off, there are large patches of his fur missing and his limbs seem disproportionate and deformed.

**Come on Sekreta we have got this just kill him. He’s not strong enough to fight us yet, all of that before was a fluke we just need to use our power**

His jaw locks onto my shoulder and pain erupts within me, I stifle the cry not wanting him to know just how much that hurt.

We go back and forth biting one another, ripping at each other fur. It feels like hours but it's been mere minutes and I am exhausting my energy. Not to mention the fact that I’m bleeding from several places.

He leaps at me and uses his snout to lift me off of my feet, throwing me into a tree. I gasp for breath looking around for any sign of help but everyone around me is busy.

I shift back into my human form, feeling more defeated with every second. He is supposed to be easy to kill, I was supposed to be the powerful one but he is testing me right now.

*You are more powerful than you realise but Marel doesn't want you for your wolf*

I can hear the sound of my mom's voice ringing in my ears, repeating the same thing over and over again. She is right, he doesn't want me as a wolf so I shouldn't fight him as one.

I struggle to stand on my feet but I'm ready to face him, to end this.

“You know Marel, I wonder if you weren't born a freak you would be like this, would you still hunger for power that's not yours”

That seems to snap his attention and he shifts back just like I wanted.

“I mean after all you were the only one, even your mother thought you were dangerous, she thought that you were a freak”

I'm doing everything in my power to wind him up. I want all of this power that doesn't belong to him to bubble up until he can no longer contain it.

*” My mother was foolish, they all were none of them deserved the gifts that they were given. They kept them kidding when they could have been all-powerful, I watch as people took advantage of them and they did nothing “*

His eyes begin to darken again and the shadows start forming from behind him again only faintly but I know it's working, I know his power is leaking from him, spilling over because he holds something he shouldn't have.

“You know that's too bad, being the only one that wasn't special must have been hard for your parents. To bear a child that was ordinary in a line of extraordinary people “

That's it, I've hit the nerve. The power he holds starts spilling out of him and I draw my own, calling in from the pit of my stomach, the blue glow surrounds me and I draw out those strings connecting them to him.

He seems shocked at first and tries to fight it but he can't, my power is containing him. It is more powerful than his own because unlike his it belongs to me, it is a part of me.

The two of us rise from the ground as I send more strings of light towards him, connecting with every open space on his body.

**NOW TAKE IT SEKRETA**

Savea’s voice chimes in and I know what I must do. I call on the power in him urging it to come to me. It begins to pull from him travelling up the strings of light and back into me.

With each new hit I manage to keep it contained, my focus solely on Marel and taking everything from him.

He struggles against it but there is no use, without all of our power he is nothing but a shell containing something that does not belong to him.

I step closer to him, feeling my power radiating from me, the fighting around us ceasing as all eyes turn to watch the scene unfold. With each passing second, I feel the power transfer to me and I’m hungry for it, desperate, my body is craving all that he has to offer.

There is only a small gap between us now and he is unable to move the darkness drawing away from him with each passing second.

“This. This is what you deserve” I place my hands on either side of his face as will my power to the tips of my fingers.
Now I’m taking on what he has stolen. I feel more alive than ever, it feels like I can do anything. I am all-powerful and he must know this, he must know what it truly means to be this way

“This power was never meant for someone like you. It was meant for the strong” I squeeze his head tighter and tighter, feeling the pressure beneath my palms.

I have the faint sensation of people's minds linking me, I hear the words stop and it's enough but I do not pay attention, they are irrelevant. All I can focus on is the power, I want more of it. I need it like I need oxygen to breathe.

“This power.This delicious all-knowing gift, to hold the power of our ancestors. It was not made for you Marel”

I squeeze tighter watching his eyes begin to bulge. Something inside me snaps and I suddenly feel alive.

“IT WAS MADE FOR ME!”

His skull cracks under my palms, his blood spilling out and spluttering across my face as it drips down my arms.

Internally Savea mirrors my words.

**This power was made for me**