27. Surrender

**Daphne’s POV.**

I had been in darkness for as long as I could remember- unmoving, unwavering and unconscious. No matter how many times I tried, I just could not get my body to move or reply to my commands, I wanted to wake up, I wanted to speak, I wanted to feel, I wanted to see, I wanted to smell the beautiful scent of my mate and I wanted to hear.

Not knowing what was going on around me had become very hard for me to bear- I just could not take the pain anymore but my body was stuck, jammed.

Until I saw a white light eating up the darkness slowly, over shadowing it and engulfing it in its blinding rays. The light was so harsh that I was tempted to shut my already closed eyes but I started to feel a strong pull take over my mind, my body became present in my vision. Suddenly, I saw a shadow heading towards me, it was a silhouette- a very dark one that stood out in the light and my mind told me to run.

The whole dark demeanor of the shadow frightened me to the core but my heart told me to stay- this thing was not here to hurt me; it was here to help me. I let the distant figure complete the gap between the both of us but I made sure I kept my guard up, ready to strike,

“Who are you?”, I asked sternly to the unknown thing, “What do you want?”, I questioned once again, I really wasn’t expecting this faceless creature to answer my question but surprise hit me when it did,

“I am someone who you are yet to meet”, the feminine voice was indeed melodious and charming- it was the type of voice that made you want to listen to everything the owner has to say,

“What is that supposed to mean?”, I was truly confused, who was I yet to meet? Why does this thing look like an unknown creature? What does it want with me?

“You are thinking too deep into this and you are asking too many questions. They will be answered soon enough but for now, you would have to follow me”, the creature brought out its hand for me to take and I couldn’t help but eye it suspiciously,

“Go where? Where are we going to?”, for all I knew, this thing could be out to get me, it could be the spirit of one of the people I had killed in the past.

“Our time is ticking, we do not have anytime to waste, take my hand Daphne, your kingdom needs saving”, I let out a gasp of surprise, my kingdom? What is wrong with my kingdom? How much did I miss out on? Without a third thought, I placed my hand in hers- I was guessing the thing was a female because of its voice.

We began walking towards the point where the light had shone from, each step making the light more and more blinding than the last but something else nagged effortlessly in my mind; what was going on in my kingdom?

“I promise you”, I heard the voice again, “Your questions would be answered, but for now, be patient. I will also advise that you close your eyes, I will lead you”, I did as I was told this time without questioning her. it seemed as though she knew what she was doing and she wasn’t going to hurt me. A few seconds later, I felt her hand leave mine, “We are here, you can open your eyes”, she said.

My eyes were afraid to open, I was so scared of the unknown but I knew I had to face my fears- I needed to put on my big girl pants that I had taken off long ago when my mate started to neglect me for his duties, “Where are we?”,

“You can only know if you open your eyes”, she was right- I had to open my eyes to know where I was, that was the only way. I willed my eyes to open as slowly as they could and took in my surroundings,

“What is this place?”, I asked in awe, the completely white area had turned into the most dazzling place I had ever seen, I could not say it was one color- several colors lined up to create this place but I could not miss the twinkle and shinning of gold and silver lining the colors into place. The whole aura of the place reeked of happiness and hope but I could not seem to miss the undertone of struggle and sadness deep within.

“This is the realm of the unknown. It is the only place I can answer your questions without the getting the goddess angry”, was this all real or was it all just happening in my head? “It is real but technically, it is all just happening in your head”, I should have long ago established that this creature could read minds just as werewolves could, “I am ready to take your questions”.

“What are you?”, was the first inquiry to leave my mouth, it was the question that bothered me the least but I had decided to start off slow,

“I had already answered that question”,

“No, you answered ‘who are you?’, I never asked you what”, I pointed out smartly,

“Very well, I am the spirit of the predicted, some may say I am a cursed spirit but I do not believe that”.

I nodded my head and moved on to the next question, “Why am I here?”,

“Darkness and Light. You are light and your mate is darkness-”, I cut her off defensively,

“That’s a bit harsh do you not think?”, I was not going to let her insult my mate like that, spirit or not.

“It is a fact, not an insult and he knows it too”, she touched my head and before I knew it, I was been drifted off into some other place, she was no where to be seen but I was not alone- in fact, I was far from alone. I could hear my mate’s masculine voice talking to a woman, what was he doing with another woman?

“What is wrong with her?”, who is ‘her’? I let his voice guide me to a large door which I tried to push open not knowing that I could just walk right through it,

“She is the Luna queen, you are the alpha king”, I heard the woman reply as I walked into the dark candle lit room,

“I assumed that we had that established”, I had to roll my eyes at his snarky comeback, if I had thought anything was going on between, he and the woman standing in front of him, I was certainly high on wolfsbane. I immediately recognized the beautiful woman as the witch head but that did not stop me from being confused as to why he was visiting her.

“Ying and yang, light and darkness, life and death, positive and negative”, it was just like the creature had said but what did the both of them mean by that? Why on earth were they speaking in riddles? But more importantly, why the hell was I laying down unconscious in a circle of salt? They started exchanging a couple words but all I could do was wait until she continued the story of my fucking life, ““As I was saying, since she is light of your kingdom, you are the darkness, Light is life, darkness is…”,

“Death”, I could see the pain etched on his face and it was not hard to tell why, being told that you gain power from the loss of lives is not an easy thing to take in.

“Yes, death. When the bond was formed between the both of you, the power was split into two equal parts- half to light and half to darkness”, this was too much to take in all at once- even for me!

“How does this explain how she is weak and unconscious?”, I too wanted to understand this theory,

“You still do not get it? The more the werewolves that die, the more she loses her strength. A lot of werewolves died at once and it broke the balance- death has exceeded life, ying is slowly covering yang, just like darkness is slowly blocking out the light. The scale is not equal and until she is, she will continue being weak”, I let out a loud gasp in surprise and I saw the woman’s head snap to my direction in curiosity, could she see me?

That was a question that was failed to answer as my body left the scene and found its way back to the realm of the unknown, “I hope you understand now?”, the creature asked me and I nodded my head,

“Yes, that was why I became unconscious- because of the war that happened”,

“Exactly”, she nodded as well in agreement,

I had one last question for her to answer- the question that had taken up most of the space in my mind, “What is happening to my kingdom? You said it needs saving, why?”,

She took a deep breath before replying, “Another war is about to start between the humans and the werewolves. Only you can prevent this from happening”,

“Another war? Does my mate plan on going through with it?”, I needed to know, will my mate really risk my life over something so petty?

“That, I will not say”, I wanted to argue but she was not going to let me, “We are late, it is time to go”,

“Go where?”, I asked in curiosity,

“To the place that needs you the most”, another touch of my head and darkness came upon me once again but this time when I tried to open my eyes, my body answered my wishes.