Mother of the Moon - Chapter 159 - Twenty Years Ago
Lunaya.
“Spawned by the one who gave us breath. Vanished from life but spared from death. The Ethereal one gives she who is promised. To wield the power of the Triple Goddess. Where the moon is three, two will come. Once the seal is made, destiny is done. With one comes death, pain and destruction. The other comes life, love and devotion. Peril will end and the wolf will thrive. But for peace to reign, only one can survive”.
I stared into Artemis's black eyes and watched as they slowly returned to their normal dark brown. It can’t be possible. It shouldn’t be possible. I heard that same riddle one time before, nearly twenty years ago. I did everything that I could do to stop it from coming to fruition. And I thought that I had succeeded. That prophecy should have died with me and my family seventeen years ago. How and why is he reciting it again now? It shouldn’t be possible.
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Twenty years ago.
“Child, it was never your destiny to wield the power” the older woman spoke softly as she sat across from me in the library in a big armchair. I was sitting on the floor with the book of my lineage in my lap. Elder Maxine is a Prophet. She basically raised me after my parents were murdered by hunters when I was nine. She has taught me everything there is to know about Were-kind and my history. Though it seems she has gotten crazier in her older years, always muttering about ‘the turn of the tides’ and ‘the evil one comes’. She is quite fascinating to sit and listen to. I've never met an Elder as old as she is. But I've also never been out of Alaska.
“Why not? Why am I not worthy?” I asked her.
I have finally Mated with the love of my live. Micha. Oh Goddess is he dreamy. That dark hair and those smooth bulging muscles. I don’t want to ever stop licking him. He knows who I am, or what I am. The whole pack does. In fact, everyone has been anxiously waiting for me to choose a Mate. Which was hard, I had a lot to pick from. Almost every unmated male in the pack had tried to win me over. All except Micha. Maybe that was why I was so drawn to him. He didn’t care about my possible status, or what being my Mate could do for him. He cared only for the pack and keeping it safe. He is the perfect choice. Hm, our night of passionate love making was more than I ever dreamed it would be. I had given myself orgasms before, so the feeling wasn’t foreign to me. But holy fucking shit, when he does it to me, I see fireworks.
After a few hours, and multiple orgasms, I checked my wrists. No mark. Micha checked the back of my neck. Again, no mark. To say that I was beyond disappointed, was an understatement. I don’t know why, but I always thought my destiny was to be the next chosen daughter. I have always felt that I was meant to do something important. We gave it a few more days and went at it like rabbits in the meantime. Not that I'm complaining. If I could live in bed with Micha forever, I would. But even after all that, still no mark appeared, I guess I'm not meant for greatness after all.
“It is not about being worthy, for that child, I know you are. It is the will of the Moon Goddess. We don’t get to choose, and we don’t get to question her” Elder Maxine said smoothly. Her old voice was crackly but still soothing.
“I don’t understand, she hasn’t blessed us with a daughter for over two hundred years. What is she waiting for?” I complained. I know I shouldn’t, it's not my place to question the will of the All Mother. Maybe there won’t be another, maybe none of us are worthy anymore. But if I'm wrong, what could she be waiting for?
“I can’t give you the answers you seek dear” Maxine said with a kind smile.
“I know, I just... I really thought it would be me” I said dejectedly.
“Come here” Elder Maxine requested as she held her hands out for me. I placed the heavy book on the table and sat up onto my knees, then I crawled across the floor to kneel in front of her. I placed my hands in hers and waited for her to give me one of her crazy yet exciting pep talks. But she didn’t. Instead, her hands tightened around mine and her eyes turned a pitch black. She sat up straight, took a deep breath and then spoke in a shudder inducing echoey tone.
“Spawned by the one who gave us breath. Vanished from life but spared from death. The Ethereal one gives she who is promised. To wield the power of the Triple Goddess. Where the moon is three, two will come. Once the seal is made, destiny is done. With one comes death, pain and destruction. The other comes life, love and devotion. Peril will end and the wolf will thrive. But for peace to reign, only one can survive”.
Maxine let go of my hands and gasped loudly. I jumped up and took a large step away from her. What the heck was that about? If not me, then who is the Triple Goddess? And what does it mean about the three moons and two will come, come where? I don’t understand. Elder Maxine’s eyes returned to their normal crystal blue and her eyebrows furrowed together.
“What does that mean? The three moons, two will come and only one can survive. Maxine what’s happening?” I asked her with a shaky panicked tone.
She looked at me inquisitively and tilted her head to the side. After a moment her eyes widened, and she slowly stood. On wobbly legs she stepped closer to me, and I fought the urge to run. She took another step and reached out her hand. I thought she was going to take my hand again, like heck I want that to happen again. I pulled my hand back, but she didn’t go for my hand, her hand went straight to my stomach. She spread her fingers out over my lower abdomen and hummed.
“Ahh” she said excitedly,
“There is the Goddess”.
I was frozen in place. Not sure if this is just more of her crazy talk, or if she is actually saying what I think she is. I couldn’t be pregnant already. Micha and I have only been sleeping together for less than a week. Can it happen that quickly? Also, I haven’t even had my first heat. I thought I had to be in heat to get pregnant.
“Elder Maxine, are you saying that I'm pregnant?” I asked her, watching her face closely.
“Yes dear” she said with a wide smile,
“And it’s a girl? She’s going to be the next Triple Goddess?” I asked, my voice raising an octave or two. My excitement exploded inside me like a burst of joy and happiness. I was never meant to be the next daughter, I was simply meant to birth her, raise her and train her.
“She could be” Maxine said, her smile faltered, and fear filled her eyes. She quickly masked it over, but I still saw it there. She could be. What is that supposed to mean? Either she is or she isn’t. Oh my Goddess, I have to go tell Micha. I hope he is happy. Oh... what if he isn’t happy. What if he doesn’t want to be a father. We haven't talked about having children, it was just always assumed that I would. So that I can continue the line. What if he rejects me? Tears flooded my eyes as fear and panic flooded my mind. Maxine noticed my shift in emotions and wrapped her arms around my shoulders.
“Come now dear, it will be okay. You will make sure it all turns out okay. I have taught you well, you have the ability to turn the tides”.
“Enough of the crazy prophecies Maxine. Can't you see that I'm scared. I don’t need to hear another story about turning the tides and the Evil Were. I just need a little reassurance that my Mate isn’t going to leave me” I said and burst into tears. I sobbed and covered my face with my hands. Maxine grabbed my wrists and pulled them down, away from my face. Then she slapped me. A good smack across my cheek. That definitely made me stop crying. I grabbed my cheek and looked at her in shock.
“What was that for?” I asked,
“You are a daughter of the moon. Pull yourself together and go find your Mate to tell him the good news” she grunted at me. She turned around, picked up the book that I was reading, then she took it back over to her seat, sat down and began reading it quietly. With that I turned and went to find Micha. I'm sure he’ll be happy. How could he not be?
-
“How… how do you know about that?” I asked Artemis, still reeling from the shock of hearing that prophecy again. Artemis didn’t respond he just stared at me with his intense searching gaze.
“This prophecy is void. If you really are a Prophet, you would know that” I snapped at him. Again, he didn’t respond. The corner of his lip turned up into a smirk. I snapped my hand forward and gripped hold of his neck.
“What do you know?” I growled and squeezed my fingers around his neck tighter. He growled back and reached his arms behind his back. I stepped closer and showed him my fangs. I suppose I don’t really need answers from him. I can just kill him. His death would have little to no impact. I lifted my jaw and moved my head forward, when his hand flew up and he jabbed something into my neck. Fire erupted under my skin. It crawled through my veins, slowly moving from my neck to my arms, chest, abdomen and legs. My hand fell from Artemis’s neck, and I dropped to my knees. I grasped at my neck where he stuck me. Fucking aconite. Cleo’s loud howl rang through the forest like a battle cry. I glared up at Artemis one last time. He smirked at me and turned on his heels. I dropped to the ground, my face pressing against the dry leaves and dirt. Cleo’s paws thumped past me after Artemis, followed closely by another set and then another.
“Lunaya” Phoebe called as her hands grabbed at my body. The poison was moving through my veins, burning me from the inside out.
“Lunaya, what happened?” Phoebe asked me,
“Artemis... aconite” I groaned out. I wanted to scream, my entire body was alive with pain. But I couldn’t do it, it was hard enough to just speak two words, let alone scream my lungs out.
“That fucking traitor!” Lupus bellowed.
My eyes closed and I heard more howling and more heavy footsteps. The pain was excruciating, flowing through me like waves of hot lava. My muscles spasmed and contracted, over and over, each time my heart pumped another round of blood through my veins. As the darkness of my pain clouded over my senses, I reached out for the Moon Goddess in my mind, I prayed to the All Mother with everything that I had left.
“I don’t know if you can hear me, but please let me survive this, I need more time. I need to tell Zelena who I am, where she came from. There is still so much that I have to tell her. Let me survive this. Just one last chance. I won’t squander it. I acknowledge you as her rightful mother, I thank you so much for doing what I failed to do. But please Selene, let me live”.
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