Fated To The Alpha novel Chapter 40

Fated To The Alpha by Jessica Hall Chapter 40
I could feel Kora restless within me as she whined and I found myself plunged into a new surrounding.

 

I was running, I didn’t recognise where I was running to. I just knew I needed to help them as I ran through the trees before stopping at a small village hidden amongst the forest next to Paddock. The place was set alight, paddocks filled with wolves dying and fighting, we were at war, I hid on the outskirts watching men with pitchforks file out and down a small dirt road, I could hear the cries of children ringing through the night. Everything settles the place falling silent except for agonised howls and crying. It was over. I walk out from my hiding place. The Earth is stained with my pack’s blood, the air thick with the pungent smell of death.

 

The entire village decimated, nothing left, but burning huts and scorched earth as fire took everything in the small village.

The night sky filled with the sounds of agonised howls as they lay dying on the battlefield. I look down at the wolf next to me, his dark fur almost blue under the moon’s beam. I stare at him before kneeling next to him. His eyes opened as I stroked his fur. Why does he look so familiar, the look in his eyes reminded me of someone yet I couldn’t place him, just knew I loved him.

I knew I was dreaming, was aware of that fact yet I couldn’t tear my eyes from the black wolf who lay dying at my feet, some pull telling me to save him. He whines loudly, the sound so sad it broke something within me. His eyes peered up at me with so much love yet I knew I didn’t know this wolf, never saw him before in my life.

The sky above crackles with lightning and I peer up at the sky as deafening thunder rolls across the sky, angry and powerful. The moon however shining down unaffected by the carnage below and by the anger of the storm just watching us suffer.

“We are children of the Moon, yet all you do is watch. How are we expected to believe in our Moon Goddess when she is never here when we need her?” I scream at it.

Lightning cracks loudly whipping through the night sky leaving angry streaks of electricity to light it.

 

Lighting up the destruction of the war, every wolf that lay dying in the field, the burned down huts, the children screaming for their fallen parents, the cries of death.

“You could save them, you could have saved us” I cry to the Moon brushing the fur of the wolf next to me.

“Save him then, you want to help them, do it. But everything comes at cost, you think you can do better, child. I never caused this bloodshed, this is on you. All of you” comes a voice ringing through the night loud and clear.

I turn around looking through the darkness, using the lightning to see. I gasp at the sight of a white wolf standing amongst the carnage looking regal and serene as she strolled toward me like she was unaffected by death surrounding her. Her fur was so white it looked like it was glowing like a beacon in the night.

 

“Stay back, who are you?” I ask her, picking up a stick, ready to defend myself.

“You had no problem cursing me to the moon a few seconds ago child, you should know who I am to speak so boldly to me”

I gasp, it can’t be, I look at the Moon before staring back at her.

“You’re the Moon Goddess?”

“Yes I am Seline, blessed by the Moon, yet you think you can do better than me?” She asks. Her steps are purposeful as she circles me, looking me up and down.

“You could save them, they slaughtered my entire village only leaving the children” I tell her.

“Yes because you all killed off their livestock, so they poisoned you all, found your weakness then exploited it, waited for you to be defenseless before coming in and picking you off”

“You knew and didn’t warn us, didn’t try to help save us”

“I am busy child, you think you can do better? I have thousands of children, thousands to watch over, I am tired and can’t baby everyone. Your pack made mistakes and now they are paying for them”

“So you don’t care, you will let us all die, let them suffer because you’re to busy for us, we are meant to be your children, what mother turns her back on her children”

“It’s not up to me to decide your fates, my job is to help you find your mates, guide you to make the right decisions but not make your choices, your pack was greedy, took more than they should and that was their downfall” she says leaving and turning her back on us as we all lay dying in the fields.

“You are not my Moon Goddess, she would never turn her back on us, you are just as bad as them” I scream at the white wolf, she stops turning and baring her teeth at me.

“Fine, you think you can do better, you want them back, then bring them back” she says. I stare at her trying to figure out what she means.

“I can’t only you can do that”

“I will give you a choice, a gift in a sense, but it is also a curse. You think you can choose who lives and dies but at what cost, what price are you willing to pay for your people, child. Everything has a consequence. I will offer this to you once and once only. A curse and blessing bestowed upon one member of each generation of your bloodline starting with you”

“I don’t understand?” I tell her looking at my people who lay dying on the field.

“Simple yes or no dear, do you want to save them or not”

“Of course I do, I love them. This is my family” I tell her.

“And what price are you willing to pay….your life, would you give your life for them?”

“Yes just please save them, Seline”

“Oh I won’t be saving them, you will be. You cursed me out so now you shall know the burden I carry. I shall give to you. Now you are the one who will live or die from the consequences, that will be your choice, but remember once I give it to you, I won’t take it back, it’s yours forever, and will belong to every firstborn of every generation. Now after hearing that, how do you choose, will you carry that burden, will you choose who lives and dies and are you willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice.. your life”

“I will do anything, please just save them” I begged her, looking at the black wolf who was no longer moving.

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