Chapter 2: Arise
Chapter one
The screams of the Luna echoed throughout the park, everyone was anxious, the maids were running here and there just trying to make themselves useful and also trying their very best to evade the nervous new father.
"Ahhhhh!!" Loud painful screams were bursting out of Luna's mouth, who said that childbirth was not painful even for a werewolf.
The alpha jumped from his seat and started pacing, he could not sit still, he was restless as he felt the pain his mate was feeling and it was immense. If only he could take away some of her pain or even all of it.
He was supposed to be strong, this wasn't Luna's first child but each time the baby died, leaving behind a broken Luna and a grieving alpha.
He hoped and prayed to the moon goddess that this child was going to stay, if not he didn't know what he was going to do.
He stopped pacing when the screams suddenly stopped, the door burst open and one of the midwives came running
." Alpha-" the Midwife did not even complete what she said before he dashed out the door carelessly shoving her out of the way. The midwife stumbled carelessly fortunately she was caught by a guard.
The midwife laughed at the alpha's behavior.
He walked hastily to his room where his wife was held, he pushed the door open to reveal his weak wife, and the smell of blood immediately assaulted his nose, he saw his wife sprawled on the bed with blood between her legs, luckily she was already healing.
" Hi," he said to her as he approached her bed, she gave him a weak smile before responding.
" Hi," he held her hand softly as they stared at each other.
" Are you ok?" he asked her and she nodded slowly, she looked beside her, and on the bed was the most beautiful baby the alpha had ever seen.
With skin as white as snow, black hair with a streak of white in the front, and small soft pink lips, he did not know what the color of her eyes would be but he hoped it was the same as her mother.
" It's a girl," the Luna said with a smile, the alpha hurried to his daughter's side in excitement, and he gently carried her like she was made of glass, as soon as he touched his daughter her eyes opened up to smile at him, he was happier when he saw that her eyes were just like her mother's, if not more beautiful if he was not biased.
" She's so beautiful" he commented making his wife giggle, she was now sitting up having regained some of her strength.
" Of course, she is, look at us, she's ours, ours to keep, ours to protect" she stated, he nodded still in awe of his daughter's beauty.
His tiny mouth opened in a yawn, stretching her small chubby arms out, his oval face stretching out, after yawning, she paused to smile at her daddy, the alpha was on cloud ten.
" She's strong" he commented when the baby stretched her hand to his face.
" Yes, she's here to stay," Luna said with a tired yawn, at that moment the alpha thought that the baby and mother were like twins They both smiled at him with shimmering grey-blue eyes and dimples.
" Alright sir we have to clean her up now," a maid said interrupting their family moment the alpha was reluctant, he didn't want to give them his daughter she was just too Precious.
" Alright Daddy, let them do their job" his wife scolded him earning an eye roll in return.
The happy scenes suddenly changed, he was now outside of the palace, standing helplessly by the side watching his wife struggle with the witch, his wife was at an advantage being bigger and stronger than the witch.
His wife was pressing the witch's head into the ground and digging her nails into the witch's chest, she was taking her time in killing the witch planning on letting her suffer.
Only if she had known she would have killed her faster
" Luna you shall die" the witch wheezed out before coughing out blood, with an angry growl Luna ripped out the witch's heart.
The witch stretched out her hand towards the knife and it floated towards her.
It all happened in the blink of an eye in front of the alpha.
He pushed his daughter to the hands of a guard and ran towards his wife, even with his super speed the knife was already stuck to his wife's heart,
The witch smiled as the Luna fell over, black veins were spreading from where the knife was to different parts of her body.
" NO!!" The alpha held his wife in his arms, he couldn't believe this, how did it all come to this, he felt like his chest was being ripped open, and his wife must be feeling worse.
The witch looked him straight in the eye and said.
**Before the son rises, your wife would be no more and, you would face fear when your baby is not near, as the darkness covers the sky, the black cloud would cover your child's eye**
The witch's laughter echoed in his head, mocking him
" NO, SHUT UP!!" the alpha jerked from the floor startling his daughter, she jumped, immediately picking up her knife by the bedside. He remembers that they fell asleep in the middle of a movie they were watching, or rather when he was watching and describing while she was listening.
" It's ok" he assured her, he saw the obvious relief on her face as she slowly put down the knife where she could easily get it.
He was proud of how vigilant his daughter was.
" Why did you scream like that" she turned to him looking directly at him. His mind went back to the witch's curse.
" Nothing dear go back to sleep" he coerced. She nodded and turned her back to him before closing her eyes.
The alpha lay on his back and stared at the ceiling. That day always plagued him, the day his wife died, the day his daughter turned blind and he couldn't do anything. His dreams always start with a happy scene, why does it feel like the witch could see him through the dream?
He looked at the side on the wall was a small picture, a picture of his wife smiling at him while holding her bulging belly, it was the last picture taken of her.
If only he had helped her that day. Or maybe if he was quicker on his feet.
The alpha sighed and turned to face his daughter. He knew no amount of grieving would bring her back, the only reason he was still alive was because of the girl sleeping soundly beside him.
If he dies who is going to take care of his precious daughter, maybe when she finds a mate he won't be so worried, her eighteenth birthday is around the corner so it won't be long.
The alpha sighed before lying on his side
It won't be long before he becomes less important.
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Somewhere in the hidden part of the world, a man is seen in a red robe that covers from his head to his toes, he is standing on a platform addressing a crowd of angry-looking people in sim robes. He was looking into a crystal ball watching everything that happened with a smile on his face.
" Hah," he laughed when Luna was stabbed. With a flick of his wrist, the crystal ball disappeared.
" Nice, real nice," he said as a black cloud arose from the ground, the witch from the palace appeared with a smile, fixing her head back in place.
" It is time to give my children what they want" As his statement dropped a deafening roar echoed in the room.
" Give it to me," he said stretching his hand towards the witch, she placed the bloody knife and baby hair in his hand carefully, he smiled and walked to a big boiling pot in the middle of the platform, he dropped the hair inside and used the knife to stare, the liquid in the pot which was previously green turned blood red.
" It is done, come to my children and drink, we would become indestructible, with the spirit wolf dead and her child no more we would rule" the was another deafening noise as thousands of people lined up to drink pot which seemed to not decrease with the number of people drinking. The witch shifted in her feet when she heard his statement.
Immediately the first person who drank it roared, he grew twice in size, turning himself into a bull with huge horns, red fiery eyes, long sharp tails, claws as long as a pencil, and canine longer than a saber tooth.
He was hideous, but he seemed to enjoy the new power flowing into his blood streams, he felt indestructible.
The master smiled evilly and said
" Rise my children, the war has just begun"