Chapter 101 - The Luna

The Breathy Hollow Forest...

The forest is considered one of the deadliest and the darkest among all the other deep forests along with the province of Rione Monti. It has been the wild habitat of every troop of vicious mythical animals along with the werewolves for a long time. The place is devilish and cursed according to the humans so they steadily choose to avoid getting involved in this place by any means. As it has a lot of bad reputation about not a single soul coming out alive if by any given chance they trespassed ever into the cursed forest, it has also become the natural habitat of the creatures who tend to stay away from human civilization.

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In the middle heart of the forest, there lies a giant yet magnificently old oak tree, beside which rests a small cottage, dimly lit with halogen lamps in the outer as well as inner parts. Walking down the forest looking all composed and stomping his feet hard on the ground, Zeus stood tall and stiff before the cottage, glaring at it with his deep brown eyes. Taking a deep sigh out, he intended to stroll straight inside the cottage. As he walked in, a metal door at the entrance blocked his way and before entering in, he gently knocked on the door once.

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"Who is this?"

A fragile female hoarse voice probed from inside as he stopped knocking. Without further warning, he grabbed the doorknob and dashed inside holding a serious grimace. As he marched in, he noticed that the Witch Lady was sitting on a small chair and casually sipping some kind of tea. It was that woman who had saved his life with magical herbs while he was attacked by the grave wolfsbane that dreadful night! Watching him suddenly dashing into her hut, she jolted up from the seat looking very surprised and gulping her saliva down.

"Ma-Master Zeus?" In an unclear startled voice, she muttered. "Wh-What makes you come in he-here?" 

"Of course, I came to meet you, Miss Violet." Folding his arms inside his broad arm notch, he declared in a heavy tone, gradually walking towards a small chair in the room for grabbing a seat. "I have some questions that I guess...only you can answer." 

"Qu-Questions? What kind of questions our alpha has for me? And most importantly...how is your health now, Master?" Her voice sounded a bit startled, as she peeped her eyelashes a few times consistently.

Glancing around the corners of the small hut, he observed countless weird stuff being piled up inside the room. Along with that, he noticed a few jars of gemstones filled with countless colored stones and some kind of glittering dust-like particles.

"I am doing much better than earlier. The black hematite that you had given to Ivory... I have gifted it to a human." He chose to break the silence and speak first.

"A human?"

"She is not an ordinary human maiden... And that's where my question lies," frowning his eyebrows he glared at her startled face tossing a deep sigh. "She was able to touch our spiritual wolf emblem curved on my room door. Can an ordinary human do this?"

"No." A cold, hoarse voice came from her as the straight answer while she slowly walked across the table, grabbing her seat opposite to him in the room. "She is not a mere human."

"I knew it," wondering inside his mind he leaned his back against the chair, further proclaiming her sharply, "Miss Violet, you are enough experienced to be well aware of such strange facts. Indeed she is quite special... I knew it from the very first day of our fateful meeting... I couldn't read her mind...I couldn't hypnotize her... Such things have never happened to me past all these years while I encountered countless of humans..."

"Master, if a human needs our divine hematite...she is not a pure-blood human. That's what I have learned from my past experiences." Gulping her saliva down anxiously, she stiffly stared at him straight in his eyes, folding her limbs one upon another. 

"Indeed she needs the hematite... Because..."

"Because?"

"She has been always inviting unavoidable dangers around her due to...an uncommon scent... Strangely enough, I have never sensed such a unique smell around any humans and that's what about her caught my attention at the first glance! Other werewolves seem to be approaching her just being allured by her scent... To...To keep her protected from the other dreadful alarms, I...I gave her the hematite stone." He asserted boldly.

"Master, hematite has been always mythologically protecting us to keep our disguised form amidst the human population. If a human needs it then there will be some strange possibilities... But Master, may I ask what makes you so worried about a human that you even came here looking for me in your injured health?"

"I love her." A gallant, cold voice reciprocated back from him as he stayed still and calm.

"Wh-What? P-Pardon?"

"She is the love of my life and...I have decided to be with her till eternity...She will be the next Luna of our pack."

"What?" Irked out aloud in fury, she immediately stood up from the seat and glared at him swirling her dilated pupils wider. She seemed very agitated and inquired him back in a blunt tone, "such a powerless human will become our Luna? We...Do we have to serve a human for the rest of our life? That's ridiculous! That's pointless and unbelievable to us, Master!!" 

"I had somehow expected this kind of irked reaction from everyone." He stayed all calm glancing at her vexed expression, tapping his feet nonchalantly on the ground. He took a deep sigh out and further concluded, "I opted for this second chance of life just to be with her in this lifetime. I have already made my decision and it's just a matter of time before I announce it before the rest of my pack."

"Master, our Luna strictly has to be a strong-willed she-wolf who can go beyond any circumstances to protect us from any enemy invasion! Such a perfect woman is Madam Ivory...She will be perfect in every aspect to be the Luna of the Romanos and both of you have known each other since your early childhood. But now...if you choose that human and...a Luna needs your protection for survival...then...then how can we serve her? It...It will brutally hurt our pride for serving a powerless human being superior creature ourselves than her! What is all this nonsense?" 

"Eva is indeed a strong-willed woman, Miss Violet!" This time unable to suppress his wrath after hearing such immense hatred towards her, he grumbled out louder in his dominant alpha tone turning her silent and numb. "She is the strongest and kindest among all the humans I ever encountered! She...She is unlike those vile humans who have always backstabbed us in the past...She has a pure heart made of gold! There are thousands of reasons I chose her to be my Luna and no one ever is going to change my mind! No one in this world will be able to take her away from me!"

Frowning her brow ridge and gasping breath of air, she lowered her head fidgeting anxiously before reciprocating him further. "Then... Does she know about our real identity, Master? Has she accepted the real you?" In a feeble voice, she muttered in a shaky tone.

With her sharp inquiry, a sense of palpitating fear ached his heart and for a few seconds, he turned out all numb. Slowly shaking his head in declination, he whispered to her, "she doesn't know yet that...I...I am a werewolf... But I will reveal everything to her very soon... I...don't want to keep it a secret from her..."

"Then, how about you reveal your true self in the next full moon, Master?" A mystic dark smirk appeared on her pale face as she took a slow step closer to him. "If she has accepted you truly, she will still choose to stick with you...but..."

"But what?"

"But if she was just mesmerized by your charming disguise... She will run away from you, Master! Forget about Luna, she will never even try to see you ever again... After all...these traitor humans can never accept us with all their hearts... Master, you must have been softhearted for her but you mustn't forget, we have born to rule over them! They are our prey! We have two separate worlds--"

"Shut up! Or I will tear out your annoying mouth!" Clenching his broad hard fist, and immediately his dilated pupils obtaining the red color of his dominant alpha form, he yelled out louder reverberating the entire cottage! His voice sounded powerful, enraged, and vibrated the entire surface projecting the scary rage of a true blood alpha. She shivered in a cold sweat and immediately took a few steps away from him, squirming in dread.

"Ma-Master--"

"I...I absolutely won't stand anyone talking ill about my Luna! I fucking won't spare anyone if they try to harm my Eva! Even if it's my pack... I am ready to fight anyone!" He shrieked out.

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