Chapter 78 - The Nightmare Begins

Covered in a cold sweat and looking around the room suspiciously, it felt as if the horror followed me. I couldn't speak. Grandma and Zenab sat beside me on the bed after some time a gentleman walk in, who looks like a doctor attended to me, he flash a small light in my eyes which made me cringe shutting them.

after he checks my blood pressure and heartbeat, he puts his things away.

"What is wrong with her doctor?" Zenab asked.

"she is probably in shock, aside from that she is fine. she hasn't been eating nor resting properly that's why. I will write some vitamins for her and let her have enough rest" the doctor informed as he writes something down on a piece of paper and hands it over to Zenab. He stares at it before giving it to his assistant to get them.

"I will take my leave now" the doctor pout as he heads to the door.

"thank you doctor the maid will see you out" Grandma responded as she focus her attention on me.

"These few days must be hard on you, maid get the princess something to eat" grandma ordered as she helps me lay back. she dismissed everyone from the room including Zenab. she insisted I stay in bed after eating and taking the medicine the doctor has prescribed.

I was scared to close my eyes. 

Baby's POV

I was always afraid Nancy will break down unfortunately she did. How do I take her back now that her annoying grandmother and twin brother are always with her?

She summoned me and Leo to her private chambers. I presume she already knows what I am.

"Why does she what to see us?" Leo hummed not wanting to alert the guards following us.

"Smh just plays dumb" I whispered.

"You two walk fast the queen mother is waiting" the guard snapped. I wish I could stick my claws in his throat. He dares order me around.

I sniff turning my eyes back to Leo who was lost.

_don't do anything stupid, that old hawk seems to know something about our kind_

I mind communicating with Leo.

_you mean she knows what we are?_

Leo replied as he stares at me. I ignored him and look forward. We arrive in the queen's private chambers, it was detached from the rest of the rooms. More like a secret room. We entered several gates before arriving there.

There was total darkness in the room, we couldn't see anything or anyone.

A small dim of light reflected into the room making me access where we were.

The walls were decorated with all kinds of weapons and scrolls. It was an open space enclosed. I couldn't see much.

But I know it's not a normal chamber.

"What do you want from my granddaughter?" A female voice seethes.

The heavy gate was looking behind us.

I only presume it to be the queen mother.

"Um.. queen mother Nancy is our classmate," Leo said looking around to see where the voice was coming from.

"Don't play games with me wolves, now that we understand each other and me knowing who you are. I'm going to ask you one last time, what do you want from Nancy?" Her voice came out echoing in our ears. She had a deadly hint in her voice. Not the voice of a queen mother but something I can't wrap my mind around.

"I will cut to the chase, since you already know who I am, that even makes it easier for me. Nancy is my Luna" I pout with much confidence.

There comes a loud laugh

HAHA..HA...HA

"Nonsense! rubbish! you must be out of your mind" she hollers now showing her face to us.

Her facial expressions were different from those she shows everyone. She had a deadly glance that could send someone to its grave.

"How funny you are, now this is what you are going to do, you will forget her and disappear from her life" she howls as she takes steps closer to me

"You know I can't do that" I howl back.

"You will have to if you insist to be with her then..."

"Then what?" I took the words out of her mouth. I was willing to do anything to be with Nancy.

"You will have to turn into a human are you willing to accept that," she said looking at me right in the eyes.

"I_I.."

"No Baby how do you protect Nancy if you are weak and useless besides you have a whole pack of members that depend on you" Leo objects.

"That's not all and you will have to remind a little puppy by her side," she said pointing at Leo with a smirk.

"And who are you to make such decisions for Nancy? A grandmother she just got to know?" Leo howls.

"Someone that makes the decision," she said as she winks her hand and Leo turns to a little cub howling around my feet.

What the hell who is this woman? What did she do to Leo what happened to the huge human size wolf?

"Now do I have your attention, what is it going to be?" She smirks.

"Why? I love Nancy and I'm willing to do anything for her even becoming a human but I don't understand why you are interested in it" I asked.

"That's stupid I am her grandmother and I want wants best for her," she said as she toss the ax in her hands.

"That's not all" I holler.

"I liked you that's is why Nancy was fated to you but now I changed my mind" she let out a chuckle follow by another unpleasant laughter.

"Wait, fated to me? Who are you?" I grew more suspicious. I was right about her from the start. She is not a witch, a werewolf, vampire neither is she a rogue.

"Ace, if you know who I am you will be going crazy right now. The clock is ticking and you have a decision to make. Just know that Nancy is destiny for great things and at this point of her tribulation she needs a human, not a werewolf" she rumbles as she knocks on the door for it to be open.

She turns to face me and taps on her wrist meaning my time is ticking.

What Nancy is fated for great things? What tribulation? How? What the hell is going on?

I turned to face Leo who was still howling like the cub he is now. I grabbed him by the neck as we walk out of there.

He keeps howling but I am lost in my thought.

"Ahhhh stop it already, you are making me angry,  just accept it, you are going to be Nancy's new cub," I scoff running my hands in his fur.

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"I am correct you were supposed to be resting, why are you sitting on the bed?" Zenab smiles as he walks in with a tray.

"It's so cool to see a prince with a tray" I teased making room for him to sit beside me.

"Well, all just for you" he smiles gracefully. 

"I take this when I'm sad it's a special yogurt and trust me if you taste it you would bite your lips wanting more," he said as he spoon feed me. I open my mouth slowly to take it.

"Wow..you are right it's tastes delicious" I grin.

"I won't ask you about your dream but can I ask you something else?" Zenab said as the expression on his face changed. The dream I'm still petrified of. 

"Okay," I let out a whimper.

"I heard you saying our mum was killed, how was she killed?" He asked while he holds a spoon full of yogurt close to my mouth. I paused for a while be I tilted my head a little to take it and gulp it down my throat almost immediately.

"I don't know what is inside this I just can't stop" I pout pretending I didn't hear what he asked. Taking the bowl from him.

His face turns red he is not going to give up 

"You are not going to give up, are you?"

"No"

"He stabbed her" I whimper looking only in my bowl of yogurt.

"How?" I don't know what he means by how. 

"He used a knife and pouched her stomach like this pooooh" I said as demonstrated it funnily. He didn't laugh and my hand was still on his stomach.

He looked at me, I couldn't help but revisit the scene.

"He was about to stab me when mum jumps in front of me. He stabs her in the stomach as he drags the knife up and up till her intestines were coming out. Blood everywhere I_I..." I narrated as I trace my hands-on his body.

For a moment I went blank and push the glass bowl of yogurt from my hands. I landed on the ground followed by a loud sound.

He held my head with my hands, I was being paranoid, it was as if I was standing there while mum gets stabbed again and again. When I close or open my eyes it is all I see.

"Maid!"

"Clean that up" he ordered to clean the broken glasses on the ground.

"You need to face your worst fears, and confront them, and if possible accept it. The more you fight it the harder it gets to get over the trauma." He said holding my hand and pinning it on the bed.

I raised my head to look at him, my eyes were filled with tears.

Was this some kind of therapy for him? He squeezes my hand gently in a form of comforting me.

Just then Baby enters my room in a complete daze holding a very cute cub in his arms.

What happened? Why is he like that? Did someone say something to him? And where did he get that cute cub from?