Later that night......
Bellona lay in bed sobbing, she refused to calm down. Her parents couldn't comfort her, they could only look on helplessly as she cried. The same dream had repeated but this time, it looked so real that she burst into tears.
She ran to her parents room for comfort but when she heard them talking, she couldn't help but eavesdrop.
"This is really terrible. They went too far this time. How could they kill a full family for a ritual." Bellona's father grumbled.
"I still can't believe it. I saw that little boy this afternoon and now he is gone." Bellona's mother said with teary eyes.
"The other witches are getting too bold. I fear the werewolves will retaliate soon. I don't think this place is safe anymore for us to raise Bellona." Her father replied.
Bellona gasped.
Her noise made her parents notice her presence and her mom beckoned on her.
"Mom are we going to die?" Bellona asked in fear. She didn't want anything to happen to her family.
"No, sweetie. Nothing's going to happen to us" Her mother consoled her.
"Promise?"
"Promise"
There was a knock on the door, Mr Hary stood up to go answer the door. Some minutes later, he came back with a grim look
"What is it?" Bellona's mother asked.
"The witches have seized power, they now control Blood moon pack. This was the main reason why they attacked the Alpha's family earlier." he informed her.
"What does this mean for us?"
"We are expected to stay and help in ruling the pack. Nimue's orders."
"Oh! What do we do now? We can't do this. We have to escape." she said in panic.
"We can't, we will be hunted down. The only thing we can do is take Bellona out of this pack."
"But where will she stay?"
"She will stay with my sister. I will call her and set it up. She will come pick up Bellona and take her away." he left to make arrangements.
Bellona's mother remained looking after her. She had dozed off from crying but even in her sleep she still cried.
"I am so sorry for your pain sweetie." her mother whispered.
Everything was set up, in two days time, Bellona would be taken away by her aunt.
Bellona however kept crying, she refused to eat or drink anything. She hoped her friend was okay.
Her parents didn't know what to do so they decided to take her to her aunt's place by themselves.
When the sun came down that day, they started their journey. They decided to go at night because they didn't want anyone to see them.
On the way going, Bellona's father, Mr Hart noticed that a tree had fallen and it was blocking the road and making them unable to continue their journey. He alighted the vehicle so he could transform to his wolf form and remove the fallen tree.
When he reached, he transformed and when he was about removing the tree, he suddenly disappeared.
On seeing this, Bellona's mom became alarmed.
"Stay here, honey" she told her daughter "let me help daddy remove the tree"
Bellona shook her head in fear. She didn't want to be left alone. "I'll go with you" she said
"No, honey, I'll be back before you know it" Her mother succeeded in convincing her.
"Bellona dear, don't leave the car no matter what, okay?" Her mother warned.
"Okay, mother"
Mrs Hart left Bellona alone to search for her husband. On reaching the spot where the tree fell, what she saw left her horrified. And before she could come to terms with things, she was attacked.
A bone chilling scream filled Bellona's ears. She was terrified. She was about to go see what happened but she remembered her mother's words so she sat still in the car, scared.
After a while, she summoned courage and got down from the vehicle. She walked slowly to where she last saw her parents.
She saw her parents lying lifeless in the pool of their own blood.
Bellona was speechless, she cried till her eyes hurt and eventually fell asleep next to her parents cold body.
Bellona woke up to a tap on her shoulder. It was morning, she saw an old lady in front of her.
"Come with me, dear" The old lady said.
"W - who are you" Bellona stammered in fear.
"I'll help you get back at the people who killed your parents." The woman said "come with me let's lay your parents to rest."
Bellona took her hands they left to bury her parents. Bellona who was still tired from the day's event, fell asleep.
The old lady stood in front of the sleeping Bellona, muttered some incantations and sprayed incense on her.
"You're now my puppet, Bellona. You'll do whatever I say."
When Bellona woke up, the old lady prepared water for her bath and then gave her food.
"What's your name, ma'am" Bellona spoke, her voice quivered with fear.
"I'm Nimue" The old lady said
"What's your name, little girl"
"My name is Bellona."
"Who killed your parents?" Nimue asked.
"The Alpha of the blood moon pack." Bellona said without hesitation.
"Do you know his name?"
"Alpha Nathan, his wife, and his son Zephyr" Bellona said with a serious tone, bitterness laced in her tone.
"Good" Nimue muttered and smiled knowingly to herself. Her plan was coming together.
"You said you'll help me with revenge" Bellona asked.
"Yes, but that'll be when you come of age. For now, you need to serious training."
Bellona nodded. No matter how long it'll take, she would surely exert revenge.
Bellona lived with Nimue and the rogues. She trained night and day. She grew to become one of the best assassin's. Nimue sent her on series of mission and she never failed to be victorious.
When Nimue saw that the time was right, she called Bellona.
"It is time" She said. "You've come of age and you can now proceed with your revenge."
Bellona was elated but she didn't show it. She had learnt to hide her feelings and that could be a huge weakness.
"How do I go about it"
"First, you need a mirror that'll show you your parents killers."
"But I already know them"Bellona said. She knew who killed her parents. She could never forget.
"Yes. But we need to be sure. I can't help you without that mirror."
"What do I ought to do?"
"The mirror is in the blood moon pack. It is in possession of the ruling alpha, alpha Zephyr." Nimue said. "I need you to break in and steal the mirror."
"Consider it done." Bellona deadpanned and immediately left.
Nimue let out a wicked laugh.This was just the beginning. Everything was going according to her plan. She must rule!
CHAPTER THREE"What do you mean by that!?" Alpha Zephyr questioned angrily."Please be calm Alpha, we are doing our best to solve this problem." Lucas, his beta wolf said in a placating ms"How can you come to my office to tell me that some children are missing? What are the guards doing?" Although he was known to be heartless, he never played with the safety of his pack members especially when it had to do with children. "Apparently, some group of people invaded the pack and made away with few children" Lucian, Zephyr's beta explained calmly. "How did this happen?" Zephyr said sitting behind his desk, listening attentively. He wanted to settle this matter as soon as possible before the council of elders start nagging at him and claim that the reason for the missing children is because he didn't have a mate. He really hated those pesky old men, all they did was sit lazily and wait for him to do all the work. His pack had tight security so it was almost impossible for intruders to
CHAPTER FOUR"He's here, Alpha" Lucian announced as he entered the room with two guards dragging Gwydion along with them. Gwydion was the last surviving wizard spared by Zephyr when he went on a killing spree. He kept him alive for times like this. "What does the highly esteemed Alpha want from a lowly wizard like me?" Gwydion questioned unenthusiastically. He was sick of being kept in that dark dungeon, it was even better to be dead than to be stuck in there. "What did you do to my pack?" Zephyr walked up to him and held him by the chin. "What could I have done?" Gwydion asked with a scoff. He showed Zephyr his hands, "not when you put this restraining bracelet on me" Zephyr knew that Gwydion could not have done anything, he just wanted to be sure that the restraining bracelet was working perfectly. The bracelet was meant to suppress his powers to prevent him for escaping the cell. If he had his powers, those measly iron bars wouldn't have been able to cage him. Zephyr, infa
CHAPTER FIVEA beautiful young lady strolled into the room with a serious expression on her face. She looked fierce and had some kind of dark aura surrounding her. Her full hips swayed as she walked. She was really alluring, she had brown captivating cat eyes, a small nose and full red lips. Her long waist length hair was tied in a ponytail. Her body language gave the impression that she wasn't to be trifled with. "I've gotten what you asked for" Her voice unusually low but sensuous and seductive. She placed a large silver mirror on the table and Nimue gasped. "How did you get it?" Nimue, the old lady questioned in shock. It was almost impossible to enter the most powerful Alpha's pack without an invitation let alone stealing from him. She was awed at this act. This girl was really something. "I went there and collected it" Persephone simply said. "I didn't expect you to succeed" Nimue confessed. "Infact, I was waiting for you to come back bearing bad news'' she added with a s
"Some elders are here to see you" Lucian informed Zephyr on entering his study. "What do they want now?" Zephyr groaned in frustration. He had a lot on him mind and talking to these nagging elders wasn't one of it. He knew that whenever they came, they came with trouble. "I have no idea" Lucian rolled his eyes as if to say that he did not possess the ability of reading minds. "Let them in" Zephyr said. It was better to deal with them once and for all and get over with it than to continue stretching the meeting. Lucian nodded and left the study. Shortly after, he came back with few elders. Two elders, seemingly the oldest, sat in front of Zephyr's table while the rest took the couch and Lucian stood beside his Alpha. "To what do I owe this visit" Zephyr asked with an expression on his face the looked like he wanted them out of his office the next minute. "We're glad that you were able to resolve the issue. You really showed off your greatness" Harold, the eldest of them all spo
Everyone in the conference room shivered in fear. They couldn't even open up their mouths to say a word.What would they even say?Everyone knew that Simon was a bad man. He embezzled the company's money without a care in the world. They didn't feel pity for him, they only pitied his wife for ending up with such a dispecable man.None of the money he took went to the upkeep of his household. He lavished the money on women and alcohol. "From today onwards, the new chief accountant is Lucian" Zephyr announced, breaking their line of thought.Lucian looked at Zephyr with shock. He took him by surprise. They were together all these while but he didn't even mention a word to him.They both knew that Simon was stealing from the company. Lucian himself had tried everything possible to make Zephyr confront Simon but it seemed like he didn't even care.The money Simon was stealing was nothing to Zephyr so maybe that was why he was less concerned but he never expected that Zephyr would sudden
"A surprise awaits you" Bellona pondered on what Nimue had previously told her. 'What kind of surprise is that?' she questioned herself."Sooner or later, you'll come to know" She vividly remembered Nimue's words when she asked her to explain her words further.Now she was worried. Had Nimue snitched on her to Zephyr to obtain favour?'No, Nimue wasn't that kind of person' she convinced herself. Nimue also wanted to exert revenge on him for separating her from her loved one. She wondered who the person was.Bellona just had to forget about what Nimue said and put her mind back to the task at hand. She hoped Zephyr wouldn't detect that she was a rogue.Werewolves, mostly Alpha's, had a strong sense of smell making them able to detect rogues because of the distinct scent the rogues had. She wondered if the potion Nimue gave her had done it's job, but seeing that nobody was looking weirdly at her, she relaxed. It must have worked, if not, some werewolf would have pounced on her and to
Bellona on her part was contemplating whether or not to go home. She had sat here for close to three hours and still left unattended to. Although when she came here, she discovered that she was the last person but she was determined to wait because she came with a motive but now she was already starting to regret it. Maybe he had found the secretary he was looking for. ' What a waste of time and resources' she muttered angrily to herself.She finally decided to go home and think of another way to exert her revenge.Bellona rose from her seat and walked to the door but the voice of a man calling on her made her stop on her track."Miss!" The young man repeated and Bellona looked around to confirm if she was the one the young man was speaking to. Seeing that there was no one except the two of them, she smiled politely and replied, "how may I help you?""Aren't you here for the interview?" The man asked. Bellona studied him carefully for a while. He had black hair and a pair of glasses
Olivia stumped her foots as she walked about her Father's office with pouted lips. She was obviously displeased. "You're gonna have to use your words, darling," Alpha Noah focused his attention on his little princess. "Dad, he embarrassed me" She cried. "Who embarrassed you?" Alpha Elijah questioned in shock. Who had the guts to embarrass his baby? "Zephyr," She divulged. "What happened?" Alpha Elijah calmly asked. "He flung my arms away when I tried to touch him and called a filthy guard to throw me out of his office" she cried out. "What did you do?" Her father asked. He knew Zephyr was a calm man so his daughter must have done something because most at times, she acted without thinking. "I didn't do anything" She whined. "I did exactly as you said and only tried to make him like me" "It's okay, sweetie. Calm down" He tried to cajole her. "No, daddy I won't. I want him" She cried but this time, more louder. "Your wish is my command, dear. Now will you calm down?" "You sur