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Capítulo 35: The golden eyes

I and Hailey reached the border of winterwells, there was no fence on our side, unlike the Waterwoods who had thick steel fencing. But there was a warning board on our side of the border which was repeated at a certain distance, written in Deep Red -

'Here starts the No Man's Land. Only entry in human form is permitted keeping peace in mind. If an entry of werewolf is detected it can be taken as an offence by the neighbouring village! Winterwells court will not take any responsibility for your breach of the law'

I looked in confusion as it clearly meant if someone were to be dragged here on purpose, the laws of the village won't apply to their death?

Getting down I walked closer to the board and then the invisible line that represented the start of No Man's Land. The warning on the board meant only I could enter and Hailey would have to stay behind. But the main problem was, there was nothing like a key there!

I saw Suzan's wolf come from a distance followed by our teammates. Suzan was from the blue team so nearly every team had caught up here, the team black was already here in a dilemma of how to enter since all of them had turned into werewolves together.

"What are you waiting for?" Communicated Hailey. The impatience was evident in her voice and so was it in my head.

"How do we find the key?" I asked, still trying to figure out whether there was a trick here, or was the orb easy to open just wasn't supposed to be done before the start of the competition.

Hailey growled at me, "You go inside first, I don't want to lose because of your lousy questions"

I was a little scared of Hailey even if I was an Alpha unlike her, who was an Omega of the pack. I just hoped she did not try anything funny that would cost us our time and my life.

The red ball twisted and turned in my hand, but it was fixed tight. Maybe it did have a key, I stopped my efforts as I didn't want to open it by force and then see my task destroyed due to an inbuilt destruction mechanism.

Taking a deep breath I finally stepped outside Winterwells border, into the No man's Land.

There were just dry leaves on the ground and nothing else, I looked at the red ball I got and tried to check if there was any change. "There is nothing here Hailey!"

"Don't waste your time finding the lock, find the key. Search everything that is in there", grunted Hailey. Although she was oddly calm her words were filled with emotions

I sighed and looked around as my fingers tapped impatiently on the ball. It was a plain land and beyond the Waterwoods border, some wolves already came around to patrol their boundary. It was like stepping into a minefield, one wrong move and they can attack in a group.

"Selene!", telecommunicated Hailey.

"What?" My tongue clicked almost immediately at her constant nagging.

She pointed somewhere using her head and I didn't get what she was trying to do, so I shrugged in a taunting way.

But she was unphased by my actions and communicated, "look there, something is shining below the leaves"

Although she was cooperating right now, Hailey looked like the kind of person who could have been able to do everything on her own. She wouldn't bother going on her own but we forced her to team up and I am glad I was the one she teamed up with.

I looked at where she pointed earlier, bending down my palm moved the leaves aside and a small thin metal rod was there which had minute groves at one end. I immediately remembered the small hole on the ball we had observed yesterday.

"Found it!" I exclaimed silently and pushed the rod inside the small hole on the ball. The ball clicked and popped open, I jumped a bit startled by the sudden movement.

It opened and a small cloth roll was kept inside it, I undid it and tried to detach it but it was stitched inside.

"Did it open?", asked Hailey. Her voice was utterly sensual and calm even in her werewolf state.

"It did look!" I said, taking the open task to her. Diana and Sam also reached with the other two.

"IT OPENED!", shouted Arina looking at the popped open red ball in my hand, which I was making sure to hide properly from the other teams.

Everyone's head turned in my direction and then at the open ball in my hand, a flood of werewolf communicative thoughts rushed through the air.

"She found the key!"

"It's there, I saw her searching below the leaves!"

"Let's go inside! Hurry!"

And everyone rushed in to search below the leaves. My teammates looked at Arina for shouting out loud and giving it away so easily.

"Sorry", her head hung low as a colour of guilt washed on her face.

"Okay let it be, use the key to open other tasks as well", I said trying to kill the tension build-up against her.

I turned the ball to where I had inserted the rod, but it was pulled inside with no way to remove it. My finger pulled it with great effort but it was stuck inside.

"I can't get it out, we need to find 5 more keys. Only Arina and Connie come inside with me, we don't want to aggravate the already salivating werewolves", my eyes looked at the Waterwood border where their number of werewolves was increasing to patrol around this region. Their golden eyes gave out a bone-chilling warning.

We had to be fast, anyone's mistake could turn this competition into unwanted bloodshed. And I doubted we would have enough time to get help.

"Let's hurry", I said, taking my eyes away from those threatening golden ones. The sooner we find the keys and leave this site, the better.


Capítulo 36: Start of the tasks

Arina and Connie ran inside to search for the key immediately, followed by me. "It's a very small and thin metal rod so look very carefully below the leaves", I instructed so they don't hastily toss the key away during the search.

We started searching through the dry leaves and suddenly we heard a growl from the side of Waterwoods.

A tall silver wolf stood there taller than others and telecommunicated to us, "if the wolves from Winterwells enter No Man's Land, it would be considered as an attempt to attack. We won't handle it casually"

I turned to see the team black trying to enter, they backed off immediately. The Waterwoods outnumbered us right now and an unintentional fight was a big No for our competition.

We searched for some more time and I found one more rod, Connie raised two rods Saying, "I found two!"

Arina looked disappointed and was searching more and more desperately, "why can't I find any?"

"It's okay Arina, we will help you. Let's go ahead and search there", I said, assuring her. After all, we were a team and teamwork was the most important thing even if we had divided ourselves.

A little more search and we had the 5 more rods that we needed, without any delay we unlocked the other balls as well and went back inside winterwells land.

"Okay, we are already divided into a group of two so let us try and complete our tasks in pairs", suggested Diana as if we didn't know that already. I was starting to feel that Diana wanted her words to be last, a theoretical technique of showing importance.

I ignored my observation and checked my and Hailey's tasks.

The RED one said - 'A tree that stands tall and cutting, belonging to no one yet watering the woods. Bring the red fruit that hangs by her upside down hair'

There was barely any logic in it, maybe because I was new here and didn't know anything about geography. I ignored the need to find answers immediately.

And checked the other WHITE ball that read - 'The blue and golden scales, so strong they defy the force of nature. Going upstream, while not leaving their home'

"I don't understand", I whine. It was pretty easy to solve the riddle for someone local.

"Tell me what is it?", asked Arina. There was no one better than her who knew of history and geography so I handed her both the tasks.

She read both the tasks and replied, "I don't understand your task Selene, but white ball talks about some river and fish. There is a strong flowing river to the west end" and she pointed leftwards, in the direction we were to head.

"This is so hectic", whined Connie like a baby, "both me and Sam have two tasks and both are on the opposite end of the forest!"

"Same here", said Arina.

"Then just exchange them, why would you waste time on something this stupid", Communicated Hailey a little irritated by their stupid concern.

"Ohh that would be easy", said Connie and turned to Arina, "Arina give your human task"

She laughed, "what do you mean human task?"

"Like this one", Connie showed her his task, "bringing this particular beetle locked inside a coconut shell. Very stupid but needs human hands to do it"

Arina looked at it carefully and checked her tasks again, "we don't have human tasks, both of these need the strength of a werewolf. What do we do now!"

"For god sake exchange the tasks!", communicated Hailey with anger, "both of you are werewolves. Idiots, get going before I kill you!"

No one wanted to be around Hailey and my decision of choosing that was right. Not just because she was rude, but she also oozed her bloodlust like a tiger behind a deer.

"What's our problem now?" Hailey asked me to indicate our tasks, her tone calmer than before.

I explained to her both the tasks, we waited for a moment and she said, "You can't catch that fish with bare hands, this is definitely something for a werewolf to do. The current of that river must be the strongest around this time of the year"

My task requires me to climb a tree which means it has to be done in human form. "But do you understand this task?", I asked Hailey, explaining the task from the red ball.

Hailey hummed before starting to walk and stand beside me, "We can find the tree later, let's discuss on the way. Get on"

I got on her back and she took off just as recklessly as before, I had to take care of my part for riding in her properly cause she was doing her part damn well.

I read through my task again and asked shouting through the speedy air that Hailey left behind as she ran through the greenery, "What tree has hair? Or is upside down?"

Hailey didn't say anything for a while and then finally spoke, "The is one tree with hanging roots on our way, but it does not bear any fruit"

"Is it a Banyan tree?" I asked, yelling and avoiding yet another branch that could have hit me.

Hailey replied a "Yes" and thought about it again. The task said tree watering the woods, Banyan tree was certainly not one cause it had a tendency to take up water and nutrition from others for its humongous growth.

"A line says watering the woods, what does that mean?" I asked again to which Hailey did not give any reply. I understood that even she wasn't able to decode it and let her focus on the uneven terrain more, she was anyway struggling with carrying me on her back.

The handicapped task was not just extra weight but also tough to understand. We had a lot riding on it and especially me.

This win was important for me. I had only a few months to finish my mission and becoming the Beta was one of the fastest ways to go through it. At least if I wanted to gain the Winterwells's trust faster, this was folding out perfect.

Just the problem was my task right now, I had to get the answers as soon as possible or even the doubts Diana had about would be proved right.


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