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1.14% The Moon Goddess' Chosen / Chapter 7: Chapter Seven

章節 7: Chapter Seven

The trio stood silent for a while… Katie's guardian seemed too petrified to answer the question that had come from their child. Katie could feel the wolf from her dream struggling to get out, but unfortunately for the wolf, it relied on emotion and anger, all things that Katie had been taught to suppress while she was growing up. In fact, the more the wolf struggled, the more she found out how to block it out. "You might want to sit down, Katie."

Katie's aunt was the first one to speak up, slowly pulling her to the dinner table where she retrieved a chair for her to sit on. Her beloved guardians sat on either side of her. "Honey, go bring her meds." Her aunt said beckoning for her husband to go and search for the pills they had been feeding Katie since she could walk.

"So is this it? The talk that…"

"Yes, Katie, this is the talk…"

"So you knew, then…"

"Your breathing, Katie… focus on your breathing," her aunt raised her voice, putting all the authority she could muster into it. Katie began getting worried about what they were telling her and the constant probing of the wolf did not help cool her nerves. Katie then began the breathing exercises she had been taught growing up, the wolf in her imagination retreating the more she got a hold of her emotions. Now she knew why the training she was put under was different from the training the others were put through.

"So you can see her," she said to Katie before footsteps alerted them of her uncle returning.

"Marie, dear…" Katie kept calm as he revealed the crime she had obviously been carrying out for the past few days, "the bottle is still full," he said. The room went dead silent upon his revelation. She put out her hand, getting them from him and giving Katie two of the blue capsules from the bottle. The wolf from her 'imagination' clawed its way back and snarled at her ferociously before she swallowed the blue pills. At first, nothing happened and then the dizziness hit her like a brick to the skull along with a hammering headache. Katie staggered wildly, the world spinning a hundred kilometres per hour. In just two steps, she tripped forward, fainting before she even hit the ground, unconscious.

Katie woke up much later, her head giving her one hell of a hammering. She brought her hand up to her forehead only to find a wet cloth there. "Don't move just yet. That's what you get for skipping your medicine."

Katie closed her eyes in search of the wolf but found nothing. It was gone like nothing had been wrong, to begin with. Her hands felt like lead under the weight of the blanket. Her whole body had lost a ton of energy in a short amount of time. The feeling of loneliness that briefly overwhelmed her was not among the reactions she expected to come from her, "It's gone. The wolf…"

"Yes, that is what the medicine is for," the voice of her uncle spoke up, startling her. Her mother stayed at the threshold of the door to her room, silently listening to the conversation. Katie noticed the ceiling and walls weren't the same wood she had been accustomed to before she fainted. A quick look around the room told her that she was back in her room in the estate. As it so seemed, they had moved her back to the estate to avoid a night when they did not come home from 'work.' "You must have noticed by now. You aren't exactly normal," her uncle began.

"Just get to the point. Tell me the whole truth," Katie was trying her best to keep her cool while they explained what it was they had to say. "So, I'm supposed to believe that I am a werewolf, is that it? I've been careful to keep from being bitten for as long as I can remember, I have never been bitten by an alpha or a Royal for that matter."

"You didn't have to be bitten. You were born a werewolf," Aunt Marie spoke up to speed the process along. The news hit like a brick, Katie's heartbeat getting heavy and loud in her chest. A part of her wished they were just saying stuff to prank her, but the Chase family was not known for such behaviour, especially when it came to issues of such magnitude.

"That's preposterous. My eyes have never been bright blue and I don't have any characteristics of a wolf. I've seen them in a mirror enough times that I… I know the colour of my eyes," Katie tried arguing, the fight between reality and fantasy was now in full swing within her mind as she struggled to grasp what she was being told as well as find a way to deny it.

"We have been giving you that medicine for as long as you can remember. It was meant to suppress your werewolf abilities. When the medicine is working, it removes all the characteristics of a werewolf from you including the glow of your eyes," her uncle said, waving at her a plastic container filled with blue pills.

"But then, my eyes… they are blue…" panic was starting to rise within her as she realized the last thing she needed right now was to know that it was actually a bad thing for his eyes to be that colour.

"You are a Royal," Aunt Marie said, her voice completely void of any emotion as she said it. Katie's headache threatened to split her skull as she got even more agitated. "We were meant to tell you all this within this week because over the weekend, when the moon is full, on your birthday, the medicine will lose all its power on you, and you'll shift."

"How are you so calm about this?" she asked them, disbelief etched into her voice.

"We have known about that deadline since the day we were sent into hiding to raise you and we have taught you everything we could so that you would not be defenceless," Aunt Marie spoke, steeling her voice once more and hiding all emotion that she was feeling at the moment. Her eyes, however, still betrayed her and released tears slowly.

"If I am a Royal, why am I in hiding?"

"Because… an attempt on your life was made when you were only an infant. The moon goddess herself sent us to protect you… I'm still unsure why the moon goddess would rely on humans to save her species. All she said was that you were special and your existence threatened the evil that lay in the shadows of both mankind and werewolves," her uncle did the best to explain what it is he meant.

"I don't understand what it is that you are trying to say," she told them.

"I only hope she speaks to you herself on your birthday," her uncle spoke up.

"I have to go to that party on that day," Katie said

"That won't be happening," Aunt Marie said, "you can attend the day part of that programme, but once it clocks seven, you come straight back here."

"That day is special to Sandra. I will be making it to that party on that day. I also have to make sure she doesn't get carried away by having too much fun," Katie chuckled at the thought before continuing, "Don't worry about me. You trained me well. There is nothing I won't be able to handle on that day."

"Get some rest. We'll discuss this later. We trust your judgement. On that day, if you notice you may not be able to stop it, you come right back," Aunt Marie said. Her uncle got up from the chair he was seated on and made his way to the door, switching off the light once he was at the threshold of the door.

"Sleep tight, Katie," he said. Regardless of how they looked at it, these two were like parents to Katie and she valued them more than any other Royals that would claim to be her real parents. She almost asked the question… the question that would disclose who her parents were, but thought better of it and kept her mouth shut. Besides, she had all the family she needed with her. Nothing was going to change that. Her thoughts swirled into a confusing mess as she closed her eyes, sleep coming to her faster than she had expected rendering her unconscious within minutes.

......…

As Katie slept, the horrors of her reality trying their best to break her mind and world apart, someone watched on from far away, preferably for her own safety and convenience or simply because there was nothing that they could do for her at the moment. "How long are you going to keep this hidden from her?" a man asked his wife, hugging her from the back while he kissed into the crook of her neck. The woman dressed in a white robe, barely responded to the loving gestures as she watched the girl sleeping, her mind deep in thought, trying to find a way she could best approach her current predicament, "You need to stop stressing so much. It's not good for you."

This time, the man gently licked the mark in the crook of her neck forcing a reaction from her as that was probably one of the most sensitive parts of her body. "Honey, it's not the right time yet," the moon goddess said leaning into her husband.

"When is the right time then? You have watched this girl grow up and you have done nothing to interfere with her life… I thought that was all you were ever going to do, but now it seems like each time you stand at this pond staring down at her, you are holding back with all your control from going to her," the man voiced his observations.

"You are right," she did not bother denying what he said, "four days from now, she will turn eighteen and her wolf will awaken. The time we have been waiting for is almost upon us."

"I don't quite understand what you mean. I thought the girl was a hunter," the man said, confusion leaking into his voice.

"On the contrary, she is a werewolf. One of the pair that will bring peace to the humans and the werewolves," she said.

"You remember that night that the Rogues attacked the royals to kill the newborn baby that was meant to do that. You sent me to protect her, but when I arrived, the baby's blood was in that crib and her mother had vanished along with her personal guard. I was sure that she was dead. Are you telling me that this whole time, the girl was still alive? And I been watching you loom over her for all this time," a hint of agitation leaked into the man's voice as he spoke to his wife.

"Yes, my love, that is correct," she spoke, her voice completely void of all emotion as she did. She felt the man's hands tighten their grip around her waist before he let go and walked away from her. "Where are you going?"

"For a run," he said, briskly walking out of the room, his fists constantly clenching and unclenching as he searched his mind for a way to blow off some steam.


章節 8: Chapter Eight

Katie got up the next morning feeling more exhausted than she usually did and decided to go through the fitness stretches that allowed her body to get moving every time she was faced with this kind of fatigue. Hunters, being nearly regular humans, had ways to overcome many kinds of human weaknesses if only just to help them bridge the gap they had between their strength and that of the werewolves. This, however, only allowed them to survive.

The Chase family of hunters was exceptional compared to other hunters, honing their bodies till they were the perfection of human capabilities. Nonetheless, Katie was still miles from earning the experience that her guardians possessed and yet she was stronger than most of the hunters she had met until this point. Whether or not she was more powerful than her guardians in a duel was debatable to say the least.

Thoughts of the day before ran through her mind while she stretched out her muscles. She shuddered at the thought of having to face Sandra again. Thankfully, now she knew that she had nothing to worry about as long as she took the pills that she was given by her parents. 'On your birthday, the pills will stop working,' Aunt Marie's voice rang in her head or was it just her imagination that told her that it was what she said. Either way, the thought of it was frightening in its own right.

'What happens after my birthday?' the question rang in her head as clear as daylight. One thing was certain though… there was going to be chaos after that day. She couldn't help deny the smile that made its way to her face. Deep down within her, she wanted the thrill of an adventure, but that's just what was wrong with adventures. No one ever knew what was in store for them when they went for them. School life was already as boring as it could get. The werewolves that attended the school did not offer up a challenge even to Sandra and yet she was weaker than Katie was. Katie looked at her fist, thoughts of the fact that she had almost never had to get violent against a werewolf crossing her mind. Had it made her soft or had it helped Sandra grow stronger? If she was a werewolf herself and yet she stood against them when it came to violence against the humans, did that make her a hypocrite? Random thoughts ran through her mind so much so that some of them were twisted in her motives. Some of the thoughts were more or less just wishful thinking on her part anyway.

In the end, she decided the thoughts were meaningless if she couldn't get anywhere with that train of thought. Such indecision was now coming to her for the first time in her life. Nonetheless, there was nothing she could do about it at the moment. She continued to get ready for the day now that all feelings of fatigue and exhaustion had left her. Katie got downstairs where they ate breakfast as a family. She found that her appetite today was higher than it normally was and ended up serving twice as much food on her plate as she normally did. Her uncle stared at the plate, eyes wide with shock when she placed it on the table and shrugged it off.

"Hey, Tom, have you seen the brochure that I am supposed to be giving the Edisons today?" Aunt Marie said finally reaching the table whilst tying up her blonde silky hair into a high ponytail.

"I put it into your handbag just in case you forgot about it."

"Thank you, dear. Katie, your plate certainly looks mountainous," Aunt Marie said, smirking at her witty remark while she settled down for breakfast as well.

"I am feeling hungrier than usual," Katie replied, several wolf jokes entering her mind at the moment before she brushed them off for a question that she had always wanted to ask, "Why do you guys pretend to work normal jobs yet you are hunters?"

"Huh, who said anything about pretending?" Aunt Marie asked, "We retired from being hunters."

"But, you are still in your prime, with a reputation like yours you could have anything and work as…"

"That's about enough, Katie. You are right, we can do all of that, but what would happen to you if we did?" they asked.

"I don't understand. What does this have to do with me?" Katie asked.

"We retired to raise you and give you the best childhood suited to you and to keep you safe. Just because of who you are, it will take some time before you have to let your guard down. How about we go through the brief history of the origin of the hunters once again," Uncle Tom said, placing down his fork. His face depicted just the right amount of seriousness to convey the message that Katie was not getting out of this storytime session.

Katie groaned loudly, "Come on, we have gone through that story so many times. Why do we have to do this again?"

"A long time ago…"

"Jesus Christ…" Katie swore, Aunt Marie, giggling at the gesture.

"The moon goddess got into a quarrel with the god Prometheus and retaliated by turning two of his humans into werewolves, two brothers, Sirius and Lycaon. They were the first Royals to be created. The two brothers had the power to turn a human into a werewolf by just biting them and this was the beginning of a terrible war. Lycaon and Sirius would make an alpha with each bite, the alphas could then grant the power of a Beta to the first person they bit. Anyone from then on would become a normal werewolf without the power to turn another. The werewolves' added strength and abilities made it impossible for the humans to fight back as they were powerless against them.

Prometheus was forced to watch as his people dwindled in numbers over a mere spat that he had with the moon goddess. Much as the humans were losing, if there was one thing that Prometheus had in mind when he was creating the first human, it was hope. Tired of the oppression and carnage, the humans decided to fight back. They came up with the society of hunters. Werewolves were captured in traps and experimented on to find their weaknesses and at the same time, the most elite of the human race was trained to become warriors worthy of the name.

Despite the pain and bloodshed, the werewolves were still human in mind. The Royals finally conceded after realizing that the war could only lead to the destruction of both races. The hunters and the werewolves had a summit to discuss the rules of the new world. Humans were to live alongside werewolves in peace. A werewolf was never supposed to raise a claw against a human even if the human was the first to cause trouble. The hunters were to deal with any issues the werewolves had and any werewolf that turned a human was to be sentenced to death.

This summit is what led to the founding of Rogue wolves, the ones who did not believe in werewolves and humans being equal. The Royals, as well as the hunters, have been fighting with the Rogues ever since knowing that they were the only thing standing between them and peace for all humans and werewolves alike."

Katie had heard the story numerous times and it bored her just to hear it. "What does that have to do with anything?"

"The Rogues have one thing that they are fighting for. They want to turn all humans into werewolves or to eradicate all humans from the face of the planet, both outcomes that are unacceptable. They have a king we all refer to as the Rogue King. No one knows if he is an alpha or if he has Royal blood in his veins, just that he too can turn humans into werewolves. He sends his lackeys to find him humans for him to sink his teeth into," this bit of information was new to Katie and in all honesty… disgusting.

"I feel a point coming out of you soon enough. Why are you telling me this right now? What does any of this have to do with anything for that matter?"

"We don't know all the details, just that the Rogue King those many years ago, was the one responsible for trying to kill you as an infant. The Sirius Royal family was able to fake it that you died during the attack and that allowed us to hide well without suspicion," Aunt Marie said.

"Continuing your jobs as hunters would have only meant that I would be at the risk of being discovered before I was strong enough to defend myself," Katie said, the pieces finally fitting within her mind.

"Exactly, now finish your breakfast before you are late for school," Aunt Marie summed it up lighting up as though she was just talking about some food recipe that was of no consequence whatsoever. Katie did not ask any further questions, having heard them say that they did not know all the details. She knew they would not have missed the important part of why it was that the Rogue King was trying to kill her as an infant.

............…

The school building stood tall and magnificent, white covering its walls as though it was repainted on a daily basis. It was a bit brighter than Katie would have wanted it to be, but no one was complaining. She breathed in deep once she was in through the gate. Just the day before, she had left in the middle of the day in a hurry. Now that she was okay, she could at least handle the situation better than she could yesterday.

'Now that my wolf is well suppressed, I won't even be able to get a sniff of that scent from yesterday,' she thought, curiosity getting the better of her, 'what was that scent anyway?' Katie walked on until she was at the stairs that led into the building, rushed footsteps catching her attention, "Hey Katie, where have you been?"

Katie looked to her right in time to lock eyes with a somewhat agitated Kyle. "Family meeting, did something go wrong while I was gone?"

"It's not something you can't handle," he said, matching her pace as they got into the building, "Sandra has been acting strange. Shaemus wants to pick a fight with you and there is a new girl in school who Sandra already met which totally ruins the surprise information I had for the two of you yesterday."

Katie spent a few minutes trying to think over which of the headlines was more important than the other before he decided to go in order. "Start with Sandra acting strange."

"She came into the cafeteria yesterday looking for you in quite a rush. I didn't get to know what was bothering her. Anyway, that's when Shaemus snapped and announced that he will be taking you on at the hunter's training ground to see who gets to control the hierarchy from today on," he said, "Amidst his ranting, a guy showed up asking for Sandra…"

"Hey, guys," the two friends nearly jumped out of their shoes on hearing the female intruder behind them.

"Do not sneak up on us like that," Kyle stammered, "You want to give me a heart attack. Now I know you hate me."

"Aww, dramatic much," she stuck out her tongue to him, "so you were talking about me. What about?"

"I was just getting an update on what happened yesterday while I was…" the sound of the entrance double doors opening forcefully stopped Katie mid-sentence.

"Ah, cat's out of the bag. Meet Cole Lycaon," Kyle whispered into a frozen Katie's ear.


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