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ARTEMISIA

'It's not time for you to die yet.'

I turned, shielding my eyes from the bright light.

'Goddess Trivia?!" I asked and blinked as she appeared before me.

Unlike the first time I had seen her, she was wearing a cape and her hair was concealed. But she still held her torch and the polecat and she-dog were still at her side.

'I died?'

Panic surged through me as her black eyes twinkled. I turned around but didn't see Sin or the people we had been fighting.

"What is going on? Am I dead?!" I asked once more but all I got in return was a smile.

'I wouldn't say you are dead, more like say you are unconscious."

'Where is Sin?' I asked again and Goddess Trivia snapped her hand in front of me.

'See him…'

I bit my lips as I glimpsed Sin in the crystal ball I was staring at.

He didn't look like he would die anytime soon. Heck, he seemed revitalized and for some reason, he had transformed into his wolf form.

He should not be able to transform, how did that happen?

'You helped him, child. He was cursed from the onset, although he could transform at that time he was still living with the curse hoping someone day, his mate would change it.'

'I know that.'I said, remembering everything he had told me. 'What I want to know is how he was able to transform.'

'By bringing the moon back, you reversed his curse and brought out his desire as well which was to protect the people he loved. It is what he needed the most that is why it is said in the prophecy that only his mate could bring that out. And you did."

I heaved a breath. I understood everything she was saying but it was too much to take in. My head felt as though it would explode soon and I gazed at her.

"The moon is back to its usual position?"

Goddess Trivia nodded. The image on the crystal shifted and I saw the moon in the sky, shining brightly once more.

I didn't know how it got there but I was certain it was with the help of Goddess Trivia and Artemis.

'You need to go back now, child. Defeat the enemy and get your happiness back.' Trivia nodded.

I didn't get the chance to respond to her as she nudged me with her staff.

I gasped, jerking awake.

My eyes widened and I looked around the hall.

Sin was still fighting and the girl was above me. I didn't know what she was doing to me and I didn't want to.

All that was in my mind was to kill her.

"Impossible!" She yelled, staggering back. "How are you alive?!"

'I sense foul play here!"

"Perhaps, being more attentive would do you a lot more good." I sassed.

"I won't spare you bitch. I am going to feed your head to the vulture!"

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SIN POV

Artemisia was down but I didn't die. I don't know how. I knew I heard her chanting some things of some sort and hadn't thought of it.

My eyes drifted to my hand, power surged through my fingers and I stood to my feet.

I stumbled but I was fine.

"That bitch." The Alpha gritted his teeth. "I was winning for some second and she freaking brought you back."

I didn't know what length Artemisia went to bring me back, but I was grateful to her.

From the corner of my eyes, I saw the girl slamming her leg into Artemisia's stomach. The urge to dart to her and yank her heart out infiltrated my mind.

But I controlled myself. I controlled my emotions before they got the best of me.

Again, I was with two opponents, a witch who I believed wouldn't hesitate to shoot spells at me, Artemisia wouldn't be able to ward it off since she was unconscious and another opponent I didn't know his species.

I had thought him to be a werewolf at first but he was more than that.

Perhaps, he was a hybrid. I had perceived his scent. I could smell him being a werewolf. Also, a vampire, I presumed. He was fast but faster than normal since he was a hybrid.

He rushed at me and attempted to kick me, but I dodged the incoming blow and elbowed him.

He gasped, his hand to his nose

"You idiot, you broke my nose!"

"I don't think you should care about that. You can always replace it." I said, cracking my knuckles, "And if I were you, I'd care about what would happen to me in this instance."

"I beat you earlier and I'd do it again. I don't care what the bitch did to bring you back, but just know you are going down like her."

"She is not a bitch!" I grunted. Then crouched to the ground as the sudden urge to transform filled me. My back popped with each howl I made and my bones broke.

I groaned in pain and a few seconds later, I had transformed into my form.

A dark brown wolf.

My eyes darkened as I gazed at the Alpha. He assumed the same position I did and began to transform as well.

"Don't think you are the only one who can do that." He grunted.

His wolf was a grey one.

From the corner of my eyes, Artemisia jerked awake. I let out a sigh of relief. She wasn't dead.

She was alive.

The Alpha darted to me and I glanced at Artemisia one last time before I did the same.

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ARTEMISIA

"It's game over for you, bitch," I said, gripping her hand as she was about to cast a spell and I placed her in a headlock.

I was glad I learnt to combat with my hands and dagger. It came in handy more than I expected.

"Let go of me!" She yelled.

'Torpor." I mumbled before snapping her neck.

I let go of her and staggered back. I leaned on a pillar in the room as my head reeled.

"Stupid bitch." I groaned watching her lifeless eyes.

I was not sorry I killed her. She could have done the same to me.

And she wouldn't have even pitied me.

My attention turned back to Sin as I heard a whimper.

A grey wolf which I believed to be the Alpha was atop him.

I stood to my feet and locked eyes with him.

My hands stretched and I thought of pain, suffering, and all sorts of things.

The grey wolf staggered backwards and I yelled, "Ignis!"

Fire surrounded him, trapping him

Sin gazed at me, unsure of what was happening.

"I will take care of him," I said, stepping forward.

"We do that together."

I heard Sin's voice in my mind and I smiled. He was still in his wolf form.

Sin stepped into the circle I made and fought with the grey wolf whilst I encouraged him with some spells.

He leapt on him as the grey wolf leapt in the air towards me.

With his claws extracted, Sin shoved his forepaw into the grey wolf's chest and yanked out his heart.

"Decompose," I mumbled.

Immediately, he decomposed.

I staggered backwards, having lost too much strength as I used some spells I shouldn't have.

Sin caught me and I sighed, smiling up at him.

The grey wolf was strong but in the end, we came out victorious.

The moon was taken back, Sin didn't die, and I didn't die as well.

That could only mean a beautiful life ahead of us.