Chapter 41 History Isn't Always Old

Serenity's POV

"You sure this is safe?" Anna asked. "I mean, Eric is wounded, you know."

"You wouldn't feel anything." I assured him, "I'll be doing all the work."

"Ah, the words that a boy long to hear from a girl." I rolled my eyes and hit him once on the arm, making Anna and Eric laugh while I blushed.

"Don't you want to know what's going on or what?" I asked, frustrated.

"Ok, ok, grouch," Anna said, sat beside me, and took my hand. "You know the rule. Squeeze my hand if you need me."

I smiled before turning to Eric, "This wouldn't hurt, I promise."

He smiled, "I trust you, cherry blossom, do what you have to do."

I gave a weak nod. Eric lay down, and I took his hand as well.

And as if on cue, the misty wolf appeared.

You waste no time. She teased.

"I need to know what I am dealing with. Why you were trapped in that human's body."

She gave a weak nod, and soon we again were engulfed by a great wind, longer than the one earlier. I closed my eyes for a second to avoid getting anything in it.

But the next second I opened my eyes, I was no longer in Eric's room. I was in the forest, one I wasn't familiar with.

"Serenity?" I turned around, and to my surprise, Eric was there behind him was Anna.

"Where are we?" Anna asked.

I looked around again, "We're in a memory."

"That is right." I followed the familiar voice, and the owner appeared a few meters away from us. Anna gasped at the sight of her, and I knew I had the same surprised look on my face.

The girl who stood in front of us looked exactly like me, only with jet black hair.

"Who are you?" Eric asked, stepping up, pulling me near him.

"I am the soul that saved you, young Alpha." She said.

"Saved me?" Eric asked.

"If you were able to kill that hunter, I would have been rightfully yours," she said as she walked up to us, "but seeing the princess stopped the fight, and her brother was the one who freed me, I am in debt to him. Well, until he decided to give me up to save you."

"He did that?"

"Knowing that he'll lose the new gained power and strength?" she says, "He did. And it wasn't just because Serenity asked him." She turned to me again, "I told you, your brother has a pure heart, one which is no longer easy to find." She paused, "But then again, the case is different with you, you may have been caged and protected, but your judgment is as cunning as every daughter of the moon had been."

"You look exactly like me…." I finally said.

"Well, we are one, aren't we?"

I gave her a questioned look, "That's what the hunter said. I don't know what he means…."

"I think an introduction will clear things," she says, "I was last known as Josephine. I am the wolf of every daughter of the moon."

We all stared at her, gawking.

"But, you were… I can't… what… how?"

But to my surprise, she laughed, "Calm down, young one, I'll explain." then she gave us a severe look, "But you will have to see my death. That is where all this began."

"Your death?" Eric asked.

"Follow me," she said and turned around.

I took Eric's hand on one side, and Anna's on the other. I held them close, fearing what I was about to see.

"You know the healing ability of our blood, don't you?" she asks.

"Yes." We said in unison.

"Well, there is more to it." She said. "If a human drink our blood, he may gain invincibility to pain and even near immortality. That hunter whom your brother had killed was Rhaoul Smithson. He came from a long line of werewolves and vampire hunters. He was the one who headed my abduction and murder."

We finally reached a clearing and saw a man hovering over someone on the ground.

"He heard of the healing powers of our blood. It was his first intention until he realized the potential of having the princess, but like you, Serenity, she was too stubborn. She would not tell him anything. He starts the torture, the rape-"I caught her look down the path we were taking, as the man raised a dagger and brought it down solid and complex, we heard a wimp come from what the man in the clearing stabbed.

"When he was done, and we were at the brink of death, he carved out her heart and drank her blood. With it, he took me. When he understood what he did, he used his powers and killed many wolves, men, and even more women. He didn't care. He became a rogue hunter, but the others had heard of what he did and tried to kill him, but to no avail, it was an instinct that I protect myself, and that meant protecting him as well."

The man finally stood and left. The moment he did, I turned around and closed my eyes. The sight he had left was gruesome beyond explanation, something that not even the best movies can copy.

It was me dead, looking straight at us- at me, with eyes cold and lifeless. Eric pulled me to him and hid the view from me.

"Why did you bring us here?" Eric demanded, anger clearly present in his voice. I can feel Anna shaking beside me, but she stayed strong. Enough to put her hands on my shoulders from behind, assuring me she was there, no matter what.

"Being the daughter of the moon and your ability is no longer the only thing they want from you, Serenity." She said, "They want your blood to heal themselves, and once that they have killed all of the shifters, they will take their wolf's soul and then attack the vampires." She then paused, "The beings that began all this."

"Bring us home," Eric says.

"Serenity…"

"Please, Josephine…" I pleaded, refusing to look up. "Please, I don't want this anymore."

"I'm sorry, I didn't know it would scare you this much, princess…" she said as I felt a warmer and more calm wind that surrounded me.

I wish I have given you the answer you needed, Serenity.

"Why… why did he want my blood and soul if he already had yours?" I asked.

Because the moment that you turn 18, I will have to find you, all the daughters of the moon had shared one soul and one wolf.

"But he's gone now, isn't he?" I said.

He may have gone rogue, but everyone knew him. His almost immortal-like life. They know what he did, and they will want your life and blood as well.

A flash of the image of Josephine's dead body, the dead face we shared. I leaned closer to Eric, who was now sitting up, his arms around me.

You cannot give up, Serenity. The moment you do, the hunters will be more potent than Raoul. You are the last daughter of the moon, or at least until your brother's mate produces a daughter that the goddess will choose.

We listened to her through our mind link, and I felt Eric's hold on me tighten.

Protect her well, young Alpha. It will be a long road for us, but I promise to give the little power I have left to your wolf.

"Thank you," Eric says.

And you, young miss, your presence calms her down. You are her source of strength. Never leave her side unless necessary.

"I won't, my lady," Anna says.

Very well, I have given you the answers you seek. She said. I will do as much healing to keep both of us in our strongest on your birthday.

"Thank you, Josephine." She smiled at me.

It is my honor, Serenity, my honor. With that said, she disappeared, who sighed and looked down at me.

"Are you ok?" remembering Josephine's eyes and I had to look away and closed my eyes, fighting off the memory. "It will be ok, Serenity. I'm here… we're here…."

"I know…" I whispered, "but I don't want you in trouble-"

"We've been through this, Serenity." Anna whined, "I'm only leaving if my mate forces me to, I know I said best friends forever, but I don't think anyone can say no to a mate."

Eric and I stifled a laugh when someone barged into the door. We all looked up and saw father.

"Serenity." He says, stern, no worry or care. It was a cold voice, glaring at Eric's arms around me.

"Dad, what's wrong?" I asked.

"Anna, take Serenity to her room," he said.

"But mom said-"

"Go to your room and stay there, Serenity." This time he commanded.

"Dad, I don't think I understand," I said.

"You aren't allowed to see young Alpha Johansen until your birthday."

"What?" I asked, this time sitting up. "You can't do that."

"I can, and I am." He walked up to me and grabbed me by the wrist.

"Serenity!" Eric called out, but my father pulled me off the bed, pushed me toward Siam, who caught me before I fell on the floor and growled at him.

"You will stay away from my daughter until the day of her birthday." He repeated.

Eric glared at him, not backing down. This could get him in more trouble. It was different if you challenge an alpha, much more if the Alpha king is going crazy protective over his daughter.

"Is this how you repay the man who saved your daughter's life?" I spat, struggling out of Siam's hold.

"I don't care!" he shouted, "This will stop now, the other Alphas are furious, and I can't have a coup starting while a bunch of hunters is probably out there looking for you."

"No!" I snapped, "I won't let them ruin my life anymore. This has got to stop!"

He stared at me, there was something in his eyes, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.

"Take her to her room Siam, locked her in there until I say so."

"But dad…"

"GO!" his voice trembled with the alpha tone that I was pretty sure a lot of the wolves would be thinking of packing up and leave.

"Serenity, let's go," Siam whispered and led me out of the room.

But I struggled out of his hold and glared at father. "I swear if you hurt him, or as much as glared at him again, I will condemn you to a place that no man had ever even walked on."

"Serenity…" I heard Eric say, "go. I'll be fine."

I didn't take my eyes off my father, it was hard to walk away from Eric, but he asked me to. His eyes were pleading.

"I hate you." I sneered at father before running out of the room and to my bedroom, slamming the door in Siam's face.

Now here I am, sitting in my darkroom, waiting for nothing. I sighed and looked around my room, half-lit by the fire that the maids had started when I started to get cold.

My heart was longing for Eric. I know he was the only one who can take away the cold and the pain. I had wrapped myself in three thick wool blankets, but the cold was still there. As for the pain, I didn't really know how to deal with that.

And it was all because my father wanted to protect me. He needed all his alpha friends satisfied to keep their loyalty to him. Leverage, that's what I was to him, not knowing the pain he was inflicting in me.

A knock came and broke my thoughts. I looked toward my door as Siam stepped inside and sat beside me.

"You ok?" he asked.

"If I say no, would you let me out?" I ask, giving him a deadpan look.

"I don't even think the goddess tone of yours will give me the guts to do that, seeing how furious dad is right now." he shrugged, "You really did it this time Serenity. You drove him to the wall."

"He deserved it," I mumbled, pushing away the guilt feeling that was creeping in.

"Does her really?" he asked, "Does he really deserve to hear that you hated him."

I sighed, "He knows I didn't mean it, not much anyway."

"What's going on, Serenity? Why are you acting like this?"

I turned to him and looked him straight in the eyes. "Because I'm cold and in pain, that's why! He ruined what's probably the best moment in my life! He took away the only man who can take me away from here!"

That being said, Siam's eyes widened, "He's you…." I looked away and nodded. "But you haven't shifted, you wouldn't know-"

"The bond is strong and present," I said. "The pull, the need… everything they said about it is true. It isn't scary at all like we thought it was. In fact, it makes things look better, your perspective clearer, your future more possible."

Siam remained silent, so I continued my pity party and voiced it out.

"Unfortunately, the pain is as real as the satisfaction and happiness. The space of being taken away from the person that completes you is painful. Think how much more painful it knows he is just a few rooms away, and yet you are forbidden to see him."

My eyes were again the host to these unwanted tears.

"Those Alphas are selfish," I said, "what if fate doesn't choose any of their sons? Will they never respond to father's bidding?"

"Serenity," Siam finally snapped out of his thoughts and took my hand, "I don't have my mate with me just yet, but I can empathize with you. Just remember, that we govern over our kind, that does not just mean power over them, it also means to protect and serve them, which is what father is doing."

"In exchange for my happiness?" I asked. "How is that fair?"

Siam then sighed and hugged me, "If you are so sure that it is Eric, then we'll see on your birthday, prove father and all those selfish alphas wrong." he runs his hand through my hair, "And don't forget to tell father you didn't mean what you said, I swear to you he's going crazy. He just gave orders to a fly to leave him alone."

I stifled a laugh and nodded, "You can tell him ahead, and then I'll just tell him when I'm ready to talk to him."

He nodded and stood up. "Get some sleep now, princess." He kisses me on the side of my head, "And be a little more patient. Everything will work out fine."

After that, he left while I sat in the middle of the room. By now, the moon's light had hit me. I looked up at her.

"Mother Luna, please, enlighten my father's thoughts and watch over Eric while he sleeps. Let him know that I am watching over him."