Chapter eight
Flashback
39 years ago
"I wonder what the traps would have caught," Mr Hart said as he and his family walked through his farm.
The farm was a large one and the area in which they were smelled of carrots and turnips.
"Let me see it, let me see it." Young Harper jumled up in excitement.
"Don't worry it is just a little further," Brenna said and patted her son's head.
"Here we are" Mr Hart said and opened up a wall of weeds only to see a monstrous looking wolf feeding on a pig his trap had caught.
Noticing them, the creature ignored the devoured pig and faced them. It stood up straight and snarled before going after them.
"Run!" Mr Hart said and held young Harper as he began to run.
"Aargh!" Brenna screamed as the creature pounced on her.
"Brennaa!" Mr Hart shouted and turned around; his legs tripping over a piece of rock on the ground.
Before he could stand up, the creature was already right in front of him and immediately slashed at him with his monstrous claws.
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Young Harper is shown hiding in the bushes, crying.
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Presently
"Take this." Amber brought out a spray from her drawer which she handed to Richie.
"What is it?" Richie asked while holding up the spray.
"Any werewolf would smell your human scent. This will make you smell like one of us," Amber replied and grabbed her bag.
"Enhanced sense of smell, hmn," Toshiba said, collected the spray from Richie, and sprayed himself.
"Follow me," Amber said and walked out the room.
"Where are we going?" Richie asked.
"If we are going to rescue Vanessa we will need more help. We can't do it alone," Amber replied and shut the door behind as they came out
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"Wilfred you can't do this, you can't let them do this," Maya protested.
"If this is a way to redeem myself of my guilt on Vanessa, Hudson, Lucille, and Jace, then I'm ready to do it," Wilfred retorted.
"Tonight is the blood moon, we have to rescue them and stop Valentine," Amber said.
"Wilfred, tell me you are not doing this," Maya said.
"We are doing this and we are leaving now," Wilfred said.
"Okay, then go, but I'll have to stay. who will look after the students?"
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Arkadia wolf high.
"I couldn't find Hudson anywhere" Mr Harper said joining Chris and Daniel by the food stand.
" He's got to be somewhere" Mr Harper said as he and the others walked out of the cafeteria down the hallway.
" If this is a way to redeem myself of my guilt on Vanessa Hudson Lucille and Jace then I'm ready to do it" the heard a voice coming from an office with its door opened halfway.
Mr Harper and the others then eavesdropped till the end of the discussion.
" We follow them" Mr Harper said as they went to hide.
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Palace of Vardasia.
"Let's begin the ritual," Valentine said.
He was dressed in a blood red cloak.
Rafi placed the Lunarike pendant on a box with the shape and outline of the Lunarike pendant carved on it.
Ascende Superius
Pavilia Hecrydos
Cevilia Nematovia
Rafi chanted and Valentine placed his hands on the pendants.
He waited with his eyes closed for something to happen.
Tired of waiting, Valentine opened his eyes.
"What happened?!" Valentine shouted angrily.
"Perhaps there is something that ought to be done that we haven't done," Rafi replied calmly.
"Get me every scholar in the Kingdom, check every book in the royal library, find me what I need to do, this blood moon must not pass over!" Valentine shouted.
***
"What is happening?" Lucille asked as guards ran here and there.
"Valentine," Matthew replied.
"He is looking for the last item to complete the ritual," Matthew said.
"Matthew he will know what it is!" Valentine voice echoed loudly.
"It's showtime," Matthew said as Valentine got closer.
"Matthew what is the last requirement to possess the evil side of the pendant?" Valentine asked fiercely.
"I don't know it and even if I do I will never tell you," Matthew said and returned Valentine's fierce gaze.
"Then I'll have to do this," Valentine said and then stared at Matthew.
"He is going to peer into your memory," Vanessa said.
" I knew," Matthew said.
He immediately began to think of things he wanted Valentine to see."
You are a loser
A knife stabs Valentine in the gut.
"You are a traitor," Patricia said
"24 lashes."
Valentine is whipped continuously.
"Make it stop!" Valentine screamed; groaning and holding on to the gates of the cell.
Vanessa is your daughter
Suddenly Valentine sat on the floor, groaning as he held on to the cell's gate.
Matthew then hit Valentine's head with his elbow and snatched the key from Valentine.
He began to hurriedly open the cell's gate.
They then all began to run away as Valentine crawled behind.
"Where do you think you are going to?" Eudora stretched her hands towards them and they froze.
"Hell blood, we need an hell blood" Rafi said and flung his fingers, unfreezing them.
"Oh no," Matthew said.
"How do we find an hell blood?" Valentine said fixing his pure golden eyes on Eudora and Rafi for an answer.
"There is one in every nine generation of royalty," Eudora replied coldly.
" The last one was princess Alicia, so that will be your daughter or Matthew's daughter." Rafi said .
"So you knew she was my daughter all along!" Valentine yelled
"I thought you knew," Rafi and Eudora said.
"The blood moon will pass in 20 minutes, we'll have to do it this now,"Rafi said.
Eudora claws then extracted and she moved towards Vanessa using one of her claws to pierce Vanessa's neck a little.
She licked the blood on her claws and said, "Pure."
Eudora then did the same to Lucille and licked the blood.
"Dark, she's the one. She is an hell blood," Eudora said.
Rafi immediately grabbed Lucille and disappeared after which Eudora stretched out hands; a silver rope appearing and wrapping itself around Vanessa and the others.
"Take them back to the cell," Eudora said to a guard, but the guard hesitated looking at Valentine.
"Do it," Valentine said
.
"Your daughter," the Guard said.
"Just do it nothing is stopping me now."
***
"Aarrgh," Lucille screamed and struggled with our body tied down and her hands hung up by a silver string.
"Let the ritual begin," Rafi said and the silver string slowly lowered Lucille's hand onto two sharp pins that pierced her palms.
Her blood flowed down the needles into thin pipes leading all the way to the box on which the lunarike pendant stood.
***
"We have to do something," Vanessa said.
"There is nothing we can do Valentine has won." Jace grabbed the sand.
"Not yet," Amber said as she, Toshiba, Richie and Wilfred came out of the hallway into the room.
" Richie, Toshiba!" Vanessa exclaimed.
"Who are they?" Matthew asked.
"Friends."
" That is the key," Hudson said, pointing to a bunch of keys on the wall.
Richie immediately picked it and began to open up cell.
"Hurry, we have to stop Valentine," Matthew said and they began to run.
"Stop!" a voice said and they looked forward to see....
" Maya!" Wilfred exclaimed.
"Wilfred, I warned you not to come," Maya said.
She was flanked by five guards.
"That is why I couldn't find my piece of the Lunarike pendants, you are working for Valentine," Hudson said and clenched his fists.
"Fight, we have no time to waste!" Matthew said and they all charged at Maya and her guards; transforming into their wolf form.
***
"Ascende Superius
Pavilia Hecrydos
Cevilia Nematovia."
Rafi chanted and Valentine placed his hands on the pendants.
Immediately, the castle began to shake.
"Oh no, we are too late," Amber said as Valentine held up Lunarike pendant and it slowly changed from a bright golden colour to a black color with a red Medallion eye at it's centre.