Chapter 259 – The Luna Trials Novel by Marissa Gilbert

Filed To Story: The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert

“You are so cold!” Kai whispered, moulding Savvy into his rock hard body. “Let’s go, my love. We are going home.”

She giggled again as he wrapped his hands around her and lifted her up to spin her around. This was surreal. Arguably, one of the best moments of her life.

“Just so that you know,” she smirked at him, entwining her hands around his neck. “We won that war, and I think our kingdom just got bigger.”

“Sounds good to me,” he chuckled. “Because are not stopping on just one pup, Savvy. Our kids will be invading the North in twenty something years”

“I hope that’s a promise,” she murmured into his ear.

“Take it as an unbreakable oath, my Queen,” he caught her lips again and placed her back onto her feet. “And now, take your right) place on my back. I am not letting you make another step today.”

In his wolf form, Amarok kneeled before her, and she climbed on top of him, leaning over the soft fur she loved so much. He still smelled of pine forest and frosty northern mountains. Her most favourite scent in the world. The one she’d be inhaling every day for the rest of her life…

It took Brigit a while until she found the one she had been searching for. She knew she couldn’t leave it to destiny. Destiny was always too cruel to her, and it seemed like she always had to do everything with her own hands.

Bjorn’s body was lying on top of a hill that towered over a frozen river. She shifted and kneeled next to him, ordering her warriors to leave them be. This was something she had to do alone.

She slapped him. Hard. And when he did not move, she did it again and again until the white bear monster opened his healthy eye and tried to focus it on her.

“Savvy?” his voice sounded so hopeful that it made Brigit let out a dark laugh.

“Gods, no!” she sneered. “She’d never search for you. Ever. She hates you, Bjorn. Everyone hates you. And do you know why?” He did not say anything. He probably knew it pretty well, but she intended to tell him anyway.

“Because you are a heartless, disgusting monster who never cared about anything but himself. Your mother d*ied because you were useless. Your brother d*ied because you poisoned him with your ugly ambitions and overinflated ego. You K*lled your own mate without giving her a fair chance to explain herself. And then you t*ortur*ed your second mate over and over again. She wouldn’t want to be with you even if you were the last man in the entire universe!”

She spat the words at him, and it finally felt so good. “You destroy everything you touch, and you are the sh*ttiest King a country can have. Everyone searched for Kai and took care of Sawy today, everyone tried to get her back when you abducted her, people would d*ie for King Gideon and Riannon. But your search party consists of just me,” she declared. “And only because I came here to K*ll you and ensure you don’t hurt anyone anymore!”

“Savvy “Bjorn coughed blood, but she could tell the colour was returning to his cheek. The blessed bear was regenerating faster than she would like. She had so much to tell him. She wished she could t*ortur*e him like he t*ortur*ed Aspen.

She wanted to break every bone in his body, but she knew it would be wiser to be done with him fast. So, she produced something she had prepared for today and had it strapped around herself even in her bear form.

Bjorn didn’t understand it at first as he stared at the small wooden knife in her hand. It was barely a letter opener. Why was she demonstrating it to him as if it meant something?

“You don’t know, do you?” the woman sneered as she traced the wooden blade with her fingers. “The power that you got from Joran Someone else had it before you. There was a god K*lled by his father, a god that no one else could K*ll. An indestructible god. Just. Like.

You.”

Bjorn’s lips parted in shock. Now he started to understand.

“Of course, even that God was better than you,” Brigit snorted. “Everyone liked him, you know. When he d*ied, his friends and family wept and mourned.”

Brigit straddled him, and he placed his hands on her hips, trying to throw her off. Only that she was still stronger at the moment. He didn’t restore after the fall yet.

“Mistletoe,” the she bear placed the wooden knife to his cheek and pressed into his skin. “The thing that K*lled the indestructible god was a sacred mistletoe. And I went to great lengths to get a piece of a similar plant. I dried it and prepared it just for you.”

“I’ll give you… anything.” Bjorn tried to negotiate, and the smile on her face dropped.

“The only thing I want,” she said with quivering lips, “you can not give me. The second thing I want after that, I am taking myself now!”

He wanted to say something else, but she stabbed his only eye with her little knife, making him scream in agony. Jormungand’s Champion fully lost his vision, bringing his worst memories to the surface. He coul! feel his power draining, his body weakening by the second. But when the woman on top of him twisted the knife, he knew he had seconds left to live.

The last thought that came to his mind was that Brigit mentioned Savvy which meant that she was alive. Joran did not K*ll his mate.

When he would be gone, she would live…

His lips curled into a soft smile when Brigit pressed the knife to the hilt, ending the life of the White Bear King once and for all. She was breathing heavily, tears rolling down her face. The she-bear stayed like that for a while to ensure she succeeded this time. That scum had to d*ie today for everything he had done.

After a few minutes, she found the strength to stand up and looked at him once again. Contrary to her beliefs, she did not feel better. And now she knew that she never would.

Angry, she pushed Bjorn’s body off the edge, watching it fall into the icy river after it broke the first layers of ice. The stream started destroying the rest, cracks everywhere… and soon she saw her dead enemy floating away into the unknown just as he deserved. Even his body would never be found.

“What’s now?” One of her men found the courage to reach her in about an hour.

“Now?” she sighed, remembering she was a ruler of a whole pack and an official traitor to her people. It was a mess, but surprisingly, she knew what to do next. “Now we have an allegiance to pledge. The new King and Queen of the North await.”.

Kai and Savannah returned to the battlefield, where bears, wolves, foxes, cats, birds and some other rare species were still working together to find the remaining survivors. They hadn’t been able to unite their f0rces for many years, but today it wasn’t a problem.

Amarok let out a mighty growl, and all the heads snapped to the top of the hill he was standing on with Savannah on his back. The Luna jumped off, and the giant wolf shifted back into his human form, body carved out of stone, he wasn’t embarra*s*sed for his n@kedness and only took his wife’s hand, lacing their fingers together.

None of them had prepared a speech for this moment, although it felt like it was needed. The drones were back to circling in the air and filming everything, and if anything, it made Savvy smile now. After everything they had been through, it seemed normal.

They looked at each other with love, adoration and determination to restore the North to its former glory. Together, they would build a new future.

And as if their people heard them, one by one, they started kneeling to their new King and Queen.

All of them.

Every single one.

One of the bears lifted his head, and a deep roar left his chest. Followed by another, and then another. Until all of them roared, howled, growled, and snarled, demonstrating their respect for the couple before them.

“I think you were right about winning this war,” Kai tilted his head to his wife.

“You’ll come to learn that I am right most of the time,” her lips curled involuntarily, and she gave him that mischievous gaze he loved from the day they met.

This level of respect was unseen before. It was a pledge from every northerner who fought in the White Battle.

They weren’t naive to think that life would suddenly get easy in one day and that the species who always hated each other would….

However, no one couldn’t argue that this was one hell of a first step…

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