Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
But she had no idea of the depths the Dark Queen had been willing to go to, the evil she was willing to touch in order to achieve her goal.
In the final battle between the two Queens, when Luna believed she had overpowered the Dark Queen, she had no idea that the woman she fought had her focus on someone else entirely. As Queen Luna ran her through with the sword, the Dark Queen smiled, and Luna thought nothing of it until it was far too late.
Her two children, fully grown, were two of her best warriors. They trained together. They worked together. Everything they accomplished was together.
Unsurprising, given the fact that they were twins.
Something else that they shared was an affinity for the dead.
There were some fae known to have heard the last thoughts of a dying friend or loved one, but the twins were different. They heard memories and voices of the recently departed. They felt the turmoil of those confused by their death.
It was a strange and unique gift, but something they shared.
But his ability was more potent than hers in a way that no one could have known or predicted. He felt them, heard them, saw them, and they saw him.
No one in that mountain cave realized until much later that she had looked into his eyes and held his gaze as her life ended.
“Wait!” Selene shouted, interrupting the story.
Lian furrowed her brows.
“Did you have a question?” she asked.
“Twins? A boy and girl, with the ability to hear the dead….” Selene asked quickly. She licked her lips. “Are you talking about Lily and her brother?”
“You… know about her brother?” Lian asked with genuine surprise.
“Yes, I mean, I know she was a twin, and they had the same sort of ability. I don’t know anything else about him.”
Lian nodded.
“Yes,” she said. “The children of Queen Luna were Lily and her twin brother, Loki.”
Selene felt her heart sink into her stomach and her veins ran cold with ice.
“L…Loki?” she whispered.
Lian nodded.
In the weeks that followed the death of the Dark Queen, as the rebellion was slowly squashed, A new evil was spreading below the surface.
She had pushed part of herself into his mind as she died, a part of her that slowly corrupted him. Loki withdrew from his mother and sister. He went out on his own and disappeared.
The next time they saw him, a new war had begun, one that targeted the humans rather than the remaining fae. Slowly the remaining members of Queen Luna’s court began to turn on her, to voice their opinions that the humans were beneath their concern.
They left, joining Loki in his plan to take the world for the fae.
After a long struggle, Queen Luna realized that there were too few of her people left, and Loki’s people were too willing to use humans as shields and weapons. She understood that she needed a weapon of her own. One that could fight the fae but that would defend the humans as their own.
Thus, the concept of the werewolf was born.
But the power needed to create an entirely new species, to evolve the humans that volunteered in an unnatural direction, she didn’t have enough.
“That’s where we came in,” Talis smiled, sitting beside Selene. “The four of us and our alphas. There were others, about five more. We were the last of her people, the last fae that didn’t want the destruction of the world.”
“The others didn’t survive the transformation,” Solana interjected, leaning back against a wall a few feet away. “None of us were supposed to. The energy, the power that was needed, should have wiped us all out and transformed only the humans. But Queen Luna did something stupid.”
“Solana…” Lian said quietly.
“It was stupid,” Solana growled and turned away.
“What did she do?” Selene asked.
“She gave up a large portion of her own life force and power instead of drawing on all that we had,” Lily replied quietly from the doorway. “It almost killed her then and there. Eventually, the power drain… caught up to her.”
Selene swallowed as she saw the heartbreak in Lily’s eyes.
“She wouldn’t have done it if you hadn’t volunteered,” Solana replied with another growl.
“I had to!” Lily growled back.
“No, you didn’t, just like you didn’t have to stay behind,” Solana said, turning away.
“Between losing my brother and my mother, I couldn’t just stand back and watch everything fall apart!” Lily shouted. “I had to be a part of the solution! I had to make sure it ended then and there!”
Solana clenched her jaw and looked back at Lily.
“But it didn’t,” she said quietly. “Where were you when your mother was dying? Where were you when your brother was finally stopped?”
Lily lowered her gaze and clenched her jaw.
Solana took several steps, closing the distance between them. She lifted Lily’s chin to look up at her.
“You were dead, Lily. By your brother’s hands, the one you swore would never hurt you,” Solana whispered angrily. “You weren’t a part of the solution, Lily. Your death killed Queen Luna and didn’t even phase Loki.”
“Now is not the time for this!” Lian interrupted, pushing between the former lovers.
“She’s right,” Talis added. “Selene has already been here a very long time.”
Selene looked at Talis with a furrowed brow.
“It’s only been a few hours at most…” she said.
Talis shook her head.
“We told you, time works differently here,” she said. “Hours can be days…..”
“What?!” Selene shouted, standing from her chair. “You mean I’ve been asleep for days?”
“Most likely,” Talis nodded.
“Alexander is not going to handle that well… I need to get back!”
“Yes, you do,” Lian agreed. “There was much more I needed to explain, but above all else, we must ask for your help.”
“With what?” Selene asked.
“You read Cain’s journals. You know about the mounds that he found, the power?”
Selene nodded.
“Those were direct connections to the ley lines. He was right to destroy the ones he could, but the others must also be destroyed.”
“You mean the ones in Spring and in Moonguard?” Selene asked.
“Yes,” Lian nodded, “and two others. The way gate between Spring and Autumn, and the one between Summer and Winter.”
“The way gates? Like the stone rings in the sacred forest of the Blood Moon?” Selene asked.
“Similar,” Lian replied. “The one you speak of had a connection to the other gates and could be used to travel, but it does not have a direct connection to the ley lines. Only the way gates between the great packs do.”
“So, you need me to get into the mounds, destroy them, and destroy the gates? That’s all?” Selene asked.
“It won’t be as simple as it sounds,” Solana interjected. “The Moonguard mound will be protected. There was a reason my great-grandson did not return to it before he went to Loki’s fall. The pack realized he had disturbed the mound and took it upon themselves to guard it and treat it as a sacred space.”
“Why would they do that?” Selene asked. “They couldn’t know about the werewolves’ connection to the fae, so why would they care about it.”
“They don’t believe it to be a fae mound,” Lian replied. “They believe it is where the Goddess was born. Their ancestors witnessed the fall of our Queen at that same site. That mound is hers.”
Selene’s eyes went wide. Then, unsure how to respond, she simply listened.
“It formed at the time of her death, opening the connection with the ley line,” Lian continued as she looked away. “We should have allowed the earth to swallow her body and carry it through the ley lines to be reborn.
“But, instead of doing as our Queen wished, we selfishly used the power to create this pocket between worlds. This place where we could continue to watch over the world and the ley lines together. Where we could preserve her forever, we didn’t expect the effect keeping her from rebirth would have on the wolves.”
Keeping her alive had unforeseen consequences and ripple effects. The powers of the Alpha and Luna and the strength passed down through the descendants of the original fae wolves. Those all stemmed from their connection to the Queen and the raw power of the ley lines.
She had warned them that the power was too tempting, that someday, even if it wasn’t the Dark Queen, someone would try to use it for evil. So she wanted the ley lines sealed. But, unfortunately, it was too late when the Priestesses understood that the threat the Queen had feared was real.
“We thought we were doing the right thing. But we had no idea what had happened inside the mound created by the Dark Queen.”
“What do you mean?” Selene asked quietly.
“Even with a part of her inside Loki’s mind, the rest of her spirit remained strong within the mound. She was trapped, but her mind, her desires for domination, still lingered,” Lian said. “All those that we had imprisoned inside of that mound, they should have died and rejoined with the ley lines.”
“They didn’t?” Selene asked.
Lian shook her head.
“The Dark Queen… even in death, she was formidable. She was able to whisper in their ears and get them to offer themselves as a sacrifice at the roots of her tree. Given enough time and enough blood, she would have been able to be reborn then and there with her already corrupted soul. But we sealed it up, thinking it would be enough to trap her far from anyone that might hear her call.”
“But it wasn’t?” Selene asked.
Lian shook her head gently.
“As you know, we each had at least one child before we retreated from the world to hide our Queen and do our best to monitor the balance.”
Selene nodded.
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