Chapter 89 – The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert

Filed To Story: The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert

“Not your Queen!” each word was punctuated with the growls from the outside which were getting closer and closer, “Gideon’s!”

“We’ll see about that!” Castiel spat the blood onto the immaculate marble floor of the passage they used, “Bring her to the dungeons and lock her in the best cell until it’s over. Tripple the men guarding her. I want them to never get to her until I am dealing with this!”

“Will be done, my king,” one of the bears said, and Riannon burst out laughing.

She couldn’t stop for a while and now the three men looked at her, not knowing why she had such a reaction.

“You see,” Ria raised her chin and tilted her head slightly, “this is exactly your problem! You recognised me as this special, perfect Luna but even now you are not taking me into consideration. And this is exactly why a man like you will never be by my side!”

“No offence, my dear,” Castiel smirked, “but I know that you haven’t been able to shift since your wolf returned.”

“Oh, really?” she snorted, relaxing in her captors’ hands to give them a false feeling of overpowering her finally. “And who told you that? By any chance was that your spy Marcus?”

The king’s face changed but it was too late.

“You think I am a powerless female who can’t shift?” Riannon snarled, her eyes glowing with pure light, “The Moon Goddess herself blessed me! Now, watch me shift!”

It took her less than one breath to let Onyx out in all her glory, their silvery-white fur glowing just like the last time. She could feel how power was streaming through her and she knew that she could destroy anyone in her way now. She had been brought back for a reason. And this fight that was ahead of her today was a significant part of it.

Castiel and his two bears were looking at her in shock and she used that moment to lift her head up to the moon and let out the deepest and longest howl of her life. In that howl, the Moon Goddess herself was joining, calling to every woman in the area to fight for what was right.

Deep inside the Eden, every girl in red heard that howl and Bridgit’s mouth opened when she recognised the sign they all had been waiting for. They felt the ancient goddess’ call and most of them chose to respond to it.

“Ladies, it’s time!” Bridgit commanded and one by one they were turning into their beasts – wolves, bears, lionesses, panthers, birds, reptiles… Castiel sure got himself an amazing and rare collection. But now he was about to taste their fury.

Bridgit’s white bear, Uma, was the one to knock out the doors of Eden and to attack the guards outside of it. But the rest joined her quickly, destroying anyone who stood in their way. They all had enough and they all craved freedom now.

Gideon had to blink twice when he saw a fox being thrown out of the window. He was finishing off yet another bear when he finally could have a glimpse of what was going on inside. And it seemed like there was pure chaos.

“After me!” he commanded to his warriors and jumped inside through the window on the first floor. Enemy warriors were throwing themselves at him, but he dealt with them at ease, amazed by the sight of a huge eagle pecking out one of the foxes’ eyes. When the bird was done, they looked at each other and he wasn’t sure if it would attack him next or if they were on the same side.

But the bird flew away upstairs and he followed it, his own men bursting inside through windows at the very same moment. beautifui queen was lignting two werebears at once, siashing the inroat or one of them witn ease.

Their eyes met just for a second in the chaos that was surrounding them and warmth spread over both of their hearts. Some fox dared to attack him and he snapped its neck in two, moving towards his mate. Onyx finished off the second bear and he was amazed by her strength and grace all over again. Even now, in her wolf form, she was the Queen. His Queen.

They let themselves just two desperate seconds of reunion when their noses were dug in their furs. Riannon could smell blood on him but she also knew that none of it was his. He had already killed many in those minutes since they last spoke, so many!

“Who are all those creatures helping us?” he asked her when they looked into each other’s eyes again.

“Castiel’s harem,” she giggled, “I guess he wasn’t making them as happy as he thought.”

“You don’t say!” he chuckled, “Ria, you are amazing! Not only are you safe, but you also managed to stage a coup.”

“Ah, don’t exaggerate!” she snorted, “Just doing my usual thing and multitasking!”

“Where is he?” Gideon knew that it was time to get back to business.

“I am not sure,” she said, knowing without any further explanation who he meant,

“He ran almost as fast as I shifted. So much for making me his queen!”

He knew that she was joking but he growled anyway, “In this life, you will only be my Queen, Riannon.

“I have no objections to that,” she agreed, “Let’s go! Onyx can recognise his scent now even if he changes it! We need to find him!”

“How does she do it?” Gideon followed her, without any kind of hesitation.

“Perks of being blessed by the Moon Goddess,” Riannon chuckled, “And we also already tasted his blood a few minutes ago. Now we will recognise him anywhere!”

Onyx was following the trace and they sprinted out of the house just in time to meet Reid with the rest of the warriors.

“Finish them off,” Gideon commanded, his wolf nodding his head back to the mansion. “Be careful not to hurt any of the harem girls. They are on our side.”

“Maya,” Riannon greeted her Beta, “Find Bridgit, she is a white bear. She is in charge of the harem now. Help them, they were all captives for years!”

The two Beta’s followed their commands without any extra questions and the two

Alphas continued their way.

She could feel that Castiel was alone, abandoning all his people just to save himself. Some leader he was!

“He went this way!” she pointed to Gideon the path, “I think he is trying to reach the border with the werebears. If he manages to do it, he might be protected and we will have to back off.”

“Not going to happen!” her mate sped up and she had a hard time keeping up with him even now in her upgraded wolf form.

They saw his red fur soon. Castiel was running for his life, but when he heard Gideon’s mighty roar, he knew that he wouldn’t make it to the border and he stopped, preparing himself to fight. One of his eyes was glowing red as usual and

Riannon realised that in his fox form he was blind. She also noticed that a part of his face looked burned. Just what happened to him?

But she threw those thoughts away. He wasn’t the one to feel sorry for. He was the one who pianned everytning and later destroyed the werewoives and the lycans on the union, leaving just a few behind as his puppets. If they didn’t stop him now, everything would be for nothing. So, she was ready to attack him, but Gideon stood in her way.

“With all due respect, Riannon,” he said, “But you have nothing to prove as a warrior. And I don’t want my woman to fight while I stand and watch. I should be the one to kill him, not you.”

That was debatable, but she saw the determination in his eyes and knew how important it was to him, so she stepped aside, giving him the honour of slaying their common enemy.

Without a shade of doubt, Gideon charged at the fox and the latter managed to recoil. He tried to attack the lycan in a desperate attempt to gain some advantage. Ria could tell that Castiel was a good warrior, but it wasn’t enough if he was fighting against her mate.

The lycan king was bigger and stronger, he was also faster, so very soon his teeth cut into the fox’s flesh, making him shriek from the pain. The master of schemes did not expect to fight today and it was clear to them both.

Not wishing to prolong his agony, Gideon slashed his side with his sharp claws, bright red blood spilling onto the grass underneath them.

Castiel was desperate, trying to make one fatal blow after another. His canines and claws were aiming at the lycan’s vital organs but he barely managed to scratch him.

Gideon pressed him to the ground, breaking his arms and legs one by one. The pain was so immense that Castiel turned back into his human form. The king and the queen followed his example, and Gideon sat on top of him throwing punch after punch, breaking his handsome face once and for all.

“This is for the explosion at the Summit! This is for kidnapping my mate and holding her against her will! This is for Dean! And this is for your schemes! And this one is for sending that siren to kill her in her past life!”

Castiel’s eyes went wide and Riannon placed her hand on her mate’s shoulder.

The touch immediately helped him to calm down and look at her.

“Past life?” Castiel hissed, barely being able to speak. “So, this is why you knew everything… That… explains it.”

“What you did was awful. All those schemes and traps!,” Riannon decided to tell him what was on her mind after all, “You destroyed so many lives! Including mine!”

“I wish I knew,” he chuckled, coughing up blood, “I would have stolen you away sooner…”

Gideon punched him again, preparing to make that one fatal blow to end this when Riannon stopped him. Something was off.

“Why are you laughing?” she asked, every fibre in her tensing. “This was a trap,” he told her, looking at her only. “We already figured that out,” Gideon clenched his fist.

“No,” Castiel gave them a crooked dark grin, “This is not the trap. The two of you still did not learn to deal with foxes even after two lives. This was just a distraction….”

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