The Fall Of Lucian
Chapter 2

-What happen?

—She is sick, the matriarch has informed me that she has caught an illness in which she cannot do anything. As you know, we live in the mountains and they are full of all kinds of vermin. Apparently something stung her, and she’s made her sick, she’s dying, Eren.

The king looks at his friend extremely worried and at the same time, seeming so helpless for not being able to help his wife, life had given him the gift of having a long existence, enjoying being almost immune to anything, but he got a wife. human and weak.

—Ethan, how I’m sorry. I was not aware of the quality of your wife’s health. My messengers did not inform me that she was…

-Nobody knows; just Adara, my sister, the matriarch and me. Shery is admitted to the house, lying down without being able to do much physical effort. Every day she is weaker, she eats less and speaks little —Ethan looks back at her glass of wine —. Her illness is progressively rapid, consuming her, and nothing of her will be left behind.

—Ethan, what do you want me to do for her? You know that I don’t have the power to cure human diseases, and if what you’re asking me to do is bite your wife, I can’t do it. Many believe I can, but I can only bite my wife.

“That’s not why I came, old friend.” I would never allow any wolf to bite my wife, you should already know that.

Eren didn’t understand what that alpha wanted. His powers did not reach that much, having royal b***d did not imply healing anyone. How could he help him, then?

-What do you wish? I’m not understanding you very well.

“Give me the exact address of that witch.” The alpha observes his king seriously. I know that before your father disappeared, he told you the story of the witch of the forbidden mountain. She is that woman that no wolf can see, unless she is of pure b***d. I know you know how to get to her, I want you to guide me on her path, her friend.

The alpha king immediately stands up, being watched by Ethan, who does the same and follows him.

What his friend was asking him was not easy to explain, Eren was aware that certain alphas knew the story of the witch of the forbidden mountain. But getting there meant taking a lot of risks. He understood Ethan’s reasons for wanting to find her, but he couldn’t send him to certain death.

—Ethan, what you’re asking of me is dangerous. Keep in mind that you do not have royal b***d, you may die trying.

—Eren, you know that she is the only one who has the power to turn my wife into a wolf. Only she can do it, my father told me that she has great powers. He may save my wife, and if she converts her, she won’t have to get sick again.

—They’re just old people’s legends, Ethan. We are not sure if what is prophesied about her is true, what if it is all false? What if she’s just an old woman who decided to live in the mountains? —The king turns around and looks at him.

Ethan wasn’t stupid, he knew something like that could happen. What was said about that woman was very little, not even King Bardas himself knew enough about her, since no one had seen her except for a wolf, but nothing was ever heard of her again.

It was that wolf who brought the legend of the witch to the people, and perhaps opening his mouth was his curse.

However, he planned to take the risk, for Shery, and for Adara, he was not willing to be left without his moon and much less leave his daughter without his mother. He did not want to go through the same thing his father went through of losing the love of his life.

“I’ll take the risk, I just want you to tell me how to get to her,” he answers determinedly.

—Ethan, you don’t have royal b***d. How do you intend to find her?

“I’ll find her, I swear I will.”

—You must make the trip alone, you cannot be accompanied by anyone other than your inner wolf. It’s the rules, if she allows you to see her, then…

—I know…

—Dude, it’s a very hard trip —Eren places a hand on his shoulder.

The blue moon alpha knew it well, it was said that reaching that witch’s domain was not easy. The few who had tried were never seen again. But Shery was worth it, she deserved to be okay, she had been through too much for her to die over something stupid.

—Are you going to help me?

—Beyond the black peak mountain, there is a path full of undergrowth different from the one we know. Thorny and poisonous, deadly… if you manage to cross it, you will find a lake as dark as the starless sky, you must navigate around it. When you reach the end of the road, you will find it.

Ethan remains silent, since no one dared to cross the black-peaked mountain. It was forbidden for wolves to do so.

—Do not eat or drink anything after crossing the mountain. Everything that lives there is rotten. You will die as soon as you try something, you may be a powerful alpha, but even for a king it is deadly. They are very unaware of this, which is why no one has returned.

—What else should I know?

—The witch is treacherous, ambitious and she will set you up in some traps. Don’t trust her word, or anything she gives you.

—That will be somewhat complicated, if I can get her to save my wife, I will have to receive from her whatever she offers me.

—It’s a risk you’ll have to take. If she decides that you are worthy of her, she will let you see her.

-Very good.

Ethan walks to the window to look once again at his king’s lands. If he managed to reach the old witch’s domain alive, he would save the life of his wife. He needed to do it.

—“We will make it, Ethan. We will not fail in this mission”—The inner wolf of him speaks to him.

—“I know, we will find her and save Shery”

—“I will be stronger, and I will protect you. Count on me”

—“I will try to be careful”

The king positions himself next to his friend, there was one more thing he had to tell Ethan before he embarked on his mission.

—You will make the journey in your wolf form, from the moment you leave your destination, until you reach the end of the path. Your human form will not be accepted by the witch, keep that in mind.

-I understand.

—Ethan, understand that everything I tell you are anecdotes about my ancestors. I don’t know how true the elders’ theories are, so your wolf had better be more cautious than normal.

-Good!

-When you leave?

—In two days, I will leave from the blue moon.

Adara walked through the vaulted halls of the king’s castle, it was the first time that her father took her on one of her trips. Getting to Eren’s fortress took them a whole day, and keeping up with her dad was truly exhausting.

But according to him, she had to train that way. Getting her wolf used to traveling great distances in a short time was the advantage of the blue moon wolves, the speed with which they moved.

And although he was almost always several kilometers from his father, he always managed to look at him from afar. That meant that she wasn’t that slow after all, many wolves her age surely weren’t even close enough to such a powerful alpha.

The young brunette sees a huge window in the distance between so many closed corridors, the truth is she was suffocating with so much confinement, that did not happen in her pack. Quickly, he quickens his pace to go towards her, and as soon as her breeze hit her face, a delicious aroma awakened her senses and alerted her entire body.

Adara began to despair as that aroma completely enveloped her, she searched with her eyes and only observed the vastness of a huge forest. She was anxious, elated, excited, the mess inside her was tormenting her. So without further ado, she jumped from the top of the window into the dense forest in search of that smell that drove her crazy.

Bardas came home with his squad of new wolves, took them away from the comforts of the castle to train them properly. The wolf approached the castle in its human form, but with its clothes in tatters.

But as he took another step, he stopped, as a warming aroma reached his nostrils. That smell had been waiting for him for a long time, but he never imagined that it would appear in the middle of the forest.

The boy stops in his tracks and begins to sniff the air, that aroma was approaching at high speed. The smell became more and more intense, and while that was happening, his pheromones began to work at high speed.

His heart began to work faster than normal… there was no doubt, that unique aroma was that of his moon.

—Bardas, what’s happening?

“Go ahead to the castle, I’ll see you there,” he orders the boys, while he runs into the forest.

Quickly, he turns into a wolf and runs through the undergrowth. It was inevitable not to follow that scent, it was something he couldn’t control. And the same thing must have happened to her, that’s why she was going straight towards him.