The Fall Of Lucian
Chapter 6

—“We must continue” —The alpha insists to his wolf.

As best he could, he managed to enter that thorny tunnel. The first steps he took were easy; but as he advanced he felt the thorns rub against his body. Until…

The barbs began to pass through his body without any mercy, with great pain the alpha endured martyrdom. The smiling face of his wife was reflected in his mind and that motivated him to continue no matter what.

—“Ethan, we are losing a lot of b***d. It will be difficult for us to heal the wounds if we continue advancing”

—“We will continue, we are already reaching the end”

But with each drag of his body, the wolf howled in pain. The thick stingers had no mercy on him, they were relentless and many more appeared every time.

The alpha protected his face and his paws, it was the only thing he needed to move forward… when the tunnel seemed endless, he thought about stopping for a moment to rest, but he knew that if he did he would bleed to death.

So he continued forcing his body to move forward… until finally, from one moment to the next, he saw a light. It was the other side of the road. Excited to get out of there, he quickened his pace, ignoring the damage his body was receiving.

By the time Ethan managed to get out of the thorny tunnel, he collapsed to the ground. He was so tired and felt a lot of pain, and the thirst he had was not normal. And when he thought that he was thirsty, the smell of water reached the wolf’s nose.

He immediately looks up and that’s when he notices where he was.

—“We are at the foot of the lake” —Says his wolf.

—“We are already close”

The wolf licks his mouth when he sees all that crystalline water, he was giving in so much that his most primitive instincts led him to lift his heavy and wounded body, when he reaches the edge of the lagoon he looks at his reflection in the water .

He just needed a taste and it would quench his thirst. Ethan bows his head to it, but just at that moment, a single drop of his b***d falls into the water and in a matter of seconds the entire lake turns green.

Quickly, the wolf backs away, and he watches as the lake went from being crystal clear and pure to becoming something swampy and putrid.

—“I see! Now I understand Eren’s warnings” —Exclaims Ethan.

—“Nothing here is healthy, we almost fell into this silly trap.”

—“We need to rest a little so that the wounds heal.”

After an hour, the alpha felt recovered. Quite weak, but he knew he could keep going. He looks at the lake, and notices that it is a path.

—“We will follow him”

The wolf started walking at high speed, anxious, restless and worried about what he might find at the end of the road. It could be that he didn’t find that witch’s house, or maybe it was all a hoax.

All he knew was that, he needed to find her. With the wounds closed, and a certain part of his energy recovered from him, the wolf ran to the shores of the lake. It was about to get dark, but it was imperative for him to find that witch that very night.

Shery didn’t have that much time, although she didn’t want to tell him, from the way she smelled she knew it. She was one step away from dying…

Ethan continued moving forward, noticing that there were only obstacles and more obstacles in the way. But nothing of an ending, and by smell, he smelled nothing but trees, damp earth, mold, and putrid water.

No sign of any living being, or a hut, nothing…

Had he been wrong about something?

The wolf jumps over a huge rock, and continues running without ceasing; A few minutes later, the wolf jumps over the same rock again and that’s when it stops.

— “I’ve already jumped over that rock” — he begins to smell around him, looks everywhere, but sees nothing.

— “We walk in circles, she’s close to her, Ethan”

— “I know, even though she can’t smell her, I feel her”

— “She plays with us. “He knows we have found her.”

Ethan moves everywhere, searching, looking, he needed some indication that this was the right place. He wasn’t going to move from there until she came out of his hiding place. So he decided to do something he wasn’t sure would work, but she was a damn witch it had to work.

— “Come out from where you are hiding, witch” — he speaks with a strong voice in his thoughts.

He waited patiently for a few seconds, he knew she was close to her, he sensed her…

—Wow! Oh! What a majestic wolf you turned out to be, my dear Ethan Dallas, leader of the blue moon pack.

Ethan looked for that woman’s voice, but it came from everywhere. It was like she was everything around her.

—“I am here, I have passed all your tests. You can’t refuse me to see you, just by talking to me, you have allowed me entry to your domain”

—How interesting that you know all that, for an ordinary wolf. I remind you that royal b***d does not run through your veins. What makes you think I’ll let myself be seen? You have nothing that could interest me, even if you are a magnificent black wolf with blue eyes.

—Witch, I need you.

Ethan receives no response, and he too stopped feeling the witch. It was like she was gone, and that worried him.

—What could a wolf of your kind want from me?

Suddenly, Ethan turns his body around and watches a woman emerge from the bottom of the lake. The wolf is shocked by that witch who was everything he did not imagine.

-Surprised? —She tells him smiling.

The alpha observes the silhouette of a very beautiful woman, her hair was long and as black as the night. She wore a dress from a time that had already gone out of fashion, she was the classic witch from centuries ago, but this she was not an old woman.

—Are you surprised by my appearance? “I bet you imagined meeting a decrepit old woman,” she says, coming out of the water, and although she emerged from it, she wasn’t wet. They always think that witches are horrible, that they have a bad opinion of us,” she adds, while caressing Ethan’s back. I haven’t seen a wolf in these parts for a long time.

For a split second, that witch’s eyes turned golden. Ethan sensed that she was dangerous, that she should be careful despite her being young and very attractive. He must not forget who she was.

—I have had the good fortune of being visited very rarely, and the fact that a common wolf did so makes me uneasy —she begins to caress Ethan seductively, she seemed to be bewitching him with her words. I am pleased that you made the trip in your wolf form, I like them better when they are in this form.

The witch touched Ethan in a strange way, and on top of that, she looked at him with those now green eyes in an intimidating way. She was definitely seducing him.

—How about we try to forget why you came, and…

—“I came here for something, witch. And I’m not going to forget about it” —Ethan responds dryly, to which she narrows her gaze.

“I see…” The woman steps back smiling. You are everything that your heart claims to be. There is no room for a slip-up in the middle of nowhere. Shery occupies all your thoughts.

-“As you know…?”

—I know everything, alpha. Now, she returns to your human form.

Ethan wasn’t sure about that, since in his wolf form he was powerful. And just because he was in front of that dangerous witch, he didn’t like the idea of ​​becoming human.

—If you don’t do it yourself, I’ll do it myself. I will not allow you to impose your power before me, here I am the most powerful, alpha. Remember it.

He had no choice but to return to his human state, by doing so, the wounds that the wolf received from him became smaller, and on his human body they became painful. She even started bleeding.

Ethan falls to his knees before the witch, he began to relax to try to close the few wounds he had left. But this was not happening, he was bleeding to death.

—What a fool you are, alpha. The wounds on my thorns don’t heal as quickly as you think, especially on a human body. Only a strong and powerful wolf can resist them, and the truth is that I have been very surprised by you.

—I can’t stay in my human form—He just looks up.

—You can’t go back to being a wolf, those injuries won’t allow it.

“I haven’t come this far just to die here, and even less so after having found you,” she mutters loudly.

The witch looks at him carefully, she raises an eyebrow when she sees that Ethan was trying to stand up, even though his wounds continued to bleed. He had not even noticed the pool of b***d that lay under his feet, he was about to die, however; That didn’t seem to matter to him.

And knowing he was dead gave him so much excitement…

“I came so you could help me, and if I have to die right here so you can help me, then I will,” he shouts, standing in front of the witch.

—Will you die for your beloved wife? —Ethan looks at the witch, her eyes shining with excitement. She enjoyed suffering.

-Yes, I will do it.

In that breath of a second, the witch grins as her eyes widen even more.

—Ahhh! It’s so hot to hear you say that, blue moon alpha. Since your request has been accepted by this servant —Ethan heard the witch’s response, but by that time, it was more like a whisper what she heard.

Slowly her strength left him and her body collapsed to the ground, her eyes closed violently, plunging into darkness.