The Face Of The Prey

Chapter 6: The Black Dahlia

I replied, "Well, the legend was not true about this. I am the tribrid I showed it to you. The war was about to start but we ran away. We weren't prepared for the war. But there is one thing that isn't mentioned in the legend, the war which had to take place would be after a thousand year the tribrid was born. Well, if the timeline goes according to the legend, the war can start anytime now because I was born during 900 A.D. as far as I know. And I know about the sword. I have to find it. Earlier I thought that this war would never happen because I tried to make peace but it resulted in them getting angrier. Now I am not so sure about peace. They attacked my siblings. They took one of my siblings as hostage for 5 months, and they demanded me in return of him. But when I went to the place, it was a bloody trap! They asked for me to come alone so, i went alone. It was just a simple exchange. I go to them and they leave my sibling. And my plan was after they release my sibling, I bring out my claws because I can't turn, wound the leader and then burn them all on spot. But the plan didn't go accordingly. The minute I reached the destination, they shot me with bullets laced with wolfsbane and vervain. They took me with them and didn't even release my sibling. I used to protect him by letting him torture me instead of him because all of this was happening because of me. They held us for almost 4 years but then we made a plan to escape. We decided that when the man came in to beat us, we'll hide and then when he come in, we'll attack and regain our strength, if I was at my 100%, I would have burned the whole building to the ground. There would be nothing left, but I wasn't. I was just at 30% and wasn't strong enough. We managed to escape but we didn't know where we were. It turned out that he had taken us to New York. We didn't know our way around there so, we decided to become assassins. With the help of our powers, we were able to survive that crisis. We would have died starving if we didn't become assassins. We knew that this was wrong of us to use our power like this but we didn't have any choice at that moment. I was The Black Dahlia and Byron became the Ghost. After me, Byron was the most intelligent person in our family. He knew how to hack and I knew how to act. He made the strategies and I applied them. We worked like this for almost 10 years after the escaping. We went completely off the grid. Not a single soul could find us. We managed to live like this, without our family, we really missed them and thought that this would never happen to anyone. We broke the promise that we made. It was the hardest thing to do but we had to do it for our family's sake. One day we got a strange call. It was a man who asked us to find two people and they were ready to give 100,000$ for that. We accepted it right away. It would be a hell lot of money. Then he sent the names of those two people. Isabella Lilac Smith and Byron Elijah Smith. It was us! And that man was our father. We called him back immediately. He thought that we found them. He asked, 'Did you find them?' I replied in my original voice, 'You are talking to them father.' I burst into tears. I just couldn't hold them back. That day was our best day ever. We were trying to find them all these years but they just didn't exist in this world because I was the one who made their information disappear and I didn't know how to undo what I had done because I was never in this situation before. But I was just happy that he reached out to me. Then we told him our location and got reunited. This is the reason of this scar that is on my eye. The alpha of the Dark Wood pack used a wooden stick to make this cut on my eye. So, this was my story and the story of the infamous Black Dahlia. If you search about me on the internet, it will be there and there would be one more thing mentioned that she used to leave a black dahlia behind whenever she killed the person." He asked, "Will you tell me the reason why you left a black dahlia behind?" I replied, "Yes I was about to tell you that. It means that if a person is beautiful, it doesn't really mean that it has any emotions left in it or it will be beautiful from inside too. It was also the favorite flower of my best friend. Her name was Alexandra, she had the most beautiful soul you would have ever met. She was killed by the Dark Wood pack when they attacked us." He said, "Oh my god, Bella, I am so sorry I asked. It must be a very difficult topic for you to discuss." I replied, "Yeah, it is but I don't tell this to a lot of people only two people knew the truth behind the real meaning of the black dahlia, me and Byron and now you also know." He replied, "Thank you that you trusted me with this. I think that you are also falling for me." He gave me devilish grin and winked at me. 

Then the doctor came in and said, "Okay enough chatting. Bella, now you need to rest. And you need to go out, Mr. Lopez. You can come later. Now we'll inject you with a powerful anesthetic in order to help you sleep. We got the approval for this from your parents so no need to worry, okay?" I nodded my head and said good-bye to Diego. They injected me and my eye lids became heavy and before I knew it, I was sound asleep. That would have been the best sleep I ever had in a long time.

When it was night, I heard some footsteps coming closer to me. I thought it was just the doctor but, no! It was someone else. I smelt its scent. He was a wolf! I was like, 'Crap! I am fucked!' I was still injected and I wasn't able to make any movement but I was in my full senses. I tried to get up but I couldn't! What was I gonna do now!