Virago

9. Cailan Aresis

"Moon's Wrath?" Ryker frowned, leaning forward on the table.

For someone who attended the meeting within the pack just because he had to, it was surprising that he even listened to what our father said.

I would have loved to make Aster bring MoonLight Luna and its heir, but the Oracle called and we rushed to the MoonSong territory. It had been a meeting on short notice and my father called all the high post-holding wolves he had, that was the Alphas who had pledged to him.

Anything that had to do with the Oracle, my father rushed there. She saw a prophecy; he was the first to know its contents. She was hurt, he was there avenging her without asking a second question. Perhaps that was why my mother gave up on my father. After all, when my youngest sibling was born, the Oracle was being chased by a few wolves. Instead of sending aid, my father rushed there himself, missing the birth of his daughter.

I was old enough to understand that he was not supposed to leave but young to voice it out. Apart from the Oracle, the only person he ever cared for would be me. And I did not know if that was because I was his heir or Moon Blessed.

On my right, Ryker sat and to my left, Cortel became still as if the words had sealed his fate. Why was he worried? The Moon's Wrath was something, that Moon Blessed should be worried about.

Pax next to my father frowned deeply as if he was trying to remember something and Snow who was next to Cortel muttered under his breath. There were other Alphas in the room, but I did not bother to look at them.

"Sounds funny," Miles said. He had once been the Alpha of the MoonShine pack, a pack which pledged its loyalty to MoonSong.

"It is not," Pax snapped for which Miles flinched. Miles was barely nineteen and the burden to carry his pack fell on him prematurely after his father died defying my father. "You have no idea what Moon's Wrath is, do you?"

At the confused expression of half the members present, Pax sighed. "Legends say that the Moon Goddess had a twin who would try to take her power at any chance she got. In order to not let the two females, fight for power, their father tried to get them to rule each fourteen days. But the Moon's twin was way too much power hungry that she tried to kill all of her sister's creation. Whenever the twin acted up, it was called the Moon's Wrath."

Was that all? The twin would corrupt the wolves and have them cause a havoc on the earth and their damage would be so great that only blood and death would be on their wake. In order to kill her corrupted creation, the Moon Goddess sent the Moon's Wrath, killing the packs infected with her sister's seed of sins.

The Moon's twin did not extend her claws only to us, but to the Sun's creation as well. The Sun Goddess had been benevolent, but when her own creation pledged to the Moon's twin, she killed her vampire kind. Before us, vampires ran throughout the world. They feasted on anything with blood. When they on the Sun Goddess, she burned them with her rays. Some managed to escape the Sun's Fury but even now they would burn when the sun's rays touched them.

I did not know the deal about the witches, but now, it was Moon's turn. As long as I was alive, I would fight against the Moon's twin, of her corruption. I would safeguard the wolves. When the wolves came under my pack, my protection reached out to them as well. As for the Moon Cursed, they were Moon's twin's weapon. They would heed to her will and destroy the werewolves, leaving nothing behind but stories whispered in the night and tales to scare children.

The creator of humans passed away long ago and no one else took his position. That was why they rampaged all over the earth. Or that was what the Oracle said.

"Just like Sun's Fury?" Snow asked.

"Just like that," Pax said. After a beat, he added hesitantly, "FirstDawn pack was destroyed two days ago."