The Last Celestial

Chapter Two

   Her fingers twisted around the palm-sized stone. Morgan brings it to her eye. It's actually a little smaller than the palm. The blue-ish white moonstone glowed in her touch. White beams radiated from the stone, and Morgan sat up and put it around her neck again. She cradled herself in her double bed. She remembers how far she's come in the past four years to get that stone. Makes her feel more guilty for being cooped up in her room. The training, physical and mental. Continuing her therapy sessions with Dr. Brown and training with Azari and her ability to not kill off that one part of herself she found special. Not just because her species of the Guardian's were endangered.

A Guardian is a human being, with the ability to transform and use the power of their spirit animal. Morgan is a creature that is connected with her moon goddess, Chhaya, the goddess that has gifted this power to her ancestors during the cold war. The only catch is that the Guardian's look part of their spirit animal when in human form, such as Morgan's fox ears and tail.

Morgan's white bed sheet covered her legs and she kicked them off, annoyed. She shouldn't be annoyed. It's not Willow's job to bring her breakfast, or food for that matter. But then where is she? It's nearly eight.

For the past three days Morgan hasn't left her room.

She knows it's bad and she wants to leave, but she doesn't have the energy to do it. After she got to the pack infirmary to see Lois' malnourished and death-stricken body, Morgan passed out. The doctors there noticed her head wound and treated it quickly. A psychiatrist tried to talk to Morgan as well but Morgan didn't say anything to her, Lois was more important and she didn't want to waste the doctors' time anyway, the next day she hurried out the hospital and into her room where she stayed up until now.

She trains with Dexter in the early mornings, before the sun comes up. Or in the late evenings, when everyone has gone to sleep, but the past few days she couldn't bring herself to see him. But, she also couldn't bring herself to quit and disappoint him like she did the first time, half a year after Lois disappeared and when the pack regrouped and restarted their lives. He mentioned that it is rumoured Lois was brought back to the pack by a lone wolf. No one knows who it was though.

Willow noticed that something was wrong, she kept an eye on Morgan because of what happened last time, but she never pressured Morgan to talk.

Morgan didn't want to talk.

She feels too much at a time and she doesn't know what to do; with herself or her emotions. So she's dealing with it how she always did -hide in her room and isolate herself from others.

Morgan listened for anyone nearby, specifically Willow, but her ears found nothing so Morgan turned over onto her side and closed her eyes.

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Maddison Rhonen. twenty-four years old, Alpha's eldest child. She was all sharp edges.

Her head was held high as she walked through the pack hospital. They all walked and stepped out of her way, several bowed their heads and she never spared a second glance towards them.

As she neared the corridor with that... human, more and more nurses appeared and rushed around.

The door was open and Maddison walked through, her presence silencing the room of nurses. They left the second she spotted her younger brother, Matai.

"Get up". She ordered. Maddison heard his sniffles, he was crying. Weak. Her parents were worried, he didn't leave this girl's side since she got here. Maddison had enough.

"I said-" Maddison stepped forwards and reached for her brother's shoulder, he twisted and stood, his hand grabbed her wrist before she could touch him.