My Feral Eyes

Chapter 19: Really a Curse?

(Reminder of what Regina looks like above)

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Callum's POV

"It's starting."
Shadow looks to us.
"What, what's starting?"
I whimper. We have to leave her. I look to Coen. We get up and leave before Shadow can ask anything else.
We run into the woods and the pain hits again, this time in our veins. We get as far away as we can. When we were little, we were cursed by the the Moon Goddess. While we didn't do anything wrong, our father did. He had found his mate, who happened to be feral. He left her to be with a proper Queen, our mother. Queen Regina Knightly. She was the perfect Queen and mother. Beautiful, kind, but also firm. But when he gave up his mate for another, the Moon Goddess became angry. So she hurt the only ones he truly cared about: his sons. We're cursed to become the werewolves that people hear about in stories. Bloodthirsty animals. Killers. Almost vampire like. We crave to feel the blood between our teeth. And not just any blood. Human blood. And this will continue until our fathers mistake has been fixed. Which is now impossible since he's dead.
I sigh. I feel my brother next to me. We wouldn't ever hurt each other. The Moon Goddess at least let us have each other when we go through this. We just don't know how our wolves will react to Shadow, meaning we have to stay far away from her till we can figure her out. I hear my brother whimper. It really does burn. I'm holding back a howl right now. If Shadow's wolf hears us in pain she'll come running. Coen looks at me, almost pleading to be put out of his misery. I feel the same way. I hear a howl that I don't recognize. A rogue. Then, a white wolf with purple eyes comes out of no where. Shadow. Coen looks to me, fear in his eyes. Shadow's wolf, Moon, trots over to us, unfazed. She knows what's happening, so why isn't she protecting herself and Shadow?
Unless her irrational wolf side has come out. Her true animal side. Moon lays down in between us. I wish I could move closer to her, but I'm too weak. Corn looks at me. He feels the same. I whine and my breathing becomes heavier. I growl at Shadow to leave. She snarls back. What the-
She then stands up. Her purple eyes are glowing.
Oh shoot she's feral.
She snaps at me, showing me she's not leaving. She looks to the full moon. And looks back to me and Coen. She lays down. She's uncomfortable. Why?
She howls. Then it turns into more of a whine. It's pained. Very pained. Then she looks at us again. Her eyes are...blue.
What? How?
She turns tail and flees. I howl and so does Coen. She left.

30 minutes later

We slowly loose our minds. I can literally feel my human thoughts becoming muddled. Shadow returns now, one eye blue and the other purple. What does that mean?
She has clothes. She comes over and lays a shirt over me and then does the same to Coen.
I hear a voice in my head.
Shift.
And then something happens. I become human. How?
Coen looks at me, now also in human form. Shadow starts shifting back. She has a shirt draped over her. She fully shifts back.
"What just happened?"
Shadow shrugs at my question.
"You both shifted back."
She starts getting up, but I want answers. That wasn't any voice. It was her voice.
"Shadow..."
"Yes, Callum?"
"What...no, how did you do that?"
Shadow Rolls her now very purple eyes. Maybe I was imagining the blue.
"Magic."
I growl. I don't appreciate her tone. She growls right back.
"I don't like your tone, Callum. Watch yourself."
"Watch myself? You do remember your talking to a King, right?"
"You do remember you're talking to your mate, right?"
I snarl. That's it. I'm p*ssed.
"Apologize. Now."
"Callum..."
"No, Coen. She needs to know her place."
"I don't have to apologize to you. You're no King of mine, remember? Or do you forget who, no what I am? I a feral, Callum. Not just any feral either. I'm their..."
She trails off, as if she's said too much. I instantly calm now that I feel her uneasiness. She starts to walk away.
"I'm so sorry Shadow. My wolf got the best of me."
"Maybe don't do that. And this wouldn't have happened."
"What? What wouldn't have happened?"
"I-I misspoke. I s-shouldn't have..."
Coen walks over to her.
"What do you mean?"
"Oh my Goddess above. Pray for me."
"Why would she need to pray for you?"
"Shadow?"
"Shhh. Guys, please. Let me explain."
We wait for her to explain and after 5 minutes of waiting I speak up.
"Shadow?"
"You know how people suspect that the rogues and ferals have a leader? Like a king of the rogues?"
I reply.
"Yes... but what..."
"The leader is not who you'd expect."
"So there is a leader?"
"Yes..."
"Who? Why are you taking this to us?"
"Your curse...when you go through it, it's your wolves becoming full fledged ferals."
Coen looks at me.
"Really?"
"Yes, Coen."
I look at Shadow who has now turned around.
"The Goddess cursed you to be like the thing, the wolf your father rejected so he could look better in public. You're cursed to be like his mate. Crazed. Lonely. Bloodthirsty."
She pauses. I guess and understand what she's saying.
"How do you know this?"
I look at Coen. He's not one to question.
"Because..."
"Because what? How do you know?"
"You could say I know the person...like really well."
She knows our number 1 enemy.
"What?"
I ask.
"Who?"
I turn to Coen. That's the real question.
"Yeah, who?"
Coen mind links me.
As soon as we find out we kill the mother-
"Me."
I turn to Shadow, mouth dropped.
Coen looks to me.
"D@mn. Well this is going to be a problem."

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So uh...
Yeah. This chapter was kinda good it think...
Regardless there was a lot of tea ☕️
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