His Half Goddess • BOOK II

Chapter XV

The timer was starting its countdown from a minute. I looked at the ball that was hanging from my leg. It would be extremely tricky to initiate the plan with something that was dragging but if I wanted to stay alive until they got to me, I needed to try my hardest.

Reaching down, I dug the ball into the sand as far as it would go, pulling my leg down with it. I shimmied my body down as well, following it. Now I was sticking up in the gritty sand like a pole. It was thicker than I thought but it could work.

There were two hooks on either side of the bottom of the sand. Thank goodness for my chains. I would be able to wrap them around one of them so I would hang off. I eyed where the hooks were and lassoed it. After five tries, I finally got it! My eyes drifted back to the clock and it was landing on thirty seconds. The claw started to move and it gripped the bottom of the bottle.

I heard howling in the distance and I grinned. They were here! Laughing, I dug myself in further. This would be the end of the freaking torture that Ryan put me through. This is how you deal with ex's. Get a band of wolves to chew them out. I wondered what Isla was going to do with her mate.

The bottle started to tip, making my heart leap in fear. You got this babe. That's what Clove would say in a time like this. She told me that. I'm a goddess, I can do anything.

The sand started to pour over me in vast amounts. I gasped for breath until another load came over me. Bad hair day. Grains of sand started to get stuck in my throat, making it extremely hard to get oxygen. Every bit of sand felt like a needle. No wonder Ryan said that I would die. This was definitely not normal. It was meant to kill.

My arms started to bleed from being scratched up and my hands burned from hanging onto the chains for dear life. I cursed as my leg was being weighed down from the ball as the last gallon of sand fell over me. Tears sprang into my eyes. I think my leg was fractured or broken. Whatever it was, it hurt like freaking anything!

Suddenly, the door burst open and a bunch of naked wolves entered the door. Some gasped in shock while others raced into action, trying to break the glass with their fists. One wolf climbed up the claw's arm and attempted pushing it. More saw that this was a good way and copied him, pushing the claw to break through the glass. Cracks started to form and soon it crumbled. I bowed my head, not to risk any glass shards entering my face.

I saw the familiar hair of Dion and my face broke out into a smile. He got onto the claw and held out his hands. I grabbed them, unhooking the chain and he pulled me onto his shoulder, climbing down.

The wolves and humans started to cheer as he let me onto the ground. Some of the males tried to break the chains but only hissed in pain when they realized it was silver. The females cooed over me and cried, seeing the pain and horrible conditions I was in.

"Dion...did you lead them here?" I whispered.

His cheeks reddened and he nodded. "Yes. I did."

I felt my heart flutter and I pulled his neck down, hugging him tightly. "Thank you. Thank you so much. You saved my life. I knew I could trust you."

He cleared his throat and moved away so he could look into my green eyes. "Won't your mate be unhappy about this?"

I shook my head. "He's not my mate. And I'm sure glad he isn't."

Dion laughed and tucked a blonde curl of mine behind my ear. He then looked down and inspected my gold clamps. "This is a problem..."

"I need to get these off of me. If they take all the power out of me..."

"You'll only be left with dark magic."

I raised my eyebrow. "How did you know that? I didn't even know that until an hour ago."

He shrugged, avoiding the question, and turned his gaze back. "Now..let's see..." Dion reached into his bag and pulled out a clipper of some sort. "I found this while I was..inspecting your Alpha's library."

Frowning, I crossed my arms. "You mean stealing?"

"To each his own. Anyway, I recognized it. It's from an ancient book I read before. I think it's from a witch. I still don't understand why your Alpha has it but.."

I sighed. "Our pack has a history. Now get these things off of me!"

The man sighed and proceeded to clamp the clipper over the band. It took a bit of wrestling but it broke off, a wave of cool relief flowing over me. After all of them were off, I picked one of them up. "My blood.."

Dion smirked. "Oh, I also found this." He showed me a tiny vial.

"Ugh. What does that do?" I asked him.

"Potentially, we squeeze out the blood from the bands and you drink it."

I gagged. Then I saw he was serious. "Wait, really?"

He nodded. "Look." He turned the band over and there was a packet of blood swirling around. "The only way to get it back into you is either cutting you open or you drink it."

Sighing, I nodded. "Fine." Magic was way tougher than it had to be. He did the process and handed me the bottle. I drank it then raised my eyebrows. It tasted like strawberries. Okay, yuck, why does my blood taste like strawberries?

A light fluttery feeling came from inside my chest and I could feel Clove wake up immediately. "Clove!!! You're well, thank goddess. How are you?!" She didn't respond and I got confused. Maybe I was wrong? A sudden bright light flew out from me, throwing people back, including me.

When I blinked again, my normal shirt and pants were gone. Instead, it was the insanely beautiful goddess dress. This time it was different. A gold 'x' collar was intricately designed and fell down to a white full-out gown. My shoulders and half of my arms were exposed. The half that wasn't had a gold band that had flowing sleeves. An aurous belt graced my waist. My normal shoulder-length blonde hair had miraculously lengthened out into waist-length curly locks.

What stood out though, was the large crown on the top of my head, as if it had always been there. It was as if it belonged, somehow. Large and small glass spikes surrounded it and little moons danced on them. Gold lined over them and a chain fell onto my forehead with a pearly crescent moon. It was absolutely stunning.

I was the Moon Goddess. It was clearly obvious that my Mother had given up her position as Queen. I needed to ask her why, desperately. Hopefully, she would come to me on her own. I looked at the crowd in front of me and they immediately bowed in submission.

"U-uh, you guys don't really need to do that...you older ones probably saw me in diapers.." I laughed nervously.

The door opened again, banging against the wall. Isla stood there, bare naked, along with the rest of the council. The Alpha ran to me quickly, tears falling from her cheeks.

"I'm so sorry, I was so selfish. I should have sent someone with you...I'm just, you're safe..what has Ryan done to you?" She cried, kneeling down and bowing her head onto the floor. "Y-you're the Moon Goddess..so much has happened.."

My hands went to her face, gently making her look up at me. I smiled reassuringly. "Don't worry. I won't give him the time of day anymore. He's not my mate, as you probably noticed. We can talk about everything later. You're still my Alpha to me. However, I think my hair is definitely better than yours now." I chuckled, teasing her.

"Definitely." Isla agreed, hugging me

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