The Alpha's Cursed Princess

Something in the sky

ELENA’S POV

I ran as fast as I could and as further away from Neil as I could because I couldn’t risk having him see me like this, I still couldn’t believe that I had found my mate so soon. I had never thought I had a mate, to begin with, the fact that I had no wolf made me so sure that I would never be able to meet my mate because she was the one who was supposed to help me find him. But the fact that I found him in meant that I she was still somewhere in there, but I still couldn’t turn and that was because my phoenix was stronger than her and I often felt like she wanted nothing to do with me.

After I was sure I was a safe distance away from him I settled down and waited for my big moment to shine. There was something special about being in my phoenix state, I felt so strong the power was almost addictive. Sometimes I secretly wished I would stay in my phoenix state because that was when I was free and all the rules my father set for me didn’t apply to me, even though those rules were meant to protect me, I still couldn’t help feeling oppressed as I could never be who I truly was because everybody would fear me in my phoenix state. I didn't want to be feared by anyone I just wanted to be normal.

But I could never tell my father that, it would break his heart to know that his daughter loved the beast that killed his mate. My phoenix was like an abomination to my father, a curse that affected him more than it affected me even though it was my burden to bear. He was the reason why I blamed myself for my mother’s death despite what Aunt Sarah told me. My father would never accept my phoenix and I knew that for a fact even if I accepted that was what I was. If only I had my wolf, I was sure that if I had shifted into my wolf form accepting me would be a lot easier for him.

As the moon got closer and closer I could feel my body temperature increasing, I was boiling at this point. I started feeling like my back was being hammered as my wings started taking shape and this was the most painful part. I remembered how I never understood how my back could feel so much pain even though it was my arms that changed into wings, but that didn’t mean that my arms were spared any pain from the shifting process. With every feather that came out of my arms, it felt like I was being sliced open or the wings were individually being forced in by someone who was very impatient, despite the pain I always felt, I still loved being a phoenix. My legs became one and formed my feathery tail and my eyes officially changed color and became the color of the moon. It was normally in this moment that I felt one with the moon and it was a moment that often wanted to hold on to.

After that painful ordeal, I was officially ablaze, the fire didn’t hurt me it was like it was a part of me in a way that was similar to the way my hair was a part of me. This was what made the whole experience magical because it would be literally on fire and yet I would not get burnt.

I was so huge to the extent that when I shifted to my phoenix and let it take over my body anyone close by would see me if I flew too high up but I had never had the guts to fly higher above the trees. I flapped my wings and aimed for the moon, I wanted to be as close to the moon as my wings would allow me. I knew I shouldn’t have done that but it was just so beautiful and I had missed being that high.

I ignored all the warning bells going off in my head and focused on what I wanted at that moment, there was no telling when the next time I got this moment would be because the older I got the more inconsistent the moon was at appearing on my birthday.

NEIL’S POV

The moon was so beautiful and it felt as if the moon goddess knew today would be the day that I met my mate. Elena...she was the most beautiful girl I had ever set my eyes on and her voice was the most beautiful that I had ever heard even when she talked. I felt very lucky to have met her on a night like this. It was such a pity that she couldn’t stay and watch the moon with me... she had seemed apprehensive and scared about something but I didn’t hold that against her because I knew that we would be together again the next midnight.

I couldn’t sense her wolf so I was confused about what she was doing here if she was human and I also wondered which pack she was from because the only pack that was close by was the King's pack, and he was rumored to have had one daughter whom he was rumored to be very hard on and no one in the kingdom outside their pack had ever met her, she didn't even attend school with us. Figured she was just a wolfless girl who just wanted to also experience the blood moon like the rest of us.

Another thing that I was wondering about was why my skin had felt a burning sensation when we touched, but that could have been because of the mate pull. I didn't know what was supposed to happen when I finally met her so anything I experienced seemed normal to me.

I laid on the grass and watched the moon as it got closer and as it started looking like it was emitting flames, I got up and shifted into my wolf form and then I started howling and I could hear other wolves do the same. When the moon was like this howling was all we could do in appreciation of its beauty, I had always thought it was the most beautiful sound my ears had ever heard but that was before I met Elena.

Tonight every thought and experience I had seemed to circle back to her.... everything I did or thought of seemed to remind me of her. It was funny how that was because I had only met her for a brief moment.

As I was l was still looking up at the moon, a large shadow obstructed my view and I could no longer see a clear view of it. It looked like a big bird that was in flames. At first, I thought it was an eagle that had flown too close to the moon, who knew how hot it was up there. But when I looked closer I realized that the bird was too huge to be an eagle.

I was horrified to realize that I was staring at a phoenix...