DARK QUEEN:Rise of the Hybrid

Rebirth of the Wolf Princess

A FLASHBACK

She's just 15. Their kind can only transform when they reach 18. It would be a great help to her tonight if she can because, for wolves like them, they are stronger where they're in that form but she has no choice but to keep running on her feet faster as she could, leaping unto cliffs just to reach Mt. Sidon. Her father is waiting for her, there and he might be in danger. Hope he's fine. Ariel whispers. She worried a lot.

I can't just leave Baba alone. Yuela is up to something! She thinks while she's running. Good thing she's a wolf she can run above human speed even if she's in her human form.

There! She gasps when she sees the Mount. She's near. She could hear the scream and the battle cries.

There! He's there! I could already see him! Ariel thinks and he climbs up to where Arzoc is. She hears him howling the song of their bloodline like telling and thanking the moon for granting them victory. Her father gazes at her and smiles gently.

" You arrived", he said. And he holds her hand and raises it up the air. Ariel heard every bloodline growls in agreement. They understand that this moment is the passing on of Arzoc's authority to his heir - Ariel his only direct descendant. The princess of their bloodline.

" Alpha King! She may be 15 but she's ready for the throne. She's the one in the prophecy! How can we argue?" one from the pack mutters.

And they all kneel before them.

The three bloodlines accepted her wholeheartedly, except for Yeula.

Standing at a distance she's filled with envy and anger. It should be me that's standing there. I have invested much time and effort to climb unto Arzoc's Royal House. I can't just fail because I am a bit late. Yuela thinks.

She grasps at her belly. This child I'm carrying. You must be his father. She thinks as she glares at Cascade.

" But I realized...life would be much lighter if you two...would disappear", Yuela whispers as she raises her bow and aims her arrow at the two creatures at the distance.

One. Two...three... she counts in her mind.

And then release a shot.

It hits Arzoc's chest.

" Voila!", she mutters.

Again.

Release.

Now it hits Ariel.

and then again...and another one.

She heard the crowd screaming, running in chaos searching for the culprit.

I must not get caught! They should not doubt me! Yuela thinks.

She leaves the place where she did the crime and joins in the pandemonium. She rushes to the crowd and screams and cries with them, clutching her head as if she's upset, calling his husband's name as if she's innocent of his blood.

From afar Ariel sees Yuela crying with the crowd. She looks at his father whom she's not sure if still breathing. This is the most horrible scenario she had ever seen. She crawls unto him despite the piercing pain she feels on her chest. This arrow...this must be a silver...she thinks. Ariel feels her sight is getting blurry and she's running out of breath.

" Baba", she whispers reaching her hand to his father but after another move, she felt her body slips down. She notices the steep rocky soil that they're in. She's sliding down. Noticing that Ariel didn't push to hold his father's hand as she might just drag him down with him.

Your body deserves a decent burial...Baba... me...it's okay if I won't be found. Ariel thinks.

And she closes her eyes.

And let go.

She heard the people screaming her name as she falls from that abrupt, straight up down mountain. The next thing she heard is the sound of the water as her body drops into a lake where its depth she couldn't fathom.

I felt like I'm trapped in here. It feels like this drowning is gonna be forever. Ariel thinks before her eyes were closed.

And after a moment she felt the moon gaze at her penetrating through the bottom water, pulling her up from there. Ariel feels like she's caught in a dream where she couldn't even see herself completely but only this enveloping powerful moonlight.

This will protect you...

Her mother's voice and the necklace she gave is the last voice that echoed on her mind before she finally loses herself.

After a year

Nazily spent her entire life waiting for the rebirth of Ariel. This is the task assigned to her by the Moon Shadows. The moon shadow is a secret organization of the forlorn bloodlines from wolves and vampires. Any mixed breed vampire or wolf is categorized as an outcast because for them, there is some kind of blessedness attached to being pure-blooded and cursed to those who aren't. Witch Arzoc's introduction of change, the moon shadows were excited to saw a glimpse of hope, and Ariel's assumption of the throne means new dawn to them, but all of their hopes vanish when Arzoc and his daughter was assassinated in Mt. Sidon. Good thing that incident has been foreseen by the witches in their group and now they're waiting for the fulfillment of the prophecy. This is the day where the wolf princess is expected to come back to life.

I must hurry! Nazily thinks as her heart beats races running fast as she could. It's there near the falls in that valley! I'm near. She said to herself as she hears the sound of running water from a distance.

At the death of a newborn, the princess will live.

Nazily recalls the oracle in her mind.

Okay, I'm here now. She felt relieved after a few moments.

Nazily enters the old wooden house walking quickly towards where she senses a newborn's presence. A messy and dead woman is exposed to her sight as to when she flips the curtain. Nazily's eyes quickly move around to look for the baby.

"There!" she gasps. What a relief. She said to herself and carried the baby that's lying away from the mother. Nazily glances at the dead woman that had given birth to the baby she's holding.

You both are now resting. She's not your daughter. Thanks for being the bridge. Nazily said in her mind as she glances at the newborn in her arms.

Looking through the baby's eyes she saw what happened earlier here before she arrived.

Nazily gently smiles and smells the baby's palm,

" you're a warrior, you manage to remain alive until I come, " she whispers.

She saw how the midwife gets scared of the newborn when its eyes change like it's been swept by some kind of magical force. She's been left here as the midwife runs hysterically shouting for some guys to come and kill the baby.

Nazily hears a sound of murmurings and footsteps.

They're coming! The men whom the midwife called. I'm just right on time! She said to herself as she hears the sounds from a distance. Nazily quickly gets up, wraps the baby with the scarf she has, and they hurried away.

" The child is being taken! There!"

one of the men shouts pointing its bolo at Nazily.

" Be bound by my word..." she quickly utters a spell,

" Evicendo!" she said with a force.

And the men instantly grasps their head asking why they are there in that moment.

" what's this place? huh?"

" what am I doing here?"

They murmurs.

Nazily smirks and she rushes away.

She could not have imagined this day. She's actually holding their hope in her hands.

I never expected that this day would come. Nazily said to herself as she heads back to the Moon shadow's hideout. But to her shock when she's meet with chaos when she arrived there.

" Yuela!", she gasps as she holds tights at the baby to her chest. She puts on her hood and hides at the trees in a distance. Nazily could hear the screams and fires and groanings as their hideout is being shattered. She saw Yuela laughing stretching her arms victoriously as her men overcome them.

"They're gone" Nazily whispers while tears ran down her cheeks. She should not know about the princess! Nazily thinks and glances at the baby. She quickly leaves their hideout.

There's only one safe place to go for us, now... the human world. Nazily said in her mind.

After 5 years

" Dawn!", Nazily calls agitatedly as she rushes down the long stairs. She proceeds to the back door going to the backyard.

" You're just here!" she sighed a relief. But it seems that the young kid didn't hear her. The 5-year-old Dawn is so engrossed talking with someone.

" Who are you talking to in there?" Nazily asks in astonishment.

Dawn turns to her grinning wide, " him!", she excitedly shoves her arms showing the hamster on her palms. Nazily chuckles. She assumes it's just some kind of a kiddie game.

" He's sick", Dawn mutters in a sad tone. She's referring to the hamster. Nazily looks at it, checking if what Dawn said is true.

" He's got wound in here..." Nazily told Dawn parting the hamster's fur showing the cut beneath its ear.

Dawn pulls the hamster closer to her. She closes her eyes, caresses them gently. And after a few moments, Nazily's eyes widens when she witnessed how the wound on the hamster's ears instantly closes, the spots of blood on it dried up quickly, returning its flesh into its healthy state.

" How did you do that?" Nazily exclaims.

Nazily looks at Dawn with amazement in her eyes. She knows that this kid isn't just a mere human, but she never knew that a creature like her could have this kind of gift that not even a wolf or a vampire could possess.

At the princess rebirth...she could be stronger and powerful than her previous state, but... a weakness will sprout when she turns 18...and that might bound her...

The words of the eldest witch foreteller's words echoed on Nazily's mind.

" It's now manifesting, " she whispers clutching on her chest.