The Gamma´s Equinox

Chapter Eleven: The Time To Escape

Elyes

A few days passed and I was waiting for the right opportunity to escape and for the appropriate moment, but so far it seemed rather futile. There was no news about Sabrina and how her mission went. I had hoped she would be away longer, so she wouldn´t be bothering me anymore.

I was in charge of overlooking the boy that I planned to get out of here. But I needed to figure out the right time to execute the plan. I couldn´t just take the boy with me outside for a nice walk as he was considered a prisoner. I got the task from my master to keep the boy sedated to weaken his powers.

Although, I didn´t do it. He was just sleeping, but could wake up when he wanted. The rest was important. After the torturing session he had with my master, he was tired and in pain.

I made him a potion to ease his pain and his werewolf genes basically did the rest, healing him physically. He was quiet and in a somber mood, matching my personality perfectly. I spoke with him a few times, trying to not bring any attention to myself from the others.

I knew I had to be patient and wait for the right opportunity to take Lucas away and protect him. The feelings I was experiencing were so overwhelming and new to me that I didn´t know how to deal with them.

My head was aching the more I thought about the she-wolf with pale purple hair and when my thoughts were filled with her, which was basically every minute of every day, my heart was beating faster and my hands were shaking. I felt like I was flying and my mind was blank, my mood wasn´t gloomy and I didn´t feel angry or revengeful anymore.

It felt like a fog that was clouding my judgement had finally lifted, allowing my feelings and all the repressed emotions to surface. The mix of different emotions was so strong and overpowering, making my head ache and pound. Every hour I felt more and more pressure that it was almost hard to think.

I had to make myself a strong potion to suppress the pain because I needed to be fully ready and aware of what I was doing. The explanation of why I felt the way I did was hard to find. I didn´t know, but my body also felt lighter, as if nothing was waiting me down anymore.

I always had a feeling like a ball and chain was attached to me. I had to return to the coven in order to feel more free, but it still wasn´t enough. Lately, though, the pressure was lifting slowly and I could breathe easier. It all began when I met that she-wolf. Now, I knew her name.

Maeve.

It sounded like honey on my tongue, so sweet and paralysing.

It was like with a snap of fingers something shifted and changed inside me when our eyes met for the first time. I couldn´t forget the big doe-like hazel eyes with gold and green flecks around the irises. A strange warmth spread through my body when I recalled the meeting.

My mind and heart were now fully aware of what I was doing and there were weird feelings I hadn´t had in a while creeping through me. Regret, shame, fear, determination and a need. A need to find her. The she-wolf.

Something within me, my gut was telling me she knew the answer to my question.

Why was I feeling like that?

What was this sensation that was making me go out of my mind with desire for the woman I didn't even know?

Where did the feeling come from?

I often felt irritated, resentful and furious, as if my head was burning and not from my magical power. It was for her. Everything inside me was calling to her. I knew I wouldn´t be back to myself and ready to relax if I hadn´t seen her.

The plan was simple. Escape with Lucas. Save him and bring him back home to the borders of the Wolf Moon pack.

The execution of the plan would be a little bit harder. In order to escape with Lucas I needed to break through the barrier and severe my connection to the coven. We were all bonded through our magic that was mixed, but if I crossed the barrier and chanted the ancient words, the spell would be reversed.

The only disadvantage was that everyone would immediately know I was gone for good. And there was no coming back. No one left the coven alive. If they tried, the master found them and showed them the consequences of their betrayal. I could only survive if I escaped when my master was away and I would have enough time to do the spell and hide somewhere safe.

I could possibly stay at the pack where the she-wolf was also located. She was a Gamma. Lucas told me about her and the others as well.

But I hated werewolves! They were responsible for killing my family!

The anger I felt shifted my feelings and thoughts, making me overthink what i was doing. Why was I willing to sacrifice my comfortable life and leave my coven just to save the small hybrid?

Hybrids were bad! They were an anomaly that should never have existed. That was what my master taught us, but now it seemed like my brain forgot all that.

The vision of the pale purple-haired she-wolf came over my mind and I felt the anger and resentment ease at once.

What the hell was happening with me?

I shook my head annoyed with my own thoughts. I was going to help Lucas, not just because he was a child and didn´t deserve any of this, but also because I never shared the same ideology as my master. I didn´t have anything against hybrids. It wasn´t their fault to be born.

It was already afternoon when I returned back to the main mansion from my walk around the barrier. I was used to taking a silent and long walks regularly, so no one would suspect anything suspicious. I just changed my route recently, walking closer to the broader and watching for my shift in magic or change.

I emerged from the thick woods as the autumn rain was pouring down heavily. I strode towards the mansion opening the door abruptly and entering. I saw my master and one of fellow warlocks and masters second hand man, Robert standing in the middle of the hall discussing something passionately.

They turned when they heard me come, their eyes were shinning with excitement and delight. That meant only one thing. The mission was successful and they finally found what they were looking for.

"Oh, Lye! There you are!" my master exclaimed with a glint in his eyes as he outstretched his hands welcoming me inside.

I could see his cold dark gray eyes going even darker as if the light inside them turned off and only the darkness stayed.

"Master," I nodded my head in his direction to turn around slightly, "Robert." I greeted him as well seeing his jaw clenched.

He didn´t like me one bit and I had always wondered why.

"Lye, Robert and I are leaving now! It seems like the years of waiting are gone and I had finally found him!" he told me with a vicious glint in his eyes and I knew this meant nothing good.

"You are in charge of the coven while we are gone," he told him lying his hand on my shoulder and looking deeply into my eyes.

I felt something inside me stir and I nodded my head as if in trance not controlling my movements. The only thing on my mind was that I had to take care about the coven. My plans were forgotten, but as soon as his eyes averted from mine, the fog lifted and my conscience and common sense were back.

"Yes, sir." I answered him immediately seeing as Robert eyed me with a scowl on his face.

He was an older and quite powerful warlock with dark skin, hair and eyes empty and cold like an icicle. His scrutinizing gaze would make me uncomfortable if I wasn´t already used to it.

"If Sabrina is right and she has found Balthasar's body, we would do the sacrificing ritual. I need you to prepare everything, Lye. We would be killing the hybrid and offer him to the dark powers as a p*****t. He would be a perfect victim for the Lord to return back to the living." He told me excited excitedly, grinning maliciously, and I knew I had to get Lucas out of there before he would return.

A shover ran down my spine when I thought about the ritual. I had never seen one with my own eyes as it most forbidden to do nowadays, but I have read about it and I didn´t like the slightest what I had found out. It was painful, inhuman and deadly for the victim. I knew there was no way Lucas would be able to survive such a cruel ceremony.

There was no other way. I couldn´t wait anymore.

It was time to escape.

"Of course, master. I will." I made my face blank and hard as I had agreed seeing him nod with enthusiasm like a child with a new toy, but this time it was about killing an innocent soul in order to try to bring back a dark force and the most powerful warlock ever existing with it.

"The prophecy would be unfulfilled...." he murmured as he started to pace around the hall.

"Master, it is time for us to leave." Robert alerted him before he was able to say more making me curse internally that i***t.

"That is right," Master said with a hint of delight in his usually cold voice, "Let us go."

I watched as they both started to walk out of the house and towards the barrier. I stayed on my place for a bit, before I turned around and started to order everyone, taking care about the preparation for the sacrificing ritual and the feast afterwards.

I was playing my part of a good servant for the master. I felt him power over the coven ease a bit signaling that he was far away from us. This was the best time to ran away. The sun was going down and soon the night would fall.

The darkness of the night would provide the cover for us. I thought about the place at the barrier I had found during one of my long walks, where the magic was the weakest.

I needed to get Lucas there and we would be crossing it under the moon when the magic was the strongest. I had prepared an invisible potion for the boy and myself.

For the rest of the evening I was playing my part before the night fell and everyone slowly retreated inside their own rooms. There was a few of the magicians patrolling the barrier, but I already knew their pattern so that wasn´t any issue for me.

I walked through the hall and down the stars into the cellar where Lucas´s room was located. I opened the door seeing Lucas sitting on the bed and looking into the white wall. He appeared to be crying and my heart squeezed in pain from the sight. I took a liking to the small child while I was taking care about him.

My gut was telling me that I was doing the right thing and my body was longing to go to the Wolf Moon pack. It was like a magnetic power was trying to pull me closer to it and I couldn´t resist it anymore.

"Lucas," I called to him coming closer and standing right in front of him.

He didn´t react and continued to look into the white wall humming for himself. Poor child he was traumatised.

"Lucas," I tried again more gentle, but there was no answer.

I came closer seeing as his body stiffened slightly before I put my hand on his shoulder. His head lifted and he looked up at me with scared and empty pale green eyes.

"It´s time for you to go home."