The Gamma´s Equinox

Chapter Ten: Forming A Plan

Elyes

I watched my master walk out of the room after the heart-wrenching performance of using his powers to awake the magic of a small hybrid boy. Some weird, unknown and foreign sensation was creeping through my body, fighting the darkness that enveloped me for such a long time that it almost consumed me fully, but not yet.

That was why that was a small, a barely noticeable flicker of light or hope inside me, whispering to me that I needed to do something. I needed to act.

I didn´t understand where it came from, but ever since seeing that she-wolf with pale purple hair in the woods, naked and frightened for her Alpha´s life, I wasn´t myself. I felt different, more emotional or sentimental. More vulnerable. I didn´t like it at all.

It wasn´t me. Since I could rememeber I was ruthless and emotionless, not caring about the others' feelings, following my master´s commands and not asking unnecessary questions.

The boy, Lucas, started to fall down right after the master´s magic stopped, but I was quick to wave my hand effectively dimming it, so his landing was soft and he didn´t hit the hard ground.

He was already in a lot of pain and a strange guilty feeling came over me as I went to him, kneeling in front of the unconscious boy. I just looked at him, not knowing what I should do in such a situation. He looked so fragile and small in my arms as I picked him up.

I made my face hard as I carried him through the corridors and the halls, meeting other members of my coven who looked at him with obvious disgust and reproach. I couldn´t let my mask slip of my face.

They had hated the hybrids with passion that I never fully understood. Influenced by a master´s ideals and beliefs, they didn't have a mind of their own, but I shouldn´t judge them. I was once one of them.

Following blindly and not asking any questions until one moment, everything changed and it felt like a fog inside my brain had lifted.

I could finally think clearly without constantly having dark thoughts and a gloomy mood. It was liberating. I hadn´t felt so good in a very long time. I felt like myself. Like I had the reins of my life in my hands again.

Strange.

I followed my instinct guiding me to the small room dedicated for the hybrid boy as I opened the door and closing it with my mind before putting him down on the bed. He was breathing heavily and I knew when he would wake up the memories and pain he underwent would come back.

I thought about the forgetting potion. That would block his memories for a little while, until his magic would fully develop at the age of twenty-five.

I was now twenty-four with just two weeks into my birthday I would become full magician receiving the full range of my powers together with more strength. It was very much possible that master would try to extract part of my powers for himself as he did it before. One more reason why to escape.

I didn´t understand why I hadn´t thought about this before?

I was confused and my head was hurting. My mind seemed to be clearer and clearer by every minute and I even started to feel a pressure in my scalp as a sharp pain went through my head. A flashback of a fight came into my line of vision. What it was? Before I could thought about it, it was gone and I was back in cruel reality, standing in the middle of the thick forest and looking straight to where the barrier was placed.

As my brain seemed to be functioning again, I started to form the plan of for an escape of my way out of his room. He was sleeping and would be for quite some time. His body needed the rest to heal and his powers would take over, making him feel stronger and as werewolf he would heal in no time.

Physically.

I wasn´t sure about his mental state. I knew myself, that mind was a fragile object and it required a lot of work and time to heal. I walked down the hall and left, striding through the huge luxurious rooms and down the imperial staircase before going outside.

I was looking around remembering every part and movement of my fellow magicians. I knew their habits and the time of the day they were outside and inside. I was a very good observer and my memory was impeccable.

I followed the line of the trees and deep into the woods, where the protective barrier was placed. I could easily walk through, but the hybrid would be a problem. The alert would go on if he was to cross it. I needed to weaken the magic in one place so he could climb through.

It reminded me the wolf who got through my own barrier and into the rogues´ territory. It gave me a perfect idea of how to do it. But first I needed to wait for the right moment to come. Patience was a virtue and now I had to practice it. Thankfully, I was a master when it came to waiting for the perfect moment, the occasion to strike.

I wouldn´t be able to fight off all my coven members and master was far more powerful than I was. He had a dark magic on his side, the one I never used nor wanted to. The using of dark magic always came with its price. The part of your soul would die every time you extract the dark power until there was nothing more left. Just the shell of a person.

That was why I knew the only time we would be able to escape was when the master was outside of the territory. When he traveled, everybody became more relaxed and chilled. Less alerted. I could use it to my advantage. I knew master was looking for something, or rather someone, but he wasn´t successful so far.

Sabrina was sent on a mission to investigate another clue and lead he had. The time was precious, but we needed to carry on a bit more. I would do everything to shift the attention from the hybrid as far as I could without being suspicious.

I strode through the first checking the strength of the barrier as I did so many times before, but now I wasn´t trying to keep myself in, but find out how we could sneak out.

After a careful investigation that took me a few hours with a successful result of finding the weakest spot, I returned to the main mansion for a dinner. The sun was going down and the temperature was decreasing as the autumn was taking the reins.

I stopped by the kitchen and made myself some food, putting it on the tray as I brewed a simple soup for Lucas and put a few drops of relaxing potion inside. It would help him calm down.

When the food was ready, I took the tray with me and continued to my room, but before I could enter my private suit I turned left and went down the stairs. I walked quietly, making sure no one was around to see me as I came to stand in front of Lucas´s door.

I opened them just to see him wide awake and sitting on the bed hugging his legs. He looked so small and scared. My heart squeezed painfully and I frowned, not knowing what the emotion was. Sadness?

I took a measured step forward, seeing him covered in fear as his head ducked between his legs. His small fragile body was trembling like a leaf in the blizzard and I felt terrible. He would have nightmares and memories for the rest of his life.

"Ddddon´t come near me!" Lucas shouted at me with a scared voice and eyes filled with fear.

"Don´t worry, Lucas." I told him, seeing as his eyes grew wide when I called him his name, "I will not hurt you."

He shook his head not believing a word I just said and I shouldn´t be hurt. He had a right to do so. I didn´t stop master when he was hurting him so I deserved the untrustworthy status.

"As if I am going to believe anything you say," Lucas spatted after he gathered a little bit of courage.

"You shouldn´t," I told him making his eye go wide again, "You should always be on alert and ready to defend yourself." I continued to say as I put the tray on the small table.

"Eat," I ordered to him gesturing to the food, "It will help you feel better." I tried to use my normal, not cold and commanding voice but it was so damn hard to do so.

I saw him shiver slightly and gulp as he heard my silent command. He shook his head disobediently and I almost smiled. This hybrid child had a guts I had to give him that. His little face was blotchy and red, puffy and tired. The once pale green eyes lost its spark and were now dull and liveless.

I recognized it all too well. I saw it in the mirror every day.

"If I wanted to hurt you, Lucas, I would be offering you a soup." I spoke to find with more pleasant voice, or at last I thought it was.

"No, you would be torturing me!" He screamed, making me tilt my head to the side.

"That is correct," I told him, there was no point in lying.

"So, why would I eat that soup? Why should I believe that you are not going to hurt me?" He demanded.

"It will help you gather the lost strength. Master awoke your wizard powers of electricity. The powers took a toll on your body. You will weak and out of your comfort zone. The waves of strange sensation are cursing through your body making you want to jump out of your own skin, am I right?" I asked him observing his body reaction and behaviour.

His irises were wide and his skin pale, the sweat was dripping and the tips of his fingers were sparkling in the darkness of the room showing that his powers were on the surface.

"How do you know all that?" He asked me with a shaky voice, clearly surprised that I read him so well.

"I was once at your place, gaining my powers and not knowing what do to or how to control them, but don´t worry, I will teach you everything." I spoke to him slowly, as if I was talking to a wounded animal.

"Is that true? What that horrible man say? Am I really hybrid? My parents are not my real parents?" Lucas asked and I could see the tears gathering in his pale eyes.

"Yes, everything is true." I confirmed, seeing the tears running down his face freely.

He sniffed before drying the tears with the back of his hand. He lifted his head and looked me directly into the eyes, trying to find the lies in them but there was none. I was always honest and lying was just a waste of time. Truth would eventually always come out.

" That would mean that I am not part of the Wolf Moon pack," he mumbled for himself, but I heard him.

" Is that the name of your pack?" I asked him, knowing perfectly well that it was, but maybe I could extract a few useful information from him.

"Yes," he said sniffing again as he hugged his legs even more.

He was crying some more and I let him get it all out. I waited for him to calm down before I walked closer sitting on the chair next to his bed and offering the tray of food again.

"I haven´t put anything dangerous there, I swear to my life. And if a magician swore to his or her life, it is sacred." I explained with my hand over my heart, making him blink at me a couple times before he sniffed the soup smelling something that should be there but finding nothing, as he took the spoon and ate a little bit.

Strangely, a warm feeling spread inside my chest from watching him. I waited for him to eat a few spoons, seeing that the potion was working and he seemed to be more at ease and less tense. His shoulders dropped and he leant on the headboard,

"The Alpha of your pack, what is his name?" I asked him, intrigued.

"Alpha Sawyer," he told me, hiccuping.

"And Beta is a tall man with caramel skin and green eyes?" I continued to ask, remembering the wolf I saw snooping around at the rogues' territory.

I sensed his power miles away. He might use an invisible or scent-covering potion, but nothing would disguise the smell of power.

"Beta Jonah," Lucas confirmed.

I was getting closer to my final destination. Just a few questions away and hopefully I would know who the unknown beauty was.

"Are all high-ranked men?" I asked, casually seeing Lucas shook his head.

The soup was almost completely gone as he seemed to be calm and relaxed sitting casually and his eyes were more vivid and a little bit of life returned to them.

"No, there is Gamma Maeve," Lucas said, making my heart skip a beat when I finally heard the name of the purple-haired she-wolf.

Maeve.

It sounded so angelic.

Maeve.

My heart was beating faster and my body seemed to be dragged in the direction where she was. As if I was one magnet and she was the other different pole. I needed to see her again. Now that I knew her name, position and where to find her.

I also had something they wanted back. Lucas. I could not only save and return him back to his family, prevent the master from sucking all his powers out and killing him, but I could meet the beautiful stranger that seemed to capture my attention.

The plan for escape was formed, now I just needed to wait for the right time to execute it.