The Love of a Lycan

The golden-furred Lycan glared at the witch in front of her with her bloodshot red eyes. Around her, some of the lycan warriors were lying on the ground, whimpering in pain because of the magic.

The witch's magic affected them greatly, but its effect on her was less because she was an Alpha female. Her blood protected her from magic.

Nonetheless, it still affected her in some ways.

Diana could feel the consciousness of her beast starting to slip away as she breathed out. She shook her head to regain focus.

The only thing in her mind right now was her son, Torak. Would he be alright with that girl? Was it a right decision to leave his son with her?

She had to find her son before something bad happened!

With new determination, the beast's eyes turned sharper as she pounced onto the witch and raised her sharp claws.

Ignoring the spell that the witch chanted, which turned the air around her like thousands of needles, she managed to claw his arms before he could dodge her.

Without waiting for another moment and before he could recover from the first attack, the beast leapt at him and opened her mouth widely, showing her razor teeth, ready to bite his head off.

However, before she could do that, everything suddenly went dark. When just a moment ago, the sun had been shining, now the darkness before her eyes was very thick.

At first, Diana thought that she blacked out because of the long battle, but she could still smell the blood around her and feel the ground beneath her paws.

What is it?! What happened?

Diana tried to mind link Janus, but she couldn't reach him still. She had been unable to communicate with Janus from the time he left the main hall. Apparently, this quietness not only affected the sound, but also their way of communicating with each other.

That was why everything was out of control and disorganized, since everyone did not know where to go. This whole situation frustrated them greatly.

The beast roared and snarled to get back her sight, but nothing worked.

As she was about to pounce randomly, she suddenly felt something engulfing her and lifting her body from the ground.

The beast struggled to be free from whatever magic it was, but her strength had been weakened immensely.

She felt her body losing all of her power, as her claws retracted and turned into fingers and the golden fur around her body receded.

As she was transforming back into her human form, her body slowly descended to the ground, but she was too tired to even lift a finger.

Diana blinked her eyes and light returned.

The first thing that she noticed was Raine, who was holding her baby. She wanted to say something to her but she could not speak.

Slowly, Raine squatted down in front of her and put the baby in her embrace before she retreated.

Diana glanced at her son and felt her body slightly relax when she saw her son's sleeping face.

Not only that, Diana could feel that the link was now restored as she could hear her mate's voice in her mind.

[Diana, where are you?!]

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"You really have guts to do that." Aeon glanced at Serefina in resentment.

They were out in the vast land, the place where Serefina managed to catch up with the wizard hunters and where Fabian had tried to strangle her.

She had marked this place so she could teleport them here after she had made Fabian throw up whatever crazy things that those wizard hunter fed him. But she miscalculated one thing.

"Why are you here!?" Serefina yelled at Aeon, her lime green eyes looked at the shadow warrior in disbelief. "I don't remember bringing you along!"

Aeon ignored her and thoughtfully helped Raine to stand up.

Meanwhile, Fabian was still unconscious, lying on the ground, without knowing what was happening or what he had done.

"What happened? What had Serefina done?" Raine was confused, hearing them engage in another squabble. She looked around her. She didn't feel like she had been here before.

"The witch sapped the Luna's strength." Aeon said casually. That was why Diana lost her beast's power and turned back into her human form.

"What?" Raine whipped her head towards Serefina with a questioning look on her face. "Is that possible?"

"Possible." Replied Aeon. "However, a beast's power could only make you strong for a few moments and your power will decrease greatly later." He explained. "Therefore, no one would sap a beast's power if they are in their right mind."

Serefina didn't reply and didn't try to argue, she just walked closer towards Raine.

"Is that true?" Raine looked at Serefina in concern. "Will you be okay?"

However, instead of answering Raine's question, Serefina raised her hand towards Aeon and growled. "Scram!"

She threw Aeon away with a harsh wind from her palm and engulfed Raine and Fabian in a warm bright light.

Gradually, the light became so bright such that it became hard for Raine to open her eyes. "What is this…?" Raine grunted.

In the blinding light, Raine could hear Serefina's voice so close to her ears, as if she was speaking straight through her mind.

"Don't say anything about your meeting with Torak. Knowledge of the past should stay in the past or else it would change the future. Maybe it would change for good, but there's always a possibility that it will be worse than you can imagine." Serefina's voice gradually faded along with the bright light. "Don't play with time. Remember that."

As soon as the light faded and Serefina's voice could be heard no more, Raine opened her eyes and found herself in the dining room, back to Torak's house, their house.

She scanned the room and blinked her eyes rapidly, afraid that her mind was playing tricks on her. But here she was, back to her real time, like nothing had happened.

Serefina was also nowhere to be found.

If it wasn't because of her dress and of the remnants of blood and dirt on her body, she would have thought everything that she had gone through was a dream.

From behind, she could hear Torak's voice calling for her.