Melisande Argent
I wake up groggily and find the worried face of my twin staring me in the face. I shriek and jump back causing Persephone to run in with wide fearful eyes. They have all been acting strange lately watching me more, being extremely nice, and whispering in fearful voices when I leave the area. Not to mention Alcmene running away for the night with her mates and something tells me it isn't just for some fun alone time. Finally, I snap.
"What is wrong with you guys around me lately? You're acting like I'm about to die!" I yell at them and the all flinch before softening and getting closer.
"We'll explain everything once your sister get back, okay?" Persephone tells me softly.
I am fuming smoke practically coming out of my ears, but I understand and let it go and stalk off outside and I climb to the top of the mesa.
I sit down and stare off into the desert just thinking. I try and remember my parents, but I can barely recall my mom. I don't even know my father, so my memory is mostly of me Azazel and Mé.
I look down at my lap, apparently, I'm the only one in this here that is human. Azazel has powers, Matt and Qamar are dragons, Persephone is a witch, Elijah is a werewolf, and Alcmene is…a lot. And I'm just a weak, boring, human.
I sit up there until I see the sun sink beneath the clouds and a silhouette of a dragon coming this way. I slowly make my way down to the cave entrance and walk in and sit in a corner waiting for the others. One by one everyone comes in and Alcmene and her mates join us last. The fire is started, and I look promptingly at my older sister.
"Uhm, so, ah…" She starts looking at me worriedly.
"Just say it." I snap at her.
She inhales, calming herself and what she said is not at all what I had expected.
"You have the poison. Guillotine-V."
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"What!" I exclaim breathless.
I look to everyone's faces and see the truth then to my twin.
"You KNEW!" I yell at my brother and he flinches and looks away guiltily at the betrayal in my voice and I'm sure is all over my face. I feel tears start to slide down my cheeks and Me tries to comfort me, but I glare at her and run away and I can tell her mates are probably trying to hold her back as I run through the desert. I eventually fall and break down behind an outcropping of rocks. I cry and cry more hurt about them not telling me than I am scared about my future though I am terrified.
Eventually I hear footsteps nearby and see Qamar sitting there, just watching.
"Why?" I question both why is he here and why did they keep it from me.
"Your sister is tearing herself apart trying to keep you safe apparently, she can save you somehow. Your twin didn't want this he was hoping that she would find a cure before you noticed-we all were. She has theories but most include the full moon but that will take time and we don't know how long you have. As for me she needs some time with her other mate, and I am most reasonable in this situation."
He sits with me a while longer just sitting and we do that until I start dozing off at sunrise.
I later wake up at around midday by myself in the cave and I could see everyone except Alcmene and Qamar-probably out hunting.
I think about what he said last night and to be honest he is right, and it is making me feel a little guilty. She has always taken care of us no matter how hard we probably made it and now unable to help is probably eating her up me being a bit dramatic probably isn't helping.
Then I fall back asleep.
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Alcmene Argent
I ride on the back of Qamar looking up at the sky feeling full of my kill, but it also feels like an empty pit of fear and guilt about my sister.
I know I can heal her, but I can't remember how. I feel like my body is trying to tell me, but I am too stressed to let it in and listen. I eventually fall asleep from the warmth of my mate and the sun.
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Then I hear a sound like all my bones breaking then reforming and I become shorter, and my senses become twice as strong. I see red and turn around to kill everyone that dare touch my pack.
Pack?
Whatever not important right now time to sink my teeth into Elijah then Doc and then John all slow painful deaths then I see Elijah staring at me like weird, so I look down at my hands and what hands, in their place snow white paws.
Then I feel my tail moving. MY TAIL!! Then I see my reflection in the weirdly pristine table and look at myself. I am mostly wolf, but I have leathery wings that look like those of a bat and fire swirling and sparking around my tail flaring out from my fur, and my fangs are extra-long down past my lips and have venom. Don't ask me how I know because I don't know the answer to that question.
Then I hear a new voice in my head
'Hello, I am your wolf, but you are also vampyre, avian, and dragon shifter and we are all part of you. They just are not as strong yet. I was awakened because of your protectiveness they, the dragon and avian, will be awakened to some other emotion. We are special not only hybrids, but a moon wolf.'
Moon Wolf?
'Yes. Moon wolf. Uses the moon for power and manipulates the moons power and the only white or silver wolf. We are the antidote to Guillotine-V at night except during new moons.'
Well, hello then my wolf. Now let's go kill some people that touched my pack.
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I wake up and stare at the night sky having slept the rest of the day and Qamar was taking me back. Then I gasped and sat up and my heart started pounding faster. I turned around and grabbed my dragon mate's spikes and climbed up his back and when I got to his head-why the hell was he so long it took me forever-I whispered in his ear "I remembered the cure process, it's the moon and my wolf."
He lets out a happy rumble and my excitement grows…until I see the moon-the tiniest crescent is visible meaning the new moon is coming and I have to wait for it to end to at least the first quarter.
God-fucking-dammit!
Of course, it couldn't be easy and with the unpredictable personality of the poison she could die tomorrow or in twenty years! She might not live until then-over a week-and we won't know!
I let out a loud angry snarl and jump off of my mate and shift into a dragon but then I fly down to the ground and shift into my wolf and take off running. I eventually run back to the cave and Qamar comes in a minute later as though he was following me-and he probably was.
I take a deep breath, "I remembered the cure."
Everyone looks excited and hopeful and they start cheering and high fiving but then they notice my aura on edge and angry,
"What is it, that's goo isn't it." Elijah dares to ask.
"My wolf is the cure but only from the first quarter to last quarter moons, tomorrow is the new moon." I state my voice becoming a whisper by the end of the sentence.
The next eight days are stressed, us all worried when-if-Melisande will succumb to the poison. We hardly do anything or say anything we just survive, eat, drink, sleep, repeat. We have been babying Mel and I can tell she is annoyed but also terrified.
Finally, tomorrow is the first quarter moon. I can tell we all are relieved she has made it this far. We are not quite out of the woods, but the chances are less than they were a week ago. I start preparing so nothing, absolutely nothing can or will go wrong.
I find that throughout the week and especially now my mates have been practically attached to me by the hip and I can understand their need to see me happy again as well as my kin. My wolf has been sleeping all week not lifting a metaphorical ear even to anything just resting and gathering strength for tonight.
The meal we eat is larger than normal as it would be for a celebration, but we eat in silence. Then we all head outside and into the dark. They sit in a circle the guys in the shifted form with Persephone in her-power?
I honestly don't know what to call it, but I can feel her power more than normal her eyes are glowing like green flames and her hair has changed-and Jackson is just there, and everyone is touching sharing power.
I can see all the power surrounding us and shift into my wolf I let the moon's power sink into my fur and bring all my power to the surface and when Eli touches his nose to me their power joins with mine. I feel it all and it is intoxicating.
The power fill my veins and it distracts me the euphoric feeling of all this power, stronger than any drug.
Then I see the skin around Mel's neck rippling like it is alive and wants off of her body which reminds me of why we are doing this. My heart continues to beat fast and all I can think of is, faster.
I start to direct the power to force it to heal her and I can see it going inside her and the rippling-though still moving-has significantly slowed almost as if it was alive and falling asleep.
As I direct the power, I can see her head moving to an odd angle as the power is only slowing. I begin to worry that it is not enough, and we were to slow, and I start to anger at myself for taking forever. I feel a tear roll down my muzzle slowly and all I can hear is my pounding heart.
When I see her skin tear a surge of anger overwhelms me and turns it into power. I direct it more towards her and the others power around me also seem to amplify.
Then as the power goes into her, I collapse and go weak from using all my power but before the pain hits of losing my sister I see a bright light so blinding it looks like day all around us and I realize, that's my Mel.
I see her fly up brighter than the sun with beautiful white wings with golden specks and streak as she flies up fully healed.
It worked and my sisters a real angel!
Then I see her holding a limp body with Azazel next to her. I look around and notice only one of us is missing, Jackson. Azazel also has wings though his shine differently, but I can't tell how, just different, and instead of golden on his white wings he has bronze. They fly up together and pull a light out of the persons chest and the light floats up before the body turned to ash and disappeared. Azazel hugs her tightly then when they part, they fly around happily.
Us still on the ground weaker from magic loss stare in shock then to wonder and excitement not only did we save her and figure out the cure, we awoke Melisande's angel.
We stare and grin, then the dragons take off and Persephone flies too-she just floats up not really sure when she learned that-and I shift into a phoenix and fly up to them.
I let out a happy trill and they giggle, and we fly around for a few minutes but then the earth starts to shake.
We all go still and look around then we see a disturbing slit and dark spot that can't be lit by the angels and looks almost like a rip in the sky.
The rip spread bigger and bigger and we see the same thing above below and to the other sides, we're completely surrounded.
Then something comes through the rips many metallic blobs that look like…
Spaceships?!
Then a man on top of the machines looks like a normal male except for, you know, the large horns, wings, and green skin!
"We come in peace, humans, dragons, witch, and kin of my kin."
I snort at the cliché line from old sci-fi movies of before and then burst into hysterical laughter at the situation. Then I process the information my sibling are actually my half-siblings with an alien father.
While still processing this information, we are all sucked into the rift like dust through a vacuum and into a spaceship.
Then everything is blurry as my vision turns to black from the aerosols of a foreign gas in the air.
I try to look around and find everyone, but I just get dizzy and I finally succumb to the drugs and fade into black nothingness with only one word on my mind. Almost chuckling in my mind.
Aliens. I'm related to aliens.
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