" What is this?" Ella exclaimed, as she lifted it up to get a closer look.
Then she suddenly saw that there were a two more in the place she found the first one.
" Where could he have gotten these things," Curiosity was beginning to consume her thoughts, they just looked so beautiful!
" My little brother wouldn't mind," Ella said, as she put one of the rocks in her pocket, and continued searching for the shoes.
.... Back on the hill
He could feel the moonlight washing over his body like a warm blanket. It filled him with life. "Now, extend your senses," Amon said like a calm river.
" You should begin to feel the energy of the moon. like an overflowing river of power. Ethan, open your mind, you must concentrate,"
I must open myself to it." Ethan murmured, as he began to envision the moonlight as a tangible thread. It wasn't just regular light; it was energy—pure, untainted power. He imagined it flowing into him, filling every single corner of his body with power
"okay, I think I'm ready," he whispered.
"Good. Now, first of all, bring out the moon rocks. Place them around yourself," Ethan then brought out four moon rocks and encircled them around himself, and closed his eyes again.
" Now, Ethan begin to picture a dark space, then suddenly the space began to light up with hundreds, no, thousands of small colourful threads intertwining together, creating a complex but beautiful scenery," Amon said.
As those words slipped into his ears one by one, Ethan began to slowly envision it, it was as if he was teleported into a different world. He had already fallen into a trance, he had reached a critical stage in connecting to a world stream and becoming a werewolf.
Suddenly, the moon rocks he placed around him began to glow and release a wisps of smoke which was being absorbed by Ethan.
Seeing the current event going on, Amon had a shocked exppression on his face.
He had never seen such a thing before, normally only one moon rock should be active, the only reason why he told Ethan to bring the rest along was for moral support, he thought it might help him concentrate harder, since he told Ethan that the moon rocks would help him to connect much better.
Actually, he was more or less expecting that only half of one moon rock would be active, but all four of them were active. And it seems like Ethan was going to absorb all of them, every single damn strand of energy from them all!!
" Ethan, if you can hear me, imagine those threads becoming bigger and bigger until their all the size of small streams,"
Ethan suddenly began to envision the threads becoming bigger and bigger till they reached the size of mini streams.
All of them suddenly began to move individually and flow like free elements of the world, it was a magnificent sight!
Ethan suddenly felt like something was calling to him, it was a strange feeling, but he just couldn't neglect it. And so he began moving towards whatever was calling him.
" Ethan, look for the stream that resonates with you, find it. And begin your trial,"
Amon's voice rang in his ears like a loud but soothing bell.
As he kept on moving, he saw a greyish stream, it didn't look like much but it had an overbearing feeling around it.
That was the werewolf stream, the stream that gave werewolves their strengths, the stream that had existed for a more than millions of years, the one that holds the essence of a werewolf.
Suddenly, Ethan felt it tugging at him, it Drew him closer and closer, and the moment Ethan's hands touched the stream, he suddenly found himself in a forest.
The forest was brightly lit by the full moon that hung in the sky, the trees stood tall like Giants of the night.
" Where am I?" Ethan wondered, he was right next to the world stream a moment ago, so how did he get here.
" Amon, can you hear me?" Ethan said, but there was no reply.
" Looks like I have to figure this out myself, wait! Is this the trial that Amon's been blabbing about?" Ethan questioned.
Then he began walking aimlessly around the forest.
Awooo!
The sound of a howling wolf resonated all aover the forest," What the hell was that?" Ethan suddenly put his guard pu, ready to run for his life the moment he saw whatever made that noise.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
Suddenly the ground began shaking violently, as the sky suddenly became red.
" Wh- wh- what the hell's happening?!" Ethan was now scared out of his wits.
Boom!
Something huge suddenly fell out of the sky.
A wolf! No! A werewolf!
A huge werewolf of about the size of a small hill suddenly fell from the sky and appeared right in front of him.
Seeing the beast that just appeared out of nowhere right in front of him, Ethan had a frightened look on his face.
" Hmm! So a human has come to try and become a night creature. Is this a joke!" The werewolf said with a somewhat enraged exppression.
Not once in his millions of years of testing if a beast is ready to become a full blown werewolf had he ever seen a human try to take the test of a werewolf. Who the hell does this human think he is?!
" What are you doing here human?!"
The wolf's voice immediately snapped Ethan out of his frightened state.
Gulp~
" I...I..I came.. to- to be-bb-"
" You came for what?!" The wolf said, already annoyed by Ethan's stammering.
Ethan then took in a deep breath.
" I came for the test of a werewolf,"
"Hahahahah!!" The werewolf suddenly began laughing hysterically as if he just heard the biggest joke in the world.
" Why are you laughing at him, did it sound like a joke?"
Suddenly a man with red hair and blood-red eyes suddenly came out of the thick trees.
He held a small dagger in his hands that were just as blood red as his eyes.
" Blood sovereign!"