"Put your hands behind your heads and walk out now!" The leader of the guard barked at them.
"No, this can't be happening! It is just a dream that I will wake up from. Right Ria?" Ashley asked her friend.
"I am sorry, this is real." Ria confirmed her doubt.
"Zach, what is happening?" Luna asked her husband, fearfully.
"I... I... " Zach couldn't form a proper sentence due to the shock.
"Walk out now, to where you will be beheaded." The leader told them and started shoving them outside.
"Ria, please help us notify your father of what is going on. We need his help." Ashley pleaded to her.
"Of course! Be calm, he is going to convince the Alpha that it is a misunderstanding." Ria assured her and hurried off to her house while the guards led Ashley and her family to the execution ground.
"Here comes the traitor and his family members!" Alpha Blackwood gritted upon the Zach's family arrival.
"Alpha, I have no idea of what is going on. I am very confused right now." Zach went on his knees and told his Alpha.
"Cut the pretense! I caught you red handedly this time and I plan on using you to set an example for every other person in this pack. Traitors can't survive in my pack." Alpha Blackwood maintained sternly.
"But before you die, you should tell me why you did it." He maintained.
"Do what? Alpha, I swear to you, I am clueless." Zach maintained.
"Let me jolt your memory!" Alpha Blackwood signalled to two guards to hold him in place. Then he punched his face repeatedly.
"Can you remember how you conspired with rogues to keep killing my pack members just so you could make me seem incompetent and at the end of it, make me get dethroned by the Alpha king of the lycan kingdom, so you can be in power?" He punched him brutally again. Luna and Ashley wept, pleading with him to stop the torture.
"Alpha, I swear, I... I.. don't understand what you..you are saying!" Zach stuttered as blood covered his face.
"Alpha, please I beg you. We are not guilty of this charge. We don't know anything about what is happening. You know my husband is loyal to your administration, he would never plot treason with rogues. There is nothing he would gain from doing that." Luna pleaded with tears.
"You are still denying it? Guards, grab his daughter and tie her to that torturing pool. I want to see if you won't still confess when you see your daughter bleed!" Alpha Blackwood commanded the guards.
"Alpha, please, please not my daughter! She can't withstand that torture." Luna yelled panickingly and shielded Ashley with her body from the guards.
"Move out of my way, woman!" One of the guards slapped Luna and she fell down.
"My father is not a traitor. He didn't do it." Ashley protested as she was dragged roughly to the pool.
"Moon goddess, please come to our aid. You know what is hidden. Shed light on this for us." Ashley cried to her creator as they tied her. Luna quickly crawled to where Alpha's wife was and held her legs.
"Seraphina, you know we are good friends! I promise you, my family can't betray yours. My husband knows nothing about this whole stuff. Please help me to beg your husband to let us prove our innocence before carrying out his judgement." Luna tried to persuade her friend.
"Get your flirty hands off me, you traitor. We stopped being friends the moment your husband schemed against my husband. Nobody messes with my family ant go scot free!" Seraphina stated sternly and slapped Luna across the face.
"Start cutting any part of Ashley's body until her father confesses!" Alpha Blackwood ordered.
"Alpha, I swear to you, I know nothing about what you just said." Zach sobbed.
"Arghhh!" Ashley yelled in pain as a guard slashed her arm with a sharp cane.
"My child! My... " Luna's heart couldn't withstand what was unfolding.
"Just kill me first instead of making me watch my daughter suffer!" She screamed and stood in front of her daughter.
"Very good! Guard, strike her down this minute!" Alpha Blackwood commanded.
"I love you, Ashley. I love you, Zach! Till we meet where no harm will never come to us again!" Luna stated as she fell to the ground in a pool of her own blood.
"Mom!!! No, you can't die and leave me!" Ashley screamed in pain.
"My wife!! I have failed you. Don't ever forgive me! Moon goddess, are you seriously just going to watch the innocents suffer for what they didn't do?" Zach sobbed harder.
"I don't even need you to confess anymore. It is over! Guards, behead him this instant!" Alpha Blackwood barked the order.
"You can kill me. I don't have anything to live for since my wife has died because of me. But please just spare my daughter. She hasn't fulfilled her destiny in this life." Zach pleaded.
"You are not going to tell me what to do. Guards, behead him first and behead Ashley afterwards. The best thing I can do for him as the last respect is to not let him watch his daughter get killed with his eyes." Alpha Blackwood said and walked away.
"May your souls rot in hell!" Seraphina cursed them and followed her husband.
"I am deeply sorry, my lovely daughter! I am a bad father." Zach accepted defeat and closed his eyes.
"Good night, Beta Zachary!" The beheader let out a shout and cut off Zach's head in one strike.
"No!!! Moon goddess, have you really forsaken my family and I? Why would you allow the enemies to see to our end effortlessly like this?" Ashley cried bitterly.
"I won't even get to celebrate my eighteenth birthday which is just few hours away, on earth?" She thought as the beheader raised his sharpened cutlass up, ready to strike her down.
"Stop!" A compelling voice shouted.