Chapter 2 The Wicked Ruana

Olivia was kept in a small room that looked more like a cell for two days. During those times, she was fed on bread, water, and vegetables but was not allowed to move freely. It was not until the evening did he came to see her again.

"Get up human!" One of the two wolves sent to fetch her commanded.

When Olivia got up from where she was lying, they had her chains unlocked and led her out, only to meet face-to-face with the Alpha. She trembled in great fear when she saw the Alpha.

Alpha Ramon, upon approaching her, gave her a thunderous slap. That alone sent her head bending slightly like a slave being maltreated by her master. "So you are the scum, Catherina has always told me about? You will surely be fit for our moon goddess,'' he lifted her head and slapped her for the second time. "Tell me, Olivia, how does it feel to be betrayed? Tell me, how does it feel to be lied to and to be used for a long time without having any idea about the reason? Only when you answer these questions then, you find out why your friends had abandoned you and fled upon our arrival. You don't have to be surprised about that. You see, your friends knew you were completely worthless and that's why they conspired with your stepmother to hand you over to us. From the very day, I set my eyes on you, I knew you would be the one to usher in a new era of greatness once I offered you as a sacrifice to our moon goddess. Your death will make me more powerful than I am now. Maybe, I can live for a thousand years and still maintain dominance in the Lycan world.'' The Alpha's harsh words were immediately followed by strange events.

Olivia saw two glowing yellowish eyes lurking around her and Alpha Ramon from the dark. One can only imagine what will happen next.

"Show your face or I will have to find you myself!'' Commanded the Alpha, while the other wolf-warriors with him had since been on alert. As they all looked on, a feminine figure appeared from the dark.

"How are you doing my love?'' Asked a feminine voice at the same time, getting closer to the Alpha.

Olivia noticed the gentility in her voice and concluded the visitor must be someone familiar with the Alpha Wolf. She was correct. Beta Ruana is Alpha's Ramon's destined mate. All the other female wolves had stayed clear of their path. While Ruana is his destined wolf mate, she has not been officially recognized by the Wolf clan until the great power from the moon goddess is bestowed on him. That power can only come when Olivia is offered as a sacrifice.

"What brings you here, Ruana, at this time of the night to the Alpha's abode?" queried Ramon.

"To see how you are getting ready for the great day, my love. I can't wait for us to finally be together.'' Something suddenly caught Ruana's attention. It's the human sacrifice she has longed to see if her dream of being with Alpha Ramon should come true. She moved closer to Olivia, walking past Ramon. "Oh look at who we have here,'' she dragged her by the hair briefly. Olivia screamed in pain. "You are the one I have been looking forward to meeting. Finally, we met. The spilling of your blood to our moon goddess will not only make me the queen of the wolves but one of the dreaded betas. A new dawn will begin. Your fellow humans will be made to feel the wrath of the wolves. Your lands will be conquered. Your loved ones, if you still have any, will be slain. Women and children, the old and the young, the weak and the strong; all will be killed or subjected to our rule. There will be no opposition to our conquest of humans. Anyone who rises against us will be decimated. No more shall we exist in fairy tales and legends. We will come out of the shadows this time.''

Olivia said nothing but kept staring in absolute fear. She tried to ignore Ruana by bending and looking downwards, but that was quickly stopped by Ruana's loud slap. "Don't you have anything to say, you poor little thing?'' she kicked her in the abdomen while Ramon and the other Alphas just looked on. Conquering humans is not on his agenda. Ramon prefers the Wolf clan to continue to remain in seclusion or hidden from the real human world. Contrary to his objective, Ruana, his destined wolf-mate, prefers a more brutal wolf conquest of humans. She simply wants to continue the legacy of her late wolf father who was killed during the great battle of the werewolves and vampires in Gaia woods. Before his death, Ruana's father was a leading Alpha in the Wolf clan who advocated for human conquest after decimating the vampire clan, despite the relative peace that had existed between the wolves and humans. Now her daughter wishes to continue with her father's legacy.

"That's enough, my love. You don't want to keep her in an unhealthy condition, do you? We have to leave her in the best possible shape so that the moon goddess will be appeased by the quality of our sacrifice,'' Ramon intervened.

"You are right but why did you bring her out here?" Queried Ruana. "She should be kept in the prison where she belonged.''

"Why are you doing this?'' For the first time, Olivia spoke. Her words attracted the attention of the wolves.

"Doing what, human?'' Ruana held her by the neck. "Doing what, human? Answer me!''

"You are tightening your grip on my neck. You are choking me. I can't breathe!'' Olivia cried. "Why this wickedness? I have done nothing to the wolves to deserve this."

"I see,'' she lessened her grip on Olivia's neck. "You have done nothing to deserve this but, you are paying the debt owed by your stepmother ever since you were a kid. I'm sure my loving Alpha must have told you about that?''

Tears flooded Olivia's eyes as she remembered the horrible way she was going to die in the short time to come. She couldn't believe that all the time she spent in Catherina's house was all for a purpose. 'How wicked Catharina must have been,' she thought.

"Take her back to the place she belonged to,'' the Alpha approaches her lunar to-be, and held her by the hands. "We have to let her be now. She should be taken inside,'' he suggested, having been moved by a slight pity for his prisoner.

"That sounds to me like you are beginning to feel for the human girl. Correct me if I am wrong." Ruana suspected.