Desserted goodness

"When will I have a child of my own Selene?"

"I have waited for too long. I have been good and have never done anything to offend anyone."

"Didn't they say that once you treat other children with care and love, you would get yours?"

"I have done that and Selene believe me, this is not from a pretentious heart. My heart is as pure as the fur of your wolf Selene."

"Oh! Yeah. I have a child." The voice continued as if being reminded of an earlier wrong statement made.

"I have a child Selene but I want a female child. I female pup to call my own, a female pup I can relate with and have the fun of mothering one." It continued.

"Selene, you know if I was allowed to come out here during the full moon, I would do so to enable you hear me. I know you understand my predicament and the tight leash I am being put on for my security." It continued as if being asked a question or accused.

"Selene..." The never-ending monologue continued to the moon goddess.

Selene, the moon goddess worshiped by the werewolves would have probably had her ears filled and words pouring out of it due to the constant plea and long monologues from Diana.

"I have tried my best Selene and I know you can hear me."

"If I have to constantly visit you to get what I need, I will. I do not care for time or age." Diana continued then smiled slowly, a smile bagged with pains and want.

"This is the part I go quiet to hear from you. Answer me, Selene. They may say I have gone crazy back at the pack but they do not know my heart desires like you do." She said and proceeded to be quiet.

Under the gloomy weather in the silent and desolate forest, a medium sized black wolf is seen on the hills staring into the endless horizon, her black fur glistens against the cool of the evening and she gives a low howl packed with pain once in every 10-20 minutes. Judging from her hunched spine and down casted facial expression, one could guess she had been out here for a long period of time.

She gave her howl again and this time, it lasted for a long time, probably the loudest howl she had given since her consistent visitation to the borders. She continues to stare towards the evening sky without a moon, lost in thoughts of prayer to the moon goddess.

Over the years, it became a habit nobody could take away from her. She stayed this way till her ears twitched, it picked up a little sound from the almost lifeless valley below.

"What was that?"

Diana, a selfless lady and classic beauty, average heighted with extra black wavy hair and dark colored eyes is known to be the respected wife of Beta Draco and is blessed with the gift of heightened hearing. She struggled to have a child and when she finally did, she could only bear her son, Thompson. She earnestly wished for a daughter, hers or adopted.

It is known among the members that she is obsessed with the thought of having a female pup and if eventually care is not taken, she might eventually lose her sanity. Draco, her mate and the Beta of the Kingdom had tried his best to be her emotional support, shutting his ears from every rumor, gossips and advice about his mate.

Though obsessed with having a female child, Diana could as well be given a crown for being the nicest motherly figure in the Nightshade Pack. Facts has it that few gossips had been going on that she should have been given the position of the Luna instead of Luna Mae who is the stack contrast of Diana.

Paying extra attention to the almost silent forest, the light and restless footsteps which was almost non-existent continued inconsistently. Becoming alerted and extra cautious, Diana lowered herself into the bush as tall as her wolf to blend in and not be seen, she got more observant, her sense of smell, sight and hearing having deeper concentration but the almost silent noise faded into complete silence.

After some minutes of silence, the curious and restless Diana was ready to plunge her wolf into the valley not minding the possible danger. Jumping headlong into the valley in search of a threat she only got stilled by a sound of a soft longing howl.

'It can't be.' She thought in her mind with her heart drumming after the initial hesitation.

Not wanting to get excited, she waited again, her patience stretching out endlessly. What if it was ploy to drag her out to get killed? What if it was just her imagination from being out here for a long period of time? But what if it was real?

When the sound came again and again, she still could not get out of her shocked state. And this time around, it wasn't because of fear or suspicion but overexcitement. A part of her wanted to be sure her thoughts were not over exaggerated, she needed to make sure it wasn't a prank or an illusion before fully drowning in the ocean of overexcitement.

The howl became stronger and called for an immediate attention. Not knowing how to control her body in this state after being composed for too long, Diana plunged in with reckless abandon and did not need to search for long as she came to face a wolf. It was smallish, she concluded it's a pup after a little examination with her eyes. She noticed it was a hungered and frightened grey wolf who backed away at the sight of her gigantic black wolf but still kept an eye on her.

Looking at the face of the pup, Diana felt a sweet tingling sensation in her heart. The longing in the face and voice of the pup made her impatient to swing into the full job of being a parent. The joy of being called 'mama'.

Diana's excitement dwindled a bit after looking at the pup for a while, there was a problem, and an obvious problem she could have noticed earlier but got blinded by her overexcitement.

Could she still accept the child?

"Is this a joke by the moon goddess?"

In Nightshade's pack, there wasn't any wolf with a different fur color from black and all werewolves only meet their wolves after the awakening ceremony. Then how is it possible that this pup has a wolf but has a lesser age than those who newly got their wolf in her Pack? Being a mother herself and having dealt with pups, she could guess the age of the withdrawn pup before her.

"Should I take her home?"

"Would she have an easy life after an explanation is given to the members of the pack?"

"Draco shouldn't be really bothered about her right?"

"But I really need a female child."

After contemplating on whether to take the strange wolf home or not looking at the curious yet frightened pup, Diana decides that the moon goddess who blessed her with a female wolf not minding the strangeness of it must have had a reason for doing so.

With that in mind, one paw after the other with an extra carefulness, Diana readies herself to take the wolf only to get rejected. As Diana's wolf advanced by a step, the pup took two steps backwards kept withdrawing.

Diana only noticed the pup was extremely frightened and felt intimidated when she got into her defense mood. Seeing her arch her back, raise the fur alone her spine and bare her teeth at her, Diana paused to avoid further distrust and fear. Seeing Diana did not proceed to walk towards her, the pup kept that position for a bit before finally taking to her heels.

"Oh Dear!" Diana exclaimed before finally reverting into her human form.

It just occurred to her that the little fur baby might have been overwhelmed by the hugeness of her stature against the smallness of hers.

Not having her clothes nearby to shield her naked human body, Diana quickly resorted to making use of her the large strong leaf she could find nearby. With the act she learnt as a little girl, her hands quickly worked into connecting the leaves with its ropelike vine to make herself a dress before proceeding to call out and look the pup.

After few minutes of looking around and not seeing her, Diana decided to call out and talk persuasively.

"Hello?" She called out and was responded by silence.

'Alright, let's take it slow.' She told herself, mentally preparing herself before continuing.

'An introduction should be wise right? That should have been the first thing I should have thought about?' She mentally scolded herself acting like a nervous father who just got to see his kid for the first time.

"My name is Diana and I am here to help you." She continued while standing at a place and making sure not to let her foot move an inch from where it was.

'It just seems crazy I have to converse with a pup this way? Can she completely understand me?' Diana doubted. Not that she could really figure out the actual age of the pup.

"Alright, let's do it this way. I'd sing for you. Okay?" Diana offered and not expecting a reply started singing, slowly and not to loud.

As if her voice had a calming effect, the grey furred pup popped her head out of one of the rocks there as if admiring Diana before advancing slowly in a torturous way that Diana's never-ending patience almost wore out.

Seeing the advancing pup, Diana could already see herself stroking the fur of the pup, feeding her, putting her to bed, telling her bedtime stories, having an intimate discussion with her as a grown up and others that kept repeatedly popping up as if set in a loop.

"Over here." She knelt stretching her right hand towards to pup, beckoning her to come while her left hand continuously tapped her lap.

"It's finally over." She muttered in relief and as if mediating over and again towards the advancing pup. One might think the words were that of assurance to the pop but the words were mostly meant for herself. An end to her 'obsession'.

With the pup now resting on her lap, Diana's delicate fingers went on a stroking journey to the grey fur with maximum affection while giving it time to relax and get used to her.

It took an hour but she didn't mind. With eyes slowly closing in sleep, the pup finally succumbed and after giving it sometime to go deep into its sleep, she carefully placed her on the less rocky ground. Noiselessly transforming to her wolf, Diana went in to pick the sleeping pup with her mouth but her eyes caught something she didn't see until that moment. It seemed like it just magically appeared from nowhere.

Eyeing the sleeping pup, she quietly scooted over to the homely decorated basket with plain and strange look flowers.

'Akira', was boldly and badly written on a plain white placard. Smiling in understanding, she looked back at the pup and mouthed the name, it sounded nice and simple.

Just when she was about to drop the placard, her eyes caught something else. The weird flowers weaved into strings of words seeking to be seen by peeking from beneath the basket. Now she needed to transform back to her human state.

Picking the basket and staring at the words, it read. 'Be kind to her.' And just as she was about to ponder on how this was made, a white rose flower with a calming scent appeared right under her nose.

Werewolves naturally feel threatened when they come in contact with sudden magic but Diana only felt at peace and in awe of the experience.

'It won't be easy, keep her safe.' The still wind of the cool weather whispered into her ears and she swore it was Selene, the moon goddess.

"I will." was her response to whatever entity whisper into her ear few minutes ago just in case it wasn't Selene.

Heart bursting with joy and sweet pleasure, body thrumming from excitement and mouth widened in an almost internal smile, she swirled towards the direction of the pup after picking the sweet scenting white rose flower in her hands only to find her missing from its spot.

"AKIRA!"

Her heart gave the saddest thump she had ever experienced, it painfully dropped to the pit of her stomach at a very fast rate with a very loud noise. Her eyes twitched then widened at that instant, it kept happening simultaneously and the hands holding the flower shook a little before starting to vibrate.

Had it been an illusion?

Was she really getting crazy?

What just happened?

Her brain could not process anything at all. She should have looked around before letting herself be thrown into the shallow and rocky pit of shock and sudden sadness but no, her brain chose that moment to be unwise and she let it.

"Akira?" Came out as a strangled whisper instead of the searching loud voice as before. The veins around her neck threatened to protrude, her eyes reddened with immediate effect and her head started hurting. She could feel the earth beneath her feet starting to reel and she tried to have a complete balance on the ground.

'Hee...yo?'

The softest voice she had ever heard penetrated her soul and left her craving for more. Hearing the voice made her feel like she had been doused in a huge gourd of extremely cold water. Its effect was instantaneous, the trembling stopped and the pain in her head ceased.

Swiftly turning towards the direction of the voice, it was a miracle she did not get her head twisted, Diana lost her self-control. There stood close to one of the huge rocks an adorable naked little girl with porcelain skin, freckles on her cheek and nose, dark-brown massive wavy hair that seemed too much for her little head, hazel sparkling eyes and extra smallish in nature.

"Hello?" Diana responded with the widest smile she could conjure, she eyes getting crinkled. One would think her lips were about to get torn as she threw her previous worry out of her mind.

The slight titling of Akira's head to the right with her doe liked eyes on Diana as if studying the strange woman before her sent the older woman cooing and wanting to dig her hands into the abundance of hair on the little girl's head.

Staying that way for six seconds, Akira huffed as if tired and in confusion before bringing her naked butt down really hard on the rough rock that it made the older woman flinch with her eyes widening in concern. After the initial flinch, Diana took two steps towards the little adorable girl but stopped after still sensing a bit of fear.

She noticed her feet recoil, her hands tightly holding onto the rock as if hanging on for her dead life and her eyes slightly widening.

"What's the problem Honey?" Diana asked but the lad only stared at her. After trying to ask this way and that without receiving an answer, it left Diana confused.

After thinking for a while, it occurred to Diana that maybe the lad could not really speak or make a complete speech so she resorted to gestures and when Akira seem to show a little interest, Diana got excited again and tried putting much effort into the gestures. But after few minutes, even that little interest faded but when all hopes were about to be lost in an endless oblivion never to be found again, the little girl opened her mouth.

Seeing that she was about to talk, Diana unconsciously held her breath while she consciously held herself from wriggling in excitement. She was not ready to throw all caution in the wind and risk having to start from the scratch.

"Ma..." She drawled staring into nothingness.

"Ma...ma...?" She repeated again, but this time completing her words.

At the back of her mind, Diana knew this title was not for her but she still let herself hope. After the completion of her words, the lad's eyes suddenly started watering and this act alone sent the mature and well respected Diana into a state of frenzy.

Few minutes before her brain was about to explode from over thoughts, she could only conclude over and again that the lad had not completely mastered the act of speaking and is in a state of confusion about the change of environment and coming in contact with a stranger.

Diana tried singing to no avail, tried swinging from on point to the other still without any effect. Not knowing what else to do to calm Akira down as she went on a spellbound chanting of 'mama', Diana resort to just mopping helplessly at her.

While doing that, a song from her childhood popped into her head and going down in a sitting position, Diana starts singing failing to capture Akira's attention at the first four try but fully did after the sixth try.

Deep down, Diana really wished she was being addressed as 'mama' by such an adorable girl but kept on singing either ways. She could not afford to get into an uncomfortable position neither could she afford to be stay out of her territory for a long time. She needed to win Akira over and leave before a rogue wolf gets a whiff of her and the innocent looking pup.

Her breath almost got hitched in her throat when Akira stood up to take her first unsteady step. Diana was amaze, it was her first time seeing Akira walk as a human. Her steps were a little funny for a girl her size, one leg after the other she proceeded in a not too fast walk with shaky body. Diana wasn't sure she had felt this anxious before now looking at the girl.

With the little rocks scattered around them, Diana's brain kept imagining the girl tripping over and falling face flat on the floor. Shou would wince after successfully watching her fall in her brain but kept her focus on her in preparation to dash forward if such thing should try happening.

The patience Diana had had today could not be compared to the one she had to practice while waiting for her female pup to be given to her by the moon goddess.

The female child starved woman kept her gaze on the girl without blinking, aside the fear of the little girl falling face flat on the floor, she also did that for the fear that she might end up magically disappearing from her sight the same way she came while Akira kept her focus strictly on reaching where she wanted to be at.

Seeing Akira finally standing in front of her with her cute little hands stretched forward as if wanting to grab something, Diana got ready to hugged but...