QUEEN OF THE GREENSEA(The Gift is a Curse)

Over two hundred years had passed but she could still remember that night, the night that changed everything, her life, her dreams, it took everything.

*** Years Ago ***

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Whispers.

"No, I didn't kill my father, it was a mistake!" A little girl's voice echoed in a dimly lit, cold hospital.

Staring at the people sitting in their various seats who couldn't take their eyes off her, murmuring before her eyes.

Erica was just on her way to get something for her mother when her late father came out from behind and suddenly held her by her neck, he tried to kill 15years old Erica by strangling her, the blue light started forming from her fingertips radiating from Erica's body, her adoptive father became momentarily stunned but terribly shaken. He couldn't even recover his wits before the light threw him hard against the wall while choking him at the same time.

He started bleeding from his head, nose, and ears while breathing his last at the same time, a moment he never prepared for.

He didn't even know what killed him, and up to the moment of his last breath, he still couldn't believe what happened.

The light didn't just make her late father fly far away from her until he met the wall, but made blood rush down his head.

And before Erica could interpret what was going on... The man was already dead, leaving her the suspect.

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"You're a witch, I told him not to let you go into the streets and this is what you go and do?" An angry woman questioned the little girl Erica, bam! she hit her hand on the chair on which Erica was sitting causing the girl to cry even harder. Unable to withstand the woman's echoes.

"I am sorry." The little girl whispered, still crying bitterly while looking at her hands,

"I didn't know what happened, I promise." She begged in her sobs, she continued to cry more, not minding how she looked.

"Get up! You deserve to die, you killed my husband." The woman said pulling her arm and dragging her along with her.

"I am sorry, I didn't mean for any of these to happen, I'm sorry.." The small girl continued begging the woman who seemed to be her mother, but no! The woman refuses to listen.

"Stay here!" The woman threw her to the ground harshly, "I won't leave you today." She concludes before walking out to look for something or someone.

The girl continued crying seeing that there was no way for her out of this, she cried in pain, "It is bad to die this way, but I guess there is no other way for me, I guess today is the end of my journey in life." Erica said to herself looking up into the heavens, as drops of tears fell down her loneliness-filled face.

"Why was I born to even die this early God is too wicked!" She harshly wipe her face as she continued, "first I didn't have my parents, I don't even know them. Maybe they rejected me then why won't the world reject me as well? I had only wished for one thing, just one to see my mother and ask her why she didn't love me!" Banging her forehead on the floor as blood gauge out she wiped in agony.

Bam! Bam!

"Little girl what are you doing? Stop it." A passerby yelled at her but she didn't care more to look up at him.

"I said stop or I'm calling the police." On hearing the sound of police she raised up her face and eyed the man, making him swallow.

"Do call the police. Well, there's no going back from it always... today reminds the end of my life." Her face was fierce as she waved at him making him wonder what might have happened to this girl that kept her the way she was.

"Dear, can I help you? Who is your mother? Where are your parents?" Looking around he saw no one only rising the question in his mind.

"Sir isn't it clear that I have no one?" Crashing on the ground she continued,

"My mother dumped me to die." She looked up at him, she was now a living mess. "I have no one but death."

Erica could feel the sudden intense pain, as though a sharp object was continually stabbed into her heart no matter how much she tried she couldn't ignore the pain, anytime she spoke badly about her mother.

"What's wrong with you my girl?" The man frowned.

"JUST LET ME BE! BAM!" She hit her hand on the ground as the colour of her eyes changed.

"You're a monster! A monster!" Shouting out loud the man ran off.

"That's exactly what I'm." Closing her eyes she lost all hope she had.

"Erica." She heard her name but couldn't find the source of the voice.

"Erica over here!" Erica heard the voice again.

And so Erica stood up from the ground where she was sitting and started looking for the source of the voice.

That was when Erica saw a bright light, it was so bright that it could make a person go blind.

Erica had to blink twice before she could see anything. She was even surprised she could see through such a bright light when she doesn't even see well at times.

Erica came to notice that there was a woman inside the light gesturing for her to come over with her hand. The woman was putting on a very beautiful smile.

Erica stood for a while looking at the woman fighting with her body, her spirit, and her soul whether to go to the woman or not.

After a while of thinking, she decided to go answer the woman.

"After all, even if this woman is here to kill me, it doesn't matter, because I'm destined to die today anyway." Erica thought to herself as she walked forward, "Who are you?" Erica asked staring at the woman without blinking.

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The woman looked at her, with a smile for a while before answering, "I am your guardian, my dear." The woman smiled at her. "Come let's get you out of here first." The shining woman said as she pointed at the wall.

Running in the direction where the woman pointed she loved done until her movement came to a stop.

Turning around to look at the woman she finally understood that the woman was pointing at a well-sealed wall.

"Do not look with your physical eyes but look with your supernatural eyes my dear and you will see the way!" Hearing the woman's voice she immediately did as she was told even though she was confused.

Quickly opening her eyes Erica looked at the wall again but to her surprise, it was no longer a wall for it was now a door.

'How did I do that?' Erica wanted to ask the woman, failing to hide her surprise, but she had no time for that.

"Because you are special my dear, now go. The shining woman suddenly said not forgetting her smile, like she heard Erica's thought, but Erica did not have any time to start thinking before her legs started moving again, she would not let the opportunity of saving her life go.

"Go, my dear, I will always be with you." With that being said, the light and the woman faded away.

Erica looked at the door, opened it, and passed through to wherever it would lead her.

Coming out she was blessed to see what greeted her.

It was such beautiful scenery, a view with she will never forget or want to leave.

It was a big peaceful sea, with natural features.

She hadn't seen anything as beautiful as the sea before.

"Where am I?"

"Why am I here?" Erica asked but that question remains unanswered.

That was where she called home from the day.

She finds the sea beautiful and comforting compared to her formal home, in which there were always problems.

The sea provided food and other things she could not provide for herself.

She became dependent on the sea for every little thing she wanted.

Even before she asked for anything they had already provided for her.

As Erica grew up knowing that she had blood on her head, thankfully she learned about her powers through the shining woman whom she calls ma'am was always there to help her learn how to use them.

One day Erica was sitting at her favourite spot watching the beauty, dazzling at the sea imagining how the sea can be as alluring as it was when she felt this pain she has never felt before in her life.

"Ah!" Erica cried out in pain,

She didn't know whether to call the sea for help, or Lydia, the shining woman or anything else. All she knew was that the pain was becoming too much for her to bear, and she didn't expect it.

"Lyd... Lydia!" Erica cried out loud.

"L.. Lydia!!" Erica called out again, she was going mad, but still didn't get any response from her or any other person.

"Ah!'' Erica continued shouting as her bone started rearranging itself, she wondered what was happening but nothing was coming into her mind.

Erica could hear the sound of her bones rearranging, she could not explain what was happening. Completely frustrated that she was now biting into her lips, her brows were together, this pain had a nerving effect on her.

"Please stop, please stop," Erica begged for whatever was happening to her to have mercy on her.

Just as she was about to throw herself into the sea she saw Zigi walking as calmly and gently as ever.

"Zigi, what is happening?" Erica questioned her without wasting any time.

"Just endure the pain, it will be over soon." That was the only thing that Zigi had to say, but Erica was not willing to hear just that.

"No! I can't endure this pain is too much, I can no longer take it," Erica continued crying for help, not minding her age she cried like a baby, who has been badly wounded, fiddling with her green scarf over and over again.

"Green sea, please reduce this pain!" With an overbearing voice, she called out.

Erica felt as though the sea was echoing her name to go into it.

The green sea started flowing with the waves like it was dancing to a rhythm.

Erica thought her name coming out from the sea sounded so nice, and she started smiling.

Erica heard the sound of the waves, and so did she feel the pain go down.

Looking around as the wave stopped, behold she was no longer standing on her two legs but on four legs.

"Ah!" She shouted out and noticed that she didn't make a sound.

She didn't want to think much, so she just went to the sea and saw that she was now an animal, a werewolf!!!

" What happened to my legs?" Looking at her wolf legs In surprise she questioned.

"My hands" She eyed her new hands.

She didn't know what to do but panicked, at the fact that she was scared of herself.

She sat down at the seaside waiting for Lydia to come to take a look at everything that was going wrong.

She waited and waited, it started turning from seconds to minutes, until it became hours, but Lydia had not yet come.

She looked at Zigi, and Zigi did the same.

"You! why are you looking at me that way?" Zigi asked, cut off guard.

Erica knew talking would not help anyone, so she just gave her the 'you must know something' look.

"Ok ok, you didn't ask me, and I wanted Lydia to be here, but since she isn't and you are so impatient," she rolled her eyes at erica.

"Envision yourself going back to your human self, do it," Zigi instructed her as a teacher would do for her students.

"Ok," Erica said before she closed her eyes, and did as she was told.

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And by the time she opened her eyes, Erica could see her hands again, even her legs.

She took a long deep breath, and she turned to look at Zigi.

"Why were you giving me a speech or whatever you call that?" Erica questioned her, raising a brow at her.

Not waiting for the answer, she went back to the seaside to continue viewing the heavenliness of her only hope, the green sea.

Erica would always sit at the front of the sea, with a smile on her face. The surprising thing is that she would always go into the sea and feel the marvellous feeling of being in the water, still breathing.

"Erica!" Erica heard the voice, she always hears the only voice that gives her the feeling of safety.

"Lydia you're here, I've been waiting for you." Erica blurted out both in happiness and anger because she had long been waiting for Lydia.

"You also didn't tell me why I can breathe inside the sea when no one can. Why am I different?" Erica asked in conclusion, frowning her eyebrows, she had concluded to ask Lydia but always forgot... Now she had her chance she decided not to let it slip.

"My dear you will find out later about everything and all you need to know about that, but for now you need to go to the side, back to the human realm there you shall find he that will protect you." Lydia hurriedly said.

"Lydia I don't know the way out of here, so how can I leave? Please leave me here, or are you tired of keeping me?" Erica looked at Lydia for confirmation but got her answer from Lydia's silence.

"Yes! " It wasn't a question, but a statement.

"You're just like your mother." Ma'am shook her head.

"You just need to go back to the human realm just for a little while, your time to know your true identity has not come, go my dear." Lydia pleaded.

"You can call me anytime and I will come to you, but you should never come back to the green sea until I call you back. It's no safer for you to stay." Lydia said to Erica who was now frowning.

"But why? Why can't I come back to the green sea? I know I have some connections with it, and you don't want to let me know what I am. I breathe in the water!!! I still can't explain that! Why?" Gritting her teeth, with her hand clenched, Erica was angry but had tears in her eyes.

"Whenever I ask you why... you don't say anything, why do you still keep me in the dark!" Erica fling back, as her eyes glow green Immediately The sea glows.

"You can call me anytime and I will come to you, but you should never come back to the green sea until I call you back. It's no safer for you to stay." Lydia said to Erica who was now frowning.

"But why? Why can't I come back to the green sea? I know I have some connections with it, and you don't want to let me know what I am. I breathe in the water!!! I still can't explain that! Why?" Gritting her teeth, with her hand clenched, Erica was angry but had tears in her eyes.

"Whenever I ask you why... you don't say anything, why do you still keep me in the dark!" Erica fling back, as her eyes glow green Immediately The sea glow.

"Dear, you know that all I'm doing is all for you, won't you listen to your ma'am this time? I promise to tell you everything you need to know but for now, you need to go."

With a face full of pleading ma'am made her puppy eyes at Erica.

Knowing she has successfully convinced Erica she smiled at her.

Not saying anything Erica turned around and started walking away harshly wiping away the tears from her face, she didn't even let ma'am show her the way out.. 'i find her way out

"Erica!"

Erica stopped on hearing her name,

Can she ask me to stay?

Turning around to face ma'am looking at her with that perfect smile.

"Take care of yourself, my dear," Ma'am said with her ever-cute smile. "I will miss you, ma'am, how I wish you could at least give me a hug right now." She said as tears threaten to fall on her cheek

"Hold back those tears dear because they are important and you will need them later. And about the hug, very soon dear, very soon." Ma'am said as she faded away slowly, just as always.

"Bye." Erica could only say.

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*** IN THE HUMAN REALM ***

GOLDEN MOON PACK

Laying on the bed was a man sleeping like he was tired and had nothing important to do.

Sleeping peacefully even with the loud noise being made he didn't mind, he truly seemed to be already used to it.

"Raymond! Raymond! Raymond!" He heard his name three times.

"Who dear call me by my name?" He roared in anger.

He woke up, his face clearly showing massive disharmony. He had been disrespected and his anger could not be overlooked by anyone.

"You?" He was surprised as to whom his eyes met, the glowing woman in person, who always dared to call him by his name. Apart from a particular person, he was still in shock.

"You are still sleeping," Ma'am asked in a sing-song manner, as she gave him a mocking smile.

"Anyways, get ready and go to your place of work because I'm sending your daughter back to you, and she will be there by noon." She smiled at him, but that smile was filled with bitterness. "You don't want to keep your daughter waiting on her first meeting with her father, do you?" She gave him a piece of shocking news and still had a smile on her face, the man just sat on his bed looking at her in disbelief.

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