Silver Moon - The deal

In 1996, Mojstrana - Slovenia. Elizabeth was 22 years old, a beautiful, dreamy young woman who worked as a saleswoman in a record store. She was the reserved type and rarely went out with the other girls her age, Elise was her great friend and co-worker.

- Today, I have tickets to the Bon Jovi show. - Says Elise, very excited and with a big smile.

- I prefer to stay at home, I'm tired, and my mother has not let me leave the house lately!

- Please, Elizabeth, you never go out with me and this time it'll be fun. Come on, please! - She insisted heavily until Elizabeth agreed, and the two agreed where to meet that night.

The show was crowded, Elizabeth tried to find her friend in the crowd that crowded in front of the entrance of the place. She walked as much as he could, but did not find it, sighed and gave up to enter that place, since he did not care so much to be there among that amount of people. With the grandeur of that event, the buses could no longer circulate around the site, and Elizabeth had to walk until she found a taxi. Elizabeth As I walked through those streets taken by several parked cars, a different cold or maybe a feeling that something was about to happen to me. Since I was little, I have feelings about things and people that approach my life, as if they were premonitions. To get to the bus stop, I needed to go through a dark alley, which would take me to the main avenue. It was cold, I crossed my arms close to the body looking for a little heat and walked faster, always trying to keep watch. When the light was a few meters away, I heard a sound as if something had been thrown from one of the buildings to the ground, and I turned quickly back. A beautiful young man looked at me voraciously, hairs at the shoulders...was robust and had beautiful eyes in a green tone that I have never seen equal and that mingled with the brightness of that waning moon. I can not explain how or why, my body ceased to be my domain, I was surrendered to his eyes.

- Why do you fear me, my beautiful one? - He did not move, only looked at me as if he could see beyond what the eyes could see. Who knows could see through my clothes, reached out to me and I without thinking of anything else I walked towards him. She gently removed my hair, undressing my neck and smelling my skin that when she felt her freshly made beard, she shivered.

- What do you want from me? - I asked, scared. He looked me in the eyes and from that moment on, I can not say how, I felt myself resting in a huge soft bed and I smelled myrrh incense. Candles, sheets of red blood and our naked bodies, I still remember feeling no shame for being naked next to a stranger.

- Your lips, beautiful, so beautiful! - He drew my lips with her index finger as it rested her body on mine, and we kissed each other with despair and burning. I wanted him more than to breathe, and I know that he and I not only unite in body.

Her fingers running through my white skin and plucking sighs of pleasure, something that had never felt in my whole life. I woke up still feeling the smell of incense and his skin, I ran my hand over the sheet and to my surprise I was at home and in my bed. Strange that dream so real, and I could never turn into words, the fact is that I was naked and in my body I could be the marks left by him. I spoke to Elise the same day, she claimed to have seen me for the last time on the show. So what happened somehow was true, I decided not to tell anyone else that I had been able to sleep with a stranger, would be judged by people and offended by them. I could not hide for a long time that I was no longer a virgin, because I became pregnant with that strange man.

I suffered a lot until my parents accepted that I could raise my son, insisted that I tell them who the father was. I managed to hide the truth from them, I had a great friend named Anthony, and he always had for me a feeling of love. I gave him a chance to take care of me and my son, even if I didn't feel the same love for him. Two years later, I got pregnant with Eugenia. Anthony was happy to have a son who actually had his blood, though he never made a difference between the two and was very loving. We lived on a farm in the countryside, he started to raise horses, and we were at peace, living quiet as always. Until the darkness devoured the world in a matter of days... Reports of attacks on people began to appear first in the big cities, before long humanity was converted into creatures hungry for human blood: called lycanthropes. Only the chosen were transformed, and those judged by them as inferior were devoured without mercy. The leader of those creatures was known only as the great Alpha, he commanded everything they did. We humans were condemned to hide creating a small village, to seal the pact with them, every spring a victim was sacrificed and sent to the castle where he decided whether to serve as food or convert it into another for the pack.

Elizabeth - 2023 We learned to live in darkness, Eugenia was one of our leaders. Strong, beautiful and imposing, always beside Brother Thor making the important decisions and that all this time kept us alive. Everyone knew that the departure of 19:00 was the curfew, no one could leave the house and because that was the moment of the hunt. Thor had broken the pact by engaging with a half-breed, Lilith being Alpha's favorite. She was always around here, hiding in the trees to watch my son get out and mate. As soon as I saw them together, a tear ran out of my eyes and I knew he was doomed to death for committing that heresy. The two were bathing in the lake and to my misfortune, Briana was with me and yelled at everyone.

- We are doomed!

All of us will be devoured like animals because of him! In a matter of seconds everyone in the village was on their way, Lilith ran naked through the forest. The other half-breeds were always watching us, and it was obvious that this would reach the leader's ears, and we would be lost. Eugenia came running and took one of the blankets that was in my basket to be washed and covered the brother who was naked, helping him out of the water.

- Why did you condemn us? You didn't think for a second before breaking the pact? - Anthony asked, totally unconformed.

- Keep your sermon my father, others will not pay for what I did! - And Thor answered him in the same tone.

- Let's go home, please. - Begged Eugenia, looking around and very afraid.

- He can't go back to the village, or we'll all be dead, deliver him to the gates of Sangria before the monsters come to drink his and his family's blood, taking us all too. - He cried out to Bryana before they could take him to the village.

- He is my son and I will not allow anyone to touch him. - Elizabeth stood in front of her son and shouted in his defense, so that everyone would hear her.

Elizabeth

The men showed hostility, they would take him as a sacrifice, and I could not stop. Thor drew his weapon, and we managed to get out of there, we knew they would never accept us again in the village. When we got home, we took only a few belongings and would run away, but it was too late, and the church bells rang... We all knew that when that happened, someone would die.

- It's the lycanthropes, they're coming for Thor! - David shouted outside, leaving everyone vigilant and scared.

- Go away, son, enter the woods and run away without looking back. - Elizabeth opened the back door of the hut.

- No, mother, they will not stop until somehow he pays for what he did. - Eugenia replied, it was certain that they would not leave him alone.

- My sister is right, I will not hide. My father did not raise a coward! - As soon as Thor finished that sentence, we heard a loud howl, that was an announcement of the terrible fate that awaited us as Thor dressed, knowing that he would be confronted.

-Thor is his name, a dead man who still breathes, but not for long! - Alpha screamed outside the house and the villagers walked away in terror.

- He's calling me, and I'll die like a man, stay here mama don't want you to see them and hurt them later. - Thor feared for the women of the family, knew the fame of that monster.

He left the house while Anthony was holding me there, I knew that no matter how much he cried out to Thor not to give himself to him, he could not stop. Eugenia I went out, I let them see me, and nothing else mattered to me. If that monster wanted my family's blood would have to prove mine too, as soon as I came out wearing my blood-red dress that green-eyed man on a black horse, looked at me from head to toe as if he knew me suddenly from somewhere else, space or time. His gaze exercised a magnetism that I had never contemplated before. I thought they were always monsters covered with hair and huge claws, but according to legend they only transfigured at the fall of the full moon. He followed me for every step I took, as if his eyes were stuck to mine.

- Please take him, but spare the lives of all of us innocent people in this village. - Bryana wanted them to take Thor and have their revenge by leaving the remaining residents free, at least until the next spring sacrifice. Beside him, Lilith covered with a black cloak on the horse. With an empty expression of who was not caring what would happen to my brother.

- Condemn my brother to death while the female who betrayed you walks beside him. Not ashamed of your battles? - Eugenia was filled with courage to say what her heart commanded. He smiled and licked his own lips.

- I do not condemn the amusements of Lilith who is just one of my countless concubines, but humans who dare to challenge me as if they were of our level. - Alpha didn't seem to fear anything in this world, he knew he was at the top of the chain.

- Enough of listening to him, if he came to get me, here I am, and I am not afraid. - My brother Thor opened his arms in front of his horse, I hugged him.

- Get away from your husband, or you'll pay with your maiden life! - Said Alpha to see the two hugged and willing to surrender for each other's lives. He went around with the horse, in his hand there was a triple golden dagger that would be used to kill us.

- Do this... I will not abandon my brother, you and your race only know how to bring death and pain to this world. - Eugenia cried.

Eugenia I closed my eyes, Thor did the same, and we prepared to die embraced before all our people. I heard the sound of the blade being stored and the macabre laughter of him and his followers, and opened my eyes.

- Right, female, let's make a trade. - Alpha looked into her eyes and saw no fear inside.

- What kind of exchange? - Eugenia asked.

- We got a deal sealed years ago that we don't mix our blood, and your brother broke the deal by laying with that stupid bitch right next to me. I'll trade your audacious brother's life for yours.

- No way, Eugenia is not to blame for what I did! - Thor clung even more to his sister's body.

- I accept! - Eugenia surrendered to fate in exchange for Thor's life. He reached out to me, Thor wouldn't let me go and let me go with him.

- Swear that you will not come after me, or our whole family will suffer the consequences. - She asked for her brother, knowing that he would not comply.

- No, please! - Thor begged.

All the monsters that accompanied him wielded their daggers, and the blood of the whole village would be shed if I did not go with him. In tears, Thor let me go, and I looked at him, knowing that this could be the last time. I was caught by the waist and captured by that beast, mounted in front of him on his horse and feeling his warm breath shake my black hair. He loosened the reins of the horse, and we quickly left the village, felt as if the ground came out from under my feet, because now he had me prisoner.

I saw all the trees of our woods become dry and morbid at every step the horse took toward that place named after the name of darkness.

We arrived at the castle, everything was black as night, and opened a huge gate. I looked all over that place and asked for strength to resist all the pains that were to come.

- The master brought a prisoner, how much honor gave her by entering our gates still breathing. - Radesh was surprised to see his leader with a prisoner.

- She is especially intrepid and beautiful, guard her and do not let them feed on her until I allow. - Alpha ordered, looking at her face was always a new challenge.

- Yes, my master. - Radesh agreed and left.

That man whose teeth were of gold tied my hands, and I was taken to a dungeon under the castle, everything was very dark and there were prisoners in saddles around me, but the sounds emitted were not human. He pushed me into a cell that fortunately was empty, I looked in all directions seeking an exit... I cowered in a corner where the light still focused, even if very little. The smell was of decaying flesh, since I arrived in that place I saw nothing have color or light.

Alpha

That young woman, though in her innocence she had challenged me before all those lowly mortals, I needed to give her a taste of all my power. I entered my room, Lilith was coming towards me... I took off all my clothes and went to wash myself in my bronze bathtub.

- Please my master, forgive my sexual instincts. I promise I will never sleep with a mortal again! - Lilith cried my forgiveness on her knees.

I pulled her hair hard, bringing her face to mine.

- It is lowered to another servant and will never be mine, from now on the werewolf who touches you as a woman will have his head cut off, and his body delivered to the pigs!

- You cannot condemn me to live without master lust, especially after having tasted all the pleasures in your bed for all these years.

- You made your choice, Lilith, now get out of my face before I cut your head off myself.

She ran out, I went to bathe, and I was thinking of my most illustrious prisoner. I put my clothes on, went down to the dungeon, my eyes are trained to see in the darkness. She was lying in the corner in a fetal position, I took a deep breath to smell her fear, and it gave me pleasure.

- Open the cell! - I ordered my subjects.

Alpha

She sat to hear my voice, I went in and bent down to look into her eyes.

- Came to make sure that I did not escape? - Always proud, she was undoubtedly the most celebrated prisoner I ever had.

- Of that I have no doubt, beautiful, you are only a human and dust under my shoes. - Nor with my harsh words, she fell.

- If you think you're better than us, I feel sorry for what you are and all the humans you've turned into monsters like you! - I read the name on your necklace, Eugenia. I got upholding her tight and pressed her body against the cold wall of that prison, my fangs came out, and my eyes turned yellow. I felt her fear increase and her heart race in a matter of seconds, so fragile, so beautiful.

Her smell was soft as that of the flowers of the field. I saw his pulse bleed, I had injured his fragile skin, even though that was not my intention. I tore a strip of fabric from my tunic and tied it to her wound, she looked at me with an expression that mixed fear and doubt.

- Kneel and beg me for Lilith's place, and I will make you one of my females.

- I would rather die than be one of his slaves! - Eugenia cried out in revolt. I smile.

- Do you deny the privilege I am giving you? You would be the only human in my bed for many, many years.

- Being his mistress is not a privilege but a condemnation to any woman, whether she is alive or a creature.

- Since you prefer my dark side over pleasure, you will have it! - I left the cell and had it locked again. - Keep her without food, until she stops being so proud!

I went to my room, there were countless females with which I could relieve all my hatred in the form of pleasure. But none of them left me like that young brunette, skin as white as snow and eyes greener than the most beautiful vines in the forest. Why did you refuse to be with me? Your life is in my hands as well as that entire village of stupid mortals, just give a small order for it to cease to exist. Yet it challenges me and refuses to be mine, it feeds my instincts, making me want more and more.

Eugenia

I think about how my parents will be, I fear for Thor and his desire to rescue me from this place. I hope that all my sacrifices can manage to leave my people safe, he is a monster, and I am very afraid...but I will learn to be strong. My mother always says that somehow every human being is special and takes within himself everything he needs to overcome, I need to resist for all of us. I got up and heard a whisper in the next cell.

- Who's there? - I asked, scared.

- Someone with whom it is useless to talk. - I feel alone, how long you've been in this place. - She didn't want to say, but I insisted.

- So many years I can't even remember.

- And what did he do to arrest you? - I sighed - Did you refuse to lie with him too?

- I don't want to tell you about it, it's a sad story.

- Are you human like me? - Her voice sounded strange.

- No, does that change anything for you?

- It doesn't matter, we can at least talk, and then we won't be so alone.

- I heard everything Alpha said to you, do not try to measure forces with him, the master never loses and if he chose you, will do everything to make it his. Even decimate the people you love! I got down sitting on the floor of the cell, I could see her silhouette through the dark of the bars.

- I'm cold. - And, really, that night was especially cold.

- The good thing about not being human is to stop feeling such sensations. I heard the sound of a rat being torn apart.

- What did you do? - I asked she.

- I only guaranteed dinner every day and if you want to beat your tormentor, you must do the same as me! Would I become someone like her? Was I facing my destiny in a short time?

Eugenia

I was huddled in the corner waiting anxiously until the sun rose once more, looked around and could now see better all that had been hidden by the darkness of the night. I crawled away when I saw that woman without clothes, with a cadaveric appearance and huge claws.

- Don't be afraid, even if I wanted to hurt you, I couldn't go behind those goddamn bars.

- You are not like them, at least not equal physically! - I said, already feeling a little calmer with your presence.

- I was a werewolf in the past, but I stopped feeding on humans when the full moon fell. Without the taste of the meat we are in the middle, I am not a wolf or people like you.

- Decided not to kill more people? - I asked, curious.

- They arrested me here for another reason, and I could no longer eat with them every sacrifice that comes from your village.

- But you're not bad, since I was little I can feel these things. I think I can see people's hearts, and yours is noble! What's your name?

- Jane and yours? - She questioned me getting closer to the prison fence.

- I am Eugenia, the youngest daughter of Elizabeth and Anthony. - I saw through the shadow a shy smile form on the face of that creature.

- I've heard of you, your village and the way you protect yourselves from us, Alpha always says that we should not enter into agreements and alliances with your race because they are treacherous.

- There we give our lives for each other, and here for my family and willing to everything, so that no one else is sacrificed.

- We need blood, and if they don't give it away, Alpha and his followers will take it for granted.

- This pact is not and never was fair, why do we have to surrender to death? Since we share the same world, why can't we coexist in peace? - I always exalted myself by talking about the cowardice of this world that gave everything to them and nothing to us mortals.

- That's peace, as long as they give him what he wants. - She smiled ironically, wanted me to agree to give myself to him in exchange for peace, but I can not, can not!

- No! No more Jane.

I got up and got close to the railing again, looked around us for a way out.

- I will get you out of here as soon as I can, and it will help me make this world different from what it is today. - She smiled at me and along with her laugh, a non-human sound that echoed through every cell.

- I like your confidence and courage girl, I would like to believe that you are able to do everything you want.

- You will see that yes! - I answered with confidence, I do not know from where I draw the strength to believe it, nor the courage to fight something much more powerful than me.