The Half Breed Luna

My heart pounded as I stood on the mountain top, the cool breeze ruffling my hair. I watched as my sister, Joan, demonstrated the art of harnessing one's inner power. Joan, with her fiery determination and unwavering spirit, had been training me for as long as I could remember but still I was not able to find and use my power as a wolf and I could not help but doubt that I was even one anymore.

The sun dipped below the horizon, casting a golden hue across the landscape. The forest below seemed to come alive, whispering secrets that danced on the wind. I had always felt a deep connection to nature, as if the very essence of the earth pulsed through my veins but since my powers, my wolf, had been elusive, refusing to reveal itself fully, I had started despising coming out for training at the mountain top

For years, I had trained tirelessly, practicing under the watchful eye of Joan. I had poured my heart and soul into mastering the art of transformation, of tapping into my true potential. Yet, time and again, my efforts fell short. Doubt began to cloud my mind, and frustration gnawed at my determination.

" I'm tired Joan, we should go home" I tell my sister as I find a place to sit on the floor. I had always known that I was different because Joan and I were abandoned when I was still a baby, with no trace of our parents or any explanation for why we were cast aside. We had each other, though, and that was enough. We formed an unbreakable bond, facing the world together, as sisters.

As the years passed, it became apparent that there was something extraordinary within me, something waiting to be unleashed. But my powers remained dormant, frustratingly out of reach. Joan , took it upon herself to train me, to guide me on the path towards harnessing my true potential.

Day after day, we came to the mountaintop to practice. Its rugged terrain became our sanctuary, a place where we could shed the weight of the world and focus solely on our abilities. Joan pushed me relentlessly, her unwavering determination serving as a constant reminder of the strength I had yet to tap into but it was just not working.

"It's too early to go home now Lizzy" Joan came to sit beside me

"So where should we go?" I inquired from her

"Well I'm hungry so we should go get some food" she smiled wickedly and I returned the smile because I knew what she was saying. We usually had two spots where we stole food from at the mountain top, the mysterious hut and a hut that was full of provision that belonged to the Mayflower pack.

It was only a year ago that Joan had found herself rummaging through the provisions store of the Mayflower pack. Hunger had driven her to desperation, she said but her actions had consequences. She was caught in the act by none other than Alpha Gerald himself, his piercing blue eyes locking onto her's with a mix of anger and amusement and he had growled at her just for the fun of it and Joan had been so scared until she realized he was just jesting with her. The narration of her encounter left a bitter taste in my mouth, and I despised him because of what he did to her. She had come home and told me of her experience and since then, we had gone back a couple of times because we were both stubborn and we loved the thrill of trying not to get caught and so far we had never been caught again

"I'm down but which one should we go to?" I asked with a wide grin and she gave me a nod in the direction of the Mayflower pack's hut and my smile widened because they always had something sweet there and I was craving something sweet.

"Okay!" I jumped up gladly "let's make things snappy" I said and Joan laughed as she got up from the floor and we started walking towards the provision hut. We were almost there when Joan held my hand and told me to stop walking, I looked at her skeptically because I didn't understand why we had to stop and as I was about to ask she shouted

"Run! They're coming" and without any other warning she sprang off in the opposite direction and I had to follow suit although I was not as fast as her and I started panicking when I heard the sound coming from behind us and it didn't take long for me to realize that it was the Mayflower pack that was chasing us. We were about to be caught for trespassing and I could not let that happen because now it was a full pack and the mercy Joan had from the Alpha when she was caught was not going to be extended to us anymore. I felt my legs getting weak as I continued to run and I could hear them catching up with me from behind and I knew we were doomed when Joan stopped in her tracks ahead of me and I saw some members of the pack in front of her and I looked around to see that we were surrounded and there was no escape anymore. Joan ran back, met me where I was and held on to my hands as we both tried to catch our breath

"What should we do now" I asked her telepathically and she shrugged her shoulders. I watched as one of the members of the pack stepped forward and immediately he removed his shield and looked at me and our gaze met, an inexplicable pull tugged at my soul. The realization hit me like a lightning strike-Alpha Gerald, the next of kin of the Mayflower pack was my mate, the one I was destined to be bound to for eternity.

My emotions churned within me, a tumultuous storm of conflicting feelings. How could this be? How could my mate be the very person I despised? I glanced at Joan, searching for support and understanding, and found her gaze filled with surprise and concern. I could see that she knew what had just happened and before I could say anything she screamed,

"Jump!" And I was confused at first until she held unto my hands and jumped off the mountain and I felt my heart fly out of my chest as we floated on the air for a flew minutes and just as we were about to land on the ground, I felt myself on transforming into something fluffy and fangs grew out of my mouth. I was q Lycan. Joan had turned into her wolf form and immediately and hit the ground she did not stop running until we ran into a cave.

When we finally settled down and made sure that the pack was not on our heel, Joan turned to me and studied me for awhile

"So that was all we needed all these while for you to turn, you needed to find your damn mate" she said while thinking deeply

"And you are a Lycan, not a wolf Lizzy" she said while looking me up and down

"It's that a bad thing" I asked cause I did not understand what was going on. Joan was quiet for awhile before enveloping me in a hug

"No baby, it's not a bad thing, you'll be fine okay?" she said and although I found it hard to believe that I nodded my head in affirmation.

Since school resumed and I discovered that Alpha Gerald got admitted into Mysteria High school,he has been trying to get back at me and Joan for all the times we outsmarted him and we did a good job in all cases.

First for scattering his packs provision hut then for fooling him at the mountain top where I discovered he was my mate but he could never get back at us because Joan and I were the ultimate pranksters that has ever known be known in Mysteria High school,if not the world and he could never outsmart us.

I did not like him at all infact I found him very annoying but anytime I was around him and I perceived his scent of vanilla and chocolate cream,my Lycan wanted to jump on him and just lick him clean but Joan's scent helped me resist it so I now carried one of her shirts around like it was my best friend to avoid the Alpha and his stupid scent and I hated the inconvenience.

I remember the day I almost hurt an Innocent student badly because of Alpha Gerald. Joan and I had walked into the cafeteria to get something to eat and immediately I sighted or rather perceived Alpha Gerald and look around to see him and his companions sitting comfortably on our table. Every one knew that that was our special table and no one other than us was permitted to sit on it when it was the break time and Alpha Gerald was sitting down on it comfortably with his companions that followed him everywhere like it was a normal thing and I knew he did it on purpose just to look for our trouble.

I nudged Joan and nodded at our table so she could see for herself

"Seems like we've got intruders on our spot"

"That boy is biting off more than he can chew" Joan said with a frown on her face as she looked over to our table

"But we will show him why he should not mess with us baby" she smiled wickedly.

I knew that smile so well and I knew that whenever Joan smiled like that it meant that she was cooking up some evil prank in her head. Joan was a master prankster and I was more of her accomplice because she was the one that came up with all our pranks and if we had successfully pranked even Mr. Anthony, the almighty principal of Mysteria High school, who then was Alpha Gerald who we had also successfully pranked and fooled three times now.

We collected our food from the stand and walked to our table and as we got closer to him, I could feel my Lycan leaping in anticipation because I could smell his scent more clearly now and he felt the presence of it and looked towards us before we got the table and gave me a sly grin to which I roll my eyes and lift Joan's shirt to my nose to feel my nostrils with her scent and block his out

"You are trespassing" Joan said to Alpha Rey when we got the table, dumped her tray with a loud noise and stared at him squarely. If there was one thing I admired about Joan, it was how she was very assertive and would not allow anyone mess with her cause people tended to do so because of her small stature but she always managed to proved them wrong and I loved it and loved her so much.

"I didn't know that there were some part of Mysteria High school in your name" he said as he looked between us. I knew he did this on purpose, the bastard.

"Everyone knows that this table belongs to us you jerk. Now back off and get lost" I tell him as I briefly take Joan's shirt out of my face.

He was doing that thing he always did trying to get in control of my Lycan and manipulate our mate bond but I wasn't having any of it. I constantly wondered why out of everyone in the world it turned out to be Alpha Gerald that I hated so much that would be my mate. How irritating. He stood up and faced me squarely as though Joan was not included in this anymore and I start panicking because Joan was my backbone but I tried to mask my anxiety

"I'm definitely not part of everyone. I am Alpha Gerald. The Alpha Gerald. So I think you should find another table and leave, okay princess?" he touched my chin and I used my free hand slap it off.

Princess? Why would he call me sort a cringe name. Just that brief contact drives my Lycan insane and aching for him but I subdued the feeling with a lot of effort and stare him face-down

"Don't you dare touch me again" I said but my body was saying the exact opposite thing. Damn this mate bond.

"Touch her one more time and see what I do to you" Joan growls at him, her motherly instincts coming out to protect me.

Alpha Gerald laughs and put his hands on my chin again

"Threatening Alpha Gerald now princess?"

I stand for a while fuming in anger. I hated that he didn't listen to me and called me that stupid name again and my mood instantly switches from annoyance to anger and before I know it I take the nearest thing to me which was my table knife and tried to stab him but hit a student who was passing with it in the face,

"Ouch!" the boy screamed in pain as he fell to the floor and Joan who was about to stop me from stabbing Alpha Gerald but somehow couldn't meet up with my speed immediately rushed to the ground where the boy was

"Are you alright?" She asked him and I start panicking because I didn't know what came over me and had no intention of hurting him or even Alpha Gerald, my emotions just took the greater part of me.

People start gathering but we managed to pass through with ease, thanks to Joan's growling and take the boy to the school clinic where we see that he did not sustain any serious injury, just few scratches which the nurse treated and told us he was going to be fine. The boy was human because if he was a being then those scratches would have healed immediately.

I was so upset that day because it was all Alpha Gerald's fault and I didn't know how he got me to be so angry I could not control my emotions. Joan said it was probably because of our mate bond or whatever, I was just glad nothing serious happened to the human boy and I did not get a suspension because of my actions or rather because of Alpha Gerald's actions because if he had not sat on our table just to look for our trouble then all these wouldn't have happened.

This mate bond was going to destroy me or I destroy it because there was no way in hell I was going to accept Alpha Gerald with his annoying and womanizing self as my mate.

I hated going to Mysteria High school now and I resulted to taking a lot of excuses for my absence because I did not want to see Alpha Gerald's face as he always found a way to annoy the hell out of me and any time I tried to act on it and show him not to mess with me someone else who was not even involved in our silent war against each other not him or the beings that went everywhere with him got hurt in the process and honestly I was tired.

I could not even hide or escape him. It was as if he was tracking me down and knew exactly where I would be at a particular time thanks to his Alpha's ability to perceive my Lycan.

I did not even know how he got away with everything he did in Mysteria High School without being punished,suspended or even preferably expelled by Mr Anthony. Scratch that, I actually did and it was because he was the Alpha of the Mayflower coven, the heir to the throne of all the night walking creatures and I honestly did not give a flying fuck, all I wanted was for him to leave me alone and this mate bond to disappear cause it was annoying and it was giving me a headache.

Joan and I stepped into our biology class, took a seat at our usual back seat and waited for the teacher to come in.

"I honestly can not wait to go home" I tell Joan through telepathy just cause I did not feel like talking. Yes I was that exhausted. Because we had been having classes back-to-back since the day began

"oh honey, we would be done soon okay" Joan tells me while rubbing my hands and I visible relax. Joan's touch always had a way of calming me down. It was like a drug. She truly was my mother, my father, my sister, my brother and my best friend all in one and I loved her to pieces.

"I love you too darling" she said out loud with a huge grin on her face

"Stop reading my thoughts!" I frown at her jokingly but my frown becomes serious when the smell of vanilla and chocolate cream hit my nose and I look to the door to see Alpha Gerald standing at the door with his arm wrapped around someone's waist.He was talking to Luna Lillian of the Moon park

My Lycan leapt up as usual as she always did when he was nearby in an attempt to run to him, lick him and cuddle him but quickly realized what was going on and let out a whimper when Alpha Gerald planted a kiss on Luna Lillian's lips and a wave of pain go through my whole body at the sight of it. Joan noticed and turned towards the doorway to see what caused my sudden change in mood

"That bastard!" she exclaimed as she grabbed my hand in an attempt to soothe my pain and it got worse when Alpha Gerald looked towards me and gave me a slick smile

"He is doing this on purpose" I say as I was struggling to breathe properly because my Lycan was in so much pain seeing her mate with another Luna. I try to take my attention away from the cause of my pain by paying attention to the pattern Joan was drawing on my hands

"Try and breathe baby, okay?" Joan tells me softly

" I'm trying!" I half scream at her and it was not even in my intention to do that my Lycan was really just in her feelings and she was very hurt

" I'm sorry" I apologize to her

"It's fine baby, you don't need to worry I understand" she reassured me with a small smile

When I thought Alpha Gerald had got his fill of punishing me and my Lycan and was about to go, he leaned in and gave Luna Lillian another kiss on her lips while staring at me straight in the eyes. This time it was not just a peck but a full blown kiss with their tongue and everything and that almost killed me because my Lycan screamed in pain and anger and it took all the mind power I could muster to stop her from coming out and attacking the both of them.

Alpha Gerald had a satisfied smile on his face when he turned and walked away and I was left panting like an animal,

"Oh my goddess,that was quite the torture" I tried to make a joke out of the pain even as tears filled my eyes

"Oh baby, come here" Joan pulled me into a hug "I'm going to deal with that bastard" she growled "Who does he think he is? Doing all this to his mate?" Joan rhetorically asked in anger.

I cringed at her referring to me as his mate and then sigh after a minute because even though I hated that fact I was Alpha Gerald's mate with my whole being it was not like I could meet the moon goddess and ask her to change him from being my mate but what I could do was definitely torture him with the same techniques he was using on me.

"I am going to deal with him, give him a taste of his own medicine" I say as I wiped my tears.

After the class, I wanted nothing more than to go home but I had a revenge I needed to do.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Joan asked me. We were standing in the school's hallway and not far away was Alpha Gerald with his two beings beside him. Standing beside his locker was Beta Nelson who I had a crush on for the longest time until I realized he was just like Alpha Gerald, a womanizer. The plan was to kiss him like Alpha Gerald kissed Luna Lillian so as to get some kind of reaction from him,

"I'm sure I want to do it, the problem is, can I do it?" I tell Joan while fidgeting with my fingers. A sign of anxiety.

"Oh you can Lizzy, you're beautiful, what man wouldn't want to kiss you" she nudged my head

After thinking about it for another minute, I make up my mind

"Alright here I go" I start walking to where Beta Nelson was standing

"Hey" I tell him as I get to him

"Hey Lizzy" he looked surprised to see me there "Am I safe?" He joked looking around

"Yes you are silly, I just wanted to come say hi" I laugh and hold on to his arm just for show cause I could see from the corner of my eye that Alpha Gerald was looking at us

"Oh really? Hi there then " Beta Nelson smiled slyly

"And I really wanted to give you this" I said and came closer and kissed him. I didn't have to do a lot because he deepened the kiss himself and I just went with the flow. I heard a loud growl behind me that was definitely Alpha Gerald's and instead of stopping I wrapped my arms around him and deepened the kiss the more until I heard things breaking and stopped

"Nice talking to you again " I tell Beta Nelson with a smile and walk away not without turning around and giving Alpha Gerald a warm smile.