The curse of the Moonborn

1. How it all started!

Princess Lisa's POV

I don't want to die.

I don't want to leave this world before taking my revenge on them.

I don't want to let my parents' sacrifice go in vain, goddess . Give me strength, give me the power to get back what is mine.

It was supposed to be my best birthday that night. Brother Sebestian was supposed to get father's throne and be the next alpha of our pack. But that bastard Jonah, he ruined my life. I cannot believe what I went through over the last few days, it is distrusting!

It has now been three weeks that I am only running. My stomach growls. My feet are damaged and bleeding. My fingers feel numb. My whole body aches.

I need food. The pain won't subside, it is intolerable! I lost everything within a night, I am alone.

Everything has changed!

Being extremely exhausted from walking, I fell on the ground on my back. My head is spinning badly , I don't know how long I will have to keep running!

They are still searching for me. I saw Jonah's guards looking for me in the market yesterday. So I came running here to this forest to hide. Ah, my legs hurt . Maybe closing my eyes will help soothe my mind. I need to stay calm until I get shelter.

The flashback of that night flashed across my eyes.

Their crying faces.

Mom's last cry before death.

Dad's lifeless body in Jonah's feet.

Sebestian's bloody touch on my wrist when he was heading out of the palace through the secret exit.

Other people's scream- it became fresh in my head that eventually my eyes moistened.

I can't help but sit straight with a gasp. Sleep has gone far away from my eyes. It is not possible to sleep unless I take back my father's throne. If I had known the intentions behind their deeds earlier than everything had been under control.

Although I was sleepless my body still aches like I have climbed mountains thrice with no break. Even after sitting against a flat rock for support I cannot feel okay. The pain kept increasing. My veins seemed to be shrinking. Long breaths can be helpful! I started taking deep breaths.

It did help me forget that I was injured, the pain kind of reduced and (leaves rustling nearby) wait! What is that! I had to get back to my alert mode when the sound of rustling leaves reached my ears. The noise was of Someone crushing them under their feet.

The guards! They are here.

Picking up my lengthy gown I hid under the bushes camouflaging between them completely. It was possible only because of this cloak that Sebestian provided me before he made me flee away. I stayed there silent breathing as slowly as I could so that my breaths can't be heard through super hearing.

My heart beats were high and my palms were sweating. They are in numbers and I hardly know how to defend myself. If I am caught today I will be gone. However, I didn't keep hiding for so many days to get caught one day. I will fight back, I will fight back.

With that determination, I searched for the hunter's knife that Sebestian gave me. No sooner had I got a grip on it than I watched someone walking tiringly toward the rock across the bushes where I hid. He was panting severely.

With a swift move he sat on the rock facing his back to me. He was not from the guards but somebody else. Who could he be!

Why would anyone lurk around in the forest in such dirty clothes?

Can he be- a rogue! Damn, he is a rogue.

Sebestian has told me, rogues don't belong to any pack; they lurk around in the forests and places in search of prey. They unnecessarily kill and eat flesh. Their only motive is to bother others and create terror.

Gosh! What did I get myself into?

Rogues are worse than any other Wolves.

I did not know what to do, if I continued to sit here and he happened to find me hiding, he would pull me out and eat me alive. If not that, then he will do the worst- detain me and use me for his pleasure.

I was scared thinking of all those consequences. They chilled my nerves yet on a serious note, it is better if I take the initiative and kill him before he does the same. I can also search for weapons and other stuff he has got in store. He surprisingly seems pretty decent, still he is a rogue.

My mind was busy working for a way out when he suddenly stilled. He stopped moving and stayed silent as if he sensed me behind him. His murmurs were audible to me, maybe he was calling his partners. I prepared myself taking a deep breath and jumped out of the bushes on him with my knife, ready for the attack.

Earlier than I could stab him in the back he quickly turned around dodging my attack effortlessly, and clutched my wrist in a swift move. His iron hold crumpled my skin, I could barely withhold his strength.

No doubt why everyone fears them! They are powerful and my bad luck is that I had to encounter a heck of a rogue who seems the king of all of them!

His muscles bulged out hugging the fabric of his black shirt tight. That pair of eyes checked me out while he pulled me close. I was on the verge of losing my patience and crying for his hard iron like grip which encircled my wrist.

"Let go of me, you bastard!!!"

His expressions hardly changed, providing that those dark pupils never left mine. They sought to find something in my eyes, maybe my fear!

His eyes moved to the corner of my lips watching me intently that again another shock of chill hit my bones gruesomely.

He was powerful, I can comprehend that just by the way he held my wrist and I was frightened thinking of the things he could do to me in a second. I struggled to get away from his touch and scream to attract anything- like anything that can help me run away. The more he focused his gaze on me the harder my body shivered.

He had a strange aura that left me trembling in his mercy. He did not seem to be someone saint for the way his thumb massaged my swollen wrist . I sensed something other than uneasiness. What it was, I cannot describe it. He was attempting to read my mind!

I was sure he was trying to get to know my identity when abruptly my cloak flew a bit away revealing my gown.

Regardless , I immediately covered it back with the cloak thus bringing his eyes back on my face.

"Why are you injured!" His interrogation got me to clench my teeth in annoyance and at the same time his arm circled my waist tighter as he pulled me close to his chest. I have never been so close to a guy before and the thought that I was actually in the arms of a rogue espoused my respiration.

"Did you run away from your house!" That inquiry brought tears to my eyes.

Why would I run away from my house! I was the happiest girl until Three weeks ago .

His queries did hurt me yet I was determined to not fall weak, not in front of a stupid rogue.

"Let me go you filthy dirty rogue! Just leave my hand and stop asking me questions as if you are my mate." I shouted on his face while pushing him away with my hands.

He blankly locked our oculus together leaving no space for me to breathe. My respiration turned uneven when he darted his peepers over my chest staring there disgustingly. I stilled there, feeling uncomfortable. He was supposed to be a rogue who must have come here following me, still I felt a strange attraction toward him.

Sensing my discomfort he looked away. I held my breath together whilst accumulating all my energy and- I finally stabbed the knife in his arm. "Ahhh Ahhh" his body met with ground as he fell thud on it holding himself together while I took my chance to get away from him.

Now before he gets up I need to go far far far away from him. Go Lisa, you can do it. Don't let him overcome you. Go!

[And she ran for her life leaving him there on the ground struggling- only to encounter another woe that was going to mark a beginning of their togetherness]

Tbc...

2. Mysterious princess

Alpha king Alan's POV

"I am moving toward the south, you go to the west. I want the herbs today anyway. It is very difficult to see the cubs infected!" My beta was connected with me on our mind link.

We were in the Vesium woods of my Brave Blood Pack looking for this curative herb commonly known as Giant Dodder or Cuscuta reflexa that heals infections like shingles. "Understood Alan." Three percent of cubs in my pack have been caught up in an epidemic that has infected their skin with shingle-like disease and it is only increasing.

Yesterday, I attended the fourth death in a row in the last week. My doctors tried to make antidote but it is incomplete with this Curative herb that can heal their skin within the consummation of a night and here I, Alan Alvares, the alpha male of my Brave Blood Pack am here looking for the same so that the cubs can be cured from the epidemics.

Twenty six years of my life has been a journey filled with adventures, memories and a bitter truth. I have had everything I wished for except a mate. Yeah, that is fucking true. Alan Alvares is a mate-less alpha who has now given up on the thought of having a mate.

I have searched in the worst corner of the world for her unfortunately, everytime I came back empty handed. It is not only limited to searching in the worst environment but also the infinite mating balls I attended till I was twenty four However, two years ago I decided to just quit.

In fact, I met many she-wolfs on my parents' insistence after quitting but to no avail. Like any other time I came back alone. None of them suited me. It is even not that I am a cruel badass alpha like how we are often described.

Okay, okay I am sorry to lie about that, I acknowledge I am a heck of a cruel badass alpha but I do have a pleasing personality too. Also, a fierce aura around me that everyone is frightened of still- I am as good as my father- kind and polite alpha who can do anything to finish off the work in any situation.

For instance, this one. Where I have come to find the herb before evening otherwise Adrian, my beta's little brother will lose his life. He is one of the infected.

In fact I will not hesitate accepting that I committed many murders, destroyed many lives, slaved people for disrespecting me, had hot mistresses and even had sex with other Alphas' mates while being on important trips like Fete Faction (A kind of meet and greet of Alphas for the betterment of relationships between their packs) but still i have reserved my heart for my mate, who is yet to come in my life. I even made out during wars haha.

And currently, I have a mistress Jenny Bob who is as good as anything in bed. Well don't get Mr wrong, I didn't want her. In fact, I never wanted to bring any other she-wolf in my bed except for my mate. It is just that, since I could not find my mate I got myself mistress out of frustration.

I mean, I am eagerly waiting for her but I don't know where she is. It's been years and I haven't found her. Ugh, it was frustrating and annoying for Alois and to satisfy my anger, I took Jenny for a mistress. You can't expect a handsome alpha like me to stay alone, can you?

I found her during a trip to Canada. She was with a friend. She caught my attention when we bumped near the pool side and she showed her interest in me. And as that trip was the last of my quest to find my mate, I returned home with Jenny when I couldn't find that bloody mate of mine.

Bringing Jenny was not planned but I have promised myself that after I find her, my Luna, I will never look at any other female. I will give my all to her. Even Jenny knows that. It was her pure will to serve herself to me when I made everything clear to her. When the time comes, she knows that she will have to leave.

Yeah, I know that sounds unbelievable. Like how can an alpha male be so loyal rather than being a horny dick but here I am .

I have promised to myself I will love her more than anything in life. Also, change to a better partner as per her wishes. I will leave my bad habits and be an ideal mate for her. I promise.

What the heck am I even thinking! I need to look for the plant now. Alan focus, focus hard.

From Climbing the trees to lifting the rocks, crossing the stream to digging the land I did everything albeit, I can't find the herb. "Addy, did you get something! I am still unsuccessful." As after I rested my butt on the rock in order to catch some calm breaths I connected to him again.

I heard him sigh amidst his reply, "No I am still searching. Alan, my brother will be fine right!" My back straightened in concern, feeling his pain. His voice was laced with deadly agony.

"Obviously he will be! Don't forget what my father used to say during our training, 'Lose everything in life but hope as it is the only thing that keeps the world and lives going.' So stop being an ass. Get up and do yo-"

I had to stop abruptly, I could hear someone's breaths right behind my back. "Addy there is someone behind me."

"What! Wait, what is it! "

" I don't know. I am sitting on a rock and on my back I have bushes, I can feel someone's warmth hitting me. And the smell-fuck!"

"What! (concerned) Alan, what smell! Tell me."

I cannot speak anything! Whether to be happy or shocked, I was just confused. The smell of dragon fruit and Yarrow flower felt so prodigious and- hypnotizing. "Mate!!! Alan, it is our mate! She is... She is finally here, I can smell a strong wolf. She is fierce and strong, just like you!"

Can't cease that contending smile appearing on my lips. So finally after years of search, she is here. My mate, my better half.

"You bitchy alpha, speak up! What kind of smell is that? Is it fresh blood? There might be rogues around you. Or an animal!" Adrian shouted on the link that even my neurons pained whilst sending the message. "Just try to handle it, I will be the-"

"Alan, careful!" My wolf, Alois, screamed that I had to turn around.

No sooner did I make a move than my gaze fell on the blade of a hunter's wooden knife being aimed right over my heart..

"Ohh! That was hot!" My breaths stuck in my throat, eyes staring at the face that I have been waiting to spare my glance on since ages as I quickly with extraordinary speed pounced her wrist hence putting her attack in vain.

Her eyes held fear and courage, both. The fear of being killed as my grip was getting tighter and tighter under her effect and courage as though she was not someone who would give up so easily. My typical mate type!

"Let go of my hand, you bastard!!!"

"Ohh so she has a sharp tongue. Alan, We will have to be careful if we have to sustain our lives with her! I am in love with her."

She attempted to shout while struggling to free her hand and that is when I realized she was actually shivering.

Her eyes had a depth that screamed of her fears. I pulled her close, giving her appearance a close look. She was draped in a torn cloak above a royal gown defining her class. She must be someone from a royal family! But, why here in the middle of the woods in such condition? I wondered.

My mate, my fierce mate was finally in front of me. I cannot stop smiling even though she was cursing and abusing me. Her free hand did its work of scratching my skin with her broken, damaged nails. However, what made me stop smiling was her face. There was a cut on the left corner of her lips, a scratch on her right cheek and a bleeding wound on her forehead.

"Why are you injured!" Although it was not the time to ask that as it was just adding up to her feared expressions yet the wolf inside me can't tame himself. She seemed to be on the verge of crying. "Did you run away from your house!" My heart was disappointingly burning in fury.

After a thorough search for years when I at length furnished my mate, I gotta see her oozing lips and bleeding damaged face! What the heck, Is that how I was destined to meet my Luna, moon goddess! The sight of her blood bled my heart. "Let me go you filthy dirty rogue! Just leave my hand and stop asking me questions as if you are my mate.

Yes, I am your mate. I wanted to say but I kept mum.

She breathed heavily ignoring my interrogation that I had to divert my eyes away from her body.

Because the way her full attractive chest went up and down, it seemingly made it difficult for me to stay in control. I fixed my eyes on a trunk of a tree in the fro- freaking goodness, Cuscuta reflexa, the herb that I have been looking for!

"She is so lucky for us, Alan."

My attention was diverted and that is what she took the advantage of and stabbed the wooden knife in my arm. "Ahhh Ahhh" I fell to the ground as the pain ran through the length of my arm. I haven't consumed any antidotes before coming here, so it crumpled the cells of my skin severely, amplifying the pain.

Notwithstanding, I ain't not letting her go anywhere! It took me fucking years to find her and I appreciate her courage that she bravely attacked me (I wished for a fierce mate after all) but, she should know she is not anymore free. She is my possession and I will not let her go anywhere.

Little beautiful mate, you think I am a rogue, right! Let's play like one now!

(Rising to his full height, he sauntered ahead to chase his mysterious mate.)

Tbc...

3. She's In Danger!

Alan ran faster than the speed which the light passes with, cutting through the trees, crushing the leaves under his feet and following her smell with a bleeding arm. He shot his eyes in his surroundings to look for her. She hardly ran for a few seconds then also it seemingly occurred difficult to search her.

Inhaling a breath of disappointment with his failure for not being able to find her, Alan growled loudly. His dangerous roar resonated in the forest. "Where can she go all of a sudden!" he roamed here and there, insanely breathing like a monster.

His fierce wolf was about to take control of him since he was more powerful than his human form, crazy and lunatic. But Alan anyway attempted to keep his wolf in control and find her on his own. However, the more his eyes roamed in the context to spot her figure the madder Alois grew.

'Let me take over Alan, I don't want to stay mate-less any more. We can't let her go! Let me take over, Alan!'

Alois demanded shrieking with every word he uttered. His growls were breath hitching.

"I am afraid I can't do it. She already assumes me to be a vile rogue."

Alan took steps further searching for her in the bushes if by any chance she was concealing herself from his eyes.

"I will find her, don't worry. Trust me I am equally crazy as you but please stay calm, I cannot let you out. You will kill her in your madness." Sensing Alois' whine , Alan sped up his quest before his wolf could demand for domination over him.

Focusing sharply on the situation, Alan tried to scan the area. He fell under extreme levels of anxiety. He jumped up over a rock to get a better view of the place, and hopped down off it when caught the smell of her uneven breaths and scared warmth.

"She is there." Murmuring that to his wolf, he ran for his life with all his strength until he neared her.

No sooner he crossed a few metres ahead than his eyes widened in extreme shock.

"Blimey!" His expressions defined a small swallow cannot make the summer. Yeah, if he got his mate and the curative herb all at once then he was also encountering severe events now.

One of them was in front of him.

"Stay still , don't move." warning her with his peepers fixating on the danger ahead, Alan made his moves as he stood alert. "Stare in its eyes, don't look anywhere else. It will give him an opportunity to attack you otherwise " He continued taking another step.

There was a big panther standing across her over a few metres away. He was prepared to attack while Lisa, baffled and scared, stared at him with teary eyes. "Please help me." her plea fused his heart. She sounded so helpless and frightened.

He was really happy that she asked for help then also Alan hated to see her appearance. She was standing with a mysterious aura surrounding her. Her wounds, those scars spoke something, her royal gown within the dirty cloak defined she was hiding something and lastly the medium sized side bag made up of fine fabric indicated she was going through something, it was yet to be discovered.

"I am here to help you, stop fretting. Don't look away from him." She seemed convinced, he smiled proudly. She was trusting him.

Alan moved backward moving his peepers in the surrounding to look for something that can be used as a weapon. If he had been alone and no Lisa there then the fight would have been interesting and the panther's death painful nonetheless he can't do anything as she was standing on the edge of the valley.

She continued to obey his words, shivering woefully as she stood under the gaze of the cat that looked hungry. The panther took a step ahead, freaking her out in a way that she fell back on the ground and her eye contact broke. Howling severely the panther jumped up in the air to pound on her.

The event was so nerve chilling that her lashes latched together preparing herself to engulf her death defeatedly; however, the panther never pounded on her! Yeah, she was still there, waiting to feel its weight on her body but it never happened. He never came!

Intrigued and perplexed, just when she opened her eyes to see the panther, Lisa grasped holding her mouth at the scenario in the front. Her tears streamed down in a chain slipping through her cheeks. She clutched her mouth suppressing her sobs, unable to look at the heart wrenching prospect.

The panther laid on the ground under him while he attacked on its neck with a sharp edged wooden stick making a wave of blood rush out. It has stained his hands and clothes and face. He looked really dangerous covered in the layer of the panther's blood coating his face. Lisa clenched her jaw together holding her mouth for his dark eyes shone gravely as the drops of blood slipped down the bridge of his neck.

That is why, rogues are dangerous. They are heartless and cruel . And he proved that today.

"Please let him go, please!" She begged, turning her face away from him and the panther. It was enough for her to witness the brutal killing of an animal. "Please don't do that." her agonized tone hit his ears and he stopped.

The dying whimpers of the panther killed her brain eventually and forced her to relate it with the last whimpers of her mother that she had heard before her mother gave up on her life.

Alan immediately threw away his weapon, standing up quickly like he realized something important. "Do not worry he will not do you any harm. He's dead." feeling him smile along his words, Lisa dared to shoot a glance on his face.

Her mind screamed as it warned her to stay away from him yet on the other hand, her heart assured her of good. His bloody face relieved her eyes. The tears stopped and her shivers calmed a bit down.

"Don't kill me. " alas her words betrayed her feelings.

It was obvious though. When you are stuck in a danger, and the person you suspect to be your death helps you- you still doubt him. So it was not Lisa's fault. Regardless, it was not anticipated by him at all because he disappointedly blinked, registering what she just uttered now, making his wolf turn mad.

Alan mopped his face with his palms sitting across her on his knees. Anger was quite visible on his face, she can see him suppressing himself. "I am not a bad guy, don't fear me, okay. Do not fear me. Hmm." He made a move to touch her shoulder assuringly but before his touch landed on her skin, she let out a painful shriek and fainted pale against the rock. "Hey, hey! Get up."

Tbc...

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