The last daughter of the moon

"Run daughter, run", mom drags me to the basement and opens a hidden door in the floor, "princess, I think they suspect who you are", saying that she pulls off her necklace and puts it around my neck, "promise me that you will never take it off"

"Promise mommy", I'm scared

"Daughter listen to mommy, we don't have time, this necklace will protect you, but it will also prevent you from turning into her wolf, it will hide your scent, but as a result you won't smell your predestined, so that's it very important daughter, only take the necklace off when the betrothed of the moon and your protector comes for you, only take it off when you are sure you are safe and that you are protected by people who love you", something breaks upstairs, mother hugs me , and whispers "stay here".

Eduarda wakes up scared with sweat running all over her body and takes her hand to her mother's locket. For the last month she has had this dream almost every day.

If she sits sore, from the beating she took the day before, she had accidentally spilled juice on her cousin's shirt.

After her parents died, in na attack by rogue wolves, she and her brother were raised by her uncle Pedro, her father's brother, as her mother had no family, she was alone in the world until she met her father.

Her uncle was a good man, who always treated her well, but never stayed at home, because he worked for the real ones, that's what we called the strongest beings in our world, unlike most of us when they transformed, they didn't assume a wolf form, they took the form of lycans, which are huge creatures, with wolf form mixed with human form, and are so powerful that one alone can wipe out na entire pack of normal wolves. They say that the most powerful of all is just a year older than me, and that he, unlike the others, can transform both into a Lycan and into a gigantic black wolf, and they also say that he is cruel, that so much power has left him half out of control and that he doesn't give anyone a second chance, everyone knows the story of the wolf who somehow managed to pretend to be his mate, but in the act of consummating the bond, the prince's Lycan form, destroyed her without mercy. Her uncle is part of the kingdom's guard, and spends most of his time traveling to oversee packs around the world.

Her brother who was only a year older than her, also loved and protected her, Eduarda had been relatively happy while her brother lived with her, but the year before, he was chosen to go to the kingdom's academy, and although he called her every weekend, Eduarda will decide to hide from her brother and uncle the hell that transformed her life, as soon as her brother left.

The real academy, is a kind of school and college, where you learn all the normal subjects, including a profession that may or may not be linked to the werewolf world, but also there you receive the cruelest of physical and mental training, young people that form there, are the most powerful, and are assigned to positions of trust in the kingdom or as Alpha and Lunas of other packs.

On the first day of every year, young people aged 13 to 18 who wanted to go to the academy put their name for the draw, every year four young people from each side were chosen.

Last year Joshua, Eduarda's brother, was one of the chosen ones, she was terrified when she heard his brother's name, because the academy is a kind of hunger games, and it is common for weaker wolves to die in the training process.

Although Eduarda had always known that her brother was special, after all he had alpha blood and a very rare characteristic for wolves, he turned into a huge black wolf with blue eyes, the normal thing is for them to be black or red, and had a white spot around of the right eye and its tail was all white if the eyes were already rare, having white fur even if little was extremely rare.

"Don't be like that Dudley, I'm going to become the strongest there", he said when he notices the fear on his sister's face, "and one day I'll come and pick you up to go live with me wherever I'm assigned, wait and see little sister, Daddy will be proud of me".

But now Eduarda knew that it would be impossible for her brother to fulfill the promise, as he had suffered a soul connection with the monster prince as he was known.

To become a Beta or Gamma of na Alpha, it wasn't just being friends as many think, they also suffer a soul connection, not as strong as that of companions, but it exists.

So her brother would become the actual Beta when the Prince took the throne.

Eduarda was happy for her brother, but she knew it was impossible for them to be together.

According to her vision, she was nothing special, she was weak like a human. She would sense her wolf's presence once when she was eight years old, which is when the alpha-blooded of our species first shift, but she didn't shift, just sensed that she was lying there asleep.

And that's exactly why she became the target of mockery and cruel jokes, which got worse when her uncle married Susan, and she and her daughter Betany, a girl the same age as Eduarda, came to live with them.

Uncle thought he was doing the right thing for Eduarda, so she wouldn't be alone, since he had lost his partner in the same attack that her parents died.

But Susan and Betany treated Eduarda very badly, said that she was horrible, that she stank, that she was weak. Then when they realized that Eduarda won't complain to anyone, they started hitting her, and acting like a maid.

The uncle at first thought that Eduarda was sick, but now he was convinced by Susan that she was depressed because of her brother.

Eduarda now only wore baggy and ugly clothes, and sometimes she rubbed herself so hard in the bath that her skin bled, because her psychological state was so destroyed that she really believed that she stinked and was horrible.

Knock, knock, someone knocks on the door and Eduarda is terrified, because she knows that being late to make breakfast will have consequences, and since she can't access her wolf's powers every time they hurt her, it takes days to heal.

"I'm already up, breakfast will be ready soon", she says and runs to get dressed.

Eduarda leaves the room as quickly as possible, but to her surprise, her uncle is at the door.

"Hi honey, how are you?"

"Uncle, I miss you", says Eduarda "when you arrived"

"It was dawn, I didn't want to wake you up, Eduarda, are you okay, do you look even thinner?"

"It's all in your head uncle, I'm the same way", says Eduarda, changing the subject right away, "How long will it last this time"

"Sorry honey, I would like to spend more time with you, but I'm already going to the royal pack tomorrow, today is the first day, did you forget?, I came to pick up the chosen ones for the royal academy"

"Wow, I had really forgotten", this meant that she would have to go to the square and face the jokes and insults of the other young people, because although it was not mandatory to put the name in the draw, everyone had to be present.

"So hurry up darling, looks like your cousin is going to name her this year"

"Okay, just give me a second and I'll be right down"

Uncle pats her head and goes down to the living room.

Eduarda did not have many clothes, as Susan and Betany confiscated all the money that her uncle and even her brother sent.

She went back into the bedroom and changed into the best outfit she could find, a dress that would fit two of her.

And half na hour later she arrived at the square avoiding eye contact with most people.

Eduarda, disguised, watches the young people go to put their name in the draw.

Eduarda would like to be different, not listening to the promise she made to her mother and taking off the necklace, that way she would have her wolf and then who knows, maybe she would be there, putting her name in the lottery.

The ceremony begins and her uncle takes the stage along with the alpha of the pack, the alpha says the same words every year, about achieving strength and glory in the royal academy.

Then a child of about three years old is chosen to take the names.

She takes the first one and hands it to the Alpha who reads it aloud:

"Betany Fox"

Eduarda quickly looks to her cousin's side and realizes that she has turned pale, and looks in panic at her mother, who is equally pale, Eduarda then realizes that she put the name, just to get attention, but she didn't really expect to be chosen. Eduarda tries to repress her smile, because her life without Betany will be easier, because even if she doesn't want to go, the rule is clear, once chosen she can't give up.

The child takes another name, and the Alpha reads:

"Trevan Deravux", he says proudly because he was her son and future alpha of the gang, Eduarda now feels like dancing, without her worst aggressors the school would be bearable.

The alpha reads one more name:

"Gabriel Hux", this time Eduarda is sad, because Gaby is the only one who is kind to her, he always seems to be defending her, or helping to get her things when they bump into her, and deep down Eduarda had a crush on him, no let her dream that he would someday like her too, he was handsome, tall, strong with a delicate face wrapped in her golden curls, she would miss him.

But the next name Alpha reads makes Eduarda's world crumble.

"It can't be" she thinks

And silence takes over the whole square, her uncle takes the paper from Alpha's hand without the slightest ceremony and reads it again:

"Eduarda Trevilhian", he looks at his niece who seems to be in shock, "Garoto", he says approaching the little boy who was removing the paper, "someone gave you this paper, in the name of the king I want to know who it was".

The little boy gets scared and starts crying, the red Alpha in anger says to Pedro:

"You know the rules, once chosen, you can't quit"

"By the Goddess Fred do you really think she put her name in there?"

"And are you suggesting that our process is fraudulent, or that I put your human niece's name in there?"

"For your own good, you better not have it, or consider yourself a dead wolf."

"I am the alpha of this pack"

"And I am a knight of the king, and he will be pleased to know that someone who has never been written has been chosen", saying that he goes down from the stage towards Eduarda.

"Dudley," a voice whispers in your ear

" Pay attention, I'll be there with you, so always try to stay close, okay?"

Eduarda turns and faces Gaby, he smiles at her, and that's when it happens.

It's like they've known each other their whole lives, she'd trust him with her life, and he'd give his life for her.

" What was this?" , Eduarda wonders, "was it a soul connection?, But I'm not a Luna leader of a band to have beta, or is he my partner and I just didn't have the complete connection because of the necklace?", her head is spinning with so many unanswered questions, until her uncle catches her and asks:

"Did you put your name there?"

"No"

"Have someone put it on for you?"

"No"

"Let's go home", says Pedro practically dragging Eduarda away.

Uncle doesn't say a word the whole way, and when they get home he looks out the windows, as if to make sure they haven't been followed.

Susan is the first to speak:

"Pedro please, you can't let them take Betany..."

"Shut up Susan, if she didn't want to go she shouldn't have put the name"

"The same applies to Eduarda" says Betany

Pedro acts quickly, grabs Betany by the neck and pins her against the wall:

"Did you put her name there?"

"No... not me", Susan tries to free her daughter from Pedro's grasp, but he doesn't budge.

"If I found out that you had something to do with it..." he says and releases Betany, who sits down

"Susan takes Betany to sleep with her parents so she can say goodbye"

Susan helps her daughter up and out of the house as quickly as possible.

"Eduarda listens to me, people die in the royal academy, whoever put your name on it is definitely trying to hurt you, I've been trying to protect you, I married Susan to stop them from trying anything against you, but now that your brother won't come back, they sure turned on you"

"Uncle what are you talking about?"

"By right you are the heir of the pack, since your brother will not take over, the next in line is you"

"But I don't have a wolf"

"I know dear, but apparently they don't want to risk you finding your partner because then he would be the alpha"

"What am I going to do uncle"

"You will have to go, we have no choice, I will speak to your brother, and he and I will do our best to protect you there, and Eduarda stay away from the Crown Prince"

"And why would I go near Prince Monster?", asks Eduarda, not seeing any meaning in her uncle's words.

"Don't talk about him like that, he's a good man darling, he's just more out of control every day, but despite being powerful before he was a good boy"

"And what happened then?"

"He as the most powerful being, he has powers much sharper than us, and for the last year, he has been suffering from the mate bond"

"She didn't want him?"

"No, actually he still hasn't found her, but it seems that in the last year she has suffered a lot, and he feels some of that suffering for the bond, but he can't do anything to help her, because he doesn't know who she is or even where she is. , and this makes him increasingly out of control, to the point of hating his partner who, according to him, does nothing to help himself"

"Poor guy, but I still don't see why I would go near him"

"He lives with his brother, and you guys go to the royal academy together, or did you forget that they are only a year older than you"

Meanwhile, at the royal academy...

Joshua watches Erick

destroy for the thousandth time this year the fourth.

As a future Beta it's

up to him to try to calm his best friend and real Alpha, but it's getting

harder and harder.

In the last year, in

some inexplicable way, Erick has established na emotional bond with his

partner, even though I've never met her, but the problem is that the girl,

whoever she is, is going through severe abuse, going hungry, being beaten , and

owner of a huge low esteem, and Erick began to feel how she feels.

At first he moved

earth and heaven to find her, after failing, he tried to sever the bond, but

nothing worked.

Now he looks like a

ticking time bomb that explodes at any moment.

Right now he's

trashing the room because according to him she's so scared she can hardly

breathe.

But what really

worries Joshua is that Erick has started to harbor anger towards his partner,

because he thinks that she doesn't do anything to help herself or else someone

would have already intervened in her situation, and thus he is condemning not

only himself to suffering but also is taking him along.

"Weak, that's what

she is Joshua, a weakling"

"Dude she might be

stuck somewhere"

This seems to calm

him down a bit, not because he wishes her harm, but because it would explain

why she doesn't react, ask for help, or simply run away.

Joshua's cell phone

starts ringing, looking at the number on the screen he gets worried because his

sister never calls him, he always calls.

"Hello"...

Erick watches his

Beta talking on the cell phone, and realizes that something is very wrong.

As soon as he ends

the call he asks:

"Did something happen

to your sister?"

"It happened," says

Joshua running his hands through his hair, and thinking that no matter how or

what he had to do, he was going to protect his little sister, "someone put her

name in the lottery, and she's coming over here."

"And why is that a

problem?"

"Something went wrong

with my sister dude, she never turned, she doesn't even have access to the

healing powers that a normal omega has"

Erick begins to

understand his friend's concern, the real academy wasn't child's play, people

died there during training, a normal omega wouldn't stand a chance, imagine one

without any power.

"And who put her

name?"

"My uncle suspects

that it is someone who doesn't want her to take over the gang, since by right

now that I'm not going back, she would be Luna of the gang, or that her partner

would take over, and to try to kill her they put her name in the draw and they

arranged for her to be chosen "

"The person who did

this will face the consequences I promise, but maybe it's better for her to get

out of there, after all they can decide to just kill her and alone there, she

wouldn't have the slightest chance, here I can protect her"

"Please man stay away

from my sister, don't get me wrong, but you hate weak, innocent people, my

sister is both, she is so pure that sometimes it seems like she's not from this

world"

"Hey relax, when I said I'm going to protect her, I meant

I'm going to help you keep her alive, not that I'm going to make her one of my

girls", that's how he called the girls he went out with.

"Thanks man" says

Joshua, "she must be scared"

"How does a wolf like

you end up with a human for a sister?"

"I don't think she's

human, just that something prevented her transformation, my wolf already sensed

a presence in her, it's just blocked"

"I've never heard of

cases like this, but if she has a wolf Kairon, she'll feel it, and maybe Tron

can get to her"

Usually a werewolf,

they are two beings that complete each other, a person and a beast that inhabit

a body, but in Erick's case he was born with two beasts, a Lycan and a wolf,

Kairon and Tron.

Suddenly, Erick is

taken over by another wave of fear and nervousness, which he knows is not

coming from him. He takes a deep breath,

and tries not to let the anger get the best of him.

Until a year before,

he didn't feel anything from his partner, but from a year ago, it was as if her

life had been turned into hell, which made her emotions run amok and she was

able to reach out to him, at first he tried to look for her, but it was like

finding a needle in a haystack, then he reinforced the vigilance in all the

packs, to repress mistreatment or crimes against wolves, but nothing worked,

finally he tried to cut the bond, but how to reject it someone you don't know?

Kairon and Tron were

increasingly nervous about the situation, as it was frustrating to have so much

power but not be able to protect your own companion.

Now Erick was

determined to sever the bond as soon as he laid eyes on her.

But deep down he

always asks himself: "where are you little one".

Erick was aware that

he would not be able to delay much longer to take over the kingdom.

Even more so with the

rumors that Hercules was alive, a century ago, a hybrid son of a vampire and a

wolf, he became obsessed with power, and in his search he found ancient

manuscripts containing our history and a prophecy about becoming the son of

darkness, he followed the ritual step by step, it is not known very well what

this ritual involved since the manuscripts were lost, it is only known that he

did terrible things, and that it worked.

The earth entered na

age of terror, even humans began to be affected, and that's when the races

joined, vampires and werewolves against Hercules and his followers, Hercules

was defeated, and fled in search of the last item that would make him

invincible, the blood of Luna das Lunas.

And this led to the extinction of a powerful race of wolves, as Luna das

Lunas could only be a daughter of the moon, snow-white wolves, endowed with

gifts given by the goddess. But with the

incessant hunting of Hercules and his followers were instincts, and only traces

showed that a certain wolf or she-wolf had children of the moon in their

ancestors, as was the case with Joshua with the spot in his eyes and white

tail.

When this story began

to be forgotten, a wise old woman, known for the gift of predicting the future,

predicted a new war, which would either be the definitive end of Hercules or

the earth as we know it, Erick did not even believe in this fanciful story, but

the old woman predicted that there would be a union, a predestined bond between

the Luna das Lunas and a beast that, unlike all, would be the home of three and

not two, which if united with the Daughter of the Moon would destroy Hercules

forever, but if Hercules united with she first, will be eternal chaos.

It turns out that

after a hundred years that she predicted that Erick was born and his body is

the abode of three and not two like the others, which gave strength and

credibility to the prophecy and now there were rumors that Hercules was moving,

and that he had found a trace of the son of the moon. If it was true or not Erick didn't know but

if he was moving, he also needed it, but one thing he was sure of, his

companion was not Luna das Lunas, she was weak, maybe the bond of the prophecy

referred to a bond like that of a Beta and his Alpha.