Reborn- His Scarlett Moon

” Sherry! Thank God! Thank God you are back! ”

My eyes were open but my view hadn’t yet adapted to the new light conditions. But I could feel Ryan’s tight and warm embrace around me. He was crying. He was crying as he was hugging me.

I felt one hand around Ryan’s back and my other hand was holding something hard. It was the hilt of the dagger that I had pierced myself with.

” I am so sorry. I am sorry about what Beck did to you. I am sorry I couldn’t stop him. I am sorry I couldn’t save you both… ”

I could slowly see everything around me. I was on Ryan’s lap, still on the road in front of my building. There was a small crowd in the back and I could hear the distant sound of the ambulance and police car blazing.

I saw Beck’s lifeless body lying just beside me. His hand almost touched mine as I tried to get up.

I pulled Ryan’s ear close to mine and whispered,

” Take us out of here Ryan. It was no one’s fault. I remember everything now. I will tell you everything. It was all pre planned. Helps Ryan. The evil Northern chief. He is back. He is back for revenge. ”

Ryan’s eyes shot open. I wasn’t supposed to know that name I guess but he obediently obeyed my order.

” You take Beck’s body, I can walk. ”

With my newly found werewolf abilities, I could already feel the self healing process kicking in. I was already feeling better. A normal human would need to spend days in the hospital to get their vital organs repaired and even then, there was no guaranteed treatment.

Ryan looked at me limping at first and then casually walking with the dagger still in my hand and my other hand, holding onto my stomach.

I went straight inside his car as he put Beck’s body in the backseat.

” Where do you want me to go? ”

Ryan asked as his eyes observed my behavior.

” Let’s bid our proper goodbye to our first martyr. Our first fallen soldier in this installment of the unfinished war. Let’s mourn our brother.”

I turned to take his phone from his pocket. It wasn’t yet time that I addressed his bewilderment.

“Whom are you texting? ” he asked, looking over my shoulder.

” I am asking Josh to gather every one of the werewolves who stayed back. I am also telling him to call the ones that left, just for one last time. I want to talk to them, face to face, about joining or abandoning this last battle. ”

Ryan didn’t talk to me for the rest of the ride.

…..

Josh immediately broke down as soon as he saw Beck’s dead body. He was inconsolable, pitiful.

I wanted to let him grieve but there was not much time for it. I had to get rid of Helos forever this time, before they called me back to the netherworld.

” Who did this? Tell me who was it? I will rip his throat out and drink up…. ”

” It was me. ”

I owned up.

The room full of werewolves turned towards me.

I think it was for the first time that I even noticed that my own scent had changed. The aggression of my wolf was building once again.

” I was the one that stabbed him with this dagger. ”

I showed them the murder weapon and explained step by step, everything that had happened and why.

I lifted my own shirt up to show them my dagger wound,

” Had I still been a normal human, I would have been under ventilation, waiting for my life to end. But I had things that I left unfinished. How could I leave it half done, once again? ”

I looked at Ryan. The look that he had on me was not the one he ever gave Sherry. He was looking at his first love. He could finally see his Sherizad in me.

” What? No way? All of them? Impossible! ”

Right at that moment Josh got a call from Chong and what he learnt, blew all our minds away.

All the individual werewolves were dead. Bodies were found in a horrible shape, their souls were sucked away. A repetition of history, once again.

” It’s time. It’s now or never. We get to crush that vicious fang that threatens to spread again… ”

Nobody dared to speak out but I knew that a million questions might have been bugging them. And that included Ryan.

I had to let their doubts drown. I had to explain what I did in the past. I needed to explain what was required at that moment.

And then from the middle of the crowd, a very angry looking wolf spoke out.

” Are you the Alpha Sherizad? Because you no longer smell human. I can even sense a faint Alpha mark. Only this morning, I am sure you looked absolutely like a normal human. I don’t understand what is going on here? What sorcery are we now a part of? Back then you took out an entire clan, what motives do you have this time? What’s your reason for rising from the dead again? ”

I smiled as I slowly lifted up the shirt from my back. I could feel the burning sensation that came with bearing the mark. I knew it was already there and then it was met with a very loud whisper from the mass.

” I indeed am your Alpha Sherizad and before any of you lash out at me again, let me tell you everything that has happened before my end. And why did I did what I had?”