The Wolf In Me

Chapter 53: Part 2 Prisoner

Enchantress POV

"Don't stress too much dear alpha. He might not tell you his name, but there is another way to find out," I said from behind him, walking slowly towards them.

"Enchantress! It is too soon for you to be out from bed," Luka uttered, looking worriedly at me.

"I felt that you needed me, so here I am. This fight is also my fight. I wouldn't be in this condition if your prisoner hadn't touched me. So.." I said, taking my last steps towards the cell.

I looked into the prisoner's eyes focussing to see what's behind all his secrecy. He started to laugh, trying to annoy me, but his plan was not working. I finally made him focus into my eyes and got us into a vision from his past.

"There. Now, this is what I wanted. Thank you for co-operating," I said, eyeing him from just one meter away.

He stared at his past, younger self as he was rushing in the busy street towards school.

"No! No you won't!" he yelled, trying to jump on me.

Being just a vision, his body went past mine, right through me, falling onto the ground. He stayed on the floor statically for a moment feeling upset and useless.

"Are you done with your pathetic tantrums Biorn?" I uttered, now listening to his younger self and another teenage girl, around his age talking.

"I am not sure this is a good idea Biorn. I feel like we are going to get in trouble for it," she said, looking worried.

"Listen, I wouldn't be getting you involved if it wasn't necessary, but I really need your help in this. They offered a good sum of money. We can retire together at twenty. Maybe move to Bahamas or Fiji, who knows."

The girl looked upset as she looked away from him, avoiding his gaze, holding her arms crossed tightly close to her chest.

"Or maybe end up dead before we turn twenty!" She spat at his face, now moving back. "Don't," she continued hurriedly, watching him try to take a step towards her.

She ran away from him, dropping the paper she was holding in her hands. Biorn observed the paper as it landed on the floor, then quickly picked it up to read it.

I moved behind him to get a clear view of what it said. He sighed and folded it in half, placing it neatly in his school bag between his large green files.

"Well, it's time to return to reality, for now. My strength is still not at its best," I told him, turning to the older Biorn.

Moving out of his memory, I felt myself weaken. Melchior caught me on time before I landed on the floor and offered me a chair that was brought out from a dark corner close by. I started to breathe sharply, feeling my lungs squeeze together as the pain from my wound was getting stronger for a moment.

Luka's POV

"Well?" I asked after a few minutes of her catching her breath back.

"Biorn," she breathed, moving her hands away from her wound as she looked down at it.

"Ah! It took her all her strength for just your name. But I am sure she can check more of what your brain offers, Brian! Now you either save her some strength, and you offer us more information about your plan, or, she would gladly poke herself back into your memories and we will still get the information that we need from you," I smirked at him, knowing that either way, I was going to know his true plans.

Biorn moved back into a dark corner at the very edge of the cell, fisting the wall with frustration. He groaned at the impact of his arms punching against the hard stone, opening up his knuckles that bled.

"So, shall we ask him further sir alpha?" Melchior asked, still observing the prisoner.

As much as I urged for more information about him, my side was still bleeding and I needed to patch it up. The enchantress was also still very weak, so I decided to come back later when everyone was better.

"I will come back soon, you monstrous creature, and you must be ready to tell us more! You hear me?" I shouted the last sentence, shaking him off his spot.

Nelly's POV

"What do you mean, she is your mother?" I asked, trying to understand Melody's explanation.

"She came here to tell me the whole truth about myself. As she was healing at the hospital, she took me into one of her visions and explained the missing piece of my story, the one I just told you."

She was all smiles and tears as I leaned in for a hug, giving her all the comfort she needed for that moment.

"You know what that means Mel? You not only have more powers than the rest of us, but you are the next enchantress to be. That child you carry is the one that will take your place after you are gone!" I

chuckled knowing that she was more special than the rest of us witches that live amongst the wolves. It was good to have someone so powerful at a hand's reach.

"Melody, listen, I vow to you that I will protect you and your child with my life! To us witches, a rank of an enchantress is like a queen to a nation and we must protect her and her bloodline with all our energy! Whatever those monsters out there are up to, have already gotten what they wanted out of your mother. If they find out about you and your bean in there, you might be in more danger then any of us. Keep yourself in the shadows and protect your child! You hear me?" I said, raising my eyebrows as I held both her arms strongly between my grasp.

Mei's POV

"You are becoming so heavy little pup," I told my son as I lifted him, resting him on my hip.

He chuckled sweetly as he hugged my face, covering my eyesight. At that moment I heard Luka's voice getting closer to our bedroom room saying that he must come to me before he treats himself. I knew something was not right so I quickly moved mason back down and opened the door to find Luka holding his side with a bloody hand, with just a blanket to cover below his firm abs. Jake was helping him move up the last bit of stairs slowly, whilst trying to convince him to go treat his wound before anything else.

"Luka! What happened?" I asked as I rushed to his side with Mason running behind me.

"I'm fine Mei, it's just a scratch, that's all," he said, motioning with his eyes that the kid was right behind me.

"Mason, go back to your room. This is an adult meeting and it's not a discussion for young children to hear," I explained softly, kneeling to be on his same level. "Gigi is waiting for you on the bed to tell him the story I told you earlier. Why don't you go tell it to him? Huh?"

With a nod, he turned himself around and rushed in the bedroom, closing the door behind him.

"We caught the culprit Mei. He is officially our first prisoner. He will get no reward for such title of course," he chuckled trying to ease some tension.

I checked his wound and convinced him to go to the hospital first before explaining what he knew. I picked a shirt and light shorts for him to wear after he was checked out by a doctor and stitched up the wound neatly for him.

"The enchantress found out his name. Good thing she came just in time. Still, I wonder how she came about," Luka breathed, still in pain, groaning.

"She is Melody's mother. That is why she is here. We have all just found out," Jake explained.

There was a quiet moment as we all looked at each other in disbelief when the enchantress herself showed up at the door.

"This information Jake just told you is all true, yet irrelevant for the time being," she started to say, with her enchanting voice, moving further in, closer to Luka's bed.

We all remained quiet, expecting her to explain further.

"Through his memory, I found out that he once had a lover that dumped him after finding out a letter that he received from someone that seemed to have got interested in his work."

"What did the letter say?" Luka asked weakly, holding his side.