Fate of The Lycan King’s Mate

Elle looked around frantically, only to be met with a creepy moonlit forest with the most horrifying noises that hurtfully pierced through her eardrums. Before she realised what she was doing, she had been running endlessly without looking back as if something had been chasing her.

All of a sudden, she found herself in an ancient mansion with a terrifying ambience. As she walked down the hallway of the mansion, she came to an abrupt stop and was met with the sight of a pair of eyes that carried a unique amber fire. These eyes were eventually revealed to belong to a wolf.

In an instance of freight, she attempted to run in the opposite direction, but as she turned, her body was met with the back of an unknown person.

“I should ask for help,” Elle thought to herself.

“Hello! Excuse me! Do you know where this is? Do you perhaps...know the way out of here?” She asked in a shaky voice. Instead of the voice of a human being, the figure growled in a fearless might that led her to look around frantically in severe panic mode. Where was she? How had she gotten there? Where was her dad?

Once again, she found herself back in the moonlit forest. While walking down, she came face to face with a pale-faced person who looked like her friend, Oliver. She went closer to him “Oliver? Is that you? What are you doing here? Where are we?”

“RUN AWAY. ELLE!” He shouted at the top of his lungs. His words sent a scary shiver down her spine. After speaking, he disappeared amongst some bats. Best believe, she was desperate to leave “Run? From what? How do I do that? I feel like I’m stuck here!”

The experience reached an even more bizarre climax as she found herself in a crowd witnessing a female leader of an unknown group of creatures slaughtering someone. The crowd was made up of different creatures with fangs, wings, one-eyed creatures, and even half-human, half-monsters.

Elle gasped in terror as she looked up at the female leader about to slaughter someone. It was her. The person possessed her face and body. It was like staring straight into a mirror.

Right when her eyes met that of the female who looked so much like her, she woke up in her room sweaty with her heart beating fiercely against her ribs. Trying to catch her breath, she looked around her room just to be sure that what she had been experiencing was indeed a dream. This was not the first time she had had dreams of that sort, but this time, it all felt too real. It felt like more than just a disturbing lucidity.

Even more annoying, it was already getting bright outside. It was time to start getting ready for school. She sighed in frustration and got about the beginning of her day. As an 18-year-old high school senior, Elle dreaded attending school. However, for the sake of her dad, she wanted to get it over with before leaving her home to explore what she was interested in, the existence of the supernatural world.

Moving to Ashfalls had been one of the most traumatic decisions her father, Sheriff Locke, had ever made. The night they moved in three years ago, because of her father’s job, marked the beginning of her lucid nightmares that were never-ending.

She had never told anyone about the nightmares. She suffered them in silence, and as a result, they took a toll on her mental health. Generally, she had slowly stopped doing the things she liked and focused solely on her liberation from the nightmares. Due to the same nightmares, she lacked social skills, and her only two friends were Saffron and Oliver.

Today, she made up her mind to open up to Saffron about it. During lunchtime, she went over to Saffron

“Hey, Saf!”

“omg hi, Elle! I’ve barely seen you around. What’s the occasion?”

In as much as the two were best friends, they barely saw each other. This was because Saffron understood that Elle was someone who valued her privacy. If she needed to see Saffron, she was only one call away and vice-versa.

“I need to talk to you about something... now!” she said in a barely audible voice. They both made their way to an empty classroom to discuss better.

“So, what’s up?” Saffron started.

“I’m going to be simple about this. For three years, I’ve had these disturbing lucid nightmares that constantly repeat themselves. I thought about it and I realised that there must be some weird reason behind all of this.”

Saffron placed two fingers on the bridge of her nose “I don’t understand so well. What do these nightmares entail?”

“These might sound ridiculous, but sometimes I see myself killing someone. Or a person turning into a wolf or seeming human beings feeding on blood or I sometimes even get chased by animals that are not completely animals. Even crazier is that I see people flying and casting spells. It’s all so creepy, and there are even some constant characters like my friend, Oliver. And also there’s this random dude I see who doesn’t speak but growls instead. Do you understand? Or am I saying complete nonsense?” She said in one breath.

“Breath Elle! Have you considered seeing a therapist? You know, dreams are only a figment of your imagination”

On the surface, Saffron appeared as a regular high school student. Deep down, she was a witch. This directly meant that she perfectly understood what Elle was speaking about. Elle is unaware of the fact that Saffron is a witch. No one knows her true identity.

There was a major reason she needed to hide her identity. A long time ago, in this town called Ashfalls, werewolves, vampires, and witches openly lived amongst humans without having to hide their powers. However, as humans sought immortality, these supernatural creatures became endangered, so they decided to go into hiding. After this, humans gave up on the quest for immortality, and gradually, these creatures became forgotten.

Knowing that Elle’s father was a Sheriff, she could not risk exposing herself to the public. However, she still wanted to help out. She stylishly placed her hands on Elle’s to use her psychic powers to find out what might be wrong with her. She was surprised when she could not sense anything but only found herself in the moonlit forest that Elle had spoken about. This meant that it was not just nightmares that she was having. They could have either been little pieces of memories or events relating to her future or past. Saffron could not place what exactly was going on.

Snapping back to reality, she could only find a way to make Elle think it was all due to her imagination.

“Look! Don’t think about it. Maybe you should get some rest. Or even hang out with friends more often, you know. Go for one or two parties, just to unwind. Most importantly, you need to make more friends” Saffron said in her soothing voice.

“I don’t think you understand how serious this is, Saf! They keep replaying in my head. Constantly! I’m sick and tired of all of it. And I’m willing to get to the root of it.” Elle replied as she swiftly ruffled her hair in frustration.

Elle felt suffocated, having to hide all of those things to herself. The one time she had decided to voice out, she had been misunderstood by her friend. If she had wanted to get a response concerning therapy, she could have just gone to meet her dad.

“There has to be more to this Saf! I need your help to find out more about what might be happening to me” Elle slowly picked her words one by one. She had never been the kind of person to ask for help from anyone.

For a split moment, Saffron thought that her grandmother, the oldest witch in their lineage, would be able to help Elle because she understood her position as a trusted friend to Elle. On the other hand, she could not dare to reveal the secrets of her world to her. She was not allowed to do that. It was so forbidden that Saffron could even get killed for it.

Elle had already concluded, with or without the help of Saffron, that she was going to make her findings anyway. She knew that the journey ahead contained multiple uncertainties, but to keep her sanity, she needed to get to the absolute bottom of the nightmares. As much as she desired a companion for her journey, she was not going to try too hard to convince Saffron. It was going to be totally up to her to be interested or not.

“Saf, it is fine if you don’t want to have a hand in this. I know how scary it might be. I’ll take my leave now,” she said as she motioned towards the door. She was stopped by Saffron.

“You’re not doing anything without me. Count me in!” Saffron said. She had made up her mind to become a double agent. She planned on hiding the truth and, at the same time, helping Elle for the sake of their friendship. ‘Nothing could go wrong’ she thought to herself.

“Seriously. You don’t have to do this.”

“Uh—Yes, I do” Saffron replied with a sassy eye roll.

“OMG! If it’s fine with you, then yes, please,” Elle responded with a smile on her face. It had been a long time since she last smiled the slightest bit.

“But promise me one thing, Elle! We need to stop if it gets too creepy or dangerous”

She nodded frantically in approval “Of course! I just need to know a bit, so the nightmares can end!”