Chapter 1 The Agreement

• --2005--
• All of them were there. I couldn’t know, realise, or had any recollection of why everyone was here. All I knew was, that there was a woman in a red and black gown, and she had one of her hands on a boy’s shoulder who was standing right in front of her.
• My pack, the Moonshade Pack, was here. I could see fairies, witches, all the creatures that ever existed in our world.
• My Mom picked me up and held me in her arms. I was only 5 back then.
• “Mommy, this hurts,” I say while I show her the wound on my arm. She smiled weakly, shushed me and paid attention towards the others.
• Finally, I see my father and an older man signing a piece of paper. The paper was given by an old lady, who was accompanied by one younger lady and the other in between young and old.
• “Mommy, what is happening here?” I ask my mother. She looked down at me, smiled once again, and finally spoke.
• “It’s for your protection, little one. Don’t you worry. Daddy, Mommy and your pack will always protect you. No matter what. I promise, okay?”
• I nodded as she tilted my head so that I could see my clan behind us and not where my Dad was.
• The treaty is concluded. I hear the voice of a woman.
• “Any clan that breaks this treaty shall be given penalties, fatal or a lifetime imprisonment in the ‘Galaxy’.”
• “Any clan who tries to mislead the other, or cause harm to the other one, shall receive the deadliest sentence.”
• “Any clan who decided to break the treaty, and enter the other one’s boundaries, shall be executed on the spot.”
• “Hailey?” I hear my Mom calling me. I face her as I see a teardrop forming in one of her eyes.
• “What's wrong, Mommy? Why are you sad?”
• “I’m not sad, Hailey.” She takes a pause and tries to calm herself. Finally, she set me down slowly and guides me into the circle where my Dad and the older man were standing.
• “I need you to stay strong for me, okay sweety?” She says as I watch that little boy and the lady with him, walking towards us.
• “Promise me you’ll stay strong, Hailey?” My Mom asks again.
• “I promise, mommy. But where are we going?”
• We reach the others and now that it was clear to me, they were standing inside a circle which had something written on it at the corners. I was a child, so I couldn’t really understand what it said.
• My Dad and my Mom walked out of the circle..leaving me and the boy with Red Eyes.
• “Hey there, sweet creatures.” We both stare at each other, then we look up. It was one of the three woman who passed the piece of paper to Daddy.
• “I need you both to face each other and hold hands.”
• I watch the boy and see something which was a bit weird. He had a deep cut across his cheek. All I could think about was how he got this injury, but when I looked into his eyes, I was scared to my bitter core.
• They were deep red.
• “Please, children. Do what we say.”
• At first, we were hesitant because I couldn’t realise who this boy was. And as far as I know, we werewolves aren’t allowed to make contact with those whom we don’t know.
• One single touch could be fatal.
• I stare at my mom, who softly nods and whispers, “It’s okay,” and I do what the old lady says. The boy does the same. As soon as we made skin contact, and I felt how cold his skin was, both our arms started to form fire.
• “Mommy?” I almost screamed as I was scared now.
• “Hush now, love. It’ll only take a second.” The old says as she places her hands on our heads. She tilted her face back and closed her eyes. As the fire began to grow aggressively.
• It was so weird because I could feel the cause of the fire was our contact, but the heat never burned our skin.
• The old lady faces us one last time and smiles once again.
• “It’ll only hurt a little. But soon, this will all be gone.”
• And in that moment, her eyes turn light grey as they glow.
• “Mommy!” I call out to my mother and before I try to make a run for it, my body froze. I couldn’t move a single muscle. I couldn’t control my hands, my feet, my eyes. I couldn’t even speak anymore.
• The caused pain shall soon be gone.
• The caused trouble, shall to be free.
• For those who want to live every beat,
• Shall be granted the wish to forget what went misdeed.
• Me and the boy’s reactions were the same. When the old lady finished her rant, we started to float in the air, not too high, but we did.
• Our eyes started to glow heavily as well when I felt a sharp pain in my head. The boy and I started to scream in pain, but not through my only through mind.
• It was like our souls were connected, but something happened.
• I started to feel I was alone, in a bright but isolated place. I was there all alone. My mind was going empty. I no longer felt someone’s hands grabbing mine. My eyes were open, yet all I could see was the colour white.
• It was like someone trapped me inside a cube, wanting me to be tortured by this heavenly light.
• “Noooo, make this stop!” I screamed as I start to gain consciousness.
• “Mommy? MOM, PLEASE HELP ME! MOM!”
• I called out for her when suddenly, I felt a pair of hands on my shoulders, once again.
• “Hailey, wake up!” She screamed to wake me up from this nightmare, and I did.
• “W-what happened?” I sit up instantly, not wasting time as I face my mother.
• “You were having a nightmare, baby.”
• “Again?” I ask her, all frustrated and tired. I could see she was terrified as well because these nightmares were something I lived every single night.
• They just don’t stop. They don’t. They keep on going as they want me to learn something from them. I felt like they needed me to realise that my destiny was yet to be found by me.
• And only I could figure it out.
• Only me.