Forbidden Mate: Awakening

In the dream, Lily, Sarah, Theo and I were discussing our next steps to finding a way to stop more vampires from entering our boundary. We were in the main room. Suddenly, darkness loomed over the grove and I saw through the window, Audrey walking towards the pack with an eerie black fog enveloping her every step.

The dark fog surrounded her, and her eyes glowed with an unnatural intensity. “Well, well, well, look who decided to show up,” she sneered.

We all immediately became alarmed and ran outside.

Lily stepped forward, “What do you want, Audrey?” she demanded.

“Oh, just to have a little chat with my former friends,” Audrey replied, her voice dripping with venom. “You see, I’ve come to realize that I am truly better off without all of you.”

I felt a surge of anger rise within me. “You betrayed us, Audrey,” I said, “We trusted you, and you turned your back on us.”

Audrey laughed mockingly. “Trust is such a naive concept, Tyler,” she said. “You should have known better than to put your faith in someone like me.”

Lily stepped forward again. “We trusted you because we thought you were our friend; well not mine, but at least a good person,” she said. “But it’s clear now that you were just using us for your own gain.”

Audrey’s smile widened. “You catch on fast, don’t you?” she said. “But it doesn’t matter now. I have what I came for, and there’s nothing you can do to stop me.”

With those words, the dark fog surrounding Audrey seemed to intensify, swirling around her like an unstable storm. I felt a shiver run down my spine, and I knew that whatever she had planned, it was going to be dangerous.

As Audrey began to move closer, Lily raised her hand, ready to defend herself. “We won’t let you destroy us,” she said defiantly.

Audrey chuckled, her eyes glinting with malice. “Destroy you? Oh, no, bitch. I have much bigger plans in mind,” she said. “But don’t worry, you won’t be around to witness them.”

Before any of us could react, Audrey unleashed a powerful blast of energy, sending us flying backward. The force of the blast knocked the wind out of me, and I struggled to catch my breath as I tried to stand up.

Lily, Theo, and Sarah were also on the ground, but they quickly regained their footing, ready to face whatever Audrey had in store for us. Despite the fear that gripped me, I stood my ground.

Audrey laughed wickedly as she raised her hands again, preparing for another attack. But just as she was about to unleash it, that vampire leader appeared out of nowhere, grabbing Audrey by the wrist and stopping her in her tracks.

“What do you think you’re doing, Audrey?” he demanded, “This isn’t who you are.”

Audrey’s expression wavered for a moment, and I saw a flicker of doubt in her eyes. But then, the dark fog seemed to consume her again, and her resolve hardened. “You don’t know anything about me, Leo,” she spat. “I am who I choose to be, and right now, I choose to be rid of all of you.”

Leo shook his head, “You’re throwing away everything we had, everything we could have been,” he held her hand again, “If you do this, your entire aura will be sucked from you, Audrey. ” He then pointed at Lily, “That girl…she’s the – ”

The blare of my alarm clock made my eyes shoot open.

I tensed, then slowly steadied my breathing.

What was that dream about and what did it mean? A sense of impending doom washed over me, and I knew I had to warn my friends. My heart pounded in my chest as I bolted from my bed, and rushed to put on clothes.

I needed to go meet Lily.. maybe she’d know the meaning.

Arriving at the grove, I found Lily and Sarah gathered together, discussing something . “Guys,” I gasped, trying to catch my breath.

“Why are you breathing like that? Why are you in a rush?” Lily said, looking at me concernedly.

“I had a dream, and Audrey… she’s coming, and there’s something dark surrounding her.”

Lily furrowed her brows. “What do you mean, Tyler? What did you see in your dream?”Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

“I saw her walking towards the pack with this black fog surrounding her, like some sort of untamed force,” I explained. “I don’t know what it means, but it can’t be good. We need to be on guard.”

Lily and Sarah looked at each other, then Lily spoke, “A black fog around her? Maybe she really has gotten more dark magic to add to her portfolio.”

“You think she’s now doing magic?” I asked.

“She’s always been doing magic. You’ve just never noticed.” Sarah said elusively which made me feel more stupid.

“We can’t underestimate her,” I said firmly. “I believe she really is coming to do something that’ll devastate the pack very soon.”

Sarah chimed in, “Maybe she’s trying to use the fog as a distraction, to catch us off guard…I mean in context with the dream.”

I agreed, “That’s possible. We can’t let our guard down for a moment.”

“Or maybe it’s something more.” Lily’s brainstorming face was on and we looked at her thoughtfully, “Which other people do you identify them with a black fog around them in our parameter?”

I thought for a while, “It can’t be the water people of Nimel.”

“I don’t know much people who practice magic in our realm.” Sarah admitted.

“Or is it …” I started, “the black healers.” And Lily and I finished together.

The three of us exchanged looks.

“Is it what I’m thinking it is?” I asked.

“And what are you thinking?” Sarah asked.

“She’s convinced the black healers to join her rampage?”

“But she was alone in your dream not with an army, wasn’t she?” Lily asked.

“Yeah.”

“One thing I know about Audrey is that she likes to be a one-woman army who doesn’t want to depend on anybody. If she can have the power to herself, she will.” Lily explained as if trying to get to something.

“So, you’re saying…” I said trying to connect the dots.

“She’s gotten power from them!” Sarah said, in a bingo moment.

“I’ll hardly say gotten…more like forcibly collected. It’s Audrey after all. We have to think of the worst of her now if we want to be prepared for her.” Lily said and we both were taken aback.

“If she’s raided the healers coven, then she must be on a rampage to get as much power as she can from the greatest magicians alive right now. Where next do you think she’ll be going to?” Sarah mentioned.

“The Forbidden Forest?” I said.

“Yes.” Lily nodded.

“Why?”

“Because she needs protection to enter that place with a dark heart like hers, to get her hands on the Ring of Lythian.” Lily said simply.

I was so confused, “Wait, what? Who? The ring of what?”

Lily and Sarah looked at themselves then at me.

Lily then sighed and looked at me, “Tyler, it’s about time you know the full story of the journal and the ring the vampires and Audrey want to get their hands on. It’s about time you…know the truth.”