THE ALPHA’S DESTINY 2 (Fulfilling The Prophecy) - Chapter 77: Chapter 77

HAZEL'S POV
My father asked the banshee the question again and the answer was the same, Lucinda, my mother, is the Queen of the Fae World's best friend.
So, that was where she was all these years. Living life in the land of the fairies. I wondered if she ever thought about coming to get me.
If she could see the past and future so well, shouldn't she have seen that dad went missing around the time of my eighth birthday? Shouldn't she have seen my distress and how heartbroken I was about losing both my parents? Shouldn't she have seen I needed her, that I needed my mother?
"Do you know if she's still there?" my father dug some more.
"Yes, I should think so. But why is Lucinda important to you guys?" Cedella inquired.
"She is not," I answered, steering the focus from the mysteries of my mother. "Let's just hear the rest of what you were telling us earlier. So, when Lucifer kidnapped Lucinda and found out the portal ruby was a decoy, what did he do next."
Everyone was silent, and I knew they could see how pissed and tormented I was about the situation, so they said nothing more to me.
Cedella cleaned her throat as she continued. "Well, when Lucifer figured out the portal ruby didn't work, he was at the entrance of the Dragon Flame Summit. They both were captured by the guards and brought before the King. But my mother was already there waiting for them. Lucifer's memories of me were wiped, and he was banished back to the earthly realms, and I was left alone and pregnant," Cedella sighed.
"So your daughter is also Lucifer's daughter?" Isis knew the answer, but she still needed to ask.
"Yes," Cedella replied.
"You know that makes her a Dark Fae," Isis declared. "If the child gets into the wrong hands, she could become a destroyer."
"Don't you think I know that?" Cedella scoffed. "To be fair, I didn't know he was a dark wizard when we got together. It was while I was carrying his child I figured it out when I felt that her powers were dark, and so I reached out to Skully. I thought he was my friend, but I didn't know he was in it with Lucifer from the beginning. I snuck away in the night and when I arrived in Dead Man's Cave, Skully wanted me to sign a document that said I would be under his protection while I lived in the realm of the dead. It took me days to sign it, but I wanted my child to be safe, so I did."
"But if Lucifer doesn't remember his time with you or that he visited the Fae World, who were you hiding from?" I asked.
"My mother. We should never cross-breed without her blessing. I was sure she would have executed my child."
"So Skully betrayed you?" Declan asked.
"At first he was nice and as friendly as ever, but when he figured out I was pregnant I saw his true colours. He began to act mad and told me that I couldn't stay here anymore."
"Why?" Zander asked.
"Because," Skully spoke. "If a living creature gives birth in the realm of the dead, then the city will crumble and the dead will walk the earth. If that balance is tipped, then every undead creature would have power and they won't need a ruler and I couldn't have that."
"When he told me this, I tried to leave, but the closer I got to the exit, the weaker I felt. Skully's contract had loopholes, so if I left Dead Man's Cave, I would die along with my unborn child and I could not have that."
"Fucking bastard!" Declan growled.
"I wept for days and nights. I felt used and betrayed, and I didn't know whom to turn to. When I gave birth to Tia, I was so weak afterward. I only glimpsed my daughter for a few seconds before I –" Cedella paused. "Before everything got dark. The next thing I remember was waking up feeling sad and lonely. I was hovering over a fresh grave that was under the big oak tree outside. I hovered inside the mansion, and I wept some more when I saw my ghastly image in the mirror. I died and became this, a banshee. A predictor of death. Skully took the real portal ruby from my corpse, and he had been using it to travel to the human world ever since."
"That's how he met Nancy," Declan grunted.
"And the Shirleys and Marys to make his nasty drinks!" Carson, the slug gagged.
"What are you guys babbling about?" Zander inquired, so Dimitri told us about what took place in the strip club, and then Declan told us about the counter of souls.
Zander strode towards Major Skully, his eyes lost in darkness as his wolf came to the surface. "You're an evil creature and as the banshee said, you will die tonight!" Zander clutched him by his boney neck and lifted him with ease off the ground.
He struggled to speak, but Zander didn't care to hear what he had to say.
"How old is the child?" We all turned to look at Lance. He and ghost Carson were standing in the corner of the corridor, ensuring not to interfere with our interrogation of Major Skully.
Cedella craned her neck to look at him. "My daughter will be 10 in a few days."
"Then the child must leave. If she stays here past her 10th birthday, the town will begin to crumble to pieces until it is no more," Lance explained.
"The ghoul is right, Cedella," Carson the ghost agreed.
"OK," Cedella sighed. "But I cannot leave this realm, so I will never see my daughter again."
"Never say never," Isis declared. "There are numerous ways of doing things where I'm from."
Cedella sniffled. "Alpha Zander and Luna Hazel, I am entrusting you two with the safety of my daughter, bring her to my mother and beg her to take care of her. If she refuses, you must raise her as your own."
Zander nodded as he let go of Skully.
"Yes. I promise to do as you say," I assured her. "But won't your mother kill her for being a cross-breed?"
"I thought so when I was alive, but death unlocks an understanding in me that I didn't possess before," Cedella chuckled lightly. "When I disappeared, my mother sent all her best fairies to find me. I was found by one 6 years ago, but it was too late, I'd already died and become this. She told me my mother knew I was pregnant and was excited to become a grandmother. She told me that was the main reason she wiped Lucifer's memories of me."
"And that's why I had been lingering here with her for years," ghost Carson chimed in. "King Lucifer promised Major Skully powers equivalent to a God's if he finds him powerful hybrids. So Skully informed Lucifer that he had a Dark Fae in his possession, when Cedella found out she captured him and trapped him in the outskirts of the town."
"I wonder who set him free," Zander's eyes landed on Declan.
"We did Alpha," Declan confessed. "But it was only so he'd give us what we needed to fix Carson and Dimitri."
"Yes, and I still want to help. The zombie eyes I fetched are in the inside of my robe," Skully declared.
"No, thank you, but a friend of mine told me not to take the ones you'll offer me. So, she gave me some herself," Declan added. "He wanted to turn my friends feral, so he could take back the town from Cedella."
"That makes no sense, feral creatures do not affect me," Cedella stated with confusion in her voice. Then her eyes went wide. "But my daughter, she's allergic to feral werewolves and vampires. He was going to use them to weaken her, so he could get her to Lucifer," Cedella screeched. She stretched her arms out to squeeze Skully's neck. She launched her body towards him.