The Unknown Lycan Princess - Chapter 112: Chapter 112

Beth’s POV
As I open my eyes I notice that I am standing in front of a large and imposing wall that is covered in years and years of ivy overgrowth. I walk up to it feeling a strange pulling sensation towards it. Like it is calling to me. Faint whispers could be heard in the wind calling out her name.
I placed my hand on the wall and to my surprise felt a jolt of electricity course through her. Fur started to sprout on my arms and my bones started to snap and realign themselves. My body was shifting to that of my wolf’s without my permission. I couldn’t stop the shift even if I wanted to, which I didn’t. I wasn’t sure what was happening, but I instinctively knew that this was meant to happen.
When my shift was complete I realized that it was only a partial shift, and I was in my half shifted form standing tall on two legs. I stepped away from the wall and tilted my head back and howled into the darkened night sky. Soon another howl answered my call to the night and others followed after until a whole pack of wolves were calling out to each other in the night.
My pack. My destined pack to lead. I felt it in my blood. The pull I felt was the pull of my pack awaiting their new Alpha. I released another howl putting all of my conviction to free them behind it. The answering call was louder and more exuberant than before. I could feel their excitement down to my bones. I stepped back up to the wall and placed both of my hands on it this time. I hissed because I cut my hand on a thorn, but brushed it off and replaced my hand.
I felt the electricity pulse again, but this time instead of coming from the wall it was coming from me and it was strong. A blastwave came from my hands into the wall and all the years of ivy fell off and to the ground. What remained was a stone wall reminiscent of the ruins littered across the European countryside. Beyond the gate, far into the distance, I could see a tall and glorious stone structure that no doubt in my mind was the castle.
I searched the wall looking for the way in and found a door with some strange kind of locking mechanism. I inspected it for a few minutes and crossed my arms over my chest. I was feeling frustrated that I wasn’t sure what to do now. I could feel the pull getting stronger and stronger the longer I stood here. Harmony was quiet in my mind, but I could feel her agitation like it was my own. She wanted through this wall yesterday. The longer it takes us to achieve our goal the faster she starts to pace in my mind and swish her tail around agitatedly.
‘Harmony it would be a lot easier to think without you pacing a trench into my brain. What is up with you lately? You haven’t been yourself. Like with training. You didn’t even warn me about it. You just weakened us and left me vulnerable to that spiteful girls’ attacks. Talk to me.’ I pleaded with her.
I heard Harmony’s sigh and felt her guilt. She laid down in my mind and placed her head on her front paws. Her ears were laid flat against her head and she whimpered a bit. ‘Have you ever just felt like you weren’t enough. That no matter what you do you don’t measure up to whoever’s expectations you were trying to meet. That you feel like you are doing great, and then out of the blue it all goes downhill?’ Harmony asked quietly.
I sat down and leaned my back against the stone wall. Thinking over what Harmony said I whispered back to her as if I was telling a huge secret, ‘Sometimes. Not much anymore. Ethan and Alexi help me with that so much. When I was younger though. I felt like that all of the time. I would try so hard to get my father’s approval and no matter what I did it wasn’t good enough. I’ve thought about going to see him with the kids and our mates. Just to see if it was really as bad as I remember or if it was just all in my mind. I’m scared though. What if it was worse than I remembered? I don’t know if I would survive the embarrassment if my father treated me like that in front of our mates. How can I rule a kingdom and earn their respect if I can’t even earn it from my own father?’ I voiced my fears as well.
‘Your father is a douchebag and does not deserve you spending this much time and emotion on. Your father couldn’t see value if it stared at him directly in his face. I mean he threw mother away and she is a catch. I feel like that sometimes, that I am not good enough. Feel like sometimes being a wolf isn’t as great as being a witch. Maybe if I were to have magical powers you would love that side of you just as much as your witch side and use it more often.’ Harmony whispered, and let out a soft whine.
My heart broke for my wolf. I felt simply awful that I have made her feel this way. I closed my eyes and pictured myself standing beside my wolf in my mind and I saw the world around me shimmer and as it cleared I noticed I was in my mind standing beside Harmony. I threw my arms around her the best I could and sobbed out my apology, I am so sorry Harmony. I never intended to make you feel this way. Why didn’t you tell me sooner? You are a part of me Harmony and without you I would be nothing. You are one of the best parts of me. The other part of my soul that makes me whole. I enjoy using my magic so much because I get to do it with my best friend, you. I know I haven’t been the best human to you and I have failed to even try to work on my wolfy skills until now. I promise though, from now on, that I will use all of my skills equally unless the task requires otherwise. Deal?’
I watched as Harmony c****d her head to the side and looked at me intently, and then c****d it to the other side as if seeing me from a different angle would help her make a decision. I was desperately hoping that she would agree. I mean in my defense I wasn’t exactly able to practice some of the wolfy stuff such as full on shifting and sparing in wolf and human form. Being pregnant kind of stopped that from happening. Though there were plenty of other skills I could have worked on such as my senses. I could have honed those skills so that I would be proficient enough as any other wolf who had grown up with their counterparts awakened unlike me who had her counterpart in hibernation until recently. Thankfully Harmony didn’t let me go for too long without an answer. She nodded her head agreeing to the terms. I have a promise to make too. Next training session we will wipe the floor with those other wolves. We’ll show them all that we are strong enough to do anything we put our minds to. They need to see their future queen is strong and capable if we expect them to follow us. That is on me if they don’t see that right now because of abandoning you in training. However I do stick to my original argument that you need to take the reins on this because to be honest I do already know how to be a wolf. You definitely do not.’ Harmony said, laughing at her own dumb jokes. I rolled my eyes, thankful that her playful self was back.
I thought I felt a small vibration in my back, but brushed it off thinking I was just imagining things because it was gone just as fast as it came. Before I could dwell on it for too long Ares popped up with my mates beside him looking all sorts of flustered. I knew something was up because my mates wouldn’t meet my eyes. I turned to Ares with my hands on my hips. His return smirk of my glare made me hesitant to ask, but I needed to know what has my mates all flustered so after raising a brow at him I said, “Explain.” Then I waved my hands back and forth indicating my blushing mates.
“Let’s just say that when they made it through the divide from the mortal realm to the godly one they landed in a forbidden area to men. Hestia’s virgins to be precise. In the middle of bath time.” Ares couldn’t say anymore because he couldn’t stop laughing. I rolled my eyes at him and then looked at my mates.
“You two seriously need to get over it. I can understand Alexi being uncomfortable, but you Ethan are a wolf and are used to nudity.” Now I can’t say that I was happy that my mates saw a bunch of virgins naked all sudded up, but I was relieved to notice that neither of them looked as if they enjoyed their little show, and their members didn’t either.
I just shook my head at my sheepish looking mates and placed a hand on each of their chests. It took Ares a few more minutes to calm his laughter down. Once he did he took a double take of the stone wall and pointed at it and said, “How did…did you? Can someone explain to me how in the hell she was able to do this without the spell or the ingredients?” He bellowed out the last bit into the sky to no one in particular.
“Well if you would stop your yelling I will tell you all about it.” I heard a voice say. I turned to see that it was Fate.