The Unknown Lycan Princess - Chapter 146: Chapter 146

Beth’s POV
Why do I not like the sound of that? Do I not get to find peace? Will I spend eternity tortured? I thought I did as much good as I could while I was alive. I was about to tears just thinking about it. “What about it?” I finally said.
“Your death. It is more of a healing sleep.” Zeus said nonchalantly.
Now that caught my attention. What the hell is a healing sleep? I waited for him to elaborate, but after a few minutes I realized he wasn’t going to so I said, “What the hell does that even mean? I was stabbed in the heart. I don’t think there is any coming back from that.” I couldn’t help the eye roll at the end.
“You can if you aren’t exactly a mortal.” Zeus said cryptically. The tone of his voice and the smirk on his face just confused me. He might as well be talking a foreign language for as much as I can’t understand him.
“What the hell is that supposed to mean? Will you stop answering me with something that is just going to lead to more questions? Spit it all out already, gramps, you’re killing me here with all the cryptic talk.” I say out of frustration.
The gasp from Hades when I spoke to Zeus like that was almost as comical as his face when I called him gramps, but nothing trumps the look of shock and confusion when Zeus started to laugh out loud at what I said.
“Little one you are definitely related to Ares. You have the same disrespectful nature. It amuses me on someone as little as you. Him, it makes me want to zap him with a s**t ton of lightning bolts to his ass. Anyway, what I meant was that you are not dead. Even though you were stabbed in the heart you still have enough blood from the gods in your system from when you were pregnant to survive this.” Zeus said
“God blood? I’ve never drank any of that.” I said. Completely lost on how he thought I had drank any blood from the… Ares! My face must have told on me again because Zeus chuckled again.
“You also get that same look Ares does when he figures something out and doesn’t like the answer. Yes. The blood that Ares was giving to you was that of the gods. Mine most of the time. It was necessary. Your children needed the boost as well as you. There is a catch though. The healing sleep will eat up the rest of the blood from the gods in your system. I cannot tell you if there will be any left over permanent effects from the blood either because this isn’t something that we do. You are the first mortal to ever receive this gift. Use it wisely little one. We will be watching you. I think it is time for you to go back now. Your mates should be ready for you now.” Zeus said. Then with a wave of his hand my surroundings started to fade around me.
“You must journey to your body Beth. Be careful. There are horrors in the inbetween that will try to keep you from your body. They seek lost spirits to feed their master’s soul.” Sierra said before everything faded away.
****The Inbetween****
Of course this wouldn’t be easy. Nothing in my life up to this point has been easy. ‘It will be ok little one. I am with you now.’ Harmony said to me.
‘Harmony! I didn’t think I would be able to contact you as a spirit!’ I said in return.
‘I also benefited from you consuming God’s blood. This is one of those perks I guess.’
Harmony said in a thoughtful tone.
‘I am so thankful you are with me. I didn’t want to have to be alone. This place is giving me the creeps right now. Where are we?’ I said as I shivered and rubbed my hands up and down my crossed arms. I did not like the feeling I was getting right now. Almost like I am being watched from everywhere. I did a quick turn around to see where I was but all I could see was rocks everywhere I turned.
‘I think we are in a cave. There were four different paths to take. Now which way to the exit.’ I said to Harmony. I lifted my nose in the air to try and see if I could scent any fresh air. I about gagged at the smell of rotten eggs and rotting flesh, but just underneath all of that is the faint smell of the forest. I wasn’t sure which way the smell was coming from so I will just go a little ways and try again. If the smell is fainter I am going in the wrong direction.
‘Good idea Beth. We’ll get out of here in no time.’ Harmony said.
I walked for a few minutes one way and sniffed the air again. This time I did gag. I bent over and retched by the stone wall of the cave. ‘Not this way.’ I rasped out to Harmony. Once I was done I turned around back the way I had come. On my walk I was trying to figure out how a ghost could puke. Nothing about this makes any sense.
I made it back to where I started and chose to go the exact opposite of the way I started. I walked for a few minutes and then cautiously breathed in. Again almost instantly I gagged and dry heaved. I didn’t have anything left in my ghostly stomach to bring up. Once I was able to walk again I turned back around. I was nervous now on which way to take. ‘Which way do you think we should go? I don’t want to choose this time. I have gotten it wrong too many times already!’ I say.
‘Try the left. I’m not sure either, but my gut is telling me the right leads to danger.’ Harmony responded.
I took Harmony’s advice and went left. I walked for a few minutes and stopped. I had to psyche myself up to test the air. I really do not want to smell that rotten smell again. Ok. I can do this. It can’t be any worse than the other tunnels. I blew a breath out and sniffed the air cautiously and was pleasantly surprised that I could smell more of the forest than rotting flesh. With a smile on my face I picked up my pace just a bit more. I was hurrying through the tunnel with the smell of the forest becoming more and more prominent.
After walking for another ten minutes I saw an opening to the cave. I started to run towards the exit. The closer to the exit I got the more excited I was to get out of this cave. The creepy feeling was still there, but I would feel more comfortable out in the open as odd as that sounds. The moment I exited the cave I felt like I could breathe again. The fresh smell of the forest calmed my nerves some. I turned around to see if I could figure out where I was. It was no use. I had no idea where I was, but I could feel that my packlands were close.
I closed my eyes and opened up my other senses hoping that I could find some way to tell where I needed to go. I tried to see if I could smell anything familiar in the wind, but I couldn’t find anything. Frustrated, I focused my attention on my hearing. It took me a minute to drown out the normal sounds of the forest. The squirrels and chipmunks foraging for food. The deer not far away lapping at the stream that is bubbling away nearby. The birds singing their songs.
Now that I was focused I could hear growls and snarls a fair distance away to my right. I opened my eyes smiling. I knew where I needed to go now.