Moonlight Kiss

24. The Epidemic.

[Jade]

The next few days their green sickness grew worse, I had found a spell infused potion that could delay the effects of the sickness but it wasn't strong enough.

A lot of other wolves also began to get infected with the same disease and soon half of the pack were admitted into the hospital.

There wasn't enough space there so some of them were moved into the mansion, they were placed on stretchers and they were just laying there with their blackish green eyes and bodies.

It was a terrible situation.

"We came as soon as we heard." Two women burst the door open and barged in.

I was taking a break with Mason in his office when they came in.

"Thank you for coming." Mason stood up from his seat and walked over to them, he then beckoned me with his hand to meet them.

"The rumors are true." The older of the two women gasped and held my face in her hands.

"Indeed they are." The second one looked me up and down.

I stared in confusion until the woman removed her hands from my face.

"This is Zefa, she's Sirius' niece and this is Zilla, she's his aunt," Mason said and I nodded my head. "I don't think she needs much introduction but she's Jade, my mate, and the Luna of the wolf pack." He said to them putting a possessive hand on my waist.

Possessive much?

I almost rolled my eyes at his very caveman-like gesture, but wait, he was actually part cave being so I guess it was part of him anyway.

"Nice to meet you, Luna." They greeted me, bowing slightly.

"Oh, no need for that." I sounded panicked. "Am sure there's a hierarchy in the witch's world and you don't need to do that."

"That was precisely why we did that." Zilla, Sirius' aunt said.

"You're a higher rank witch than the both of us," Zefa added.

My mouth opened in an 'o', I did not realize that.

"Does Sirius know that you're here?" Mason asked, changing the subject.

"No, we've just arrived and we were shown in by some guards," Zefa said.

"Yeah, I'd like to meet his mate, I believe she's your mother," Zilla asked, smiling at me.

"Yes, she is."

"Well, then I think I like her already."

"Can we maybe see the sick people first?" Zefa said and I smiled at her.

"Sure, I'm surprised you haven't seen them, they're everywhere," I said sadly.

"I'll go to Sirius, he has been in the dungeons for far too long, I'm beginning to suspect that the girl knows nothing," Mason said.

"Yeah, maybe her memory was wiped by some kind of magic."

When I said that I noticed that the two women looked at each other with an uneasy expressions on their faces.

"Krypto dia menta?" I asked them in Crypetian.

I asked them what the matter was, they weren't talking so I felt it was something they didn't want anyone to hear.

"You speak Crypetian, great," Zilla answered me in the same language.

"We're not sure but the girl you mentioned might have been possessed," Zefa said in the same language.

Mason walked out of the room since he couldn't understand what we were saying and I proceeded to take them to the isolation center where we had kept the infected people.

"Possessed?" I asked her. "By black magic, is this the work of the cult?"

"How do you know about the cult?" Zilla asked me.

"I went to the circle, I met with the witches and I found out about the cult," I told her.

"The Circle has not been seen for years, many have undergone different voyages to find them and you did, how?" Zefa asked with uncertainty in her voice.

"My cousin was the child the circle rescued," I told her.

"That explains it, that child is a legend and you are too since you both are from the same bloodline, the Lokais."

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"What do you think this is?" I asked Zilla after she finished examining the patients.

"I've tried every healing spell I know, but none is working," I complained sadly.

"It's dark magic." She sighed, still speaking the Crypetian language.

She walked from one body to the other putting her palm over their heads and checking how far gone they were.

"It's the oldest witch poison known to us, it's called the green fever, it first turns the eyes green then the whole body and when that happens the body starts to decompose." She explained.

"That's terrible." I gasped.

Poison, I did not know how this could have happened then my mind wandered to when I saw Nana's niece messing with the food and when I saw her before the lake.

That was probably the time she did it.

"Yes, the potion you've been giving them has helped to slow down the process but it is not a permanent solution." She told me.

"What is?" I asked her and she looked at Zefa.

"The poison is made from the skin of a green frog, it would've been easier to make an antidote if it were just ordinary green fever but there seems to have been other ingredients because green fever doesn't work this fast and strong," Zefa said, pacing the length of the room.

"We have to do something, please tell me there's something that can be done." I pleaded with them.

"Of course there is, but it will require a sacrifice."

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[Mason]

The weight on my shoulders immediately lessened when Zefa and Zilla arrived, I knew that between the both of them and Jade, they would find a solution to the epidemic that was raging through the pack.

I left my office when they began to speak in an ancient language that I did not understand and I went down to find Sirius in the dungeons.

Clarice had been so unstable we had to sedate her and she was currently locked up in her room under heavy supervision.

Nana was also under heavy supervision and she also had to be sedated because she was also being frantic, she was screaming her head off and the guards couldn't take it anymore.

"Has she said anything?" I asked Sirius when I entered the dungeon.

He was sitting on a metal chair in front of her cell and he was squeezing the bars angrily.

The girl looked untouched except for the scar from the cut on her lips and the bruising on her cheeks from Clarice's slap days ago, it had healed since she was a werewolf but the scars were still there.

Her hair was rough and her cheeks had the stain of tears on them.

"Nothing." He muttered.

"I think she was acting under the influence of dark magic then and now she can't remember anything," I told Sirius.

"I think so too, that's why I haven't tortured her and haven't asked her to be tortured."

"But she still has to be here until we can be sure that she will not be influenced again," I said and he agreed with me.

"By the way, Zefa and aunt Zilla are here," I told him and he stood up immediately.

"Where are they?" He asked.

"With the infected."

"I'll go to see them then we need to start finding answers elsewhere." He said and left after bowing as was courtesy after talking with an Alpha.

I took in a deep breath when he left and I took a seat on the metal chair he was sitting on.

I was Alpha and even though I wasn't a witch, I had to learn how to work through these kinds of situations

And that was why for the past three days I had been sleeping in the library, I was browsing through so many books that could help me understand what was going on with this girl.

I don't know why I keep calling her a girl, she just finished college, she is already a woman.

"How are you?" I asked her after a while.

She did not respond which was understandable since we'd been treating her like s**t.

"Nana is fine, well taken care of." I tried again.

"I really don't know anything, I promise you, use the Alpha voice on me, command me to speak and you'll see for yourself." She stared at me with hate in her eyes.

Looks like she was done crying and she was ready to fight.

"I believe you," I told her and she looked at me in shock.

"Y-you d-do?" She tried to confirm what I'd just said, her voice shaking.

"Yes, I do," I told her and she burst into fresh tears.

"All I wanted was a place to belong, when I was in college, I had to hide myself because I was among humans and that's why when I found out last year that Nana had joined a pack, I was so happy I planned on joining her once I graduated from college." She explained crying.

"I'm very sorry, we all are, we got the wrong person." I apologized to her.

"Why me, why did you hurt me so much?" She cried and I felt very bad for her. "Please just let me go."

She was indeed truly just a victim.

"I'm afraid it isn't that simple," I said and I noticed the fear creeping back into her eyes.

"You might not have realized it but you did something really bad, it was you who sent the guards off to the party and you're also the one who started this green fever epidemic."

"No, it's not true, I would never do that." She argued.

"Yes, you would never do that in your normal mind but you had been influenced through magic."

I told her and I watched her eyes open wide in shock.

"Magic." She said in a daze and I smiled when I watched her eyes turn black.

The person I wanted to have a talk with had finally arrived.