Reborn

The bright headlights of a truck that came barreling towards me as it slid on an ice patch was the last thing I saw before I watched as my last cold breath left my body followed by utter darkness. I could not tell if I was dead or alive, as I wondered aimlessly through the pitch black reaching out into nothingness trying to grasp anything and or anyone. “Hello” my words muffled into silence, with no response. I wandered around for what felt like hours before a hint of light came into view. I began running towards the light as the sound of crickets began to chime through the silence. The closer I got the thicker the air felt with humidity had finally arrived at a small pond in the middle of a dense forest. the stars and moon lite the scene before me, an angelic woman wearing a long flowing white dress with matching hair was sitting in a tree, her deep purple eyes were fixated on the moon. As I looked around, I spotted the body of a girl laying on the edge of the pond, her wet ash blond hair plastered to the side of pale slender face, immediately I ran over grabbing the girl checking for a pulse, but she was cold as ice no life left in her. I turned towards the women in the tree, “help m-e” but she had vanished, stunned I turned back as she appeared in front of me and the girl. “Only you can help her “she spoke in such an angelic voice; it filled me with a warmth I had never felt before. “I do not understand, where am I? who is she? Who are you?” My mind was moving a million miles per minute, yet my body stayed frozen in place. I could have sworn I had died after I was hit by the truck, but all this felt so real. “My name is Selene, but I also go by many names, I am the goddess of this realm, before you is the body of Devin woods, she drowned herself in the water before you.” She said motioning to the pond. “How can I save her if she’s dead, and how did I get here” it was becoming harder and harder to rationalize everything around me. Sadness swept over Selene’s face as she spoke” Unfortunately you have past on as well in your world, but your spirit is unwilling to move on, I pulled you from the void to offer you a second chance at life” she place her hand on top of Devins head kneeling down “you can have her life, the body can be healed but her spirit has passed, your spirits are almost identical so now I offer you a second chance at life.” “I still don’t understand, and still have so many questions” my most prominent thought was what kind of life this girl has lived, to have ended her own life. “The time for questions has passed we are running out of time; I need an answer, and all will be revealed” she placed a hand on top of my head. “I cannot hold you here much longer as you are.” I spoke before thinking “Yes.” The women smiled as I felt myself being pulled as my vision began to blur. “When you wake you will be one.” Was the last thing I heard before falling unconscious. I was again in darkness but this felt more like sleep than death’s darkness, Memories from Devins life flowed through my mind, and played before like dreams, The first was that of a small ashy blond little girl no more than five years of age with grayish blue eyes being dropped off at a very large mansion filled with people . I faintly heard the conversation between two adults. “Her parents are assumed dead, she was wandering around the boarder sir, her scent is neither of a pack or rogue” the guard said. The scene began to morph in front of me to a ten-year-old Devin being picked on by a group of kids. a boy by the name of Allen with blonde curls and deep green eyes seemed to be one of her main tormentors. “That’s why you were abandoned, your ten and still can’t talk to your wolf spirit, if you even have one freak” the little boy said shoving Devin to the ground as others threw rocks at her laughing. My chest tightened as I looked at the emotionless girl laying on the ground bruised and bleeding. I wanted so badly to console her and beat the living snot out of those kids, but it was not long before I was fast forwarded to Devins 16th birthday, the day of her first transformation… or so she thought. As the other kids who aged up in this moon cycle began their first shift into wolves all Devin could do was stand there silently as the crowd of pack members began whispering about the cursed child. I could see the panic in Devins’ eyes as she prayed and pleaded with the moon goddess. The disgusted looks among the crowd were evident as the pack’s alpha, alpha nick fires, walked towards her making a noise of disappointment. “I’m sorry Devin but I cannot let you train to be a warrior anymore, you have disgraced this pack and if it weren’t for the laws I would kick you out, the most I can do is rank you among our lowest given the tittle of omega, and I forbid you from mating while in my pack, ill be dammed to have more of you”. The alphas words where so harsh Devin had collapsed to, her knees crying. The crowd eventually dispersed as Devin felt the lowest, she had ever felt in her life. The next two years were torture for Devin. Even other omegas joined in on the abuse, pouring dirty mop water on her, or locking her in closets for days on end unlike previous memories this time I was Devin experiencing this all myself. To make matters worse, on Devins’ eighteenth birthday, the unexpected happened. Her mating gene kicked in, the one wolf gene she seemed to have, the only proof she was indeed a shifter, but her joy faded as soon as it came as the most intoxicating scent filled the air. Her fated mate was here…in the pack…” whoever it is will never except me ...” she muttered to herself. -do it, follow scent…mate close-the words in her mind so quiet she had thought her wolf spirits words were just merely her own thoughts. Without another thought she put on a brave face and followed the alluring scent with her last shred of hope for a normal life. The scent led her to the basement that had been converted into a gym. Loud music filled the air as Devin saw where the scent was leading her, the muscular back of the man in front of her glisten with sweat as he curled weights, I felt heat pool in my stomach as I looked more closely finally realizing his curly blond hair… instantly I knew it was Allen fires, the alpha’s son, my bully…my mate. He stiffens as if sensing my approach, Luckily he was alone down here.” What do you want, freak” he said dropping the weights turning around his emerald eyes burning through me. “I-I …well I followed your scent that is.” I began to blush as she tried her best to meet his gaze. “How unfortunate, I had hoped I would be the only one to know this shame.” His words stabbed through me like a knife. Before I knew it, he had slammed me into the brick wall of the basement holding me there with more force than needed, his hands creating sparks between us, but I was too overwhelmed with the pain. “Listen good freak, I will not now nor ever accept you as my mate, in fact I have already chosen Lilian as my mate” His words came out as deadly as they were harsh “if you breathe a word about this it will be your last.” After he spoke, he turned and left as I began shaking and crying uncontrollably. Once all my tears had dried up I walked out the cellar door to outside the pack house, numbness filled my body as the last will I had left my body, after walking aimlessly for a while I stumbled upon a familiar pond and it all came back to me, this had happened the same night I had arrived here. So many emotions swarmed within me as I felt myself taking full control of Devins body, anger being the most prominent, how could they treat someone like that…. I vow to get revenge for Devin and live her life to the fullest…I will make them regret.