The Rejected Luna Queen novel Chapter 113

Aurora's POV

"No! Don't do that!" I screamed, running as fast as I could back to the Castle where commotion reigned. I saw a man trying to stab one of the guards just outside the Castle and I tried to stop him but it was too late.

I stepped out of the Castle at noon, hoping to take a stroll to the garden for the first time in a while. I had only gone just halfway when I heard someone screaming from the Castle in a high-pitched voice and I immediately turned around.

A man's shout became that of several men as I heard loud noises both of voices and the feet of men. I also heard the sounds of horses that probably carried men on carriages.

The Castle had been attacked by people that I didn't know and I needed to head back to check what was going on. On second thought, I withheld myself from moving, wondering if it wasn't just better for me to simply turn back around and run away from the Pack or just hide somewhere to make sure I wasn't seen by the enemies.

"Alpha Bane. I need to see Alpha Bane," I thought aloud as every thought of running away vanished and I immediately began to dash toward the Castle. I hoped to get there early enough to meet Alpha Bane and help him wade off the intruders. I couldn't afford to lose him.

In a few minutes, I got close to the Castle, able to see it from quite a distance, just as I was able to see an enemy lift his knife to stab one of our guards; the chief guard precisely, who was the strongest of the warriors.

I screamed for the assailant to not do it but it was already too late. He stabbed him right in the heart and I saw blood trickle to the ground from the guard's mouth and chest. It was a horrific sight. One that caused a lot of panic in my heart and certainly in the hearts of the other guards.

On getting to the Castle, everywhere was in total disarray. Several guards were lying on the floor and I could recognize most of them. I quickly ran to the stairs and began to climb wondering what on Earth was going on.

I didn't see the assailants anymore, just dead bodies everywhere with their blood all spilt on the floor.

I got to Alpha Bane's room and kicked the door open and I couldn't believe my eyes. He was bleeding profusely and convulsing. He had been attacked and left for dead. The person probably left him that way to suffer before dying an agonising death.

"Stay with me, my love," I cried, placing him in my hands, not knowing what to do. He was on the brink of death and I could see it. "Don't leave me. Stay with me. Stay…"

His hand went limp and his eyes shut and I knew what had happened. I also heard the screams of little children and I couldn't take it anymore.

Placing my hands over my ears, I screamed with all the strength that I could muster and suddenly my eyes opened up and I was awake.

It was all a dream; a nightmare, if I were to call it what it was. One that I hoped never to have again.

My entire body shook uncontrollably as I sat up on the bed. I didn't want to shut my eyes mistakenly and head back there. I wanted nothing to do with that dream.

I struggled to catch my breath, placing my right hand on my chest as I took long, deep breaths. I panicked so much that it felt like my heart was going to walk right out of my chest and find a new home.

I turned around to see Alpha Bane who just stared at me. He must have woken up when I screamed aloud. Only a dead person could stay asleep after that.

She just wouldn't stop. She was affected by the dream she had and the possibility of losing me was something she couldn't accept.

"Please, stop crying, honey," I kept pleading with her, time and time again. "You'll hurt yourself over nothing."

"This is not nothing," she countered rather angrily. "You don't seem to understand all I've been saying to you. I said you were killed by your enemies, right here, inside your room. This is where you were left to die. Just there, right in front of the table. I watched as blood oozed uncontrollably out from your throat as you lay on the floor, lifeless. Can't you understand me?"

She kept repeating those words over and over again, not minding how it made her look. If I didn't know her so well, I'd have said she was going insane. She wasn't. She was just so concerned about me but I didn't see the need to be so fidgety.

"Nothing would happen to me, Aurora," I said to her. "It's just a dream. Nothing else. We all have dreams right? Just last night, I dreamt that I was swimming in a river and automatically found myself in the room, talking to you, still wearing the same clothes. However, the clothes weren't wet. They were dry like I never went swimming and I couldn't explain how I got to the room without stepping out of the water until I woke up. It was a dream. Anything can happen in your dreams. It doesn't mean anything."

"My dreams are not that way. They usually come to pass," she said, refusing to be calm. "Right from when I was younger. My dreams, especially ones like this, always came to pass. That is why I'm more than scared about everything."

At that point, I felt some kind of chills within me and I began to develop a bad feeling about the whole thing but I thought it best to wave it off.

I kissed Aurora on the forehead and smiled at her. "Everything will be fine, my love. Just relax."

I helped her lie back down and caressed her hair until she fell asleep again.