Awakened

Chapter Hundred and Ninety-Seven – Awakened.
Jaden’s POV
My heart was growing cold. I touched Rihanna’s face but I didn’t feel the sparks I usually do.
What was happening? I slowly turned to Chris who was challenging Logan.
He had good sword art and was mad at Logan. He must have seen what he did to Rihanna.
I wanted to fight for my mate alongside him but my body felt involuntary.
I lost all drive to do anything.
If this was how it’d end then I could end as well. My father killed my Beta and my mate.
Was they any use living like this?
But at that moment, she moved.
I was sure it wasn’t my eyes deceiving me. “Rihanna?” I called again.
Using my wolf vision, I scanned her body and found that she was healing. I wanted to hug her in happiness.
“Argghh!” Chris screamed and the Lycan Slayer fell before me. I snapped my head at him and he was at the mercy of Logan.
“No!” I ran towards them but dust from the earth was thrown at me and when they settled, there was no Chris and no Logan.
“No! No!” I kept on yelling.
Logan wasn’t going to go far with him. He’d kill him and that would be a loss. If our Alpha King dies, then we lost.
“We’d chase after him.” A voice mumbled behind me. It was Rihanna’s.
I went to her side again. “Do you feel better?”
Her eyes were closed but she nodded. “So much better. We will chase after Logan and end him, don’t hold me back again.”
She had noticed my hesitation? I was ashamed.
“But we should ask though. I always wondered too. Why did he want werewolfs extinct?” Rihanna sighed.
Her eyes were still closed and I wondered if she couldn’t see. My hands went towards her eyes.
Before I could touch them, her eyelids opened. “Don’t touch it. You’d burn.”
Hell I would. I moved back.
Her eyes were burning with silvery flames and red veins stretched from her eyes to her ears.
Like power was emanating from them.
Was that her Silver rank Logan talked about?
Had she been awakened?
As she stood, I went back again. I felt her silver wolf’s aura and it threatened the Lycan in me.
“Let’s chase Logan.” she repeated again.
I gave a firm nod, sensing his energy to know where he was heading to.
“He’s going to Blue Fire!” Rihanna declared, running off. Her abilities had heightened.
I followed her, still worried about her exerting much energy since she died few seconds ago.
But her aura was fierce and she could become huffy if I voiced my worry over her instead of concentrating on finding Chris.
The surrounding of that part of Blue Fire wasn’t leveled. The volcano had erupted few days back and dried lava was everywhere.
Still Rihanna pointed behind a rock, “Logan is there! But he’s alone! He doesn’t have Chris with him!”
That was a bad, right? He had hidden him, hoping to kill him after he was done with us.
“You two are an annoying pair!” Logan barked, walking from behind the rock.
The Lycan Slayer was in his hands and had blood on it. Was that his or he already killed Chris with it?
“Your Alpha King is in a bad state. My charms surrounds round about him.” He snickered.
Even if they did, there was no Lycan to take the energy so Chris will only be weakened, his energy will still be safe. That’s if he was alive.
My mate advanced towards Logan, with her barrier active. I felt it and stayed away from her. We marched to Logan together.
“You are the annoying one, Logan! Why even? Why bustling your old butt, causing havoc? It costs you a lot but you do it, why?” She asked.
Logan held the sword, readying to attack. “What do you know? Immortality isn’t a good enough reason?”
“We are not stupid!” I shouted at him. “You will kill your sons for immortality? You will lose your mate and pack for immortality?”
If he should yell a ‘yes’ now, I wouldn’t be surprised just disappointed.
But he lowered his sword. “And you, you would kill your father?”
“I don’t care as long as I protect the people I love. And you are just a father, not a parent.” I replied sternly.
Rihanna chuckled, folding her arms. “You don’t even have anyone who’d want to spend eternity with you. What do you need immortality for?”
Our words got to him somehow. He looked at his hands and they slightly shook in regret.
Why exactly did he do all these for?
He raised the sword and pointed it at Rihanna. I came in front of her immediately.
“I want to destroy werewolfs from the face of the earth to show how it feels like!” he boiled. “To show you how it feels like to have nothing!”
To show her? What did she do?
“Show me?” Rihanna left my back. “What did I ever do to you? And don’t start the crap about being sick!”
Logan laughed boisterously clanging the sword on the molten lava. “If only I was sick with an illness that’d leave soon. But I was cursed!”
Cursed?
“It still doesn’t answer my question! How does that have to do with me?” Rihanna asked again.
“Because you cursed me!” he ranted. “You and your mother goddess!”
Did he mean the moon goddess cursed him? Rihanna pointed at herself in denial.
“You cursed me and didn’t even spare my generation!” he yelled again. “You cursed them as well! Now, I can never have a family!”
As he said the last words, he flung the sword at Rihanna. She stood there and the sword dropped, after hitting her barrier.
She turned to me, quizzically. “I never cursed him but the moon goddess must have. You are part of his generation.”
I had understood that part.
So his anger all these while towards Werewolfs were because we were creatures of the moon goddess. Like her little family.
He rather spends all eternity killing every last one of us. I smirked, keeping my hands on my waist. “Logan, I actually believe you!”
“You don’t need to. It doesn’t change anything!” he exhaled, wiping the sweat from his had. “Only when I kill werewolfs, would I be…”
“Why were you cursed, Logan? The moon goddess wouldn’t have cursed you if you did nothing. And what is the curse?” Rihanna asked.
He was unwilling to say. The claws on his fingers elongated. “I am not obligated to answer you!”
“Then maybe you actually deserve that curse!” Rihanna taunted with a head tilt.
Logan growled displeased at her. “You should repeat that after your head is off your neck!”
He charged at her. Rihanna ran to him also.
I was torn. If his curse affected his generation, me and my generation was well, why doesn’t he open up about it?
He growled in pain as Rihanna’s claws drew maps on his body before her barrier sent him flying to a molten lava.
His body was etched on it before he dropped on his face. I shook my head, walking to him.
He had to explain everything.
Maybe it will answer the question of the last prophecy ‘or must it end this way?’.