Legend of Pineville Creek

Thousands of years ago, when the world was still young with human life, gods and goddesses alike enjoyed watching their small creations. It took all of their power to work together to create a species that they could watch flourish.

They wished to watch creatures that looked a lot like themselves, but a more simpler version. They wanted them to have no super natural powers, no strength above their own. The gods wanted to see if without powers, if they would be more loving creatures unlike themselves.

In reality, gods were always wanting power, fighting amongst themselves and bickering for all eternity. Was there a creature that they could create that still had its own agency and choose love over hate?

Unfortunately, with all of their combined forces humans were created but ultimately, many were with hate, selfishness, and even strived to have power. Many gods wished to destroy the humans, especially those who wished to cheat on their significant others. Humans were so frail, they could never say no to the attraction of a god.

The gods started to argue about ridding them, but many refused, saying how they could destroy all the creatures when there were only a few that were evil. They were, afterall, created by the gods themselves so inherently they would have some evil in them.

As time went on, many gods took small amounts of humans and experimented with them. Many suffered and even died but that did not deter them from trying to create a being that would ultimately destroy the human race.

With this experimentation, vampires, faes, witches and warlocks were created as well as many others. As with the humans, these species also had good as well as evil within them.

Humans started to realize that their existence was in jeopardy so many of the strongest gathered together and started training to fight. These human warriors took many years to train themselves and help countless humans in villages across the land. The warrior numbers never dwindled, but the human race was on the brink of extinction.

Ares, the God of War took notice on these large human warriors. He appreciated how fearless they fought to protect those who were innocent. Ares took flight and landed in the middle of their training and all the warriors bowed.

Ares was large compared to even the largest human. Ares was donned with no clothing on his upper body, battle scars were strewn across his muscular chest. His armor he wore covered the tops of his shoulders and his sword hung on his back.

Ares then blessed the warriors with a gift. The gift of shifting. The favorite animal that Ares donned on his battle shield was a wolf, and that is what he granted his warriors.

The warriors could feel the strength in their bones, their eyesight was magnified, and their sense of smell was heightened. The ultimate warrior.

Many battles were fought and soon became known as the 'werewolves.' Once the battles had died down, the human race started to flourish, humans became scared of supernaturals and so they began to go into hiding, for this world was created for them, not the supernaturals.

With no wars to fight, werewolves became restless. Their inner wolves craved blood. At times the race could not control their inner wolves and lose control.

Seeing how werewolves were created by the War God of Ares, Selene-the goddess of the moon descended into their pack. She would present them the ultimate gift for protecting humans and sooth their beasts.

Selene gifted the werewolves a soulmate. Ares could not bestow a full soul onto his creatures, but Selene could complete it. Each werewolf would be blessed with a mate, the other part of their soul.

Once together, they would balance each other. They would become infatuated and ease the war cries from their wolves. With each mate comes a balance, and every werewolf was to be gifted one.

Selene, the Moon Goddess specifically picks each werewolf's mate. Nothing is to chance and it is always purposefully.

This is the land of where the Goddess herself has supposedly descended on. It has been known as many names but today it is known as Pineville Creek.

Sadie's POV

Everyone erupted in applause and started to head into the woods back to the lake house to continue the party. As people began to leave, Rebecca leaned into my ear and asked how I liked the legend.

"I love the part about soulmates!" I gushed. "I wish it were true! Too bad it was just for a make-believe legend about werewolves, huh?" I blushed.

"What if it was true?" Rebecca replied. "The whole werewolf and soul-mate thing?" She was looking all too eager for an answer when I didn't reply right away. I'm still feeling a bit dizzy from the shots I had earlier.

"Hmmm. Well, I've never seen one, and no one I know has seen one that I know of. It would be kind of exciting but scary too at first I'm sure." Rebecca nodded while Seth squeezed me a little tighter and put his head in the crook of my neck.

What is up with all this new found confidence I have. I've never let a guy hold me like this before but it all seems so comfortable, so right. I could stay like this until morning.

"And I think the soul mate thing is so lovely. Like, you just wait for your mate to show up, you don't have to go get into relationships that mean nothing and you could 'save' yourself for each other!" I continued to gush and blush at the same time.

Lela started choking on her drink that was in her red cup. "I'm sorry, I missed that?"

"You know, save all of yourself for your mate. People do a lot of casual sex to find their person they are supposed to be with. With mates you don't have to do that! No heartbreak and jealousy!" I smiled.

It makes sense to me, why fool around with other people when you know the person made for you is out there, a goddess granted someone for you. Why would you go and waste your body on someone else? I swear if someone says they want the experience so they are able to please their mate I might choke.

However, mates aren't really real are they? Not in the whole werewolf and goddess concept. It was a nice story, one that I wish were true and it was for humans as well.

Seth poked up out of my neck while Ethan, Raylina, Marco, Rebecca and Lela looked at me with confused faces. Was it something I said? Did I upset someone? I was starting to feel uncomfortable and was about to get up from Seth's lap but he wouldn't let me go.

He looked sad and disappointed when he looked in his eyes. Did I hurt him? Did I offend all of them? But how?

"I'm sorry," I started. "I didn't mean to say that having sex before marriage is bad, I just thought if there were mates or soul mates you just wouldn't. This is just all hypothetical anyway! And who knows, maybe the werewolves did do things before they met their mates-who knows how long they live for right? Maybe some take a long time to find their mate?..." I started to trail off. Why am I fighting this, it was a legend.

"It's just a silly legend, I'm sorry I was over thinking." I finally got out of Seth's hold. Everyone was still staring at me so I just decided to walk away. At this point I don't know what I said wrong but the uncomfortable stares were starting to get to me.

I crossed my arms to keep warm and headed back to the lake house. I suddenly feel so cold now that Seth isn't with me. I'm terrified that he will just leave me alone after all of this, and now that my body craves his touch, I'm not sure if I can handle that.

Sadie looked so beautiful in the firelight. She was made to be outdoors. I could feel the warmth from her cheeks when she rubbed them on my shoulder as we listened to the legend.

Little did she know, it was all true. Every bit of it. It wasn't hard to get everyone in the pack to realize that Sadie was human and that the mention of Alpha or anything related to werewolves being real was not to be spoken.

Sadie was going to need a little time to be eased into this, however I think she will take it easier than I was expecting. She even thought it would be amazing to see a werewolf if they were real. Scary, but exciting as she put it.

I couldn't help but be quiet as she was talking to Rebecca, she was trying to get a feel how Sadie felt about the legend. I feel like she is open to know more but once she starts talking about mates and waiting to share your body with just your destined one throws us all off.

Werewolves are sexual creatures, is it uncontrollable? No, it can be controlled. We just hate to wait. Males do go through a rut, where their sexual senses are heightened and it only gets worse if there is a female in heat. This is why we have designated houses for ruts and heats. Lucky for us it only happens twice a year.

Could it be avoided to not have sex? Yeah, it can, but it is hard and even I succumbed to it. We are part animals, it is in our nature. Plus having power from Ares doesn't help either. It is said he was quite the party animal.

After Sadie spoke, she immediately regretted saying it outloud. She is worried she made a huge mistake speaking her mind about saving yourself for someone you love, in a committed relationship. I think it is fucking adorable and I'm so glad I will have her all to myself.

The first and last person to touch her.

Will she be hurt when she realizes I'm not as pure as her? Will she reject me? Just the thought of if makes my wolf and I hurt. My chest feels constricted and tight.

Sadie is so pure, innocent and all things of grace. She never wanted to hurt them or me.

She stood up and walked off because we were all so shocked by what she said. Because honestly, it made sense. Werewolves are horny bastards and there are people in the lake house right now messing with each other because they are depressed about not finding their mates.

I clenched my fists together, got up and swung at the closest tree making it topple to the ground.

"Seth, wait, she will accept you." Rebecca called out.

"Yeah, man, you are the only one she has let come close to you." Marco explains. "Nathan tried and she kept saying she was waiting on someone special, meant for her."

"So what, we all have had our nights of fun, now that your mate is here she will understand. You are fucking 125 years old, everyone makes mistakes. You haven't even been with another for at least 50 years." Ethan said while putting his hand on my shoulder. "She was made for you and both of you are to accept each other's flaws."

"Ha, here is the thing." I started. "She has no flaws, she's perfect."

"Maybe that is how the goddess wanted it, you are supposed to balance each other out." Lela whispered.