I DO NOT IN ANY WAY CONDONE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION AND THIS SCENE WAS NECESSARY.

Lycus's pov

Andros gagged as we stepped over the corpses and I was very well convinced that he wasn't used to war, fighting or horrid blood shed. My fist tightened around the hilt of my sword as we proceeded to the fore front.

Spyro had done a good job of finishing up the warriors inside the castle and now we were outside sword fighting with a bit of combat as Helena had deployed the non shifter wolves on the battle ground.

Dead bodies littered the ground, wolves, vampires, wolves in their human forms, some of these bodies belonged to us while the rest were my mother's army. It all dawned on me why the council never handed help with the supernatural army, she must have mind controlled them into giving me a no, knowing very well that she would use them for her own selfish reasons. The good part was that we could defeat them but the bad part was they kept multiplying and hence the attacks were fierce, she was really smart to pick them.

"I have to find Nyx!" I yelled at Andros who was by my side battling with two warriors, "She's in danger!" I pronounced feeling pain sear through me as I cut my sword through one of the warriors before him while he managed to bring the other one down.

"I think we would be able to hold off while you are gone." Andros said but with quite a hint of uncertainty. I didn't pay heed to it, I only nodded and urged the other warriors and pack Alphas who had joined us to go on while I focused on finding Nyx.

As I tried finding her the pains increased and I could feel her torture through the mate bond, Spyro was going mad with rage while I tried to catch her scent which I was having difficulty in finding much to my surprise.

I caught a hint of it mixed with blood after quite some time and as I sniffed the air my anger rose and my senses sharpened. I raced towards the direction it took me and I arrived at the bottom of the nearby hill. Her scent grew stronger and I could spot her but Willow was above her holding a club.

"No!" I screamed running towards my mate but I was too late as the club was brought down faster than I could get to her and she laid limp on the floor next to a disfigured body, "You bitch!" I swept my sword in the air slicing it through Willow's back before she could turn around to face me.

She yelled out in pain as she staggered with blood leaking from the wound. I yelled again and sliced it across her abdomen this time and she let out a growl before attacking me with her extracted claws spewing out profanities from her mouth.

"You know you can't win against me Willow!" I spat moving her claws from me as she tore them across my face, "Give up!" I pushed her off me and held her to the ground, I could feel my wounds healing already, "Don't let whatever powers my mother has given you deceive you!"

"Don't speak too soon Lycus!" Her words were followed with a force field being formed around her creating a barrier which resulted in me being thrown off her, "You can't come near me!" She stood up to her feet cracking her neck with a smirk on her face.

I growled and raced towards her and despite the repellent effect I pushed my hands through it and tried to create a path by tearing through the barrier, the more I tried, the more her laughter grew like she knew I wasn't going to get through.

"Don't be a coward Willow." I heaved as I stepped away from it, "Come out and fight me."

"Why don't you love me?" She asked suddenly catching me off guard and I looked at her. Her face wasn't bearing any emotions of glee at my hardship, it was bearing sadness now and her lips morphed in a pout, "Why her? Why not me?" She asked again, "What do you people even see in her?! First you and then my mate, Titan!"

I tried conjuring her words into an image and it all became clear. I knew the reasons as to why she was acting like a rabid dog, she was mad cause she had a silly infatuation with me while Titan wanted Nyx and I wasn't surprised. I needed to get her on my side to defeat her, I wasn't going to break through that thing, I needed her to get out herself. I looked in the direction of Nyx, I knew she wasn't dead, if she was I wouldn't even be able to stand here and I couldn't run off in her direction, Willow was going to make sure she stopped me. Only goddess knows what other powers my mother had given her.

"Willow, love." I kicked my sword aside and beckoned at her with a sickening feeling rising in my stomach and I didn't miss the way her face brightened at my endearment, "You would want to come out let's talk."

"No." She shook her head with a stern look on her face, "You aren't going to leave her for me if I do."

"You finished the whore off Willow." I am sorry Nyx, "I am proud of you. Nyx is gone, Titan is gone too and you can't even feel the pain that much cause he never claimed you, it is only right that we be together."

"Really?" She asked excitedly and I could see that the barrier had begun to fade. She was falling for my words and lessening her instincts, "We can be together and run far away from here, from everyone, from your mother."

"Love! You are a genius! How did I not ever notice that? I was too blind and I am sorry." I smiled at her finding it hard to keep up my facade as I was tearing apart on the inside, "Come." I called onto her with my outstretched hand, "It will be just…"

"The two of us." She completed and the barrier vanished, she ran towards me immediately and wrapped her arms around me pulling me in a suffocating hug, "I love you so much Lycus, I loved you then and I love you now."

"I am glad." I breathed as I reached behind me to grab a small knife from the tiny contraptions strapped to me so I could finish her off in my arms.

"You do not love me." She leaned away from me a bit and looked up to meet my gaze with her brows wiggling in confusion.

"Why would you think that Willow?"

"You didn't say it back! You lied!" She screamed and tried to free herself but I held her in place hoping that she wouldn't pull up another trick to separate herself from me, "You lied to me Lycus!"

"I didn't lie Willow! Calm the fuck down and listen!" I could feel her creating it already (the barrier) and I couldn't let it happen. I reached up my hand forgetting the knife. My fingers entwined in her hair in a smooth caress and my whole body prickled at the contact, Spyro was already mad with rage, "Calm down love."

"Kiss me to prove it." She said calmly relaxing in my arms, "Kiss me so I can believe that you want me and not her." She requested again taking her hand up to my face and I could see her tongue swipe across her bloodied lip.

cut the fucking act now! Spyro growled, If you place your lips on that wretched red headed crazy skank, I swear I am leaving you but not before i rip her black heart out while she is alive!

Let me concentrate! I am not going to kiss the fucking witch! I snapped back at him as I used one hand to hold her in place while I sneakily reached the other behind me.

"What are you waiting for?" She asked watching my movements, "Do it Lycus and prove your love to me."

"You ended up being the most deranged!" I barked and plunged my knife in her back pushing her off me. She fell to the ground writhing in pain as I reached for my sword.

"You betrayed me!" She yelled as she healed and sprang back to her feet. She moved to attack me but I was faster as expected. I brought my sword down on her back cutting deeply and she fell to the ground again.

"And you are the one to talk about betrayals?" I laughed before kicking and turning her over, "You see this sword." I brandished it before her, "You helped pick it up when my lovely mate wanted to get me a present." She fumed with jealousy trying to reach up and get at me but I sent her to the ground again with a blow, "And now it is going to end you!"

"Should have plunged it in her while I had the chance." She leapt to her feet and was about to form a barrier again but I flung my sword through the air slashing it at her neck, her screams filled my ears as I decapitated her and her head fell to the ground rolling beneath my feet.

She was gone. She was gone through the favorite way I liked to slay people and now I had to get to Nyx.

I ran up to to where she was and pulled her off Titan's body. He looked nearly unrecognizable and I was proud of her and at how she had taken him out all by herself. I pulled her close to me, she was still breathing and the wound on her head was bleeding profusely.

"Nyx, wake up for me please." I pleaded pulling her closer trying to be strong as it seemed that the physical touch between us wasn't really helping.

Try and see if you can communicate with Hera? I said to spyro and waited patiently as he did but he replied to me with a no and I was getting really worried now.

I picked her up, held her close to me and found a softer place to lay her on and then I went to work on trying to revive her with my fingers crossed that my mother wouldn't appear any moment from now.

Nyx's pov

"Where am I?" I asked as I tried to steady myself on a floating cloud which I had no idea how I ever got on. I held on to the soft fluffy cloud as it navigated with so much speed and then it went higher taking me through pairs of golden gates which were seven in number and then we came to a halt at a particular garden filled with white flowers, crystal clear streams and serenity.

I marvelled in awe as the cloud dropped me, I was filled with admiration for the place and I had the strong inclination to fall back on the flowers and go to sleep.

"Come my child!" A feminine ever so powerful voice sounded and I withdrew my fingers from the white rose I was about to caress, "Welcome Nyx." I traced the direction of the voice which lead me to look up to see the clouds parting to reveal steps that seemed inviting to climb and they went so high up and atop them sat a throne with a woman on top of it, "Come." This time it sounded more like a command and I obeyed climbing the fleet of steps and soon enough I was before the most unique of women I have ever seen.

She sat atop her throne, a crown with jeweled oval shaped moons dancing atop her head which was covered with thick full lustrous black hair that was held together with a puff at the back and I could tell that she was black which was quite evident in her skin. She had beaded crescents embedded in her hair, her dark skin shone and her face was of the most beautiful yet stern features I had ever seen.

I could tell that she was slim like me as her white silk gown flowed through her body majestically. I was compelled with the sudden urge to bow before her which I did but she was quick to stop me, "The moon goddess makes friends not servants Nyx." She said and my mouth fell upon realising who she was, "I am pleased to finally meet you."

My admiration and respect turned into hatred and malice knowing that she had written my destiny and orchestrated my life, "Why did you make me suffer so much? Oh hell! I am still suffering till this day!"

"You had a purpose my child." She said calmly, "To rid the earth of evil and help your mate rule justly. You are a special wolf Nyx a…"

"I do not want to hear any more of it! I do not want to hear it!" I growled at her, my anger reaching it's peak, "You made me suffer so much that I wanted to take my own life and with each step I took my trials grew graver. I couldn't even catch a break! Hell, I don't think my unborn child is still whole!" I gripped my abdomen at my words.

"Your child is healthy." She said and I felt relaxed, "Good can't be established without sacrifices." She stood up and walked towards me, "In the end, it will be worth it and now you must go!"

"You still haven't explained to me why i had to suffer? Why didn't you just give me the task and set a sunny day aside for it?!"

"The fates do not work like that child." She smiled, "Now, you must awaken and complete your mission but first I have to explain something to you."

I nodded and she began, "I will give you your powers back, you have to have a calm mind to use them, you need to concentrate to bring Helena down." She explained, "Have this." Instantly, a sword appeared looking more magnificent than any of Lycus's swords, "It will help." She handed it over to me, "With this and the combination of your powers you will be able to bring her down."

I gripped the sword, turned around and began to run down the stairs, "Where do you think you are going?" She asked halting my tracks.

"To fight." I said in the obvious.

"And how exactly are you going to get there? Have you heard all my instructions and words?" She asked grimly and I retraced my steps back to her, "You have a resurrection power which you can only use once Nyx." She began again, "And when the time comes, you must use it wisely." She sighed seeing the confusion on my face, "You can resurrect plants many times but you have only a one time usage of it when it comes to werewolves and when the time comes you must use it wisely."

"Okay." I nodded hoping sincerely that no such time would come, "Is there anything else?"

"You should know that with evil being abolished sacrifices must be made, dire sacrifices, now you can leave."

"Wait!" I screamed as she began to fade before me and I fell towards the clouds, "I don't want to make any more sacrifices!" I yelled but it was too late as I fell deeper into a spiral of nothingness knowing very well that she heard nothing of my last words.

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