Filed to story: Werewolfs Heartsong by Dizzy Izzy
But that was a small consolation. Compared to what it was the small, seemingly harmless, packet of herbs had cost me. That she-wolf needed to be held accountable. My father said I can bring charges against her. And I think I will. Now that the fog was lifted I realized there were allot of things I’d seen that spoke of her evil.
She liked to hurt people. I’ve been remembering some of the things I heard her tell her friends. They all would laugh about who she hurt and how. Those three were just as evil as she was. Then I pause, or were they? Now that I think about it. Those three come from good loving families. Maybe they had sachets themselves? The only way to find out was to ask them. Sarah was going to be with her parents immediately after we’re released for the lunch break. Maybe I can catch the three girls on there way out. 2
So my father doesn’t worry I text him. I tell him my theory and my plan. It’s a simple plan really. Ask them if Sarah ever gave them a packet of herbs they were told to keep on them. That’s all my dad had asked me. My dad texts me back. He tells me he’ll wait nearby where I’m going to try and stop them, so he can keep an eye on me in case something happens.
I almost wished someone would kill me. I’d rejected my chance at a wonderful, love filled life. But that wasn’t fair to Aries. If I’m honest with myself, it’s Aries who I’m seeking justice for, he had been the one held hostage the most. Because while the spell worked on my human brain, it didn’t affect my wolf’s brain. I’m learning the full extent to which my wolf was tormented.
I can’t help but thinking that if Lauren, Beatrice and Agatha were under a sachets control, just how their wolves feel. Putting those thoughts aside I look back down at the platform and watch the matches of the Alpha Class. I couldn’t help but be in awe as
I watched Xena battle. She was an amazing Alpha female. Her form was fierce and perfect for battle, her strength glowing from within.
It’s not long before it was over. I get up and make my way to the exit to wait for the girls. Dad told me, to break the spell for them,
I’d have to set fire to their sachets. If they were indeed being controlled by one. But I thought about the fact that we would need evidence to be able to get a conviction. I look up at the big screen with this portion of the tournaments rankings, then it came to me. Photographic Evidence.
I pull out my phone and text my dad “Can you find a way to record me and the girls. I want evidence later about the sachets. If they have them.” I get to the door and stand off to the side in a pocket of space created by the high wall of the arenas surrounding bleachers above the pit. There was a wide hallway leading to the double doors of the exit, standing near one of the concrete floor to ceiling support beams that were placed at regular intervals around the Coliseum, I spot the girls. Then I waved them down.
They come over to where I was standing. “Hay girls, I wanted to ask you something.” I say. They looked at each other, their looks confused, then Beatrice and Agatha nod at Lauren, she looks at me and says. “Go ahead.” in a short crisp voice. “Has Sarah or anyone given you a sachet of herbs they told you to carry with you at all times?” They all look surprised at my question. Then confused again. O
It was Lauren who first started to dig in her purse, then the other two did. Lauren pulled out a large rhinestone covered, clip wallet, Beatrice a small shiny card carrier, and Agatha a large double zipper wallet in a standard black with gray diamond patchwork. All three girls pulled out a sachets from these wallet. “Can I see those?” I ask.
Lauren looks at the other girls, shrugs her shoulders, turns and hands me the sachet with a roll of her eyes and a “Sure, I don’t see why not.” uttered in a dry tone. The other two hand me theirs. “Do you remember who gave these to you and when?” I ask them. Lauren and the girls looked at each other then at me. “It was Sarah,” said Lauren. “She gave them to us during her ninth birthday party.” added Beatrice. “She said they were to make sure we always remaind best friends.” this from Agatha. (2)
“Did she say how she got them?” I asked. “Yeah, she got them from a Witch.” Said Lauren “Sarah calls the Witch Aunty.” said
Beatrice “The Witch was best friends with Bettina, they were always together before the Witch was Banished.” said Agatha.
“Sarah was really upset when that happened.” said Lauren.
“We had a Pack picnic about three months before it happened, but after we received our Satchets.” said Beatrice “That was the day Sarah had us help her throw Alora into the River.” said Agatha. “I remember my parents being so furious at me for being involved.” said Lauren. “My mother was horrified, told me I humiliated her and dad in front of the
Alpha.” Beatrice told us “My grandmother was really disappointed in me, she wouldn’t talk to me for a month after that.” said Agatha.
“What are you going to do with the sachets?” asked Lauren. “The spell on these is harmful to all three of you, so what I’m going to do is burn them to get rid of the spell.” I tell them. I get out my lighter, the one dad gave me when I went on my first survival mission in training class. The girls are muttering between themselves, I crouch down, set the sachets down on the ground, then set them on fire.
They burned different colors, blue, then green, then red, before the flames dimmed and the sachets were nothing but ash. They had gone up quickly, the herbs being dry and the material of the sachets had been worn with age.
I look back up at the girls, they were standing there, staring at the ashes of the sachets. Each had different expressions of shock and other emotions. It was Beatrice who fell to her knees with a scream of anguish, it was heart wrenching. It took me only a moment, for me to recognize that pain.
And as cruel as I was beginning to realize Sarah was, I didn’t doubt I was too far off my mark.
She screamed once more, before sobbing, tears rushing down her face “She had me reject my mate!” she curls up into herself on the floor, her pain and despair a voluminous cloud around her. Lauren and Agatha fall to their knees, one on each side of
Beatrice, tears on their faces they both hug Beatrice. Supporting her as her anguish cripples her. Sarah has done so much
Principal Johnathan’s POV
Beta Boris, his mate Lissanna, Alpha Andrew, Luna Ember and I were all on the bottom seat of the bleachers next to the support beam we had all recently hid behind. The Luna had discretely recorded the hole interaction with Sarah’s three friends and
Matthew. As we listened to the conversation between the four, we had all gradually started to drift out from behind the beam, and watched as Matthew burned the sachets. I was horrified that these poor girls had been under a spell for the past ten years. Half of their life span.
It made me sick to my stomach. And then that scream , that horrible agonized scream, the pain that she wolf was in could be felt by everyone who heard that scream. Then the way she collapsed in on herself, sobbing like her world had ended. We didn’t have to wait long for an explanation. And oh how I hated what that reason was, that Sarah was too cruel to be allowed to stay free.
“She made me reject my mate!” was her agonized keening cry. Sarah’s crimes now severe and accumulating. That’s two children she’s taken mates from now. My wolf Lucas was also in distress. The pups, their pain is all he whines out.
I suppress my own tears at the pain caused to these children. As the Principal of this school it is my job to protect my students.
We didn’t protect them, the pups are hurt Lucas says. “I have failed in my duty, Alpha.” I tell Andrew, my voice husky. “What do you mean Johnathan?” he asks, I look into his eyes, their just as sad. “I wasn’t able to protect my students, none of this ever should have happened.” 4
He shakes his head. “No Johnathan, you didn’t fail in your duties, there is no way you could have know about any of this.” He looks at the children. “But what I can do is give justice to these children. I’ll mind link the parents now, and have them meet us at the pack house at seven tonight.” he says, then looking around at each of us states “I’ll need everyone here to be there as well.”
I want justice for the pups stated Lucas We will help them get it I tell him.
As we watched, the girls parents arrived. Beatris’s father picks her up and cradles her to his chest. “She made me reject my mate.” she keens, this time in a low voice. This caused her father to hold her tighter, her mother has tears streaming down her cheeks, her hand over her mouth as
she hurries to keep up with her Mate. Lauren and Agatha are explaining to their parents as well, both girls crying.