46. Selene''s Executioner


    Sebastian


    I look at the beast snarling at me. Correction, I look at the monster because that was the only way to


    describe it.


    Lauren was huge, standing at seven feet tall. Dark fur with massive ws and fangs. Her eyes were


    blood red and she was standing on her hind legs. I have never seen anything like this.


    She kept snarling at me with her massive jaw. While hitting the silver bars. It burned her but I don’t


    think it even registered in her mind.


    “Holy Shit!” I hear Alec whisper in shock.


    I turn to him and find him standing with the five elders of the werewolf council. They all wear shocked


    masks so I am assuming that they’ve also never encountered a being like her.


    “Goodness gracious…what is that?” Jack, one of the elders asks.


    I ignore him and turn back to look at Lauren. We were waiting for the Oracle. We needed to see into


    her mind and she was the only one that could dive into Lauren’s memories. Once we got what we


    wanted we could finally send the bitch to hell.


    I focus on the beast in front of me. I can’t help but fucking shiver when it looks into me. No wonder the


    faces of the people she killed always seemed horrified.


    “What the fuck did you do to her?” the booming voice sends all of us to our fucking knees.


    The power radiating from her is enough to suffocate us. No one utters a word. I grind my teeth against


    the rush of her power. Trying to stand up even though every cell of my body wants me to submit.


    There is only one person more powerful than the elders. Stronger than me, and that is Sylvia. The


    current Oracle.


    “I asked you a question?” she repeats, reigning in her anger.


    I look at the woman who looks to be in her mid-fifties but she’s actually seventy. She has long waist


    length hair that is white from age. An oval make up free face except for lipstick. She is wearing a t-shirt,


    with a pair of jeans and sandals. Looking at her you could never tell that she was powerful. She looks


    ordinary.


    Her eyes pierces each one of us. “I don’t like to be kept waiting. When I ask something I expect


    answers”


    “We haven''t done anything to her” Alec finally answers. “We let a guard question her and she


    transformed into this th-thing and mauled him”


    “Well you must have done something” she snaps before going near the cell. “I can feel her pain, her


    hurt. She’s on edge and she wants all your heads. So again I will ask what the hell have you done to


    her?”


    She turns to us, her hands on her waist. She didn’t not look happy.


    “Well we did what we always do, asked her some questions. When she didn’t cooperate we used other


    means” this time an elder called Martin replied in a shrug.


    “So you tortured her” Sylvia says deadpanned.


    The look she gave us was more than enough to obliterate us on the spot.


    “What would you have had us do?” I asked.


    “Wait for me! You fucking imbeciles” she yells releasing a burst of energy that sends us crashing into


    the wall. “Do you have any idea what you’ve done? Who you’ve hurt?”


    “We tortured a monster, a killer!” I grind my teeth while standing up.


    Why the hell was she so fucking angry? Lauren didn’t deserve any mercy, not after all the people she


    killed.


    I turn to the woman we are discussing. She still hasn’t changed back. She was still banging on the bars


    and trashing the cell.


    “What did you call her?” Sylvia asks in a threatening tone.


    “A killer, a monster” I snarl repeating the names.


    Quicker than I have ever seen anyone move. She lifts me up before banging me on the wall.


    “If you ever call her that again pup, I will end you. I will make sure your insides are scattered on all four


    corners of the earth and then I will descend on your pack like a ravenous dog just for fits and giggles.


    Am I understood?” She warns, her eyes glowing.


    I wouldn’t have been afraid if she hadn’t mentioned my pack. Looking at her I know she isn’t bluffing.


    So I nod my head. She releases me before crossing the small hallway.


    “What do you know about the legend of Fenrir?” she asks us still furious


    “He is the great wolf in Norse mythology. He is the son of Loki, the trickster god. It was prophesied that


    he and his siblings would participate in the destruction of the gods. As a result of that prophecy, Odin,


    turned on Fenrir and chained him to a rock. Fenrir waster able to escape and aligned himself with the


    forces of chaos thus brought about Ragnarok” one of the guards says.


    We turn to look at him in question. Where the hell did he learn all that? He just shrugged his shoulders.


    “Good. But there is another part that is notmonly known. One that has been hidden for millennia.


    How Fenrir was able to escape.” Sylvia begins.


    “You see, by then, Selene our goddess had already created werewolves. On this particr day she had


    gone to Asgard for a celebration. There she heard Odin boasting about how he deceived and chained


    the great wolf. Selene became intrigued and decided to see this great wolf. She found a big, seven foot


    wolf or monster as you call it. Bound in chains. It kept howling in pain. Feeling sorry for him because he


    reminded her of her beloved children, she used her powers to set it free.”


    We were all looking at her now. Intrigued by why she was sharing this particr story.


    “Grateful Fenrir thanked her and fled. Selene didn’t hear from him until news reached her that the great


    wolf had aligned himself with the forces of chaos and brought destruction on Odin and the rest of the


    deities that were responsible for his pain. After the war was over and Fenrir got his revenge, he showed


    up in Selene’s realm, pledging his allegiance to her for she had saved him. Selene weed him and


    gave him a role. Fenrir would be her executioner. He would protect and look after her children and


    eliminate any threat to them, that included werewolves that wanted to expose us or that hurt humans”


    she takes a breath before continuing.


    “The oath Fenrir made was passed down his generations and it has been so for thousands of years.


    Selene picks one person each time. One who has been betrayed, one who has been hurt and broken


    by the actions of others, just like what happened to Fenrir. She bestows on that person the spirit of


    Fenrir’s descendant and he or she bes her executioner and enforcer here on earth.”


    I look at her fear sinking into me.


    “Why are you telling us this?” I ask suspiciously.


    She turns to look at me scathingly. As If I were nothing but scum underneath her shoes.


    “I may be the goddess’ right hand but Lauren is her left arm. She’s the moon goddess’ current


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    executioner” she announces.


    I see her smirk when I stumble backward. I feel like I have been dealt a physical blow. By the shocked


    gasps I know that I am not the only one shocked. I look at the rest, each one has fear written all over


    their faces


    “The goddess is pissed to say the least.” Sylvia adds before staring directly at me. “If it wasn’t for the


    fact that she still has ns for you, she would have smit you”


    I sigh in relief but it’s short lived.


    “Oh don’t look so relieved. Just because she won’t kill you doesn’t mean that she won’t punish you”


    She adds.


    “Now open the fucking door” she motions to the cell door.


    Alec moves forward and using the key card opens it. His hands are shaking, showing just how much all


    this has affected him.


    “Immediately lock it behind me. Before I am tempted to let her maul all of you to death” she says in


    disgust before entering.


    Lauren immediately snarls at her the moment she steps in. Baring her teeth in warning. Sylvia lifts her


    hand in surrender before she starts talking to her.


    “I’m not going to hurt you. I never will. You know deep down that I am not a threat Lauren, that I am


    here to help you”


    Lauren sniffs her. As if sensing the truth in her words, she releases a howl full of pain and sorrow. As if


    she was trying tomunicate her pain.


    The howl stabs at my heart. Leaving bleeding open wounds.


    Sylvia gets close to her and buries her hands in her fur. “I’m really sorry child. For what they have put


    you through. You don’t deserve any of it. I had my way they would all burn in hell”


    I wince at that. Knowing that we probably deserve it.


    They sink to the floor, with Laurenying her massive head on Sylvia’sp.


    “I am going to help you unlock your memories okay?” She asks and Lauren releases a grunt.


    Sylvia ces her palms on Lauren’s temple and begins chanting. At first nothing happens but then


    Lauren begins thrashing on the ground. Trying to get away from her. She holds on and Lauren begins


    to roar, her nails digging into the ground. The sound continues for almost ten minutes. Soon the


    unnatural sound turns feminine and she changes back to human.


    She copses next to Sylvia. Her body still shaking from the tremors. Her eyes are closed and she


    looks deathly pale.


    “Bring me something to cover her with” Sylviamands.


    One of the enforcers rushes out andes back with a nket. He hands it over to Sylvia and she


    uses it to cover an unconscious Lauren.


    “I don’t get it if she’s the goddess enforcer why would she kill humans?” Alec asks, a question that has


    been bothering me.


    “She didn’t and neither is she the serial killer. In fact she’s been hunting the killer. Thest body you


    found? That was the killer, he was truly a psychopath. As for the few wolves that were killed, those


    were killed on orders from the goddess. Two of them were in cahoots to sell our secret to the human


    government. One had raped a human child. And the other two were the ones that had hurt Krystal”


    I was rooted to the ground. I could feel the familiar tinge of guilt start to rise. Knowing we were wrong


    about her was starting fucking sink in.


    “Then why didn’t she just tell us so?” Brook an elder asks.


    “Because she didn’t remember any of it. Due to her pain and hurt, she’s disconnected from her beast,


    so has never embraced her and be one. They’re not in sync and this keeps her from


    remembering. It’s also the reason she has been losing control easily” Sylvia answers.


    So Lauren was telling the truth when she said she didn''t remember killing.


    Sylvia turns to me.


    “My question to you alpha is, why didn’t you listen to Krystal. She told you not to hurt her mother. That


    the goddess told her that Lauren needed help, yet you ignored her. Why is that? Is it because she’s a


    child or because you thought she was protecting her killer mother?” she asks me in contempt.


    “She said the killer was her mother” I reply defensively.


    “She’s a fucking nine year old Sebastian. She hasn’t fullye to her powers and neither does she


    understand her visions properly. She saw her mother kill but she was eliminating the threat. Krystal


    wouldn’t have understood that. It was your fucking job to find out more!” She yells before flinging me


    against the wall.


    Fuck! She was right. I wanted to catch the killer so bad that I epted what Krystal told me. Because


    of that I have hurt an innocent woman. And not just any woman but the goddess’ enforcer.


    “She’s slipped into aa” Sylvia says, brushing the hair off Lauren’s face and kissing her forehead.


    “You better pray that she wakes up because if she doesn’t I’ll fucking kill each one of you and I’ll make


    it a thousand times more painful than what she endured”


    We all swallow hard.


    Shit! I needed Lauren to wake up. Not just because my life was on the line. But because I needed to


    make it up to her