<h4>Chapter 197: Chapter 197</h4>


    [DIANA’s Point of View]


    Please, Moon Goddess, mother of all...


    Please keep my Mom, Dad, and Uncle Killian safe!


    I watched down at all of them while my twin brother and I were hiding behind the big column, big and wide enough for me and Devon to make ourselves invisible from the enemies.


    Just like Mom and Dad, we both had mastered controlling our strength and hiding our presence from enemies and trackers since the attacks in the Silver Crescent Pack. It was the only way we could do so Mom and Dad could focus on fighting the bad guys. My twin and I never wanted them to feel worried about us and make them hold back from stopping the monsters that wanted to hurt us and Mom.


    Dad and Uncle Killian were trying their best to protect us all from the shadow monsters. It broke my heart to watch each of them get badly hurt. It terrified me! I wanted to help, but what else could I do? I was just a kid! The old man said that our blood was the key! If my blood is what they need, then I would dly give it to them. Just please stop hurting my Mom and Dad!


    Tears rolled down my face as I looked down at my twin brother. Mom and Dad were in trouble, and we needed to do something to help! I won’t let the shadowdy kill my parents! Devon and I needed to do something, or we would lose our parents!


    “Devon!” I ran back to my brother and shook his shoulder as hard as I could to wake him up. “Please, wake up! Mom and Dad are in real danger! We have to do something!”


    I looked at my hand and noticed blood on my fingers, which made my eyes widen; then I realized that Devon’s forehead was also bleeding.


    “What should I do! What should I do!” I murmured to myself in panic, confused and scared and helpless, and all I could do was to run back to the rails of the mezzanine and make sure Mom and Dad were still alive. I nced back at my twin and saw that he was moving and groaning, and I didn’t know how to feel as I approached him swiftly and helped him lean his back against the wall.


    “Devon?” I asked as he felt his forehead and looked at the blood on his hand with a wince. “Are you alright? Do you think you can still walk?”


    He groaned and then grimaced as he hissed something I failed to understand and then looked at me with worry. “I guess? Are you hurt? What happened? Did that shadowdy hurt you?”


    “No. Dad came, and he saved me from her,” I exined to him, but fear was still etched on my face as I wiped the blood on his forehead with the sleeve of my pajamas. “We have to go and help them!”


    “Help how?” I didn’t know if Devon was frowning or grimacing, or maybe he was annoyed that I kept on pulling his hand for him to stand up and go somewhere else rather than stay in that spot where we were hiding. “We will only get in their way, Diana! I promised Mom I will protect you with my life!”


    “They need our help!”


    “Stop, Diana! We were almost killed!” Devon snarled at me and then pulled his hand away from me. “We stay here!”


    I understood that Devon was terrified, and it hurt me that it was because of me that we were spotted by the shadowdy. I had been wanting him to go with me to the wolf altar! I wanted to go down because I had this vision that only Devon and I could open it to reveal what we had been looking for! I wish I could show him the vision, but it was something that even my twin couldn’t see, even through the bond we had as twins.


    Devon was like Dad. Stubborn and had a problem with his ego. But I wouldn’t let him stop me from what we need to do.


    With teary eyes, I red at him. “You never listen!”


    “What?” he said in an annoyed tone. “I told you already, Diana! We can’t—”


    “You don’t trust me?!” I snapped at him. “I know you promised Mom! But we need to do this so we can help them both, Devon! You have to listen to me and do what we need to do!”


    Devon paused to stare at me, and I knew he was still hesitating. I understood that all he wanted was to keep me safe, just as he promised to Mom, but it was something that only the two of us could do!


    While waiting for Devon to agree with what I wanted us to do, I nced down again and saw the light that escaped from Mom’s forearm as she cut it with the wolf ne we had been using as a map around the ck Forest. Mom was glowing. Like heavenly glowing, and it was breathtaking. Everyone’s eyes were on her, and I thought it was the perfect time to do it.


    I couldn’t wait any longer for Devon’s answer, so I pulled him down the stairs as fast as I could. He looked like he was about to freak out, but we had no time!


    “Diana wait—”


    “We have to go now!”


    Because we were so small, we nearly bounced down the stairs on our short little feet before heading straight to the wolf altar. Devon still couldn’t believe I dragged him down the stairs, but it was our only chance while everyone’s attention was on Mom.


    We had to do it!


    When we reached the ce, we hurriedly hid behind a stone pir as we caught our breath, hoping that there were no shadow werewolves that had noticed us.


    “Aww,” Devon grimaced again as he felt the wound on his forehead and then shot me a re. “What do you think you are doing, Diana?! You know this is dangerous! We are not supposed to walk out of that spot where Mom said we should stay, no matter what!”


    “We have no other choice, Devon! Just trust me, please!” I said to him, teary-eyed. “I see this in my vision, and only we can do this! Only we can help Mom and Dad and Uncle Killian!”


    Devon looked at me again, thinking. I hated when he did it because it seemed like he was just wasting time thinking about things that I needed him to do. I hated that he didn’t trust me enough to think this was something important!


    “You have it with you,” I asked him, looking into the pocket of his pajamas.


    “What? What are you talking about, Diana?!” he panicked when I reached his pocket and took the small packet inside it. He was surprised when he saw it too. He didn’t have any idea he had it all the time. “How did that get into my pocket?!”


    “I put it there,” I said to him as I looked inside to check. “My pajamas have no pockets.”


    “What—”


    “Here!” I gave him one baby tooth, which was his, and I had the baby tooth of mine in the middle of my palm and showed him what happened next.


    In my dreams, I dreamed about keys made of bones. And as I showed him both the teeth, the thing turned into a mirage of a picture until the teeth transformed into keys in front of us. Devon held his breath as he watched what happened and then looked at me wide-eyed, still in shock, and didn’t know what to say.


    “This is why I needed you to trust me.” I shot him a re from the corner of my eyes and then gestured for him to follow me. Devon used to be the one who had been telling me what to do, but at that moment, I wanted him to listen to me and do everything we needed to do to save Mom and Dad!


    There was a small storage area behind the altar that had two locks, each requiring a separate key. The doors of the storage cab had the symbol of the picture I always saw in Dad’s ce printed or painted on the gs. I was surprised that it had it, and I wondered if it had any connection with Dad’s pack—with his n.


    “Should we do it? What if something bad happens instead?” Devon hesitated while standing next to the other lock, holding the key in his hand. “Are you sure about this, Diana?”


    “It’s the only way, Devon,” I told him.


    It was what my gut had been telling me. My wolf was also certain that it was what we needed to do, and Mom always told me to trust my instinct. And it was what my instinct had been telling me. To open the lock of the altar and reveal what was inside.


    We looked at each other before we put the key inside the lock and turned it.


    Then things happened that I never expected.


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