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Rejected, I Became the White Moon Luna
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00:00In this frigid altar, I can no longer distinguish whether the cold bites at my flesh
00:04or festers deep within my broken soul.
00:07I've guarded this altar for 10 years.
00:1010 years!
00:11I nearly died trying to heal your inner wolf.
00:15And you bring a pregnant woman back here?
00:18Layla, you know how it works.
00:21I can only gain greater power by sighing an air with a high-blooded she-wolf.
00:26Blame yourself for being nothing but a lowly omega.
00:30Simus, this little bitch is way too slow.
00:33The pup in my Demly is already protesting.
00:36Layla, don't stop.
00:39Ava is pregnant.
00:41She needs your healing essence to stabilize the baby.
00:44Hell no!
00:46Who told you to stop?
00:59Silas, she's so loud.
01:02Can you shut her up?
01:05Layla, your essence, your blood, your bones, they're all mine.
01:10You don't get to fight back!
01:12Filled with loathing, Silas cast me aside and approached Ava.
01:16He condensed my strength into a soft, glowing golden orb.
01:20At a subtle squeeze of his palm, and they both disappeared without a trace upon the altar.
01:24My fingernails dug into the crevices of the bloodstone.
01:27My vision blurred.
01:29All my power faded.
01:31I returned to my ordinary form and collapsed weakly across the cold stone ground.
01:36The last thing my fading sight caught was that narrow-bent window high on the wall.
01:40Deep in the pitch-black heart of the cursed woods,
01:42a pair of burning gold-eyes gone suspended in the darkness.
01:49If he still, still wants my lunar essence, he should at least let me get medicine for my wounds.
01:58I had the sentinels guarding the altar relay the message to Silas.
02:02He reluctantly agreed.
02:04I dragged my weakened body out of the altar chamber, stumbling with every step.
02:08I was about to cross the central courtyard toward the apothecary when low laughter drifted out from the side hall,
02:13Mara.
02:13I ducked behind a stone pillar on instinct and held my breath.
02:17Mother, how much longer do we have to keep that little bitch around?
02:21Every time I see her playing the devoted mortal for Silas at that altar, it makes me sick.
02:26Patience, sweetheart. Just a few more days.
02:28After the next full moon, once Silas drains the last of her lunar essences,
02:32I'll slip liquid silver into her sleeping draught.
02:34An omega dying of exhaustion? No one will suspect a thing.
02:45Baby. Hiding here and eavesdropping, that's not a good habit.
02:50What did you hear? Those little jokes about Ava?
02:54Silas? Are you really planning to drain me dry and then kill me with liquid silver?
02:58Shh! Layla. Don't listen to that scenage old woman.
03:02How could I ever bear to let anything happen to you?
03:06Ava was just politics. Her family's support. That's all I needed.
03:11Once I have the position secured, she and that pup mean nothing.
03:15You're the one I keep. All of this has been for our future.
03:18I pretended to believe him. The moment his guard dropped...
03:28Damn it! You insane little bitch! Seize her!
03:32I shoved him back and sprinted through the narrow door at the end of the corridor,
03:36the passage to the cursed woods, and plunged into the endless darkness.
03:39A voice exploded through the blackness.
03:42Well, well, little thing. Tell me. Did you come to offer yourself to me?
03:49Layla!
03:52Come back now, and I might still forgive you!
03:55If you wake the thing in there, it'll tear us all apart!
03:58I stumbled into a vast stone cavern choked with dead, withered vines.
04:04At the center, they bound a huge, motionless figure.
04:08I grabbed a sharp rock and slashed open my palm.
04:10Blood gushed from my palm.
04:13If the legends are true, if you really crave blood that badly,
04:17then take mine.
04:18Just don't let me die at his hands.
04:2620 years.
04:29And the one who breaks my chains is an omega.
04:36With the purest healing essence I've ever tasted.
04:40Offering me her blood like a bargain.
04:43I was like a lamb marked for slaughter.
04:45Layla!
04:46He charged in with a dozen Blackridge warriors.
04:49Terror crashed over me once again.
04:51No. Impossible.
04:52The seal hasn't expired yet.
04:55Those chains were made with...
04:56Made with what?
04:58Silver alloy?
05:00Forbidden runes?
05:02Soul eater venom?
05:03She's my mate!
05:05She belongs to Blackridge!
05:07You have no right!
05:08You say she's your mate?
05:10But her blood is rejecting your scent.
05:13You call that a mate?
05:14I'd call that prey.
05:17A sharp, cutting presence began to radiate from him, growing stronger by the second.
05:22It rose higher and higher, towering above the house of peace, marching at the stars, casting
05:26past.
05:27The torchlight barely flickered, and Killian was already in front of Silas.
05:33He grabbed Silas by the throat and hurled him away.
05:36Take your people.
05:38Leave.
05:39She's just a lowly Omega.
05:41She's worth this much to you?
05:43Hand her over.
05:44I can offer you things worth a thousand times more.
05:46I won't say it again.
05:49Leave.
05:50Move!
05:50Now!
05:51Now!
05:58Your blood broke my seal.
06:01You're mine now.
06:02What?
06:07I don't belong to anyone.
06:09Who the hell are you?
06:12Years ago, I gave my grandmother's bracelet to Silas' mother.
06:16I had been foolish enough to treat her like family, believing the raw moonstone on the bracelet
06:20could heal her frail body.
06:22Now, I was taking it back.
06:24A few months later, I timed my move and snuck into the Blackridge Central Hall.
06:29Mara assumed that I was still the same helpless Omega with nothing to her name.
06:35Layla, you're finally here.
06:38I know you blame Silas, but I've always treated you like my own daughter.
06:42That conniving bitch Ava.
06:44She said your mother's things were bad luck, wanted to throw them away.
06:47I...
06:48I fought to get it back for you.
06:51Come here, sweet girl.
06:53This belongs to you.
06:55It always did.
06:57Let me put it back where it should be.
06:59To my eyes, all of her weakness was nothing but an act to lure me in.
07:04You little bitch!
07:06How dare you lay a hand on me!
07:12Are you done acting yet?
07:13Or was this silver bagger your real farewell gift?
07:19Mara wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and smiled.
07:23Bold.
07:24Seems like these few months away from Blackbirth taught you a thing or two.
07:30Give me the bracelet back.
07:36The bracelet?
07:37Give it back!
07:39Then again, the fact that you snuck into the Blackridge Central Hall all by yourself, that does surprise me.
07:46Did you really think Blackridge's defenses were that easy to get through?
07:51The four side doors behind me burst open at once.
07:54Twelve armed Blackridge elites poured in.
07:56At their center stood Silas.
07:58Layla.
08:00Long time no see.
08:01I froze.
08:02It was a trap.
08:04All of it.
08:05I mustered all my strength.
08:07Only one thought remained.
08:09Kill Mara.
08:10I reversed my grip on the dagger and drove it at Mara's chest.
08:24You psycho!
08:25You actually stabbed me!
08:27Her voice kicked it from the screen to something low.
08:31Fine.
08:32Fine.
08:32Layla.
08:33I raised you for ten years.
08:36Ten years!
08:37And this is how you repay me?
08:39Silas suddenly pressed my face hard against his cold bones.
08:43Layla.
08:44You really did give me one hell of a surprise.
08:48Two warriors rushed forward.
08:50Silver chains wrapped around my wrists and bound them behind my back.
08:54Layla.
08:55Since you refused to go back to the altar, I'll grant your wish.
09:00You can channel every last drop of your essence to me right here.
09:04In your dreams.
09:06Dreams?
09:07His hand closed around my throat.
09:10Golden lunar essence poured from my neck into his palm.
09:13Silver chains rattled behind me.
09:15My body arched in agony.
09:16Suddenly, death would crash.
09:19The glass stone would see me.
09:20Shattered like an eggshell.
09:22Rubble and dust rained down.
09:34Who did this?
09:35No one answered.
09:37His fury ignited in an instant, a searing orb of golden flame roaring to life in his palm.
09:42He resembled a solitary wolf trapped in age-long slumber amid the frigid snow-capped peaks,
09:46and I was the one who roused the beast within him, burning gold eyes blazing through the dust and debris.
09:51He walked toward me.
09:52With every step, stone cracked beneath his feet.
09:56Fractures spread across the floor like a spiderweb.
09:59He crouched beside me and lifted me from the rubble with impossible care.
10:04Killen.
10:06She's my mate.
10:07I'm disciplining my own woman.
10:09What business is it of yours?
10:11Your woman.
10:42I'm disciplining my own woman.
10:59That's it.
11:04Who the hell are you?
11:08A worthless Omega is worth all this?
11:11killian's arm whipped forward silas slammed into a stone pillar 30 feet away killian bent down and
11:17picked up the silver chain that had bound my hands he looped it around silas's neck silas looked like
11:22a dog on a leash killian dragged the chain two steps toward me i'm sorry layla please put in a
11:30word for me let me go killian glanced down at him then released the chain and kicked him aside
11:36i used every last bit of my strength to dig through the rubble searching for my grandmother's
11:41bracelet sharp gravel lacerated my fingers at last i unearthed the bracelet beneath the rubble
11:47and hope rekindled deep within my soul killian bent down and lifted me out of the debris his
11:51eyes fell on the bracelet in my hand so that's it little thing you've been hiding quite a secret
12:02killian frantically inhaled my scent strangely i froze in place and did not push him away
12:10killian brought me to a cave in the cursed woods to heal but my revenge was mine to take besides
12:16i
12:17still had no idea what killian truly was for all i knew he could have been no better than silas
12:23blood moon night word had spread across the entire shifter world that the blackridge pack was about to
12:28welcome a new luna the black ridge great hall glittered with light hundreds of wolves in formal
12:33attire filled the space torches blazed against the vaulted ceiling casting everything in gold
12:41blood moon night witnessed by all wolves black ridge alpha silas hereby formally marks his mate ava
12:51as black ridge as black ridge luna silas leaned down his lips moving toward the back of ava's neck wait
12:58every pair of eyes in the hall snapped toward me
13:05where did this little you all came here to watch black ridge crown a luna
13:12so look carefully would a truly powerful alpha need to chain an omega underground and drain her essence
13:21night after night just to make himself stronger leila what nonsense are you spowing guards take her out
13:31look closely
13:34this is where your black ridge alpha gets his strength from an omega he bled dry drop by drop
13:42with these silver chains silas you're not an alpha you're a parasite leila
13:51i know you hate me if i really didn't care about you i could have replaced you years ago why
13:57did i keep
13:58you because i can't live without you leila it's not just your essence it's you i was wrong i know
14:06i was
14:07wrong but leila it's not too late to change today's marking ceremony is cancelled
14:17what silas you i said cancelled leila i'll mark you right now in front of everyone i'll make you the
14:30true luna of black ridge simus you really are one hell of an actor but i leila reject this unfaithful
14:40bond
14:44you worthless omega you don't get to say no you don't get to say anything
14:54the black stone doors exploded inward as if something monstrous had struck them from the other
14:58side shards of stone tore through the hall wolves dove for copper the hand around my throat began to
15:05rot rapidly silas screamed killian had appeared behind me no one saw one hand scooped my limp body
15:17into his arms i just heard someone wanted her dead the lichen king it's the legendary lichen king
15:27no one touches you again no one you're mine leila and i don't let go of what's mine
15:35killian's fingers traced the back of my neck heat seared through my skin the mark of the lichen king
15:41burned into existence all units move out outside the blackridge great hall rain poured down in sheets
15:49don't be afraid of the lion name killin just woke up he's nowhere near full strength kill him
15:56bring leila back killian grabbed me and threw us both off the castle wall
16:05killian you're bleeding just a scratch move a massive gray wolf burst from the tree
16:10lane and lunged straight for my throat killian didn't block he fed his forearm the wolf's jaws
16:16clamped down with a wet crunch i heard bone grind he grabbed the wolf by the scruff with his free
16:22hand and wrenched the animal's neck twisted at a wrong angle he pried the dead mouth open with his
16:28fingers blood poured down his wrist behind me like he hadn't just let a wolf chew through his arm
16:35more wolves poured from the tree line at the front was a huge brown wolf covered in scars draben
16:41blackridge's beta
16:45killen alpha gave the order hand over the omega and i might make this quick how generous
16:54when i say go you run north don't stop don't look back make it to the gray mist river and
16:59you're
16:59safe it's neutral ground no pax forces can enter what about you i'll be busy kicking their asses
17:09the dense forest pouring rain i ran north as hard as i could when i looked back i saw killian
17:16shift
17:17the instant his spine arched a roar tore from his throat and shook the canopy overhead his body swelled
17:23monstrously pitch black fur ripping through skin claws shot from his fingers long as daggers when i
17:30looked back a pure black wolf towered over the field golden eyes blazing far larger than any alpha form i
17:36had ever seen i forced myself to look ahead and ran branches lashed my face thorns tore at my sleeves
17:45rock slammed into my knees and blood ran down both legs the gray mist river appeared ahead of me i
17:52threw
17:53myself into the freezing current the far bank i crawled up the muddy riverbank soaked through
17:59coughing violently shaking all over my eyes locked on the opposite shore no answer killian i'd heard the
18:09leaking mark was tied to its master's life as long as it stayed warm he was alive if it turned
18:15cold
18:15i pressed my fingers to the back of my neck suddenly a hand shot out from behind and seized my
18:21wrist
18:22his eyes were a color i had never seen before deep violet the lichen king's mark on an omega
18:30how's that possible who are you
18:34you answer me first who gave you that mark none of your business the pattern it's the forbidden crest of
18:43the lichen royal bloodline the last person who could carve a mark like this was my son your son
18:50my name is azar 20 years ago i was the leader of the gray shadow clan the last guardians of
18:56the lyman
18:56royal family the lyman king and queen were killed in the war i smuggled the young alpha out of the
19:02pack
19:02in secret i raised him as my son his name is killian a flash 20 years ago a boy surrounded
19:10by flames black
19:11fur matted with blood a man shoving him out of the encirclement only to have half his own face swallowed
19:17by the fire the boy was swept away by the chaos vanishing into the darkness
19:25after that night i never found him the gray shadow clan scattered i took what was left of our people
19:34and hid in this unclaimed territory 20 years i thought he was dead he's not dead
19:43at least he was still alive before i crossed the river come with me you stay on that river bank
19:49you
19:49won't last the night i followed a czar through the camp this place didn't look like a pax camp more
19:56like
19:56a shelter the elderly the wounded children with bones showing through their skin every wolf who had
20:03been cast out injured or had nowhere else to go they all ended up here a thin little girl was
20:09curled
20:09up in the corner of a tent there was a deep gash on her lower leg inflamed and festering that
20:14child's
20:15wound is infected if it's not treated the rot will reach the bone i know but we don't have a
20:21healer
20:22don't have medicine either in this place whether you live or die is up to fate let me look at
20:29her
20:31the girl's mother threw herself in front of her child in panic who are you don't touch my daughter
20:36i crouched down keeping my voice as gentle as i could i won't hurt her i just
20:44know a little bit about healing i held my hand over the girl's wound a thread of dark golden light
20:50seeped from my fingertips so faint it was barely visible but the festering skin around the wound
20:54began to close right before our eyes the girl's mother clapped her hand over her mouth in shock
21:00azar's dark violet eyes contracted sharply lunar essence she doesn't even know what she is
21:09the next day a line of old sick and wounded wolves stretched out in front of me i re-bandaged
21:16an old
21:16man's broken ribs light seeped through the gaps between my fingers and the pained look on his face
21:21slowly eased i cleaned the stump wound of a young wolf who had lost his left arm i fed herbal
21:28broth to
21:28three feverish pups the smallest one was so delirious from the fever that his tiny hand grabbed my finger
21:33and wouldn't let go a czar stood at a distance arms folded watching all of it chief who is this
21:40woman
21:41those wounds we spent months trying to treat them and got nowhere she touches them once and
21:47don't ask just keep an eye on her but chief word's already getting out the strays are spreading it
21:54everywhere saying an omega with lunar essence has shown up in the unclaimed territories
22:02night i sat by the campfire at the edge of camp and pulled a fur pelt over the smallest pup
22:06in his sleep he had shifted into wolf form a palm-sized gray pup curled into a ball
22:12you're worried about him your ex the black ridge alpha he won't let this go you know that right
22:23i know the unclaimed territories may be neutral ground no pax forces can enter but simus isn't
22:30someone who plays by the rules i know so what are you gonna do i looked down at the sleeping
22:36pop in my
22:37arms i don't know a czar watched me for a long time then he stood and pulled something from inside
22:44his
22:44cloak a fist-sized chunk of black ore he placed it in my palm this is a lichen soul stone
22:56in times of danger it will protect the lichen luna
23:03are you saying i'm the luna of the lichen royal bloodline
23:07you
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