Reborn- His Scarlett Moon

“So what is it you are willing to give for your friend to live”

Helos laughed hysterically. He knew Midnight or Sarah, whatever you called her by, had no power over him. She was merely a slave bound to him by claws(clause of contract written in blood) but he hated that she was steadily slipping out of her grip. There she was, her hands blackened with the stain of collecting all those innocent souls. Yet she was unhinged by her own pain. She was begging for help to spare her friend Sherizad. She was begging him as he drank one dark blood after another , replenishing his strength.

“Anything… Anything that you want. I can bring you Ryan. I can give you his head. ”

” Silence little rat head! If his head was all I wanted , didn’t I have better opportunities than this? ”

Midnight was desperate and she flung herself at his feet, her face landing right on the ground.

Helos laughed. Then placed his feet above her ear. He pressed so hard that her head cracked a little.

Midnight didn’t scream. She didn’t have Sarah’s hide on. She was with that half burnt face that she got in the battle.

” You can hurt me as much as you like…” She smiled.

Helos kicked her in the stomach as she went rolling behind.

” Not yet. You still need to be working… Soon it will be my time to rise. I can’t promise what I will do to your little bestie but if you are a good girl, I will keep her breathing… ” Helos gawked as he brushed his eyes all over Midnight.

Midnight bowed with utmost gratitude and then ran out to fulfill the rest of her duty.

She needed to bring back soil from the Northern region, the birthplace of Helios’s darkness.

She had no idea, Sherizad , Ryan and the rest of the werewolves were already headed there.

To bury Beck with the rest of the martyrs and begin their battle plan.

Ryan and Sherizad were in their car as the rest of them took the train. Josh was with Beck in the Hearse Van. He said he wanted to be with his best buddy for the rest of the ride.

Ryan kept looking at Sherizad as if she was about to vanish. Sherry insisted she should be at the wheels and Ryan obediently obliged. It was as if he was in heaven and hell at the same time.

His centuries old weight was lifted. He finally got to know that his love was innocent. And at the same time he also got to know that all that was happening, so many people getting killed and dying, were all connected to the history of his family. He felt absolutely ashamed.

” What are you looking at? You know you look like you are looking at a ghost! You are making me nervous. ”

Sherry jokes.

Suddenly the overcast sky intensified.

” Shit! Looks like it is about to rain. ”

Sherry had to constantly keep her eyes on the road as there was a little overload of trucks running on that day on that street.

Soon the rain began lashing out and it started raining cats and dogs.

Ryan lifted his arms and touched her cheek.

” What’s with you? ”

Ryan had tears in his eyes and then suddenly he pulled her head towards his and started kissing.

And before it could end, their car got hit by the next truck in the row, coming at full speed.

Ryan hugged Sherry tight as the car flipped. It went over the cliff and took a straight dive.

Sherry reached for their seat belts and released themselves quickly, her werewolf instincts quickly kicking in. She banged one door open and they both leaped out before the car crashed on the ground and went up in flames.

As they stood up heaving deep sighs Sherry stood up, cleaning herself, ” A close one. Gosh, Ryan. What were you even thinking ? ”

Ryan looked at her and smiled. Sherry smiled back.

But suddenly her facial expression changed. She started looking here and there and then without telling Ryan anything, she began running.

” Sherry… wait. Sherry what happened. ”

As Ryan followed her and they neared the woods, Ryan knew what she was hunting.

It was a scent.

A scent they hadn’t sniffed for centuries. The scent of a friend. It was Midnight’s smell.

” Midnight…. ”

Sherry yelled as soon as she thought she was close enough.

“Midnight . Come out. It’s me. It’s Sherizad. Midnight. Gosh girl, quit playing. I know you are here. ”

But no answer came. Sherry carefully approached from one side and Ryan combed from the other side.

Midnight, knew she had f* up.

There was no way they would be at that place. She knew they were going further up North, to bury Beck’s remains.

She was without her human cover. She wasn’t wearing the face of Sarah. She searched frantically for it in her backpack and somehow, was able to haphazardly put it on before they arrived.

Sherry placed her hand right over Sarah’s shoulder as she turned.

” Sarah…. ”

” What are you doing here? ”

And as soon as they did so, Midnight’s scent was gone.

Sarah tried her best.

” Me? I came here for work. Tell me about you? Are you two on a date? ”Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

There followed such a silence that Sarah knew she was overstepping her limits.

Ryan walked up to her in small steps.

” What ‘work’ were you doing Sarah, drenching in this weather? ”

He asked. His voice was so calm and sharp that even Sherry got it’s chill.

” I… ummm… I… ”

” QUIT PLAYING! ”

Ryan roared as Sarah hit her back on one of the trees.

” I had my doubts about you but I never took it seriously. Your game is over. Now tell us the truth if you want to keep living. We just smelled our friend right up to this spot. Tell us where you are hiding that girl? TELL US NOW! Where is Midnight? ”

Sarah stumbled back in her anxiety.

It wasn’t like she wanted to hide anything from them or she was afraid of dying.

She knew that she was being used like a bridge.

She knew if she messed up Sherizad would suffer after her and so would the rest of their pack members who were wrongfully bound by Helo’s cursed promise.

” Ryan, wait… Sherry…. Sherry please stop him…. I will tell you everything… I will explain. ”

She was thinking of a way to run away, avert the seemingly inevitable.

” Sarah, I can’t. You know that. Your actions have been really really strange. I can no longer do the defending. And if you do know about Midnight, please tell us. I beg you. Sarah please. Don’t hurt her. ”

Sherry was about to touch Sarah’s arm when her cover blew up.

Like literally the human mask that she was wearing, faded like crystals flying away like dust.

She was left in front of Ryan and Sherry with her distorted face.

” Midnight….. ”

Sherry gasped as her hands trembled when she tried to reach her. But before she could do so, Midnight was flung in the air.

” Midnight…. No. Ryan…. Ryan helped. ”

Ryan climbed on top of a tree to try and pull her while Sherry tried to grab her from. the bottom.

But Midnight kept hanging in midair as if dangling by some unseen string like a puppet.

” Sherizad, don’t bother. It seems like my time is up. Listen carefully to what I have to say. There are more from our pack, being tortured. You must save them. And he is yet to regain his strength. Your weapons… together… together they are the strength….. Ahhhhhhhh…. Sherry…. ”

Her voice kept cracking as if she was being invisibly choked.

” Sherry, all the moments I spent with you are treasures in my… in my.. … memory….. please forgive me if I hurt you in any way….. …. I…. I never did that intentionally… Help…. Help had tricked us…. He bound us with false hope….. Ahhhhhhh! ”

” Midnight…. ”

Sherry caught her in her arms as she fell like a fruit from up above. Her body limped. Her distortion is unbearable to look at.

” Midnight…. I am sorry… I am so sorry it took me so long to find you my friend…. I am so sorry. ”

Sherry wept over her dead body as the rain washed down her tears. Ryan stood there beside her with his hand over her shoulder.