Awakening The Unknown
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KASSIDY

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"He's back." Two words that started some almost mass rioting inside of our country side home. The dinner table became silent.

No one said a peep, no one moved. A pin would be heard if one were to drop. We were all anxious to know what he meant by 'back'.

Has Stylo done something to our parents?

Had he done the same things to them as he's been doing to us?

It's all super confusing, and my Dad looks like he's about to explode with anger again.

Diane looked wary, fixing her head wrap as she looked at me parents with unease and disbelief. Anais sat quietly and looked around with nervous eyes. Her fingers were twitching and her foot was tapping.

"When did he come back around Xander?" Diane's voice was a bit over a whisper as she looked at my Dad across the table.

He sighed as massaged his temples.

"Kids, do you know when he made an appearance in any point up until now?" I looked over to Wren, he was silently brooding in his seat, blazing eyes swirling with the dark crimson color again.

I held his hand and he calmed at my touch.

"Yes, about two years ago to be exact." Ben surprisingly spoke up. He sighed and looked at Dad.

"He came to Wren after he was tired out from 'training'. He was in a cave with Wren and he healed his body back to normal and did a spell on him." He further explained.

Diane looked cautiously at Wren. She opened her mouth but no words could find their way out. But she eventually did speak.

"I could tell that the spell he used was real old. Ancient even. How in the hell could he manage to get that type of magic in his system, and that dark?" She was as confused as I was.

"He used dark magic on me." Wren turned and faced Diane, but continued.

"He found me when I was at my lowest point and he did the spell. He said that I could make my pack proud, and make my dad see that I wasn't invaluable to him. I was naive." He shook his head in disbelief at the events that took place.

"How does this whole thing work, Wren? Your powers. I can tell that there are two kinds inside of you." How did she know?

"My power is separated. My Revolutionary powers and this." He pointed to his eyes.

"I'm in my Demon state right now. I don't when I'll go back to using my revolutionary powers again. When my revolutionary powers were in control, my demon power was in the background, underneath the surface. But when the demon power is in control, it takes over entirely and I don't remember anything." Wren elaborated for Diane.

She looked him over and sighed. She stood up and walked to our side of the table.

"Can I do read on you, Wren? I would like to be able to know what causes your barrier between the two energies." He nodded.

Diane put her fingertips onto his head and closed her eyes. The whole time everyone sat and waited for her to do her thing. They both snapped their eyes open. Wren's blazing red eyes glazed over, looking slightly dull. Diane's light honey brown eyes glazed over as she reached into the depths of Wren's mind.

The more she held onto Wren, the more strained she looked.

She was onto something.

"Oh my..." She whispered, Wren looked like he was going to cry.

What were they seeing?

"You poor baby." A lone tear went down his cheek.

Ben knew what was wrong with his younger brother. I didn't know the half of what he's been through.

And that alone hurts.

After about a couple more minutes, Diane removed her fingers from his head. Wren stood up and looked down. Diane wrapped her arms around the bigger boy and held him in her warm embrace.

"How did you survive all those years?" She asked him, then her gaze shifted to Ben.

He had tears brimming his eyes too. Diane walked up to him and wrapped her arms around Ben too. I guess they've both been through a lot. Sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ ꜰindNʘvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

"How can I merge my energies into just one combination instead the separate piers being more dominant than the other? I want to be able to control both sets of powers at once." Wren faced Diane with question.

"There's many different ways that it could happen, but for now let's focus on more important matters okay? I'll have Anais explain it to you." She gave a small smile and touched his cheek.

He nodded and sat back down, as did she and Ben.

Dad cleared his throat and everyone turned their attention to him.

"Kassidy," he looked into my eyes.

"When was your first encounter with Stylo?" He spoke his name like it was the dirt under his shoe, but I don't blame him.

My mind flashed back to the day of my 'punishment', and I let out a shaky breath.

The pain was so unbearable, especially without my powers being active the pain didn't heal.

He made it worse.

I gulped and fiddled with my fingers.

Wren noticed and held my hands, tangling our fingers together.

He nodded and I spoke.

"The day the Alpha came, when everything was happening and people were fighting, he came over when I was alone and stepped onto my back, while it was injured." I held my gaze downward, too in depth of the feeling of the memories of that day.

Dad looked at me and looked away and growled some very colorful words under his breath. "Did anything else happen?" I nodded my head and took a deep breath in through my nose and out my mouth.

"When I collapsed, and almost died. I seen him. In the other plain, he showed up when I was speaking to Solanis. She told him to leave and he smirked at me. He told her we had already met earlier that day, then I'd realized that he was the dark shadowy figure I had seen." After my small confession, Dad was breathing in deeply trying to contain himself.

He shook his head and chuckled darkly.

"We have to finish this, Diane. First he comes after us, then our children." He clenched his fists.

"He has to be dealt with." A dark glint made its way into my father's eyes.

"Wait, Dad, what do you mean by you first?" Stylo was here before?

Dad looked guilty at my question.

I thought he wasn't going to answer, but he did. "We were about your age when he joined Diane's coven. He was helpful, he babysat kids, helped put barriers around the pack lines to keep intruders out. Hell, he even was a close friend of ours." His eyes looked distant.

The remains of whatever Stylo did still pained him.

He continued.

"Stylo was always closer to myself and the Alpha of the Blood Moon Pack, Ben and Wren's father. I had no idea why he was so interested in learning about our future plans with our children, but he was interested indeed." He shook his head.

"He always asked Braxton about his thoughts on having sons, and me about having a set of twins. He always was babbling on about some kind of prophecy that was to take place when our kids turned the age of eighteen. I never believed a damn word he said because it was just so nuts, until Diane came around with her ability to read and interpret prophecies." Dad nodded his head at Diane and gave a sad smile.

All of this was supposed to happen?

Me being Wren and Kash and I being twins?

This couldn't be true.

But when you were born as something that's supposed to be a myth, anything is possible in our world.

"Wait, so let me get this straight. We were all supposed to be like this, revolutionaries? Wren and Ben are freaking Demon spawn hybrids, and lets not forget that Kassidy had to die to get her powers." Kash exasperatedly says.

"And on top of that, it's like my own power is forced to wake up when hers transfers to me." Kash explained with a dazed look on his disbelieving expression.

I had to give it to him, he was right.

I noticed it too.

He has something else in him, I don't know what it is, but it's scarily strong.

It's dangerous too, plus my powers amping up that power in him, we don't even know what'll happen then.

"Mr.Grayson, when I spoke to Solanis, she told me something interesting about you and your bloodline. What kind of wolves did your family come from?" Wait, what?

"I don't understand that you are a Delta but you're stronger than the Beta. Do you have dormant abilities too?" Wren just kept firing the questions at him, but he had a valid point though.

Dad was pretty strong, he sparred with the Alpha a couple times and bested him a few times while they fought.

It was incredibly difficult not to see how strong he was against the Alpha.

He chuckled and held his hands up to stop Wren from asking all his questions.

"My bloodline is different from average wolve, yes. Solanis told you right, but did she tell you how special my bloodline was?" Dad tilted his head as he questioned Wren back.

Wren shrugged his shoulders and sighed.

"She told me that it was special alright, but she didn't say what you were. So can you tell me?" Wren's blazing eyes brightened with curiosity about my Dad.

I was intrigued about what kind of wolves we originally came from too.

"Well, Wren..." He sighed and rubbed his hand across his forehead. "My bloodline, is of Lycan heritage." Gasps were heard all around the table.

Even Anais was shocked, and I thought she knew.

The only people who weren't shocked was Mom and Diane.

Kash's eyes looked like they were going to pop out of his head.

"I'm a Lycan?!" He started to ramble on about how he could unlock his powers from the Moon Goddess.

I'm still shook.

We were Lycans?

That explains why whenever Dad was overly riled up, his eyes flashed in a silvery color, then disappeared as soon as it appeared.

I thought I was tripping balls when I seen it, but now I understand.

But why were his and our powers dormant, did Stylo lock them away too?

"Yes, Kassidy. My powers were locked away. Since my powers were put into dormancy, when I had you two, you didn't inherit my abilities. They passed onto you, but stayed hidden." He explained.

And how could he read my mind like that?

"Because in your father, of course I can read what your thinking. Only sometimes, your mind closes off occasionally. Maybe it's because of your new powers." Wow.

Shaking my head, I glanced at the other two siblings at our dinner table.

Ban and Wren looked as equally shocked as I am.

"Mr.Grayson, how can anyone lock down those type of powers? It's next to impossible." Ben questioned.

A pained expression slid into my Dad's once happy expression.

"Stylo had done this. And I think he was in alliance with the Alpha of our pack because the information he obtained was only presented to my Alpha in reasoning to me taking the Beta position." He had no idea.

"Dad," I called out and he turned his attention to me.

"Is that why the Alpha had been so brutal to us for all those years? Because of a stupid prophecy?" I asked.

Silence had drifted into the room. The air was stuffy with tension, the subject was painful to say the least.

"So we had to take the beatings, the humiliation, the dark place, just because of something so stupid?" Kash had misty eyes now, so did I.

We never spoke about it until now. Kash didn't have it as bad as I did, but he was still beat and battered to a pulp.

And that place, was horrible.

The darkness, the hallucinating, the hunger we had to go through. It was all because of something that we didn't even know about.

Why would he even do that to us?

"I think he did that be the was scared of what was coming. He knew that you would be stronger than anything else, Kassidy with her powers and Kash being able to use her powers to boost up his own was a threat to his position. Either he was trying to break you, or he was trying to unleash your powers for his own use." And that's when it clicked.

The one realization that could change everything.

"They were pawns." Anais whispered.

Diane looked at Ben, then to Wren. "You boys, your harsh treatment, when did it start?" Her gentle hands grasped theirs in an attempt of comfort. The brothers looked at each other and nodded.

"When she died." Diane's eyes saddened up, my Mom's eyes too.

Who was she?

"Margo." Mom covered her mouth in her hands to cover up her small sniffles.

Ben and Wren tensed at the name, they became rigid.

"She was your mother, right?" Diane asked. Her honey chocolate eyes glazed over in the memory of the woman they spoke of.

I can't believe they lost their mom, but they were beaten up too.

Why were we all beaten by our Alphas?

What was the motive behind it?

"What age were you both when it began to happen?" Diane asked them.

"I was twelve and Wren was eleven years old. Our 'father' said that we needed to be stronger wolves so that when we take over the pack, nothing would be able to get in our way. But when she died he became brutal. He used wolfs bane, silver, wire cords, and other things." Ben explained.

"And to top that off, he made us do extreme workouts that weakened us and made us shrivel up into nothingness. That's how he raised us after she died." He finished.

My heart ached for them, having to do all of that, and do more.

That's just crazy.

They didn't deserve that.

We didn't deserve that.

"Do you think that both Alphas were in alliance with Stylo, Xander? It makes sense, but what doesn't make sense is why." She shook her head. Dad sighed and rubbed his forehead.

"Why torture these kids at a young age?" Mom asked.

That was my question for years.

Why us?

"Our beatings started then too, when Kash and I were twelve years old, we were punished because of our pranks. They were small pranks, with big consequences. Alpha Alex embarrassed us in front of the whole pack, using us as examples." I closed my eyes at the same time Kash did, both of us remembered our first punishment from our Alpha.

I took a deep breath and continued. "Mom and Dad were in pack business meeting at another pack for the Alpha to run an errand about war strategies and whatnot. They weren't here to save us." A tear cascaded down my face.

I could still feel as if the belt was crashing down into my skin, leaving a searing pain behind each lick it made on my back and behind.

An arm wrapped around my waist. Holding me to a warm chest.

Wren.

"It's okay, you don't have to continue if you don't want to." A warm kiss was placed on my head and I breathed in his scent, calmed down.

"We were given some juice from the Beta before our punishment was to take place. He said that what he was giving us was a pain reliever and would dull the pain, but it wasn't. In fact it made it worse and when I tried to call out for you guys in the mindlink, it was like a wall was blocking my way to you. He drugged our minds and our bodies." Another tear left my eye as I remembered that day.

It was all bad.

Dad stood up from his place in the other side of the table and hugged me in his arms. Mom did the same to Kash.

"I'm sorry I wasn't there, sweetheart, he never did tell me what he did. But when I found out, my powers almost slipped. Alex knew that they almost did too, he held me in a room and had a dark figure cast a spell on me, rendering my powers dull and weakened again." He must be talking about Stylo.

"We need to confront the Alpha, and now. Do you know how he is still alive? Any suggestions?" I ask, hoping to get an answer.

Diane nodded her head and closed her eyes. Then they snapped open and she gasped and laughed.

"Ma, why are laughing like a crazy person?" Anais raised a brow at her mother and grabbed her shoulders.

"Why haven't I thought if this before?!" Diane exclaimed.

"What are you talking about, Diane?" Mom tilted her head and questioned her friend's behavior.

Diane shook her head in disbelief and sighed.

"Kassidy," Diane switched her attention to me.

"Yes?" I asked.

"How do you travel to the other plain to visit Solanis?" She asked.

"I don't know, either when I die or when she needs me she summons me. Why?"

"We are going to get help from above, Kassidy." Diane beamed at me.

And with that, another roller coaster of disaster rolled in.

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