The Chronicles of Moon

Superpowers

The room pauses, and everyone is looking at Moon. She explains what she learned by reading through some of the journals. When she finishes, there is a rather long silence.

That went well. Kiara chimes in, making Moon scowl at her.

It could be worse. She retorts back to the wolf. We just told Colin he’s going to have a superpower to make anyone other than me obey him.

“Okay, so you have to find the exact spot Mark found you during the supermoon. Do you know what will happen other than whatever spell they placed on you is supposed to break? How is that going to break the spell.” Jess is always the skeptic and seems doubtful of the whole thing, but she is only saying what everyone is clearly thinking as they continue to stare at Moon.

“Nope, not a clue. I don’t know the exact location, and I don’t know what will happen when I get there. Gramps said I should be marked when I go, and if I’m not, then… well, I don’t know. That wasn’t clear either.” She shrugs, feeling stupid and uncertain of anything.

“Well, good thing you have that nice new love bite because I think that supermoon is tonight, if I’m not mistaken,” Chris smirks a little, looking at her neck. She blushes, knowing everyone knows a little too much about her personal affairs now.

“Will you get that damn silver out of my shoulder? I need to think. Caleb and Maddox won’t give up so easily, and we are stuck here for the night at least.” Colin is frustrated and trying to formulate a plan to keep them all from getting killed. His head is starting to hurt, running through all the possible scenarios on how they could possibly die tonight.

“We should call David and get some reinforcements,” Chris says as he undoes the dressing on Colin’s shoulder.

“I will call him.” Ben gets up and walks out of the kitchen. Moon follows him as Colin stiffens, still unsure who to trust.

“Down, boy.” Chris chuckles. “I think she will be fine. There were three men in that car, all twice her size.”

Colin simply grunts, “Yeah, and she was there because I didn’t stop it. I should have seen something like this happening.”

“Oh please, you can’t predict everything that might happen, and you can’t stop everything either. You don’t have to beat yourself up over it.” Chris maintains, still smirking a bit. He doesn’t pause or give Colin a chance to reply before shoving the instrument into Colin’s shoulder, making him wince.

“A warning would have been nice.” He grits out through his teeth.

“Oh, whoops.” Chris chuckles, “My bad.” As Colin glares at him.

***

Moon follows Ben out of the packhouse, and he stops standing in the driveway, breathing deeply.

“Ben,” She starts, but he cuts her off.

“Moon, you don’t need to apologize again. I should be apologizing to you.” He says, hanging his head. “What my dad did was wrong, and I don’t know why he would do something like that. I know he had grown frustrated over things, not agreeing with Mark all the time, but I didn’t know he had plans like this.”

“From what I read, Jake wanted to see the pack grow larger, and he wanted to ally us with Maddox. He had dreams of seeing us turn into something bigger. He wanted the power and comfort he thought it would bring. He seemed to believe that if I was with Caleb, we would rule the wolves, and he and your family would sit by our side in comfort and safety. The things happening with the other packs have been turbulent at best. I was shamefully unaware of how bad things are until I left here. I had been sheltered from the outside, and I didn’t see how much fighting was happening. We are killing off our own kind at an alarming rate. Somehow I need to fix that.” She explains, hoping it brings Ben some comfort.

Now she can see that if things with the packs continue as they have been, soon there will be only a few packs left. They are sending themselves to the brink of extinction if something doesn’t change; apparently, she is meant to be that change. She didn’t even want to be the Alpha of her own pack. Now she is expected to unite them all and rule over all of them. How in the hell is she going to do that?

“If anyone can, it would be you,” Ben says sincerely, looking up at her. “Mark believed in you, and so do I. I know I was a Jerk as a kid, and you drove me nuts, but you have proven over and over how capable you really are. You just have to trust yourself.”

She is touched by his words, and she can’t help it. She runs at him, hugging him again. “I am sorry, Benny.” She whispers. He takes a second, sighing and embracing her back.

“You know you will make that Alpha of yours jealous.” He chuckles uneasily.

“Oh, he’ll get over it. We are family.” Moon huffs, letting Ben go.

“You are lucky. I know that.” Colin smirks from the door.

His shoulder is freshly bandaged, and Moon looks him over. He’s just in shorts, and he is already looking better then he was just a few minutes ago.

“Did Chris get the rest of the silver out?” She questions, concern all over her face.

“Do you doubt me?” Chris is walking up behind Colin drying his hands, his usual half smile and teasing nature still fully intact despite the looming danger.

“I have a call to make, and then we need a plan.” Ben is not as good at hiding his evident worry and anxiety over the situation.

“Well, let’s get to it then,” Moon says rather seriously as she heads back to Colin, who is too quick to wrap her in his arms and holds her close to him.

“So, when does he get his new superpower?” Chris teases, but he’s very curious to see how all of this is going to play out now.

“Let’s see if it works. Chris, sit.” Colin orders with full Alpha authority, and when Chris falls to his butt, even Colin has to laugh. “Look, it works.”

“Jerk,” Moon says, slapping Colin’s chest.

“I’m already your pack, you asshole. It would have worked anyway.” Chris grumbles, getting up.

“Oh, my bad.” Colin winks at him, making Chris glare at him more.

“Payback.” Colin says smugly still smiling a bit.