I snubbed Blade to the back of my mind and made my way to the office.
Did the moon goddess have plans for Avery? And what was that about following her heart? Why did Blade sound so angry? He made it sound like we wouldn't be there to help her. I won't let her face this alone and I know that neither would Blade. Therefore, why did he make it sound like she's going to face this all by herself?
All this confusion, I really hoped Amber had a few answers.
"Alpha." Lukas greeted me with a slight head bow when I entered my office.
"Thank you, Lukas. You can leave. I need to speak privately with my siblings." I went and sat by my desk. Lukas bowed his head once more before exiting. Amber and Alex were sitting in front of me and I was really hoping to hear some good news.
"So, do you want the good news first or the bad?" Amber asked looking a little queeze.
"Ugh, I was hoping for good news only."
"Really? What world do you live in?" Amber asked. Her voice laced with sarcasm, I rolled my eyes and leaned back in my chair.
"Bad news first, please."
"It seems like this 'conflict' between a certain wizard and a werewolf family is over one hundred years old. It started when a werewolf pack ambushed a pack called the Half-Moon for the land that the pack had, which was massive.
The Half-Moon pack knew that they couldn't handle the attack on their own so they reached out to a witch who built a shield around their borders. Although that was illegal they didn't see another way until they could solve this without losing all of their pack members."
"Who was the pack that attacked?" I asked Amber.
"Nobody knows. All they know is that the pack is ruthless, not like us, but in the sense that they will kill anyone and everyone, even for the fun of it. Then they will the territory alone. The problem however was that the Alpha of the Half-Moon Pack had a daughter. She was five years old and she went outside the shield and was immediately taken by the enemy pack. The Alpha told the witch to take down the shield and their warriors were ready for the attack. The Alpha told the witch to protect his daughter by any means necessary and so she did. She put a protection spell on the girl but had to constantly maintain it during the attack. She wasn't all that powerful and eventually, her powers ran out. She ran to the girl to protect her but was attacked in the process...She didn't make it. The witch's name was Alena, and when she passed, her husband turned insane and tried to eliminate the entire werewolf population in America. He was killed by a werewolf only two years later. However, his son was ten years old at the time and promised to carry out what his father had started. He promised to avenge his parents. And the pack that was attacked was the one of Avery's mom. Avery's grandmother was the little girl who the witch died protecting, and Madeline paid the price, and now Avery is the final key. "
"So the wizard doing this is the son of the witch that was killed?" I asked, trying to piece everything together in my mind.
"Yes, and his name is Crow."
"Like the bird?" Alex chimed in with furrowed eyebrows. I leaned forward and placed my hands on the table.
"Exactly, and the crow is normally associated with deceit and manipulation. Is Crow his birth name?" I asked, turning my head to Amber.
"No, I don't know his birth name. He chose Crow himself as he grew older," Amber looked at me with wonder.
"He didn't learn how to manipulate people's minds, he was born with it." She said as the epiphany hit her.
"That's what I think, which means that we have been going about this all wrong. We believed him to be a normal but powerful wizard who had this ability on top of the others, but what if this ability is the strongest one he has? What if his magic is only as strong as his ability to manipulate?" This could be it, this could be the advantage we needed.
"Natasha told the warriors earlier about a flower called Lobelia. It makes the person lose concentration which, for a witch or a wizard is fatal. If we could inject him with that extract, he wouldn't be strong enough to manipulate Avery. His other powers would be on hold too, giving us enough time to kill him." Amber said and we all felt joy mixed with victory rush through us.
"It's not so simple." Natasha said as she walked into my office, and came to stand next to Alex's chair, holding a picture in her hand.
"What do you mean? What did we miss?" Alex asked sounding frustrated, understandably so.
"You missed the part where his killing isn't yours to do. There is a reason as to why he hasn't been killed yet, because he can't be. Only one person can kill him and she was born a little over eighteen years ago." Me, Alex, and Amber looked at each other. What the hell was she talking about? Why couldn't we kill him?
Eighteen years ago...
"Avery?" I looked at Natasha wide-eyed and she looked at me with remorse.
" Yes, Avery is the only one who can kill him."