Eero's perspective
I still couldn't grasp my head around the truth behind Cielo's real identity, and I was not allowed to tell Claudius about this.
“Once we are back in Regulus…you're going to let Claudius and I fend for ourselves?” I could not help but ask her.
“Not so soon, but once I ensure that there would be a century of peace in the realm, then my task here is done, and I must go back to serve the Sun God,” she answered truthfully.
I looked up at the full bloom.
“My wolf transformed into a powerful one and up to now, I could feel that something had changed. Do you perhaps have something to do with my transformation?”
“Luna, I am just a priestess, not a God. I can't give you special ability nor make you stronger within a snap of my finger.”
I slowed down and looked her in the face.
“But you know that my wolf was hiding some incredible strength and power.”
“Your strength and power is a blessing that your lineage receives from the Sun God, himself. You might have lived the last 18 years of your life in sorrow and misery….”
“But you come from a family that is well-loved by the Moon Goddess and the Sun God, which made you way more special than the rest of the shifters,” she continued.
I smiled weakly at her, “You are speaking in riddles again, Cielo. You sound like you know a lot about my family. Why don't you just tell me exactly about my roots?” I suggested.
She remained silent while we kept walking until we reached a river, a magical one, for its water glowed an aquamarine color.
“What is this? It's my first time seeing a river like this.”
Cielo looked up at the moon and the corner of her lips formed a delicate smile.
“I think the Moon Goddess was here to take her bath.”
“Really?”
“Yes, Luna. Once a month when the moon is in full bloom, the Moon Goddess enjoys a cold bath in a river of her choice, and it turns the water magical and glowing for a short period of time.”
“Let me wash your hand for you, and your face too. It's still stained with blood,” she said.
Cielo helped me crouch, and the cold water left sparkles in my hand. I was enjoying the water of the magical river when I felt a pain coming from my belly.
“C-Cielo, i-it hurts.”
Worry washed over her face after she saw my face contorting in pain.
Cielo looked down on my legs as I felt water dripping down my legs.
“W-What is happening to me?”
“Shit!” I heard her curse for the very first time.
“Cielo, is my baby alright? W-What's the meaning of this? I-I'm sure that I didn't pee on myself!”
“Luna, your water broke. You are about to give birth.” My eyes widened in panic and I shook my head at her.
“B-But I am not supposed to give birth yet, not until after those three weeks passed, Cielo. W-What if something happens to Perseus?” My voice was shaking.
She wrapped her arm behind me and her other hand, guiding me to hold her.
“I-I need Claudius here, Cielo. I-I'm scared. I-I can't do this without him,” I muttered nervously.
“But we are far from home. I don't even know where we are, Luna, but I am sure that the Alpha is on his way to find us.”
“Ahh!” I gripped her arm tighter that it made her wince in pain too.
“Fuck it! It felt like my body was being ripped apart,” I exclaimed and continued to shout in pain.
“Luna, I'm here. I'll help you. You must begin your labor now. If not, then it might endanger your pup and you too!” She urged me.
Cielo stripped my cardigan from me, “We'll use this to wrap your pup in once he's here,” she told me, and then she pointed to a patch of grass.
“There, Luna! You can lay there.”
“I'm terrified ahh!” I gritted my teeth and started to breathe deeply as waves of excruciating pain drowned me.
My legs were spread widely in front of her, and she was staring straight into my vagina.
“Luna, I can already see his head.”
“Look at me and copy the way I breathe. We can do this,” she cheered.
Gripping the branch of the same tree that I was using as a pillow, I tried to push the baby out of me, but it was not that easy.
Cielo held my hand, as she looked back and forth to me and in between my legs.
“Luna, please. You have to keep pushing the pup out of you.”
“Claudius, fuck ah!!” I breathed out.
“This is too painful and I-I need to do this again and again. He's a cunt, ahh!”
“The pup's head is out, but you must keep on pushing him out, or he might end up choking, Luna.”
“Cielo, shut up! You are scaring me." Pushing the bump in my tummy as if it would help me get rid of the baby, I groaned in pain, and I was nearly out of breath, but then I finally heard the high-pitched sound of a baby crying.
Cielo quickly wrapped him with my cardigan while I was staring weakly at it. A tear of jay poured from me.
“It really is a boy, Luna,” Cielo said as she placed my son on top of my chest. He quickly stopped crying.
“Perseus, hello there, my sweet boy. I am your mother,” I whispered to him while I was giggling in tears.
“Well done, Luna. The Alpha would be so proud of you,” Cielo whispered to me.
I felt so weak that my eyes slowly closed and the last thing that I could remember was Perseus holding my finger with his little hand.
Waking up from my sleep, I got up in a panic, forgetting the fact that I just got out from long hours of labor after I didn't see my pup on top of me while Cielo was sleeping next to me too.
“My son. Where is my son, Cielo?” I asked in a calm voice in an attempt to pull myself together.
Cielo got up too, and went around to look for Perseus.
“Cielo, where is my pup?”
“I…"
“Where is Perseus? My son, Cielo?”
“I don't know, Luna. H-He was just sleeping right on top of you when I dozed off accidentally.”