Deranged Writer's Afterword

175  The First Devil (2)

A wolf lay on the ground breathing heavily, it would whine out once in a while several wolves surrounded her, and all of them howled. As the howling stopped, so did the fallen wolf’s cries…..instead a light ‘awooo’ echoed through their surroundings,

A new member was born to their pack today.

Luna Caerus was born.

‘What the fuck ?’, Adam thought as he watched on from the side.

Adam continued to watch as the young wolf slowly grew up, she wasn’t extraordinary in any way but she persevered against hardship well. She soon became the leader of their pack.

Life for a wolf was hard, from hunting for food to defending itself from enemies, there was a lot a wolf had to do to survive in the unforgiving wild.

Adam watched as her life went by, she devoured her prey….she lead her pack to safety in times of danger and kept on living.

Hunt.Rinse.Repeat.

Hunt.Rinse.Repeat.

Hunt.Rinse.Repeat.

Life was slowly turning drab for the young leader but yet she kept fighting for her people, for her home because that was her duty.

Just as she was beginning to think that her life would never change, it did….in a way no one would ever expect.

Mana descended onto earth.

In her pack, she was the strongest, once mana integrated with her brothers and sisters they began to challenge her for the position of leader, but it turns out that with or without mana…..Luna would always be the strongest, her newfound strength initially gave her joy but that soon turned to dread.

Too much power isolates you.

In her case, she was becoming stronger at a rapid pace. To her siblings, she was an insurmountable wall that they couldn’t even hope to climb as such, it was only natural that she was isolated from the rest.

As Luna learned to live with her new circumstances, a new enemy appeared.

The demons.

Luna fought with humans for the first time, their enmity that had begun since the dawn of time had come to an end in the face of their common enemy. The demons were ferocious in their attack but with the humans and animals working together with the angels…they finally defeated the demons.

The war was a long and tiresome one due to a single individual.

The prince of the demons, Araceous Crowcolt was a deranged beast, at the time he was leagues above Luna in terms of raw power and unlike Luna, the demons seemed to love their prince.

Why else would they sacrifice their own lives for him?

In the end, it took all twelve of the angels and the best, humanity and the others had to offer to take a single man down.

Luna felt a slight chill passing over as she heard the man’s final words,

“ This isn’t over……I will be back.”

‘No way…..’

Adam looked shocked after this scene wasn’t new to him….he had been dreaming about this day often.

‘ Why didn’t I think about this before ?’

Adam’s mind wandered as the scenes before him changed rather quickly.

Luna came back to her village a hero.

She surprisingly fell in love, and they married and had their first child.

Luna’s days were filled with joy and bliss, she wasn’t alone anymore.

‘It’ happened when she was pregnant with her second child, an inextinguishable fire had begun to devour their village and Luna had gone to settle that….which she did, but she returned to her home to find her husband and child murdered in cold blood.

Upon further investigation, she found out that the humans had sent assassins because they were afraid of her ever-growing strength.

Adam watched silently as he witnessed Luna falling into a pit of despair, she had lost the only things that mattered while protecting a village that was almost alien to her….and why?

Was it because of her strength?

From the moment she was born….her strength took away everything from her. It took away her childhood and now…it took away her husband and first child.

“ Will it take you away too ?”Luna whispered into the newborn's ear.

‘That’s probably Lydia….’, Adam thought

“ Gugu”, the baby replied, unaware of her mother’s plight.

“ I won’t let it.”, a weakened Luna whispered to no one in particular.

Luna left the child and ran away.

~~~~~

I opened my eyes to find Luna glaring at me,

“ Uh…that was interesting…”, I tried to understand just what she saw, if she every memory of mine like I did of hers…then I’m fucked.

She would know that I’m the author.

She would know everything about me….even the things I need to hide from myself.

I winced, praying to all the gods for their help, but the words that came out of her mouth confused me even more,