Enigma

Chapter 18- Lucas

I plopped on the comfortable bed as I exited the shower. Hudson went in the bathroom. Archer was

sitting on the desk chair, reading a book he found somewhere. Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

This is the most relaxed I have felt since the attack. I can tell by looking that Archer and Hudson felt the

same.

There is a sense of security in this house. A sort of warmth and hominess that I didn’t knew I missed so

much.

In all this running and surviving, I had missed these simple gestures of taking a shower, laying on your

bed and staring at the ceiling thinking random things and some other things like having a full house and

dinner with family.

These things seem so modest but they are really important and we seem to take it for granted. We only

realize how important they are to us, once we lose them.

“What are you thinking?” Archer asked breaking me out of my pondering.

“About how much our lives changed in one day. Before the attack we didn’t have a slightest idea of this

world and now we are living in the middle of it. We lost everything but found something new.”

“Yeah. It has been a whirlwind. I just hope that our parents were still alive. I miss them. I didn’t even get

to say goodbye to them.” Archer said giving me a sad smile.

“I want to help them with the attack. It will at least bring some sort of justice and peace to our parents

and the other people we lost.” Hudson said as he exited the bathroom.

He must have heard us talking.

“I want to as well but I don’t know how it will work.” I voiced.

“What do you mean?” Archer asked.

“See from what I collected, our Alpha is dead and that must be the chief’s son. A pack needs an Alpha

to function and we don’t have him. We do have a beta which is one of us but we still need an Alpha.

Even if we did shift, who will lead us? Who will take charge of us? What if they thought that we

shouldn’t be shifting as we don’t have an Alpha? The spirit walker has total control over the shifting

process. What if she decides that we shouldn’t shift due to lack of a leader? We won’t be able to help

and get justice. We will be too weak to fight against those monsters anyways. I just hope they let us in

this. I want to give it my all to save the people I have left with me.” I told them.

Archer and Hudson looked stunned for a moment.

Yup! We didn’t know about the shifter world till the day we were attacked but from what we concluded,

it must have been kept in the chief’s family. The day of the attack was a total shock and chaos. We

didn’t know anything at all about the creatures that were killing us nor did we know that we were a part

of their world in some way.

When the chief shifted into a massive wolf, we were shocked but we ran as instructed by his wife and

sons. They were trying to help us but they got killed in the process.

Nobody anticipated an attack of that sorts. Not even in their dreams. There was confusion everywhere.

The parents took over for the chief’s family and the children ran but they came after us too until we

were saved and told about the way out.

We were pushed into a new world headlong without any warning but we wanted revenge so we made it

our mission to survive and fight back when we get a chance. Seems like we have that chance now but

there is a possibility that it can be taken away from us.

“We will figure something out. We will kill as many demons as we can before dying. I am not going to

sit around and watch people defend me and lose their lives. This time I will fight too and no one is

going to stop me from doing that.” Archer said standing up from his chair.

“Yeah! We will fight. With or without being shifters, it doesn’t matter if we don’t have extra properties to

us. We will fight with what we got.” Hudson said plopping beside me.

A knock broke us out of our heated discussion and we went downstairs to eat. The Astley’s were

waiting for us with a table full of delicious looking food but my mind was solely wondering to our talk

earlier.

We will fight no matter what and with everything we have got. We won’t rest peacefully till we get to the

bottom of this and eradicate the people responsible for the demise of our people.