BELLA

The car came to halt.

I looked out of the window to notice a very big mansion. It looked completely different from the last time's. The place around the mansion was lit up with bright lights making the big structure glimmer.

"This is my packhouse." I gave him a confused look. "Packhouse is where my pack members live in. You might be thinking then why there are houses around. That's because I have given liberty enough to shift if they wanted to live on their own accord."

"What about the house or should I say mansion you took me last time?" I asked tilting my head a little to the right.

"That was for my personal uses. To get relaxed or to think about some things without any tension or disturbances. But then my initial home is this, where all my members live." I nodded my head in understanding.

The doors opened automatically causing me to groan. "We creatures are becoming truly lazy that we started depending on the technology," I muttered under my breath but enough for Xanthos to hear.

"I heard it, Angel."

"You were supposed to."

As I neared the packhouse I was certain that the four-storey building could provide a view of the entire forest and the places around. Each storey had a considered number of the sharply arched window and on the top floor, you could see some of them covered in the stained glass.

The dark mocha colour of the walls and the grey carving that rounded the windows, together with the deep green crowns of the trees next to it, made me think of something beautiful, great but messy at the same time. Maybe because of the white creeping flower that clearly has disrupted a great part of the mansion. Something made by the hand of a human being but nowhere far from the colour of the tree of our souls, Nature.

I stopped walking when something caught my eyes.

It was a symbol craved in the middle of the packhouse. It was an image of a wolf and a girl praying towards the moon. The back of my head began pounding as I felt some weird memory getting dug in my skull.

"We humans are not scum. We humans need equality..." A large crowd marched towards a huge familiar ancient-looking castle while continuing chanting the word 'equality'.

When the crowd stood out of the fort, a loud menacing growl quietened the people.

"Humans," Leonardo snarled.

"We can't stay silent and watch you supernatural entities conquering our motherland. We want the same equivalence as you, mutt!" The man who looked around to be at his early thirties yelled at Leonardo. I assumed him to be the leader of the crowd behind him.

Leonardo chuckled darkly, "Mutt? Am I so? Then let me show you who I actually am."

His eyes blazed a bright gold and he narrowed them at the man. The leader cried out in pain and trembled harshly.

"I-I--" he coughed out blood from his mouth.

"Now? Who is the mutt? You or me?" Leonardo asked the man with anger coating his golden eyes.

"Let go of him, King Leonardo!" A shrieking voice screamed from the front of the crowd.

A woman stood with a baby cocooned in her arms with a white cloth. She looked young and had quite a resemblance to me with the buttoned nose, the ocean blue eyes and the dirty blond hair.

I tilted my head in confusion.

How did we share similar features?

"Why should I let him go?" Leonardo asked the woman. However, he left the man.

"My king, my husband is on an irrational agenda of taking you down," she paused to glimpse at the man who now I knew was her husband. He had a look of betrayal on his face. "Pardon me. We all know that there is going to be unfair and unnecessary bloodshed around. It's going to be useless having a war between humans and in humans." She turned around to stare at the people behind her. "Don't you all think it's better if we give up rather than having bloodbath?" The crowd stood still. They were confused. I could tell it by their facial expressions.

"But, we didn't work this hard to give up, Acraylia." An old man shouted from amongst the other people.

I looked at Leonardo who was glancing at each and every person. His eyes were searching for something. He inhaled a deep breath of air in.

"I know-" Acraylia got cut off by the king himself.

"Mate!" He growled loudly causing all the humans to shut their ears.

He went near Acraylia and sniffed the air around her with an intense glint of focus in his eyes. His moves halted when he breathed in the scent of the baby that she was holding.

"Mate," he whispered causing Acraylia and her husband's eyes widening in shock.

"This can't be. No. My newborn girl can't be your mate. That's impossible. A human can't be mated to a monster like you." The man screamed with a strained voice.

"Cyrus, calm down." Acraylia tried to assure him but all was in vain.

"No! I won't allow this to happen." He shook his head.

"Well, if it isn't for my mate in your arms?" His eyes turned a dark black. There was no white left in them. His voice sounded three octaves down. It was almost animalistic.

I knew it was his demon.

All of them looked at him; confused by his behaviour.

"You just admitted that...why are you repeating it--" Cyrus got cut off.

Leonardo chuckled darkly.

"Well, let me introduce my self. I'm Vlaxin, the king of all demons."

Tears pooled in the eyes of Acraylia and Cyrus. My heart instantly felt a tug towards them. I felt painful to watch them cry.

"Our daughter's fate can't be this cruel." Acraylia sobbed, "It can't."

"Oh well, it can, you scums." Vlaxin spat out the word 'scums' harshly causing everyone to flinch, "Your daughter will be treated like any other humans. I'll make sure to erase the memories about this scum of my mate from mine as well as the other two souls mind. You may all go and never ever create a scene like this again. Be happy that you all are alive." He glared at the infant girl, "Goodbye, I hope we would never meet each other."

The sounds of the baby crying were the last thing I heard before I felt myself jerk up from my sleep.

When did I fall asleep?

I started sweating in panic as I looked around me. I was in a huge room where everything was made of bright dark colours. From the table to wardrobe to all the furniture were all painted with either grey or black. I found myself to be on a luxurious bed which was also black in colour.

Where was I? Whose room was it? What's going on?

I cried silently as I didn't know any answers to my questions.

I wiped my face with the back of my hand and got out of the bed. I wobbled towards the room's door and twisted its knob open. When it unlocked I was shocked to see people wandering around while chatting.

The walls around me have painted a beige colour which gave a bright look to the area. However, I didn't give any time to admire my surrounding as I ran a girl who wouldn't be more than my age.

"Hello, could you please tell me where am I?" I asked the girl while trying to cover my frantic expression.

"You are in the packhouse of Wolfville, cutie." I blushed at the endearment she used.

When I heard packhouse everything came crashing down to my brain.

I got freedom from hell. I was free now. I was excited to spend time without being scared of not getting abused.

I then remember of Xanthos. Where was he? I had to ask him many questions about my latest remembrance. I know there is something that as to do with me and Amanda.

"Where is Xanthos?" The girl's face morphed with jealousy. She flipped her red hair and glared at me with her green eyes. She was pretty for sure. Much prettier than me.

"I have no idea. I thought you were going to be staying here as you don't have anywhere else to but I didn't know you were on of Xanthos's 'acquaintance'." I flinched at the way the girl stressed on the last word.

"I am-" I cut myself. I wasn't going to say sorry. Nope.

"You are? What? Whore or a slut?" The girl stared at me with arrogance and rudeness.

"What if I say I'm both?" I asked while glaring at her, "what would you do? Insult me?"

The girl fiddled with her thumb before looking at me. She ignored my question and said, "Xanthos is my mate. Stay away from him."

"Yeah yeah and Tom Holland is my boyfriend. Stay away from him too." A familiar voice said from beside me.

When I glanced up, I noticed it was none other than Natasha standing wearing casual black shorts and crop top.

The red-haired girl snorted. "Shut the hell up, Nat. Don't interfere in between."

"Where is hell to shut it up?" She gazed around and looked at the red-haired girl, "I found it. Shut up, Edrala." 

I chuckled at Natasha's behaviour.

"Okay! That's enough." The red-haired girl who now I know her name to be to Edrala took a step forward towards me. I stood my ground though I felt intimated by her. "Hello, my name is Edrala and I'm Nat's sister. I was just testing you cause I couldn't believe a human came here to join us."

Natasha's sister? But they were nothing alike.

"I'm Bella," I said looking at her straight in her eyes.

"Ok, so you wanted to know where Alpha Xanthos is, right? I'll ask him to come to  you through my mind link." I was pushed back to the room.

What's a mind link? Could they talk through their mind or something?

The door of the room burst open and Xanthos strode in before shutting the door.

"Are you alright, Angel?" He gazed at me with worry in his eyes.

"How did I reach here?" I asked while running my hand through the silk of the bed.

"I had to carry you here. You fainted at the foyer. You zoned out and then you almost fell face-first on the ground. What happened?" He asked looking at me with concern.

I contemplated on whether telling him the truth or not. However, I decided to tell him and clear my confusion.

"Since I came to Wolfville, I have been getting images of a couple named Amanda and Leonardo." Xanthos's lips tilted at the corners of his mouth.

"What all images or flashback have you seen?" He asked interested.

"Amanda getting traded as human 17 and then she is brought by the king himself." I paused, "I saw how Amanda was raped just because she was a mere human." I noticed the way Xanthos's face hardened and his jaw clenched. "About your demon, Vlaxin torturing Amanda." If possible his face hardened more and he looked scarier yet handsome, "and the way they confessed their love to one another."

"I see you have not yet got the scenario of the crucial part." He muttered under os breath.

I explained to him what I dreamt today. He was shocked after hearing that.

"You mean I-Leonardo met Amanda before her being his pet? And the reason I can't remember is because of Vlaxin?"

"That's the images I got."

"I have to talk to Vlaxin. Fucking bastard." He cursed under his breath. He then locked eyes with me. "Do you feel connected to Amanda?"

As I think about it, I do feel connected. I feel as though she is me and I'm here. However, it may also be because of me having dreams of her.

"I do."

Xanthos smiled.

"What if I say, you're Amanda? And I'm Leonardo? And we both have reincarnated for something important?" I laughed at what he asked.

"That's not possible." There was no playfulness in his expression, I sighed. "Right?"

"Think over it, sweetheart."

With that said, he walked out of the room; leaving me in confusion.

A/N

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