Chapter 112: Chapter 112

Charlotte releases a ragged breath as she stares at the scene in front of her. “What’s… what’s going on?” She asks.

“The warriors found them a few minutes ago.” Matt answers.

Charlotte takes out her phone when it suddenly rings. “Nicholas.” She answers. “Are you guys okay?”

“We are fine Charlotte. But you should come here. Right now.” He says.

Charlotte gulps at the urgency in his voice. “Okay. I’ll be there soon.”

She turns towards Should be there.

“Absolutely not!” Azraiel barks instantly. “They could be dangerous, Charlotte.”

“I know…” She looks at him with pleading eyes. “Even more of a reason to be with my pack right now.”

Azraiel shakes his head. “No.” He says sternly. “Go home. I’ll deal with this.”

Charlotte doesn’t budge. “No.. It’s my pack. I am their leader. I should be with them. Please try to understand Azraiel.” She pleads.

He looks at her for a long second and she asks her wolf to send a message to his wolf. After what feels like an eternity, he looks away from her face and finally Says. “Fine! But… you’ll stay in the car until I make sure that it is safe for you to be there.” Charlotte immediately nods at him.

Azraiel then turns to Matt and says, “Increase the security. Make sure the pack isn’t made aware of this and call me if anything else happens. Theo. You are coming with me. Take some warriors too.”

Charlotte, Theo, and Azraiel. Hurry towards the car and immediately leave. All sorts of scenarios are coming to Charlotte’s mind as she stares out of the car’s window at the darkness of the woods. She just hopes that no one is hurt. Soon, they reach where her pack is staying.

“Stay here!” Azraiel instructs her and gets out of the car. She watches as Nicholas and Jamie come towards the car and talk to Azraiel. He turns towards her for a moment and then comes to her. “Don’t wander off alone and stay behind me all the time.” Charlotte nods at the instructions mutely knowing it is useless to argue with

him right now. He and his wolf are feeling protective and there is nothing that she could say to change that.

Charlotte exits the car and rushes to Nicholas. “Is anyone hurt?” She asks hurriedly.

“No.” Nicholas gulps. “They suddenly started coming. All of them.” The sheer terror on his face makes her heartbeat quicken.

“Who?” She asks slowly. Nicholas glances at Azraiel and then at her.

“The other species Charlotte!” Jamie and Nicholas look at each other. “Vampires, witches were cats, and God knows what else.”

The reality slowly sinks in. The species she has been Seeing in meditations, her dreams…. The ones that are supposedly inside her.

Shit!

“So many species have never got together at the same time..” Azraiel adds. “They could be dangerous. The Supernatural never mixes together well.”

“Take me to them,” Charlotte says to Nicholas. Azraiel immediately comes in front of her. They silently walkups into the woods. And near the lake. Charlotte is shocked when they reach the lake. “Oh, God!!” It comes out of her mouth without intending to.

People! So many people. The area is filled with people.

People with different colored eyes.

Red, Blue, Purple, Green, yellow Pink and so on!!

Azraiel doesn’t let her come forward. She watches as he scans the area. It doesn’t look like they are here as a threat.

“I am Alpha Azraiel Mickelson of the Blue Orchid Pack. I mean no harm but I want to know why you are here?”

One blond female slips forward. “We don’t answer to anyone but our Alpha.”

Another man comes to the front. “Yeah let her come forward. We are here for her!”

She can feel Azraiel getting angry at the outright disrespect. Thankfully he doesn’t say anything. He turns to her and looks into her eyes. “I’ll wipe them all off this planet if any one of them even looks at you the wrong way.” He mindlinks her.

Charlotte’s lips quirk up at his protectiveness. “Okay!!” She says back.

Azraiel turns around and gives a mean stare to everyone present there, and then steps aside. Charlotte takes a step forward and the first ones She notices are the ones that spoke. The blond woman has purple eyes, so she could be a witch. The black man that slipped forward has red eyes. So he could be a werewolf like Nicholas or a

vampire maybe.

“By Alpha do you mean me?” She half expected to choke on her own saliva but surprisingly she didn’t.

“Yes, Alpha. “The blond woman says.

“How can I be your Alpha?” She asks as a heaviness starts to settle in her heart. “We–We can feel it.” The blond answers and everyone around her murmurs in affirmative.

“But… I am a human as of now. And will most likely become a werewolf after the shift. You are all from different species. How can I be your Alpha?”

“We-we can’t explain it either. But we all came here because we felt drawn to you.” The blond doesn’t-looks like she is lying.

Charlotte quietly observes the people in front of her. “Have anyone of you heard the term Therians.? “

A hush falls as she finishes her question. The species look at each in wonder.

After what feels like a long silence one old woman with purple eyes comes forward.

“Did you just say Therians? “She asks in a clear strong voice. “Yeah…” A lump forms in Charlotte’s throat as she realizes that this Therians thing might be her reality after all.

The old woman looks at them strangely and then at everyone else. “Oh god!! Are we all Therians?” A look of horror crosses her face.

“I am not sure… but most possibly, yes,” Charlotte answers, unsure if that’s actually what these people are.

Azraiel senses her dilemma and comes to her side. “Are you a witch, Ma’am?” Azraiel asks the old lady. “Yes. I am.”

“From which Coven?”

“None!” She flashes her eyes. “I am an eclectic witch... I am not a part of any coven.”

Azraiel looks at the crowd and asks a question, “Do anyone of you belong to any pack, coven or group?” One by one they receive the same answer.

“No!”

Azraiel and Charlotte look at each other and instantly know that they are screwed.

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A few minutes later when her anxiety dies down., Charlotte begins the actual conversation, these people have come here for her, with tons of questions.

Questions she has no answers to.

“How did you find her?” One of them asks Nicholas.

“Just like you did.” He answers.

Charlotte looks at all of them. “I know this is probably the last thing you guys want to hear. But… I am really sorry. I don’t have the answers to all your questions right now.”

“We didn’t come here for any answers, Alpha.” The old witch whose name she now knows is Lydia, speaks up.

“Yes. We just came here because we felt drawn to you.” A man with green eyes says.

Charlotte nods. “Thank You!”

“Can I ask a question, if you guys don’t mind?” Charlotte hesitates.

“Yes, sure Alpha. You can ask us anything.”

“Why are you not a part of any group of your respective species?” She desperately needs someone to solve her life mystery for her.

“I can’t say about others, but I have never been a part of any group for as long as I can remember,” Lydia speaks up. “Hell...I grew up in an orphanage, and for the most part of my life, I had no idea that I was a witch.”

Oh No!

This sounds a lot like Charlotte’s story.

“Yeah me too.” Another voice comes.

“Yeah, same here!”

These words echo one after another and Charlotte is horrified.

So many people grew up without a family, all alone…unaware of their identity, of their powers…of their potential!

“It was the same with us but we later formed a group!” A vampire speaks up.

Charlotte acknowledges his words with a nod.

“Have your eyes been of these colors forever?” She couldn’t help but ask the question.

“No.” They answer collectively.

“They turned like this almost two months ago!”

A lump forms in charlotte’s throat. Two months! Two months!

Around the same time when she got bitten.

Charlotte breathes heavily. A hand on her shoulder provides her a bit of comfort. He must have realized it too.

“Okay…” She mutters.

“Did anything else happen? “Charlotte asks even though she is dreading the answer.

“Yeah. !”A new voice speaks up. She turns to look at a young girl with pink eyes. “After the change in eye color, things started getting weird. Before that, I never considered that I could be anyone other than a human, but then I suddenly started getting flashes of claws and teeth and then a few days ago I saw my nails turn into a

claw.”

Her eyes instantly meet Theo’s and she knows what both of them are thinking. The timeline coincides with that day in the woods when she encountered the same.

“What did you guys have in mind when you came here?” Azraiel asks suddenly.

“Nothing.. really we just followed our gut.” The man from before says again.

“Okay…. “Azraiel nods.

Charlotte just feels like she should tell them outright… “I don't know what exactly l am and what’s going to happen next but I feel like I am triggering what’s happening with you.”

“Yeah. How so?” Lydia asks.

“Uh-the time when your eye color changed roughly coincides with the time when I got bitten…. And the time when you started experiencing changes in your physical appearance too matches with the day I started experiencing the same. “

“So …whatever’s happing with you is happening to us?” Another voice asks.

“Sort of.”

“Wait… Does that mean we’ll shift too when you shift? Lydia asks.

And here’s the question she has been dreading.

“I -I” She stammers and gulps, “I have no fucking idea !”