ARTEMISIA
Days went by and I visited the dungeon each time to practice with the witches. Also, initiation night was around the corner and I needed my power which seemed dormant to show forth as it would be a passage for me.
Although Mila didn't say it was necessary I did it, I wanted to as I don't want the others to feel if I was treated differently or not.
Again, the prophecy about the moon was becoming clearer; Goddess shall rise to help the chosen one in the quest for the moon and a rift between siblings shall bring the rise of nature.
Exactly how it was stated. It was barely six months since I arrived in Merene and everything was in disorder.
As the goddess Artemis had referred to me as the chosen one, I believed I was and needed to carry it out.
No goddess had risen to help me bring forth my power. Not even Artemis, who wanted me to bring the moon at all cost.
But, how could I do it without feeling anything?
I was pregnant and yet, I feel as if I was not. My tummy was as flat as ever and the one power surge I felt when the baby was first announced to me wasn't present anymore.
I tried consulting some of the best medics I could ever, it was confirmed I was with a child but they couldn't fathom the reason I felt nothing.
I believed it had something to do with the moon. But, I was carrying a mixed breed child in me, he or she would be a werewolf or a witch or could be both.
I feel since Sin was a werewolf and affected by the moon, his offspring, though not born yet, would be if he or she had a gene of his.
That was the only solution I had come up with.
"You are doing fine." Mila grinned and her hand was on my shoulder.
I nodded and let out a deep breath before shutting my eyes.
Nothing had happened since I began the meditation. I was told powers could come forth through that and I wish mine could happen the same way as well.
My brows creased and my body stilled as I sensed another presence beside me.
It wasn't Mila, she couldn't give a cold vibe like that.
My eyes snapped open and they flicker around the cosy room.
"What is going on?" I mumbled, standing.
It seemed I was in a kind of trance, I wasn't in my body that was still in the sitting position, I felt my projection floating.
I didn't know where I was going but I felt something was calling on me. Trying to reach out to me.
I followed it to where it was leading me and I stilled at an opening.
There were three doors before me and I frowned.
"Why am I here?" I mused. "Am I to choose where to go?"
I asked myself as the symbol I just noticed on the door glowed.
I didn't know a lot of riddles but gazing at the symbols, I realised they were the zodiac signs of the scale, water bearer, and a crescent moon.
As I continued to gaze at the door, I stepped towards the one that had the scale sign on it. Since it was my sign as well and I didn't think I walked to it on my own accord, it was as if something propelled me towards it.
As if I was compelled by an external force.
Sighing, I nudged the door and it went ajar. I winced, shading my eyes from the bright light which illuminated the room and I blinked several times before they got accustomed to my environment.
"Welcome, chosen one."
A soft voice murmured and a gentle wind glided around the room, it rattled the white curtains that were used as a partition in the middle of the room before ruffling my hair around my face.
I nudged the hair out of my face and my eyes went towards the ceiling as the light began to flicker.
"What is going on? Why am I here?" The question was loud and clear.
But, I was aware I was talking to myself since I was the only one in the room.
"You chose the right room." The voice said yet again, followed by a tap on my shoulder.
I shrugged, assuming it was from the wind still drifting around the room.
But turned again as I felt it.
I staggered backwards as my eyes came in contact with a woman.
She was deathly pale, her huge eyes were black, almost like Sin's eyes, if not darker. They weren't blinking but I felt they could see inside me.
Her shoulder-length hair was as dark as night and a greenish aura which I couldn't fathom how I was able to see swirled around her.
Her nose was sharp and straight and her thin lips were stretched out in a wide smile which showed off her pearly white teeth.
She gripped a long staff which I realized was a torch and I yelled as I gazed downward.
A large she-dog which snarled was by her right and to her left, stood a polecat!
"W-who are you?!" I gasped out, stepping back as I sensed the animals with her would pounce on me at any given time.
"I mean no harm, child." Her smile was in place and her voice shrill.
I winced, covering my ears. I chanced a glance up at her and almost lost it.
Earlier, I was sure I had seen her dark shoulder-length hair.
But I was wrong or maybe it was the trance I was still in that made me feel as though I was.
In place of her dark hair were a snake, a dog and a cow.
How the f**k would someone have such on the head?!
As I stared at her again in fright, she was her normal self and she smiled as if nothing had happened.
"The answer to the question in your mind, it is one of my favourite forms to assume whenever I desire to put frights in mortals' minds and yes, I am a goddess."
Her dark eyes twinkled and I shook my head.
First, it was goddess Artemis appearing to me as if nothing was wrong and now, a goddess whom I didn't even know! I wonder if all the goddesses and maybe gods would do the same before my initiation as it seemed they were taking turns each.
"Although you wouldn't be the first I'd appear to, I think you'd be my favourite." The goddess murmured, tapping her chin.
My eyes wandered to her hands and I noticed some inklings in them or more like the symbols around the dungeon were on her hands and the more I gazed at them, the more it dawned on me I wasn't in front of just any goddess, but the goddess Trivia, also known as Hecate!
The goddess of witchcraft, crossroads, entrance-ways, night, light, magic and necromancy! Perhaps, there were other things she was the goddess of but that was the only thing that could come to my mind as I stared at her in awe.
Also, out of the many questions swirling in my mind, the only one that kept on recurring, which was what does she want from me?
And the more I thought of it, the more I felt something awful was about to happen.