Prologue

In the midst of a dark wilderness, among the reckless, heavy, and several crinkling of leave trees in its dimness, powered by the relentless striking of thunderstorms that are persevered by subsequent lightnings which rages its chafe through the dark starry sky, was found a teenage girl. Yet, she stood fearlessly under this inimical musky air but this is nothing compared to the fear within her.

Laying in the cliff of her bitterness, several frisson breezes flush past her throbbing soul, yet, she's in a peaky high of alertness. Under her benevolent face was glum morose that rendered her pale dried lips to plaster firmly to a purple flute from where she dived away from her doomed life to a beautiful world of phantasm.

It has been two days since Princess Vivienne fleed from home, she's the only daughter of Queen Co' llava of the Cristalone Moon Pack, in the east-south region of the Werewolf world.

Downpouring her bitterness into her flute which serves as her sole hope of survival in the strange land she found herself. Princess Vivienne would never believe she will ever leave her beautiful pack to wander around in the cold breeze among some mythical beings. Her perverseness would make her proclaim the similar title as 'A Princess in the jungle.'

Wandering for quite some days without her princely lifestyle, her cluster hair flew in a different directions of the winds. Tears flow down from her fairly pale face. Aside her flute that gives her hope, her sleeve harbor a silvered dagger that she believe to be her self-defense weapon.

She do sees herself as a little Princess with flabby ambition; Just to live like her mates with the ability to shapeshift into their wolf forms. For not having this ability, she feel so inferior among her peers, nonetheless, she ended up in such dim wilderness alone.

A rage of revenge shot through her veins to think of the reason she left home.

She stood by the riverbank watching her reflection from the solemnly stagnant water;

She was once beautiful.

Staring more at her reflection, this could be a perfect time to embrace her new self and to sort out her deaden feelings. Vivienne deepen her emotion into the flute the more. This way, it gives her the perfect pleasure she wants even though it's not capable of eradicating all her downfalls.

Under her knotted hair, her glimmering eyes lightened her cherry face, obviously hiding her deformed core. She lost herself into her small world like the next day will not come by.

With the flow of the song, she replayed the reason she had left home.

Three days ago, the Moon Goddess visited the Cristalone Moon Pack to give the Queen a new mission. Queen Co' llava was assigned the mission to link the four gates of heaven together for peace to reign among the kingdoms of Werewolf.

Gates of heaven are not in the care of the wolves, yet, the Moon Goddess asked the Queen to perform the task. This is mission impossible for her. Wearily, she lamented this to the Moon Goddess but before she succeeded, The Goddess offered her a reward. If the Queen succeeded with the task, she will become her heiress. The heiress of the Moon Goddess.

"Wow!" This was the thousands of years longing wish of Queen Co' llava, she agree to do it.

Being the wise Queen she is, she secured to ask her powerful Shaman for help.

So fortunate, her Shaman was able to spot the Queen's terrors even before she tells it to her.

"My Queen, you did not have the fate to link the four gates of heaven."

"What?!" The Queen becomes furious. Her Shaman shouldn't have delivered this bad news to her.

"However, there is someone who bears the fate in your varsity." Her Shaman protested further.

The Queen rest back. This sounded so relieving; any mission successfully performed by her clans is also her victory. The Shaman buttress,

"Your daughter, Princess Vivienne carry the fate!"

Whereas Princess Vivienne has been eavesdropping on her mother since she saw the Goddess visiting. It is unlike of her to visit their land in this cold winter.

Since the time passed, no wolf can reach the gate of heaven let alone link it. The gate has been divided for decades and the wolf tribe have no glimpse of how they can get there. This is why other beasts Kingdom are the Guardian of the shattered Gates.

How could the Shaman say she bears the fate? And how could her mother be very delightful to send her? She is her only child and she will soon be the Queen of the Pack but why... Why?

Her mother is merry in her death?

Henceforth, Princess Vivienne eloped from home. There is no good in hearing it from her mother, she just needed to hide for the time be.

Her throat was dried, yet, she kept playing the flute, sad and bitter.

Not so long, she feel tonnes of shivering breeze spark against her. It was timid different from the one above her head. Immediately, Vivienne holds out the flute and look into the starry sky that was already shielded by the broad leaves of the thick trees.

The breeze hint her with warning.

From her sudden awestruck, she plugged out her flute, stylishly remove her dagger. Her dark gaze prowl across the wilderness, hiding both the dagger and flute behind her back. she took steps backward.

At the edge end of a broad tree, she sight the deaden breath of a grey wolf that groans fiercely, his furs squabbles, more drooling under it fangs that cast out its salivating tongue.

"It was him!"

Her breath grief on her stiffened feet,

"What does he want from me?"

"Could Mother sent him?"

Fearfully, she went back on her step, likewise, the wolf growl heavily,

"What did you want from me? Until when will you stop lurking around me?!"

Since the day she entered the wilderness, she perceived the Lemonade scent of the wolf roving around her but he did not show up.

She is also a wolf and she can tell If she sees one.

"I will pierce you with this if you did not disappear from here!"

The wolf groans more.

What could hold him back? He won't want me to kill myself if truly mother had sent him. She plugged the dagger against her neck,

"If you come any closer, I will kill myself!"

Immediately, the groaning wolf calmed, he step back.

As the girl saw him retrieving, she run into the river,

"Hey! I'm harmless!"

The wolf gradually shapeshift into a human. His long hair dreads back on him, puffing out his tensed breathe, his hands surrendered, raising above his head.

"I'm not hunting! Don't run into that river!"

The Princess paused. He look not worth like a guard, his attires were made of foreign silk but that custom, does it belong to her tribe?

"I'm Micony, I just lost my Prince title."

His hand pledge, he summons them to calm her. The girl still look deterred, indifferent in her steps.

"Why are you stalking me? Are you sent to have me killed?"

Micony toy on his leg as he tosses back and forth beside the tree, "It is true that I'm hungry but that does not mean I will kill you,"

"..."

"Your song drew me,"

"How about you tell me your name?"

The girl rolled her eyes, she deepen her dagger inside her sleeve still holding firm to her flute, "How can I tell that to a stranger?"

"It'd better you go your ways"

Micony was relieved, a huge smile sprouted out of his famine face, he retreated to sit by the tree, "Then, I can watch you from here."

"What!" The girl scoffed.

Could there be any reason for the man to be polite towards her? She got one way to find out,

Get to know him.

Princess Vivienne will not want to have an innocent blood in her hand. She needs to be more patience and know about Micony's true self,

"I'm Vivie!" She walked to his side.

"Oh, Princess?"

This got her surprised, he must definitely be sent for her, or else, how will he know she was a Princess?

"Uhm!" She growled.

"But what turns you to Prince in the wilderness?"

Micony chuckles, If he will count it, he has been there for 3 days, "I left my kingdom because I'm given a mission to link the four gates of heaven and my mother will become the heiress of the Moon Goddess if I succeeded."

Vivienne shivers, this can't be possible. This is exactly her story, definitely, her mother sent him to lure her.

The Prince is too carried away by his sorrow. Vivienne seizes this opportunity. Before Micony could sense what happened, Vivienne slides the dagger across his throat.

She slaughtered him.

With this fearful state, Vivienne ran deeper into the wilderness.

Seven days later, the Moon Goddess visit the Cristalone Moon Pack. Queen Co' llava was too embarrassed to tell her why she hasn't gone for the mission but to her surprise, The Goddess congratulated her with numerous gifts.

"You are now my heiress... You've succeeded in your task!"

After the Goddess left, Queen Co' llava could not hide her curiosity. She immediately sent for her Shaman.

"This is not possible, my daughter that bears the fate had run away from home even before I deliver the message to her but how possible I become the Goddess heiress?"

The Shaman was about to reply when four guards brought in the corpse of Princess Vivienne, covered by a mat.

The Queen was furious, "What could have gotten my daughter killed?"

"My Lordess, Your daughter fulfilled her fate, she has linked the four Gates of Heaven and peace will forever reign among the Kingdoms." The Shaman replied.

"How... she died instead?"

"Yes, the heirs and the heiress of the four Wolf kingdoms must die on the same Land for the gates of heaven to be linked and your daughter succeeded in killing them."

"What? I sacrificed my daughter?"

"No, it was her fate... Her fate to make the world come to peace."

Queen Mother paused. She shift her gaze from the book on her hand towards a little girl whose eyes were already socked with tears. Immediately she saw that Queen Mother closed the book she was reading to them, she burst out uncontrollably.

"eh.. eh... eh..!!! Why would the Princess die? She is still young!" Little Tinaya cried, her knuckles kept draining her tears down her cheeks.

Queen Mother look narrowly into her eyes, she meets pity in those eyes, then, drew her closer to console but her tears were to no control.

"Why will fate do that to her, Mooma?" Nickdrah asked. His eyes were dried unlike Tinaya.

"Queen Mother, could there be such a sacrificing fate even though she is not aware?" Eldaxon asked. He is older and manly, he was sitting next to King Lippana.

"Yes! There is a sacrificing fate, in fact, in different perspectives. The majority are not aware of their fate, they just play the role of life, then, fate hits! That is why they called it fate but if you're aware of your fate, then, you're lucky, well, maybe special." Queen Lippana Malie answered, she was sitting at the left-hand side to the Queen Mother.

"Yes, my Nickdrah.ss Fate did such to her because it was her fate to make a peaceful world." Queen Mother said to him, she smile to see how Nickdrah makes Tinaya stop crying.

Nickdrah curbed Tinaya with his right arm across her shoulders then his hand clean her tears, Tinaya was sniffing and gasping in his grasp. He later slants her head to rest on his shoulder.

"This Is sad, only my daughter is crying," King Lippana huffed on his face to see her still gasping.

"You know she might have died because it also her fate to die in the process of making peace. Do I answer my baby girl?" He added, his face brightening up in smiles.

"But Mooma! Could there be a fate that cannot be fulfilled?" Nickdrah nodded, his gaze was hardened on Queen Mother.

There were silent for a while, "Uyo!" Queen Mother broke the long silence.

"My grand prince asked such a question like an adult. Such fate..."

Queen Mother paused on her track as a little girl older than Tinaya interrupted with heavy sobs, "eh... eh... eh..." Her index finger pointed astray.

"My Father delayed me! I missed the story this time again." Her outburst become intense.

They all glared at her, numbing.

A guard came to their midst, he bowed to greet, then, their gaze all shifted to him, he announces while his voice fidget,

"Your Majesty, His Lordship.... is camping.... at the Kingdom border, he couldn't... enter the kingdom."

King Lippana stood up abruptly while they all chorus,

"What?!"