Chapter 49 Zara's Fight to Fight Through
ZARA'S POV
I stood on the opposite side of Dr. Voss's office door. There were no sounds being heard inside the office from where I stood.
"What are you doing here Zara?" Mira asked as she stood beside me.
My heart leapt in surprise.
"Oh... Uhm... We thought you were in trouble." I said truthfully.
"I'm okay... I didn't bite what I couldn't handle." She said laugh at her weird joke.
"Come in... Dr. Voss wanted to see you."
I just nodded as I followed her obediently into the room. Dr. Voss was at the corner of the room, arranging her book shelve.
"You may leave Mira." She said in a dismissing tone.
Mira nodded and threw me a smile before leaving the office. I took in the space. Itt seemed like she had redecorated the place.
"Is someone taking over your position here?" I asked mindlessly.
She chuckled slightly.
"No... I needed a fresh breath of new colors in the room." She responded.
She just finished wiping off the last spec of dust from the shelves before readjusting her lenses to turn and face me.
"Do have a seat Subject Night." She said.
I walked over to the seat opposite her table and sat down on it.
"You sent for me." I said.
"Yes... We should talk." She stated.
"I think it's high time we did that." I said.
She gave me a small smile before proceeding to tab an unseen keyboard. A few clicks here and there and holographic prints began to pop up on the screen.
"Allow me to reintroduce myself to you." She said.
"You never introduced yourself to me before." I said, giving her a lopsided grin.
"I did actually.... Ten years ago." She responded.
I was at a loss for words. Ten years ago was when my parents dropped me off in this godforsaken academy and since then life hadn't been fair to me. I didn't know how to go about my feelings.
"I did introduce myself to you as Dr. Voss, the chancellor of this academy." She said.
"But that's not who I really am."
"An neither is this academy what you've known it to be."
"This shit is fucked up." My wolves growled out.
"I'm an acient alien Queen." She said.
I was shocked. That.... That.... That couldn't be true. She didn't smile, only had a stern face on.
Shit! She was saying the truth.
Zara’s breath caught in her throat.
Dr. Voss’s words hung in the air like poison, thick and suffocating.
A breeding facility.
A place designed not to train… but to create.
Her ears rang. Her vision tunneled. She couldn’t tell if her heart was beating too fast or not at all.
“You must continue letting yourself go,” Dr. Voss said softly, stepping around her like she was a fragile creature about to crack.
“The academy wasn’t built to limit you, Zara.
“It was built to awaken what you were truly meant to be.”
Meant to be.
"You mean turn me into a walking danger zone?" I questioned.
My palms trembled. My wolves stirred, restless, furious, confused.
“This place” Dr. Voss continued.
"It is where the strongest are broken open. Where power is purified. Where you become what the other world lost.”
I couldn’t breathe.
I pushed back from the desk so suddenly that Dr. Voss flinched. The walls felt too close. The lights too bright. My pulse too loud.
“I, I need air.”
I didn’t wait for permission. I didn’t wait for another explanation.
I rushed out of the office, stumbling down the hallway. My feet barely hit the ground as I burst through the front doors into the cold air.
The world spun.
The ground tilted.
And I collapsed.
Kai’s head snapped up mid-conversation. His chest tightened painfully.
“Zara.”
He didn’t wait to confirm the feeling. He bolted.
But Luna reached me first.
She had shifted mid-run, wolf dissolving into her human body so she could breathe air into my lungs, lifting me into her arms with surprising strength.
I was conscious of my environment, but I wasn't responding to anything else.
“Come on, Zara… stay with me,” Luna whispered fiercely as she carried me inside.
Kai, Rex, and Mira racing after her.
They got me to my room. Kai hovered like he was seconds from tearing down the walls.
Mira was the first to break the silence once Luna laid me on the bed.
“What happened?” Mira demanded, already flipping open her notes, eyes wild.
“Something triggered a neurological overload, her vitals are all over”
“She didn’t collapse for no reason,” Rex cut in, voice low.
“Someone pushed her too far.”
Kai said nothing. His jaw was clenched so tightly it looked painful.
“Dr. Voss,” Luna said quietly.
“She came from there.”
Mira’s head snapped up.
"Yes... I remember Dr. Voss sending for her."
"But their conversation seemed normal before I left to carry out other activities."
“What did she do to her?”
No one had the answer.
Not yet.
I jerked awake.
My reath came in short, sharp bursts. My head throbbed violently as if something enormous was trying to force its way into my mind.
Memories.
Flashes.
Images that weren’t mine, but somehow were.
Silver cities burning.
Gates collapsing.
Wolves...thousands of them...bowing.
A throne room broken in half.
A scream that could split galaxies.
My wolves roared in my skull, their power slamming against the inside of my consciousness. Mira reached for me, slow and careful...
“Zara, it’s okay”
I growled.
Not human.
Not controlled.
Not safe.
My vision flickered gold and red as I lunged up, my wolves fighting for dominance, their fury lashing out at the nearest movement.
Mira.
Kai moved instantly, stepping between them....
But I froze.
A final memory ripped through my mind like lightning:
A pair of golden eyes watching entire kingdoms burn.
And my own voice whispering:
“Let it all fall.”
My snarl broke into a gasp.
The room went silent.
Something ancient inside me had awakened... and now everyone could feel it.