The Wolfless Luna's Revenge: Returning With His Secret Twins-Chapter 292

~Devon~

Diana was poking me and I didn’t wanna wake up.

"Stop it." I tried to push her hand away but she kept poking.

"Devon! Devon wake up!"

"No. Sleeping."

"I saw the wolf again!" She poked harder. "The black one! It’s hurt really bad!"

I opened my eyes. Diana’s face was super close to mine and she looked scared.

"What wolf?"

"The black wolf! From before! It was sitting on a big stone thing and licking its leg and there was blood everywhere!" The words came out really fast and jumbled up.

"Was it a bad dream?"

"No! It was real! I know it was real!" She climbed into my sleeping bag even though there wasn’t enough room. "Devon, we gotta help it!"

Diana sees stuff in dreams that actually happens. It’s weird but it’s true. Like when she saw Purple getting hurt before it actually happened and we were able to save him.

"Okay but what are we supposed to do? We’re just kids."

"We gotta look at Mommy’s necklace. The one with the wolf claw."

"Mom’s gonna be so mad if we take her stuff."

"We’re not taking it! Just looking!" Diana was already crawling out of the sleeping bag. "Come on come on come on!"

"Diana wait up!"

But she was already gone outside. I made a big sigh and followed her because somebody had to make sure she didn’t do something super dumb.

Outside was dark and cold. Uncle Killian was by the fire but he was sleeping. The black squiggly lines on his arms looked worse. Like worms moving under his skin. Gross.

"Is Uncle Killian gonna die?" Diana whispered really quiet.

My tummy felt bad thinking about it. "Maybe. I dunno."

"That’s really sad."

"Yeah."

We walked super super quiet to Mom and Dad’s tent. Diana grabbed the zipper and it made a REALLY LOUD noise. We both froze like statues.

Nobody woke up. Dad was making his bear sounds. The really loud snoring ones that Mom always complains about.

"Okay go." I pushed Diana and we crawled inside.

Mom and Dad were sleeping all wrapped up together. They looked happy and safe. I felt bad for sneaking but Diana was already moving to Mom’s side.

Under Mom’s pillow was the necklace. It was brown and had a big claw hanging from it. Like a real wolf claw but super old.

"Got it." Diana pulled it out careful.

"Now what?"

"I don’t know. Look at it I guess?"

We crawled back outside with the necklace. Sat by the fire but not too close to Uncle Killian because he looked kinda scary with all the black lines.

The necklace just looked like a necklace. Nothing special. Just old and brown and had a claw.

"Maybe you were wrong," I said.

"I’m not wrong!" Diana held it up. "Grandma left this for Mommy. It’s gotta be important."

Right then the moon came out from behind a cloud. It was really bright and shiny and when the light hit the necklace, it got HOT.

"Ow!" Diana almost dropped it. "It’s burning!"

"Don’t drop it!" I grabbed it too even though it was super hot.

Then something weird happened.

A shadow appeared on our tent. Not a regular shadow. A wolf shadow. Big and black and moving even though nothing was moving to make the shadow.

It looked EXACTLY like the wolf Diana said she saw in her dream.

"That’s it!" Diana pointed. "That’s the wolf!"

I stared at the shadow. It wasn’t doing anything bad. Just sitting there. Looking at us. Or looking at something behind us maybe?

"Devon I’m scared." Diana grabbed my arm and squeezed really hard.

"It’s okay." But I was scared too. My heart was going boom boom boom really fast.

Then I remembered something. Something Maggie told us once when she was telling stories about Grandma.

"Where the wolf shadow points, the truth is hidden."

That’s what Grandma used to say. Maggie said Grandma said it all the time when she was teaching people stuff.

"The truth is hidden where it points," I said out loud.

"Where’s it pointing?" Diana asked.

We both looked at where the wolf shadow was facing. It wasn’t looking at us. It was looking past us. At the trees. At the dark forest behind our camp.

"There." I pointed. "In the forest."

"We can’t go in the forest at night! Mom would kill us!"

"I know but..."

The shadow moved. It stood up and started walking. Walking toward the forest.

"It wants us to follow it!" Diana jumped up.

"No way! That’s how kids die in scary movies!"

"This isn’t a movie! This is real!" She grabbed my hand. "Come on! We gotta see where it goes!"

"Diana."

"Please? What if it’s important? What if Grandma is trying to tell us something?"

I looked at the shadow. Then at the necklace that was still hot in my hand. Then at my sister who had her puppy dog eyes on.

I’m gonna regret this so much.

"Fine. But if we die, I’m telling Mom it was your idea."

"Deal!"

We followed the shadow into the forest. It moved slow like it wanted us to keep up. Every few steps it would stop and wait for us.

The trees got thicker. Darker. I could hear things moving in the bushes and every sound made me jump.

"Maybe we should go back," I whispered.

"Look!" Diana pointed ahead.

There was a light. Not bright. Just a little glow coming from between some rocks.

The shadow walked right up to the rocks and then stopped. Turned around to look at us. Then it just disappeared. Poof. Gone.

"Where’d it go?" Diana asked.

"I don’t know but look at this." I moved closer to the rocks.

There was a hole. Like a little cave. And inside the hole was glowing. Blue glowy light that looked like magic.

"Should we go in?" Diana asked.

"Probably not."

"But what if the truth is in there? Like Grandma said?"

I looked at the hole. Then at Diana. Then at the necklace still in my hand.

Grandma left this for Mom. The shadow showed us this place. Diana saw the hurt wolf.

It all meant something. It had to.

"Okay. But we stay together. No running off."

"Okay!"

We crawled into the hole. It was bigger inside than it looked. Big enough to stand up even. And the walls were covered in drawings. Old drawings of wolves and moons and people.

"Whoa," Diana breathed.

In the middle was another altar. Smaller than the big one but still made of stone. And on top of the altar was a wolf.

Not a real wolf. A statue. Made of black stone that shined in the blue light.

It looked exactly like the wolf from Diana’s dream. Exactly like the shadow.

"It’s the same," Diana whispered.

I walked closer. The statue had its paw raised like it was hurt. Just like Diana said.

And underneath the paw was writing. Old scratchy writing that was hard to read.

But I could make out some words.

Moon Wolf waits

Twin keys wake

Royal blood breaks

True love takes

"It’s another prophecy," I said. "About us. The twin keys."

"What’s it mean?"

"I still don’t know. I gotta tell Mom and Dad."

"They’re gonna be so mad we left camp."

"Yeah probably. But this is important..l"

A howl cut me off. Not far away. Really close.

And it didn’t sound like a normal wolf howl. It was more like when Uncle Killian’s eyes glowed purple.

"Shadow wolves," Diana grabbed my hand. "We gotta run!"

We ran. Back through the cave, out the hole, through the forest. The howling got louder. Closer.

My legs hurt. My chest hurt. But we kept running.

Please let us make it back.

The camp lights appeared through the trees. We were almost there.

Almost safe.

The howling was right behind us now.

"MOM!" I screamed. "DAD!"

We burst into camp and crashed right into Mom who was already running toward us.

"Devon! Diana! Where were you?!" She grabbed us both and hugged so tight I couldn’t breathe.

"Shadow wolves!" Diana pointed at the forest. "They chased us!"

Dad and Uncle Killian were already at the tree line. Ready to fight.

But the howling stopped. The wolves didn’t come out.

They just watched from the darkness.

Waiting.

"What were you two thinking?!" Mom’s voice was angry-scared. The worst kind. "You could have died!"