chapter 9

(Nellie POV)

it been weeks since that letter i tried talking to madam grace about it but was interrupted by my brother.

" nell , are you ready for tonight" maya asked lord shark has said something about introducing me to the cultures and history of the land tonight .

" yes , I guess" put the book down in my hand " maya , you know you can give me hints about what would be done tonight "

she sighs " i wish i could nell you have to see it yourself "

when the sunset it was time for me to be introduced , i put on a flowered gown that stopped on my kneel ,looking at the mirror in front of me i was kind of nervous ,i wasnt sure what this night was all about but i had a feeling it wasn't going to end in a way i will like.

Taking one last look at my self i walked out of my room , as i went down stairs i saw lord shark talking to someone it was a man not much older than him , as i moved closer maya cleared her throat as a way of announcing my presence .

i bowed to greet everyone in the room .

"my lady" the man who was just talking with lord shark greeted me as he smiled widely .

" greeting sir " i said , i wasnt really sure his position here so it was just proper i give him my respect .

He turned to lord shark " i will take my leave " he said and bowed .

"are you ready?" maya whispered to me taking my hand in hers.

"yes " i said to her giving her hand a squeeze to assure her i was doing okay.

As we made out to the basement , i saw derek lit a touch as lord moved to the wall and input some code into it , and the wall opened with a large sound, revealing a dark tunnel .

"pos ta paei?" lord shark asked derek ( how is she)

"Deíchnei taktopoiiméni" derek answered after taking a glance at me ( she looks settled)

" good"

lord shark continued to walk into the tunnel, he got to a wooden door and stopped

He turned and looked at me calling my full name for the first time , its either he called me shawnman or nell , this could only mean this was a serious business " nellie , you are about to be shown the history and culture of our people and whosoever is shown this must uphold it with his or their life , and the penalty for not doing so is death "

Hearing him say all those words , made fear creep inside of me , was i about to take some kind of oath or something , will i die if i relay everything i see here to my brother or anyone at all.

I continued to ponder on all this " nell" maya called me , only then did i realise that they were looking at me expecting my answer.

"yes" i said causing maya and derek to smile at me , i looked at lord shark face to see if he held the same expression as this two , but he kept a straight face as always , in fact one will think he was being forced to do this.

" lets proceed" he hands over the touch to derek as he rolls up his sleeves to push the door , immediately the door moved light shined from the other room .

It was another tunnel like the one we just walked through , but this was kind of different it had paintings on the walls .

"This is the history of our people "

"wow" was all i could say as i moved to eacth painting on the wall, as i lover of paints ,i knew this drawing were not just done by sketches, it was done by professional and when i say professionals , i mean by the masters of paints , each painting showed a man and a dog like figure and then the moon

" why are there dogs in every painting" i asked this question to no one directly" does it mean the shark man are lovers of dogs"

" no and those are not dogs " lord shark answered " they are ..." before he could finish his statement i had already put things together and figured out what they are "wolves " i finally said " you shark mans are werewolves " i said again and this time i got a smile from lord shark.

"yes nell we are" maya said and i could only laugh , i laughed really hard that they became confused .

" you guys must thing i am stupid right" " this must be a joke right" i asked looking at their faces to see if there would be a change of expression. but there was none

" no nell, it isnt " maya said and i could see the seriousness in there faces

"oh my God "

" Deíxe tis" lord shark said to derek ( show her)

immediately lord shark said that derek starting changing and in less than five minutes derek turned into a wolves that was almost as tall as me howling to the roof , the last thing i remember was the whole room lighting up as the wolf howl before i fainted in shock.