RedSage

In the dangerous world of the Deadly Abyss where humans are on the brink of extinction, the Aqua Tribe faces its greatest crisis, with the Lycan hunters becoming weaker and fewer in number, the Tribe has been forced to live in caves where their last source of food is now being threatened by the contamination of the Abyss. Natasha, who always dreamed of being a priestess and obtaining the mysterious power to manipulate water, has her dreams destroyed when at the age of 17 she discovers that she is a Lycan and her only destiny is to marry and have children. Her heart is soon divided by her feelings for her kind childhood friend, and her new fiancé, an arrogant man from a powerful lycan lineage.…

(This is a short side story, which tells a little about the origins of the character Natasha and her people who live on the south side of the Celestial Sea in the world of the Mortal Abyss.)

Note 1: Chronicles Of The Deadly Abyss is a series of Webnovels that I will release having 3 different webnovels and telling the journey of 3 groups of humans who fight not to be extinct in this dangerous world. In addition to Natasha, we will have the young James who lives in a dangerous place where winter has been taking many lives and its people are terrorized every night by terrible monsters, and finally we have Chen Hei, a disabled boy who lives within the Chen Clan barrier where they now face a terrible drought that threatens to destroy their last safe haven.

Note 2: I am a new author and Chronicles Of The Deadly Abyss is my first original work, my only experience as a writer is an Asoiaf fanfic that is published right here on the site, I am also not Native American. Questions, suggestions and constructive criticism are always welcome. I hope you like this world that I created and its three protagonists. (It is not necessary to read the other two webnovels, they are set in the same world, but in different places and they will rarely cross paths, when this happens the characters will be properly introduced)

Chronicles Of The Deadly Abyss - N

Natasha was sitting on her knees on the floor, her eyes staring into space as if she had lost all will to live... On her right arm, a bite was slowly healing, showing that she had been successfully transformed into a Lycan. Her dreams, ambitions, and many new innovative ideas that she had hoped to realize by becoming a priestess of the Aqua Tribe were all in vain. Now, all that awaited her was an exhausting life as a female of the pack, with the only function of having children and taking care of them.

"Natasha, don't worry, everything will be fine... No matter what we are, we can always count on each other!"

Suddenly, the young man beside her held her hand, trying to comfort her. They had been friends since childhood, and now he also had a bite on his right arm that was healing. The warmth of his touch and your comforting words made Natasha come out of her torpor and despair and look at Ivan, who now had black hair and yellowish lupine eyes. For her, who had always been an orphan, Ivan was the closest thing to a relative she had.

At that moment, she looked down and saw that her long hair, previously royal blue, was also changing color, becoming black like Ivan's. This bluish coloring was a trait of all those born into the Aqua Tribe. There were reports that it was one of the passive effects of the powerful Water Relic.

Today, all the young people who would turn 17 during this year were gathered together, and they would be bitten by the current Alpha of the Lycans and leader of the Tribe's Hunters. This transformation through the bite was a method due to the rare birth of pure Lycan children. For the men, if the bite transformed them into Lycans, it was a reason to celebrate; it meant becoming a Hunter who had a position of great power and respect within the Tribe. The Hunters were the only ones who left the Tribe's caves to hunt, and they were also the only men who could marry Lycan females. Failing to become one meant that you would be an ordinary human, working as a fisherman and other manual labor within the Tribe. They could also only marry retired priestesses, who would mostly have already passed their fertility period, making it impossible for them to have descendants.

This was a necessary measure so that there would always be more hunters, since they died very frequently, and it also prevented common men from having excess human offspring, causing a smaller number of creations of new werewolves through bites or even death. Since if the person was not a direct descendant, there was a greater chance of dying during the bite. The High Priestess of the human tribe agreed with this method, using the false premise that the power of water could only be used by virgins and maintaining strict birth control to prevent the scarce resources of the cave where the tribe lived from running out.

Still upset, Natasha got up, planning to leave the place, while some thoughts went through her head... She still had a year until her first heat would start, and she would have to marry someone against her will. She quickly glanced at Ivan, her childhood friend, and thought that it wouldn't be so bad if it were him. But these thoughts soon left her mind as she thought of the many plans she had made to use the power of controlling water that the priestesses had. They used this power only to heal, take care of the cleaning of the underground lakes, and help the fishermen, but Natasha had bold thoughts of using this power for combat, using some items that she herself had created, but now everything was in vain. Would she give up? Would she accept her fate? Would she run away? While all these thoughts went through her head, a fisherman came screaming into the hall.

"THE CONTAMINATION OF THE ABYSS HAS REACHED US!"

"ONE OF THE LAKES HAS BEEN CONTAMINATED!"

Destroyed dreams