My Hockey Alpha

Chapter 224: Smoke & Mirrors

Enzo

When I finally stopped running, I quickly came to the realization that I had taken such a winding path that I had not only gotten Selena and the witch off of my trail, but I had somehow also gotten myself completely lost.

Normally, I would have had no problem traversing these woods. Despite the fact that I could hardly remember anything before a few hours ago, I did remember my childhood, and I remembered spending a lot of time in these very woods when I was young. But even though the moon was full, which would have normally made the whole place so bright it would have felt like daytime, it was incredibly dark. Even with my night vision, I could hardly even see twenty feet in front of me. Anything beyond that was nothing but inky blackness.

Selena and the witch must have cast some sort of spell on these woods. Maybe that was why they suddenly stopped chasing me; maybe they figured it would be better to simply put a spell on the woods to make me get lost. I was sure of it.

But I wasn’t going to give up that easily.

I didn’t know how long I walked like that in my wolf form. I kept my head down, my ears pricked for the slightest sound in the woods, and my eyes focused on the path ahead of me as I slowly padded through the dark forest. Surely I was bound to come to the edge of the woods eventually; they didn’t go on infinitely, so long as I didn’t accidentally walk in circles.

staring into the darkness when I heard what sounded like a twig snapping underfoot, or someone’s voice. But there was never anything. I couldn’t tell, though, if it was just my imagination, if I really was being followed, or if these were more tricks that Selena and the witch were playing on

to keep moving. I had to find the

I walked, I decided to focus on something else to keep my mind off of the discomforting noises around

on me. But it was still strong, and although the fog was thinning out slightly, it wasn’t enough. Somehow, I knew that that girl who looked oddly like Selena was somehow the key to all of this, but since I

I could remember more

her existence, was attached to a thin string that someone was tugging along just out of reach. Every so

Nina…

same time. She looked like Selena, only with brown eyes and freckles instead of blue eyes and clear skin. If I tried to picture her really

and I knew that if I could just break out of this thick fog that was surrounding my brain, then Selena wouldn’t have control over me anymore. I knew that this was her last-ditch effort to manipulate me, and if I could only get control over my own mind again, then she wouldn’t be able to take over it anymore. Somehow, I knew that I

much. I remembered playing hockey, and I remembered how happy hockey made me. In fact, all

thus formed a bond that was

foggy, and I still couldn’t wrap my head around Nina just yet. I wasn’t sure why I was