The phoenix wolf will rise

Forgiveness and retribution

I crawl up to him and kiss him “You’re not moving” I tell him with a smile and he raises his eyebrows. “Are you sure?” he asks me and I nod “Yeah, I burned down my prison after giving Julia a tour of it. And recalling my last days there. Then I set it aflame and Julia and I watched the place burn down together. Then I went to college and told her how we met and where. Then we walked around the town which I had never gotten to do since I was never allowed. It’s beautiful there, eventually, she took me to the packhouse where all of my bullies were. The guilt was clear on their face and I talked with Brianna” I tell him and he nods “What did she say?” he asks me “that she was sorry and that she didn’t understand. They all had some sort of rage for me. Julia thinks there was a spell on me to make everyone hate me. The night that I killed my captor they felt a heavy burden fall from their shoulders.” I explain and he nods “That is a possibility. We would need to look into that deeper. That means he had help from outside sources, they could still be after you. But how did you feel towards them?” he asks me “I was fine actually. I don’t feel resentment, I just wanted to know why. that question played a big role in my head, especially since I know they are wolves and they could smell my pain, my discomfort, and the blood sometimes. Why would they attack a human that is already in so much pain? That question is answered and I have peace with that, I could see it in their eyes they were truly sorry, so” I say to him and shrug. He smiles at me “That’s very kind of you” he says. “Hmm, it’s just how I feel. Sure I could be angry with them. But where do I get with that? They are our pack members. I’m supposed to love them, guide them. This is one way of doing that” I tell him and his smile grows bigger “My Luna” he whispers and kisses me sweetly. I chuckle and kiss him back, he makes sweet love to me before we head back down to eat some dinner since I didn’t have dinner yet. “You know, the main packhouse is amazing. I fell in love at first sight and I haven’t even seen the inside yet” I say to Derek grinning. He chuckles “I think it’s time we return there. What do you want to do about school?” he asks me. “I’ll continue there,” I say and smile at him. He nods and kisses my forehead “I’ll make the arrangements. “So you went on a little excursion huh?” my brother says and sits down “Yes, and I was okay. More than okay” I tell him and he nods “Good, what brought it on?” he asks “Well, my dear Alpha was planning on moving the packhouse. Not telling me that it could hurt the pack no, he only mentioned the positive points. I talked to Julia who told me the truth” I say and glare at Derek who scratches his neck “Sorry” he mumbled and I chuckle “It’s okay, I understand. But I asked her to come with me, I needed to go back and see. I needed to do it on my own, but also I needed someone. So Derek was not an option since he would keep breathing in my neck. I needed a friend so I took her.” I say and shrug. “Oh and I burned it down,” I say with an evil smirk at Arun. “Good for you,” he says smiling widely at me. We talk and laugh at dinner before heading for bed. Derek and I hug tightly and I go to sleep with the thought that everything will be all right.

The next two weeks we prepared to move back to the main packhouse. Julia decided to move back with us. She had her residence here as one of the warriors to keep an eye out. But she talked with Derek and he agreed to let her come so I would have a friend back there. We are sitting in the car, driving back to the main pack lands and I have a smile on my face. Derek grabs my hand “Nervous?” he asks “No, I am completely at peace with it” I say and smile. He nods “Good. I love you,” he says and smiles. I lean over and kiss him on his cheek “love you too” I whisper and lean my head on his shoulder while he is driving. I feel my eyes droop and I close them napping on his shoulder. Suddenly I am thrown to the other side of the car hitting my head hard against the window “f**k” I yell and look around, Derek is knocked out, blood streaming down his head. Black spots dance my vision “ALPHA, LUNA” I hear yelling around me. But I reach over to Derek. Growling and snarling are heard outside. I grab his arm and heal him, he slowly opens his eyes “Ana?” he whispers “I’m here” I whisper. He looks around, we are upside down in the car. He puts his hands on the roof “Can you unbuckle me?” he asks. I reach over and release the belt. He falls onto the roof with a thud and then holds me while unbuckling me and we crawl outside of the car. A wolf slams into us and the black spots take over “ANA” I hear Derek yell but I can’t answer and I close my eyes the darkness taking over. I wake up shooting straight up in a bed and I groan from the pain in my head. I close my eyes and focus on healing myself. I shake my head when I am done “Luna!” Brad says “you okay?” he asks “I am now. What happened? Where is Derek?” I ask. “We were ambushed. They took him” he says while looking at me with guilt in his eyes. “what? how the hell were they able to take a f*****g Alpha!?” I yell “Witches” he answers and my eyes widen and then I fill up with rage. “DAMNIT” I yell and growl. “We need your help Luna,” he says and I nod “Of course,” I say and get up. He leads me into a conference room, every seat is taken except for three. My chest aches at the empty seat. I take my seat and brad takes his “good to have you back” Chad smiles at me and I nod. “Okay, what do we know. I pretty much blacked out the moment we were hit” I tell them. “We were on our way to the main packhouse, where we are now. A truck slammed into your car out of nowhere, we all got out and went to you, but were ambushed by a large group of rogues. Eventually, the two of you got out of the car pretty much unhurt, but a rogue slammed into the two of you” he says “That’s when I blacked out” I tell him and he nods. We fought hard and had almost every rogue down when Derek got pinned down. Witches appeared and Derek went slack. We were all immobile and they took him just like that” Brad explains and I growl lowly “How the f**k are we going up against witches” I ask. “We were hoping you could nullify their magic,” he says and I frown “I can try, but we won’t know until I try,” I say and they nod. “But to only rely on that, that’s stupid” I growl out. “We have a friendly witch with whom you can practice,” Brad says “Ah okay. That’s good at least. Now, where the f**k is he?” I ask. “We don’t know, you need to pinpoint a location with your mate bond,” he says and I nod. First I practice, then we’ll do that.” I say and they nod. A woman appears in the corner “Shall we get to it then?” She says and smiles sweetly “the witch?” I ask “Yes, my name is Elizabeth,” she says “Nice to meet you, Anastasia,” I say and get up. We walk outside “So how are we doing this? I am not familiar with witches at all” I tell her. “Well, then I will educate you first,” she says and smiles. We sit down on the porch “So, there are three types of witches. Good ones, they draw their magic from the earth and nature, then there are witches who practica black magic, but to make It easier we call it grey magic. They use blood magic but only with the permission of the person they draw from. And then there are the real black magic users, using blood magic without permission” she explains and I not “Got it, good, grey, black” I say and she nods with a chuckle “I belong to the good witches. I guess that we are up against black witches though.” She says and frowns “Their magic is more potent. So it won’t be the same as stopping my magic but it is a start” she says and I nod “Okay, any tips on how to stop a spell or something like an ingredient or element?” I ask her “No, in general, there isn’t it depends on the spell itself so you will not know beforehand.” She explains and I nod “great, to make it easier,” I say and grin. “Shall we?” she asks and I nod. We stand in front of the packhouse a distance away “All right, I will try to hit you with simple water. It will hurt when you are hit though” she explains and I nod “At least I can see it” I tell her and she nods. A beam of water appears next to her and she waves with her hand, it propels towards me and I dodge “Damn” I say and try to focus on an invisible shield around me to block the water, but nope it passes through “Damnit” I say and jump out of the way “Come on. You are THE phoenix wolf right. You should be able to do ANYTHING” she yells at me trying to taunt me and it works. I give her credit for that. I growl and imagine a dirt wall sucking up the water and it works I grin “Not what I had in mind, but effective for the current attack. Would be better if you can cancel the magic though” she says and nods. “I’m gonna change the attack,” she says and I nod. She waves her hand up and water drops are around me, she twists her hand and the water droplets shoot at me in sharpened points and they hit me, “Damnit” I say while my clothes are ripped to shreds and I am bleeding everywhere, I heal myself “Oh handy” she says and I grin. But she doesn’t relent and does it again and again. I imagine a shield, drawing out the magic from her droplets and it starts raining against me instead “NICE, you need to focus on doing that” she says. I nod and she does some other attacks with water and I cancel them all out. After two hours I am dead tired and I fall to the ground. “Break?” she asks and I nod. We continue training like that for two weeks, in the meantime, I have closed in on Derek’s location and Brad has sent out scouts to the area. I have pretty much managed to block her magic, with struggle but I am getting better at it every day. Today another training session “Good, keep going” she tries to spur me on. She has started with attacking me with fire, giving me burning wounds now and then, but a lot is blocked by my invisible shield. My mood is going down the drain with every day that I am away from Derek. Making me train harder and longer every day while trying to pinpoint his location. Suddenly a pain scorches through my body to my neck and I fall screaming to the ground while clutching my neck “s**t” Liza screams and rushes to my side “Let me see!” she says and I remove my hand with trouble. “s**t, s**t. NO” she screams pressing her hands on my mark from Derek and she starts chanting.