The Blessed Reborn Lycan

Chapter Two

George POV

I left Asha standing there, still as stone, staring down at the ground like she was trying to find the answers in the dirt.

I hoped what I said didn’t make things worse for her. Maybe offering to train her was pushing too much, but I didn’t know what else to do. She’d always been tough, stubborn as hell....but lately, something was off.

The wind rustled the trees as I stepped onto the path back toward the packhouse. The half moon filtered through the leaves, casting fractured white light on the trail. I needed to clear my head.

“George! Wait!”

I groaned softly and turned. “Rowan. Should’ve known you’d follow, again.”

The kid burst through the trees, grinning like he’d just won something. “You said you were training Asha tomorrow, right? Can I come?”

I blinked. “What? You were spying on us?” I said with a growl.

Rowan just smirked and raised his hands. “Chill out, my dad said she was out here then I saw you sneaking around so yeah. And I saw her sneaking around a couple times before and saw her before dad ever said anything. She’s training. I wanna train too.”

I narrowed my eyes. “Rowan, listen to me. This stays between us, yeah? No one knows. No one’s supposed to know.”

“But why?” he whined. “She’s cool! And I could totally help!”

“She’s not ready for all that attention,” I said, voice firm. “And you? You’d blow her whole cover before we even started. It’s not a game, Rowan.”

Rowan pouted, kicking a pine cone. “I wouldn’t say nothin’…”

I sighed. “It’s not just about keeping quiet. She’s going through something. Real stuff. You think this is about sparring or throwing punches? It’s bigger than that.”

He looked up at me, more serious now. “You think she’s okay?”

I hesitated.

“…I don’t know. But I’m gonna help her figure it out.”

Rowan finally gave up with a dramatic sigh and trudged off toward home, muttering something about practicing with sticks if he had to.

I stayed on the path a little longer, listening to the silence settle in after his footsteps faded. I knew I snapped at him, but it wasn’t really about him. It was about her.

Asha.

I glanced back toward the trees, where I’d left her minutes ago. Something in her face, tight around the eyes, like what I had said triggered something..... it had stuck with me. She didn’t say anything after I offered to train. Just kind of… shut down. Like her mind turned inward and locked her out.

She was always good at hiding things, but I grew up with her. I knew the signs.

This wasn’t just about fighting. Or proving herself. This was about survival. Like she was bracing for something the rest of us couldn’t see.

I clenched my jaw. Maybe I shouldn’t have walked away. Maybe I should’ve stayed, pushed just a little harder to get her to talk. But she was proud. She hated being watched, hated feeling like she needed anyone. I had to respect that.

Still, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I’d left her standing on the edge of something, something dark, and walked away before she succumbed to her thoughts.

I kicked a rock off the trail, watched it bounce down the slope and vanish into the brush. “You better be okay, Ash,” I muttered.

“Because if you’re not... I’ll fix it. Whatever it is. I swear.”

By the time the next night fell, I was already waiting by the lake, unsure if she would show.

I didn't feel her presence by the bleachers today, she hasn't missed a training session in months. Maybe I did push her too far last night...

As I started getting off the rock to start gathering my things, I hear her. “Gave up on me that easy huh?” She's giggling now, which means it must be good news why she came.

“So does this mean you will do it? You will let me train you to become a soldier for this pack wolf or not?” I saw her flinch a little when I said it but before I could say anything she speaks up.

“Yes, I’ll do it. I've been dragging my feet all day because I tried not wanting it, didn't go to practice and ended up being stir crazy cleaning my room.”

She’s pouting now, showing her true age as she says “I don't like the idea of you telling me what to do, or anyone but mommy. But I want to fight, I can feel it, its what I'm meant for.” Finally she admits it, and even without having contact with my wolf yet, I can feel him, he wants her to fight too. “Alright then tiny one, where do we begin?”

Next moment, from the bushes comes Rowan loud as always saying, “We start with a 3 way match, who can defeat me?!” As he attempts to flex.

I laugh and say “With those twigs for arms Rowan, Asha needs one good push or punch and you'll be down for the count.” Asha starts giggling and Rowans face gets red and pouts at me.

He angrily whispers “Geoooorge, you promised you wouldn't make fun of me in front of her anymore.”

Me and Asha start to laugh and Rowan soon joined in.

But then suddenly, I felt my body get a shiver. I look behind me and see a dark figure approaching through the trees.

Then I see them, red eyes...

“ROGUES! RUN!”

The rogue snarls and then howls. We all dash away quickly as me and Rowan mind link our fathers. I can hear Asha crying and see Rowan holding her hand to help her catch up.

In the distance I can hear my fathers roar, the roar of an angry Alpha about his pup in danger. “They're coming, we just have to get away till they find us!”

I can hear other rogues around us, more than one!

Asha speaks up now “There’s an empty field to the left a bit, sounds like the pack will meet us through that way.”

Of course, forgot all about that. “Great idea! How did you know?”

Frantic she says “I know these woods very good now, training and running out here last few months, the field was always nice to relax and stare at the stars.”

We head that way and once there we stand in the middle. I can hear the thundering footsteps of the pack and take a deep breath.

“They'll be here soon I can feel them.” Rowan still with panic in his eyes, keeps his head on a swivel guarding Asha.

“George, this doesn't feel right. How does 3 kids outrun a fully grown rogue?”

I snap my head to him, because he’s right. Where is the rogue? I don't feel him anymore and its impossible he left us alone. I know they felt my alpha wolf, that's something you can feel come off a pup at birth.

Asha slowly brings her hand up to my arm and squeezes looking straight into the trees. I look closer and there they are, 2 pairs of red eyes.

“Rowan, you have to run and find the pack. They are after me and Asha can’t outrun them or link the pack. Only you can get away fast enough.”

His eyes start to glaze but before he tries to protest I growl

“GO NOW!”

Rowan is the fastest and the only one who could outrun them and link the pack. If he doesn’t go, we’re all dead.

He runs off and the rogues try to follow so I yell “I’m the Alpha’s only child, take me and leave them!”

One of the rogues shifts into his human form and starts to snicker, his evil smile on full display.

“You little brat, we don't need you,” he looks down next to me, to Asha, “We want her, they paid us real good to take this little b***h out, nice and slow” his cackle crawled under my skin as the other rogue in wolf form starts to get closer. “Just give her to us and you can be on your way back to daddy.”

Where is Rowan?? They should be here by now.

I push Asha behind me and attempt a threatening growl, it comes out small the first time. Then I try again, but this time, I can feel him.

My wolf!!

...Hello my friend, did not think you would summon me so soon. I am Bjorn, and I am your wolf. We cannot shift, too risky, you are still too young and fragile. But you can use the alpha howl, Rowan became lost in his fear and the pack cannot feel us. I think it is her. She is guarding our scents from the other rogues but the pack can’t sense us either. She does not know what she is doing, but she is very powerful...

I look over to Asha and she is trembling, but I don't sense fear anymore. And I swore I saw a flash of purple in her eyes.

Nevermind that now, I turn back to the rogues to see that they too stopped to stare at Asha, did they see it?

Without another second wasted I lifted my head and let out the loudest howl I could.

Almost immediately after, our pack rushes through the trees and surrounds the 2 rogues with ease. One pack wolf kills the shifted rogue when they tried to attack, a shrill cry from its mouth. The rest of the pack circle and captures the one in human form. They wrap him in silver chains and drag him back towards the packhouse.

We see Rowan hugging his dad in the distance as they walk away. Father comes to us with Amy and they scoop us up and take us home. No words, no yelling, just a tight hold as we went back to the pack grounds.

After Auntie Amy splits off to her quarters with Asha, dad takes me to his office, not the bedroom.

“Sit son, I need you to tell me everything. Starting with that howl.”

I stand for a moment, close my eyes, and concentrate. When I open them, Bjorn comes to the surface but only one eye since we are still not completely merged. “My son, you reached your wolf.” He is smiling now, but quickly fades as he realizes my wolf held the control now and starts to speak.

“I am Bjorn, George will not tell you, but Asha is not human. I saw her eyes go violet, and for that split moment I felt it, a wolf.”

He fades away after that, not being able to hold me any longer.

Shoot!

I wasn't going to tell dad anything about that. It’s Asha's secret to tell and she doesn't even know herself!

Father leans forward and wide-eyed says “Your wolf sensed hers? That's impossible, I've never felt one in the last almost 7 years.”

“He’s right father, and she is no ordinary wolf. She hid our scents in the field so the surrounding rogues in the forest couldn't find us, but that also meant neither could you and the pack.”

“That makes sense, Rowan found us but couldn't find the way back and we couldn't tell where he came from. What matters now is that you are all home safe and all the rogues were taken care of. The one we caught will be interrogated in the morning.”

“That reminds me I almost forgot, they weren't after me, they were after Asha. The one you guys caught said someone hired them to kill Asha.” Father roars deeply at that and stands. “Then we interrogate him tonight, we have a traitor in our pack.”

***

Back at the packhouse, Neris is in her chambers folding her clothes after laundry day when Edgar storms in grabbing her arms and shaking her.

“What did you do?? I see you sneak out the pack lands last week and today my daughter almost dies?!” His wolf almost taking over as he said those words. “I heard the rogue said he was working with someone in the pack. What do you think will happen if I sat you in front of the rogue to identify?”

Neris starts to shake, she didn't know someone had seen her, definitely not Edgar no less. “Darling, you know I would never do something like that, your daughter is a wonderful girl and your most precious thing, I would never harm her, I love you. ”

She reaches her hand out to touch his face and he recoils in disgust and almost growling at her, “We were never together Neris, you were nothing but comfort in desperate and weak times, nothing more. You must get over your feelings for me, I already lost my mate, I will not want another. If you are not gone within the hour, I will hand you to the Alpha.” He growls before he storms out the room and she throws herself on the ground, now crying, but laughing manically. “One day you will see Edgar, you belong to me, if I cant have you, nobody will. ”