The Elementals Birth

Kidnapping by Werewolves

“How are you able to shift at will? Come on, you wanted to show yourself in daylight. Why show yourself to me? What do you want? Who are you?” I said to the air as the werewolves had hid as I entered the forest. Then I hear the bones cracking and reshaping as one of them turns back into their human form.

“So you are his daughter? He sent me for you. Why, I don’t fully know; you don’t look like you are worth needing ten werewolves to detain you. He says as he emerges from behind a tree. “As to why we can transform at will is because of our bond to the moon goddess. She started to watch over the werewolves, giving them her blessings to help you out. I am the Alpha of the Blood Moon Pack.” He said as he leaned against the tree.

I looked at this man, realizing that he was talking about my aunt Artemis. “So Artemis wants to help me, that I can understand. But what I don’t understand is why are you helping my father find me?” I asked, locking eyes with him. “ Perseus doesn’t want to hurt you, he just wants his daughter at his side. Your brother and sister, yes he wants them dead. As for why, he has my pack; the ten of us that are here weren’t there to defend the pack when he came. I have to save my pack, I'm their Alpha.” He said, eyeing the lightning bolt.

“Sorry to say, but he will not take me or kill my siblings.” I tell the ten wolves that all have their eyes on me, as I throw the lightning bolt at the Alpha in front of me. The lightning bolt misses and hits the tree behind where he was once standing. “Watch it.” He whispers in my ear. “Your father did warn me that you have a temper. But throwing things really.” He says as he inhales my scent from my neck. “Not that you would have been able to hit me anyway. You smell so good. No fear even with a wolf at your neck.” He says as his canines extend just barely touching my neck.

I tried to move away from him. “I don’t remember saying that you could inhale my scent.” I told him as I moved, but then I felt his hands grab my waist. I started trying to think of a way out of this, as he tells me. “Drop the sword and no more lightning.” As I was making another lightning bolt. He pulled me to his chest. I moved to stomp on his foot, but I froze as I saw movement from behind the trees, and watched as the other four other werewolves came out from behind the trees. Nine wolves surround me. “You said ten werewolves were sent after me, yet all I see is nine wolves. Where is this tenth wolf?” I asked as another human stepped out from behind the tree where the lightning hit. “I wouldn’t do that if I were you.” He said, limping towards us. He stops by one of the other werewolves. “Our Alpha is being nice right now, oh and your father has people watching your brother and sister right now. If we don't bring you to him, they will be killed.” The limping human said.

His canines scraped my neck again, drawing a little bit of blood. “So I will ask you again, drop the sword and stop with the lightning.” The Alpha said as his tongue caressed the scratch mark; tasting my blood; to clean the wound. His eyes widened as he realized something, a cruel twist of fate. “Leave them out of this, I’ll go with you. I’m not throwing my sword on the ground. Can I at least sheath my sword?” I asked as I cooled off my powers, causing the new bolt to get smaller and reabsorbed back into my body. “Fine, sheath your sword.” He said, letting go of me slightly, his hands still on my waist. I sheath my sword and took off my weapons belt holding it out to the man that was in front of me. “I’m guessing you are his beta. Here as a gesture of good will. Watch over these for me, please.” I said, handing them to him. He took them from me. As soon as they were out of my hands, the Alpha had his hands pulling me back to his chest, holding me there tightly. “Good girl, I am sorry for this but you did also hurt my Beta. I’m going to have to bite you.” He said as his tongue started to caress my neck again. Then he tightened his grip as he bit my neck, infusing his venom into my bloodstream.

He pulled away from the bite. “I’m sorry mate, your father's orders. He wanted you unconscious and your powers blocked.” He whispered as he licked the wound softly. My last thought was..Why? Perseus knows that werewolf venom can do a lot of damage, make my abilities go haywire, or put me in a death-like state while my body kills off the venom. Elementals can’t carry curses like lycanthropy or vampirism, at least that is what we have been taught. Wait did he whisper, mate…

Ian

I looked down at the prettiest woman that I had ever had the pleasure of laying my eyes on. I stood there holding her. I leaned down and bit her again, marking her as my mate. My pack guards and beta started walking towards me to take her unconscious body from me. I growled at them, holding her tighter. My wolf Atticus whines, Why did you make that deal? Now we can’t be with our luna. I felt the tears coming down my face. “Why did it have to be her?” I cried. My beta, Hector, looked at her and it clicked, she is my mate, but we made a deal for the pack. Her for my pack.

Hector, looks at me, as I yelled at them. “No, I will carry her.” Hector freezes, “I’m sorry, Alpha meant no disrespect. But did you want to shift and run with her on your back? Back to the packhouse.” He said, looking down. “No, I am sorry my friend. Yes, I would like to run with her on my back. Would you hold her for a minute while I shift?” I asked apologetically. “Yes, Alpha, I can. I wonder if she realized that you aren’t just a werewolf, but a lycan.” He said as he took her from my arms and into his.

I looked at the ground so that I didn’t attack my best friend and beta as he held my mate. “I don’t think so. Lycans are stronger but they are still very rare. We are the reason that werewolves can now shift at will because of the moon goddess. Giving us the ability to turn werewolves, since most of the turned wolves can't shift at will until after their first full moon now. But lycans can bring packs together, so that we aren’t hunted down as much anymore.”

I started to shift after a minute of talking to Hector. I finished my shift feeling the bones reshape into my wolf form. Atticus looked at our mate and nudged her hands. We mind-linked Hector and told him to put her on our back as we laid down so that he could get her on our back. We stand up slowly as he holds her in place. We looked at Hector as he ripped his shirt. “I’m just going to tie her hands together around your neck. So that she doesn’t fall off your back.”

Hector rips his shirt more. He tied one end to one wrist and did the same to her other wrist as he held the ripped shirt under my neck. “Ian, Atticus, I don’t want to tie these too tight, but I need to know if they are tight enough now. Can you run around for a minute?”

We mind-linked him. “Yea, we can. Just make sure that she stays on my back.” Atticus took off running away from my beta. Hector watched the woman on my back as her boy moved with mine. Atticus, we need to go back to the group. I told my wolf. You're right, I just wanted to run away with her. He tells me. Atticus turns around and heads back to our beta. We look at everyone. I opened the mindlink to the guards that I had with me. “Let’s go home guys.” They all howled in agreement. I heard the cracking and reshaping of bones as Hector shifted into his wolf, Axis.

Axis came and stood on my right side. Then I felt one of my guards come to my left side, looking at my mate, his luna. “She doesn’t look like much of a luna.” He said in the mindlink. Atticus howled in anger, turning on the young wolf. “Don’t ever insult your Luna again. No one will insult or harm her. She is my mate and she is this pack Luna. Do you all understand?” I yelled in the mindlink. My voice mixed with Atticus, as I was losing control.

“Let’s go home guys.” Axis/Hector said on the mindlink. Atticus gave me back control. I looked at the young wolf once more, then howled as I took off running. Losing myself in the run, the feel of the wind on my face, brushing my fur. The feel of the dirt under my paws, the sound of the birds chirping and all of us running as one. The smells of the river to the east, the hay at the farm she had been helping at to the west. The smell of the trees to the north, and the smell of a tavern to the south. Then I smelt my mate again. She smelt like a fresh rain storm, roses, and a smell I didn’t recognize.

As we ran towards my, territory in the Tatori Forest. We weren’t very far from the territory, maybe a half a day's run from where we were and where the packhouse was. She had made the job easy by coming into the area to help families in hard times. To save people from creatures that go bump in the night. It was just luck that she had been helping that family today with their land.

It was close to the moon's rise as we ran into the territory. We stopped in front of the packhouse. All of my guards shifted and then walked into the packhouse one by one. Hector shifted and walked over normally now that his leg healed. I sat down and started to shift with her on my back. Wondering if she would feel it at all. As I stood up again, back in my human form. Hector looked at me. “Ian, dude I’m envious that your clothes never shred when you shift.” He tells me as one of the guardsmen throws clothes at him.

I stood up carrying her on my back. “We still have at least a day before Perseus shows up to get her.” I told Hector as I walked into the packhouse. I start up the stairs to my room. “Atticus, I hope she wakes up soon.” I tell him through my link to him. “Call for the Moon Goddess, maybe she can help and answer some questions.” Atticus tells me, as I walk into my room. “Artemis, my moon goddess. Please help, I found my mate but she isn’t a wolf or human.” I said as I laid this woman on my bed.

Artemis appeared in my room. She looked at me, then she saw the woman lying on my bed. “Ariya, my sweet niece.” She said, running to the side of my bed. “Ian, what happened to her?” she asked, putting a hand on her head. I stood there staring at my moon goddess and the women on my bed. “Aryia, a beautiful name for a beautiful woman.” I mumbled, staring at my mate. Artemis smacks me across the face. “Ian, I will ask you one more time, what happened to my niece? Why is she here with you?” she asked more sternly this time. I look at the floor as I tell her. “Her father. Perseus, took my pack from me. He wants her for my pack, a trade.”

Artemis

I stared at the Alpha Lycan, Ian Bloodwolf standing in front of me. “How? Why didn’t you call me sooner?” I asked, looking down at Ariya. “He took them when I went with some guardsmen to trade some goods at the village and visit another pack. He left Pollo my gamma to relay a message. “Her for my pack.” Ian explains as he walks over to take Aryia’s hand. “He also said if I didn’t, he would kill my pack.”

“I didn’t know she was so special or my mate, for that matter. He took all of my pack but my beta, my gamma, and seven guardsmen. He will kill them or, worse, experiment on them. So, I took the deal, he wanted her unconscious. I did the only thing that I could think of. I bit her. Only then did I realize that she was my mate, so I marked her as my mate.” Ian said with a heavy heart. I put my hand on Aryias’ forehead. “I’ll just have to give her, her wolf Selen, before I had planned.” I told Ian and Atticus. “What is her wolf like?” I heard Ian ask with the hint of Atticus’s voice behind the question. I smiled at Ian and Atticus. “Selen is a lot like Aryia.” I told them. “This bite would have messed up her abilities for a long time, and put her in a death-like state for years. Even with the experiments that Perseus did on her and her other triplets before they were born. But that was all if I hadn’t planned to give her a wolf. Now she will only be in a death-like state for a week or two. Her abilities will stay stable.”

I called Selen forward to me as I placed one hand on her forehead, the other on her heart. I pushed Selen to her, linking them together forever. “Selen, you are a very special wolf, just like your human. Take care of her and your mate, they need you.” I told Selen as I finished linking them together. I looked up at Ian. “Ian, I have to leave, her father is on his way. But first, Selen wake up.” I said, looking down at Ariya again. We watch as she opens her eyes. I knew then that they were fully linked because her eyes changed from blue with lightning bolts in them to green and blue with light blue lightning bolts in her eyes.

“Hello, Selen, my special wolf. I need you to make your mate.” I pushed her head towards Ian. “Ariya isn’t going to like this. She knows he is important to her, but to do this without her knowing,” Selen said as she bit Ian. I chuckled, as I told her. “Tell her to grow up, and that it is to save her from Perseus.” I teleport away, going back to Mt. Olympus to tell the other gods the news that Perseus was back.

Ian

I hold my sweet mate's head as I feel her bite. I feel our wolves linking and forming the mate bond. Out of nowhere, I felt a shock when she bit me. She pulls away and closes her eyes as I lay her back down. Her body is still changing and still learning that her wolf is there. I kiss her forehead, feeling the tingles of the mate bond.

I left her to go get a rag to clean my neck. As I am rubbing the blood off my neck, I hear a voice. “So you found her?” Perseus asks, standing where Artemis had just been. “Yes, Perseus, I was going to call for you in the morning to make sure she stayed unconscious. But it seems that her body is accepting the change.” I told him.

Perseus looked at his daughter. “You mean to tell me that my experiments worked? Although I am happy that my experiments worked, it was not part of the deal that you would wait to tell me when you had her. Shall we discuss the terms of the deal again to refresh your memory?” He asked me.