Soul Mates

Chapter 23

Jason

Wow. The last of the Royal line...

Yeah I need to put that out of my head or I might go on a rampage. Just think about the fact that some idiots thought it a good thing to kill people just because they carried the name royal. "Okay I'm the last in the royal line. So what?"

I looked at my dad when I said that. His eyes widened and mom came out from behind me. "Son..." Her don't talk to us like that voice won't work on me this time.

"What mom? Oh wait you are not my mother. Some demented f***s decided to kill My mother and father. and now I'm supposed to do what exactly." I stood up at that and just left them staring at me.

This situation is f****d up. Its not something a 18 year old should be dealing with. Hear I am, being told my parents are not real my parents and I'm some special royal person. What does that even f*****g mean. I turned back to the office and barged in. "Is that the reason I'm such a hot commodity to people. Because of some f****d up special blood running through my veins."

"JASON!" Mom reprimanded me. I've never been one to cuss but a person will grow a new vocab with the s**t I've been through.

I looked at General Sifiso this time. "Why do you need me?" Straight to the point. No more beating around the bushes. I lost my mate because of that.

"Sir. The followers of hades are rearing their heads again. And the other royal families have requested that the royal guards assemble everyone to stand a fighting chance against them." He said then looked to my dad.

"What, are you not allowed to speak without his permission." I said to General Sifiso. "Where is the over confident asshole who kidnaped me."

"Son, you need to control your self. We don't need a repeat of yesterday." Then I remembered I came here because they said they would tell me what the f**k happened to me yesterday.

"Yes yesterday. What happened?" I said going to sit in General Sifiso's chair, because I didn't trust these people anymore.

"You lost control son, which is why I'm asking you to calm down now."

"Control how?"

"You attacked a warrior in training yesterday."

Flashes of seeing someone through a red haze come to me.

"Who is he, why would I attack anyone." I'm trying to place the event they are talking about, but nothing comes to mind. Only flashes of red and green.

This time General Sifiso comes to the front. "His name is Jean-Blaze Dlamini. You attacked the next in line Alpha of the White Crescent Moon pack. The next Alpha of your current pack."

As General sifiso says that I stiffen and look at him to judge if he is lying. What the f**k did I do that for? "Did he attack me or something?" I ask them, trying to come up with an answer why I would suddenly go ballistic on the guy.

"No sir. You same to the training area and demanded that he be your trainer then you just kept calling the betrayer."

Then it clicks to me. Mary-Katheryn looks like her brother and after what Sipho told me, I must have lost my mind at seeing him. But why would I attack someone who looks like my mate.

"He is my mate's brother." My mom and dad gasp at that.

"One of the twins is the girl you've been pining over for the past year?" Mom says softly to the room.

"Yes, but I dont get why I would attack someone who is related to my mate." I look to my dad for the answer.

"I'm sorry my boy. But when it comes to anything about the royals, I know nothing. The royals were wolves like us. But they were also different to us. So in order for us to help you with your new changes. It would be best if we wait for the squad that was sent to the Jackson clan to return with the book and your protector."

"Didn't you say you couldn't find the Royal pack after they were destroyed by the followers of hades faction."

"Yes, we did. But 3 years ago I ran into this boy who reminded me so much of my brother that I couldn't resist talking to him. As we talked he told me that he was waiting for his mother to go to some secrete place only special people can go to, then i asked him to point out his mother and he showed me my sister-in-law talking to another older version of my brother, but i was nervous to talk to them so i left thinking i could find them on the next day. but when i went back they were gone." He looks down in shame then continues. "So since that day i've been searching for the royal pack because those 3 made me believe that some of the royal pack survivors were together somewhere."

"So that's why we've been moving non-stop since 3 years ago. You've been searching for them in the packs. But why did we end up settling with the White Crescent Moon pack if you were looking for the royal pack."

"You son. We could tell that the girl you told us about that first day was something special, so we made the White Crescent Moon pack our base of operations. Thats why your father or I were always gone. We had to keep searching to find our people. Your people." My mother said looking at me with hope in her eyes. I know I hurt her and will apologies but not yet.

"And the Royal Guard?"

"Has always been in operation." General Sifiso answered. "We don't only train wolves to be guards. A royal guard is born human with a birthmark of the royal family he is to serve. We bring them here, or where-ever our base is at the time and train them, then on their first year of graduation they turn into what suits them best to protect that royal family and continue to train on that for 3 years until they have mustered their powers"

"So you telling me as guards, you get to pick if you want to be shifter, vampire, fae or any other supernatural creature?"

"No. You turn into the best version of you that can protect the royal family." Says General Sifiso.

"And the guards protecting the shifter royals ,were they the runts of the litter or something?"

"No sir. Only the best graduates go to protect the royal families."

"Oh ok. Then why is the royal shifter family erased from existence." Wow, still can't believe this faction was able to erase a whole pack's history from existence.

"We still don't know how that happened sir." This from Captain Charlie Sono. "We've investigated the original scene of the attack, but nothing came of it. Not even when our best mage guards were put on the case, to find the magical trail of what happened. Nothing turned up."

Wow, so many words from a guy I had forgotten was in the room with us.

Re-cap. I'm a prince of a nation that does not know they have a prince. and my whole history was erased form existence. Hey... wait a minute. "If you guys say everything is forgotten then how did these books that are supposed to help me survive the erasing."

"Like we said sir. We have no idea. But during our investigation on the original site. We discovered a connection between that land and another 200Km away from it." General Sifiso looks to Captain Charlie.

"We went to the connected land and discovered that most of the Jackson clan members that survived had built a new town in that land. That's how the guards found the new Jackson Clan." Captain Charlie

"What still puzzles us, and them is that they never moved their houses. They didn't even know they moved locations until we told them. To them they were just getting over the major attack from the followers of hades." General Sifiso

"So how did you find them dad?" I look to my dad to see how fits into this equation.

"I didn't. Your mother did on her search of Mpumalanga, in the Nkomazi Region. She ran into some guards. Well more like she saw the guards, followed them. And got the information out of them." He finishes looking at her with worshipful eyes. Gross.

I saw General Sifiso look at mom with narrowed eyes, and as if he just remembered something, his eyes widened, took a step back and his adams apple bumped up and down. Well got my next question answered.

"So you know what she did huh..." I asked the General.

"Yeah..." No further answer came, but his eyes where still trained on mom.

"So dad, what do we do now?"

"We wait for those who went to the Jackson clan to come back with the books"

"And this protector person, Why is he so different from you. You said you are one as well."

"When a royal member comes of age. Their protector gets an increase of strength for the duration of that royal's training. Then when the royal is ready, the protector transfers the rest of his abilities to the royal. Its like the protector is an extra storage place for the royal powers, while the owner builds their own bigger storage in their body. And when that's done, the powers move to their rightful home."

Okay. Being the protector is a s**t job.

"So back to meditations." I said with a little growl. I got up and went to the door.

"Yes, but we still need to assign someone else to you. Private Raphael left with the squad going to the Jackson clan." Captain Charlie.

"Now why would he do that." Now I have to get used to someone else, and how they work. I kept it moving after that. Maybe I will go back to that obstacle course to see if I can make it to the finish. If I'm some kind of special royal person then I ought to be different from regular people in some way.

The clicking of heels interrupted my thoughts. Oh crap. I'm not ready for a one-on-one with her yet. As the heels reached me. She said nothing and just kept up with me. When we cleared the door to go outside we parted ways with her brushing my back and letting me go.