The Goddesses Time

Fate in the Air

“ We're going to start with the mate first. He's a tall drink of water if I say so myself…”

A chill has made its way into the pack house. The rain is still falling from last night. I can hear the droplets hitting the roof and the window. The ravens are playing tag in the trees, teasing the young eagles, and leaving the nest. The birds are chirping, welcoming the morning sun. It's like nature is singing a ballad, not even the best composers could write.

As the sun continues to rise and the rain slightly lets up, I slowly begin to open my eyes. I lay on the bed, still as the mountains listened to the symphony outside my windows. I slowly fill my lungs with the fresh summer air and let a controlled breath out of my mouth.

“Today is the day, pup….” My wolf sleepily whispers in my mind.

He stretches and shakes the sleep from his body and yawns a giant yawn. I also begin to stretch my sleepy muscles and echo his yawn.

“It is, isn't it, Romulus? Are you ready for a run, friend? Let's run the border and then get to training.”

“ Mmmm, yes. Let's be on time this time. Brent will have our heads if we're late again…… I'd rather that it doesn't happen. I quite like my head right where it is, thank you.”

I laugh a small laugh out loud and shake my head. I lift the covers off my body, put my feet on the floor, and get to my feet. Raising my hands above my head, I stretch my whole body slowly, leaning side to side, and then make my way across the room to the closet. I swing open the double doors and smile as I look to the right. Empty. Just for her.

With my 18th birthday coming up, I renovated my closet for my mate last month. I had looked online and saw what many girls were pinning for dream closets. I put in purse racks and a seating area: a glass rotating jewelry box, shoe and hat boxes, and the works. I hadn't stopped their thoughts, though I re-did the bathroom and had a big jacuzzi tub put in with all the bath necessities. I may have tried out a few of them. Had to test the products, ya know.

Now that I'm 18, I can find my mate. After I see her, we can take over the pack in a few years. As the Alphas' only son, it's my job to lead so he can retire. My dad is a fair and honest leader. I plan to lead just as he does. Firm yet fair. The Misty Horizon pack is the biggest in Juneau. Second largest in Alaska.

Only Midnight Tundra rivals us, but that's because they are located in Nome and have more space than us. I'd hate to live that far north. We barely get enough sun as it is with all the clouds, but to have more than 30 days at a time without it? Yuck. No thanks.

I grab sweats and a t-shirt and walk over to the shoes. I grab my sneakers and socks and sit on one of the new chairs. I pull on the sweats and put the shirt over my head and then start on the socks and shoes when I hear my bedroom door fly open. I sniff the air…. Shelby …..

“MORNING S*&T STAIN ! HAPPY CELEBRATION OF THE DAY DAD SQUIRTED YOU INTO MOM !” she yells as she kicks the door closed behind her and comes to stand in front of my closet.

She's standing wide legged, knees bent slightly crouched with her arms flexed in hard L shapes at her side. I look at her face, and of course ….. she's an i***t. Her eyebrows are scrunched, nose flared, and her bottom jaw is jetting out above her top lip. She begins to grunt and move side to side like a crab.

“UG MAKE BABY. ONLY HAVE GIRL. NEED BOY. BRING MATE. MAKE UGLY BABY NOW. RUIN DAUGHTER LIFE WITH WEAK SEED. UG UG.” She begins to move her arms forward and backward, keeping them in that L shape and begins to move her hips forward and back opposite her arms while prancing back and forth, making grunting noises.

“What is wrong with you !” I laugh yell as I throw my shoe at her.

She dodges my shoe easily and continues bouncing around like an i***t. It's not like I threw it at her with the intention to hit her or even that hard. I run over and grab my shoe and shove my foot in roughly twisting my heel side to side. I reach my hand down behind my leg and slide my finger in behind my heel and and help lift the back of it past it.

Once my foot slides in I give it a few light stomps to make sure that its in well and then ran over to my sister echoing her sounds and stance and started mimicking her movements grunting like a caveman and hoping and waving my hands around.

“UG SISTER. UG, SHE MY ONLY FRIEND. UG UG. SHE SMELLS LIKE ROTTON SWAMP A%$” I grunt at her.

She stops and dramatically swings her head to look at me with the same stupid look on her face, and her body posture is never changing.

“UG. ME SINCE CHALLENGE” she days as she begins to prance again towards me, one hand on her chest and swinging the other wildly.

“f**k her up” Romulus laughs as he begins to mimic our movements in my head.

Were both laughing and prancing around when in walks in Dave. My best friend and future beta.

“Hey man happ……. WITH OUT ME !!!” he leans his head out the door bracing one hand on the frame, his chest leaning on it and one leg strait and up in the air slightly. He brings his free hand to his mouth and yells out

“KYLER ! GET IN HERE ! THEY ARE DOING IT WITHOUT US AGAIN !”

You can hear a thud on the floor as if a body has fallen on it and a loud pterodactyl screech with the thudding of bare feet running down the hall. Kyler will be my gamma. Some people in the pack question if hes right for the role because hes “soft” and by soft they are talking about him being gay. I don’t worry about it. I've seen him fight and he can hold his own and then some.

“As graceful as an elephant on ice…..” smirks Romulus

I laugh and yell out “Romulus says you are a klutz Kyler !”

“UG. MY HEART. HE HURTS IT WITH HIMS WORDS.”

Both Dave and Kyler adopt our stance and we all begin prancing around like cavemen grunting and chanting. Were interrupted as all of our phones begin to go off. Alarms to go run.

“RUN” Shelby yells

“RUN” we all echo. We begin to make an awkward shuffle to the door chanting run still as we make our way into and down the hall way to the stairs. When we reach them were met by my dad and Davids dad. They just look at us.

“WHAT?”

“YEAH WHAT “

“YOU WANT SOME OF THIS !”

Our fathers are met with taunts of phyco 17-20 year olds dancing around like cavemen. We keep prancing and shouting until were right up on them. They look at each other and back at us.

“Did I drop you one too many times or something son ?” my dad says

“He did end up rolling down the stairs that one time” Daves dad says with a smile

“ah yea. Dave too if I recall.”

“A truly sad day. Thank goodness you tossed Shelby down with him so he wouldn't be alone.”

They begin laughing and hitting each other on the shoulder and chest lightly. My dad is the typical tall muscular alpha. He stands over 6 feet tall with brown hair and a well kept matching beard. Hes very muscular with a deep voice and bright green eyes. Charles, his beta and Daves dad looks just like Dave. Also tall and well built with black slightly curly hair and dark blue eyes.

“you guys are a$% holes” Shelby says as she begins to make her way down the stairs.

We all begin to follow her laughing. Once we all reach the landing we begin to make our way to the back doors and out into the woods. You can hear the omegas in the kitchen working on breakfast for the pack. The head cooks are bickering about something as our dads enter. Im not waiting around to hear that. Those two can really go at it.

We make our way to the tree line and split up to undress and get ready to shift. Im stashing my clothes when I hear the others take off and in my head from my sister

“come on ya nancy !”

Her dapple gray wolf Hera makes her way over by me running at an insane pace and makes a quick turn throwing moss and dirt at me before disappearing into the woods. I hear Dave and kylers wolves run after her. Well dam. I quick shift and begin to take off after her.

My wolf is a red dapple color with my bright green eyes. Like other alphas hes much bigger and stronger than the other wolves. He has an all white crescent moon shape between his eyes on his forehead. Supposedly that meant that were descendants of the first wolves. My human self is built much like my dad but I have my moms hair. Im 6 foot 4 broad at the shoulders and barrel chested. Im a lot thicker than most of the others but its all muscle.

My sister and I are both built really broad. Our torso is longer and are legs are shorter but were all muscle. Mom says this is because her pack originated with the vikings and that's why im so broad. My dad is your more typical body type with his torso more so shorter and long legs. We do have more red in our hair than him but were not red heads.

Im running through the forest trying to catch up with the others when I smell something. We come to a complete halt and Romulus looks in the direction of the scent. It ……. it smells so good. Like lavender and honey… I cant stop my body from moving in the direction of the scent. Its taking me deeper into the forest. Our heart is racing, I feel like its going to jump out of my chest its beating so hard.

“ I …. I wont be able to stop my self Rillon. You need to take over…. NOW!” Romulus says with his voice etched with panic and restraint.

“ BUT I DON’T HAVE ANY CLOTHES WITH ME !” I yell in a panic. If this is my mate what will she think if I just walk up to her naked in the middle of the forest !?!

“WOULD YOU RATHER I MAUL HER AND MARK HER RIGHT THEN ?!? I can smell something off with her scent. Im not sure if she even has her wolf yet.”

“What ?!?! so shes not even 16 yet …… okay okay …. lets just run back to our clothes and get to the training field. If she doesn't have her wolf were just going to have to wait anyway. Its better for us if we don’t know.”

“AAARGH ….. fine, your right.” Romulus huffs and shakes his massive head and runs as fast as he can back to our clothes. I shift back as fast as I can and get dressed and begin to run to the training field. Im a nervous wreck. Im sweating and shaking. I just need to hit something. I jump into the ring and over to the large heavy bag. On the bench by it on a rack is wrapping material and I begin to wrap my wrists feverishly when I hear my sister in my head.

“WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU !” her voice is frantic. And laced with anger.

“im at the training grounds. Calm down.”

“CALM DOWN ! my little brother FUTURE ALPHA OF THIS PACK goes missing at the border AND YOU TELL ME TO CALM DOWN ! oh you are a dead son of a b&%$h”

“well at least we’ll be able to hit something now” says Romulus.

I sit on the bench and shake my head “yeah, at least theirs that”