The Lost Warrior Princess

Magic in the Blood

I wake to Nicolas still next to me and a knock on our room door. I move to get up but his grip around me tightens and he pulls me even closer nuzzling his nose into my hair and taking a deep breath before letting out a deep growl. It wasn’t an aggressive growl, it sounded more s****l and enticing. I wondered if he would make that noise if we were ever more intimate, the thought made my cheeks flush.

I tried to get up out of the bed again but he pulled me tighter to him again. I wiggled around trying to get out of the bed to see who was at the door when he growled again, “you need to stop fidgeting or I wont be able to control myself.” He said in a deep seductive tone. I stopped wiggling and he let out a little chuckle, within seconds he had me pinned to the bed as he hovered above me with his arms on either side of me holding him up. His eyes had gone black with arousal. I reached up and touched his cheek and he leaned into my touch. He leaned down towards me and I waited for the connection of our lips. But before our lips could make contact there was another knock on the door again.

He lets out a groan of annoyance before moving out of the bed towards the door and opening it. Alice and Hunter were standing on the other side of the door. Hunter didn’t seem at all fazed by the fact that Nicolas is in nothing but track pants with an irritated look on his face but Alice seems to be completely stunned.

“My Prince, everyone is down in the dining room waiting for orders.” Hunter says in his strong husky voice.

“Thank you Hunter, Luna and I will get ready and be down shortly to give everyone orders on what is happening. In the mean time can you please locate Anya and let her know we wish to speak with her after breakfast.” Hunter nodded his head and walked away to fulfil his orders but Alice didn’t move, she seemed to be completely stunned by Nicolas’s current half naked state.

“Alice? Is there something you needed to talk to me about?” I ask her from the bed, her attention snapping to me but for a split second she was still stunned before she gave me a smirk.

“Oh, um... No it’s okay, it can wait until you’re not preoccupied.” She winked at me before giving Nicolas one last once over before turning and walking after Hunter.

Nicolas let out a little chuckle as he turned around after shutting the door.

“She seems to think something happened between us last night.” He said smirking at me as he walked back over to the bed and placed a kiss on my forehead.

“Well, she wouldn’t be half wrong now would she? But We should get dressed, everyone is waiting for us.” I said with a red face.

“You’re right, everyone is waiting for us.” He said with a smile as he placed a kiss on my lips before turning to the bathroom after getting fresh clothes out of his bag. I quickly get up and get my pants and a clean shirt out of my own bag and get dressed before he came back out of the bathroom.

After Nicolas exited the bathroom I quickly dart in and brush my teeth and put my hair up in a high pony tail. I place my pyjama’s on the end of the bed and pull my boots and socks on. Once we are both dressed we head out to the dining room where everyone had been waiting for us.

Breakfast was already served on the table when we entered and everyone was sitting and talking. I look at the different array of food on the table, it looked delicious. There was different fruits along with toast and spreads. In another dish there were sausages and bacon and next to it was some scrambled eggs. It smelled amazing, I hadn’t even realise how hungry I was until my stomach started to grumble.

Riley was sitting at the other end of the table away from Anya and as we were taking our seats at the table Alice gave me a smirk and winked.

God she needs to get her head out of the gutter I thought to myself as I shake my head at her with a smile, she is going to want to know everything when she gets me alone next.

We all sat and ate breakfast, after everyone finished eating Nicolas filled everyone in on the plan to stay here at Anya’s and then portal to the Pack with her in three days time for the meeting with the alpha. After we all go over the plan Riley gets up and walks out the front door without saying anything. I guess he is wanting to let off some steam or be alone for a while, he must still be upset.

Nicolas put his hand on my shoulder before he tells me to follow Anya. I followed her into the same room she had taken my blood in and the door shuts behind us as she waved her hand in its direction. The Jar that she had put my blood in was still sitting on the table but it had symbols drawn all around it now and the lid had been removed.

“Were you able to find anything about the spell?” Nicolas asked with a serious look on his face.

“I was actually, I was up all night looking through my spell books and was able to find the spell that was cast on you and I was able to find the spell to break it.” She said with a proud smile. “I have already got everything set up ready to go, if you would like me to continue?” she asked directing her attention to me. I nod my head and she indicates for us to take a step back.

Once we were at an acceptable distance she starts chanting in a different language. I watch as the jar of my blood starts to shake and glow a bright red along with the symbols on the table. Slowly the symbols and the jar of blood starts to change colours. The red glow started to change to a purple and then began getting darker and darker until the glow was no longer purple but a deep black like the darkest depts of the underworld. Anya finished chanting and stood staring intently at the jar. It slowly stopped shaking and the glow settled until it faded away completely.

I stood staring at the jar in confusion, was the spell meant to turn the blood black? What had happened for it to do that? Had she gotten the spell wrong? My internal questions were interrupted when Anya spoke sounding just as confused as I was.

“Hm... that’s interesting.” She said as she looked at the jar and then to me.

“What is interesting?” I ask as Nicolas and Anya both look at me with confusion.

“Well, if you were human your blood shouldn’t have changed colour at all.” She says still looking at me.

“Sorry I’m lost what are you saying? What does this mean? I’m not human?” I ask still confused.

“Well dear, each different species has different coloured blood, humans have red blood while Fae have green blood and wolves have red blood as well but it is infused with the essence of the moon goddess so it has a white or silver glow to it and finally vampires. Their blood is blackened, It usually depends on how powerful they are. When they are a pure-blood like the Nicolas here. Their blood will get darker the more powerful they are or for those that have been turned into a vampire from another species, their blood darkens based on how long they have been a vampire for.... You’re blood is the darkest I have ever seen in my entire life and I have lived a long time.... that would mean you are not only very powerful but if you’re a turned vampire you would be very old.” Anya picks up the jar of my blood and examined it more closely. “Prince Nicolas, would you do the honour of tasting the blood? Now that the cloak has been removed from it.” Anya asked, what the hell?

Why was he needing to tasted that nasty stuff? Surely it wouldn’t be very nice. Yuck, just yuck. “Why does he need to taste it?” I asked in disgust.

“Vampires have very keen senses, we can taste if someone is a pure-blood or has been turned there is a slight difference between how it tastes. We can also taste the subtle differences in the blood depending on what bloodline a vampire comes from or in the cast of those turned, it will be the bloodline their sire comes from. I would also be able to taste even the tiniest amount of vampire blood in you’re system.” Nicolas replied.

Oh, that is nasty, I think to myself. He took a couple steps closer to Anya and sniffed as she handed him the jar. He looked at the blood filled jar before dipping his finger into it and then sticks his blood covered finger in his mouth sucking it clean of the thick black liquid.

After a moment of silence and a look of concentration on his face, he snapped his head up and looked at me with wide eyes.

“What is it? Do you know what bloodline she belongs to?” Ayna asks him.

“It’s impossible, they have been dead for almost two decades.” He says quietly. “We are going to need to get another vampire we trust to confirm that I’m correct in my findings.” He quickly put the jar down and left the room, after a few seconds he was back with Hunter following behind him.

Hunter looked around the room and a worried expression crossed his face, his eyes ended up landing on the jar sitting on the table.

“Hunter, what ever you hear in this room stays in this room. You are not to utter a word of this to anyone, is that understood?” Nicolas asked him.

“Understood my prince, I shall not speak a word to anyone, I will take it to my grave.” Hunter replied without hesitation.

“I need you to taste this and tell me what bloodline you can sense.” Nicolas said as he picked the jar back up and handed it to Hunter. Hunter sniffed the contents of the jar and stuck his finger into it the same way Nicolas had done only minutes before. He quickly stuck his finger in his mouth and quietly concentrated on what he was tasting. After what felt like an eternity a look of shock and confusion landed on his face.

“My prince, there must be some kind of mistake. The bloodline that I’m sensing has been dead for almost two decades. I’m afraid I may have failed you.” Hunter said with all sincerity.

“You didn’t fail Hunter, you confirmed my suspicions. But now we have a problem to solve... finding out how this is possible and who did it.” Nicolas replied.

“My prince, if I may? How was this blood acquired?” Hunter asked.

“What is it? Is there something wrong?” I ask as worry starts to kick in, was there something wrong? I had no idea what they were talking about but it didn’t sound like it was any good.

Nicolas must have picked up on my panicked thoughts because he was the one that spoke first.

“I believe that you could be the last descendant of the Ravenwood bloodline.” He replies.

“My prince, do you mean that the blood from that jar came from the captain?” Hunter asked looking at me with wide eyes.

For anyone that looked at me while this cloak was still over me I looked and smelled like a human. It must have seemed like we were all insane.

“Yes Hunter, the blood I had you test came directly from Luna.” Nicolas said. “ She is the last living member of the Ravenwood Royal family.” His lips curled up just slightly at the last few words he had spoken.

“Wait, you don’t mean the royal vampire family that were thought to have been wiped out by rogue vampires?” Anya asks with a shocked look on her face.

“Wait are you saying I’m a vampire?” I asked with shock evident on my face.

“Not just any vampire sweet child, but the last pure blooded vampire of a royal bloodline thought to not exist anymore.” Anya replied to me. Her expression was no longer one of shock but of excitement. She came towards me still smiling and took my hand in both of hers. She said a few words and closes her eyes, after a few seconds she opens her eyes again and smiles at me. “It’s incredible, the cloak masks your vampire nature and bloodline completely. I couldn’t feel anything coming from you at all. I could only feel the aura of a human coming from you and the magic lingering on you. I only know of one spell caster that could have pulled this off but no one has see or heard from him in many years. How old are you child? Do you remember ever meeting a very old looking man with long grey hair and violet coloured eyes?” Anya asks me.

I shook my head “no, I haven’t ever met anyone with violet coloured eyes. I was taken by the warrior recruits when I was twelve and spent four years training to be a warrior and we have been in service for a year and a half now so I’m almost eighteen. Why does it matter how old I am?”

“Is that how you have been able to keep track of how old you are? Going off of the number of years you have been in service?” Anya asks me with what looks like pity or sadness in her eyes.

“Well birthdays aren’t really celebrated much so we keep track by how many years we have been in service and what month and the date they took us in.” I reply.

I look to Nicolas who is also looking at me with a sad look on his face, he came to stand in front of me and wrapped me in a hug.

“When is your birthday?” He asks me as he pulls away to look me in the eyes.

“It’s the twenty first of June, why?” I reply.

“Your birthday is in three months.” He says, he seems to be thinking something over in his head.

“Prince Nicolas, are you feeling things for her? Like you have to be close to her and protect her?” Anya asks looking at us with an interested smile on her face. I look to Nicolas before I nod to him and he answers her.

“Yes, I feel a pull to Luna.” He says still looking at me. She nodded and looked at me with the same interested smile on her face.

“And what about you child? Do you feel a pull to him? Like you have that same feeling?” She asked.

“Yes I do, why?” I ask both of them while I still look at his stunning emerald coloured eyes. God I could get lost in them.

Anya smiles widely and takes a step closer to us before speaking again.

“I can do a simple soulmate searching spell if you would like? It will confirm if you’re mates or not.”

“No there is no need, I already know she is my mate.” Nicolas says to her.

“I would like to be sure, I want to make sure its not another spell on her thats intertwined with her original spell.” She says in response. Nicolas seemed to think it over before he nodded his head showing that he was ok with having the spell done.

“Very well, Nicolas I need you to stand facing me. Captain I need you to do the same, I also need you both to reframe from touching each other while I do this.” Anya said before she says some words again in the same language she did earlier. After she stops speaking a golden thread appears over both of our hearts.

“Now I’m going to pull on the thread and if you are mates the action will cause the other to react.... it may be a little uncomfortable but it’s the only way to know for sure.” We both give her a nod before she puts her fingers on the thread over Nicolas’s heart, she gives it a gentle pull and nothing happens, I see that Nicolas has a saddened look on his face at the thought that we might not be mates. Anya notices the look on his face and pulls again but harder this time.

I wasn’t expecting anything to happen again so I wasn’t ready for the sharp pain that started in my heart causing me to clutch my chest. Anya let go of the golden thread over Nicolas’s heart and both golden threads disappeared shortly after along with the pain in my chest.

“What the bloody hell was that?” I ask rubbing my chest where the pain was a second ago.

“That was the mate bond, when I pulled it the first time it should have been enough to get a reaction. It would seem that the cloaking spell on you isn’t just cloaking your true nature but it is also cloaking your mate pull as well to some extent.” She replies. This cloaking spell is becoming annoying, I have spent the last seventeen years thinking I was human and now I find out I have a cloaking spell on me and that I’m really a vampire and that I am mated to the Prince of the southern vampire clan. This is making this mission so much more difficult. After a moment of silence, Anya speaks.

“Now, knowing that you’re a vampire, what do you want to do? I can leave the cloak on you for now or I can remove it and your true form will be revealed. But I must warn you, if you remove the cloak now there is no guarantee on how well your team will take it or how safe you will be. The Ravenwood royals had a lot of power and many allies but they also had may enemies that would stop at nothing to capture or kill you to get what they want. You are one of the most powerful vampires I have ever seen and that means a lot of different supernatural and non-supernatural beings will be after you for that power.”

“I wont let anyone have her, I will protect her with my life if I have too. I would wage a war on anyone who tried to harm a single hair on her head. She is my mate and I will do everything in my power to keep her safe.” Nicolas snarled out.

Great now I have to make a choice on if I want to leave the spell on me or if I want to be the vampire my blood says I am. But the question still remains, why was it put there in the first place? I need some answers first before I can make that decision.

I look from Anya to Nicolas, Anya nodded to him before he turned back to look at me. I know that as much as he would be okay with me making either choice I don’t want to put everyone else in more danger. I need to get this mission done and once we are back at the clan, I can work to find out some answers. Either way my days as a warrior are numbered.

“I will remain cloaked until we can figure out the best time to remove it. This is the safest option for everyone for the time being. I don’t want anyone getting hurt because of me. We also need to find out why it was put there in the first place and find the caster that did it.” I look to Anya as I say this and then look back to Nicolas. “ If we remove the cloak now it will put a target on my back and anyone else who is around when word gets out about who I really am. You say you will protect me but I need to protect you and everyone around me and if word got back to my Commanders before we were ready to handle it I would be at the top of the list to be hunted down and killed, I know too much for them to allow me to live for long, They would find some way to kill me and I’m not sure if they know anything about this or if they were behind it. I don’t want to risk it.” I say to Nicolas, after I’m finished speaking he places his hands on my shoulders.

“I accept your decision, I think it’s the right thing to do. I agree, we need answers first and I will not rest until we get them.” He says as he pulls me into a tight embrace. “I will burn the entire world down to protect you. I would break the truce with the humans if they refused to accept the mate bond that we have. To refuse the legitimacy of the bond would cause uproar between the humans and supernaturals. They would be strongly outnumbered.” He said before placing a kiss on my forehead. It’s hard to think that he is really my mate. I wonder how well that will go over in at H.Q once they get word of it. Will they respect the mate bond that the supernaturals were gifted by their gods or will they use it as leverage? what if they try to use me as leverage or to gain information on the royal family? I wouldn’t be able to do that to Nicolas, I wouldn’t be able to betray his trust like that. I have to think of a way to keep everyone safe and to be able to break the cloak that’s on me without my commanders coming after me. My mind is swirling with so many different things that I don’t even notice Anya talking again.

“Captain......captain?” Her voice breaks through my thoughts.

“Huh? What?” I completely missed what she was saying. “ sorry what did you say?”

“Oh sweet child, you need not worry about anything just yet. I was saying that after you’re back at the castle send word that you need my assistance and I will come to you. I can break the spell there once you have all arrived safely in the clan walls and in the meantime I will do what I can to find answers and if anyone has information on where Talbet might be hiding.” I’m not sure how I feel about her calling me a child even if she is many years older than me. “That should give us enough time to think of a plan on handling your commanders, I doubt they will be to happy about one of their best actually being a vampire princess in hiding but they also wouldn’t risk the peace between the species. We supernaturals believe the mate bond is sacred, a gift from the gods. Like the prince has said, it would create more problems if they were to try and harm someone’s mate. Especially someone like the prince here, he holds enough power to cause an uprising if the humans went after his mate.”

“We also need to work out how we plan on announcing that the Ravenwood bloodline continues, we may have to get the help of my parents for that and it would have to be in a public setting with all the leaders of the different species. There would be less chance for the humans to do anything in a public setting.” Nicolas says. “Hunter, you are to protect Luna when she isn’t at my side, you will protect her with your life. Is that understood? She is my Mate and she will be treated as such. Also, you are to be the only one that knows of this. If it comes to my attention that my trust has been betrayed, I will not hesitate to end your life. You my be an old friend but this is your future queen.” Hunter nodded and was dismissed before he could leave I quickly spoke, “Hunter, wait!” He turned around and bowed his head slightly.

“ Yes, your majesty?” I looked at Nicolas and then to Hunter.

“ can you just call me Luna? I don’t want my team knowing anything just yet. Not until we know who’s behind all this.” I say.

“ Of course, Luna.” He replies with a bow and turns to leave before I could say anything else.

“You should get back to the others before they start asking to many questions about why Anya and I keep stealing you away.” I can tell Nicolas isn’t happy about me not wanting to tell my friends about being his mate but we needed to be careful. It wasn’t that I didn’t trust them, I just wanted to keep them out of this and keep them safe. I nod to him and move out of his hold and walk to the door. “ Are you coming as well?” I ask them.

“ I need to speak with Anya, you go ahead. We will catch up.” Nicolas says turning back to Anya. I nod and open the door leaving the two of them in the room and shut the door behind me.