The Hunter’s Daughter

Chapter 3: The Dream

(Maximo’s POV)

“f**k! We’ve lost them.” Allister Ivy’s dad yells.

“It’s okay sir we’ve killed a few of them.” Josh the other Hunter on the team says.

Allister shoots him a deathly glare and he shrinks within himself. Allister could be pretty scary and intimidating at times. He was ruthless and a bit crazy. But I wasn’t scared of him.

“Allister I think we should get these bodies out of here,” I say sternly. He looks over at me and just as he’s about to say something the buzzing of my cell phone in my pocket distracts me. I glance at my phone and see that it’s Mrs. Smith calling. I quickly answer the phone.

“Max is Ivy with you? She’s gone from the party and the bathroom window is broken we think something might’ve happened to her!” She says frantically. My eyes widen and this grasps Allister’s attention.

“What! What is it?” He yells as he steps closer to me.

“It’s Ivy, she’s.. she’s gone, they took her.”

“What!” He yells and storms away. I follow behind him and soon we arrive at the party hall. It’s now emptied except for a few people and Ivy’s mom.

“Ramona, how could you let her out of your sight?” Allister yells at Mrs. Smith.

“Me? You left your daughter's birthday to chase after werewolves they are probably retaliating on her because of you!” She yells. Allister immediately slaps her hard. I’m taken aback by this I had never seen him be violent towards Mrs smith or Ivy but this made me look at him differently. He slaps her so hard she falls to the floor. Hot tears stream down her face and I help her to her feet.

“Mr. Smith was that necessary?” I say furrowing my brows.

“Yeah, it was you will learn that in order to get respect from your woman that you need to take it!” He says sternly.

Mrs. Smith assures me she’s okay and pats the back of my hand. I and Allister head into the bathroom to investigate. There we see the broken window and some shreds of Ivy’s clothes as well as black fur.

“Those filthy beasts took my daughter!!!” He yells. We leave the party hall and head to Allister’s house to see if maybe Ivy went there. We see that the back door has been left open. I search her bedroom and find some of her clothes and things are gone.

“Ivy, where are u?” I say to myself.

“Max I think you ought to see this.” Mrs. Smith says handing me a sheet of paper. It’s a letter from Ivy saying she wants to end things with me and she’s moving away to start a new life without us. She talks about how she cannot deal with being around hunters and how she never wants to see me again. I feel hot as my anger bubbles up. How can this be? I was going to ask her to marry me tonight. I loved her. “I don’t think she would write that son.” Mrs. Smith says to me.

“It’s in her handwriting,” I say fuming.

“Those filthy beasts forced her to write that!” Allister yells. I crumple the paper in my hands angrily.

“I will kill every last one of those mother fuckers.” I yell. Something snaps inside of me and I feel my body buzzing. Allister smirks at me.

“What what is it?” I ask. He steps to me and places a fatherly hand on my shoulder I’ve never seen Allister act this way.

“You son are a true hunter and tonight you have unlocked your hunters' aura. Your strengths and senses will be heightened and you will not be able to fight your hunter urges to kill those beasts. I always knew I liked you!” He says proudly.

“We will get Ivy back I have a plan,” Allister says and pulls Mrs smith out of Ivy’s room.

Wow, a true hunter. I feel the energy coursing through my body and my skin continues to buzz.

“I’m coming for you Ivy you are mine!”

(Ivy’s POV)

“Push !” A bunch of voices screams. I open my eyes and things are a bit blurry. I look around me and see that it’s a dimly lit room. Could be a dungeon or something. I look next to me and I see my mom.

“Mom? Is that you?” She looks over at me concerned.

“Yes, honey it’s me I’m here.” She whispers.

“Have her push again.” Another voice says from below me.

“Listen honey I need you to push as hard as you can the baby is almost out,” Mom says.

“Baby!? What do you mean, I can’t be having a baby right now.”

Suddenly pain overcomes me and I can feel the sweat forming on my forehead.

“This is it, baby girl. PUSH!” I push and the next thing I hear is crying.

I feel calm as the room is frantic.

Someone places the baby in my arms. And I’m shocked by what I see. The baby has red hair and emerald-green eyes.

“Are you mine?” I say softly to the baby. I haven’t realized how quiet the room has gotten.

“No, it’s mine!” A crackly voice yells and I feel the baby being snatched from my arms. I look up and see my dad.

“Dad? Give me my baby!” I yell.

“I am not your dad, you’re an abomination! And this child is one too!” He yells and then he pulls a large blade from behind him.

“I raised you as my daughter and look at what you are and look at what you created. Now it’s time I finish you once and for all.” He shoves the knife through my chest and I let out a blood-curdling scream. My eyes fade to dark.

“Ivy? Ivy? Wake up.” Someone shakes me awake. I jump up still screaming and breathing heavily. “Where is he where is he? I’ll kill him! “

“Ivy calms down it was just a dream you are safe.”

I look up to see Oliver kneeling over me.

“What are you doing here?” I ask trying to catch my breath.

“You were talking loudly in your sleep and then you started screaming. I wanted to check on you and see if you were okay.” He grumbles. I can tell he must’ve been sleeping and I woke him up. His perfectly combed hair is a mess and his hazel eyes are sleepy. He looks me over curiously. I continue to breathe heavily at the thoughts of my dream.

“Hey calm down. It’s okay your safe here.” He pulls me into his arms. Even though I didn’t ask for this. He embraces me and his warmth encases me securely. I feel weird in his arms, I feel.. safe. He strokes my arm as he hugs me tightly. Tingles rush over my arm at his slightest touch And I shiver.

“Are you cold?” He says pulling a blanket out of the dresser next to the bed. He wraps the blanket around me and lays me back down in the bed. Then he climbs over me and lays down next to me on his side.

“What are you doing?” I question.

“You were having a nightmare it’s obvious you are scared in a new place and you don’t want to be in this big room all alone.” He says smugly. I roll my eyes.

“And you're going to make me feel less ‘scared’?”

“Yeah, I am I’m not going to go anywhere I’m just going to sit here and wait for you to fall asleep. And then I will watch you sleep.” He smirks.

“That’s not creepy at all Oliver. “ I say sarcastically. He furrows his brows.

“Your a piece of work Ivy.” He laughs.

“I know I am. It’s one of my best qualities.” I stick my tongue out playfully and he smiles at me. He has a nice smile. I lay back on the pillow. He caresses my hair and slowly I start drifting off to sleep. There’s something about his family that makes me curious. “Why am I drawn to them? I ask myself.

Pretty soon I close my eyes and I’m off to sleep again.

(Oliver’s POV)

“No, No Dad please!” A soft voice yells, startling me from my slumber.

“It’s her.” My wolf midnight growls in my head.

“I know who it is she’s the only woman on this floor.”

“You made a bad first impression on her try to comfort her now. She could be the one to change everything the one we’ve been waiting for.” Midnight says. I pull on some sweatpants and enter her room through the door that’s connected to mine. That’s when I see her. She’s in her underwear and a large T-shirt. She’s tossing and turning and sweating in her sleep. Then she screams loudly. I rush over to her and shake her awake gently.

We talk back and fourth and I have to admit she’s sassy. I get her to fall back to sleep in no time. I’m thinking about leaving when something in me just stops. Instead I wrap my arms around her and breathe in her scent. Gabriel was right about her smelling like sage and sunflowers. She’s unlike any wolf I’ve ever scented. It’s something about her I wish I knew what it was.

“Do you think she’s our mate?” Midnight asks.

“I don’t know, you know the cloaking spell prevents us from finding our true mates on this land. The witches are still searching for a relocation spell that can relocate our entire pack off of these grounds and to a safer land. This land is cursed. And I’m afraid we may never find our mate if we don’t figure things out soon.”

“I think the girl is the key to saving our pack and cleansing this land. Why else would she bump into Oscar and Jaxon out of no where when they were inches away from being captured and killed. She knows the art of elixirs and healing. She’s got a black wolf with green eyes. She could be the one.” Midnight says.

“I’ll think more on it tomorrow for now I am tired.” I say to him. I cuddle closer to her careful not to disturb her and I close my eyes. In no time I’m drifted off to sleep.

(Ivy’s POV)

The sound of crows cawing awakes me from my slumber the next morning. It’s early about six am. I look next to me and see that Oliver is gone. My heart sinks a little at him being gone. I’m not sure why. It’s weird I feel drawn to a lot of the people here and I don’t know why. I felt tingles from Oscar, I felt something from Gabriel and then last night with Oliver. What does all this mean?

“I think one of them are our mate.” Aspen says. I still can’t get used to this second person in my head.

“Our mate? We have one of those?”

“Of course we do silly all wolves have one. We are no different.” She laughs.

“But why can’t we tell who it is?”

“Because this land is cursed it sits near hunter grounds the power of the mate bond is so strong that it would alert hunters of us wolves in the area that’s why they had the witches put a cloaking spell on this land years ago.” Aspen says.

“Well how do you know all of this ?” I question.

“The moon goddess told me.” She says nonchalantly.

“The moon goddess ? You mean she’s real?”

“Of courses she’s real she’s the mother of all wolves she chooses our mates for us and she sees everything.”

“So if she spoke to you why didn’t she tell you who our mate is?”

“Because we have to find our mate on our own. If she tells us it could interfere with the balance of nature and mess with the outcome of the future.”

“Yeah okay enough of this cryptic ass conversation.” I say and throw the blanket off of me. I sit up on the side of the bed and look towards the window. I see something off in the distance. I get off the bed and move closer to the window. I lift it up and am immediately hit by a cool breeze.

“Sure is cold up in these mountains in mid September.” I say. I hear growls and I glance back out the window. I see tons of wolves outside. Some brown, some black and grey. I decide to go outside and get a better look at all the wolves. I rummage through my duffel bag and pull out a pair of black leggings and a black T-shirt. I put on the clothes and then pull on my sneakers and sweater. I look in the mirror and take my brush out of my bag smoothing my hair down into a low ponytail and securing it with a hair tie.

I head down stairs the way Gabriel showed me yesterday and make my way through the pack house until I find a living area with French doors leading out back. As I get outside the growling gets louder and that’s when I see the huge wolves up close.

“Wow” I think to myself.

“They’re all great wolves but not as magnificent as we are.” Aspen gloats.

“How do you know we are magnificent?” I ask her.

“Because I am your wolf duh.” She snarks.

Just as I’m about to reply to her a huge golden colored wolf stalks up to me. He stops right in front of me and gives me a questionable look. As I look closer I notice a deep blue tint to his eyes.

“Gabriel?” I whisper?

His eyes light up and he wags his tail. I step closer hesitantly and he brushes his head against me. I pat him like I would a friendly dog and he licks my face. I push him off.

“Gross Gabe!” I yell wiping the slobber off of me. He whines and backs away a little and that’s when I hear a loud grow from behind gabe. I look up and there’s a huge black wolf heading straight for us. I stumble back a little and he stops in his tracks and then a second later he transforms into Oliver. My eyebrows shoot up at the sight of the well endowed man standing in front of me. I immediately turn my gaze else where.

“Shift!” Oliver says sternly and Gabe’s wolf stares at him and whines.

“You dare disobey the alpha?” He growls.

Gabe’s wolf turns his back to me and immediately shifts. That’s when I see them horrible scars from what appears to be silver nitrate burns line his entire back. I cover my mouth as I gasp in shock.

Gabe turns around his face flushed with embarrassment.

“You’re an asshole!” He shouts at Oliver.

Oliver’s eyes go black and he punches Gabe square in the face causing him to stumble back. Gabe straightens up and spews blood from his mouth into the ground in front of Oliver.

“Respect your alpha!” Oliver says in a condescending tone.

“I am the beta! I respect you as the alpha but as someone who is supposed to be my ‘friend’ you’re an arrogant asshole.” Gabe spat landing him another blow from Oliver. But this time he gets up and punches Oliver in his face as well. The two begin to scuffle and a bunch of the wolves that were once standing around are now men rushing to break up the fight. I stand there in shock at what is unraveling in-front of me. I take a few steps back as Oscar, Jaxon, and a few other guys finally pull Oliver and Gabriel apart.

“What the hell is going on here!” Oscar yells in a demanding voice.

“Your brother is a f*****g prick that’s what’s going on here!” Gabe yells and pushes Oscar off of him. He storms off pass the guys and then shoots me a sad glance.

“Oliver what’s this all about?” Jax questions. He ignores Jaxon and looks at me seething.

“What are you even doing out here?” He questions me. I’m shocked by his question, was I not free to roam around here ? Or was I now a prisoner here?

“I just wanted to see all of the beautiful wolves.” I say with venom in my voice.

“But it seems like all I saw was one beautiful wolf and one asshat!” He growls angrily and pushes the guys aside, now he is right up in my face.

“Who do you think you are ?” He yells in my face.

“I don’t think I am anyone but myself!” I shout.

“But something I do know is that if I was the leader of a pack I would never degrade one of my best-friends and high ranking members in a jealous fit! I got the impression from Oscar and Jaxon that this was a kind pack and that I would be safe here. But I don’t think I can feel safe under the ‘protection’ of a selfish ruler like yourself!” I poke my finger into his chest as I give him a piece of my mind. Everyone stands there in shock at my response. Oliver is just stands there gritting his teeth speechless.