Love By the Moonlight

Magic lessons

The next day was a Sunday, and my father was at my door bright and early. Luckily, he made me breakfast and coffee. He allowed me to get around and wake up before he made me go with him out to the training grounds.

when we arrived, the training grounds were mostly empty, with a few people sparing. We decided to go into the woods to a clear area so as not to bother anyone training or run the possibilities of a mid fire.

“We salted with light last time” my father started “but our magic is dark. With that, we have an innate ability that you and your wolf have already been using. If we think in game terms, it's like a racial trait. Unseelie has command over shadows. Shadows to us are tangible things we can hold, use, and manipulate.”

He then reaches out his hand towards a bush, and a black substance moves towards his outstretched hand. “You two have used it to hide, but it has so many more uses.” As he says this, he begins to shape it “a weapon” the shadow takes the form of a knife. “A means of fast and quiet movement” The shadow moves under his feet, and he runs at an alarmingly fast rate, not a sound is made.

“And my personal favorite, flight” he reaches out both hands and gathers more shadows and moves them to his back and makes a pair of wings. They look like fairy wings. “We are fey after all.” He smiles and reaches out a hand to me. I take it with a smile, and he grabs ahold of me.

He leaps into the air and above the trees. The winds are whipping past my face, and laughter escapes my mouth “This is amazing!” I yell out. I look over at him and see a giant smile on his face.

We fly around for a little while before we go back to where we were. He gently sets me down and says “ Now, the best part of shadow magic is that, for us, it's just something we can do. It doesn’t drain our magical energy. So no matter what, you will always have this at your disposal. Your only limit is your imagination. Now you try. Reach out to a shadow you can see and will it into your hand.”

I look for a shadow and find one behind a tree. I focus on it and imagine it moving to my hand. I can see the shadow shiver and quake. “You almost have it, dear, just a little more.” My dad encourages me.

I tighten my hand slowly into a fist. As i do so, i can see the shadow start to move towards me. I squeeze tighter and tighter and little bit by little bit it moves towards me. “Okay Marren, now think about what you are feeling inside you as you pull. Focus on that.”

I close my eyes and try to see if i can feel anything. It takes me a minute, but i can feel something fuzzy deep in my mind. It whips and moves like a fire. I think of grabbing it and holding it tight in my hand.

“Marren. Marrren, open your eyes” my dad whispers. I open my eyes and see little wisps of shadow peaking out. I slowly open my hands to see a ball of shadow dancing like a small flame in my hand.

My father and i spent hours going over the shadow power. He said that since i had already been blending with the shadows that the rest of it should come easy,and since Anissa had been using it, she should be able to use it too.

we would be focusing on her using it after i had gotten some mastery of it. We decided to get used to harnessing magic. We would alternate shadow and magic since magic can be really draining.

when we walked back past the training grounds, I caught Brandons scent on the wind. I couldn’t help but look over. He was practicing on the heavy bag. Everything went by in slow motion.

sweat was glistening on his body, running down his abs. A slight sheen over his entire body. With every hit on the bag, his large arms shook, and it rippled through his entire body. Droplets of sweat fell to the ground.

He paused and walked over to the bench and took a drink from his water bottle, and then sprayed some on his head. The water ran down his face and onto his chest. I fallows it down to his waist band and bit my lower lip. What I wouldn’t do to reach..

He shook his head and then sniffed the air, his eyes locked onto mine. A scowl immediately plastered on his face. I looked down in embarrassment and walked at a fast pace to catch up with my dad.

“Are you okay?” He asked me, looking between me and Brandon curiously.

“pssshh, yeah. Of course, why do you ask?” I said, moving my hair out of my face, trying to be nonchalant.

“Well mainly because he’s walking this way, and quite fast too.” He answered

“WHAT?!” I said as I turned my head quickly back to where Brando was, only for him to be completely gone.

“Oh, my mistake.” My dad said with a slight chuckle.

“Dad!” I whisper yelled as i slapped him on the shoulder.

“Ouch! What was that for? If it’s really nothing, then you wouldn’t care if he was coming over here, now wouldn’t you?” He responded while rubbing his arm.

“its” i paused. Thinking of what to say. “I can’t talk about it here, dad. It’s a really long story, and not for prying ears.”

“Is this a wolf thing?” He whispered, looking around.

“It is, in the mate region.” I whispered back.

“Ah, well, your mother was much more suited for this. I’m not really a wolf, so I can’t be of much help here. Have you talked to any of the she wolves of this pack? I saw you were quite close to the Luna here. Maybe she would be of some help?” He asked

“I have been yes” i said. Just then, i thought I saw a wolf looking at me from the woods out of the corner of my eye, but when i turned to look, it was gone. “We should go back to the condo dad” i said as i looked away and gripped his arm.

He looked to the woods where i had been looking and said “Okay dear, Let’s do that.” And we made our way back to my home.