False Prophecy

Two Years Prior Part 2

Zyanna

“Are you ready to get down now?” I asked Sophie, and she started to look panicked. I grabbed her chin as she went to look down “No, don’t do that. All I need you to do is count four branches on the way down,” I told her.

“Seriously, there has to be another way” she protested.

I smirked, “Well, we could call back future Alpha Mitchell and have him catch you when I toss you out of the tree.” I laughed. Sophie turned beat red; she's had a serious crush on him since we were kids. Sophie turns 18 in another month; we will both be at school by then. I know she wants to finish school before finding her mate if possible, so who knows how that will end up. The Future Alpha is 22, and I’m surprised none of the future leadership have found their mates yet.

Sophie finally looked at me. “Try lowering me down, please.” I lowered her as close to the tree trunk as I could, holding her steady until her feet touched the branch. Each branch she did better. We were standing on the ground when her eyes clouded over. She looked confused for a moment.

“What is it”? I asked.

“It was Alpha Mitchell asking if I was ok. I’m sure it is just because I was the one who notified him of the attack," Sophie said. I had a suspicion that was not the case. Over the last few weeks, Mitchell has conveniently been to a lot of places we have been, including being our escort to Sophie's cousin's pack, The Guardians Pack, when we have gone for training. Sophie and I are learning about herbs from one of their historians. Their future gamma, Jamison, and I have been working on some security projects together for their pack as well. He is an engineer, and I will be working on a mechanical degree. The future Alpha Matthew and future Beta Nikolai have taken safety to a whole new level since the attack on their pack several years earlier, where both lost their older brothers. My mind drifted to Nikolai, talk about yummy, now how come the Moon Goddess didn’t pair me with him. He’s 6 feet 7 inches, so more than a solid foot taller than me with dark, almost black hair, deep olive skin, thick broad shoulders, and beautiful green eyes. I digress. Anyway, we agreed to continue through the forest in search of at least one of the herbs we needed for our lessons this week. After about 20 minutes, Alpha Mitchell walked up to us. Looking directly at Sophie, he asks if we are ok and where we were hiding during the attack.

Sophie and I exchanged a glance before I answered, “I made Sophie climb a tree, and the rogues did not notice”. I needed to be vague since Sophie is the only one besides my family that knows I can use my witch powers.

“Why don’t you take Sophie back, I have one Herb to collect, then I will head back” I said with a sly smile towards Sophie. Mitchell didn’t hesitate to lead her away, chatting about how her lessons were going. I’m pretty sure they are going to be mates, and I’m guessing he can already kind of sense it since he’s genuinely interested in everything about her. I’m impressed. He really does not seem to care that she is an Omega-class wolf. I wonder how his beta will take having an omega as his Luna? Sophie would make the most amazing Luna. I’m excited for my friend to find love. She deserves all the good things in life. My heart clenches once again as my mind wandered back, knowing a rejection is coming for me. I started to dig with my pointed shovel for the Yarrow Root I was after, stabbing the ground, picturing Joseph's smug face. His girlfriend Jamie is from the Guardians Pack. She was the one to reject Nikolai on his 18th birthday. Honestly, Nikolai dodged a bullet. She’s a ladder climber with a dark soul if I’ve ever seen one. I worry for Sophie if she becomes the Luna and Jamie were to become the Beta's mate. I bagged up the Yarrow Root and placed it in my pack, probably way more than we needed, but I was lost in thought. I headed back to my parent’s cottage to talk to my mom about everything. She always has the best advice. My mom is a practicing Witch, and my father was a War General in our previous pack, although they now work as Omega's. Our pack was destroyed when I was almost six years old. I was too young to understand what had happened other than being sad my best friend was gone. Her name was Anya, and her body was never found, so she was listed as kidnapped, I later learned. The attack was looking for gifted children. More specifically, a child prophesied to be the Oracle born of mixed heritage representing a multitude of species was the only information gained from a captured Rogue. Grams cast a spell on us after the attack, disguising our family as Omega’s. We had been off the pack grounds during the attack. Even as powerful of Seer as my mom and Grams are they never saw the attack coming. Alpha Xander at The Guardian Pack knows about the true heritage of my family; he and his Beta Johnathan are friends with my Dad. My Grams lives in that pack as well. They are far more accepting of other races than the Forrest Moon Pack, but it is believed there are those still looking for the Oracle and, since the females in my family have become powerful Seers, they don’t want us to be targeted. My Dad is especially protective, so he chose to join the Forrest Moon Pack since it was the less obvious choice if people wanted to look for the gifted. I’ve had some premonitions and visions, but I know I’m not some mystical Oracle.

After a long talk with my mom, she helped me feel better about the impending mate bond break. I went to bed to think about it. My mom suggested breaking the bond on my birthday once I felt it so that the bond didn’t have time to be fully realized on the full moon. Most only feel the bond on the Full Moon, but Mom suspects I will be able to feel it on my birthday since Joseph has and the full moon is close. I could then go stay at my Gram’s house in The Guardians Pack once the rejection is over until I leave for school in a week. It was a great plan and would give me some extra time to train before I left. My mechanics program is only two years long, and I wanted to go through the elite warrior training as well during that time.

Nikolai

I stood in the kitchen staring over a stack of pancakes at my dad, Johnathan, who insisted I share my wild berry syrup with him. He said that Zyanna made it to share. I held my glare for a few minutes before reluctantly passing it to him. A joke between us since he knows it is one of my favorites. My Dad is a Bear/Dragon Hybrid and a giant of a man over 7 feet with a full bear transformation and some dragon characteristics. I love him and respect everything about him. I do wish he would find a second chance or a chosen mate. My mom had passed away when I was young. She was visiting another pack when it was attacked. I know Dad harbors guilt for not making it in time to save her, but there was no way of knowing what was coming. They wiped out most of the pack and kidnapped several children that day. Then, years later, my brother was killed defending our pack. My Dad was once again devastated. He has so much more love to give even through all the pain he has dealt with. Matthew, Jamison, and I have big plans when we take over to keep our pack safe in memory of our brothers, Matthew's mother, my brother and my mom. Zy has always been a good friend and is a wiz at Mechanics. Her gadgets combined with the software savvy of Jamison are impressive. They have come up with some bad.a.ss security. A cute little redhead who knows her stuff! She is adorable, with long red curly hair, more than a foot shorter than me with curves for days and deep violet eyes that flash green when she’s pissed, always my goal in training to see if she loses her cool so I can laugh and push her training further. I try not to get too attached to her since she is turning 18 soon and will probably meet her mate. I have never felt an attraction to her before, but in the last couple of weeks during training, I can see she is all grown up, and all I want to do is…. nope, not going there. Think about something else!

“Are you ready for Beta Training?” My dad asked.

“Yeah, I’m ready for it. Really, I am just ready to get it over with so Matthew and I can get back to work on the pack. Zy thinks she almost has the mechanics down for part of our security system, so I’m excited to see it work, Jamison has the software ready to go on it. The sensor should allow it to fire loaded wolfsbane or silver darts when triggered. “We are trying to get it working before everyone leaves,” I said, trying to change the subject to something more interesting than boring stuff.

“If Zy is working on it I’m sure it will be on point before she leaves. That girl wouldn’t stand for one of her machines to not work perfectly. Is she coming for a visit this weekend?” Dad asked

“She should be here later today to finish everything with Jamison. I know she is nervous about Elite Warrior Training. She wants to be as prepared as possible since she has not been allowed to train in her pack and has only done training here. That pack is so weird, I hope Mitchell will make some much-needed changes when he becomes Alpha” I said.

“I love that girl. I am sure she is going to do great things with her schooling and training. She sure has been your biggest cheerleader these last four years while you finished school.” My Dad stated, looking at me.

“She really has. The care packages those girls sent us would have made us all fat if we didn’t work out so much” I laughed and went back to breakfast chatting about little things with my Dad, while secretly planning to take all the Wild Berry Syrup with me to Beta and Leadership Training. I was planning to finish my Masters degree online as well during that time, so it is going to be a busy two years.