The Awakening of dragons

SHE IS THE ONE

Cristof POV

She knows my name, I’m the happiest man in the world, looking at her perfect body I cannot believe she is mine, she has been chosen to be mine, being with her now, without the possibility to mark and mate her, as our wolves need to do, is extremely distracting, and Xardoth speaking to her in elfic is not helping at all, my wolf is growling in my chest at him to speak to her, I know it is silly but I can’t avoid it and I can tell that he is waiting for an explanation from her………..

Aya is looking for something, perhaps just words or courage, reaching her hand and squeezing it gently I’m telling her that I’m here for her:

“I mean no harm to anyone” she start in a whisper full of fright “I wasn’t thinking to find my mate, nor that my mate would be you”

Looking in my eyes, oh my it’s every second harder not to kiss those pink lips, “I've been hiding since I was born, but when I turned 15 and some of my elf powers appeared, I’m scared that they will find me, take and use my powers. I reached this pack just to receive asylum in the Castle of Northward and seclude myself from the world” looking at me in tears “and still willing to do it if that’s the case to save your life”

I cannot bear the pain her words bring to my heart so I just hug her, and thanks to the matebond the contact soothes the pain in both of us. I can sense Xardoth stiffened at her words, surely he hasn’t seeing it coming, so young and so aware of her-self, I can say that she knows more about the wolf and the elf living with her, but she is so exhausted that just fall asleep in my arms, snuggling against my scarred naked chest.

While I’m walking to my cottage I see Zuriel and two of our warriors coming down the river,

I know that if Zuriel is on the path he is looking for someone, so I stop with my sleeping mate in my arms, as soon as he sees her:

“Luckily you have found her, she wasn’t supposed to be up here, I’m sorry if she has done something wrong, she has arrived at our border just yesterday and at dinner she was glad to obey all the limits Katia has explained”

As Aya adjust a bit in my arm a lock of hair fall letting see her ear, just that sight let Zuriel stiffened, looking at me like waiting for an explanation

“Luckily she runs to the waterfall, she is my mate. Now, just because she has been welcomed by Kyle and Katia, I will bring her back to the pack house to explain the situation, but after that she will be back here with me.”

“You have to speak with them, she is still sixteen” that number hit me like a truck “so I think they have something to tell about living with you, mate or not, and she has not yet accepted to be part of the pack”

Zuriel knows better not to mention the hybrid word about my mate, I can tell he's happy for me finding my mate, and amused that she is still so young…. It's been more than ten years that he is making fun of my lack of experience with any female.

Because we are leading to the pack house Xardoth arranges her hairs to cover the points, he knows that not all the wolves will accept her easily.

Carrying her, with Zuriel and Cardo by my side I reach the pack house as soon as I’m letting her in bed she wakes up and with a look full of fear she grabs my arm: “I lied to them, they will banish me. It’s not on you, I own them. They were nothing then good to me.” 

I’m so proud of my humble, pure at heart little mate, and I will be by her side 

“Let’s go together, Kyle is my brother and I have to tell him I’ve found my mate, and I will always protect you”

In the last few hours I completely fell for this girl, she has become my whole world and I cannot explain the feeling but it's like I can feel and endorse more power in my wolf.

I mindlink my brother and Katia asking some time to speak with me.

As soon as we arrived at my brother's office the door was open so we entered with our fingers intertwined, he looked at us quizzically.

“Kyle, Katia this morning I’ve found my mate. Please don’t be upset with her for anything she has done or said, she will explain everything” I said squeezing a bit her hand, releasing a breath she started:

“My mom died days after my fifteenth birthday, we have survived travelling from when I could have memories, in the beginning we were a small group, in the last few years just me and her. We as waterwolves have never been accepted by any pack, moreover as a hybrid and a forbidden creature I would never be, we had always tried to avoid staying too long in any pack. As my elf powers were showing early I was in need to mask my elf aura, so shifting in my wolf was the only solution and I managed when I was just fifteen, it was the only way my father and other supernatural creatures won't chase us after the raising of my powers. As you know elves could have different ones. I can control the time and water element as per my wolf. No one knows who my father is, my mom has never told me anything except that he can sense me and my powers. Not knowing for which reason he would have my powers I prefer to seclude myself rather than give him any chance to hurt someone, for this reason I was here, I’m really sorry to have lied to you, I was supposed just to sleep and then go to the Castle, but you haven’t asked me anything just being concerned for my well being I feel accepted and cared like never in my life, like I was having a home. I’m sorry for this morning when I woke up I was just at the river in the backyard, then my wolf took over and I reached the waterfall. We are used to living by the ocean, and since my mom's death I’ve just travelled alone. In the last few weeks I quite lost contact with any consistent source of water and my wolf was craving for it.”

Kyle and Katia listen carefully to her, and with a concerned look in their eyes

“I’m really sorry for your difficult life, it’s not easy to live hiding as you have done, but it doesn’t excuse you from lying to us. Now the offer we have made yesterday, and a second chance is still available just because we understand your fear and I cannot allow my brother’s mate to be a rogue any longer, but little girl, I warn you just one more lie or disrespect of our rules and you are out, I made myself clear?”

Looking steady at Aya she nodded with tears coming up

“Now we have another problem to solve brother, for the law she is an adult as she has her wolf yet but she is still sixteen and being a Hybrid I think we need to check also the elves rule before you two can be together”

I tried to reply: “She is my mate, she is the one, we belong to each other you cannot keep us apart, and I cannot leave her at the packhouse you know it.”

“I can understand you and I do not want to take you apart, but we have to respect the rules, you over everyone HAVE to do it, I’ve waited one year after founding Katia to mark and mate her because she hadn’t her wolf yet, luckily her parents had agreed to let her come back with me here. So if also the King Zothar will agree that she can live with you then there is up to you how to manage your relationship”

I connect my mind with Xardoth just in the moment in which he knock on the door

“come in” Kyle said

“Good morning Alpha, I’m sorry if I have invited my father without your permission but I think Aya´s situation requires his presence too”

“Thanks prince Xardoth, always thoughtful. I will wait for your father at the door” and saying this Kyle just goes downstairs to wait and receive Zothar.